Saturday, 23 May 2026

Challenge 850 🎉 🎈

Hello everyone, Lynn here. Welcome to the 17th Birthday celebrations at Allsorts challenge. We're so glad you could visit and we do hope you will join us by entering this special challenge. It's super easy to enter because it's

ANYTHING GOES!

Please remember, to be eligible you must provide name/makes of products used on your entry (our rules explain why), if missing, entries will not be included in winner/Top 7 selections.

Listed below are all the wonderful prizes we will be giving away to the winners. You can enter the challenge a maximum of 5 times, so lots of chances to win.

Lavinia Stamp collectionlease note, we (Lavinia) cannot provide exchanges/replacements/refunds for any products received through this third-party giveaway. Specialising in finely detailed exclusive designs, Tracey Dutton, artist and company founder, uses her fascination for fairies, fantasy, flora and fauna as inspiration. She designs spiritually inspired, hand drawn images that enable you to push the boundaries of your imagination and fall in love with crafting.

Buddly Crafts £25 store voucher. Founded in 2003, we've grown from a digital downloads store into the online craft supplies shop we are today sending out orders to our discerning, creative customers across the UK and worldwide. 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.

Art Impressions $30 store voucher. Art Impressions is a rubber stamp manufacturer based in Salem, OR since 1987. The company began as our sole designer, Bonnie Krebs, created and sold educational stamps at craft fairs around the US Northwest, now sold Worldwide.


Highlight Crafts Dies and artwork downloads. Own brand products designed in the UK and an on line store offering a fabulous variety of brands to cover a multitude of crafty techniques.

Plus surprise goody bags containing stamps, dies, stencils and other crafty essentials.


Plus don't forget the special discount from AALL and Create of 15% until 31st May on all items in their store using the special code: AllsortsBD17

Of course the challenge wouldn't be possible without a great DT who provide inspiration every two weeks. But without Brenda at the helm there would be no challenge, it's such a great achievement to have had a challenge run for this length of time. Some of you might know that she is recovering from a recent operation and we wish her a speedy recovery. We are all missing her and the entrants too as she usually leaves a comment on every entry. That might not happen this time and the prizes may be a little late in being sent out, we hope you understand.

We welcome two Guest Designers Pinky and Sarn. Pinky first joined in the challenge when we started in May 2009 and has been a regular entrant since. Recurring Guest Designer Sarn who often pops in to help us out and also takes part as an entrant. So it seemed very fitting they both joined us for this special challenge.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Friday, 22 May 2026

Top 7 for Challenge 849

It's Liz here, back with my Top 7. Thank you to those who chose to go with the 'Monochromatic' theme.  I've changed my mind so many times over the last fortnight, so many beautifully creations, but here are my Top 7 in order of entry.

No 5 Shaz
No 12 Ellen
No. 18 Silke
No. 29  Guri
No. 42 Astrid
No.50 Helen
No. 66 Lorraine A

From the Top 7, the crafter selected to join us as a Guest Designer for Challenge 852 on 20th June is No.18 Silke. We do hope you will join us, please mail us before Friday 29th May to learn more about our theme for that challenge.

Congratulations to you all, please collect your badge from the side bar to display on your own blogs. 

Lynn will be here tomorrow with the theme for our next challenge, which will be a very special challenge for our 17th Birthday.

May winners

We have our May winners as selected by Random Org. Please note there will probably be a delay in responding to your mails as well as posting prizes.

Challenge 848 no 63 Denise and no 114 Gerrina 
  Challenge 849 no 53 Deborah and no 93 Nonni
  
Congratulations, please mail us by Friday 29th May with your postal details, 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, Liz will be along later with her Top 7 and don't forget our special Birthday challenge starts tomorrow.

Saturday, 9 May 2026

Challenge 849 🩵💙

It's Liz here and it's my turn to choose the theme for this fortnight's Allsorts Challenge. I have chosen the theme.....

MONOCHROMATIC
or Anything Goes

Will you choose to make a black and white creation, or a creation with shades of one colour?  As always there is also the Anything Goes option as we love to see all your makes.

Our next challenge will celebrate our 17th Birthday, please help us spread the word by sharing our logo below and as an early gift to you all AALL and Create are offering a discount of 15% valid from 1st May through 31st May and available on all items in their store plus free shipping on orders over £39.99. Your code is: AllsortsBD17.


There are two prizes of stamps and stencil.


Please remember, to be eligible you must provide name/makes of products used on your entry (our rules explain why), if missing, entires will not be included in winner/Top 7 selections.

We are delighted to have Kath join us as our Guest Designer for this challenge and she has made this beautiful Monochromatic card. Thanks for joining us Kath.


You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Friday, 8 May 2026

Top 7 challenge 848

Good afternoon, Christine back with the Top 7 from my Anything but Square/AG theme which saw so many lovely entries and some really imaginative shapes, many thanks to everyone who joined in.

As always it was difficult selecting just seven, but here are my final choices....

Entry no 12 Jose
Entry 14 Kim
Entry 17 Arlene
Entry 19 Karin
Entry 45 Guri
Entry 50 Gail
Entry 65 Carrie

And from that list the crafter selected to join us as a Guest Designer for challenge 851 on 6th June is No 45 Guri, please mail us by Friday 15th April to learn all about our theme for that challenge.

Well done to you all, please collect your badges to display on your own blogs. Winners from this challenge will be announced on  29th May.

Liz will be along tomorrow with a new challenge and hope to see you all again then.