All our December Top Picks

Hello, well this is it our last post, and with our decision to close we have saved all our December winners until last.   A great big thank you to our generous sponsor who has supported our endeavours with great generosity.   Alleystamp thank you and love to all the kittens.

Lets start with the top 3 for Any Festival and they are:

No3. Maura 

No10. Pia

No16. Tammy

Now the top 2 for our last challenge Summer Autumn, and can I thank everyone who entered and for some of the lovely comments made on your blogs about us.    There were so few entires that we kept this to the very best 2.

No 1. Ionabunny (Gail)

No 5. Janis in ID

This winners' post is a little late as the challenge only finished yesterday and we need time to choose our winner for the month of December.    Now for the last time out last winner is.

Janis in ID

Loved your card Janis and all the techniques you used so very successfully.   Please send me an email zoechaos@icloud.com with AUR winner in the subject and a note of where you live.   I'll forward it onto AlleyStamp who will tell you how to claim your $15 voucher.

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Challenge 6 Summer and/or Autumn

Hello again!   It is very nearly Red Man day just those finishing touches to do I bet.   We would all like to wish you joyous celebrations of the season.  For me it is this last week that always seems to fly by, but if you find yourself with a little time why not take up our challenge.

We are a rubber/stamping challenge so no Digis' please.   As usual there will be a top 3 for this challenge and those winners will along with our last challenges' top 3 be voted on by the team for a winner.

This will after all be our last challenge, I am sorry and thank everyone for their continued support but have found my heart is not really in it anymore.     There are a lot of challenges out there you can find many of them listed at challenges for days.

The theme this time is Summer and/or Autumn, well why not once Christmas is over we might enjoy a little Summer sun and Autumn colour.   Of course for our southern hemisphere friends it is Summer.  So lets celebrate those warmer seasons.

We have some inspiration for you.

Zoe

Jane

Christi

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November Winner

Hi it is time to announce our overall November winner.    As a team we looked at the Top 3 from both November challenges and from those we chose our winner.  If you would like the opportunity to be our December winner challenge 5 Festivals still has a couple of days to run.

The winner receives a $15 voucher for our wonderful sponsor Alleystamp.  There is a great range of products some only available in America at the store, if what you want is not in stock just ask and the lovely Janine will get it for you.  All you have to do is choose what you want and pay the postage, oh and UK people I think the $ has just dropped a little in value so it gets even better for you!

Onto the winner then.   Congratulations Marina we all thought your card is very special.  To claim your prize please send me an email (zoechaos@icloud.com) with the subject AUR winner and an indication of where you live, you have 2 weeks to claim your prize unclaimed prizes are forfeit.   The reason we ask where you live is so that Janine mark the parcel so you should not get charged duty and those ridiculous royal mail admin fees, we cannot guarantee it but we do try.

Here is Marina's winning entry

Here is your winners badge,

Challenge 4 Things with Wings - top three

Thank you very much to everyone who joined in our recent Things With Wings challenge  - it was lovely to see so much diversity among the styles of your entries. Our top 3 are

 #2 Pia 

 

 

#8 Marina 

 

 

#10 Valery Anne 

 

  

 

Don't forget to pick up your top 3 badges from our badges page, ladies, and you are all in with a chance of winning our December prize of a $15 voucher from Alleystamp.

 

 

You still have a week to enter our current challenge, which is any holiday or festival (unsurprisingly, most of you have chosen Christmas so far, but it can be any, at any time of year!)

 

Challenge #5 ~ Festival

Welcome to Challenge #5! While Jane has picked the theme, it's Christi here hosting just to keep you on your toes!

The theme this go around is Festival - you can use any holiday or festivity you choose as long as there is rubber/polymer stamping and no digital images - take a quick peek at our rules.  You have the next two weeks to enter in our challenge and we hope to inspire you to get out your rubber stamps and get inky!

We will choose a Top 3 from all the entries and then at the end of the month we will choose a Grand Prize winner who will win a $15 gift certificate from our wonderful sponsor, Alleystamp.  We urge you to check the store out and take advantage of the low prices.  And if what you want isn't in stock, Alleystamp can get it to you SO fast.

Back to the challenge - I hope to see some fantastic entries!  We'd love it if you'd pass this challenge on to your friends so everyone can have some fun with their stamps!

In addition to our Design Team, we have Carol as our guest designer.    Carol's busy family life means she cannot craft as much as she would like but took time to join us this time with a simply gorgeous tag.   Thank you Carol.

Here is some inspiration from our Design Team:

Christi

Zoe

Jane

Looking to see if your make meets other challenges? Check out Challenges for Days!

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Destinations top 3

Thank you very much for playing along with our destinations challenge. There were some super entries and it was very difficult to narrow it down to just three, but we've fainlly made our selection and our top 3 are

 #1 Marina  

 

#4 Chrissie 

 

#7 Pia

 

Our top three are now  in the running for our monthly prize of a $15 voucher for Alleystamp

 

There's still a week to go in our Things With Wings challenge, so why not flutter over and join in?

Challenge 4 - Things With Wings

Jane here again to introduce this fortnight's challenge to you, and this time we'd like your stamped work to feature Things (or A thing!) with Wings. Don't forget you must include some stamping, and  must not use digis anywhere on your work.

