**We Have A Winner**

It's a beautiful sunny afternoon here at Humbug Hall and we're about to brighten someone's day up even more because they've been randomly drawn from last week's challenge entries and will soon have their prize winging it's way to them.  So now you just need to know who is the lucky winner .... and we're pleased to announce it's ...

Sandra - Is That The Time?

Congratulations Sandra!  If you would e-mail us with your snail mail details, using the adress in the sidebar, then we'll get your pretty papers and cute stamps off to you.
Don't be too disappointed if you weren't chosen this time as there's still plenty of craft stash for future prize events left in Santa's sack.  Do make sure you watch this space as you just never know what might happen at Humbug Hall ... nor indeed when!
Meanwhile don't forget to enter this week's Candy Cane Challenge  HERE

February Prize Winner

We promised to make the announcement of our Monthly Prize Winner this weekend ... and luckily there's still a few minutes left before Monday kicks in so we're keeping our word by the skin of our teeth.

All the names from last week's entries were popped into our Special Bah! Humbug! Prize Hat and the random lucky winner pulled out was ..... 

Fiona

Leaves From My Notebook

Congratulations to you!  

Please e-mail us at  

bahbahhumbug@yahoo.co.uk  

with your snail mail details we will get your prize out to you ASAP.

Thank you to everyone else for your wonderful entries and don't be too disappointed 'cos there will be plenty of super random Spot Prizes to come during the year and you never know when it could be you.

Prize Draw Winners 2010

The moment has finally arrived to announce the lucky winners in our very first

Bah! Humbug! Special Prize Draw 

The names of all those who had completed 30 or more of our challenges during 2010 were popped in our  

Special Glowing Santa Hat

 

... and to make it absolutely fair we called upon the services of our Humbug Helper Naomi to do the picking.  

Thank you Naomi ... MWAH! xxxxx

So without further ado ....

HERE ARE THE WINNERS AND THEIR PRIZES

Special Prize Winner 2010

Runner up Prize Winner 2010

CONGRATULATIONS LADIES

Please e-mail us with your address details at 

 bahbahhumbug@yahoo.co.uk  

AS SOON AS YOU CAN so we can get your prizes sent before the Christmas rush.

BUT WAIT!  THERE'S MORE!

Before we padlock the gates and take down all the decorations at Humbug Hall,  we would like to give a Special Mention to the following ladies who amazingly completed every single challenge we set this year.  

Isn't that AWESOME?

VAL - AQUARIUS

BEV - GOTT ART

CAROLE - CAMCRAFT CREATIONS

DEBS - PINK DANDELION 

We were so impressed at this achievement and think it definitely deserves recognition, so if you ladies would also contact us with your address details, then you can expect a wee token of appreciation from us in the post.

We have thoroughly enjoyed this first year of Bah! Humbug! Challenges and can't wait for the New Year when we hope to see you all back here. 

We'll be armed with oodles of crafty stash and a sackload of enthusiasm ... and hope you will be here to join in with our challenges again.

Until then - The Humbuggers would like to sincerely thank everyone who has visited and helped to make Bah Humbug Challenges so successful this year.

May You All Enjoy 

A Very Merry Christmas

&

May Your Homes Be Filled With 

Love, Laughter and Happiness 

For The Festive Season And Always

xxx

Challenge 39 - Cuties

Well last week's challenge certainly gave those of us with family overseas a chance to get those important cards done and ready to post.  Again it was unbelievable the amount of great ideas everyone produced for the challenge.  Thank you all so much for the inspiration you share with us each week.

Now before we give away the details of our new challenge we need to announce the winner of our monthly prize draw so without anymore fuss or rambling this month's winner is...

Tess at Crafty Tess

A huge congratulations from the team Tess.   We hope you will enjoy using your embossing folder.   Please email us at bahbahhumbug@yahoo.co.uk with your address details and we will get your prize sent off to you as soon as possible.

Moving on swiftly to our new challenge, which was originally inspired by the photo of the three of us at the Bella Italia restaurant in York.  See the photo in our side bar.  Lol - if you believe that you will believe anything!
No seriously ... this week we are giving you the opportunity to be creative using your...

