CHNC challenge 126: Show some white - a little or a lot

It was lovely to see such sweet cards for last week's challenge. This week I have four sponsors instead of the usual three - and some cracking prizes on offer!

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 125. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

The first winner:

Number 21, Elizabeth, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Elizabeth. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your $10 gift certificate from Inky Impressions.

The second winner:

Number 8, Wendy (Papersniffer), who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Wendy. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your 3 digital stamps from the Crafts 4 eternity collection

The third winner:

Number 14, Deanne, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Deanne. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so that I can arrange for you to receive your £10 gift voucher from J & C Creations.

Now on to:

Challenge 126

For today's challenge I'd like to see some white on your Christmas card - this doesn't have to be snow, although it can be - just make sure there is some white - a little or a lot

Today is our Wedding Anniversary, so it made me think of 'white', hence the theme for this week. And it's a very special week here at CHNC because today we have four new sponsors giving wonderful prizes.

The first sponsor today is a new one to CHNC, MilkCoffee:

'MilkCoffee consists of two artists from Indonesia who have been best friends since childhood. Both women love to draw cute illustration. They work in Illustration, Architecture, and Design fields. They offer cute and good quality digital stamps, perfect to make papercraft, card, scrapbook, or anything you want to do with printed digital images :)'

You can find MilkCoffee images at their Etsy Shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/MilkCoffee.

The randomly chosen winner will receive 3 images of their choice.

The second sponsor is another new one to CHNC, Stamp Your Life:

The randomly chosen winner will receive a $10 gift certificate the spend in their Etsy shop.

The third sponsor is yet another new one for us, PDA Card and Craft:

'PDA Card and Craft is the name of the mail order section of the established printing and design agency, Woodward PDA Ltd.

The mail order side of our business was started late in the year 2001. We operated from our site in the centre of Nottingham, but it soon became apparent that we were outgrowing our working premises there.

So in November 2002 we formed a new company called Woodward PDA Ltd. and bought an established printing company Woodward Printers at Langley Mill just outside Nottingham. This is where we now do all our printing and cardmaking operations.

If you are ever in the Nottingham area you will be very welcome to visit us and browse our extensive range of cards and materials in our large factory shop.'

I have been a regular customer of PDA for many years now - I buy most of my cardstock, envelopes, cello bags etc from them, not to mention lots of other goodies that I'm always tempted with ... and give in to the temptation. In fact, I received an order from them yesterday - everything is always packed so well.

The randomly chosen winner will be able to have £40 of goods from PDA Card and Craft - to be spent in their shop or online, depending on the location of the winner.

And a special treat this week:

The fourth sponsor is also new to CHNC: Crafter's Companion:

Crafter's Companion is a well known haven of crafting goodies of all descriptions. They are giving a £10 voucher to the randomly chosen winner.

Please visit the websites of these generous sponsors and support them -

you will be spoiled for choice!

I am so pleased to say that Linsey from PDA Card and Craft is joining me today as a guest designer. For her gorgeous card Linsey has used paper flowers from Hobbyhouse, Pale Blue stamen from Heritage crafts, and the dies are Marianne for the shape and Cheery Lynn for the leaves. The "Happy Christmas" is a peel off:

This is my card - I have to confess that when I first got the piece of Hunkydory card out I thought it was white with silver swirls, but it turned out that it was actually pale blue. However, there is still quite a bit of white on my card - you can read more about it here. The challenge this fortnight on MilkCoffee is 'load on the flowers' so this is being entered there as well (thankful to MilkCoffee for being one of the sponsors).

Now it's over to you. As usual, you can use any materials, any techniques, as long as the end result is a Christmas card. - this week please show some white on your card - it needn't be snow, although it can be if you want - just make sure you show some white - a little or a lot!

I look forward to seeing what you come up with for this challenge - please add a link to your blog post (not your blog, but the actual post where your card can be found) by 22:00 UK time Friday 31 May. Please mention my blog and create a link within the post for your creation.

