Saturday, 31 March 2018

CHNC challenge 379


Thank you for all your lovely entries for last week's challenge - such a lot of entries once again! We're looking forward to seeing your festive designs this week.

Before I tell you about this week's challenge, I need to let you know the winner of challenge 378:

Please note that my email to send to is craftyhazelnut@gmail.com


Number 50: Gildett de Marillac, with this lovely card:


Congratulations, Gildett. Please email me at craftyhazelnut@gmail.com with your full name and address so I can arrange for you to claim your Couture Creations Holly flourishes stencil and Die'sire small Embossalicious Christmas Patchwork.

Please note that winner needs to claim the prize by 14 April (2 weeks)

Every CHNC challenge is 'anything goes as long as it's Christmas', which will, hopefully, encourage as many crafters as possible to join in with their festive creations. However, there will always be an optional theme, which this week is 'include a star or two or more'. I want to stress that this is purely optional.

Challenge 379:

anything goes as long as it's Christmas
optional theme: include a star or two or more

Every week I give a prize to a randomly chosen winner - this is the prize for this challenge:


Signature Collection by Sara Davies
Butterfly Lullaby
3D toppers
From me to you
and
Sent with love

Here are the cards from myself and the rest of my team:


Now it's over to you. You can use any materials, any techniques - it's anything goes as long as it's Christmas, with the optional theme of 'include a star or two or more'.

We 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 creation can be found) by 20:00 UK time Friday 6 April 2018. Please include a link to this blogpost within the post for your creation.

You can enter as many times as you wish 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 April 2018 at 09:00 UK time.

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.

Please also consider going to CHNC Facebook page and clicking 'like' if you haven't done so already and encourage your friends to do the same.


I also run a challenge blog called Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - anything goes as long as you use some patterned paper - with a randomly chosen prize winner every month. Please click on the link to find out more. If you have used patterned paper for your Christmas creation (if you haven't followed the optional theme this week, of course), please enter it there too. And please be aware that the Patterned Paper Challenge is not restricted to Christmas - it is for any occasions as long as some patterned paper has been used.

Thank you for your support
We look forward to seeing your entries

Posted by Hazel at 08:00 1 comments

Saturday, 24 March 2018

CHNC challenge 378


Thank you for all your lovely entries for last week's challenge - such a lovely lot of entries once again! We're looking forward to seeing your festive designs this week.

Before I tell you about this week's challenge, I need to let you know the winner of challenge 377:

Please note that my email to send to is craftyhazelnut@gmail.com


Number 21: Chris, with this lovely card:


Congratulations, Chris. Please email me at craftyhazelnut@gmail.com with your full name and address so I can arrange for you to claim your Sheena Douglass unmounted stamps A little Bit Sketchy Only Words - through the rain.

Please note that winner needs to claim the prize by 7 April (2 weeks)

Every CHNC challenge is 'anything goes as long as it's Christmas', which will, hopefully, encourage as many crafters as possible to join in with their festive creations. However, there will always be an optional theme, which this week is 'inspired by a Christmas song or carol'. I want to stress that this is purely optional.

Challenge 378:

anything goes as long as it's Christmas
optional theme: inspired by a Christmas song or carol

Every week I give a prize to a randomly chosen winner - this is the prize for this challenge:


Couture Creations
Holly Flourishes stencil
and Die'sire small Embossalicious
Christmas Patchwork 

Here are the cards from myself and the rest of my team:


Christmas carol - Hark the herald angels sing

Helen
Christmas carol - We three kings of Orient are

Lisbeth
Christmas song - Last christmas time


Suze
Christmas carol - Away in a manger

Now it's over to you. You can use any materials, any techniques - it's anything goes as long as it's Christmas, with the optional theme of 'inspired by a Christmas song or carol'.

We 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 creation can be found) by 20:00 UK time Friday 30 March 2018. Please include a link to this blogpost within the post for your creation.

You can enter as many times as you wish 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 31 March 2018 at 09:00 UK time.

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.

Please also consider going to CHNC Facebook page and clicking 'like' if you haven't done so already and encourage your friends to do the same.


I also run a challenge blog called Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - anything goes as long as you use some patterned paper - with a randomly chosen prize winner every month. Please click on the link to find out more. If you have used patterned paper for your Christmas creation (if you haven't followed the optional theme this week, of course), please enter it there too. And please be aware that the Patterned Paper Challenge is not restricted to Christmas - it is for any occasions as long as some patterned paper has been used.

Thank you for your support
We look forward to seeing your entries

Posted by Hazel at 09:00 4 comments

Saturday, 17 March 2018

CHNC challenge 377


Thank you for all your lovely entries for last week's challenge - such a lot of entries once again! We're looking forward to seeing your festive designs this week. I apologise if you didn't receive a comment from me. John (husband) has been in hospital for the last ten days and my mum was admitted to hospital last Sunday and died in the early hours of Tuesday.

Before I tell you about this week's challenge, I need to let you know the winner of challenge 376:

Please note that my email to send to is craftyhazelnut@gmail.com


Number 15: Billie A, with this lovely card:


Congratulations, Billie. Please email me at craftyhazelnut@gmail.com with your full name and address so I can arrange for you to claim your Crafter's Companion unmounted rubber stamp winter collection Yuletide logs.

Please note that winner needs to claim the prize by 31 March (2 weeks)

Every CHNC challenge is 'anything goes as long as it's Christmas', which will, hopefully, encourage as many crafters as possible to join in with their festive creations. However, there will always be an optional theme, which this week is 'no patterned paper'. I want to stress that this is purely optional.

