Christmas Extravaganza "December Holiday Linky Party"

DECEMBER 1 - 31, 2017 

For those of you who are looking for open Challenges in December and still working on your Christmas and New Year’s Cards ... this is the Challenge for you.   You decide some of your color palette to fit into the Traditional or Non-Traditional Challenges below ... how fun is that. 

To make the holidays even more festive, we are partnering with the Heart 2 Heart Challenge blog!   Enter to win and share some holiday cheer. 

There are  two Challenges you can join: 

#272 Traditional Color Challenge

Use Only Reds & Greens, 

White and/or Your choice of one Neutral 

with Optional Gold and/or Silver 

CD #272 - Click Here to Go to Linkup

Simply combine our Traditional Color Challenge above, working in the Critters, and you can also enter the H2H Theme "Christmas Critters" 

#273 Non-Traditional Color Challenge Your Choice of 1 (Monochromatic),
or 2-3 Colors (NO Reds or Greens)
White and/or your choice of one Neutral with Optional Gold and/or Silver 
CD #273 Click Here to Go to Linkup 

Simply combine our Non-Traditional Color Challenge above, and by working in Silver and Gold you can also enter the H2H Theme "Silver and Gold" 

You are unlimited to the number of projects you enter for both the Traditional and/or Non-Traditional challenges ... the more you enter the more chances to the random draws.  Invite a Buddy to join our Christmas and New Year's Extravaganza, If you stop by our blogs to see how we made these projects and leave a comment you can earn an additional chance for random draws.  AND, if you follow all DT member Blogs you can earn another chance. Click HERE for additional information how to earn additional chances.  

Random Draw Prizes:  

For ALL those that link up projects in December YOU will be eligible for random draws at the end of the month.  

(2) $25 Gift Certificates 

One Winner Traditional and One Winner Non Traditional

Your choice for a Scrapbook Store

(Michaels, JoAnne, Hobby Lobby, Internet) Or

favorite Coffee Shop (Starbucks, Tim Horton)

OTHER PRIZES
CTMH Embellishment Packet from SE1
 $10 Gift - Winner Choice - Coffee Shop
CTMH $10 Gift from SE1 - Winner Choice
CTMH Packet "Better Together Complements" and 2 Pkgs assorted clear sparkles

Merry Christmas
and Happy New Year!

We hope your enthusiasm for Color Challenges will bring you back in January for new Color Challenges to pair up with your favorite Sketch or Theme Challenges

Design Team openings starting in January 2018. No experience is required ... Please click HERE for additional details.  

Color Dare #273 - December Holiday Linky Party (Non-Traditional)

Welcome to a special Color My Heart Color Dare month long challenge!  We are challenging you to use your Non Traditional Close to My Heart Christmas colors to create.   If you don't have these Close to My Heart colors yet you may substitute similar colors so you can still join in the fun!

#273 Non-Traditional Color Challenge
Your Choice of 1 (Monochromatic), 2 or 3 Non-Traditional Colors (Excluding Red & Green),
White and/or Your choice of one Neutral
with Optional Gold and/or Silver  

To make the holidays even more festive, we are partnering with the Heart 2 Heart Challenge Blog! Enter at both blogs to share some holiday cheer. Two entries with the same card give you the possibility of more random prize chances. 

Simply combine our Non Traditional Color Challenge above, working in the Silvers and Golds and you can also enter the H2H Theme "Silver and Gold" ... how fun is this.

You are unlimited to the number of projects you enter ... the more you enter the more chances for the random draw prizes. Click HERE for additional chances for random draw prizes awarded at the end of the month.

Here is some inspiration from our awesome Design Team. If you stop by our blogs to see how we made these projects and leave a comment you can earn an additional chance for random draws.  AND, if you follow all DT member Blogs you can earn another chance.  


Week 3--DT Inspirations

Michelle Loncar

Week 2 - DT Inspirations

Michelle Loncar

Suzanne Reynolds

Marie Flayer

Week 1 - DT Inspirations

Debi Gardner

Tracey Pierce

Alyson Mayo

Cat Nowak

Now it's your turn. Take some time this week to create a project for our Non-Traditional color challenge.  Next, take a picture of it and upload it to your blog.