 Favourite Cuties

How easy is that?  You can use stamps, digis, ready made toppers or whatever you fancy - the world is your oyster this week.   Oh my we are just so kind to all our loyal participants!

I'm guessing that many of you will be in the same boat as the team here at Bah! Humbug! including our guest designer Jenny,  in that you'll find it hard to choose which particular cutie to use.  There are so many fabulous images to choose from and so little time.
Check out the ones we finally decided on and the fab examples from our super guest designer Jenny.  The details of all our DT examples can be found by clicking the names below where we hope you'll find something to inspire you to join us or at least bring a smile.

Guest Designer Jenny 

Irene

Ann

Max

The deadline for this challenge is

12 noon (UK time)

Thursday 14th October 2010

You are free to create whatever you like ... it doesn't have to be a card ... in fact, show us as many different projects as you want to share.

Just remember ... have fun and don't forget to leave us a direct link to your project in our comment box so we can come and admire your creativity.

Ann, Irene, Max

xxx

Challenge 35 - Using favourite mediums...

Oh my goodness what an amazing amount of entries we had last week and yet again here at Bah! Humbug! we were overwhelmed by the standard of art work we saw while visiting your blogs. Our participants really must be the most talented in blog land. 

Now before we give away the details of our new challenge we need to announce the winner of our monthly prize draw so without anymore fuss or rambling this month's winner is...

Anne from Stamps and Paper

A huge congratulations from the team Anne. We hope you will enjoy using your stamp set. Please email us at bahbahhumbug@yahoo.co.uk with your address details and we will get your prize sent off to you as soon as possible.

Moving on swiftly to our new challenge ... and this week we are giving you the opportunity to be creative using your

Favourite Medium

Whether you love stamping with rubber or using digi images ... maybe you're into decoupage, parchment or iris folding ... how about embossing and diecutting ... do you prefer peel offs or rub ons?
We'd love you to share whatever technique is guaranteed to push your creative buttons or instantly makes your senses tingle with excitement and your sticky fingers wiggle in anticipation.
Our DT projects are shown below and details can be found by clicking the names to visit our blogs.

Irene
Stamping and Distress Inks

Ann

Stamping and Promarkers

Max

Embossing and Stickles

The deadline for this challenge is

12 noon (UK time)

Thursday 16th September 2010

You are free to create whatever you like ... it doesn't have to be a card ... in fact, show us as many different projects as you want to share.

Just remember ... have fun and don't forget to leave us a direct link to your project in our comment box so we can come and admire your creativity.

Ann, Irene, Max

xxx

Challenge 26 - A Special Card for a Friend...

We were totally blown away with all the fantastic entries to our 'Less Is More' Challenge and although some of you confessed you found it tricky to leave out the fussy decorations, your results proved that you could do it ... and do it well!
All the entries were eligible for entry into our Monthly Prize Draw and we are pleased to announce that the randomly selected winner is

*** PAT - PIP'S PASTIMES ***

Congratulations!

Please e-mail the team at bahbahhumbug@yahoo.co.uk within the next 4 days with your snail mail details and we will arrange to send out your prize.


On to our next challenge and this time we would like to see a card or project made for

A Special Friend

We all have one don't we? ... and some people are lucky enough to have more than one ... so let's celebrate those relationships and let these precious people know how treasured they really are. You may be worried that your friend may see what you have created for them, (especially if they happen to be a fellow crafty blogger), but don't despair because you can make something for someone else to give to their special friend. We really don't mind as long as you follow the theme.
The Bah! Humbug! DT, including our Special Guest Designer Debs, have been busy as always, and hopefully have inspired you to get creative for a 'bestest buddy'. Just click the linked names below to visit our personal blogs and see the details of our cards.

Debs

Irene

Ann

Max

The deadline for this challenge is

12 noon (UK time)

Thursday 15th July 2010

You are free to create whatever you like ... it doesn't have to be a card ... and there are no restrictions on which products you use. We'd genuinely like you to show us as many different projects as you want to share and at least one of us will always visit to leave you a comment.

