November Challenge - Christmas Bingo!

A little late starting this challenge this month but hopefully it's a nice open one and with a Christmas theme we hope you'll be encouraged to join in and add to your Christmas card stash! This month we're giving you a Christmas Bingo card and like all Bingo games there are prizes to win!

All you need to do is pick a line - any column, any row or corner to corner and feature the 4 items in your line on your card. So you could create:

a card with an embossed frame, feauring an angel in red green and gold.
a square card with snowmen on a white embossed background.
baubles in pink, blue and silver on a stencilled background with an embossed sentiment.

You get the idea......

Here's Tara's take on the challenge to kickstart the challenge this month.

Tara went for the bottom row as her bingo line and used the new Snowflake Cluster Die from Waffle Flower Crafts, simply die cut twice and a little bit snipped off so it could be added to fill the square base card. Both die cuts were smooshed into a versamark pad so it could be covered in clear sparkly embossing powder which really does not show well in the photo as its super sparkly irl! A little shading on the corners for a frosty blue look (still the card is mostly white) and then finished with a sentiment stamped in the same blue using Snow Fun Sentiments Set.

You have until noon on the 30th November (GMT) to play along and we'll remind you as we go through the month and we hope you'll find it a fun theme to play with and you can play more than once if you like!

Whilst we'd prefer to see products we sell in our store used in this challenge, it's not a requirement for entry.

There will be a £10 store voucher for the winning entry so what are you waiting for? Pick a line, make a project and add your linky!

Apologies to those who don't have blogs or instagram accounts but we are unable to add "offline" entries to the challenge.

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