Allsorts challenge blog

Saturday, 1 August 2026

Challenge 855

Hello Everyone, Sarah here and its my absolute pleasure to be hosting the Challenge this time and I have chosen as the optional theme

Colours of summer

meaning that we would love to see your projects sharing whatever summer colour means to you, be it a garden, seaside, landscape, the options are limitless. Anything Goes is also most welcome too.

Please remember, to be eligible you must provide name/makes of products used on your entry (our rules explain why), if missing entires will not be included in winner/Top 7 selections.

One prize, Butterfly stamp and stencil from Visible Image

My lovely team mates have been busy with inspiration for you and we are pleased to welcome back our recurring Guest Designer

Sarn
Sarah

Brenda

Christine

Donna

Ellie

Using Visible Image Dragonfly Dreams

Gail

Liz

Lynn

Lynne

Val

We are looking forward to seeing your lovely projects and I will be back in a couple of weeks with my favourites!!

Friday, 31 July 2026

Challenge 854 Top 7

Good afternoon, it's Val back with the Top 7 from my At the Seaside theme, what beautiful entries you shared with us, thank you all.

I could have chosen so many but narrowed it down to the following Top 7 who are in order of entry....

No 10 Lia

No 24 Billie

No 27 Caroline

Mo 47 Sarn

No 60 Joceyln

Due to companies Copyright restrictions of the focal image we are unable to display the card

Mo 64 Pat

No 73 Carianne

And from that list I have selected no 64 Pat to join us as our Guest Designer for challenge 857 on 29th August, please mail us by Friday 7th August to learn all about our theme for that challenge.

Well done to you all, please collect your badges to display on your own blogs.

July winners

We have our winners for three challenges 852/3/4 which covered the end of June and July which together saw so many lovely entries, our thanks to all who joined us.

As selected by Random Org., they are....

Challenge 852 ~~no 39 Jose~~

Challenge 853 ~~no 22 Jenny~~ and no 31 Helen

Challenge 854 ~~no 85 Kath~~

Congratulations to you all, to claim please mail us by Friday 7th August with your full names and postal address, prizes unclaimed by that date will be forfeited. Overseas winners, before claiming please read our rules and prizes pages and consider the information before claiming as we cannot help after prizes are shipped.

Saturday, 18 July 2026

Challenge 854 🏖️

Morning and welcome to a new challenge at Allsorts, it's Val here and my theme for you is....

🏖️At the Seaside⛱️

or Anything Goes

As we head into the holiday season lots of us will be taking trips to the beach so I hope it will inspire your entries, but the Anything Goes option is of course always there, all your entries are welcome.

Please remember, to be eligible you must provide name/makes of products used on your entry (our rules explain why), if missing entries will not be included in winner/Top 7 selections.

Our lucky winner will receive this collection of stamps from Stamp Addicts

We are pleased to welcome Rosie as our Guest Designer with this lovely tag and card.

Val
Brenda

Christine
Donna
Ellie

Gail

Liz
Lynn
Lynne
Sarah

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Friday, 17 July 2026

Top 7 for challenge 853

Good evening, Donna here, so many beautiful entries and inspiration making this a difficult task to pick the top seven.

Here they are in numerical order and please scroll down to see who I choose for the Guest Designer pick.

No 6 Chris

No 22 Jenny

No 35 Donna

No 39 Valerija

No 65 Stephanie

No 54 Tracey

No 55 Gerrina

Congratulations to all of you for your well earned recognition! Please collect the top 7 logo from the sidebar to display on your blog.

From the entries above we would like to invite No 35 Donna Phelan to be our guest designer for challenge 856 on 15th August. Please mail us by Friday 24th August so we can tell you more about the theme for that challenge.

Winners from this challenge will be announced on 31st August.

We hope you will all join us for our next challenge hosted by Val on Saturday!

Saturday, 4 July 2026

Challenge 853

Good Morning, it's Donna here with a new challenge for the next fortnight and I have selected....

****Stencils****

Stencils play a big part in our crafting and I would love you to include some on your entries, but of course if they are not something you use there is always the Anything Goes option, we love to see all your creativity.

Please remember, to be eligible you must provide name/makes of products used on your entry (our rules explain why), if missing entries will not be included in winner/Top 7 selections.