CHNC challenge 157: starting all over again?

Well, Christmas has been and gone and I do hope that you enjoyed the celebrations. I was amazed at the number of entries this week. Despite making cards throughout the year, some of you, like me, were still making and showing them up to the last minute!

We are now looking toward 2014 and I want to take this opportunity to wish you all

A very Happy New Year

Thank you so much for all your support and friendship throughout another year and I look forward to seeing lots of festive makes throughout the coming year. If you found this challenge blog late in the year, please consider joining us from the beginning of the year to ensure that there is no panic later on. Please don't put your Christmas crafting stuff away ... keep it handy and make Christmas cards throughout the year.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 156. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

Please note that I publish the prize winners here and on our facebook page, but don't notify winners individually - it is up to you all to check to see if you have won and email me as requested.

The first winner:

Number 81: Bettyirene, who shared this lovely card:

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

The second winner:

Number 98: NanaConnie, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, NanaConnie. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your two digital images from Stamp n doodle.

The third winner:

Number 31: Emily Shroom, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Emily. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com with your full name and address so I can arrange for you to receive your £10 gift voucher from Bearly mine designs.

Now on to:

Challenge 157

For today's challenge please share any Christmas cards - either some that you are already making for next Christmas or any that you made earlier and haven't yet shared

The first sponsor is a regular supporter of CHNC:  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 Stamp Your Life:

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

The third sponsor is new to CHNC: QKR Stampede:

'Do you have a sense of humor? Are you looking for a cute stamp? Then, we are the company for you! QKR Stampede is the somewhat cute somewhat quirky rubber and digital stamp company. We showcase the artwork of Ken Herrod, who had a unique, somewhat quirky style with lots of humor and character. You are sure to get a chuckle out of our stamps! We have been offering our unique stamps and supplies to the craft industry for over 15 years. At QKR Stampede our images are available as un-mounted, natural red rubber stamps OR as digital stamps! If QKR Stampede Stamps aren't exactly what you are looking for, don’t miss out on the sister companies: Eureka Stamps, Biblical Impressions Rubber Stamps, or the newest addition; Alluring Impressions.'

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

you will be spoiled for choice!

Two cards made from Hunkydory kits that I didn't have time to show before Christmas - more about them here on My Crafty Outlook:

Now it's over to you. As usual, you can use any materials, any techniques - and this week I'd like to see any Christmas cards that you've made at the last minute or made earlier, but didn't have a chance to blog - or new cards that you have made to get ahead for next Christmas - it is never too early!!

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 3 January. Please include a link to this blogpost within the post for your creation.

You can enter as many times as you wish - I think we all need to increase our stock at this time of the year - 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 4 January 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. Also it would be great if you would consider becoming a follower - lovely to welcome recent new followers and 'likers' on facebook.

Please also consider going to CHNC Facebook page and clicking 'like' - there are now 251 'likes' - it would be great if we could increase this even more. I always show at least one of my cards for the next challenge in advance and it's a good place to catch up with any news, winners etc.

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 January is here.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries

CHNC challenge 156: Last minute cards or any not shown already

I'd like to take this opportunity to wish you all

A very Happy Christmas

It is incredible to think that by the end of this challenge Christmas Day and Boxing Day will be over!

Please don't put your Christmas crafting boxes away - make a resolution now (why wait till New Year?!) to make Christmas cards throughout the year? If you managed to do this throughout this past year, I'm sure you were grateful that you weren't in a panic towards the end of the year. However, if you didn't, just think how much easier it would have been if you'd started those Christmas cards earlier.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 155. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

Please note that I publish the prize winners here and on our facebook page, but don't notify winners individually - it is up to you all to check to see if you have won and email me as requested.

The first winner:

Number 27: Cornelia (fun stamping), who shared this lovely card:

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

The second winner:

Number 33: Renate, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Renate. 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 30: Lindsey, who shared these lovely cards:

Congratulations, Lindsey. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com  so I can arrange for you to receive your $10 of images from Cedar Chest Designs.

Now on to:

Challenge 156

For today's challenge please share any Christmas cards that you've made at the last minute or made earlier, but didn't have a chance to blog.

The first sponsor is Crafty Poodles, who will be giving £10 worth of goodies to the randomly chosen winner.

'For all your crafting needs. Items include, lace, flowers, ribbons, pins, fold-over elastic, fabric, buttons, charms and more!'

The second sponsor is Stamp n doodle:

Stamp n doodle is one of the leading digital stamp and downloadable craft card making webstores. We also offer crafting instructions and card making challenges. 

'Stamp n doodle's uniqueness is the diversity of the Rubber Stamps and Digital Stamps we offer. In everything we do, we strive to be the complete resource for your stamping and card making needs. 

You will find useful tips, advice covered on our website. On our website we offer inspiration and new releases to weekly challenges on our Blog. 

