Hello, crafty friends, and happy advent! I don’t know where the month of November went, but we’re suddenly on the countdown to Christmas – are you ready yet?
First off, I want to say sorry for disappearing off the face of the earth for the past 3 weeks! The day after our wonderful Winter Wishes retreat, I was asked to help out on a corporate job that has taken up so much of my time. So, between work, school runs and clubs, winter bugs, birthdays, parties and all of the other million things that need to be done at this time of year, my craft room has been sadly undisturbed for weeks!
But today I’m back with a new challenge! To keep things simple, the theme for this month is Winter – be it Christmas, Hannukah, snow, or anything else festive. We can’t wait to see what you come up with!
To kick things off, I’m sharing a super quick and simple card that would be easy to mass produce! I simply masked off the edges, ink blended the centre of the card, then added stars with white gel pen. To finish up the card, I added a sentiment that I had stamped & heat embossed in silver, then die-cut with the co-ordinating dies. For a finishing touch, I added three snowflakes, die cut from mirror card.
Now for the winner of last month’s challenge! Congratulations to Verena Shapiro, @simple_stamper ! Verena made this beautiful card:
I absolutely love Verena’s take on November’s sketch. Verena has won a Craft & Connect gift voucher and will have the opportunity to guest design for a future challenge!
December challenge
This month, we’re doing things a little differently! We have decided to host this month’s challenge as a Linky Party – it’s super-easy to do. To enter your project, click on the link. You can add images from your blog or social media:
https://fresh.inlinkz.com/share/party/1afe88538dc941f08638050a18dd0816
Enter your link, your name, and your email address (don’t worry, your email won’t be visible to anyone else). Once you’ve added your photo, tick the box below your photo and then hit ‘done’.
Challenge Rules
So, here are the full challenge rules:
- Create a card, scrapbook layout or other handmade project in line with this month's challenge theme: "Winter";
- You can use any brands you love;
- Enter the challenge by adding your project above, but please feel free to share it on social media, too, and tag us / use the hashtag #craftandconnectchallenge so that we can see it!
- Each month, the challenge will be open from the date the challenge is posted until 5pm (UK time) on the final day of the month;
- Winners will be picked at random, and will have the opportunity to guest design for a future challenge;
- Winners will receive a prize, detailed in that month’s challenge blog.
So, you have until 5pm on 31st December 2024 to enter. The winner of this month’s challenge will receive a £20 Craft & Connect gift voucher. Good luck, and happy crafting!