Challenge 148 Festive Cheer, News and New Releases

 Before we get to our challenge for this week I have some news for you, so it will be a bit of a long post..:)

Our first bit of news is that our lovely Lorraine is stepping down from the DT.  We will really miss you Lorraine but wish you all the very best for the future and it was a pleasure to work with you. :)

Diane & Victoria were our GDT's for 3 months but they are such fabby ladies we have asked them to stay permanently. :)

We also have some NEW RELEASES for you too - they are complete card design for you to download and make youself. :)
They are called Quad Tag Slider Cards, there is a Snowman  and Elf version and come in both Pink and Blue colours - you can see them HERE at our shop and they will be previewed at the bottom of this post. :)

Thank you all so much for the fabulous White on White entries we had last week- they were amazing. :) :) Our winner this week is YOGI with her beautiful Poinsettia card.  Congratulations Yogi please email Debbie using the Contact Me button at the top to organise your prize. :)

Here is your Winners Badge for you Blog....

And our Top 3 are....
# 6 Sandra gorgeous card and layout. :)
#11 Sally J beautiful shaped card and detail. :)
#18 Sherryn beautifully done and all white on white. :)
Well done ladies please take you TOP 3 badge for you blogs. :)

Our Challenge this week is to  

Festive Cheer, Lets see some traditional colours:

Red & Green & Gold or Silver

 Our sponsor this week is the fabulous Joanna Sheen with a £10.00 voucher 

to spend in her fabby-doo craft shop. :) What a great prize coming up to Christmas

you will be-able to give yourself a nice crafty treat. :)

Now for our FESTIVE CHEER INSPIRATION from the lovely ladies, who have created

gorgeous gift ideas for you too -

They have all used the lovely animals on a mug

from The Crafty Pad Designs - HERE

Maria RGDT

Alethea GDT

Diane

Ali

Maggie

Dawn

Victoria

The challenge will close as always, next Saturday at 8.00pm UK time.

All the links for the Design Teams blogs are in the sidebar (or you can click on their names above the pics) so please go and have a look to find out exactly how they have created their projects and leave them some love. :o)

Email entries are welcome. Email using the Contact Button and they'll be popped into the post for you. It's lovely to see that almost everybody has that dratted word verification off now. It really does make life easier for all design team members. Thank you. Please link directly to your post and not just your blog. Thanks.

That's it then. Over to you. Enjoy, and as always we look forward to seeing your work.

Here are the NEW QUAD TAG SLIDER CARD SETS

you can find them HERE

This also comes in Pink

This also comes in Blue

These make lovely inter-active cards and the kids will have loads of fun with them. :)

xxThe Crafty Pad Teamxx