Allsorts challenge blog: 2025

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....

Lynne

Brenda

Using Stampers Anonymous Festive Foliage

Using Penny Black Fir Branch

Christine

Donna

Ellie

Using Penny Black Birds on a Wire die

Gail

Helen

Using Penny Black Tiny Tinsel

Liz

Lynn

Sarah

Using Buddly Crafts Holly Collage

Val

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.

Sarah
Brenda
Using Lavinia Badgers, Tree Stem, Gate and Fence and Ducks
Using Lavinia Forest Scene and Gideon
Christine
Donna
Ellie
Using Lavinia Tree of Courage, The Wallace Family, Creeping Vine,
Slender Mushrooms and Feather Leaf Stencil
Gail
Using Lavinia Bell Flower Vine, Pipin, Seed Head and Forest Lanterns

Helen
Liz
Using Lavina Woodland Hares, Silhouette Grass, Forest Moss, Slender Mushrooms,
Toadstool, Vine Branch, Climbing Ivy
Lynn
Lynne
Val

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.

Friday, 26 September 2025

Top 7 for challenge 832

Hello everyone, it's Val back with my Top 7 from my Trees, Leaves and Plants challenge, there were so many lovely entries so this was such a difficult choice but I finally narrowed it down. Thanks to all for sharing your lovely creations.

Here they are in order of entry....

No 2 Sarn

No 20 Fiona

No 30 Helen

No 61 Pat

No 83 Jenn

No 93 Margreet

No 110 Carla

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

Sarah will be along tomorrow with a new challenge.

September winners

Good afternoon, today we have the winners of our September challenges which saw lots of lovely entries, thank you all. The lucky people as selected by Random Org., are:

Challenge 831, ~~no 62 Iliana -~~ 7/10 not claimed, re allocated and ~~no 7 Anne~~

Gails Birthday challenge 831 was well supported with 157 entries, unfortunately the linkies copied two weeks ago when the above winners were drawn by Random Org., will not display in a legible format.

Challenge 832, ~~no 9 Gerrina and no 66 Helen~~

Congratulations to you all, please mail me by Friday 3rd October with your full name and postal address. Any prize unclaimed by that date will be forfeited.

Winners outside the UK: Prizes are always sent as gifts, but sometimes Customs fees are added in your own Country, this is out of our control so by claiming your prize you are accepting responsibility for any fees and we cannot assist should this happen.

Don't forget to collect our winners badge to display on your own blogs and pop back later to check out Val's Top 7 entries.

Saturday, 13 September 2025

Challenge 832 🌳 🍂 🪴

Good morning and welcome to a new challenge, this week it's Val here and my chosen theme is....

Trees, Leaves and Plants

Anything Goes

With Autumn fast approaching and leaves already falling from the trees it seems to be the prefect time to bring out all those dies, stamps and other crafty goodies featuring those element. As always there is also the Anything Goes option. Please remember to be eligible and protect us all from possible Copyright infringement, your post must provide make/details of the focal elements of your entry. In future we will not leave comments or remind you if missing from your post.