CHNC challenge 486

Thank you so much for all of your wonderful festive designs shared last week.

We look forward to seeing all your lovely festive crafting this week - now that we are well into April it's a good time to start thinking about getting ahead, if you haven't already done so.

Before I tell you about this week's challenge, I need to let you know the winner of challenge 485:

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

Number 16: Shona Hamill, with this lovely card:

Congratulations, Shona. Please email me at craftyhazelnut@gmail.com with your full name and address so I can post your Love to craft Cosy Christmas paper pad.

Please note that winner needs to claim the prize by 2 May (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 house or other building'. I want to stress that this is purely optional.

Challenge 486:

anything goes as long as it's Christmas

optional theme: include a house or other building

Every week a prize is given to a randomly chosen winner - this is the prize I'm giving this week:

Leonie Pujol
Joy Mask and stencil set
and

Leonie Pujol
Adore Mask and stencil set

Here are the designs from myself and the rest of my wonderful team - I am so grateful to them for sharing their lovely designs:

Cass

Catherine

Claudia

Fiona is taking a break following a bereavement. We send our condolences and love to her.

Hazel

Helen

Lisbeth

Margaret

Myrna

Susan
(upcycled commercial card)

Suze
(part of a house)

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 house or other building'.

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 24 April 2020. 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 25 April 2020 at 09:00 UK time.

Please add your link to linky tools. 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, 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