Week 445–special anniversary challenge!

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Good morning dear crafters. We hope you had a wonderful week last week and managed to fit some crafting into your busy schedules.  Thank you for your gorgeous entries to last week’s "gems and/or pearls" challenge.  Linda will certainly have her work cut out for her when she has to pick her top 5 passionista.  Don't forget to check back later to find out who she has chosen and also to see if you are the lucky winner of the 3 digi images courtesy of Ppinkydolls.

Onto this week's theme and we have a very special challenge for you this week as it's our 9th Anniversary. Can you believe it's been 9 years since Gina and myself started our little blog to share our love of all things Letraset/Winsor & Newton?  It only seems like yesterday when we nervously made our first post!  As it's a special challenge we have a really easy theme for you of "birthday creations".  As the title suggests we simply want you to make something for a birthday – simples eh!  We expect to see lots of entries this week but please note we are only accepting a maximum of 3 entries per person for this one challenge only.  To be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Winsor & Newton/Letraset products (i.e. pro, flex, tria, aqua, metallic or neon markers) and of course follow the theme.

As always we have some fantastic prizes up for grabs and our sponsors have been very generous as usual .  Here we go....

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DigiStamp Boutique is offering one lucky winner a prize of a £10.00 voucher

Dies to Die For are offering one lucky winner a £15.00 voucher

Uniko Stamps are offering one lucky winner 1 stamp set (in stock) of their choice

A Day for Daisies are offering one lucky winner a $12.00 voucher

Di’s Digi Stamps are offering one lucky winner a $12.00 voucher

Cowling & Wilcox are offering one lucky winner a 6 pack of Promarkers (vibrant tones)

All Dressed Up stamps are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice

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Wow we told you there were amazing prizes didn’t we?  Definitely lots of reasons to join in the fun this week!! To give you lots of inspiration we have both Team 1 and Team 2 to share their creations (as always please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Elaine

Hazel

Jacky

Julie

Karen

Kitty

Linda

Lisa

Lorraine C. 

Marie

Nat

Nic

Inside view:

Shelly

Sue

Donna

Is still recovering so no card this week.

Stunning cards as always I’m sure you’ll agree.  Please remember for this challenge we will only accept 3 cards/projects per person.  Also just for this one week we will not be choosing a top 5 passionista as we have lots of extra winners, however this will go back to normal next week.  We hope you have a brilliant week and we cannot wait to see what you create.  Good luck!

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 439–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “blooming days” challenge.  It was fantastic to see your lovely entries and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  We’ll be announcing Marie’s top 5 passionista in a moment but firstly let’s find out who our lucky winner is!

For last week’s challenge we were sponsored by All Dressed Up stamps who offered one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their online store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 15

Shuly

Congratulations Shuly your card is amazing.  I love the sweet image and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Marie had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  She had a really tough decision this week but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Diane Louise

Jane

Jennifer

Krafted Kards

Meg

Congratulations ladies, you can now proudly display the top 5 passionista blinkie on your blogs.  If you need any help with this please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com.

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our current challenge ‘animals’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 439–blooming days

Good morning lovely crafters, I hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘animals’ challenge.  It was lovely to see so many of your entries and as always the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your beautiful creations.  Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our lucky winner who will win the 3 digis courtesy of Crafty Sentiments designs and we will also find out who Jacky has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Marie from Team 1, and she has given us the fantastic theme of ‘blooming days’.  As the title suggests Marie would like you to include flowers on your creations this week.  It can be a floral image, floral paper, flower embellishments, die cuts or even embossed flowers.  I’m sure you are all dreaming of spring as much as we are so hopefully this will be a popular challenge.  Remember you can enter using any type of creation, it doesn’t have to be a card.  As always to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Winsor & Newton (formerly Letraset) products (promarkers, flex markers, tria markers, aqua markers or metallic markers) and of course follow the theme.  Please can you help us by stating which products you have used on your creation I.e. ‘coloured with promarkers’ etc.  Thanks x x

Our generous sponsor this week is All Dressed Up Stamps and they are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their online store.  Their images are so pretty so why not pop over to their store and check them out.  Some of the DT were lucky enough to use images from All Dressed Up stamps on their creations this week. 

The design team have worked their magic once again this week and have created beautiful cards to inspire you (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Marie

Nic

Shelly

Sue

(using ADU image ‘pretty in plaits’)

Hazel

(using ADU image ‘jam jars’)

Julie

(using ADU image ‘pretty in plaits’)

Lisa

(using ADU image ‘jam jars’)

Another week of wonderful inspiration from the DT!! We hope you can join in with our challenge this week and we look forward to seeing what you create.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 430–Winner and Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “love and kisses” challenge.  It was a popular challenge and it was fantastic to see so many of your lovely entries and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  We’ll be announcing Lorraine C.’s top 5 passionista in a moment but firstly let’s find out who our lucky winner is!

For last week’s challenge we were sponsored by All Dressed Up stamps who offered one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their online store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 25

Lyn

Congratulations Lyn, your card is so cute.  I love the fun image and colouring is perfect.  Please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Lorraine C. had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  She had a difficult decision this week but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Jackie T.

Krafted Kards

N-Eva

Nick

Sheryl Hare

Congratulations ladies, you can now proudly display the top 5 passionista blinkie on your blogs.  If you need any help with this please email us.

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our current challenge which is a gorgeous ‘add an embellishment’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 430–love & kisses

Good morning lovely crafters, I hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘inspiration photo’ challenge.  It was lovely to see your interpretation of the photo and as always the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your beautiful creations.  Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our lucky winner who will win the 3 digi images courtesy of Lacy Sunshine and we will also find out who Shelly has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Lorraine C. from Team 2, and as Valentine’s Day is just around the corner she has given us the theme of ‘love & kisses’.   As the title suggests Lorraine would like you to make something inspired by love.  It doesn’t have to be a Valentine’s card/creation at all just channel your loving feelings lol!  Remember you can enter using any type of creation, it doesn’t have to be a card.  As always to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Winsor & Newton (formerly Letraset) products (promarkers, flex markers, tria markers, aqua markers or metallic markers) and of course follow the theme.  Please can you help us by stating which products you have used on your creation I.e. ‘coloured with promarkers’ etc.  Thanks x x

Our generous sponsor this week is All Dressed Up stamps and they are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their online store.  Their images are so cute so why not pop over to their store and check them out. The DT were lucky enough to use images from All Dressed Up stamps on their cards this week.

The design team have worked their magic once again this week and have created beautiful cards to inspire you (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Lorraine C.

(using All Dressed Up stamps image ‘love my cuddly toys’)

Nat

Donna

Still unwell – no card this week.

Elaine

(using All Dressed Up stamps image ‘love my cuddly toys’)

Jacky

(using All Dressed Up stamps image ‘kiss for valentines’)

Karen

(using All Dressed Up stamps image ‘kiss for valentines’)

Kitty

(using All Dressed Up stamps image ‘love my cuddly toys’)

Linda

(using All Dressed Up stamps image ‘kiss for valentines’)

Another week of wonderful inspiration from the DT!! We hope you can join in with our challenge this week and we look forward to seeing what you create.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x