Good morning to all our Paper Shelter friends and welcome back to this fortnight's new challenge. We are making a couple of little changes to how our challenges run for the new year. Firstly, both of our teams have joined together to make one big team, so you will get double the amount of absolutely fabulous inspiration for each challenge.

Our second change is that each challenge will now last for 2 WEEKS, so that gives you extra time to add your cards and projects each time. And remember you can enter up to 3 projects/cards in each challenge as long as one of them includes a project from The Paper Shelter store.

As you know by now, all of our challenges are now ANYTHING GOES with an optional twist each week. Should you include a card or project using the optional twist in our challenge, you will have double entries to win the fantastic weekly prize.

Our optional twist this week is...

Out With The Old; In With The New

You can create any project you like and can use any image, but if you want the chance at double entries to this week's challenge, then create something that follows this theme! You could include an old image with a new die cut set, or a newer image with some old patterned papers, or something to celebrate the new year. Remember using one of the fabulous stamps from The Paper Shelter also makes you eligible for this week's top fantastic prize of 6 digital products from the store!

There are so many fabulous images and colouring books in The Paper Shelter store, so why not pop on over there and treat yourself to a new one for this week's challenge?

We can't wait to see what you create for our challenge this time!

Our design team members have all made a fantastic collection of cards and projects this time, using so many different, fabulous images for inspiration as well. Be sure to click on their blog links to find out more about each of the projects and the digi stamps they have used too.

Before I share their cards though, I'm sure you are eager to know who won our

Christmas Break Challenge

The lucky person chosen by Random Org is:

Here are your random numbers:

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Congratulations to Beebeebabs!

Thank you so much for joining in the challenge this time with your fabulous wintery card! We now have a quicker way for you to claim your prize of 3 products from the Paper Shelter Store and this is by clicking on the Contact Link at the top of the blog. This will take you directly to a page for you to fill out with your choices.

Please can you also add ATG/Christmas Break Challenge Winner in your subject line, so that it makes it easier for Pedro to see your choices? Please can you also make sure you claim your prize by Monday 12th January?

As always for this week's challenge our sponsors are The Paper Shelter and they are generously offering a really fabulous prize of up to 6 digital products from their store.

I know that you have heard this before, but this amazing prize will only be given if you have used one of our products on your card which could be either an image, paper or printable.

However, even if you haven't used an item from The Paper Shelter and you are picked as a winner you will still receive 3 digi images of your own choice, so I'm sure you will agree that it's still worth taking part in our challenge.

So many more of you are actually using The Paper Shelter items in your creations so a lot more winners are now winning the full 6 digital products prize, which is just fantastic!

You can enter up to three projects but one of these must show one of our products please; its only fair you do so.

Please make sure your project is a new project for this challenge and not one that has been entered in previous challenges. No backlinking please.

Now for our Design Team and their fabulous cards using so many different gorgeous images this week for our Out With The Old; In With The New challenge! I know you will love them and I'm sure you will find lots of inspiration from them for your own cards and projects.

Vannessa using Coffee Break II

Ilonka using Happy New Year

Maria Tinyworks using A New Beginning

Cathie using A New Beginning

Jane using Beauty Session (old image, new die set)

Jenn using Peace

Granmargaret
using pre-coloured Happy Meow Year and Retro Summer paper pack

Maritza using Si Belle!

kel using Happy Meow Year

Merja using Weee! image and Would you be my Valentine? background paper

Helen using The Most Adorable Panda

Nicola using Flowers Colouring Book

Aren't these projects all so amazing?! I love how many different images have been used on each of these cards and how the DT members have used this week's optional twist of Out With The Old; In With The New. The designs of every project are just so fabulous! Thank you so much for creating all these amazing projects.

Don't forget if there is a image which the Team have used above on their card which you would like to use for your own, don't forget to click on the "Using" link above each of the cards and it will take you directly to the webpage where you will be able to buy it. They really are fabulous value too.

And now it's over to you to show us what you can do with this week's challenge theme "ATG/
Out With The Old; In With The New". We are all looking forward to seeing what you decide to do with it. Remember this challenge will last for 2 weeks so will close on Tuesday 13th January, so plenty of time to get your cards and projects in!