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 for Lou’s “distressing” challenge.  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 our lucky winner of the prize from Pink Gem Designs.

This week we are launching our very special Mega Christmas challenge which runs for a whole month and ends on January 1st 2013.  I’m sure you’ll agree that both design teams have worked extremely hard once again this year and they deserve a little break to catch up on their last minute gifts and cards.  However to make up for the lack of challenges we have some fantastic prizes up for grabs.

Our theme for the Mega Christmas challenge is a nice easy one “include the word HAPPY in your sentiment”, so basically we want to see your creations for any type of occasion that include the word “happy”, i.e. happy Christmas, happy birthday, happy anniversary etc.  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 for this month long challenge.  Please remember to be eligible for our prizes you must use your promarkers, flex markers, tria markers, metallic or aqua markers.

So now for the exciting bit – the prizes!

Letraset are generously offering 3 x Season’s Gift Sets – so that means 3 winners!

Joanna Sheen is generously offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online store.

DigiStamp Boutique are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a £10 voucher to spend in her store.

Bugaboo stamps are generously offering a prize of 7 digis (which we are going to split into 2 prizes)

Michele R Designs are offering one lucky winner a prize of $15.00 worth of digi papers, which are available at Whimsy Designs. 

and a brand new sponsor for us – Clearly Besotted Stamps are generously offering a prize of 1 stamp set of the winner’s choice.

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 (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Andie

Anja

Eileen

Jane B.

(using DSB image ‘Mistletoe Jasper’)

Jen

Kim

Nat

(using DSB image ‘skating Hattie’)

Pinky

(using DSB image ‘Felicity’)

Wow we’re sure you’ll agree that their cards are stunning.  So to re-cap the challenge will run until 1st January 2013 and you can enter a maximum of 3 times.  Unfortunately during the Mega Christmas challenge we will not be choosing a top 5 passionista but this will re-commence for the first challenge in 2013.

We can’t wait to see your creations and look forward to visiting your blogs. We’ll be back on 18th December 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

Challenge 178 - include the word 'happy' in your sentiment

1.	jane middleton	41.	Bernice	81.	Elaine
2.	Lynne in NI	42.	Kerry Louise	82.	Kelly Lloyd
3.	Cathy	43.	SarahR	83.	Sue bearhouse
4.	Donemark	44.	Janice	84.	Kelly Lloyd
5.	Helen	45.	Cathy	85.	Elaine
6.	Jenny	46.	laney	86.	Sarah S-W
7.	Ruby	47.	Bridie Payne	87.	kanda
8.	Dora	48.	nnalorac	88.	Pöydän kulmalla näpertelijä
9.	Dora	49.	Sheryl B	89.	Kat W
10.	Fiona L	50.	Lorraine B	90.	louise
11.	Marianne's Craftroom	51.	carol gill	91.	Dawn Lancaster
12.	Jenni	52.	Marianne's Craftroom	92.	Connie
13.	Caroline E	53.	KateT	93.	rachel fisher
14.	vanessa(nessy)	54.	Tracey Boley	94.	Marianne's Craftroom
15.	Clare	55.	Dawn Lancaster	95.	Helen
16.	Pauline C	56.	HelenR	96.	Kym's Crafty Cards
17.	Sarah S-W	57.	Lynne in NI	97.	Kym's Crafty Cards
18.	Nicky	58.	Lindsay	98.	Made By Mandy
19.	Tanya OD	59.	Tracy	99.	sazzle
20.	Ginny ♥	60.	kanda	100.	Helen
21.	Kaija	61.	Fiona L	101.	Sylv
22.	Tanya OD	62.	Vicky p-r	102.	Jobey
23.	Dora	63.	Sue bearhouse	103.	Ruby 2nd
24.	Jo L	64.	DAISYCHAIN	104.	Mags
25.	kbrandy4	65.	Lynne in NI	105.	Bettina
26.	sylvia	66.	Fiona L	106.	louise
27.	Scatty Jan	67.	Glennis F	107.	Sharon
28.	rachel fisher	68.	Wendy L	108.	DLR
29.	kbrandy4 2nd entry	69.	Cards by MI	109.	Sharon
30.	Sammibug	70.	ribbon dreams	110.	Made By Mandy
31.	Tricia	71.	Lorraine B ( 2nd entry)	111.	Isabelle
32.	Wendy L	72.	Scatty Jan	112.	Lilibet
33.	Sharon	73.	Tanya OD	113.	Lilibet
34.	carol gill	74.	Vicky PP	114.	Lilibet
35.	lindyloo	75.	Mags	115.	Grá
36.	MARLENE	76.	Kym's Crafty Cards	116.	Tissaia de Vriess
37.	Norma	77.	Scrappymax	117.	Tissaia de Vriess
38.	Doreen	78.	Connie	118.	Tissaia de Vriess
39.	nnalorac	79.	Janice	119.	Lexie
40.	Sue N	80.	Elaine

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