Make sure you include our link and challenge picture in your post. Then link your post to our site, using the link to your post, not your blog. See our Rules Tab for complete rules. Most importantly, have fun! We look forward to visiting your blogs and commenting.

Don’t have a blog? You can still enter by posting your photo to our Facebook page here. Next you would copy the URL and then copy that into the Linky tool below. You could also post your photo in one of your Pinterest boards and then copy and paste the URL into the Linky tool. If you do post in Facebook or Pinterest please tell how you made your card in the comments section. 

An InLinkz Link-up

Merry Christmas

and Happy New Year!

We hope your enthusiasm for Color Challenges will bring you back in January for new Color Challenges to pair up with your favorite Sketch or Theme Challenges.

The Color Dare Design Team:  Marie, Michelle, Sue R., Susan, Tracey, Cat, Debi and Alyson

Color Dare #272 - December Holiday Linky Party (Traditional)

Welcome to a special Color My Heart Color Dare month long challenge!  We are challenging you to use your Close to My Heart Reds and Greens to create.   If you don't have these Close to My Heart colors yet you may substitute similar colors so you can still join in the fun!

 

#272 Traditional Color Challenge

Use Only Reds & Greens 
White and/or Your choice of one Neutral 
with Optional Gold and/or Silver 

To make the holidays even more festive, we are partnering with the Heart 2 Heart Challenge Blog! Enter at both blogs to share some holiday cheer. Two entries with the same card give you the possibility of more random prize chances. 

Simply combine our Traditional Color Challenge above, working in the "Critters" and you can enter the H2H Theme "Christmas Critters" ... how fun is this.

You are unlimited to the number of projects you enter ... the more you enter the more chances for the random draw prizes. Click HERE for additional chances for random draw prizes awarded at the end of the month.

Here is some inspiration from our awesome Design Team. If you stop by our blogs to see how we made these projects and leave a comment you can earn an additional chance for random draws.  AND, if you follow all DT member Blogs you can earn another chance.

Week 4--DT Inspirations

Michelle Loncar

Week 3 - DT Inspirations

Tracey Pierce

Michelle Loncar

Tracey Pierce

Week 2 - DT Inspirations

Debi Gardner

Tracey Pierce

Alyson Mayo

Catherine Nowak

Week 1 - DT Inspirations

Michelle Loncar

Marie Flayer

Susan Fogle



Sue Reynolds

Now it's your turn. Take some time this week to create a project for our Traditional Christmas Color Challenge.  Next, take a picture of it and upload it to your blog.

Make sure you include our link and challenge picture in your post. Then link your post to our site, using the link to your post, not your blog. See our Rules Tab for complete rules. Most importantly, have fun! We look forward to visiting your blogs and commenting.

Don’t have a blog? You can still enter by posting your photo to our Facebook page here. Next you would copy the URL and then copy that into the Linky tool below. You could also post your photo in one of your Pinterest boards and then copy and paste the URL into the Linky tool. If you do post in Facebook or Pinterest please tell how you made your card in the comments section. 

An InLinkz Link-up

     

Merry Christmas

and Happy New Year!

We hope your enthusiasm for Color Challenges will bring you back in January for new Color Challenges to pair up with your favorite Sketch or Theme Challenges.

The Color Dare Design Team:  Marie, Michelle, Sue R., Susan, Tracey, Cat, Debi and Alyson

Winners ~ Color Dare #269

Thank you to all participants for sharing amazing Artwork.   We are inspired by your unique and creative take on our challenging color combinations and hope you had fun playing along.  

WINNERS - COLOR DARE #269 

We challenged you to use (ALL and ONLY) these CTMH Colors: Glacier, Bashful, Toffee, White Daisy and Black.  

Our Diamond Award Winner is:  Life of a BZ Scrapper

Our Emerald Award Winner is:  Sue Bruch

Our Ruby Award Winner is:  Steffi H

Our Sapphire Award Winner is:  Crafty Happy

Congratulations to our Winners 

Please stop by the Award Winner's Blogs and leave them some love about their fabulous creations and be sure to grab your Winner Blog Badge found under the Blog Badges tab at the top of this post.   

Our weekly challenges are two weeks so you still have time to create and enter the following challenges - hope that you'll come join us again. Great color challenges for Christmas Cards.   If you don’t have these CTMH colors...you may substitute similar colors (All and Only) and the palette photo makes it easy for matching colors...

