December 2019 Challenge #70 Winners

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A big THANK YOU to all who take time to enter our challenges.

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Each month one winner will be picked using a random number generator and a sponsored prize will be won.

In addition winners will be chosen on merit (DT Favourites) and all equally placed. Each winner will have been chosen by a DT member.

December 2019 Winner 

Random Winner of $25 store voucher from Gecko Galz is ...

 #134 Petra 

Congratulations, Petra!

Please Take Your Badge from the Side Bar or the tab above and we would love it if you could link back to our blog when you display it. 

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

Please claim your prize within 10 days. 

Design Team Favourites for December

Jackie Trinder chose
#5 KT Fit Kitty

This is a gorgeous Christmas card. I love the CAS style. The scene that has been created in the bauble is stunning. I would love to receive a card like this. 

Ileana Artuffo chose

#10 Cristina

Simple tag, but your colouring is gorgeous, image and background are wonderful! I love three little rhinestone on the corner.

Monika Kobus chose
#40 Elaine

Elegant, clean design plus simple layout. Simply beautiful.

Andrèe Crowe chose

#73 Lesia

A gorgeous card with a lovely soft colour palette, wonderful snowy image and delicate die-cuts. A truly beautiful Christmas card.

Monica Collins chose

#88 Lisa J

I love the CAS style of the card and the little pink dinosaur lady is so adorable. The pink sparkly moon behind her is also a wonderful touch.

Carole Jones chose
#96 Alice

Such a sweet robin Christmas card! The beautiful textures, added with embossing folders and die-cuts, and the lovely bright colours make this a wonderful seasonal project. Gorgeous work!

Tracey Mowbray chose

#138 Patsy Long

What a sweet card love the colouring & layout.

The new challenge starts tomorrow.

December Crafts Galore Encore Challenge #70 and DT Call

Hello!

 A very warm welcome to our December challenge.

The theme here at Crafts Galore Encore is always 
Anything Goes and you can enter up to 3 different projects.
This month we are sponsored by the fabulous Gecko Galz.

Thank you to everyone who found time to join our November challenge. We had some fabulous entries and it is always a pleasure to see what everyone has been creating. The DT had a difficult time selecting favourites!

Are you an November winner?

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

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Sadly, we are saying good bye to Monica Collins this month. Monica has been with us at Crafts Galore Encore since October 2018 and has mesmerised us with her beautiful pencil colouring. Monica is leaving to pursue other activities, but I feel sure she'll be around blog-land and will pay us a visit from time to time. It has been wonderful working with Monica. She will be missed, but we all wish her every happiness and good fortune in all that she does!

On a different note, we are excited to announce that we have 2 new, very talented DT members joining us in the new year! Kelly Parker and Beverly Cole will be posting their inspiration projects on January 1st. We can't wait to see what they make!

There is still one more DT place available, so if you feel like giving it a go, then please feel free to apply.

Previous experience is not necessary as we will guide you through the steps.

Our DT duties include: 

1. Making one project a month with the sponsors image and writing a blog post about it.

2. Entering challenges to spread word of our challenge blog and the sponsor.

3. Commenting on participants' projects (one number).

4. Choosing your favourite project from the month's entries.

The DT term will start on January 1st, 2020.

We are a welcoming, supportive team and communicate via our private Facebook group.

How to Apply: simply put DT after your name when you enter the challenge OR email Carole at cardsgaloreencore@yahoo.co.uk

What are you waiting for?

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

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Now onto this month's challenge:

This month we are sponsored by the wonderful Leanne from Gecko Galz. Leanne is offering our winner a whopping $25 store voucher. Pop on over to the store to see the vast array of vintage and retro digital collage images, digital stamps and digital papers and kits. It's a wonderland for all paper crafters!

You might also want to check out the Gecko Galz blog for inspiration.

We hope you can find some crafty time to enter our challenge this month. We're look forward to seeing your anything goes projects! 

Enjoy the following inspiration from the DT.

You can visit their blogs by clicking on their images in the side bar.

Happy creating!

