Week 626 🎈Any Celebration (not Birthday)

Thank you again for the support and entries over at our 12th Birthday Week. Please check the winner's post below this.

It's Mervi here welcoming you to the next challenge week, my theme is

* Any Celebration (not Birthday) *

Chocolate Baroque is a small independent art and craft company, based in the historic market town of Barnard Castle in County Durham in the North-East of England and is owned and run by Lesley and David Wharton. 

We design our own range of natural rubber art stamps from hand drawn originals, complemented by typography from Lesley.  The rubber stamps are made in house, by David, to our very exacting quality standards. And nothing gets past his eagle eye!

Prize is drawn with the random.org:

Chocolate Baroque Ophelia stamp and three mini stencils

Chocolate Baroque's Lesley will be back at The Craft Store on Friday 4th June at 9am and 1pm with different stamps for both shows both old and new along with loads of inspiration using them.

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Here's the samples from the talented Design Team for your inspiration:

Brenda

Using Chocolate Baroque Arched Landscape and Say it Vertically

Ellie

Kath

Using Chocolate Baroque Big Bold backgrounds Tangled Baubles

Lolo

Lorraine

Lynn
Using Chocolate Baroque Home Sweet Home

Mervi

Using Chocolate Baroque Harlequin Rose

Tracy Mouse
Using Chocolate Baroque Something Fish and Mermaid Queen

Wendy

Now it is your turn, have fun;-))m

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12th Birthday winners and Top 10

Good afternoon to you all, before I move on to the winners of our Birthday Challenge I must extend a huge thank you for the support you have given us this week following the 'issue' referred to in the post below. Your kind words are so humbling and clearly all written with such warmth and friendship, thank you.

Moving back to our 12th Birthday challenge is has been a fabulous week and you have shared so many fabulous creation with us, we appreciate each and every one of them. The prizes are all packed and are a totally random selection so I have no idea who will receive what, but that just adds to the surprise I hope. Our thanks to the following for provision of those prizes, Craft Stash, Chloes Cards,Tattered Lace,Crafting.co.uk,SizzixandBee Crafty.     

I put Mr Randon Org., to work and here are the numbers he has come out with and first out will be the winner of the Heartfelt Creation collection, that lucky crafter is......

Entry no 136 Christine claimed

And the other prizes go to..........

Entry no 65 Nicolette claimed

Entry no 141 Lorraine claimed

Entry no 16 Cebelica claimed

Entry no 75 Karen claimed

Entry no 9 Zoe claimed

Entry no 6 Jane claimed

Entry no 12 Marjeta claimed

Entry no 130 Lynn R claimed

Entry no 56 Meg claimed

Entry no 3 Jane W claimed

Entry no 165 Hazel claimed

Well done to you all, please mail me from the link on the sidebar by Thursday 3rd June with your full names and postal addresses so I can send your prizes.

Now for my Top 5, which this week will be a Top 10 to conclude our Birthday celebrations and listed in order of entry..........

Entry no 2 Karin

A sunny focal point

Entry no 11 Donna

This just made me smile

Entry no 43 Valerija

Pretty delicate blooms

Entry 51 Granne

Lovely fresh colours

Entry No 83 Denise

Another one which just made me smile

Entry 93 Pöydänkulma

An inspired idea

Entry no 99 Bonnie

Love the bold colour palette

Entry no 130 Lynn

Well, there had to be Poppies!

Entry no 157 Margreet

Ad there had to be a dog as well

Congratulations, well deserved recognition, please collect our Top 5 logo to display on your own blogs.

Mervi will be along tomorrow with a new challenge.

Regarding Allsorts challenge

A difficult post to write but one which is necessary due to certain Social Media comments and accusations which have been made with regard to how the challenge is run. 

The aim of the challenge since April 2009 has always been to provide a forum for crafters to share their artwork along with the opportunity to win prizes provided by a wide range of generous sponsors. 

The Design Team, many of whom are long standing members give their time on a voluntary basis, do not receive any form of inducement and each week provide artwork as inspiration for our entrants and take time to comment on those entries.

I and in turn my team will not be intimidated by gossip or false claims about how the challenge is run. If any crafter has an issue about how the challenge is run then they are welcome to send me a personal e.mail from the link on the challenge blog sidebar. Social Media and closed formats are not the appropriate place and I on behalf of the challenge, my team and sponsors will report to the appropriate body, taking into account GDPR regulations, any such dialogue of which I/we have or may become aware.

Our aim is to provide a friendly environment for crafters and to this end we will not tolerate inappropriate behaviour or comments and regularly review those and our rules to ensure all remain in the best interest of our entrants as a whole. 

Brenda

Week 625 🎊 Our 12th Birthday - Anything with Happy Bright and Sunny Colours

Good morning everybody and welcome to our 12th Birthday celebrations here at Allsorts challenge. It's a bit of a long post this week as there are lots of things I need to tell you about.

During those twelve years we have seen so many changes in crafting styles and the variety of products available to us, but what has not changed is the continued support from all you lovely crafters. So many of you have been with us since the start but it's also encouraging to see new crafters popping up all the time as well, our thanks to each and every one of you.

Then there are our fabulous sponsors, how fortunate we are that every single week we are able to offer a prize, occasionally even two, a huuuuuge thank you to all of them for making this possible.

It's also really important that I take this opportunity to thank the Design Team as without them the challenge couldn't keep running, weekly challenges are hard work and my thanks to each of them. Which brings me on to introducing two new team members, please join me in welcoming Lolo and Lorraine, we are so happy to have you with us.

So with so much to celebrate it's only right that we have some special prizes and this week as well as our main prize of a Heartfelt collection, there will be eleven more, one for each year we are celebrating, yes twelve prizes so please share your creations and remember you can join in three times. In addition you may even find another prize or two on some of the DT's personal blogs

Our Birthday week prizes come from: Craft Stash, Chloes Cards, Tattered Lace, Crafting.co.uk, Sizzix and Bee Crafty.

And finally our theme for this week......

****Anything with Happy Bright and Sunny Colours****

So basically anything goes so long as it's bright and colourful and makes us smile when we see it. Have fun and we look forward to see all your creations.

Brenda

Ellie

Kath

Lolo

Lorraine

Lynn

Mervi

Tracy Mouse

Wendy

You have until Friday 28th at noon GMT to enter our Birthday challenge, good luck.

Those leaving a comment or entering a piece of artwork into Inlinkz do so in the knowledge that their name and blog link are visible to all who visit this blog and in so doing have published their own personal details and consented to our use of that personal information should it be selected as a winner or accredited work. You can read Inlinkz Privacy Policy here.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Week 624 Winner and Top 5

Good evening Peeps, what a super week it's been with so many lovely entries, 167 of them in fact, thank you so much all of you who joined in, myself and the Design Team really enjoyed seeing them all.

WOWVOW grew from a love of card making and a history of making wedding invitations. A family-owned business we supply carefully selected quality, card making and craft supplies but specialise in all the materials required to make your wedding stationery from ‘Save the Date’ cards and Wedding Invitations through to beautiful glitter guest books for the big day. From humble beginnings, our love of crafting has evolved into offices, a warehouse and a fabulous, dedicated team who not only offer amazing customer service but also pack every order with the utmost care.

And the lucky winner of their £15 store voucher is.......

That is Ann-Marie claimed

Well done, please mail me from the link on the sidebar by Thursday 27th May so I can arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now my Top 5 in order of entry......

Entry No 29 Birgit

Entry No 60 Maria Helena

Entry No 105 Gerrina

Entry No 116 Amelia

Entry No 136 Joote

See you all tomorrow for the start of our 12th Birthday challenge.