Hi Everyone - Lowri here and welcome to Week Five of our Christmas Countdown. There is lots of information in today's post so read carefully and be sure to scroll to the bottom to see the entries and winner of the Christmas Countdown Week Four Challenge!

**Shop Specials**
This week in the shop - all our Christmas Gift and Card Packs are discounted by 20%. It's a great time to grab a bargain and start making your Christmas cards and gifts!

Weekly Round-Up
What a great week of inspiration we have had from the Design Team again! Look at these wonderful cards and projects they shared with us. You can see their posts here: Lindsey, Lisa, Christine, and Lowri. 


We also asked our Design Team to answer some fun Christmas questions! First of all let's ask Sandy

* What is your favorite holiday album or song?
Has to be this wonderful Christmas carol - Once in Royal David's City. I heard it sang years ago in King's College Cambridge and it still gives me goosebumps when I listen to it today. 
* What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Christmas day buffet with my large, extended family 
* What was your most memorable gift?
A kiss from someone very special to me under the mistletoe
* What does Christmas mean to you?
Sharing with those less fortunate
* What would you love under the tree this year
Is it too soon to hope for another year designing for Artfull Crafts ??

Sandy created these amazing Angels when she entered one of our Christmas Challenges last year. She has a fabulous tutorial on her blog showing how you can make them too.


We are going to be sharing some ideas this week for home and tree decoration. This covers SUCH a wide variety of ideas - it will be great to see what the Design Team and YOU can come up with! The home decoration theme will be continued next week too - so you have plenty of time to send us your projects..

For some additional inspiration - here are a couple of projects created by the DT last year.

Project by Tina Conolly - details here

Project by Lowri McNabb - details here

Project by Clarissa Hardy - details here

Challenges

Don't forget you can see ALL the Challenge entries in our Gallery.

Week Five Challenge
You can WIN yourself a fabulous prize by entering YOUR Home or Tree Decoration  into the Week Five challenge by Saturday 10th December.
Email us a picture of your project and PLEASE name the file you send with your full name as this makes it a lot easier for us to administer the competition! Send your entry to entries@artfullcrafts.co.nz

Week Four Challenge
You can WIN yourself a Kaisercraft Christmas Journal and a set of Making Memories Twinkle Papers by entering YOUR Homemade Gift into the Week Four challenge by Saturday 3rd December.
Email us a picture of your project and PLEASE name the file you send with your full name as this makes it a lot easier for us to administer the competition! Send your entry to entries@artfullcrafts.co.nz

Week Three Challenge
The entries and winner of the Week Three Challenge can be seen below!

Tanya

Hayley

Linda

Tania

Carol

And the winner is - HAYLEY!

Congratulations Hayley and thanks for joining in the fun!
Please email info@artfullcrafts.co.nz with your delivery details.

Stay tuned for heaps more fun Christmas Inspiration this week.