Just remember ... have fun and don't forget to leave us a direct link to your project in our comment box so we can come and admire your creativity.

Ann, Irene, Max

xxx

Cover your ears...

There will screams of delight/shock all over the place today, because it's...

Spot Prize Time

This week the lucky crafter's name pulled out of Santa' hat is ...

Are you ready for this?

Are you as excited as me?

Okay, get ready to scream because the lucky lady is...

Ann Whitfield

from

Spirit of Creativity

Wow well done Ann - I believe your name has been pulled out before so maybe this would be a good time to rush out and buy a lottery ticket as you never know maybe good things come do come in threes.
Hmmm, if you do pick a winning ticket I hope you'll remember your buddies here at Bah! Humbug!

To everyone else don't despair there are many more surprises to come in future weeks.

Just to clarify our spot prizes are awarded on a randomly selected basis from the loyal entrants to our challenges. We couldn't possibly choose a winner by picking out the best cards. Way toooo difficult as they are all so good!

Don't miss our latest challenge 'A Child's Christmas' which can be found here.

Ann, Irene, Max

Challenge 22... Anything goes...

A round of applause to all who braved the 'Battle of the Acetate' and joined in with our challenge last week.  Whilst the number of entries was slightly down from previous weeks ... possibly because of half term holidays ... it has to be said that the standard of work is definitely not showing any signs of diminishing and we were treated to some fabulous eye-candy.  Thank you all so much for sharing your amazing creativity with us.
Now we need to let you know who was the random winner of our June Prize Draw for the fabulous  
A4 Papermania Signature Linen Paper pack.
Cover your ears 'cos she is going to squeal with delight and will probably break the sound barrier when she sees her name ..... IT'S .....

***Donna at Popsicle Toes***

 WhooHoo!  Congratulations Donna.  

Have fun with that pack of luvverly lush Christmas papers.  Please e-mail your address details to Irene at irene.cards@yahoo.com within the next 4 days and she will arrange for your prize to be sent out to you.

OK ... I think it's safe to take your fingers out of your ears now and time to move on to our 2nd challenge of this month.  As the 'Bah! Humbuggers!' are feeling particularly generous this week, we thought we would give YOU the choice of what to do ... yeah honestly! ... so our theme is 

ANYTHING GOES

Below are the projects that the DT have to share and we are very lucky to be joined again by our Special Guest Designer Claire from Claire's Crafty Creations with another fantastic project.  Please click on the linked names for all the details and if you'd like to leave a message, that would be wonderful.  

Claire 

Irene

Ann

Max

The deadline for this challenge is

12 noon (UK time)

Thursday 17th June 2010

We are really excited at the thought of all the gorgeous goodies you are going to share with us over the next week, especially given the awesome results we have seen up to now.  Whatever you decide to make, we know it is going to be a treat and a half when we hit your blogs for a looksee.    
You are free to create whatever you like ... it doesn't have to be a card ... in fact, show us as many different projects as you want to share.

Just remember ... have fun and don't forget to leave us a direct link to your project in our comment box so we can come and admire your creativity.

Ann, Irene, Max

xxx

And the winner is...

Annie 

Congratulations Annie.  Please could you email us your address and I will get the stamp (and maybe a few little surprise extras) sent off to you at the weekend.

Thanks to everyone else who joined in.  Sorry to say that it's still raining here, but hey we tried!  

There is still time to join in with our acetate challenge (but only just) here and of  course tomorrow sees the start of a brand new challenge, which I'm sure everyone will love.  After all the stress we put you all through with the acetate this week we thought maybe it was time for something super easy!

Oh My Goodness It's Spot Prize Time...

... and Irene and Max have let me be in charge!!!!  Ooooooooooooh was that wise? 

I don't think so!  

They know I get easily excited and what could be more exciting than a Bah! Humbug! Spot Prize event.  Okay, quite a lot of things I suppose, but I lead a very quiet life so I'm easily pleased.

