Week 178–midway reminder for the Mega Christmas challenge

Good morning crafters.  Wow where did the last two weeks disappear to?  We cannot believe it’s only 1 week 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 entries so far.  The theme is “include the word HAPPY in your sentiment” and don’t forget you still have until 1st January 2013 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 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 6 digi images of their choice from 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. 

Clearly Besotted Stamps are generously offering a prize of 1 stamp set of winner’s choice.

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

In the last post 2 week’s ago we shared team 2’s beautiful creations so this time we are going to share the gorgeous creations from Team 1 (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Edna

Heidi

Jane M.

Julie

Lou

Nic

Shelly

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.  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 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 2013 and thank you for all your support that you’ve shown us in 2012.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 177–Winner and Top 5 Passionista

Hello again crafters.  I hope you’ve gotten over the excitement of our Mega Christmas challenge which we launched earlier?  If you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, we urge you to pop to the post below as it is definitely worth your while as we have so many fantastic prizes up for grabs. 

We are back to announce the lucky winner of last week’s “distressing” challenge and it was wonderful to see so many gorgeous entries.  The winner will receive 4 digi images of their choice from Pink Gem Designs and as always, to be fair, we used random.org and he chose:

No. 31

Wendy

Congratulations Wendy .  I love your vintage style and your colouring is fab.  Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.  Our original prize winner Cara asked us to re-draw a winner as she is on the Pink Gem DT.  How generous of her!

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Lou had a fantastic time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations and she had such a difficult decision to make.  However after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Claire

Lindsay

Lotta

Louise Palser

Sue

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.  Don’t forget our current challenge lasts for 1 month and will end on January 1st 2013.  However we will be back in 2 week’s time with more inspiration for you.  Check out all the details in the post below. 

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

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

Week 176–Winner and Top 5 Passionista

Hello again crafters.  We’re back to announce the lucky winner of last week’s “colouring on kraft” challenge and also to announce who Jen has chosen as her top 5 passionista.  Even though it was a difficult challenge and we only had 19 entries the DT were delighted to see so many of you trying the technique for the first time and doing a fantastic job of it too.  Your colouring was amazing. 

Firstly we are going to announce the lucky winner who will receive a £10.00 voucher courtesy of Joanna Sheen.  As always, to be fair, we used random.org and he chose:

No. 2

Jo

Congratulations Jo, your card is stunning and your colouring is awesome, I love your really deep, rich colours and lovely ribbon.  Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Jen had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your creations and she told me that even though there were not that many entries it didn’t make her job any easier as you all overcame the challenge so fantastically.  After much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Cathy

Christina

Connie

Kat

Sue

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.

Have a wonderful week.  Don’t forget to check out our current challenge “distressing” – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 177–Theme

Good morning dear crafters.  I hope you all had a brilliant week last week.  I’m sorry if you’re still feeling the effects of the stormy, wet weather some of the country has experienced and I trust that if you suffered any flooding or damage that it all gets resolved very soon.  I know I always moan about the bad weather in South Wales but thankfully as we’re so hilly we don’t get flooded in my little part very often.  Sending hugs to you all. 

Before we announce the brand new challenge I would like to say a big thank you and also well done to all the participants of last week’s “colouring on kraft” challenge.  I know that for most of you it was the first time that you had attempted to colour on kraft card but I have to say that your colouring was amazing and we would never have known it was your first time unless you had told us so in your post.  You all deserve a big pat on the back!  Don’t forget to check back later to find out who Jen has chosen as her top 5 passionista and to find out who will be the lucky winner of the £10.00 gift voucher courtesy of Joanna Sheen. 

Now onto this week’s challenge and hopefully this will be a little more in your comfort zone.  It’s the turn of Lou from Team 1 to set the theme and she has chosen “distressing”, so let’s see those roughed up edges, inked edges or torn papers from you this week.  Don’t forget to be eligible for the prize draw you must use your Letraset products (i.e. pro, flex, aqua, tria, metallic or neon markers) and of course follow the theme. 

Our generous sponsor this week is Pink Gem Designs and Janet is offering one lucky winner a prize of 4 digi images of their choice from her lovely store. 

The design team have worked their magic once again this week and created gorgeous cards for your inspiration.  They were also lucky enough to be given an image from Pink Gem Designs to use on their cards.  (Please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Lou

(using "baby’s 1st Christmas”)

Nic

(using “jolly robins”)

Edna

(using “Ginger with garland”)

Heidi

(using “Jodie with gift”)

Jane M.

(using “angel Jodie”)

Julie

(using “Ginger with garland”)

Stunning cards from the girls once again, I’m sure you’ll agree.  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