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

CHNC challenge 124: seeing stars

You all certainly managed to get sentimental last week - thanks for all the entries. I look forward to seeing stars this week.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 123. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

The first winner:

Number 21: Helen Howard, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Helen. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your 5 digital stamps from Robyn'sFetish Digital Stamps And More.

The second winner:

Number 34: Monica-LaPaperaGialla, who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Monica. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your prize from My Creative Classroom.

The third winner:

Number 12: Crafty Kitten (Dawn), who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Dawn. 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 124

For today's challenge I'd like to see stars on your Christmas cards - at least one, but more would be nice

Our 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, 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: The Stamping Shack:

'The Stamping Shack is a small family run UK business founded in 2011 and based in South Devon. Our aim is to supply crafters with premium hand picked online digi stamps for all your crafting projects!

All of our images are chosen by experienced card makers, meaning that at the Stamping Shack you will find digi stamps that are simply adorable, cute and in some cases quirky!'

The randomly chosen winner will be able to choose five digital images from the eshop.

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

you will be spoiled for choice!

I've made three cards using the 'raggedly angel - lay on star' image kindly supplied by Bugaboo Stamps - I digitally coloured it in Paint and printed out in three different sizes for the three different cards.

This is the first card that you can read about here on My Crafty Outlook:

And this is the second card - info about it here on My Crafty Outlook:

And the third card using the Bugaboo Stamps 'raggedly angel - lay on star' image that you can read about here on My Crafty Outlook:

I made another card (yes, I've gone a bit mad with stars!) using a stamp kindly supplied by one of our sponsors, Flonz craft, - you can read about this one 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 use at least one star 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 17 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 18 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

CHNC challenge 123: let's get sentimental (use a sentiment)

What a lovely lot of ribbons and bows entries for last week - I do really enjoy visiting your blogs and admiring your wonderful crafting - such a lot of inspiration. If you've not been able to join us before it would be lovely to see your entries for today's challenge. It is hard to believe that we're already into May and more than a third of the year has gone - it's certainly not too early to start your Christmas cards. Some of you have been joining in week by week and are now accumulating quite a nice stack of cards that will take the pressure off during the busy time leading up to the festivities in December.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 122. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

The first winner:

Number 4: Tracey Boley who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Tracey. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com with your full name and address so I can arrange for you to receive your £10 worth of goodies from Crafty Poodles.

The second winner:

Number 21: Fiona who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Fiona. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your 4 digital images from Delicious Doodles.

The third winner:

Number 14: Wendy (Papersniffer) who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Wendy. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com  so that I can arrange for you to receive your prize from Sir Stampalot.

Now on to:

Challenge 123

For today's challenge please get sentimental - in other words, use a sentiment on the front of your Christmas card

Our first sponsor today is Robyn'sFetish Digital Stamps And More:

'Robyn'sFetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.'

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is happy to award the randomly chosen winner the choice of 5 digital stamps.

The second sponsor is  new to CHNC, My Creative Classroom:

My Creative Classroom is an online arts and crafts learning center. Our interactive and in-depth courses are instructor led and filled with wonderful projects and techniques to help you get the most out of your supplies. Our Spring Semester is winding down but we still have plenty of classes to choose from. We have just announced the addition of our Library and Foundation category! The Library features retired classes at 40-50% off their original price and our Foundation classes help you get started on your crafty journey right away! 

Here's a sampling of our Workshop classes:

Big Ideas for Mini Albums
Cricut: Scrapbooking Through the Years
Photo Embroidery
Scrapbooking: Home Decor
Calligraphy with Copics and Brush Markers
Knitting 101

We are excited to be sponsoring Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge. You can view our entire class list on our website at My Creative Classroom. You can also view classes on our Facebook Page too! One lucky winner will receive a free seat to a class of their choice.....Good Luck!

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.'

For this competition we would like to giveaway a Simpler Times CD :

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

you will be spoiled for choice!

Here is my first card I've used 'Charlie Christmas bear' and 'Christmas wordart' - you can read about it 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 sentiment on the front of 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 10 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 11 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

CHNC challenge 122: ribbons and bows

What a wonderful lot of red and green cards for last week's challenge. I just love visiting your blogs and seeing what you have made - and getting tempted by all the lovely things that have been used - my wishlist of dies, stamps etc grows every week!