We hope you find everything you need and enjoy trying our products and inspiration. Great images create great things 

About Stamp n doodle Rubber Stamps

Stamp n doodle exclusive Rubber Stamps come unmounted, which means you only receive the red rubber no cushion or wood block. These images work well on an Acrylic mount. 

About Stamp n doodle Digital Stamps Stamp n doodle's exclusive Digital Images come with free shipping and are sent to you within 24 hours of purchase.'

A randomlychosen winner will receive two digital images of their choice.

The third sponsor is Bearly mine designs. As well as many lovely designs to purchase, there are some wonderful freebies too at Bearly mine designs.

Bearly mine designs are offering a £10 gift voucher for the randomly chosen winner.

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

you will be spoiled for choice!

This is a set of quick cards that I made a few weeks ago, but didn't blog at the time. You can read about them here on my Crafty Outlook:

Now it's over to you. As usual, you can use any materials, any techniques - and this week I'd like to see any Christmas cards that you've made at the last minute or made earlier, but didn't have a chance to blog.

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 27 December. Please include a link to this blogpost within the post for your creation.

You can enter as many times as you wish - I think we all need to increase our stock at this time of the year - 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 28 December 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. Also it would be great if you would consider becoming a follower - lovely to welcome recent new followers and 'likers' on facebook.

Please also consider going to CHNC Facebook page and clicking 'like' - there are now 248 'likes' - it would be great if we could increase this before the end of the year. I always show at least one of my cards for the next challenge in advance and it's a good place to catch up with any news, winners etc.

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 December is here.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries

CHNC challenge 155: whatever is urgent to make

So many lovely entries for last week's challenge - lots of people are going to receive some very special cards. If they aren't made by now ... then there's still time, but we need to get on with all the extras that still need to be done.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 154. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

Please note that I publish the prize winners here and on our facebook page, but don't notify winners individually - it is up to you all to check to see if you have won and email me as requested.

The first winner:

Number 60: Debbie, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Debbie. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so that I can arrange for you to receive the CD-rom of your choice from Ooh la la Creations.

The second winner:

Number 4: meg, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, . Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your £10 voucher from My mum's craftshop.

The third winner:

Number 34: Alli D, who shared this lovely card:

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

Now on to:

Challenge 155

For today's challenge please make any urgent cards that need to be done - and just for this challenge this can include any Christmas birthdays as well as Christmas or New Year cards

The first sponsor is a familiar one here at CHNC:

Bugaboo Stamps are proud to sponsor this challenge:

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. 

Bugaboo Stamps are offering $21 of digital stamps to the randomly chosen winner.

The second sponsor is another familiar one, Flonz craft:

Flonz craft is 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 Cedar Chest Designs:

Cedar Chest Designs

Digital Supplies for the Craft World

'Cedar Chest Designs offers quality products, bulk discounts, instant downloads and teacher benefits on digital stamps, digital scrpabooking images and a variety of other digital craft supplies from over a dozen unique artists.'

The randomly chosen winner will receive $10 of images from Cedar Chest Designs.

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

you will be spoiled for choice!

Here are some CAS cards that I made earlier - you can read more about them here:

And another similar set here:

Now it's over to you. As usual, you can use any materials, any techniques - and this week I'd like to see any cards that need to be urgently made - for Christmas, New Year ... or even for a Christmas birthday.

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 20 December. Please include a link to this blogpost within the post for your creation.

You can enter as many times as you wish - I think we all need to increase our stock at this time of the year - 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 21 December 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. Also it would be great if you would consider becoming a follower - lovely to welcome recent new followers and 'likers' on facebook.

Please also consider going to CHNC Facebook page and clicking 'like' - there are now 245 'likes' - it would be great if we could increase this before the end of the year. I always show at least one of my cards for the next challenge in advance and it's a good place to catch up with any news, winners etc.

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 December is here.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries

CHNC challenge 154: for someone special

What a wonderful week of super creations that any child would be happy to receive. Thank you so much for all the super entries. We really are getting near to the Big Day now and that means that we need to get serious about getting those cards done if we haven't done so already. I need to count mine and go through my list.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 153. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

Please note that I publish the prize winners here and on our facebook page, but don't notify winners individually - it is up to you all to check to see if you have won and email me as requested.

The first winner:

Number 17: Christine Craig, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Christine. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com with your full name and address so that I can arrange for you to receive your £20 of goods from Craftybren's Embroidered Embellishments.

The second winner:

Number 5: Gail Scott, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations,.Gail. 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 19: Ulla, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Ursula. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your $10.00 Gift Certificate from Cedar Chest Designs.

Now on to:

Challenge 154

For today's challenge please make any Christmas card for someone special - I think we all tend to leave those 'special cards' till the last minute, so let's get them made this week - and any other 'special' creations for Christmas

The first sponsor is a very familiar one, Ooh la la Creations:

A randomly chosen winner will be able to choose a CD-rom of their choice - and there are so many wonderful ones to choose from.

