Week 109–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Good evening everyone, we hope you’re having a good week so far.  Apologies for the delay with the post tonight but I’ve had a power cut in my street and obviously no electricity, it has literally just come back on so I thought I’d better do this right away, just in case lol!  We would like to say a big thank you for all your gorgeous creations last week.  Michele’s sketch was very popular and there were so many wonderful interpretations of the sketch. 

Firstly we are going to announce the lucky winner of the 3 digi images courtesy of Some Odd Girl stamps and using random.org that is No.27:

Julie

Congratulations Julie, what a funky card.  Please can you email us and we’ll pass your details onto Some Odd Girl. 

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Michele really enjoyed seeing all your entries this week and it was such a difficult decision to choose 5 favourites.  However after much deliberation here are Michele’s top 5 passionista for last week:

Debs

Marie

Mimiko

Natalie

Tia

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

We hope you have a brilliant week.  Don’t forget to enter our “animal crackers” challenge.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 110–Theme

Good morning dear crafters. Before we begin today we would like to send our heartfelt thoughts and prayers to the people of Norway, we are so saddened by the terrible ordeal that you have suffered. We are thinking of you all and we know you will overcome this tragedy.

Firstly we would like to say a big thank you for all your gorgeous entries for last week’s “sketch” challenge. It was fantastic to see all the different interpretations of Michele’s wonderful sketch. Don’t forget to check back later to find out who Michele has chosen as her top 5 passionista and also to find out who the lucky winner of the 3 digi images courtesy of Some Odd Girl stamps will be.

Now onto this week’s challenge, which has been set by Tracy and she has chosen “animal crackers”. Therefore we want to see all your animal themed cards and projects this week. Don’t forget to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your promarkers or aqua markers.

Our sponsor this week is Letraset and the lucky winner will receive one of their gorgeous stamping kits.

The design team have created amazing samples once again this week (don’t forget you can click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Tracy

Andie

Anja

Debs

Denise

Emma

Julie

Lisa

Michele

Gorgeous creations as always girls. We hope you will be able to join in with our challenge and we cannot wait to see what you create.

Before we go today we just wanted to let you know that our friend, and fellow supporter of Letraset, Nikky Hall of Polka Doodles is on the look out for a new design team member who has amazing colouring technique to join her design team. If you are interested please check out her post here. You need to be quick though as her DT call ends 31st July 2011.

So have a wonderful week and we look forward to seeing your “animal crackers”.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 108–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Good evening everyone, we hope you’ve had a good day so far.  We’re back to announce the winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s ‘gingham challenge’.  It was definitely a popular theme and it was wonderful to see all your gorgeous creations.  We are so lucky to have so many regular players joining in each week. 

Firstly we are going to announce the lucky winner of the 6 digi images courtesy of DigiStamp Boutique and we used random.org who chose No. 15 and that is:

Hazel

Congratulations Hazel, such a beautiful and colourful card.  Please can you email us your details and we will pass them onto Sally-Ann at DigiStamp Boutique. 

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Lisa had such a great time looking through all the entries but found it so difficult to choose just 5 but after much deliberation she has chosen the following as her top 5 passionista:

Jacky

Lisa

Louise

Neil

Ruth

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

Have a wonderful week and we hope you will be able to enter our “sketch” challenge this week. 

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 109–Sketch

Good morning dear crafters, we hope you had a brilliant week last week and even though the weather has been misbehaving at least it’s a great excuse for extra crafting time lol! We thoroughly enjoyed looking at all your “gingham” inspired cards and projects last week and it was great to see all the different colours of gingham available. Don’t forget to check back later to find out who Lisa has chosen as her top 5 passionista and also to see if you are the lucky winner of the 6 digi images courtesy of DigiStamp Boutique.

Onto this week’s challenge and the lovely Michele has given us a gorgeous sketch to use. You can rotate it etc but we must be able to recognise the original sketch. Here is Michele’s sketch:

Don’t forget to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your promarkers or aqua markers.

Our sponsor this week is Some Odd Girl stamps and the lucky winner will receive 3 digi images of their choice.

The design team have created amazing samples once again this week (don’t forget you can click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Michele

Tracy

Andie

Anja

Sorry no card this week.

Debs

Denise

Emma

Julie

Lisa

Wow we’re sure you’re bound to take lots of inspiration from those wonderful cards. We hope you can find the time to enter our challenge this week and we look forward to seeing all your fantastic creations.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 107–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Oh my goodness I am so sorry for the lateness of this post.  I have a good excuse though – it was my birthday yesterday plus my dad is in hospital, so I did have other things on my mind – I hope you can forgive me lol! 

Anyway I’m back to announce the winner of last week’s “tie a yellow ribbon” challenge sponsored by Joanna Sheen and also to let you know who Julie has chosen as her top 5 passionista.  There were so many gorgeous entries last week and the design team thoroughly enjoyed popping around your blogs and have a nosey!! 

Ok, I’ve kept you waiting for long enough I think so let’s plod on.  The lucky winner of the £10.00 gift voucher courtesy of Joanna Sheen chosen by random.org is No. 9:

Amanda

Congratulations Amanda, what a sweet baby card.  Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your prize. 

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Julie loved all of your creations and it was such a difficult decision to narrow it down to just 5 but eventually she decided on the following as her top 5:

Debs

Jane

Paula

Shelly

Sissel

Congratulations ladies, you are now free to display the top 5 passionista blinkie to your blogs.  If you need any help with this please email us. 

Don’t forget our current challenge is “gingham” so we hope you will have chance to enter.  Have a wonderful week.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 108 - Theme

Good morning crafters, we hope you all had a brilliant week last week and are raring to go with our new challenge. We would like to say a huge thank you for all your gorgeous “yellow ribbon” creations. It was fantastic to see all the different ways to add a yellow ribbon to your projects. Don’t forget to check back later to find out who Julie has chosen as her top 5 passionista and also to see if you are the lucky winner of the £10.00 voucher courtesy of Joanna Sheen.

Onto this week’s challenge, which has been set by Lisa and she has chosen “gingham”, so you can make anything you like as long as you add some gingham paper, ribbon etc. Don’t forget you must use your promarkers or aqua markers to be eligible for our prize draw.

Our sponsor this week is DigiStamp Boutique and the lucky winner will receive 6 digi images of their choice.

The design team have created amazing samples for your inspiration as usual (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Lisa

Michele

Tracy

Andie

Anja

Debs

Denise

Emma

Julie

Wow I’m sure you’ll agree they are gorgeous cards once again this week. We hope you can join in with our challenge and we look forward to seeing what you create.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x