Long post ,,,, get coffee :-) For the first time ever we are joining forces with our challenge blogs; Simon Says Stamp and Show & the Simon Says Stamp Challenge to bring you a SUPER hop to celebrate the approaching fall and winter holidays and the crafting fun you can have throughout! To help celebrate we will be giving a $100 SHOPPING SPREE to the winner of this hop!
The theme for both challenges this week will be HOLIDAY FUN. Your entry can be Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Christmas themed. You can make anything you like … a card, an ATC, a Scrapbook layout … the possibilities are endless!
At each Design Team member’s blog you will find a clue, you need to collect all the clues to form a code. The complete code will be your password to enter the Grand Prize draw. At each blog you will need to leave a comment and on the last blog you must leave a direct link to the project you have made for this challenge. The Blog hop will start at 10am Ohio time ( 3pm UK time 4pm CET) on September 8th, 2010 at the Simon Says Stamp and Show Blog and will finish on September 15th, 2010 at 10am Ohio time ( 3pm UK time 4pm CET) on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog. During the hop you will visit all of the Design Team member’s blogs and each blog will tell you where to go next for the following clue! If you lose your way at any time a full list of all the participating blogs with links will be available on Simon Says Stamp and Show … just remember you need to keep the clues in the correct order. Once you have made your project and linked it to the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog you need to comment your link number together with the correct code in the Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog under the comments section of that week in order to be entered into the draw. Added bonus! You will have a chance to win goodies from each HOP! Each DT member will be giving away an ingredient to make their creation, so don’t forget to comment throughout your hop!
The winner will be randomly drawn from all the correct answers for the Grand Prize next Wednesday. Remember you must have entered the Challenge and completed the blog hop to be eligible to win this $100 SHOPPING SPREE- courtesy of Simon Says Stamp Store!!
Good Luck Everyone!
If you are on the hop you should have arrived here from the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge blog. You need to see my card and read all about how I made it before I tell you my letter and where you have to go next lol ,,,,,, :-)
From here you need to go to the fabulously talented CHRIS'S blog to see her fantastic card :-) the letter you need from me is 'C'
Now for my candy ,,Heidi at Simon Says Stamp will be giving away this gorgeous Wee with Reindeer stamp to one of the links on my blog You MUST enter the challenge and then come back here and leave me a direct link to your card with the blue frog. You have until Wednesday 15th September to link your creation ( 4pm CET)
please turn off word verification and if you wish to screen comments use comment moderation. As much as I love to visit your blogs I HATE messing about with silly letters unless I am playing scrabble :-)
Thanks to everyone who joined in with our Rudolph challenge ,,, they were all fantastic ,, some cute and some stylish and stunning !! I hope you all join us in the new theme for the next fortnight ,,,,
Before moving on to the challenge I just want to say a sad farewell to our teamie Cathy :-( Cathy has decided to step down from the ABC Christmas Challenge and move on to patures new :-) Good Luck Cathy xx we will miss you on the team ,, but I am still with you on others so it's not goodbye :-)
So ,, the challenge Squirrel is the hostess and she chose ,,,,the man himself ,,,, SANTA !! with the optional extra of NO RED :-)
We are sponsored by the lovely Heidi at Simon Says Stamp so a lovely $15 shopping spree to her fantastic store !! Heidi will pay shipping costs too !!
I used a lovely Whiff of Joy Santa with Gifts image that was a stamped image from Cathy :-)I coloured him with copics and couldn't resist a few dabs of dark pink ,, !! :-) The papers are Papermania and blue coredinations. I used a Martha Stewart around the page snowflake punch. I used star dust stickles, fine glitter and a few gems here and there for sparkle. The snowflake was made using a spellbinders die, all the edges were coloured with Vintage Photo distress ink.
The DT have made some gorgeous cards for you to see ,,, so hop on over to the ABC Christmas Challenge to see them :-)
