The Christmas Kickstart Challenge #109 - Brimming with Style

 

Hi there, I hope you all had a good Easter. Hey, turns out it's time for a brand new challenge over at The Christmas Kickstart where I'm tickled pink to welcome back my dear friend Gail from Crafty Nomad.

This month our challenge is:

Challenge #109 - Brimming with Style

We'd love to see hats, or people and/or critters in hats, please. You can ink-up your favourite behatted stamp images OR why not add a hat to a none-hat-wearing image or die cut to make things extra festive!

Gail has created the cutest card to get the party started, so why not head on over to the CKC blog and take a look!

Here's what I made. I've had this cute stamp set for a while and decided now was this little guy's moment to shine! Isn't he fun!

This little snow dude is from the Snow Good set by AALL and Create and the lovely big die cut is Jolly Dies by Concord and 9th.

My second card was so much fun to make. I die cut Grand Whittle Pig and then modified another die-cut to make him a hat. I then added a pom pom and placed him in the 'O' of Penny Black's Immense Noel.

Rudolph has a lovely prize on offer again this month. 

Gail and I can't wait to see your creations for this challenge, so please come and join the fun!

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenge #273 - H is for Happy Birthday!

 

The Sisterhood have a brand new challenge for you to play! We've all had heaps of fun with this one and we hope you will too. Sarcasm, snark and general naughtiness are encouraged, but are not essential so why not join the H is for Happy Birthday fun? 

Here's how I played our challenge this month. 

While wandering around Etsy I fell in love with these cute robot stickers and just had to get them. I'm not usually a sticker gal, but I couldn't resist these and knew I'd have fun playing with them. 

It turns out when you use stickers that it's better to pop them up on dimensionals. I guess it depends on your overall design but I love how this little guy sits so well against the Visible Image stencil rather than disappearing into it. This isn't something I discovered by accident... my very talented friend Carol pointed me in the right direction! 

The Card Chain Challenge Reveal - March 2026

 

Hi there, it's tie for the March Reveal! During the month twenty-five lovely players exchanged cards across the globe. This brings the total cards exchanged thus far by Card Chain Challenge participants to 4,930. Whoop, whoop! We also welcomed new player Kathy in the UK.  

 

All the cards exchanged this month used at least one of the following options:

 

Colour Palette Option

(Exact matching is not required.)

 

Sketch Option

(Orient as desired.)

Theme Options: Gnomes / House or Home / Friendship

Product / Technique Options:  Stamps / Patchwork

I decided to go with and Gnomes and Homes for my card, which travelled across the sea to Linda in Michigan. This one was such fun to make and it turned out Linda likes gnomes every bit as much as I do!

It appears my sender is a gnome fan too as I received this cutie from Joanne in UK.

Thanks so much, Joanne, he's totally adorbs, and I love that we both feel gnomes like flowers!

If you want to join in the fun you can sign up for the Card Chain Challenge.  All sign ups run in advance, from the 7th of the preceding month to the 6th of the exchange month.  All reveals happen on the 2nd of the month after the exchange is complete.