CHNC challenge 129: frame, window or aperture

Oh what a lovely selection of cards for last week's challenge 128. I find it so inspirational visiting your blogs and admiring your crafting. Thank you so much for your support of these challenges. I hope you like today's new challenge.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 128. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

The first winner:

Number 5: Liselot, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Liselot. 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 27: Fabiola, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Fabiola. 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 13: Meighan Wheller, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Meighan. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com with your full name and address so that I can post your prize that was donated by Mulberry Crafts.

Now on to:

Challenge 129

For today's challenge I'd like to see a frame, a window or an aperture on your Christmas card

The first sponsor today is Creative Treasures

I’m Tracy and the owner of Creative Treasures, we are a family run business with a love of all things craft related. We stock a great range of mulberry flowers, pretty ribbons, seam binding, lace, pearls, buttons, charms and lots of pretty embellishments. We are always adding new stock.  Our aim is to provide fantastic customer service and great value for money.

This is the prize that will be sent to the randomly chosen winner:

The second sponsor is  Shelly's images who are once again generously giving a $9 gift certificate to the randomly chosen winner for him/her to choose from the lovely range you will find here.

'Our images are hand drawn by Shelly. We have a super talented family, so every now and then they jump in with an image. Any image that is not drawn by Shelly will have the artists name in the product description.

Digital stamps are perfect for card making, scrap booking, and crafting. The images are easy to re-size and perfect because they don't require any storage space and there is no messy ink and clean up.  If you have any questions about using digital stamps please be sure to send us an email.

Shelly's images are designed with the crafter in mind. She has been a paper crafter for more than 15 years.'

The third sponsor is  Bearly mine designs:

They are offering a £10 gift voucher for the randomly chosen winner. As well as many lovely designs to purchase, there are some wonderful freebies too at Bearly mine designs.

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

you will be spoiled for choice!

For this card I've simply used a Hunkydory topper that shows a house with lights in the windows - you can read more about it here on My Crafty Outlook:

And for this card I've used a folded step card, some card, borders and sentiment from Kanban and a picture that has an acetate window over it so that it is slightly rounded in the middle. You can read more about it here.

Most of the picture is on the card underneath, bt the paper chains and holly are also on the acetate. You can read more about it here.

And this card uses a digital insert kindly supplied as part of a Christmas inserts digi set from Bearly Mine Designs - I've used it for the front of a card instead of an insert - you can read about these next two cards here on My Crafty Outlook:

And another, with an aperture using another insert as a card front - again, supplied by Bearly Mine Designs.

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 I'd like to see a frame, a window or an aperture on your card - it can be as simple as making sure there is a house with a window 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 21 June. 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 22 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 June is here.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries

CHNC challenge 128: use a die cut and/or punch

I so enjoyed seeing your cards created using your favourite embellishments. I think, like me, some of you found it quite difficult to choose your favourite. Thanks again for your support. I look forward to seeing all your entries for this week's challenge.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 127. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

The first winner:

Number 34: Gail Scott, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Gail. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com with your full name and address so I can arrange for you to receive the CD of your choice from Ooh la la Creations.

The second winner:

Number 22: Liz, who shared this lovely card:

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

The third winner:

Number 14: Asha, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Asha. 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 128

For today's challenge I'd like you to use a die cut or a punched shape on your Christmas card

The 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:

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 new to CHNC: Mulberry Crafts.

'MuberryCraftsUK online shop is a Home-Based business jointly run by Bev and Fun. We are both juggling between caring for our families and running this business from home.

At the moment we are focussing on providing miniature flowers made from genuine mulberry paper for crafts use - although we have a small selection of non -paper crafts too. Why mulberry paper? Because they are robust, realistic look and last longer than ordinary paper and it provide a sustainable income for people in the cottage industry. In due course we will be introducing more of other craft materials which is not related to mulberry paper.'

Mulberry Crafts have kindly supplied this wonderful array of goodies to be given to the randomly chosen winner:

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

you will be spoiled for choice!

For my card I've used two images from stamps kindly supplied by Flonz craft, one of our sponsors, encasing these in a Nellie frame die - you can read more about the card 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 die cut on your Christmas card - it can be one that you have created with a nestability, for instance, or a ready made die cut that you purchased - it can even be a die cut sentiment.

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 14 June. 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 15 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 June is here.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries

CHNC challenge 127: use your favourite embellishments

What a wonderful lot of white I saw this last week - some cards with a little and some with a lot - thank you for all your support in making this challenge blog successful. Please continue to spread the word - it's lovely to see new crafters joining in week by week. I hope you like today's challenge and I look forward to seeing lots of entries.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 126. There were, of course, four - yes, four - opportunities to win a prize.

The first winner:

Number 23: fabiola, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, . Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your     from MilkCoffee.

The second winner:

Number 36: Suze, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Suze. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your $10 gift certificate the spend in Stamp Your Life's Etsy shop.

The third winner:

Number 16: Mandy, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Mandy. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com  so that I can arrange for you to receive your prize from PDA Card and Craft.

The fourth winner:

Number 6, Karen P,who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Karen. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com  so that I can arrange for you to receive your £10 voucher from Crafter's Companion.

Now on to:

Challenge 127

For today's challenge I'd like you to use your favourite embellishments on your Christmas card

The first sponsor today is 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 Tando Creative:

'We supply our own unique range of chipboard designs that are both innovative and inspiring. We have now added masks to our range of products cut from sturdy and durable 350 micron polyfilm.

We offer a complete bespoke design and cut package for chipboard or we can cut products to your digital designs.'

Tando Creative will be sending the randomly chosen winner a prize package.

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 Fabulous Fashion CD from Katy Sue Designs.

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

you will be spoiled for choice!

For my card I've used some lovely Prima Christmas flowers and a sparkly wired ribbon tied into a bow (I find it hard to choose my favourite embellishments, but I think that flowers are just ahead of ribbons!) - more info 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 your favourite embellishments on 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 7 June. 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 8 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 June is here.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries

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