Challenge #270

Closes at 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec 30th, 2017

Challenge #271

Closes at 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec 7th, 2017
Use at least 3 (including neutrals) and as many as 9 of these CTMH Colors: Fern, New England Ivy, Cranberry, Glacier, Tangerine, White Daisy, Pebble, Pewter and Charcoal.

BRING A FRIEND INTO THE CHALLENGE OF COLORS

and BE ELIGIBLE FOR the NOVEMBER RANDOM DRAW

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Christmas Linkey Party 
December 1-31, 2017

Several Random Prize Drawings


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Have a great day

Color Dare #271 - Beary Christmas

Thank you to all the Talented Crafters who participate in our Color Dare Challenges. We are happy to have

you sharing art in our Gallery.  

Before we get to this week's challenge, we have Design Team openings starting in January 2018. No experience is required ... Please click HERE for additional detail.

This week's Color Challenge offers a very versatile color selection using the palette from "Beary Christmas". So many colors to choose from...and you are in charge.


Challenging you to use at least 3 (including neutrals) and as many as 9 of these CTMH Colors: Fern, New England Ivy, Cranberry, Glacier, Tangerine, White Daisy, Pebble, Pewter and Charcoal.

Of course if you don’t have these CTMH colors you may substitute similar colors from the palatte, but no additional colors ... so you can still join in all the fun. 

Here is some inspiration from our awesome Design Team. If you have a chance please stop by our blogs to see how we made these projects and leave a comment.

Debi Gardner

Michelle Loncar

Tracey Pierce

Cat Nowak



Alyson Mayo

Suzanne Reynolds 

Now it's your turn. Take some time this week to create a project using these colors (All and Only, without adding new colors) If you don't have the exact colors, just use the closest ones you have. Next, take a picture of it and upload it to your blog.

Make sure you include our link and challenge picture in your post. Then link your post to our site, using the link to your post, not your blog. See our Rules Tab for complete rules. Most importantly, have fun! We look forward to visiting your blogs and commenting. 

Don’t have a blog? You can still enter by posting your photo to our Facebook page here. Next you would copy the URL and then copy that into the Linky tool below. You could also post your photo in one of your Pinterest boards and then copy and paste the URL into the Linky tool. If you do post in Facebook or Pinterest please tell how you made your card in the comments section. 

ANNOUNCEMENT 
December Holiday Linky Party 

After you record your project below for Color Dare #271...if your project meets the color palette for either #272 Traditional or #273 Non-Traditional you can enter there as well.  Join us for a special Color My Heart Color Dare month long challenge!  Click HERE to see the many prizes and extra chances you can earn for random draws.    

An InLinkz Link-up

Winners ~ Color Dare 268

Thank you to all participants for sharing amazing Artwork.   We are inspired by your unique and creative take on our challenging color combinations and hope you had fun playing along.  

WINNERS - COLOR DARE #268 

We challenged you to use (ALL and ONLY) these CTMH Colors: Fern, New England Ivy, Almond, Cranberry, White Daisy and Optional Gold.  

Our Diamond Award Winner is: Darlys - Crafty Happy

Our Emerald Award Winner is: Life of a BZ Scrapper

Our Ruby Award Winner is: Melanie R

Our Sapphire Award Winner is: Hetty

Congratulations to our Winners 

Please stop by the Award Winner's Blogs and leave them some love about their fabulous creations and be sure to grab your Winner Blog Badge found under the Blog Badges tab at the top of this post.   

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Watch for Announcements

December Christmas Linkey Party

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Our weekly challenges are two weeks so you still have time to create and enter the following challenges - hope that you'll come join us again. If you don’t have these CTMH colors...you may substitute similar colors (All and Only) and the palette photo makes it easy for matching colors...

Challenge #269

Closes at 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday, Nov 23rd, 2017 

Try this Beautiful Color combination for Non-Traditional Christmas projects.

Challenge #270

Closes at 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec 30th, 2017 

Another Beautiful Color combination Christmas projects.

BRING A FRIEND INTO THE CHALLENGE OF COLORS

and BE ELIGIBLE FOR MONTHLY RANDOM DRAW

Have a great day