JANUARY 2026: Winners and DT Favourites

Welcome to the Winner's Post for January

Firstly a very big THANK YOU to everyone who takes time to enter our monthly challenges.

Every month one winner is picked using a random number generator and a sponsored prize is won.

In addition winners are chosen on merit (DT Favourites) and all equally placed. Each winner is selected by a DT member.

January 2026 Winner 

The Random Winner of 2 collage sheets from 

Wendylynn's PaperWhims

is

# 105 Kathie

Please Take Your Badge from the side bar >>>>

Contact Carole at cardsgaloreencore@yahoo.co.uk to claim your prize.

Please claim your prize within 10 days.

Design Team Favourites for JANUARY

These favourites are listed in the numerical order.

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Carole chose #11 Paperesse

A super cool Christmas card! I do love Vera Lane characters, they are so quirky. Lovely colouring and layering on this charming card.

Helen chose #38 Sharon 

Such a sweet image, beautifully coloured.

Roni chose #59 - Kathie

I love these beautiful Black-eyed Susan's - this card brings a bit of Summer's warmth to a very cold time of the year. This is a lovely card from the coordinating papers, beautiful embellishments right down to the superb coloring job on the flowers. A real gem!

Ileana chose #79 - Unicorn  

I love everything: sweet image, choice of papers, the beautiful design and the wonderful bow...the border die cut is super!

Andree chose #88 Erika
A wonderful mixed media project. Erika cleverly altered an old salt tub to look like a stone pot and decorated it with gorgeous poinsettias. A clever use of techniques to create a beautiful decorative tub.

Koyel choice #125 sandy J..

I love the cute little bird and the brown "branch", that ribbon looks exactly like a branch.

Dagmara chose #139 Renske
What a beautiful card! The snowman is nicely colored, even though coloring white isn't easy at all! And it has a shaker!

Sari chose #139 Renske, 

The snowy scene is perfectly created, coloring on snowman is amazing and love the idea of the shaker moon. Great tutorial also.

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Congratulations to all the DT Favourites!

Our February challenge starts tomorrow.

We'd love to see your creations! 

JANUARY 2026: Crafts Galore Encore Challenge #143

     

 Hello!

Happy New Year and a very warm welcome to our January 2026 challenge. 

Here at Crafts Galore Encore 

the theme is always 

Anything Goes 

and you can enter up to 3 different projects.

This challenge ends on 30th January at mid-day GMT.

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Thank you to everyone who took time to join our December challenge.  We had some fabulous entries and it is always a pleasure to visit your blogs and see what you've been creating. 

Are you an December DT Favourite?

Check the previous post, here, and, if you are a DT Favourite, please collect a badge from the side bar to proudly display on your blog.

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Back to this month's challenge ...

This month our sponsor is Wendy from WendyLynn's Paper Whims.

Wendy is offering our random winner 2 collage sets of their choice from her Etsy store. Head over to see the beautiful collage sheets she has in stock.

We're looking forward to seeing your anything goes projects!

 Enjoy the following inspiration from the DT.

You can visit their blogs by clicking on their blog names/images in the side bar >>>>

Happy Creating!

Carole and the CGE DT

xxx

Carole

using Cats with Cups 

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Andree

using Toulouse Latrec Images

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Dagmara

Using  Toulouse Latrec Images

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Helen

Using Hamsters in Party Hats

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Ileana 

Using Hamsters in Party Hats

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Koyel

Using  Toulouse Latrec Images

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Sari 

using Toulouse Latrec Images

and

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Roni 

using Hamsters in Party Hats

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Many thanks toWendy at WendyLynn's Paper Whims for sponsoring our challenge and 

 thank you to the DT for their amazing designs.

Now it's over to you ...

Challenge #143

Sponsor: WendyLynns Paper Whims: prize 2 collage sets

Winner is chosen by Random.org

Also DT Favourites are chosen on merit each month.

Challenge Closes January30th 12:00 GMT

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter