Allsorts challenge blog: 2025

Saturday, 8 November 2025

Challenge 836 🎄

Good morning, it's Christine here welcoming you to a new challenge, my chosen theme is....

🎄Christmas Cards☃️

Anything Goes

Lots of us are busy making our Christmas cards so we hope you will share some of yours with us, but as usual there is the Anything Goes theme.

Please remember, to be eligible your post must provide make/details of focal elements on your entry. Also if there are several projects in your post/photo you need to identify just one as your entry, if we don't know which it is we can't consider for Top spots, our rules are here.

Two prizes, stamps, stencils dies

Christine
Brenda

Donna
Ellie
Gail

Helen
Liz
Lynn
Lynne
Sarah
Val
You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Friday, 7 November 2025

Autumn challenge 835 Top 7

Hello everyone, it's Brenda back with my Top 7 and selected Guest Designer, so many lovely entires making it as always a very difficult choice, but I finally narrowed it down.

Here they are in order of entry....

Entry 22 Gail

No 53 Denise

Entry 57 Carla

Entry 64 Julie

No 86 Annie

No 90 Trijntje

No 107 Gerrina

And from that list the crafter I would love to invite to join us as a Guest Designer for challenge 838 on 6th December is no 22 Gail, please mail us before Friday 14th November to learn more about our theme for that challenge.

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

Christine will be along tomorrow with a new challenge.

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....

Brenda

Using Stamp Addicts Swallowtail Butterfly

Christine

Donna

Ellie

Gail

Helen

Liz

Using Stamp Addicts Bead Curtain stamp

Lynn

Lynne

Sarah

Val

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~~ (2/11 neither claimed, re-drawn)

Challenge 834, no ~~46 Illiana~~ (2/11 not claimed, re-drawn) 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.