Naughty or Nice Challenge #34 - A Christmas Carol Versus Frozen!

Hi there!  

Turns out that today is the official start of Meteorological Winter! Brrrr!

We've got a great challenge for you this month to celebrate the holiday season and all things festive! Once again, our graphics queen, Danielle, has done an amazing job and has tracked down a shivering Scrooge and a cheery Olaf for our December theme: 

'A Christmas Carol versus Frozen'

[Image credits for Scrooge and Olaf]

Challenge #34 is all about traditional versus modern! Take your pick and go with traditional images, colours, themes, sentiments and card shapes or give your creations a sleek, modern twist or even bling-it-up with projects dripping with glitter, sequins and jewels aplenty!

There are so many options to choose from it would be a pity not to play along!

Here's what our Troublemakers created to get your inspiration flowing. 

Margo

Cyndi

Lindsey

Amy

Dotty Jo

Lynne

And we have a super gift for one lucky recipient this month (well, it is Christmas!).

A big thank you to Troublemaker Lynne for donating this fab prize. 

We'll draw a random winner from our December entrants but please remember, you must follow our challenge rules as shown below to be in it to win it!

Challenge Rules and Guidelines: 

• Like and/or follow our blog either via Facebook or Bloglovin, or Email or your favourite method! 
• Add the URL link from your project after it has been uploaded to your online craft gallery or blog to our Mr. Linky tool. If you upload your card to an online craft gallery, please use the keyword NON34 so we can check out your beautiful work! You can also use online photo-sharing sites like Flickr to share your photos too! 
• Please mention and link back to this post to let people know about this fun challenge!
• Whether you are Naughty or Nice, we sure would appreciate cards made especially for this challenge, but if you really, really want to, please link a card that fits NO MORE THAN 5  CHALLENGES including ours! Our challenges are somewhat open-ended, but please don't link 20 other challenges along with ours... Spread the love! 
• You have until the 25th of each month to submit your creations and then the DT will pick two winners, one for both Naughty and Nice! 

An InLinkz Link-up

Naughty or Nice Challenge #33 - Don't Pull Your Punches!

Hello peeps!  

We've been getting really great submissions! Let's keep them coming! This month it's all about punches, dies and die-cuts over here at Naughty or Nice Challenges.  Dust them off if you usually don't use them and don't be afraid to join in! If you're a veteran, we want to see your work too :) 

Check out what our fantastic DT came up with this month and leave some love when you go visit their blogs. Remember to follow the rules that are listed below the DT matserpieces when you enter (I know, I know, they are there to be broken, but we cannot crown you the biggest troublemaker if you don't....) You have until November 25 to join in, so get scrappin'!

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Turns out the phrase 'don't pull your punches' is a boxing term: when you pull a punch you don't hit the other fighter as hard as you can. It also means to hold back from doing or saying what you really think, not being completely honest so you won't hurt somebody's feelings. When you don't pull any punches you are frank, honest!

So, during November, we'd like to see your creations with punched shapes and die-cuts aplenty, and if you choose to be brutally honest (don't mince words, sugar coat, water down, pander or sweeten the pill) we'd love that too!

Here's some inspiration from the team to get you in the mood!

Margo

Dotty Jo

Cyndi

Amy

Lynne

Lindsey

Sara

Challenge Rules and Guidelines: 

• Like and/or follow our blog either via Facebook or Bloglovin, or Email or your favourite method! 
• Add the URL link from your project after it has been uploaded to your online craft gallery or blog to our Mr. Linky tool. If you upload your card to an online craft gallery, please use the keyword NON33 so we can check out your beautiful work! You can also use online photo-sharing sites like Flickr to share your photos too! 
• Please mention and link back to this post to let people know about this fun challenge!
• Whether you are Naughty or Nice, we sure would appreciate cards made especially for this challenge, but if you really, really want to, please link a card that fits NO MORE THAN 5  CHALLENGES including ours! Our challenges are somewhat open-ended, but please don't link 20 other challenges along with ours... Spread the love! 
• You have until the 25th of each month to submit your creations and then the DT will pick two winners, one for both Naughty and Nice! 