Challenge 377:

anything goes as long as it's Christmas
optional theme: no patterned paper

Every week I give a prize to a randomly chosen winner - this is the prize for this challenge:


Sheena Douglass unmounted stamps
A little Bit Sketchy
Only words - through the rain

Here are the cards from myself and the rest of my team:


Helen


Suze

Now it's over to you. You can use any materials, any techniques - it's anything goes as long as it's Christmas, with the optional theme of 'no patterned paper'.

We 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 creation can be found) by 20:00 UK time Friday 23 March 2018. Please include a link to this blogpost within the post for your creation.

You can enter as many times as you wish 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 24 March 2018 at 09:00 UK time.

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.

Please also consider going to CHNC Facebook page and clicking 'like' if you haven't done so already and encourage your friends to do the same.


I also run a challenge blog called Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - anything goes as long as you use some patterned paper - with a randomly chosen prize winner every month. Please click on the link to find out more. If you have used patterned paper for your Christmas creation (if you haven't followed the optional theme this week, of course), please enter it there too. And please be aware that the Patterned Paper Challenge is not restricted to Christmas - it is for any occasions as long as some patterned paper has been used.

Thank you for your support
We look forward to seeing your entries

Posted by Hazel at 09:00 7 comments

Saturday, 10 March 2018

CHNC challenge 376


Thank you for all your lovely entries for last week's challenge - such a lot of entries once again! We're looking forward to seeing your festive designs this week.

Before I tell you about this week's challenge, I need to let you know the winner of challenge 375:

Please note that my email to send to is craftyhazelnut@gmail.com


Number 12: Stamp, fold and repeat (Jeanie), with this lovely card:



Congratulations, Jeanie. Please email me at craftyhazelnut@gmail.com with your full name and address so I can arrange for you to claim your Couture Creations Be merry and bright collection Ephemera set.

Please note that winner needs to claim the prize by 24 March (2 weeks)

Last week's prize hasn't been claimed yet - Red Obsession (Teresa) - you have till 17 March to claim.

 Every CHNC challenge is 'anything goes as long as it's Christmas', which will, hopefully, encourage as many crafters as possible to join in with their festive creations. However, there will always be an optional theme, which this week is 'Santa Claus/Father Christmas'. I want to stress that this is purely optional.

Challenge 376:

anything goes as long as it's Christmas
optional theme: Santa Claus/Father Christmas

Every week I give a prize to a randomly chosen winner - this is the prize for this challenge:


Crafter's Companion
Unmounted Rubber Stamp
Winter collection
Yuletide logs 

Here are the cards from myself and the rest of my team:




Apology that Myrna's card is so late being put on here (Hazel)



Now it's over to you. You can use any materials, any techniques - it's anything goes as long as it's Christmas, with the optional theme of 'Santa Claus/Father Christmas'.

We 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 creation can be found) by 20:00 UK time Friday 16 March 2018. Please include a link to this blogpost within the post for your creation.

You can enter as many times as you wish 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 17 March 2018 at 09:00 UK time.

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.

Please also consider going to CHNC Facebook page and clicking 'like' if you haven't done so already and encourage your friends to do the same.


I also run a challenge blog called Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - anything goes as long as you use some patterned paper - with a randomly chosen prize winner every month. Please click on the link to find out more. If you have used patterned paper for your Christmas creation (if you haven't followed the optional theme this week, of course), please enter it there too. And please be aware that the Patterned Paper Challenge is not restricted to Christmas - it is for any occasions as long as some patterned paper has been used.

Thank you for your support
We look forward to seeing your entries

Posted by Hazel at 09:00 2 comments

Saturday, 3 March 2018

CHNC challenge 375


Thank you for all your lovely entries for last week's challenge - such a lot of entries once again - 50 altogether! We're looking forward to seeing your festive designs this week.

Before I tell you about this week's challenge, I need to let you know the winner of challenge 374:

Please note that my email to send to is craftyhazelnut@gmail.com


Number 40: Red Obsession (Teresa), with this lovely card:


Congratulations, Teresa. Please email me at craftyhazelnut@gmail.com with your full name and address so I can arrange for you to claim your Crafter's Companion A5 unmounted rubber stamps Patterns of Life Destinations by Kathleen Francour

Please note that winner needs to claim the prize by 17 March (2 weeks)

Every CHNC challenge is 'anything goes as long as it's Christmas', which will, hopefully, encourage as many crafters as possible to join in with their festive creations. However, there will always be an optional theme, which this week is 'vintage or shabby chic'. I want to stress that this is purely optional.

Challenge 375:

anything goes as long as it's Christmas
optional theme: vintage or shabby chic

Every week I give a prize to a randomly chosen winner - this is the prize for this challenge:


Couture Creations
Be merry and bright collection
Ephemera set
72 pieces

Here are the cards from myself and the rest of my team:


Now it's over to you. You can use any materials, any techniques - it's anything goes as long as it's Christmas, with the optional theme of 'vintage or shabby chic'.

We 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 creation can be found) by 20:00 UK time Friday 9 March 2018. Please include a link to this blogpost within the post for your creation.

You can enter as many times as you wish 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 10 March 2018 at 09:00 UK time.

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.

Please also consider going to CHNC Facebook page and clicking 'like' if you haven't done so already and encourage your friends to do the same.


I also run a challenge blog called Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - anything goes as long as you use some patterned paper - with a randomly chosen prize winner every month. Please click on the link to find out more. If you have used patterned paper for your Christmas creation (if you haven't followed the optional theme this week, of course), please enter it there too. And please be aware that the Patterned Paper Challenge is not restricted to Christmas - it is for any occasions as long as some patterned paper has been used.

Thank you for your support
We look forward to seeing your entries

Posted by Hazel at 09:00 1 comments
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