You can enter as many times as you wish (a good way to build up your stock of Christmas cards) and also link to any other challenges that allow you to do so, but new work only, please.

A new challenge will be set on Saturday 1 June when there will once again be three chances to win a prize, thanks to generous sponsors.

Please add your link to inlinkz. If by any chance it disappears, please leave a comment with the link to your blog post and I will make sure it is added.

If you haven't done so already, please become a follower and grab my bright pink button to post on your sidebar and help continue to spread the word about this challenge blog - thank you.

Don't forget

Don't forget that 'anything goes' monthly challenges are on my Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra blog - you can share any Christmas card you make throughout the whole month, including those that you link here - there is no restriction on the number of entries you can make throughout the month - the link for CHNC challenge extra for May is here.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries

CHNC challenge 125: festive food and/or drink

Not so many entries last week, but there certainly was no lack in quality - lots of super stars - I so enjoyed seeing them all.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 124. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

The first winner:

Number 13: Fabiola, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Fabiola. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your $21 of digital images from Bugaboo Stamps.

The second winner:

Number 12: Misseke, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Misseke. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your $20 voucher from Flonz craft.

The third winner:

Number 6: Liselot, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Liselot. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so that I can arrange for you to receive your 5 digital images from The Stamping Shack.

Now on to:

Challenge 125

For today's challenge I'd like to see some festive food andor drink

Our first sponsor today is a new one here at CHNC, Inky Impressions:

'We are a young Rubber Stamp Company that offers some of the cutest children & animal stamps on the market today! Each and every stamp made is 'Extra Deep Etched' on Quality Red Rubber for a crisp impression everytime! All our stamps are made right here in the USA!

All Inky Impressions Rubber Stamps are sold with EZ Mount just waiting to get inked! The characters LiLi, Angelica, Nicholas & Christopher are cartoon versions of our children. LiLi is a nickname for our youngest daughter MarLeigha. We truly hope that you love our stamps just as much as we have loved designing them.

I am a stay at home mommy and wife to a very loving and supportive man. Without the support of my family and friends, my dream would not have been possible. This has been a long time coming and finally ... I am ADRIFT on a DREAM!

I can't even begin to express how excited I am to share my dream with you. We are devoted to you, our customers, so please feel free to share your artwork that is made with our stamds, or to just drop us a line to say hello!'

Inky Impressions have also just recently started adding digital stamps to their store.

The randomly chosen winner will receive a $10 gift certificate.

The second sponsor is Crafts 4 eternity:

 who is offering 3 digital stamps (winner's choice) from the Crafts 4 eternity collection.

The third sponsor is J & C Creations:

who are offering a £10 gift voucher to the randomly chosen winner. You can read more about J & C Creations and their development over the years since 2004 here on their website.

Please visit the websites of these generous sponsors and support them -

you will be spoiled for choice!

For my first card I've used the lovely 'cakes and candy' digi kindly supplied by Inky Impressions - details can be found on My Crafty Outlook here:

My second card uses some Christmas Cupcake digis kindly given by Crafts 4 eternity. I couldn't decide which cupcake to use, so I decided to crop them digital and then put one behind the other, using the Santa, Snowman and Reindeer cupcakes - more info here:

Now it's over to you. As usual, you can use any materials, any techniques, as long as the end result is a Christmas card. - this week please show some festive food and/or drink on your card.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with for this challenge - please add a link to your blog post (not your blog, but the actual post where your card can be found) by 22:00 UK time Friday 24 May. Please mention my blog and create a link within the post for your creation.

You can enter as many times as you wish (a good way to build up your stock of Christmas cards) and also link to any other challenges that allow you to do so, but new work only, please.

A new challenge will be set on Saturday 25 May when there will once again be three chances to win a prize, thanks to generous sponsors.

Please add your link to inlinkz. If by any chance it disappears, please leave a comment with the link to your blog post and I will make sure it is added.

If you haven't done so already, please become a follower and grab my bright pink button to post on your sidebar and help continue to spread the word about this challenge blog - thank you.

