Allsorts Challenge Week 33 - New or Old (plus a sketch)

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

We hope that you all had a lovely Christmas and that you are ready to jump back into the world of Allsorts challenges.


Before we start though we have some wonderful news to share - one of our teamies
Amanda (Scotspanda) has given birth to a gorgeous baby boy........ALFIE.
He was born on 31st December weighing in at a whopping 9lbs.10oz - well done Amanda.
All our love and good wishes are wending their way to you and all your family.


Next, a very big thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge of 2009. We know how difficult it is to pull craft work in alongside all the demands of the festive season
- but lots of you managed it.

Make sure you check to see if you were our randomly selected winner
or if Debs has chosen you as one of her Top 5!!

Our very first Allsorts Challenge in 2010 is being sponsored by Funky Hand.

Funky Hand produce backing paper CDs
and downloads for card making, scrapbooking and craft projects - click on the logo below and you can see all that is available in their gorgeous on-line store

The CDs are fantastic but the downloads are great too
- especially if you are like me and want to play with things immediately!!! LOL!!!



the prize this week will be a copy of the Funky Hand CD "Funky Daze".



I (Jules) have the honour of setting the first challenge of 2010 and for this week's challenge you can either:

show off your new Christmas craft goodies

or

be good and use up some of your old stash
(I bet this was one of your new year resolutions !!)

If like me you didn't get any craft goodies from Santa this year but you want to use something new then there are some free papers that you can download and use from the Funky Hand website here.

Some of the DT worked with the free papers - just to give you an idea of what they are like!!

SO

Choose either of the above
but then follow the sketch below



Here are the DT examples to give you some inspiration

Jules



Gro:


Brenda

Kirsten


Debs

Lisa

We are all looking forward to visiting your blogs to see what you create.
Happy 2010 crafting!!

Winner of Challenge 32 & Top5

Thank you to all that found the time during such a busy festive period to join in our challenge to 'make anything but a card'

We had some wonderful creative entries and I know I have stored a few of the ideas away for next year lol!!!

As always there can only be 1 winner so without further ado the lucky winner of the beautiful stamp set from our sponsor A Passion for Stamps is....................................................

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That's you Lynne R with this beautiful project:

Congratulations - please e-mail me (Debs) at jesimpson@mar08.freeserve.co.uk

And my Top5 (in no particular order) are:

Carol

Hels

Carole

Pops

Joyce

Congratulations ladies - please take the Top5 blinkie and display it with pride.

Don't forget to check back and see what Jules has picked as her challenge for this week

Allsorts Week 32 - Anything But a Card

Good morning and welcome to another wonderful challenge here at Allsorts. Thank you to everyone that found the time to join us last week - at such a busy time for you all we really appreciate it. Don't forget to check who the lucky winner of the lovely prize from Sir Stampalot was and who Brenda chose as her Top5. This week it's my turn (Debs) to choose the theme and I challenge you to make anything but a card. The DT have come up with some beautiful, inspirational projects and I can't wait to see what you and your creative juices come up with too.

We have a great sponsor this week in A Passion for Stamps and Ruth is offering 1 lucky winner, picked by Random.org the opportunity to win these beautiful stamps:

******Also Ruth is having a massive sale with reductions on her stamps from this week . The offer is BUY 1 GET 1 FREE!! When someone buys two stamps , one of the same price or the cheaper of the two will be free. So what are you waiting for go a check out the great sale.*******

And just look at this gorgeous card that Ruth has created for us to show the stamps off beautifully.

Brenda


Jules

Debs

(Please check my blog for the full details on how to make these scrummy Body Scrubs)

Gro:

Emma

Kirsten

Lisa

Winner and Top 5 week 31

Good Morning Everyone, are you all ready for Christmas ?

What fabulous entries last week for my Pearls and Swirls theme, thank you all so much for your wonderful and varied projects. But what a tough job you gave me selecting my Top 5 - I would love to have picked so many, but alas there can only be five who can now pick up their Top 5 blinkie.

But before I go on to them, this weeks lucky winner selected by Random Org:

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Number 13 is obviously lucky for Sally H, please e.mail brenda@ibas.co.uk so I can get your prize off to you.

Now my Top 5 and as Brucie would say "in no particular order":

Irit

Lisa

Pops

Marianne

Pinky

Allsorts Challenge 31

Allsorts challenge 31

Happy Saturday everyone and welcome to another Allsorts challenge where it is my turn, Brenda, to host the challenge. If you are like me you are getting a bit fed up with Christmas cards so I though this theme would make a nice change:

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"Pearls and Swirls"

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Of course if you still have Christmas cards to make then we would love to see them and pearls are swirls will fit very nicely, but equally your project can be for any occasion and can be anything from a card to a cake, the choice really is yours.

And this week our fabulous sponsors are Sir Stampalot again who have a store in Peterborough packed with a huge range of stamps and all nature of other craft goodies. And after Christmas they are moving to a fantastic new shop just a few doors away from their present location, but much much larger and with plenty of free parking. Their on line store will continue as previously providing the swiftest delivery service I have ever found. And if you have any questions about new craft goodies you think you might 'need', Andy and Janice are always at the end of the phone or in the shop to offer friendly and knowledgeable help.

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This week we have a Guest Designer, please join me in welcoming Ruth. I am sure you will agree that Ruth and all the Design Team have created some really inspirational work again, what a great bunch of girls these are coming up with such fab work week after week. Please do pop along to their blogs to see how they made their creations.

Ruth

Brenda

Kirsten


Debs

Gro

Jules

Emma

Lisa

Just to let you know that our teamie Amanda (scotspanda) will be taking some much deserved 'crafternity' lol! as she is waiting on the arrival of the newest addition to the panda family so we wish her all the best and we look forward to her return in the new year xxxxx

Winner of #30 and Top5.

Wow - There where so many fabulous entries for my purple challenge. The DT realy enjoyed visiting all your blogs.
So - whitout further ado. The winner of this challenge (choosen by random org.) is

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entry 35 - Karen

Congratulations, Karen. Please email Brenda at brenda@ibas.co.uk and she will help you to get your prize.

And now my Top5 for this challenge:

Hildegunn:

Jenny:

Ria:



Jo:



Karen B:



Congratulations ladies!

You can now all display the Top5 blinkie to your blogs.

Allsorts Challenge #30 ~ 'Purple'

Welcome to our challenge #30 here at Allsorts.


But first of all, thank you all for joining us for Lisa's "button" challenge. We really enjoyed visiting your blogs. So don't forget to check if you are the winner or one of Lisa's Top5.


Now on to our new challenge, and this week it is my (Gro) turn to set the challenge. And I want to see the colour of advent - PURPLE - some where on your project. . . .




This week we are sponsored by Alison from Stretch and Bubbles. Alison is a talented artist who has recently started designing her own digital stamps and is offering one very lucky winner their own choice of four digi images from her new store.

The Design Team were provided with images by Alison to use on their projects this week, so please do go check out their blogs to see how they created their projects.

Emma

Brenda

Lisa

Gro:

Debs

Jules

Kirsten

Hope you can all join in the fun again this week.

Allsorts DT