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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Tweet Christmas

WOW, we are halfway through 2012, and there are only 209 days left 'til Christmas!! This week, we challenge you to make a Christmas card using Birds...it matters not what kind of bird, as long as it is a Christmas card with a bird or birds on it! 

Here are the Design Team Creations to inspire you:







Thank you for stopping by today! We hope you will join us this week, and show us your creativity!

Monday, May 28, 2012

Challenge Winners Anything Goes plus Ribbon...

Thank you to everyone that played along with our challenge during the past week.  It has been great to see everyone’s wonderful creations.
My choice for the top pick and our winner’s badge is.# 9 Claire C.


I love the shape of Claire’s card and the Christmas vintage look. The use of the Ribbon, the Lace and the Christmas Paper topped off with a coloured image.  Great Christmas Card Claire!
So Claire please get your Winners badge from the sidebar.

The winder of the 5 digital stamps from Robyn’s Fetish is entry number 12.
Cebelica is the lucky winner! 
Random number :  Timestamp: 2012-05-28 20:47:11 UTC

Congratulations Cebelica, please email Julie to find out how to get your prize - Julie_temple61@yahoo.com. 

Thanks again to everyone that played along this week, we look forward to see your creations at our next challenge.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Anything Goes plus Ribbon

Hi everyone, it is Meighan here and it is my turn to host this week’s challenge.

The challenge this week is sponsored by Robyn’s Fetish Digital Stamps and the winner of this weeks challenge will be be awarded 5 digital stamps!  

Random org will pick the winner of the Robyn’s Fetish Digital Stamps and the hostess will pick the winner, who will be awarded our Winners Badge for their blog.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is proud to sponsor this challenge.
Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib. 

Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

Now the challenge is:

Anything Goes Plus Ribbon
(don’t forget it’s has to be a Christmas Theme creation)

If are not familiar with our challenge rules, please check them out before entering.



To help you get started have a look at what the Holly Jolly Elves have created.

Judy - using sponsor's image

Cindy- using sponsor's image

Julie- using sponsor's image


Meighan – using sponsor’s image


We cannot wait to see what wonderful creations you come up with!!

Monday, May 21, 2012

The winner is .... Christmas Stocking Challenge

Hello Everyone, thanks to those that played along with our challenge it was great to see all the creativity using my chosen theme this last week, the Christmas stockings.

My choice for the top pick and our winner's badge is Allisa, I really liked the way she used different textures of materials, bling and layers to papers to create such a stunning card. I thought Allisa’s overall presentation stood out.

Allisa be sure to grab the winner badge from our sidebar, and thanks for playing along with us!

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Christmas Stocking

Good morning fellow crafters, Judy here.  This is the second week of the Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge and I am your hostess this week and my turn to pick the challenge.  

My choice for this week’s challenge is the “Christmas Stocking/s”.  Christmas is not Christmas for me without the kids hanging their Christmas stockings.
  
Come join in the challenge.  All you have to do is create your stocking card and link your card to your post.  


 













Monday, May 14, 2012

Top Pick for Holly Jolly's First Challenge

Hi Everyone, thanks to those that played along with our challenge it was great to see all the creativity using the three colors that I had chosen for the first challenge. My choice for the top pick and our winner's badge is
Kris, I love how she used the colors, as well as the popped up ornament and gemstones just makes it a simple but effective card.

 
 


The winner of the digis from Bugaboo is

 
Here are your random numbers:
4 
Timestamp: 2012-05-14 21:29:00 UTC
Janice is the winner, Please email Julie to find out how to get your prize at 
Thanks again to all who played with us this week look forward to our next challenge tomorrow.
Cindy


Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Color Challenge

Hi Everyone, Welcome to the Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge, Cindy here, I'm your hostess for the first challenge, and I've got a color challenge for you, but before we get to the challenge I have an announcement. 
Bugaboo Stamps will be sponsoring us once a month.

Here is a little information on Bugaboo's History:
As if raising five children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the world of paper crafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. That was two years ago. Today Bugaboo Stamps is one of the leading companies in digital images, and we're still growing! From seriously snarky to sugary sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects. Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week!
If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps at Totally Stampalicious. And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT for weekly challenges at Catch the Bug
Our prize for this challenge is
 
Random org will pick the winner of the Bugaboo Stamps each month
The hostess of each Challenge will pick the winner, who will be awarded our 
Winners Badge for their blog
Please remember their are a few rules, please read them first before entering.  Now onto the challenge here are the colors for my challenge,


and now here are the elves designs


Using tedxmas cocoa


 Using word art ANGEL



Using Dede Ornaments


Julie
Using Make it Snappy - Merry Christmoose


And our special Guest from the Bugaboo Design Team
Cheryl First 


Saturday, May 5, 2012

Come and Join us this Tuesday

Hey Everyone, Come and join us this Tuesday as we launch the new Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge. You have a chance to win some digital stamps from Bugaboo. Hope to see you there.
The Holly Jolly Elves