Don't forget

Don't forget that 'anything goes' monthly challenges are on my Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra blog - you can share any Christmas card you make throughout the whole month, including those that you link here - there is no restriction on the number of entries you can make throughout the month - the link for CHNC challenge extra for May is here.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries

CHNC challenge 124: seeing stars

You all certainly managed to get sentimental last week - thanks for all the entries. I look forward to seeing stars this week.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 123. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

The first winner:

Number 21: Helen Howard, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Helen. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your 5 digital stamps from Robyn'sFetish Digital Stamps And More.

The second winner:

Number 34: Monica-LaPaperaGialla, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Monica. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your prize from My Creative Classroom.

The third winner:

Number 12: Crafty Kitten (Dawn), who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Dawn. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com with your full name and address so that I can arrange for you to receive your CD from Katy Sue Designs.

Now on to:

Challenge 124

For today's challenge I'd like to see stars on your Christmas cards - at least one, but more would be nice

Our first sponsor today is a familiar one here at CHNC:

Bugaboo Stamps are proud to sponsor this challenge - they are offering $21 of digital stamps to the randomly selected winner.

Everything That You Ever Wanted to Know About Bugaboo Stamps: A Short Essay

As if raising five children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the world of papercrafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. That was two years ago. Today Bugaboo Stamps is one of the leading companies in digital images, and we're still growing!  From seriously snarky to sugary sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects.  Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week! 

 If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps   at Totally Stampalicious. And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT   for weekly challenges at Catch the Bug. 

The second sponsor is Flonz craft, a New Zealand based company who are offering a $20 voucher to spend in their online store - and they will generously send to anywhere in the world with free p & p.They have an amazing range of stamps - the winner certainly will have fun choosing, including some lovely Christmas ones that you could then use for a future challenge.

The third sponsor is new to CHNC: The Stamping Shack:

'The Stamping Shack is a small family run UK business founded in 2011 and based in South Devon. Our aim is to supply crafters with premium hand picked online digi stamps for all your crafting projects!

All of our images are chosen by experienced card makers, meaning that at the Stamping Shack you will find digi stamps that are simply adorable, cute and in some cases quirky!'

The randomly chosen winner will be able to choose five digital images from the eshop.

Please visit the websites of these generous sponsors and support them -

you will be spoiled for choice!

I've made three cards using the 'raggedly angel - lay on star' image kindly supplied by Bugaboo Stamps - I digitally coloured it in Paint and printed out in three different sizes for the three different cards.

This is the first card that you can read about here on My Crafty Outlook:

And this is the second card - info about it here on My Crafty Outlook:

And the third card using the Bugaboo Stamps 'raggedly angel - lay on star' image that you can read about here on My Crafty Outlook:

I made another card (yes, I've gone a bit mad with stars!) using a stamp kindly supplied by one of our sponsors, Flonz craft, - you can read about this one here:

Now it's over to you. As usual, you can use any materials, any techniques, as long as the end result is a Christmas card. - this week please use at least one star on your card.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with for this challenge - please add a link to your blog post (not your blog, but the actual post where your card can be found) by 22:00 UK time Friday 17 May. Please mention my blog and create a link within the post for your creation.

You can enter as many times as you wish (a good way to build up your stock of Christmas cards) and also link to any other challenges that allow you to do so, but new work only, please.

A new challenge will be set on Saturday 18 May when there will once again be three chances to win a prize, thanks to generous sponsors.

Please add your link to inlinkz. If by any chance it disappears, please leave a comment with the link to your blog post and I will make sure it is added.

If you haven't done so already, please become a follower and grab my bright pink button to post on your sidebar and help continue to spread the word about this challenge blog - thank you.

