Friday, 5 June 2026

Top 14! for our 17th Birthday challenge 850

Hi everyone, Lynn here back with my top picks for the 17th Birthday challenge. Thanks so much to everyone that entered, we have enjoyed seeing your creativity.

As we had so many entries and it's a special occasion, I have indulged myself with picking 14 picks - twice as many as usual! I could still have picked more lol! Out of my Top 14 the crafter selected to join us as a Guest Designer for Challenge 853 on 4th July is #12 Cynthia O. We do hope you will join us. Please mail us before Friday 12th June to learn more about our theme for that challenge. Here are  my picks in order of entry...

11 Di
12 Cynthia O 
13 Denise Bryant 
19 Sarah R
26  Aartje 
67 Dora 
94 Carrie Sheridan
134 Darnell 
138 Rosi 
149 Blankina
156 Creative Em 
160 JanR
161 Jeni Mc
#171 Shaz

Congratulations to everyone. Do please collect your badge from the side bar to display on your own blogs.

Brenda will be here tomorrow with a new challenge theme.

Birthday challenge 850 winners

Wow, what a super fortnight it's been for our 17th Birthday celebrations, thank you so much for all your wonderful support, it really is appreciated.

Let's move on to our eight winners.........but seems there are a few more, twelve apparently! All as selected by Random Org., the entry numbers and names are in no particular order, no 24 Deborah, no 5 Annie, no 135 Jean, no 150 Marlene, no 41 Cynthia, no 153 Tina, no 48 Natalie, no 113 Lesley, no 107 Denise, no 8 Sue, no 169 Kath and no 62 Cindy.
 
                     
    
          
  
Congratulations to you all, please mail us by Friday 12th June 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. 

Well done to you all, don't forget to collect our winners badge to display on your own blogs. Lynn will be along later today with her Top picks, how many will she choose I wonder?

Saturday, 23 May 2026

Challenge 850 🎉 🎈

Hello everyone, Lynn here. Welcome to the 17th Birthday celebrations at Allsorts challenge. We're so glad you could visit and we do hope you will join us by entering this special challenge. It's super easy to enter because it's

ANYTHING GOES!

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.

Listed below are all the wonderful prizes we will be giving away to the winners. You can enter the challenge a maximum of 5 times, so lots of chances to win.

Lavinia Stamp collectionlease note, we (Lavinia) cannot provide exchanges/replacements/refunds for any products received through this third-party giveaway. Specialising in finely detailed exclusive designs, Tracey Dutton, artist and company founder, uses her fascination for fairies, fantasy, flora and fauna as inspiration. She designs spiritually inspired, hand drawn images that enable you to push the boundaries of your imagination and fall in love with crafting.

Buddly Crafts £25 store voucher. Founded in 2003, we've grown from a digital downloads store into the online craft supplies shop we are today sending out orders to our discerning, creative customers across the UK and worldwide. We stock a wide range of exciting products for card making and mixed media art carefully selected from the world’s most creative and time-tested arts and crafts brands.

Art Impressions $30 store voucher. Art Impressions is a rubber stamp manufacturer based in Salem, OR since 1987. The company began as our sole designer, Bonnie Krebs, created and sold educational stamps at craft fairs around the US Northwest, now sold Worldwide.


Highlight Crafts Dies and artwork downloads. Own brand products designed in the UK and an on line store offering a fabulous variety of brands to cover a multitude of crafty techniques.

Plus surprise goody bags containing stamps, dies, stencils and other crafty essentials.


Plus don't forget the special discount from AALL and Create of 15% until 31st May on all items in their store using the special code: AllsortsBD17

Of course the challenge wouldn't be possible without a great DT who provide inspiration every two weeks. But without Brenda at the helm there would be no challenge, it's such a great achievement to have had a challenge run for this length of time. Some of you might know that she is recovering from a recent operation and we wish her a speedy recovery. We are all missing her and the entrants too as she usually leaves a comment on every entry. That might not happen this time and the prizes may be a little late in being sent out, we hope you understand.

We welcome two Guest Designers Pinky and Sarn. Pinky first joined in the challenge when we started in May 2009 and has been a regular entrant since. Recurring Guest Designer Sarn who often pops in to help us out and also takes part as an entrant. So it seemed very fitting they both joined us for this special challenge.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Friday, 22 May 2026

Top 7 for Challenge 849

It's Liz here, back with my Top 7. Thank you to those who chose to go with the 'Monochromatic' theme.  I've changed my mind so many times over the last fortnight, so many beautifully creations, but here are my Top 7 in order of entry.

No 5 Shaz
No 12 Ellen
No. 18 Silke
No. 29  Guri
No. 42 Astrid
No.50 Helen
No. 66 Lorraine A

From the Top 7, the crafter selected to join us as a Guest Designer for Challenge 852 on 20th June is No.18 Silke. We do hope you will join us, please mail us before Friday 29th May to learn more about our theme for that challenge.

Congratulations to you all, please collect your badge from the side bar to display on your own blogs. 

Lynn will be here tomorrow with the theme for our next challenge, which will be a very special challenge for our 17th Birthday.