Anyway without further ado or silly ramblings all the names of our wonderful loyalty club members have been placed in the Santa's hat, shaken and stirred for good luck.  One lucky name was pulled out and that name was...

Janet from Redmoss Ramblings

Huge congratulations to you Janet and thank you for all your beautiful entries in our challenges. We have so enjoyed hopping over to your blog and looking at each and everyone of them.

Please could you email Irene (address in side bar) within the next 4 days and we'll get your prize sent off to you as soon as possible. 

To everyone else don't despair there are many more surprises to come in future weeks.

Just to clarify our spot prizes are awarded on a randomly selected basis from the loyal entrants to our challenges. We couldn't possibly choose a winner by picking out the best cards. Way toooo difficult as they are all so good!

Our latest challenge can be found here.

Ann, Irene, Max

Challenge 18 - Punched Borders...

Thankfully our Christmas Food Challenge proved not to be too 'big a bite' (groan!) for you and we saw some truly scrumptious entries from those eager to 'have a nibble' (groan, groan) at winning our fabulous Spellbinder prize.

So without further ado ... (or awful puns!) ... we are pleased to announce that the lucky winner of the Borderabilities Embossing Die Cut is ...

VAL AT AQUARIUS

Please e-mail your address details to Irene at irene.cards@yahoo.com within the next 4 days and she will arrange for your prize to be sent out to you.

Congratulations! Val, Enjoy your prize!

So now we move onto our next challenge and once again we are delighted that Steph from The Crafty Duck blog has joined us as a Guest Designer with a wonderfully bright and cheerful card. Isn't it fabby?
Our theme this week is ...

Punched Borders

We'd like to see some fancy edges used on your cards/projects and whether this is along the edge of your project itself or on the papers you use to decorate is entirely up to you. Be creative ... be imaginative ... and knock us out!

S'cuse the pun again ... tee hee ... couldn't resist.

As always, if you click on the linked names below you will find out more about the techniques and supplies we have used for our creations, and if you have time to say 'Hi' or would like to leave a comment, then we always love to hear from you.

Steph

Irene

Max

Ann

The deadline for this challenge is

12 noon (UK time)

Thursday 20th May 2010

You are free to create whatever you like ... it doesn't have to be a card ... in fact, show us as many different projects as you want to share.

Just remember ... have fun and don't forget to leave us a direct link to your project in our comment box so we can come and admire your creativity.

Ann, Irene, Max

xxx

Spot Prize Number Four

Remember when we said there may be spot prizes along the way for our loyal contributers - well today is the day for Spot Prize Number Four which goes to .....

****** Barb at Made for Keeps *******

Congratulations Barb, and thank you for all your beautiful entries in our challenges. We have so enjoyed hopping over to your blog and looking at each and everyone of them.

We're not going to spill the beans about what Barb's prize is as that would spoil the surprise.  Barb please could you email Irene (address in side bar) within the next 4 days and we'll get your prize sent off to you as soon as possible.

To everyone else don't despair there are many more surprises to come in future weeks.

Just to clarify our spot prizes are awarded on a randomly selected basis from the loyal entrants to our challenges. We couldn't possibly choose a winner by picking out the best cards. Way toooo difficult as they are all so good!

Our latest challenge can be found here.

Ann, Irene, Max

Challenge 13 - Tags and Labels

Well! - what can we say to thank you all for treating us to such a fantastic Embossing Extravaganza with last week's challenge? So much creativity and inspiration probably shouldn't be allowed in one place and our brains were absolutely buzzing after browsing all your wonderful projects!

Before we move on to our next challenge, we have a little bit of housekeeping to do - so without further procrastinating, the Bah! Humbug! Team have the pleasure of announcing ...

Carole of Cardmakers Anonymous

as the lucky winner of our April Prize Draw.
Congratulations Carole - you have won the exclusive 'Oh My Crafts' Cuttlebug Christmas Embossing Folder and it will soon be winging it's Merry Christmas way to you.

All you have to do is e-mail irene.cards@yahoo.com with your address details within 4 days to claim your prize.