We'll be picking a top three who will join the top three from our previous challenge to be in with a chance of winning our monthly prize of a $15 voucher from Alleystamp.

First of all, let's have a look at what our guest designer has come up with.  Thank you for joining us Samantha Brooks and for getting out your rubber and inks, we know how busy you are.   In fact Samantha is so busy she has not updated her own blog for ages... but you can see a lot of her more recent work at her own challenge site Glitter and Sparkle.

And now on to the team's inspiration

Jane

Christi

Zoe

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October Winner

Hi it is time to announce our overall October winner.    As a team we looked at the Top 3 from both October challenges and from those we chose our first winner.  If you would like the opportunity to be our November winner challenge 3 Destinations still has a couple of days to run.

The winner receives a $15 voucher for our wonderful sponsor Alleystamp.  There is a great range of products some only available in America at the store, if what you want is not in stock just ask and the lovely Janine will get it for you.  All you have to do is choose what you want and pay the postage, oh and UK people I think the $ has just dropped a little in value so it gets even better for you!

Onto the winner then.   She is an old friend of ours from our Twofer time, and she jumped right back in on our first challenge with a lovely card, congratulations Sue you are our October Winner.  To claim your prize please send me an email (zoechaos@icloud.com) with the subject AUR winner and an indication of where you live, you have 2 weeks to claim your prize unclaimed prizes are forfeit.   The reason we ask where you live is so that Janine mark the parcel so you should not get charged duty and those ridiculous royal mail admin fees, we cannot guarantee it but we do try.

Here is Sue's winning entry

Here is your winners badge,

Winter and/or Spring (challenge 2) Top 3

Thank you all SO much for your fabulous entries into our second challenge! I hope the momentum keeps up!

Today I am here to announce the Top 3 Winners (in no particular order) for challenge #2, Winter and/or Spring:

DRUM ROLL PLEASE

The Top 3 Are:

#3, Lilian B

#6, Maura (beesmom on Splitcoast Stampers

#7, Greta H

It would be very helpful if you could list the stamps you use in your creation and PLEASE check out our rules!   We'd love to see your projects for our Destinations theme (challenge #3) - you can use any destination, real or imagined! 
The Top 3 chosen today will be joined by the top 3 from the current challenge and the team will then select one as our overall winner who will get a $15 voucher for Alleystamp, prize subject to terms and conditions.

Thank you for playing!

Challenge 3 - Destinations

Welcome to our third challenge. Jane here today - I chose our theme for this fortnight, which is Destinations. So we are looking for something connected with a place - maybe a city or country, or a generic place such as the countryside, the mountains or the seaside. In fact, just think about anywhere you might travel to or send a postcard home from. 

Don't forget that to qualify for a top 3 place or our monthly prize from Alleystamp, you must include some stamping, using rubber or polymer stamps, on your work, and not include any digitally generated material. So switch off that computer and go and get inky! (But not until you've taken a look at our inspiration, of course)

First of all, here is the inspiration from our lovely guest designer: Nana Connie who's fabulous work can be seen on her blog.  Nana Connie will be known to many of you she is on several design teams and a regular entrant to many challenges as well as Tuesday List Manager at Challenges for Days.   Thank you for finding the time to make this wonderful inspiration piece for us.

And here is what the regular team have created:

Jane

Christi

Zoe

Now let's see what YOU can come up with!

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It's not all Black and White Top 3

Oh goodness I nearly forgot!   We had a good start to Always use Rubber, thank you all for your entries.   Just a reminder please to check the rules as one or two did not quite qualify.    We already have some great entries for our Winter and or Spring challenge with room for more if you are thinking of joining in we would love to see your project.

The main business today is announcing our top 3 for the last challenge.   These will be joined by the top 3 from the current challenge and the team will then select one as our overall winner who will get a $15 voucher for Alleystamp, prize subject to terms and conditions.

Our first finalists are

No 3. Julye B

No 5. Sue

No 7. Pia

Good luck to you all in the final vote, your badge of honour is waiting for you on this page.   We will permanently share your projects on our Roll of Honour.

Challenge 2 ~ Winter and/or Spring

We are thrilled you have come to our challenge page!  We have already had a few entries that just don't work with our rules, so PLEASE read the rules before you link up! The creations are lovely, but, digital elements are not allowed in our challenge and we hate to have you waste linking to us when you could link to many other challenges.  That being said, on with the show!

The fabulous Alleystamp are staying with us as Sponsor but we have changed things a little there will be a top 3 for each challenge and one monthly winner chosen by the team from the months top picks.  Thank you Alleystamp we are delighted that you chose to continue to support us.

This second challenge is Winter and/or Spring.    Your project can be anything based on what the theme means to you (if it is obscure, please explain in the narrative!).  We can't wait to see what you come up with!! Have fun but please do remember to include rubber/polymer stamping.

We are joined again this time by another of our Challenges for Days team mates, Kathy aka The Purple Princess.  When we gave Kathy this theme her thoughts went directly to Christmas as that is what Winter means to her.   Thank you for joining us and bringing a terrific card with you Kathy.

And now the inspiration from your regular DT.

Christi

Zoe

 

Jane

 

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