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 121. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

The first winner:

Number 17: Asha who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Asha. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your $10 store voucher to their AF shop from Pin and Tack.

The second winner:

Number 35: Suze who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Suze. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your $9 gift certificate from Shelly's images.

The third winner:

Number 51: Anda who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Anda. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com  so that I can arrange for you to receive your three free downloads from bestcardmaking-downloads.com given by Stamping all day.

Now on to:

Challenge 122

For today's challenge I'd like to see ribbons and/or bows on your Christmas card - just one will do, but it would be lovely to see more

Our first sponsor today is a new one to CHNC: Crafty Poodles, who will be giving £10 worth of goodies to the randomly chosen winner.

'For all your crafting needs. Items include, lace, flowers, ribbons, pins, fold-over elastic, fabric, buttons, charms and more!'

The second sponsor is  Delicious Doodles:

'Delicious Doodles is a young company with myself, Teri, as the Sole Trader/Designer. 

I have doodled and sketched all of my life. I started making greetings cards when my last child was born, and used my doodles on them as I couldn't find what I wanted in the usual craft places. 

I only started selling my images in the Autumn of 2009. I design and hand/mouse-draw all of the images that are sold in the Delicious Doodles Shop. Some are cutsie animals, some are sketched flowers, there are a few men's images, fairies and also some 'darker' images featuring vampires, skulls and Gothic stuff, something for everyone! '

The randomly-chosen winner will be able to choose 4 digital images.

The third sponsor is another new one to CHNC: Sir Stampalot:

'Sir Stampalot is a retail shop and online website that specialises in stamps, die cutting and paper-crafting goodies. We try to offer exceptional delivery times on your orders as well as keeping our stock fresh, new and exciting! Our dedicated team of card makers means we have a wonderful, inspirational online card gallery with many more cards still to upload! Sir Stampalot ships internationally as well as domestic so why not check us out if you haven’t already – www.sirstampalot.co.uk. Happy Crafting!'

This is the wonderful prize that Sir Stampalot will be giving to the randomly chosen winner:

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

you will be spoiled for choice!

Here is my first card - you can read about it here on My Crafty Outlook:

Just adding another card that I made - it was for a guest design slot on Christmas stampin' all year long for their challenge 14 using the Bugaboo 'Theodore's Christmas present image - do click on the link and join in - you can read more about it 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 at least one ribbon and/or one bow.

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 3 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 4 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 April is here - open until 20:00 UK time Tuesday 30 April, after which there will be a new challenge extra for May (link to follow when current).

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries

CHNC challenge 121: red and green must be seen

What wonderful wings you had to show for last week's challenge - lots of gorgeous birds, angels, fairies, etc.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 120. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

The first winner:

Number 16: Angela who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Angela. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your $21 of digital stamps from Bugaboo Stamps.

The second winner:

Number 15: Di who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Di. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your $20 voucher from Flonz craft to spend in their online store.

The third winner:

Number 25: Heather Mills who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Heather. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com  so that I can arrange for you to receive your £10 voucher from Paper Creator to spend in their online store.

Now on to:

Challenge 121

For today's challenge red and green must be seen
(you can use other colours as well, but red and green must be used)

Our first sponsor today is a new one to CHNC: Pin and Tack, who are offering a $10 store voucher to their AF shop for the randomly chosen winner.

'Pin & Tack, home of boutique pins, tacks and delightful treats for your home, office or gifting!'

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 another new one to CHNC: Stamping all day who are offering three free downloads from bestcardmaking-downloads.com to the randomly chosen winner. 

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

you will be spoiled for choice!

For my first card I have used a holly digi from Shelly's images, flipping and rotating it and printing directly on to the card blank, adding red gems and a My Mind's Eye 'all is bright' 3D sticker in the middle - you can read more about this here on My Crafty Outlook. I am sorry that the card looks pink, but is in fact white (I wish the better weather would come so I can take pictures outside - might try to get a better picture in the morning):

My second and third cards are made from Hunkydory supplies - more info here and here on My Crafty Outlook:

And a vintage Santa card you can read about 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 'red and green must be seen' - you can use other colours as long as red and green are there too.

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 26 April. 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 27 April 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 April is here.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries