Week 811

Hello everyone, Ellie here today introducing a new theme and hopefully you will join us this week for a chance to win or for a spot in our top 5. For this week I selected the optional theme of 

Lots of White

or

Anything Goes

Would love to see how the optional theme inspires you but as always all your new crafty makes (up to 3 at the moment) are welcome and all will be considered for the Top 5 or a prize, so hopefully you'll join us this week. Please remember, to be eligible for prizes and Top 5 selection, you must include details of focal products used on your entry.

Before we get to the DT inspiration here is a little reminder about the upcoming changes to our regular challenges:

From next week 21st December, all future challenges will be every fortnight. 

From that date you will be able to enter each challenge five times and we will move to a Top 7 selected from entrants of each challenge.

Allsorts is now in it's sixteenth year and we are so pleased that thanks to some very generous patrons we will continue to offer physical prizes for every challenge.

This week there are three prizes from AALL and Create, the pretty border and floral stamps below.

Lots of wonderful inspiration from the Design Team. As always you can find out more about each project by visiting their individual blogs. We'd love to hear from you!

Ellie

Brenda

Gail

Helen

Will be back soon

Liz

Lynn

Sarah

Don't forget to check back here next Friday for the Top 5 announcement as well as the December prize winners announcement.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Week 810 Top 5

Hello, Lynn again with my top 5 picks for week 810. You've all made the decision very difficult for me as there are so many beautiful and creative makes to choose from. This is what I decided (in order of entry)....

#36 EmmaT

 #86 Renske

103 Lorraine B

109 Yvonne 3d

Well done everyone! Please feel free to grab our Top Pick badge from the sidebar to proudly display on your own blogs.

Don't forget to check back tomorrow. Ellie will be here with a new optional theme, and of course the usual anything goes option too.

Week 810 🎄

(Note: our apologies if you tried to enter Saturday morning, seems Linky had a problem so it's been replaced with a new one, we have messaged those who had entered earlier on the old link so they can add their entries again).

It's Lynn here this week with my turn to host the challenge. I've chosen as my optional theme

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Or of course you can use Anything Goes.

But before we get to the DT inspiration here is a little reminder about the upcoming changes to our regular challenges:

We are moving to fortnightly challenges effective from December 20th. 

From that date you will be able to enter each challenge five times and we will move to a Top 7 selected from entrants of each challenge.

Allsorts is now in it's sixteenth year and we are so pleased that thanks to some very generous patrons we will continue to offer physical prizes for every challenge.

This week we have two prizes of AALL and Create A 6 stamps

Lynn

Guest Designer Carol

Brenda

Using AALL and Create Sack of Joy (112) 

Ellie

Gail

Using AAll and Create Jingle Dreams (1003)

Helen

Will be back soon

Liz

Sarah

Using AALL and Create Parallel Rectangle (57)

Don't forget to check back on Friday to see if you've been chosen as part of my Top 5 picks.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Week 809 Top 5

Hello everyone, I'm back with my Top 5 from this weeks challenge and a big thank you to all who joined in, as always some really stunning entries and so many following the Winter Flowers and Fauna option.

In order of entry here they are....

No 19 Anne

No 39 Karin

No 51 Birgit

Jenny 53

Jose 54

Well done to you all, please collect your badge to display on your own blogs.

Lynn will be along in the morning with a new challenge.

Week 809

Good morning, Brenda here with this weeks theme which is....

Winter Flowers and Fauna

along with Anything Goes

Lots of options from familiar Christmas trees and flowers to the long awaited early shrubs and flowers in the garden. A gentle reminder: You must provide brief details of products used to protect us all from possible copyright infringement.

We have two prizes of A5 stamp sets from AALL and Create

 

Brenda

Using AALL and Create Pheasant (454), Pinecone (389) and Seasons (455)

Ellie

Gail 

  Helen

Will be back soon

Liz

Lynn

inside the card

Sarah

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Week 808 ~ Top 5

It's Liz here, back with my choice of Top 5.  I've enjoyed looking at all your fabulous creations this week and it was lovely to see so many using the Ribbon/Twine option.

As usual, it wasn't an easy decision, but here are my Top 5 in order of entry.....

Entry 18 Kath

Entry 27 Crafty Kiwi Mama

Entry 29 Elle-Jeanne

Entry 66  Lorraine B

Entry 78 Pauline

Congratulations to you all!  Please take the Top 5 badge from the sidebar to display on your own blog.

Brenda will be back in the morning with a new challenge.

November and Happy Christmas winners

Good afternoon, it's been another busy month with lots of lovely entries, our thanks to you all for your ongoing support.

Liz will be along later to announce her Top 5, in the meantime I have details of our November winners of prizes from AALL and Create and Lavinia. Plus as we mentioned on Saturday we have some surprise Christmas thank you gifts, explanations and names further down a longer than usual post.

Week 804 no 41 Diny and no 60 Karen 

Week 805 no 26 Lynda (7/12 not claimed)

  Week 806 no 49 Marlene and no 58 Esther (7/12 not claimed) 

Week 807 no 25 Di and no 19 Carri

Week 808 no 65 Marlene

Now as promised some surprise Christmas gifts, I didn't use the random generator as it would have taken forever going back over a months of entries, so as these are for fun giveaways I sat with three year old Great Granddaughter Margo and asked her to pick some "pretty pictures" from the linky thumbnails. Probably need to add an explanation as I should have guessed animals and sweet treats might feature heavily, these were her picks....

Week 804 - no 55 Jenny and no 48 Janet (7/12 not claimed)

(think she saw herself in the first and the Donkey made her giggle)

Week 805 - no 83 Gerrina and no 45 Birgit

(Sam the 'Squibble' and Cows in hats were a real hit)

  

Week 806 - no 90 Denise and no 73 Irene

(predictably lots of cakes and biscuits)

Week 807 - no 75 Shaz and no 17 Jenny 

(she has a Dalmatian called Clover and Jelly Babies were a big draw) 

Week 808 no 2 Maria and no 45 Lesley 

(she loves pink and in the mind of a three year old Reindeer's were identified as Merlin, Heskey and Penelope our three horses, what can I say!)

Congratulations everyone, what a bumper list. Please mail me by Thursday 5th December with your full name and postal address. Any prize unclaimed by that date will be re-drawn and new winners notified direct. Winners outside the UK: By claiming your prize you have agreed to accept any customs fees which may be applied within your own Country. Although all prizes are marked as gifts, we (Allsorts) will be unable to assist should that happen.

I will see you all again tomorrow for our new challenge.