An InLinkz Link-up

Naughty or Nice Challenge #32 - Spooky Sistahs and Wild, Wild, Women!

Hi, it's Jo here to introduce the new challenge. For our super, fun October theme the Troublemakers are celebrating women both witchy and wild! 

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With Halloween only a few weeks away most of us have gone all spooky and witchy but your card could just as easily feature a crazy cat lady or a bunch of lively ladies on a girl's night out!

Being a Brit, I always tend to think of Halloween as an American celebration which is gaining popularity in the UK. However, after a little research I've discovered that Halloween may have started as a festival called ‘Samhain’, meaning Summer’s end, celebrated by the Celts each year on November 1st. The Celts believed that on this day, the veil between the dead and the living was at its thinnest. It turns out that trick-and-treating and carrying lanterns can actually be traced back to Scotland, specifically the poem ‘Halloween’ by Scottish poet Robert Burns.

Halloween's traces in America go back to colonial settlers but it was the second half of the 19th century where celebrations became more widespread, according to history.com. As more immigrants, particularly from Ireland and Scotland, arrived the spooky celebrations became more popular and traditions such as 'trick or treating' began.

OK, history lesson over, now let's see the fabulous cards conjured-up by my talented ghoulfriends and, BTW, we're using our top-secret witch names during this spooky and magical month. Can you guess which witch is which???

Priscilla Bugsquirter

Bertha Spiderbeater

Regina Skullcracker

Ermintrude Earwigcruncher

Prudence Wormcackler

Arabella Newtbruiser

Here's hoping you'll join us for this fun challenge!

Challenge Rules and Guidelines: 

• Like and/or follow our blog either via Facebook or Bloglovin, or Email or your favourite method! 
• Add the URL link from your project after it has been uploaded to your online craft gallery or blog to our Mr. Linky tool. If you upload your card to an online craft gallery, please use the keyword NON32 so we can check out your beautiful work! You can also use online photo-sharing sites like Flickr to share your photos too! 
• Please mention and link back to this post to let people know about this fun challenge!
• Whether you are Naughty or Nice, we sure would appreciate cards made especially for this challenge, but if you really, really want to, please link a card that fits NO MORE THAN 5  CHALLENGES including ours! Our challenges are somewhat open-ended, but please don't link 20 other challenges along with ours... Spread the love! 
• You have until the 25th of each month to submit your creations and then the DT will pick two winners, one for both Naughty and Nice! 

An InLinkz Link-up

Naughty or Nice Challenge #31 - Food and Drink.

Holy crap! It's September already?! Last night my son was even surprised by how quick time sneaks up on you...and he's only six LOL 

This month's theme is all about FOOD or DRINK. Lots of possibilities with this one, crafty friends, and we hope that you are able to join us!  Remember that in order to be chose as the naughtiest or nicest troublemaker, you MUST follow the rules (psst...pay very close attention to the one about the number of entries).

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Let's get to it and see what the team came up with this month! Don't forget that you have until September 25 to link up. We had lots of great entriest last month (thank you!) and hope to see plenty more. Cheers!



Dotty Jo

Margo

Lynne

Cyndi

Amy

Lindsey

Sara

Challenge Rules and Guidelines:

• Like and/or follow our blog either via Facebook or Bloglovin, or Email or your favourite method! 
• Add the URL link from your project after it has been uploaded to your online craft gallery or blog to our Mr. Linky tool. If you upload your card to an online craft gallery, please use the keyword NON31 so we can check out your beautiful work! You can also use online photo-sharing sites like Flickr to share your photos too! 
• Please mention and link back to this post to let people know about this fun challenge!
• Whether you are Naughty or Nice, we sure would appreciate cards made especially for this challenge, but if you really, really want to, please link a card that fits NO MORE THAN 5  CHALLENGES including ours! Our challenges are somewhat open-ended, but please don't link 20 other challenges along with ours... Spread the love! 
• You have until the 25th of each month to submit your creations and then the DT will pick two winners, one for both Naughty and Nice! 