The enthusiastic response to our GDT call was overwhelming and we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has registered an interest in becoming a Bah! Humbug! Guest Designer.

We shall be in touch with you all over the next couple of weeks with further information and will post an announcement when final decisions have been made.
Until then, we have another challenge for you so let's see what wonderful ideas you will share with us this week.

Despite what you might think, Tags and Labels aren't just for suitcases you know.

They can be very useful as an added embellishment on your cards or even as a focal point on a multitude of different projects. Tag books and albums are always very popular in craftland because they are very quick to make and are the perfect gift for a special friend or loved one, especially when filled with treasured photographs of a happy event.
So your challenge this week is to create a Christmas Card or Project showing how you use

TAGS AND LABELS

The Bah! Humbug! team have provided you with a few ideas and if you click on the linked names below you will find out more about the techniques and supplies we have used.

Ann
Bottle bag tag

Tag to match 'The Three Kings' Card

Max

Irene

The deadline for this challenge is

12 noon (UK time)

Thursday 15th April 2010

As always, you are free to create whatever you like and show us as many projects as you want to share.
Just remember ... have fun and don't forget to leave us a direct link to your project in our comment box so we can come and admire your creativity.

Ann, Irene, Max

xxx

Spot Prize - Number Three

Remember when we said there may be spot prizes along the way for our loyal contributers - well today is the day for our third Spot Prize which goes to...

****** TESS AT CRAFTY TESS *****

Congratulations Tess and thank you for all your beautiful entries in our challenges. We have so enjoyed hopping over to your blog and looking at each and everyone of them.

We're not going to spill the beans about what Tess's prize is as that would spoil the surprise for her, Tess please could you email Irene (address in side bar) within the next 4 days and we'll get your prize sent off to you as soon as possible.

To everyone else don't despair there are many more surprises to come in future weeks.

Just to clarify our spot prizes are awarded on a randomly selected basis from the loyal entrants to our challenges. We couldn't possibly choose a winner by picking out the best cards. Way toooo difficult as they are all so good! Our latest challenge can be found here

Ann, Irene, Max

Challenge 9 - Cool Combos...

What amazing samples of stitching both faux and real we saw last week. Thank you all for sharing your amazing ideas with us and also for sticking to the master plan to make at least one Christmas card each week. We are all doing just great. Give yourselves a pat on the back and sneak another smug smile in too.
Now before we move on to our new challenge we need to announce the winner of the fabulous set of Hero Arts Stamps from our start of the month draw.

The winner for the month of March is...

Claire of Claire's Crafty Creations

Congratulations Claire . Please could you email us within the next four days to claim your prize. Everyone else, don't feel too disappointed there are plenty more prize months before the end of the year and you never know what Spot Prizes may fall out of our Santa sack in between.

Now on to our new challenge.
Hmmmmmmmmmm just when you thought the DT at Bah! Humbug! were softies and our challenges were all easy peasy - ha ha ha (evil laugh) - check out this week's challenge...

Cool Combos

Yes this week our challenge is to combine at least three of the themes from our previous challenges! So far we have covered...

• recycling
• new stash
• glitter
• baubles
• holly
• snowmen
• trees
• stitching

Can you use at least 3 of them on one Christmas card?
Are you up for it?
Can you combine them all? - at least one DT member has!!
Check out our samples for this week's challenge and if you would like to learn more about each card or maybe leave a comment on our individual blogs please click on our names to follow the links. We would love to hear from you.

Ann Cutts

Irene

Max

The deadline for our challenge is

12 noon (UK time)

Thursday 18th March 2010

As always ... have fun and leave us a direct link so we can come and admire your creativity.

Ann, Irene, Max

xxx

** BOO!! **

Wha ...Haha ... hahaha !

Did we make you jump?
Just checking to see if you're paying attention ... and you were! Well done!!

Before we left for York last Friday, the 3 'Humbuggers' decided that as a wee reward for your patience and loyalty to Bah! Humbug! challenges so far ... and also to make sure you don't forget about us! ... we would have a random spot prize for one lucky person.