Don't forget

Don't forget that 'anything goes' monthly challenges are on my Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra blog - you can share any Christmas card you make throughout the whole month, including those that you link here - there is no restriction on the number of entries you can make throughout the month - the link for CHNC challenge extra for May is here.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries

CHNC challenge 123: let's get sentimental (use a sentiment)

What a lovely lot of ribbons and bows entries for last week - I do really enjoy visiting your blogs and admiring your wonderful crafting - such a lot of inspiration. If you've not been able to join us before it would be lovely to see your entries for today's challenge. It is hard to believe that we're already into May and more than a third of the year has gone - it's certainly not too early to start your Christmas cards. Some of you have been joining in week by week and are now accumulating quite a nice stack of cards that will take the pressure off during the busy time leading up to the festivities in December.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 122. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

The first winner:

Number 4: Tracey Boley who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Tracey. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com with your full name and address so I can arrange for you to receive your £10 worth of goodies from Crafty Poodles.

The second winner:

Number 21: Fiona who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Fiona. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your 4 digital images from Delicious Doodles.

The third winner:

Number 14: Wendy (Papersniffer) who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Wendy. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com  so that I can arrange for you to receive your prize from Sir Stampalot.

Now on to:

Challenge 123

For today's challenge please get sentimental - in other words, use a sentiment on the front of your Christmas card

Our first sponsor today is Robyn'sFetish Digital Stamps And More:

'Robyn'sFetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.'

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is happy to award the randomly chosen winner the choice of 5 digital stamps.

The second sponsor is  new to CHNC, My Creative Classroom:

My Creative Classroom is an online arts and crafts learning center. Our interactive and in-depth courses are instructor led and filled with wonderful projects and techniques to help you get the most out of your supplies. Our Spring Semester is winding down but we still have plenty of classes to choose from. We have just announced the addition of our Library and Foundation category! The Library features retired classes at 40-50% off their original price and our Foundation classes help you get started on your crafty journey right away! 

Here's a sampling of our Workshop classes:

Big Ideas for Mini Albums
Cricut: Scrapbooking Through the Years
Photo Embroidery
Scrapbooking: Home Decor
Calligraphy with Copics and Brush Markers
Knitting 101

We are excited to be sponsoring Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge. You can view our entire class list on our website at My Creative Classroom. You can also view classes on our Facebook Page too! One lucky winner will receive a free seat to a class of their choice.....Good Luck!

The third sponsor is Katy Sue Designs,:

'About - We design and manufacture many papercraft products including the Flower Soft® embellishment range used by crafters Worldwide.

Mission - To use our teams creativity to make craft products that are loved by crafters around the World.

Company Overview - We design and manufacture papercraft products such as stamps, decoupage, card making kits and papercraft CD Rom’s as well as the Flower Soft® craft embellishment range. We have our own graphic design team and also work with leading artists and illustrators under license. Our products are used by crafters around the world and regularly appear on craft shopping channels such as Create and Craft, HSN and HSE.'

For this competition we would like to giveaway a Simpler Times CD :

Please visit the websites of these generous sponsors and support them -

you will be spoiled for choice!

Here is my first card I've used 'Charlie Christmas bear' and 'Christmas wordart' - you can read about it here on My Crafty Outlook.

Now it's over to you. As usual, you can use any materials, any techniques, as long as the end result is a Christmas card. - this week please use a sentiment on the front of your Christmas card.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with for this challenge - please add a link to your blog post (not your blog, but the actual post where your card can be found) by 22:00 UK time Friday 10 May. Please mention my blog and create a link within the post for your creation.

You can enter as many times as you wish (a good way to build up your stock of Christmas cards) and also link to any other challenges that allow you to do so, but new work only, please.

A new challenge will be set on Saturday 11 May when there will once again be three chances to win a prize, thanks to generous sponsors.

Please add your link to inlinkz. If by any chance it disappears, please leave a comment with the link to your blog post and I will make sure it is added.

If you haven't done so already, please become a follower and grab my bright pink button to post on your sidebar and help continue to spread the word about this challenge blog - thank you.

Don't forget

Don't forget that 'anything goes' monthly challenges are on my Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra blog - you can share any Christmas card you make throughout the whole month, including those that you link here - there is no restriction on the number of entries you can make throughout the month - the link for CHNC challenge extra for May is here.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries