Saturday, 25 October 2025

Challenge 835 🍁 🎃 🐿️

Good morning, it's Brenda here with our new challenge and I'm following the season with....

🍁Autumn Colours🎃

Be they the lovely rustic colours on display all around us at the moment or maybe your into Halloween, whatever route you follow I'm looking forward to seeing them all and as always there's the Anything Goes option.

Our winners post was a little late this time but is there now so do check it out below, also Lynne's Top 7 and the name of the Guest Designer selected from her picks.

As always, to be eligible and protect us all from possible Copyright infringement, your post must provide make/details of focal elements on your entry (please familiarise yourselves with our rules here). 

Two prizes this this round, stamps from Stamp Addicts and $25 Simon Says voucher, we are pleased to tell you that going forward some challenges we will have vouchers for USA and long distance winners.


Some wonderful inspiration from my team mates....

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Friday, 24 October 2025

October winners

Running a little late I'm afraid, but here are the winners of our October challenges which saw lots of lovely entries. The lucky people as selected by Random Org., are:

Challenge 833, no 11 Lorraine A and no 35 Marianne
        
  Challenge 834, no 46 Illiana and no 31 Sue
 
Congratulations to you all, please mail me by Friday 31st with your full name and postal address. Any prize unclaimed by that date will be forfeited.

Traditional Christmas Top 7

It's Lynne back with my Top 7 for our Traditional Christmas colours theme and what a super display of entries you shared with us, so many following the theme but some equally lovely Anything Goes creations. 

We mentioned a few weeks ago that we would be having some Guest Designer spots with one being chosen from the Top 7, this challenge sees the first and we would love to invite Lorraine, entry 92 to join us for challenge 837 on 22nd November. We do hope you will join us, please mail us by 31st October to hear all about the theme.  

After much deliberation here are my choices in order of entry.... 

No 1 Astrid
No 31 Sue
No 37 Trijntje
No 63 Darlene
No 71 Debbie
No 90 Chris
No 92 Lorraine

Congratulations to you all, well deserved recognition, please collect your Top 7 badge to display on your own blogs.

We look forward to seeing you all again tomorrow when Brenda will have a new theme for us.

Saturday, 11 October 2025

Challenge 834 🎄

Good morning and welcome to a new challenge, it's Lynne here and my theme for you is....

Traditional Christmas Colours
or Anything Goes

Lots of us are busy with our seasonal makes so I hope this is one you will join in with, red, green, gold, all those rich colours we associate with the season, but of course there is always the AG option if you prefer, it's lovely to see them all.

We are changing things up a little, from this challenge onwards and as well as our regular Top 7, one of those selected will also be invited to be a Guest Designer and announced at the same time. More details when this challenge closes.

As always, your post must provide make/details of focal elements on your entry (please familiarise yourselves with our rules here) entries without these details will be ineligible for prize, Top 7 or Guest Designer selection. 

Two prizes, Tim Holtz Festive Foliage stamp set and voucher for digital download from Buddly Crafts, founded in 2003, we've grown from a digital downloads store into the online craft supplies shop. 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.

Lovely inspiration from the Design Team....

Using Stampers Anonymous Festive Foliage
Using Penny Black Fir Branch
Using Penny Black Birds on a Wire die
Using Penny Black Tiny Tinsel
Using Buddly Crafts Holly Collage

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Friday, 10 October 2025

Challenge #833 Top 7

Well, those two weeks have passed in a flash and what a lovely number of entries we had this time, lots of woodland critters and lots of anything goes too.

As always, it's so difficult to narrow down the favourites to a Top 7 , but here they are in order of entry:

1 Lia
#33 Meg
#37 Cathy
#47  Kath
52 - Margreet
#61 Deborah Wheeler
#92 Debbie M

Thank you all for participating and don't forget to display your top 7 badge on your blogs. That's all from me for now but please come back tomorrow when Lynne will be hosting our next challenge.

Saturday, 27 September 2025

Challenge 833 🐿️ 🦡 🦉

Hello and welcome to a brand new challenge at Allsorts. It's Sarah here this time and my optional theme for you is 

****Woodland Critters****

We would love to see Animals that live in forests and trees, Squirrels, Hedgehogs, Mice, Fox's and so many more. My team mates have made some fantastic inspiring pieces for you so I hope that you will join in. Don't forget that Anything Goes is always welcome too.

World Animal Day is October 4th which fits in so nicely with this fortnights theme. So to celebrate as well as the Lavinia prizes below, there will be some surprise random spot prizes open to all entrants Worldwide. 

As always, to be eligible and protect us all from possible Copyright infringement, your post must provide make/details of focal elements on your entry (please familiarise yourselves with our rules here). 

Two prizes of Lavinia Stamps, stencil and stampscapes (photos not to scale). Please note, we (Lavinia) cannot provide exchanges/replacements/refunds for any products received through this third-party giveaway.


Using Lavinia BadgersTree StemGate and Fence and Ducks
 Using Lavinia Bell Flower VinePipinSeed Head and Forest Lanterns
 

I will be back in a couple of weeks with my top picks and don't forget there will be some additional prizes along the way. 

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