Week 129–Midway reminder for our Mega Christmas challenge

Good morning crafters.  Wow where did the last two weeks disappear to?  We cannot believe it’s only 5 days until the BIG day – we’re sure you are all super organised and are now sitting back and relaxing waiting for the day to arrive (yeah fat chance of that lol!). 

Well we are now half way through our Mega Christmas challenge and we have to say we are stunned by all your gorgeous cards.  The theme is “celebrations” and don’t forget you still have until 3rd January 2012 to enter our challenge, although there is a maximum of 3 entries per person. 

Before we show you the wonderful creations by Team 1 here is a quick reminder of the prizes up for grabs:

Letraset are offering 1 amazing prize of 3 new packs of promarkers (metallics set, contemporary xmas set, modern xmas set)

Whiff of Joy Stamps are generously offering 1 stamp from their sentiment collection

Pink Gem Designs are generously offering 4 digi images of winner’s choice

Joanna Sheen are generously offering 6 packs of promarker fine liner sets

DigiStamp Boutique are generously offering 6 digi images of winner's choice

Saturated Canary digis are generously offering 2 digis of winner’s choice

bugaboo stamps are generously offering 7 digis (which we are going to split into 2 prizes)

Tickled Pink stamps are generously offering 2 digis of winner’s choice (from Lil Lolita, Lil Lad and Lil Pinkette ranges)

Crafts & Me are generously offering 6 digis of winner's choice

WOW amazing prizes – we’re sure you’ll agree!

In the last post 2 week’s ago we share team 2’s beautiful creations so this time we are going to share the gorgeous creations from Team 1:

Denise

Gro

Heidi

Lis

Maya

Nic

Kim (made 2 cards!)

Vix

We’re sure you’ll agree that their cards are stunning. So to re-cap the challenge will run until 3rd January 2012 and you can enter a maximum of 3 times. Please continue to link up your cards with Mr Linky in our original post here. 

We can’t wait to see your creations and look forward to visiting your blogs. We’ll be back in 2 week’s time to launch our new challenge with team 1 taking over the reins from team 2 and also to announce all the lucky winners of our amazing prizes.  Don’t forget you have to be in it to win it lol! 

Before we go we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy 2012.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 128–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Good evening crafters.  We’re back to announce the lucky winner of last week’s sketch challenge who will receive their choice of stamp from Sugar Nellie Stamps and also to let you know who Tracy has chosen as her top 5 passionista.  The DT had a fantastic time looking at all your creations and it was amazing to see all the interpretations of Tracy’s sketch. 

As always, to be fair, we used random.org to choose our lucky winner and that is:

No. 18:

Pernilla

Congratulations Pernilla, your card is so pretty and the papers are gorgeous.  Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your prize. 

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Tracy had a wonderful time visiting all your blogs and it was such a tough decision but eventually she chose the following as her top 5 passionista:

Catherine

Cathy

Mocca

Sarah

Vanessa

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. 

Don’t forget to enter our Mega Christmas challenge – the theme is celebrations and it lasts until January 3rd 2012.  There are so many amazing prizes up for grabs you won’t want to miss out.  Full details in the post below. 

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 129–Mega Christmas challenge

Good morning dear crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week. The DT really enjoyed visiting your blogs and seeing you fabulous creations using Tracy's sketch. Don't forget to check back later to find out who Tracy has chosen as her top 5 passionista and also to see if you are our lucky winner of the prize from Sugar Nellie Stamps.

This week we are launching our very special Mega Christmas challenge which will last until January 3rd 2012. I’m sure you’ll agree that the design team deserve a little break to catch up on their last minute gifts and cards. However to make up for the lack of challenges we again have some magnificent prizes up for grabs.

Our theme for the Mega Christmas challenge is a nice easy one “CELEBRATIONS”, so basically we want to see your creations for any type of celebrations, including birthdays. However as time is precious for our DT at this time of year we are limiting the number of entries you can make to just 3 per person for this month long challenge. Please remember to be eligible for our prizes you must use your promarkers, flex markers, tria markers or aqua markers.

So now for the exciting bit – the prizes!

