Week 163–top 5 passionista

Oops sorry everyone, I completely forgot that I had to do the top 5 passionista post tonight – sorry for keeping you in suspense for even longer!! 

Lou had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing work and she could have chosen so many favourites this week, however I told her she could only have 5 lol!  So after much deliberation here are her favourite 5 for last week’s challenge:

An

Lindsay

Samantha

Sandra

Wendy (must be your lucky week!)

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 this week’s challenge “needles & pins” – full details below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 163 - Winner

Hello crafters.  I’m sorry for the lateness of the post this evening but we’re experiencing some technical difficulties!  Unfortunately we don’t have a top 5 passionista for you as yet and that may not be posted until tomorrow but we thought we’d let you know the lucky winner of the £10.00 voucher courtesy of Joanna Sheen. 

As always we used random.org to choose our winner (there were 27 linked entries and 2 email entries) and he chose:

No. 10

Wendy

Congratulations Wendy, such a beautiful card and the colours are so subtle.  Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your prize. 

Unfortunately our second re-drawn winner for week 161 did not contact us so we have had to re-draw the prize a third time, which is such a shame.  Let’s hope the new winner will claim the prize this time.  There were 30 linked entries and 1 email entry and the third time lucky winner of the Letraset New Promarker collectors set is:

 

No. 9

Lyn

Such a fun card Lyn, I really love the image and pretty papers.  Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your promarkers. 

By the way you may recall we shared Donna’s colouring tutorial a few week’s ago.  Well we thought you might be interested to check out part 2 of her tutorial.  It’s on her blog here.  Donna would welcome your comments and thoughts on her tutorial. 

Ok, so that’s it for tonight but please pop back tomorrow evening and check out who Lou has chosen as her top 5 passionista.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 164 - Theme

Good Morning dear crafters. We hope you had a great week last week, and if you were lucky enough to have an extra day off for the Bank Holiday I hope the weather was dry. We would like to say a big thank you for all your amazing entries to last week’s “monochrome image with unusual hair colour”. I think Lou actually came up with a challenge that no one had heard of before, which must be a first, but you all certainly seemed to enjoy it. Don’t forget to check back later to find out who Lou 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 and Lis from Team 2 has set the theme this week and she has gone for “needles and pins”. For this challenge Lis would like to see stitching (real or faux) and at least one pin on your creations – easy peasy! Don’t forget to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Letraset products (i.e. pro, flex, tria, aqua or metallic markers) and follow the theme.

Our sponsor this week is Bugaboo and the prize is 7 digi images of the winner’s choice.

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

Lis

Maya

Andie

Anja

Donna

close up of the needle

Jane B.

inside view too

Jen

Kim

Wonderful cards as always girls. We hope you can join in with our challenge this week and we cannot wait to see what you create.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 162–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again crafters.  We’re back again to announce the winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “shaped card” challenge.  The design team had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations and it was lovely to see some unusual shaped cards instead of the regular square and rectangles. 

Firstly we are going to announce the lucky winner of the 6 digi images courtesy of DigiStamp Boutique and as always to be fair we used random.org (there were 33 linked entries and 2 email entries) and he chose:

No.27

Diane W

Congratulations Diane, such a pretty Christmas rocker card.  Love the sparkle.  Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your prize. 

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Kim had such a fab time looking at all your entries and she could have chosen 10 favourites but eventually narrowed them down to the following favourite 5:

Diane W (must be your lucky week)

Lisa Jane

Nat

Renate

Tracey

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.

Unfortunately the winner from week 161 did not claim their prize so we have re-drawn a new winner, again using random.org and the lucky winner is:

No. 20

Bridie

Congratulations Bridie, you have won a New Promarker collector set from Letraset.  Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Don’t forget to check out our current challenge “monochrome image with unusual hair colour” – full details in the post below.  Have a wonderful week.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 163 - Theme

Good morning dear crafters. Well another week has flown by under our noses but that means that it’s time for a brand new challenge! Before we announce the details we would like to say a big thank you for all your gorgeous entries to last week’s “shaped card” challenge and let’s just say that Kim will certainly have her work cut out choosing just 5 from them. Also don’t forget to check back later to find out who will be the lucky winner of the 6 digi images courtesy of DigiStamp Boutique.

Onto this week’s challenge, which has been chosen by Lou from Team 1 and she has certainly given us an interesting challenge this week. Lou would like to see a “monochrome image with unusual hair colour” (i.e. image coloured in one colour family i.e. greys, brown etc and a contrasting hair colour such as pink, purple, green!!). The DT cards will give you lots of ideas in case you’re stuck lol! Don’t forget to be eligible for the prize draw you must use your Letraset products (i.e. pro, flex, aqua, tria or metallic markers) and of course follow the theme.

Our generous sponsor this week is Joanna Sheen who is offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online store – and with free delivery your prize will definitely go that little bit further!

The DT did an amazing job with Lou’s tough assignment this week and I’m sure you will get lots of inspiration from their wonderful cards (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Lou

Michele

Nic

Edna

Heidi

Jane M.

Julie

Lisa

Stunning cards as always girls. We hope you can join in with our challenge this week and we cannot wait to see what you create.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 161–Winner and Top 5 Passionista

Hello again crafters.  We’re back (albeit a little late) to announce the lucky winner of last week’s challenge and also to find out who Lisa has chosen as her top 5 passionista.  We had lots of gorgeous entries for Lisa’s “at the beach” challenge and the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs.

Firstly we are going to announce the winner who will receive a New Promarker Collector's Set courtesy of Letraset and as always to be fair we used random.org (there were 30 linked entries and 1 email entry) and he chose:

No. 31

Caroline (who was our email entrant)

Congratulations Caroline, your card is so pretty and I love the shell backing paper.  Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Lisa had a fantastic time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing work and after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Alison

Bridie

Marianne

Paulina

Pinky

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 “shaped cards” – full details in the post below.  We hope you have a wonderful week.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 162 - Theme

Good morning dear crafters.   We hope you all had a brilliant week and enjoyed the Olympics.  I think most people enjoyed watching them and were surprised how exciting is was going to be watching Team GB.  I think everyone is really delighted with how well they did and we would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the whole team for a job well done.  What are we going to do now the games are over?  Back to crafting full-time again then lol!

Before we announce the brand new challenge we would like to say a big thank you for all your gorgeous entries into last week’s “at the beach” challenge.  Lisa will certainly have a tough decision trying to pick her favourite 5 so please check back and find out who will be her top 5 passionista later.  We will also be announcing the lucky winner of the New Promarker Collector's Set courtesy of Letraset. 

Now onto this week’s challenge and Kim from Team 2 has chosen the theme and she has gone for “shaped cards”, so we would like to see any cards that are NOT square or rectangles.  Don’t forget to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Letraset products (i.e. pro, flex, aqua, tria or metallic markers) and follow this week’s theme. 

Our generous sponsor this week is DigiStamp Boutique and Sally-Ann is offering one lucky winner a prize of 6 digi images of their choice from her gorgeous range.

The design team have created beautiful shaped cards for your inspiration (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Kim

Lis

Maya

Andie

Anja

 

Donna

Jane B.

card open:

card closed:

Jen

Gorgeous cards, I’m sure you’ll agree.  By the way Donna from Team 2 has done a fab tutorial on colouring skin using her promarkers.  You can check it out on her blog here.

We hope you are able to join in with our challenge this week and we look forward to seeing all your amazing shaped cards. 

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x