Sooooooooooooo .........
"C'mon Down

Ann of Spirit of Creativity

It's your lucky day today!
If you could e-mail Irene before the weekend with your 'snail mail' details, then something specially selected from our Super-Dooper Santa Sack will be winging it's way to you as soon as we get home.

Ok - you can all relax again but no nodding off or you may miss all the gossip about our trip and of course we'll have a brand new challenge starting on Friday. Whoo Hoo!!
You wouldn't want to miss that now ... would you?

Challenge 6 - Snowmen...

Well what a totally amazing week we had on the theme of Holly - so many cards and projects and all with the wow factor. All three of us here at Bah! Humbug! gained so many amazing ideas while visiting everyone's blogs.

Thank you all so much. Now before we move on to the new challenge we need to announce the winner of our start of the month prize draw.

Our February prize winner is.....

Doreen of Doreen's Dream

Yeah, congratulations Doreen. Please could you email Irene within the next 4 days and she will organise sending the prize out to you.

Now on to this week's challenge, which is...

SNOWMEN!(or ladies!)

Snowmen are always great fun on Christmas cards and projects. They come in all shapes and sizes and everyone of them is as loveable as the last. Who can resist their total cuteness? Not us that's for sure! I hope you feel the same way and will dig out your favourite snowmen to create a card or other Christmas project to share with us this week.

We can't wait to see all the different snowpeople on your blogs.

Remember the most important thing is to have fun. When your work is complete do leave us a direct link in the comment box below so we can come and have a look at your fabulous creations.

If you'd like to see how we created our cards this week - just click the links above the images to take you there.

Ann

Irene

Max

**Challenge 6 Closes at Noon (UK time)

on Thursday 18th February**

Really looking forward to seeing some fabulous entries again this week.

Ann, Irene and Max. xxx

Spot Prize Number One...

Remember when we said there may be spot prizes along the way for our loyal contributers - well today is the day for our very first Spot Prize which goes to...

***Beverly Gotthardt***

Congratulations Beverly and thank you for your beautiful entries in our first two challenges.

Beverly's cards can be seen here and here. We particularly loved her tree design and would really love to have a go at doing some paper folded trees ourselves one day.

We're not going to spill the beans about what Beverly's prize is as that would spoil the surprise for her, but I will say it's something that may have been useful in this week's challenge and something for next week's challenge too!!

Beverly please could you email Irene (address in side bar) within the next 4 days and we'll get your prize sent off to you as soon as possible.

To everyone else don't despair there are many more surprises to come in future weeks. So hit that glitter and join in this week's challenge right here.

Just to clarify our spot prizes are awarded on a randomly selected basis from our loyal entrants to our challenges. We couldn't possibly choose a winner by picking out the best cards. Way toooo difficult as they are all so good!

Challenge 2 - Using New/Nearly New Stash

Hello Everyone

Irene here.

Thank you all so much for joining in our first challenge, we appreciate your support very much, and what a lot of creative crafters we have out there.

Now for our second challenge, but before I let you know the details there is a little matter of a prize to give out, and the lucky winner is

Drum roll please,

Congratulations to  
SylviaAnne of Poppy's Papercraft Patch
our first winner

Well done Sylvia-Anne if you can e-mail us your details we will get your prize sent off to you.

Please remember to let us have your details within the next 4 days.

On to our second challenge, we thought that as Santa will have left you lots of Christmas craft goodies (which I am sure you are all dying to play with) our challenge is to use your

New or Nearly New Stash to make either a Christmas card or a project.

Please let us know what your stash is and remember your new/nearly new crafts item may be something that you can use all year but on this occasion used to make a Christmas themed project.

So if you got some lovely craft goodies for Christmas ... or have been naughty at the sales ... or even if you have something tucked away that you bought a while ago with good intentions but haven't used yet ... then we want you to dig them out for this challenge.

Please note our challenge ends at NOON ( 12.00 GMT) on Thursday 21st January

Here are our cards using our new goodies.

For more details of our cards and new stash please visit the blogs of Ann, Max and myself.

Irene

Max

Ann

Ann, Irene and Max
xxxx