The second sponsor is My mum's craftshop:

'Bringing you the best in stamping products for Cardmaking & Papercrafting projects

We aim to bring you the best stamping products we can find. Along with stamps we also offer essential stamping products like inks, copics, papers, embellishments & more. We are always receiving lots of new deliveries every week so make sure you check back often so see what yummy new stash we have available! If there are any particular designs that you can't see on our website, please contact us & we will be happy to order them in for you.

Don't forget to visit our Shop Blog which has all the latest releases, info, inspiration & more!'

The randomly chosen winner will receive a £10 voucher to spend online at My mum's craftshop.

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.'

The randomly chosen winner will receive the Flowers and friendship CD rom:

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

you will be spoiled for choice!

I've had a busy time recently with family commitments and I have to admit that I'm sharing a card that I made and showed for the Sweet Pea Stampers design team for yesterday - you can see it here and here. I don't actually want to say who the special recipient will be because 'eyes' look here sometimes!!

I'll try and come back later on with another card that I've made specially for 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 - and this week I'm asking you to make a card for someone special.

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 13 December. Please include a link to this blogpost within the post for your creation.

You can enter as many times as you wish - I think we all need to increase our stock at this time of the year - 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 14 December 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. Also it would be great if you would consider becoming a follower - lovely to welcome recent new followers and 'likers' on facebook.

Please also consider going to CHNC Facebook page and clicking 'like' - there are now 240 'likes' - it would be great if we could increase this before the end of the year. I always show at least one of my cards for the next challenge in advance and it's a good place to catch up with any news, winners etc.

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 December is here.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries

CHNC challenge 153: light it up

What a wonderful week of super creations that any child would be happy to receive. Thank you so much for all the super entries. We really are getting near to the Big Day now and that means that we need to get serious about getting those cards done if we haven't done so already. I need to count mine and go through my list.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 152. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

Please note that I publish the prize winners here and on our facebook page, but don't notify winners individually - it is up to you all to check to see if you have won and email me as requested.

The first winner:

Number 98: Bunny, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Bunny. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so that I can arrange for you to received your choice of two sheets from Linnie's Whoopsi Daisy shop.

The second winner:

Number 58: Crafty bits n bobs (Charlotte), who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations,.Charlotte Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com with your full name and address so I can arrange for you to receive your prize package from Tando Creative.

The third winner:

Number 44: Kevin, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Kevin. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your £10 voucher for Paper Creator.

Now on to:

Challenge 153

For today's challenge please make any Christmas cards that show the theme 'light it up' - perhaps candles, lamps, stars,  Christmas tree lights  ... however you want to interpret the theme

The first sponsor is Craftybren's Embroidered Embellishments (although Bren has been a keen supporter of my challenges and has often entered them):

'Hi my name is Bren, I have been crafting since the year dot. I like to have a few different things on the go at once, knitting, sewing, paper crafting etc, just so I can swap and change around a bit.
I made a few cards with my machine embroidery on, and was asked if I made embroidery to sell, that is how Craftybrens was born. Hope you like what you see.'

The randomly chosen winner will receive £20 of goods from Craftybren's Embroidered Embellishments - please note that if the winner lives outside the UK he/she will be expected to pay for the P & P.

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 Cedar Chest Designs:

Cedar Chest Designs

Digital Supplies for the Craft World

'Cedar Chest Designs offers quality products, bulk discounts, instant downloads and teacher benefits on digital stamps, digital scrpabooking images and a variety of other digital craft supplies from over a dozen unique artists.'

Winners will receive a free $10.00 Gift Certificate to purchase anything they would like from the online store.

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

you will be spoiled for choice!

I am pleased that Crafty Bren (our first sponsor) has joined me as a Guest Designer. What a beautiful 5" x 5" padded card Brenda has made - you can read more about this on Bren's blog here - please visit and leave her a comment:

This is my card using the Cedar Chest Designs lamppost digi that they kindly provided, stamping alongside it with the Penny Black 'caroling penguins', colouring with copics. There is more info about this card on My Crafty Outlook 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 - and this week I'm asking you to make a card that fits the theme 'light it up', however you wish to interpret that,.

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 6 December. Please include a link to this blogpost within the post for your creation.

You can enter as many times as you wish - I think we all need to increase our stock at this time of the year - 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 7 December 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. Also it would be great if you would consider becoming a follower - lovely to welcome recent new followers and 'likers' on facebook.

Please also consider going to CHNC Facebook page and clicking 'like' - there are now 240 'likes' - it would be great if we could increase this before the end of the year. I always show at least one of my cards for the next challenge in advance and it's a good place to catch up with any news, winners etc.

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 December is here.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries