Wednesday, 25 November 2015

November Rudolph Days and a call for Guest Designers

Welcome to the November Rudolph Days Challenge! This is our final challenge of 2015. If you have played along with us this year, hopefully you now have many Christmas cards made up and ready to mail.

Here is a recap of the rules for your perusal. You have until Nov 30th to enter your Christmas card or Christmas themed project.

1. The Rudolph Days Challenge will start each month on the 25th, and will close on the last day of that month.
2. The theme is always Anything Goes, as long as it is Christmas.
3. One entry per person and you just need to enter one Christmas card or Christmas project.
4. You may combine your entry with other challenges (maximum of 10 in total).
5. Your card (or Christmas project) should not have been previously posted to your blog. It should be posted to your blog during the current months Rudolph Days Challenge, (between the 25th and last day of the current month)
6. Please link back to or at least mention, the Rudolph Days Challenge.
7.  Prizes will be shipped anywhere in the world.
8. The winner will be selected by random draw and announced on the first day of the following month.
9. Candy only blog entries  will be deleted.

In celebration of our final challenge this year, we have Sarn of Stamping for Pleasure  as our guest designer.  Sarn previously hosted this  challenge. When she wanted to retire from challenge duties, she asked for a volunteer to take it over and keep it going. I volunteered and the rest is history!

Sarn has made us this gorgeous card. I think the background is stunning! There is some gorgeous texture here too. If you pop over to Sarns blog, you will get a more detailed description!.



You may have noticed that I have hardly been blogging or visiting for the last couple of months as I am still struggling with my health.

Luckily, I have still managed to attend Langley Stampers Club.  This month, Joyce brought a kit for us to make two beautiful Tattered Lace Christmas Boot cards.  I am only showing one of  the two cards she designed for us, as I will show the second one on tomorrows post. In celebration of our end of year challenge, I am going to post a Christmas card or project each day, till the end of the month!

Joyce reversed the colours on the second card and that allowed us to inlay the contrasting diecut into each card. We then backed the inlaid die with a double sided adhesive snippet (Sook Wang brand) and then poured glitter over the cut away details. The white card used here is a heavy weight Centura Pearl Shimmer cardstock. Between that and the red mirri card, this card shimmers so much in real life!!!  It was really hard to get a photo without glare or reflection though...you can see the walls and door of my room in the reflection. Luckily, I managed to hide myself!


Here is a close up of the glittered insert behind the die cut image. The glitter shows up nicely in the filigree cut away design.


This card was great fun to make and I now want to try this idea with some of my other dies!

Our Rudolph Days random prize this month is this Flurry Frame, Memory Box die.

I have an extra prize this month. Anyone who leaves a comment on this post (or my Nov 20th post), will have their name entered in a draw for this Twinkling Snowflake Duet Memory Box Die. Prize winner to be announced on Dec 1st.
                                    
 
Also, I am seeking Guest Designers for the Rudolph Days Challenge.

This would be a 6 month term and would entail making a Christmas card every second month and sharing in the commenting that same month. You would receive a Christmas themed stamp set or Christmas themed die in the middle of your 6 month term.

If you would like to be considered for a guest designer spot,  please add DT to your name on your entry this month. I will announce the teams in the New Year.

Friday, 20 November 2015

November Rudolph Days - prize sneak peeks

Another month has sped by and it will soon be time for the November Rudolph Days Challenge.

This is our final challenge of 2015. I want to take this chance to thank all of you for supporting the Rudolph Days Challenge and making it the most friendly challenge ever! So many lasting friendships have been made from the blog visits here. Friendships that span the miles and the oceans!

It is fitting indeed that we have Sarn of Stamping for Pleasure to join us as a guest designer this month. Sarn previously hosted this  challenge. When she wanted to retire from challenge duties, she asked for a volunteer to take it over and keep it going. I volunteered and the rest is history!

Our Rudolph Days random prize this month is this Flurry Frame, Memory Box die.

I have an extra prize this month. Anyone who leaves a comment on this post will have their name entered in a draw for this Twinkling Snowflake Duet Memory Box Die.

Sunday, 1 November 2015

October Rudolph Days Challenge Winner



Wow! We had 58 entries this month. I was so delighted to see all those wonderful entries.

Once again I used Random Org to select the October Rodolph Days winner.
Here is a photo of the winning number, #56 belonging to Joan at Night Time Stamping



Joan, Could you please email me at Scrappymo1@gmail.com and let me know your mailing address so I can get your Memory Box Small Poinsettia die mailed off to you.

Thanks to everyone who participated. I enjoyed viewing all your cards!