Letraset are offering 1 amazing prize of 3 new packs of promarkers (metallics set, contemporary xmas set, modern xmas set)

Whiff of Joy Stamps are generously offering 1 stamp from their sentiment collection

Pink Gem Designs are generously offering 4 digi images of winner’s choice

Joanna Sheen are generously offering 6 packs of promarker fine liner sets

DigiStamp Boutique are generously offering 6 digi images of winner's choice

Saturated Canary digis are generously offering 2 digis of winner’s choice

bugaboo stamps are generously offering 7 digis (which we are going to split into 2 prizes)

Tickled Pink stamps are generously offering 2 digis of winner’s choice (from Lil Lolita, Lil Lad and Lil Pinkette ranges)

Crafts & Me are generously offering 6 digis of winner's choice

WOW amazing prizes – we’re sure you’ll agree!

We have asked both design teams to share some inspiration with you but as it such a long challenge we will be posting the inspiration from team 2 today and then in two week’s time we will be posting inspiration from team 1. So here are the gorgeous cards from team 2:

Andie

Anja

No card this week!

Debs

Denise

Emma

On Maternity Leave x x

Julie

Lisa

Michele

Taking a short break x

Tracy

We’re sure you’ll agree that their cards are stunning. So to re-cap the challenge will run until 3rd January 2012 and you can enter a maximum of 3 times.

We can’t wait to see your creations and look forward to visiting your blogs. We’ll be back in 2 week’s time to share team 1’s gorgeous selection of cards, so don’t forget to stop by for more wonderful inspiration.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 127–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Good evening dear crafters.  We’re sorry for the late post but time has just run with us tonight!!  We’re back to announce the lucky winner of last week’s challenge who will receive the Promarker Stamping Kit courtesy of Letraset and also to find out who Michele has chosen as her top 5 passionista.  We really enjoyed visiting your blogs and your creations were stunning as always. 

As always, to be fair, we used random.org to choose our lucky winner and that is:

No. 29

An

Congratulations An.  Such a pretty card and the swirly frame looks gorgeous.  Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive you prize. 

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Michele had a wonderful time looking at your amazing creations and after much deliberation here are her top 5 passionista for last week:

Dora

Helen

Kat G

Trish

Vanessa

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.

Don’t forget to check out our current challenge, which is a wonderful sketch by Tracy – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

New DT members!

We’re sorry that we’ve kept you waiting so long for our new DT members to be announced but we were overwhelmed by the number of entries we had and it was an honour for us to visit all your blogs and see your amazing work.  It was such a difficult decision and we could have chosen 50 new members lol!  However we decided to invite the following two crafters to join our team:

** Lis **

and

** Kimberly **

I’m sure you will all give a big welcome to Lis and Kimberly and they will be joining in with our challenges starting on January 3rd 2012. 

Thank you all for your interest and we will definitely keep you all in mind for our next DT call.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 128–sketch

Good morning dear crafters.  We hope you had a fantastic week last week and are all getting organised for the big day.  I cannot believe where the time has gone, it will soon be December 1st and after that it will all be over in a flash (I know Bah Humbug lol!).  If anyone would like to start my Christmas shopping for me, it will be much appreciated haha! 

We would like to thank everyone who entered our mini DT call.  We’re sorry it has taken us so long to announce our newest members but it was such a difficult decision.  We are going to keep you in suspense for just a little while longer though as we are going to let you know our decision in a few minutes time in a separate post – so stay tuned!! 

The DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs last week.  You all seemed to enjoy Michele’s “swirls and sparkles” challenge and we had such gorgeous entries.  Don’t forget to check back later to find out who Michele has chosen as her top 5 passionista and also to see if you are the lucky winner of the Promarker Stamping Kit courtesy of Letraset. 

Our theme this week has been chosen by Tracy and she has given us an amazing sketch to use – you are free to rotate the sketch and make slight alterations but we must be able to recognise the sketch.  Don’t forget to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Letraset products on your project (i.e. promarkers, flex markers, tria markers or aqua markers). 

Here is Tracy’s sketch:

Our sponsor this week is Sugar Nellie Stamps and one lucky winner will receive (prize to be confirmed)!

The design team have done a wonderful job with Tracy’s sketch (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Tracy

Andie

Anja

Not very well this week!  Feel better soon Anja x

Debs

Denise

Emma

On maternity leave x

Julie

Lisa

Michele

Fantastic creations, I’m sure you’ll agree.  We hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and we look forward to seeing what you create.  We have a very special challenge for you next week – you definitely won’t want to miss it! 

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x