Friday, 30 January 2026

For Boys or Men/AG Top 7

Hello everyone, it's time to announce my Top 7 including Guest Designer pick. Thank you all so much for sharing your creativity with us. It was great to see so many of you followed my optional theme too but we loved seeing all of your entries. Choosing favorites is never easy but I finally managed and here they are listed in the order of entry:

No. 18 Valerija
No. 40 Caroline
No. 46 Deborah Wheeler
No. 54 The Crafty Den
No. 57 Ionabunny
No. 68 Sarn
No. 84 Shaz

Congratulations to each one of you on your well deserved recognition. You may pick up your Top 7 logo from our sidebar.

I would like to invite No. 40 Caroline to be our Guest Designer for challenge 844 starting on February 28th. Please mail us so we can tell you all about the theme for that challenge, if you are interested in joining us.

Hope to see you all back here tomorrow morning when Donna will introduce her optional theme.

January winners

After a busy January which saw some super entries we are back to announce the winners as selected by Random Org:

Challenge 840 no 49 Avril
Challenge 841 no 82 Deborah and no 83 Marianne
  
Congratulations to you all, please mail us by Friday 6th February 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.

Ellies Top 7 will be announced later today so do pop back and check if you are one of the lucky ones selected.

Saturday, 17 January 2026

Challenge 841 👨🏻‍🦰

Hello everyone, Ellie here, it's my turn to host this challenge and I hope you will join us! For my optional theme I selected:

****For Boys or Men****
(or Anything Goes)

We love to see all your entries whether you follow the optional theme or not, so please do share with us. As always, you may share up to 5 new projects and you have about 2 weeks to do so.

Please remember to familiarise yourself with our rules, as we still see a few entries which we have to mark ineligible, usually failing to include product details, so a quick read might help to ensure you are not one of those.
 
Our prizes for this challenge are two beautiful A5 stamp sets from Sweet Poppy (see below).

Please read: When prizes are posted outside the UK they are always of a size to fit an envelope (never a parcel) and marked as a gift on the UK Customs form. However the  risk of fees being applied in the Country of delivery is increasing. Please consider this when claiming as we are unable to help should you be faced with a Customs charge.


Our design team and guest designer have some wonderful inspiration for you. As always, you can find out more about each project by visiting the links above each project.We're so excited to have Kath as our guest designer for this challenge. Thank you, Kath for joining us!


Happy crafting everyone! I will be back in about two weeks with my top 7 and guest designer pick.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Friday, 16 January 2026

Winter Animals/AG Top 7

Good evening, it's Helen back to announce my Top7 from my Winter Animals and Anything Goes theme, which saw some really super entries, thank you all. After much deliberation here is my final selection

No 12 Marianne 
No 13 Silke
No 24 Carrie
No 39 Kath
No 45 Lesley 
No 58 Lorraine

No 82 Debbie

Congratulations all seven of you, please collect your badge to display on your own blogs. Lorraine, entry 58, we would love to invite you to be our Guest Designer on 14th February for challenge 843, please mail us so we can tell you all about the theme for that challenge.

Ellie will be along in the morning with a new challenge so hope to see you all back again.

Saturday, 3 January 2026

Challenge 840 🦊

Happy New Year to you all, it's Helen here and my pleasure to welcome you to our first challenge of of 2026. I have chosen a seasonal theme of....

🦌Winter Animals🐧

We would love to see some of your favourite animals or if you prefer there is as always the Anything Goes route, we love seeing them all. As we go into the New Year may we ask everyone to read our rules here, although not much has changed we still see a few entries which we have to mark ineligible, usually failing to include product details, so a quick read might help to ensure your not one of those.

We have a lovely prize of a Visible Image stamp set and coordinating dies.

 

The Design Team have some super inspiration to share and we are pleased to also welcome Melanie as our Guest Designer for this challenge, thank you so much for agreeing to join us. Here is her fun Penguin card....

Using Visible Image Robin stamps and dies


You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Friday, 2 January 2026

Challenge 839 Top 7

Happy New Year. Lynn here with my Top 7 from our Create a Scene theme which along with Anything Goes saw some lovely entries, many thanks to all who joined in. In order of entry here they are:

No 2 Lorraine
No 7 Gerrina
No 14 Caroline
No 30 Anke
No 33 Ellen
No 40 Gloria
No 54 Di

Well done to you all, please collect your badge from the sidebar.

We would love to invite Di entry 54 to join us as our Guest Designer for challenge 842 on 31st January, please mail us so we can tell you more about the theme for that challenge.