Wednesday, 5 March 2025

The Flower Challenge #100 - Add Circles - WITH PRIZES!

Welcome to The Flower Challenge! This is the challenge that celebrates cards using floral images. Our challenge for this month is.....



And this month is our 100th challenge!  Special thanks must go to Aileen Ryan for creating the challenge, Viv Hodge for being such a super administrator for many years and all of the design team members over the years.  But most especially, thanks to you, the players who keep this challenge going!  To say thank you, some of the design team are offering prizes, which is very exciting.

To be eligible to be in the prize draw, all you need to do is enter the challenge!  When you enter your name, please also put your country as shipping of prizes is, of necessity, limited to certain countries for the most part.  Adding your email address in the linky will also allow us to contact you should your name be drawn for a prize.  (Please note your email address is not published anywhere.)

Scroll down to the bottom of the post to see the prizes on offer and where they can be shipped to.  Prizes will be drawn using random.org at the end of the challenge.

Our showcase will be announced in the usual manner, the day before the next challenge.


Find us on Facebook and Instagram


Challenge Rules:

  • Use florals as the MAIN feature on your card.
  • Only 6 other challenges allowed as well as our own.
  • Bought flowers or ones just cut from patterned paper alone are NOT allowed. 
  • If in any doubt please do ask.

Here is some inspiration from the Design Team. Be sure to click on the links to their blogs.




Marie (on a break)



Nancy (on a break)

Sathya (on a break)







The challenge closes on the 25th of the month at 5pm. but we will be back on the 15th with some more inspiration. We will announce the challenge winners the day before the start of the next challenge. Have fun crafting and check out the prizes up for grabs below!

Bobby's prize (US Shipping)
Squeeze the Day stamp set by Honey Bee Stamps


Karren's Prize (worldwide shipping)
Beautiful Blessings 2 stamp set by My Favorite Things


Karren's Prize (worldwide shipping)
Big Birthday stamp set by Avery Elle




Laurie's Prize (US shipping)
Basic Banners stamp set from Pink Fresh Studio


Marcia's Prize  (US shipping)
Frosty Flake by Birch Press Design - set of 3 layering dies




Michele's Prize (US shipping)
Paint-a-Flower: Rose stamp set by Altenew




Stef's prize (US Shipping)
Pleasant Petals die set by Brutus Monroe





Tuesday, 4 March 2025

The Flower Challenge - Winners for February 2025

 It's time to announce the winners of our latest challenge, as chosen by our design team.  Thanks so much to everyone who played along.  We hope you had some fun, crafty time.



The winner of our Pink challenge is

 Ishani




Congratulations and don't forget to grab your badge below.






The Honourable Mentions for this month are:
(in order of entry)








Congratulations and don't forget to grab your badge below.


Thank you for joining us and helping to create a stunning gallery 
that celebrates floral stamps.



 Our new challenge goes live tomorrow!  We hope you'll check it out!

Sunday, 16 February 2025

Reminder #99 - Feature the Colour Pink

  Welcome back to The Flower Challenge. It's the midway point in our current challenge.


Our theme this month is to feature the colour pink.


Here are some more beautiful cards made by our design team to inspire and encourage you to play along with us.

You still have time to add your card.  

The challenge closes on the 25th of the month.  For exact time that the challenge closes in your country go to the link and see the time there as it varies country to country. 

Wednesday, 5 February 2025

The Flower Challenge #99 - Feature the Colour Pink

 Welcome to The Flower Challenge! We're back after a well-deserved break for the design team!  This is the challenge that celebrates cards using floral images. Our challenge for this month is.....

It would be great if you could add our cue card above when entering our challenge.
Of course most of all....have fun! 


This month we would like to see you 'Feature the Colour Pinkon your card, as well as the usual FLOWERS, of course, too.  Check out the fabulous cards made by the design team below.

Our showcase will be announced in the usual manner, the day before the next challenge.


Find us on Facebook and Instagram


Challenge Rules:

  • Use florals as the MAIN feature on your card.
  • Only 6 other challenges allowed as well as our own.
  • Bought flowers or ones just cut from patterned paper alone are NOT allowed. 
  • If in any doubt please do ask.

Here is some inspiration from the Design Team. Be sure to click on the links to their blogs.


The challenge closes on the 25th of the month at 5pm. but we will be back on the 15th with some more inspiration. We will announce the challenge winners the day before the start of the next challenge. Have fun crafting!



Saturday, 4 January 2025

The Flower Challenge - Winners for December 2024

 It's time to announce the winners of our latest challenge, as chosen by our design team.  Thanks so much to everyone who played along.  We hope you had some fun, crafty time.


The winner of our Add Sparkle challenge is

 Lesley


Congratulations and don't forget to grab your badge below.


The Honourable Mentions for this month are:
(in order of entry)








Congratulations and don't forget to grab your badge below.


Thank you for joining us and helping to create a stunning gallery 
that celebrates floral stamps.



 Our design team is taking a well-deserved break for the month of January, so we'll be back in February with another year of challenges!