Saturday 19 March 2011

Challenge 17.....

Morning Everyone,
Time for our next challenge,but before we get to the winners and Top 3 from the last challenge,we need to say a big Thank you to Katie and Caroline for being great Guest Designers for the last 3 months the team have loved  working with you and seeing your gorgeous cards,we hope you'll join in with us when you can....Right onto the Winner and Top 3...So in  no particular order the Top 3 chosen by the lovely Jenny are....

4    Kate
15  Lisa
29  Judy


       Please e-mail me (Mandy ) at agemofachallenge@btinternet.com to claim your badge...

And the winner picked from all eligible enteries by Random Org..........is


No 11 Angie


Please e-mail Janet at pinkgemdesigns@googlemail.com  to claim your prize...

Congratulations to you all,Please make sure to checkout their wonderful cards.....

Right onto Challenge 17.....And this month the lovely Jenny is hosting and she has a theme for us all and it's ...

ANYTHING BUT SQUARE....
 This could be anything from a simple A5 card to something more adventurous.


The prize for the winner will be to chose 2 single polymer stamps of winners choice  (Subject to availability) from

Here are the rules for you to look through.....  

 You must link to our challenge in your blog post.......You may combine your entry with other challenges,and you may enter as many times as you like,but with a different creation each time,but please only link new creations,don't back link to old posts as these won't be counted.

 You may enter the challenge using any image, 

If you don't have a blog but would like to enter please send an e-mail with your card attached to



Here are the brilliant cards from the DT for inspiration...........


JANET




MANDY






DEBBY






CHRISTINE



JENNY



Jackie




REBEKAH


SANDRA




KATIE





CAROLINE



Happy Crafting......

and the Team x

EDITED........SO SORRY FOR MR LINKY NOT WORKING BUT ALL SORTED NOW ANY ONE WHO LEFT A COMMENT UP TO NUMBER 14 BELOW HAS NOW BEEN ADDED TO MR LINKY SO PLEASE DO NOT ENTER AGAIN......THANK YOU





Saturday 5 March 2011

Challenge 16.......

Morning Everyone,
Time for another challenge....Wow you all must have loved last months theme as it was the most entries we have ever had here at A Gem of a Challenge so thank you all for joining in with us,I hope you will join in this month's challenge but more about that later..... First onto the winner (Chosen by Random Org) and Top 3 chosen by me ( Mandy) it was so hard all of your cards were lovely and the Team loved seeing them...so in no particular order the Top 3 are........Now I know there are 4 but it was so hard and I just couldn't decide which one I liked more so don't tell the rest of the team but I chose the 4..sshh....

No   22  Donna Mosley
No   33 Diane
No   89 Tiggertastic 


       Please e-mail me (Mandy ) at agemofachallenge@btinternet.com to claim your badge...

And the winner picked from all eligible enteries by Random Org..........


No 98 Netty


Please e-mail Janet at pinkgemdesigns@googlemail.com  to claim your prize...

Congratulations to you all,Please make sure to checkout their wonderful cards.....

Right onto Challenge 16.....And this month the lovely Jenny is hosting and she has this fabulous sketch for us all...



The prize for the winner will be to chose 2 single polymer stamps of winners choice  (Subject to availability) from

Here are the rules for you to look through.....  


 You must link to our challenge in your blog post.......You may combine your entry with other challenges,and you may enter as many times as you like,but with a different creation each time,but please only link new creations,don't back link to old posts as these won't be counted.


 You may enter the challenge using any image, 


If you don't have a blog but would like to enter please send an e-mail with your card attached to




Here are the brilliant cards from the DT for inspiration...........



JANET






MANDY






DEBBY








CHRISTINE



JENNY




REBEKAH





SANDRA





KATIE





CAROLINE








JACKIE



Happy Crafting......

and the Team x





Friday 4 March 2011

CHALLENGE 15.........

Morning Everyone,
Can't believe our Birthday Blog Hop and Challenge has finished...Thank you to all of you who took part whether it was for the challenge,Blog Hop or both....We will announce here on the Challenge blog tomorrow the winner of the Blog Hop and all of the winners from each of the DT's blogs,so please come back and see if you were one of the lucky winners.....
Before we give you details for our new Challenge here are the Winner and Top 3 in no particular order as chosen by me (Mandy) from Challenge 14.........
No 3..........  LORI          
No 37..........SHELLY          
No 41..........DORTE          

Please e-mail me (Mandy ) at agemofachallenge@btinternet.com to claim your badge...

And the winner picked from all eligible enteries by Random Org..........is

No 11  ............BERNI


Please e-mail Janet at pinkgemdesigns@googlemail.com  to claim your prize...

Congratulations to you all,Please make sure to checkout their wonderful cards.....



Right onto Challenge 15,it's my second one for this month and I have a theme for you all,
BUTTONS,BRADS,BEADS,BOWS...use one,two,three or if your feeling really adventurous all of them.......
The prize for the winner will be to chose a stamp of their choice (Subject to availability) from

Here are the rules for you to look through...  


 You must link to our challenge in your blog post.......You may combine your entry with other challenges,and you may enter as many times as you like,but with a different creation each time,but please only link new creations,don't back link to old posts as these won't be counted.


 You may enter the challenge using any image, 


If you don't have a blog but would like to enter please send an e-mail with your card attached to




Here are the brilliant cards from the DT for inspiration...........

JANET




MANDY






CHRISTINE





DEBBY





JENNY





REBEKAH




SANDRA




KATIE






CAROLINE




JACKIE


Happy Crafting......

and the Team x