Carole, Jackie and the CGE DT

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Andree

made a set of Christmas cards using 

Happy Holidays Collage Set

Merry & Bright Paper Pack

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Carole 

made Christmas cards using 

Merry Little Christmas Digital Stamps

Deadwood Digital Paper Pack

Christmas in Nature ATCs (resized)

Winter Blessings Collage Set

Christmas in Nature ATCs (resized)

Reindeer Way Jewel It Collage Set

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Claudia

made this tag using Snow Man Way Digital Stamps

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Ileana 

made this card using 

Cute Kids Digital Stamps

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Jackie 

made Christmas cards and tags using 

Christmas Filigree Collage Set

Merry & Bright Paper Pack

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Monica

made a cute set of Spring Children ATCoins using 
Spring Charms Collage Set
Charming Words Collage set
Flower Power Paper Pack

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Monika 

made a card using

Asian Splendor Digital Stamp Set

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Tracey 

made a beautiful card using 

Land of Nod Digital Stamp Set

 

Thank you, once again, to Leanne at Gecko Galz for supplying these delightful digital products to the Design Team and for supporting our challenge blog! 

Now it's over to you ...

Challenge #70 sponsored by Gecko Galz

                                         

Winner (chosen by Random.org) gets $25 Gecko Galz Etsy voucher

Also DT Favourites are chosen on merit each month.

Inlinkz closes 12:00 GMT 30th December.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

December Anything Goes Challenge #58

Hello,

 Welcome to our December Anything Goes Challenge!

Thank you for all your fabulous entries last month! As always, the DT had a difficult time narrowing their favourites down to one each!

Are you an November winner?

 The winner's post and DT Favourites can be found in the previous post here.

If you are a winner and/or a DT Favourite, please collect a badge from the side bar to proudly display on your blog. 

This month we are sponsored  by the lovely Lizzie Lore at Oddball Art.

Thanks to Lizzie for providing images for the DT and for offering a prize of a $10 store voucher to our challenge winner.

We hope you can find some crafty time to enter our challenge this month. We're look forward to seeing your projects! 

Enjoy the following inspiration from the DT.

You can visit their blogs by clicking on their images in the side bar.

Happy creating!

Carole, Jackie and the CGE DT

Andree

using Baby Christmas Unicorn

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Carole

using Holiday Alex

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Claudia 

using Holiday Alex

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Dawn

using Baby Christmas Unicorn

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Greeshma

using Holiday Alex

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Ileana 

using Ol' Gnome Love

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Jackie 

using Ol' Gnome Love

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Monica

using Holiday Alex

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Monika 

using Ol' Gnome Love

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Thank you, once again, to Oddball Art for supplying these delightful images to the Design Team and for supporting our challenge blog! 

Now it's over to you...

Challenge #58 sponsored by Oddball Art. 

Winner (chosen by Random.org) gets a $10 store voucher.

Also DT Favourites are chosen on merit each month.

****** Challenge closes at 12:00 GMT on 30th December ******

An InLinkz Link-up

November Challenge with Nikki Burnett, "Anything Goes".

The clocks have been turned back so I guess winter is definitely on it's way and to mark the start of November we have a new "Anything Goes", challenge here at Crafts Galore Encore. Our lovely sponsor is Nikki Burnett and she is offering a prize of 3 digi stamps to our lucky winner who will be drawn randomly from all qualifying entries.

We are sorry to be saying goodbye to Emma this month and thank her for all her hard work and beautiful creations.
We are look forward to announcing a new member of the CGE DT at the start of our December Challenge.
Don't forget, "Anything Goes", means you can enter anything that you have created (except for offspring as they tend to be a joint venture!)

Happy Crafting,

Denyse, Isobel and the CGE DT

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Andree

Carole

Donna

Ileana

Jackie

Nana Connie

Sue P

Nicola

An InLinkz Link-up

December challenge Part 2..

Hiya Crafty friends,

I know December is such a busy time for everyone, so we just wanted to post a little reminder about our December challenge, where the theme is, of course... 'Christmas'. If you would like to enter, you will find all the information you need HERE.

We also have some more fabulous inspiration from our fabulous design team...

Barbara 

Isobel

Denyse

Marleen

December Challenge

Hiya crafty friends,

Oh my word, it's December already!!! Where has the year gone??? 

Well, here at Cards Galore, we have all been getting very Christmassy with the help of this months sponsor, Meljen Designs. Each of our design team members have enjoyed working with some of their gorgeous digi stamps.

So this months theme is:

Christmas

Meljens Designs

win x4 digi stamps

Isobel

Linda

Angela

Hope you can all join in, and we are all looking forward to see all you makes

To enter please add your link using Mr Linky below