Hi everyone and welcome to our first Winner and Pinworthies post of 2016, and just to make it extra special we've got our Secret Santa Give-Away winner to announce too. It's so nice to be able to celebrate the Winner and Pinworthies of our Vintage Christmas Challenge theme, but as always we thank all of you who joined us on the journey last month. We had so many fabulous entries to the Vintage Christmas Challenge, incorporating some wonderful details using Tim's products and techniques to create the most amazing projects. Visiting your blog posts was a real delight for us and it really has been hard to choose our favourites. ___________________________________ So on to the Vintage Christmas Challenge Winner and Pinworthies. First of all here is our randomly chosen winner, who will receive the prize voucher from our sponsor, Country View Crafts. #42 Sara of Sarascloset1 Congratulations Sara! Such a beautiful Vintage make with those stunning colours and that Santa is one of my favourite of Tim's Christmas Stamp Sets. Gorgeous poinsettias too. We hope you will be Guest Creative Guide with us here in the future and your voucher and winner's badge will be with you very soon. ___________________________________ Now on to the Pinworthies...........which was such a hard decision for the Creative Guides to make. With so many fabulous entries it was difficult to pick our favourite three. Here they are, in no particular order other than their # number. #4 - Alicia of Golden Goddess Designs We were all blown away by this wonderful project, Alicia. The details are so amazing..right down to those stunning transparencies. Thank you for sharing with us here at A Vintage Journey and Congratulations on being chosen as a Pinworthy. Your blog badge will be with you shortly. #14 Nicola of Paper Profusion Nicola's Vintage Christmas Decor piece is stunning with such wonderful details. I am sure you will agree her creations are amazing and its so worth visiting her blog. #55 Autumn of Sew Paper Paint The details on Autumn's Triptych card are fabulous and we loved the inside too. ______________________________________ Congratulations to our fabulous four. Badges and Invitations will be on their way to you soon. Huge thanks to everyone who entered, your creations were amazing and inspiring to all of us here at A Vintage Journey Challenge Blog. Great to have you on board today and I do hope you will stop by here again on Monday 11th January when one of our Creative Guides will be sharing a Destination Inspiration Travel Bag post full of inspiration and details using various products and techniques. There's also a new challenge theme, which kicked off on the 1st January, so I hope you will enter Brenda's fabulous Vintage Travel challenge, it's always great to have you hop on board with us. And don't hop off just yet... Brenda has also drawn the Secret Santa give-away and the winner of the prize is .... Rupa Rupa if you please email Brenda on [email protected] with your address she will get the goodies in the post to you as soon as possible. Have a great weekend. Huge Hugs Annie and the Creative Guides xxxx