An InLinkz Link-up

Naughty or Nice Challenge #30 - Your Number's Up!

Hi there, crafters, and welcome to our August Challenge. 
It's all about numbers this month due to the fact that we've reached something of a milestone here at Naughty or Nice: Challenge #30!

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We're celebrating our little milestone with some fabulous cards from The Troublemakers all about numbers and age-related naughtiness. I'm sure you'll agree that Danielle has created the most fabulous graphic to get us in the mood! 

As always there are our gorgeous badges on offer for the best naughty creation and the best nice creation...

Plus, we have a prize of a fun set of clear stamps from Art Impressions. Everyone who enters our challenge this month will go into the hat to win this set and the lucky recipient will be announced on our regular challenge winners post.

So, without further ado, let's see what our Troublemakers have been up to for this challenge!

Margo

Lynne

Dotty Jo

Lindsey

Amy

Cyndi

We really hope you can join us for this special challenge, so why not get creating your number and age-related cards and play along!

Challenge Rules and Guidelines: 

• Like and/or follow our blog either via Facebook or Bloglovin, or Email or your favourite method! 
• Add the URL link from your project after it has been uploaded to your online craft gallery or blog to our Mr. Linky tool. If you upload your card to an online craft gallery, please use the keyword NON30 so we can check out your beautiful work! You can also use online photo-sharing sites like Flickr to share your photos too! 
• Please mention and link back to this post to let people know about this fun challenge!
• Whether you are Naughty or Nice, we sure would appreciate cards made especially for this challenge, but if you really, really want to, please link a card that fits NO MORE THAN 5  CHALLENGES including ours! Our challenges are somewhat open-ended, but please don't link 20 other challenges along with ours... Spread the love! 
• You have until the 25th of each month to submit your creations and then the DT will pick two winners, one for both Naughty and Nice! 

An InLinkz Link-up

Naughty or Nice Challenge #29 - Reminder

Hi there!

It's Jo here today, and I'm just dropping by to remind you that there's still plenty of time for you to play along with this month's theme of ANYTHING GOES!

Once again, the Troublemakers have created a fabulous selection of fun cards to inspire and delight. You have until Monday 25th July to get creating so please join us! 

Amy

Dotty Jo

Lynne

Margo

Cyndi

Deborah

Click here to go directly to our current challenge link-up.

Naughty or Nice Challenge #29 - Anything Goes!

Hi crafty friends!

Thanks for everyone who joined us in last month's "Man Up" Challenge!  We got some really great entries, so picking a winner will be tough! Please remember to follow our challenge rules that are posted at the end of this post. If you make an awesome card that we love, but don't follow them, then we can't crown you Troublemaker, and that is just a flat out bummer.

This month's theme is ANYTHING GOES so get to it and literally make anything you want, naughty or nice and make sure to post it here by July 25.  Check out the great DT inspiration:

Margo

Inside reads:
In the beginning, all you need are two Hearts and a Diamond - And by the end, you wish you had a Club and a Spade!


Amy



Lynne



Cyndi

inside the card:

Lindsey

Deborah

Challenge Rules and Guidelines: 

• Like and/or follow our blog either via Facebook or Bloglovin, or Email or your favourite method! 
• Add the URL link from your project after it has been uploaded to your online craft gallery or blog to our Mr. Linky tool. If you upload your card to an online craft gallery, please use the keyword NON29 so we can check out your beautiful work! You can also use online photo-sharing sites like Flickr to share your photos too! 
• Please mention and link back to this post to let people know about this fun challenge!
• Whether you are Naughty or Nice, we sure would appreciate cards made especially for this challenge, but if you really, really want to, please link a card that fits NO MORE THAN 5  CHALLENGES including ours! Our challenges are somewhat open-ended, but please don't link 20 other challenges along with ours... Spread the love! 
• You have until the 25th of each month to submit your creations and then the DT will pick two winners, one for both Naughty and Nice! 

An InLinkz Link-up