ABC Christmas Challenge - A & B are for?

 Happy New Year Everyone!

It's Helen here welcoming you to our first challenge of 2026, and the beginning of our seventeenth (!!!) trip through the alphabet! We hope that you will join us this year in our bid to be prepared for next Christmas! Perhaps you were lucky enough to receive some new Christmas craft bits in your stocking...or snapped up some bargains in the post-Christmas sales...perhaps one of your New Year's resolutions is to have your Christmas cards ready in plenty of time this year...or maybe you just haven't tidied away your Christmas stash away after making last year's cards yet! Whatever the reason, we'd love to have you play along with us all year - we have two (or sometimes three) fun themes each month, with plenty of projects from our design team to help inspire you!

Before I get on to this month's themes, may I remind you to check the post below to see if you were a lucky winner of our last challenge!

I would also like to say a big THANK YOU to Helene for all of her hard work on our Design Team, and for her inspirational projects for all of our challenges over the past few years. It's been wonderful having her on our team, and we would like to wish her all the best!

 Whilst, as our name suggests, we are predominantly a Christmas challenge, we would like to extend a very warm welcome to cards made for other December/Winter Holidays (for example Hanukkah, Yule etc). There may still be some of our themes that are specifically 'Christmas', but many would work for other Winter Holidays and Festivals too, so as long as your project fits the theme, we are happy for you to enter our challenges.

We have noticed an increasing number of entries posted on Instagram...we're very happy to have you on board & you'll find some of our DT members there too...please use the hashtag #abcchristmaschallenge on your posts.

Okay, here we go!
We have two themes for you this month:

'A is for Anything Christmas'
&
'B is for Bright'

There's a little prize from me for the lucky winner:

A stamp set and a 6x6 Christmas themed paper pad.

And now it's time for some inspiration from our Design Team:

Helen

'A is for Anything Christmas Goes'

'B is for Bright'

Carol

'A is for Anything Christmas Goes'

Lynda

'B is for Bright'

Fabiola

'A is for Anything Christmas Goes'

So now it's over to you...this challenge ends on Saturday 7th February at 10pm (GMT).

Please link up your entries below.
We look forward to seeing what you create!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner and top 3 - Y and Z

 It's time to announce the winners for our December challenge Y for Yummy and Z for zebra. And I will also announce that this will be my last challenge as part of the design team at ABC Christmas. Life is knocking at the door and I need to answer. It has been a priviledge to be able to hop around and comment on all your wonderful creations, take care and keep crafting!

First the prize winner, drawn randomly from all the lovely contributions:

Nr 20 and that is Diane H. Please contact us with your postal address.

And the top 3 chosen by me (in order of entry):

5. Kathy Asper

18. Lia

26. Paperesse

Gorgeous creations! Please take the appropriate winner's badge and display it with pride. 

All the best / Heléne aka Mummylade

ABC Christmas Challenge - Y & Z are for?

 Morning, It's Helene here with the last ABC Christmas Challenge for 2025, time to get those last minute Christmas cards ready. The themes for this challenge are:

'Y is for Yummy'

&

'Z is for Zebra'

(Stripes and/or Black & White)

The prize for the lucky winner is these Chocolate Baroque & Woodware stamps:

And now it's time for some inspiration from our Design Team:

Helen

'Y is for Yummy'

'Z is for Zebra (Stripes)'

Carol

'Y is for Yummy'

Lynda

'Z is for Zebra  (Black and White)'

Helene

'Y is for Yummy'

Fabiola

'Z is for Zebra (Black & White)'

So now it's over to you...this challenge ends on Saturday 10th January at 10pm (GMT).

Please link up your entries below.
We look forward to seeing what you create!

Please ensure that you have followed at least one of this month's themes ('Y is for Yummy' & 'Z is for Zebra') before you add your link.

Any entries not following at least one of the themes will not be eligible for the prize draw.

If you are on Instagram please use the hashtag #abcchristmaschallenge

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner and Top 3 W/X challenge

Hello! It's  Fabiola here announcing the lucky winner and top three of last month's challenge. The themes were:

'W is for Wings'

&

'X is for X-Stitch (Any kind of stitching will do)'

The prize for the lucky winner was 

 a 30$  gift card from your favourite store,

a lovely Christmas Gift...

and the randomly drawn winner this time is 

and it's You Valerija!

with your lovely card

what a sweet and lovely création

thanks for playing with us.

please send me an email here  to ask your price.

and my top 3 in order of submission are:

#44 Lynne

#52 Pat

#69 Pauline

Congratulations Everyone!

 - please email us to claim your prize.

Unclaimed prizes may be redrawn or worse still lost. 

You can find the page for grabbing your blinkie or banner
 at the top of our blog.

Don't forget to check back soon for another fun challenge!

Hugs, Fabiola

Merry Christmas everyone!

ABC Christmas Challenge - W & X are for?

 hello everyone and welcome to  ABC Challenge

I'm Fabiola and I'm your hostess for this November challenge.

First of all, thank you for playing with us 

It's a pleasure and an honor to discover and comment 

on your wonderful créations.

Now, it's time to play...

Christmas is just around the corner,

are you ready?!

ok, we want you to have fun with

'W is for Wings'

&

'X is for X-Stitch (Any kind of stitching will do)'

and now, one of you can win a sweet prize

a 30$  gift card from your favourite store,

a lovely Christmas Gift...

so come and play with us!

Now, it's time to play.

This challenge is running until Saturday 6th December 2025

And here are the contributions from the Design Team to get you started:

Design team inspiration:

Helen

'W is for Wings'

'X is for X-Stitch'

Carol

'W is for Wings'

Lynda

'W is for Wings'

Helene

'X for X-Stitch'

Fabiola

'W is for Wings' and 'X for X-Stitch'

If you are on Instagram, please use the hashtag #abcchristmaschallenge

Now enjoy!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter