J for Jingle Bells ½ way reminder!

Hi all its time for our mid way reminder and we have some more inspiration for you!!

Our current challenge is: J for Jingle Bells
and runs until Tuesday 29th May.

We have the Fabulous Bugaboo as our sponsor this time

Bugaboo

Catch the bug Challenge blog

the Prize

and now for some more Inspiration from our fabulous Designers!

with there mid-way cards...

Dorte using a Bugaboo Snowman Polks Scarf Digital stamp.


Helen using a Penny Black Stamp.

Samantha using a Whiff of Joy Stamp.

Lols Using a House Mouse Stamp.


Bettina Using a Mo Manning Digital stamp.

Lacey using a High Hopes Stamp

You can Enter the challenge here.

J is for Jingle Bells Challenge

Happy Wednesday everyone!
It's me Samantha here and I have a little house keeping this week.
From this week we are returning to a winner's post and we will be linking it here once the challenge post has gone live each challenge
So if you're looking for the winners please scroll down to the post before this one!

Winners and Top 3
'I' for Icy Inspiration Challenge
Click Here

Did you see the new blog header with our fabby new designers?

It's also my turn to host the challenge this time.
soooo this fortnight's fun Christmas Challenge is
J for Jingle Bells

So your card/creation can be anything Christmas as long as you have Jingle bells on it!

We have the Fabulous Bugaboo as our sponsor this time

Bugaboo

Challenge Blog: http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com/

Prize

PLEASE put your hands together and give a huge applause for our New Designers Bettina, Kelly and Wilma!
Welcome to the team girls! We are all looking forward to your AWESOME talent! YAY!



Bettina using Bugaboo Winter Birds Sled
you can also see Bettina's card on the Bugaboo Blog!

Kelly

Wilma using Whipper Snapper

Here are the rest of our gang!

Here's my card Samantha using Bugaboo Little-Penguin-Winter--reindeer

Helen using Bugaboo Snowman Bells
you can also see Helen's card on the Bugaboo Blog!



Lorraine using Bugaboo Reindeer trio, Make it snappy



Lacey Coming soon!

Dorte using Bugaboo - DeDe Christmas Bells


Carissa using Bugaboo Reindeer trio, Make it snappy
you can also see Carissa's card on the Bugaboo Blog!

Miria using Bugaboo Little-Penguin-Winter--reindeer

Ok so it's over to you then!

We can't wait to see what creations you will be entering
and adding to your Christmas card piles!

Please feel free to leave us some love on the comments here or on the designers blogs!
Hugs Samantha and the team xx

Winners and Top 3 of the 'I' for Icy Inspiration Challenge :-)

1 Prize winner of the fabulous
$15 Voucher to

excludes shipping

and the lucky winner is:

Claimed ~ No 28, Helen

2nd Prize winner of the

€10 gift voucher to spend in

and the lucky winner is:

Claimed ~ No 38 , Lizy

The Top 3 are:

8, Liselot

15, Caz

44 , Susan Stacy

Congratulations Everyone!

Please email us by Tuesday 29th May to claim your prizes - 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.

New DT Members & Icy Inspirational Photos More Inspiration

It's Helen here with some really exciting news about our new DT members, as well as some more inspiration for our current challenge. I won't hold you in suspense any longer...the three lovely ladies we've chosen to join our happy little DT family are: 
 

Please join us in welcoming:

Bettina, Wilma & Kelly!
 

We're so excited that you're coming to play! :0) 

Their first challenge will be J is for ? so you'll be seeing their cards next week! 

But...that's not all! There was such a wealth of talent amongst those that applied to join our DT, that we've also picked some Guest Designers too...and they'll be joining us over the next couple of months...so there'll be oodles of inspiration to get your Christmas card stash kick-started! 

Ok...so I also have some more inspiration from my lovely DT buddies for our current challenge, where the theme is: 
 

'I is for Icy Inspirational Photos' 

We have two wonderful sponsors for this challenge: 

From Simon Says Stamp - a $15 voucher to spend in their store! 

From In 2 Stamps - a €10 gift voucher to spend in their store! 

What great prizes! 

And here are the DT's mid-way cards: 

Miria

Dorte

Samantha

And Me (Helen)

For even more inspiration, and the linky for your entries, please visit this post.

Happy Christmas Crafting!

Helen & the ABC Christmas girls xx

'I' is for Icy Inspiration ,,,,,, :-)

Hi all :-) Thanks for all of your fabulous entries to our 'H' for Hardware challenge :-) Lots of gorgeous cards and isn't it nice to know that we won't have the last minute panic of having to go out and buy them from a shop,,, perish the thought !!! :-)


Thank you also for all the fabulous DT entries we now have the hard job of deliberating! We will be announcing the lucky ladies to be joining our Team on the 9th May with our ½ way post!

Remember to check the sidebar to see if you are one of the 2 lucky winners and also see who Samantha chose for her Top 3 picks.

Now onto a new theme for the next 2 weeks !! :-)

It is my turn ( Lols) to choose the theme this week and I chose ,,,

'I' for - Icy Inspiration :-)
Don't ya just LOVE these penguins ! sooo cute :-)

photo courtesy of pinterest

and this lovely icy Christmas Tree too :-)

you can use either or both photo's for your inspiration :-)

We have 2 fabulous sponsors this week :-)

Simon Says Stamp
with a fab $15 voucher excluding postage.

and

In 2 Stamps

Prize

Fabulous Prizes eh !! So grab your papers and glitter and join in !! :-)

And now here's what we made ,,,,

Design Team

Samantha


Helen

Lorraine

Lacey

Dorte


Carissa

Miria

So now its your turn to get out your glitter and glue and join in ! :-)
Happy Crafting !! :-)

We will be back soon with the names of the designers who will be joining our lovely team :-) If you entered the DT call then Good Luck and thank you for putting your name forward. We really appreciate it :-)