Hi everyone - Lowri here and welcome to Week 2 of our Christmas Countdown - more about that later!

Weekly Round-Up
What an amazing week of inspiration we have had from the Design Team! They have showed us a great variety of ideas to create simple Christmas cards as well as a couple if ideas for layouts and gifts.


Check out all the posts from Sandy, Lisa, Lowri, Christine, Lindsey and Louise.

Design Team News
Sandy has some great news this week - she was appointed onto the Design Team for Ruby Rock-It. Take a look at this super cool project she created as part of her submission!
Be sure to visit their Facebook page and blog to see what Sandy and the other DT members are creating.

Louise has the latest Challenge posted on the Southern Girls Challenge blog. Be sure to take a look as there is the opportunity to win a prize as well as see some entries from some very talented ladies.

Look at this gorgeous layout Louise created!


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

Christmas Countdown

We are going to be sharing some ideas this week for layouts and photo gifts and we want you to play along too. Be sure to read to the end of the post to find out how you can enter and win.

For some additional inspiration - let's take a look at some fabulous layouts created by the DT last year.

Layout by Joanne Care - see more here

Layout by Tanya Leigh - see more here

Layout by Tina Connolly - see more here

Layout by Lowri McNabb - see more here

Layout by Liz Gregory - see more here

Layout by Shirl Towan - see more here

Challenges
You can WIN yourself the Merry Medley Collection by entering YOUR Christmas quick and simple cards into last week's challenge by Saturday 12th November!


AND you can can win yourself a Kaisercraft Advent Calendar by entering your layouts and photo gifts by Saturday November 19th.


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


Any questions -please post a comment.