Week 228–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 day until the BIG day arrives – we’re hope you are all done and dusted and are now sitting back and relaxing waiting for tomorrow to find out what Santa has brought you – you’ve all been good girls and boys right? 

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 a sentiment” and don’t forget you still have until 7th January 2014 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 one lucky a winner a pack of their Autumn/Winter promarkers Ltd Edition set!

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

Bugaboo stamps are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of 10 digis of their choice.

Polkadoodles is offering one lucky winner a prize of a copy of their Bonbon Belles Double CD collection.

Clearly Besotted Stamps is offering one lucky winner 1 stamp set of their choice.

Dies to Die For are offering one lucky winner a £10 voucher to spend in their online store.

Bearly Mine Designs are offering one lucky winner a £10 voucher to spend in their online store.

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):

Eileen

Julie

Lisa

Loopy Lou 

Lou

Marie

Nic

Shelly

We’re sure you’ll agree that their cards are stunning. So to re-cap the challenge will run until 7th January 2014 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 New Year and thank you for all your support that you’ve shown us in 2013.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 227–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again crafters, I’m back to announce the lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “sketch” challenge.  Although there weren’t as many entries as we thought, the ones we did have were amazing and the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your creations.  We’ll be announcing Loopy Lou’s top 5 passionista in a minute but firstly let’s find out who the lucky winner is!

Last week’s challenge was sponsored by Whiff of Joy stamps and the winner will receive 1 stamp of their choice.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 18

Eve

Congratulations Eve.  What a pretty card.  I love the sweet image and your poinsettia is gorgeous.  Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Loopy Lou really enjoyed visiting your blogs and could have chosen you all as her favourites however after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Eve (it’s your lucky week)

Jo

Julie

Netty

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.

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our month long Mega Christmas challenge “include a sentiment” – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 228–Mega Christmas challenge!

** WARNING LONG POST TODAY – YOU MAY WANT TO GRAB A CUPPA AND A BISCUIT **

** IT WILL BE WORTH THE EFFORT WE PROMISE **

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 Loopy Lou’s “sketch” challenge.  Don't forget to check back later to find out who she has chosen as her top 5 passionista and also to see if you are our lucky winner of the 1 stamp from Whiff of Joy stamps.

This week we are launching our very special Mega Christmas challenge which runs for a whole month and ends on January 7th 2014!  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 a sentiment”.  You are welcome to make Christmas cards but as the challenge will still be running after the ‘BIG’ day you can of course make any type of creation as long as it includes a sentiment of some kind.  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 one lucky a winner a pack of their Autumn/Winter promarkers Ltd Edition set!

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

Bugaboo stamps are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of 10 digis of their choice.

Polkadoodles is offering one lucky winner a prize of a copy of their Bonbon Belles Double CD collection.

Clearly Besotted Stamps is offering one lucky winner 1 stamp set of their choice.

Dies to Die For are offering one lucky winner a £10 voucher to spend in their online store.

Bearly Mine Designs are offering one lucky winner a £10 voucher to spend in their online store.

We told you the prizes were amazing didn’t we!  Definitely lots of good reasons to take part in our special challenge.

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

Anna

Donna

Jane B.

Kelly

Lotta

Sue

Wow we’re sure you’ll agree that their cards are stunning.  So to re-cap the challenge will run until 7th January 2014 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 2014.

We can’t wait to see your creations and look forward to visiting your blogs. We’ll be back on 24th 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 226–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again crafters, I’m back to announce the lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “in the family” challenge.  Although there weren’t that many entries, the ones we did have were amazing and the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your creations.  We’ll be announcing Donna’s top 5 passionista in a minute but firstly let’s find out who the lucky winner is!

Last week’s challenge was sponsored by Michele R Designs @ Whimsy stamps who is offering one lucky winner $10.00 worth of digi papers.  As always, to be fair, we used random.org and he chose:

No. 8

Sylvia

Congratulations Sylvia.  What a fantastic card for your husband.  I love the cute image and the torn map is just perfect.   Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your prize. 

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Donna really enjoyed visiting your blogs and could have chosen you all as her favourites.  After much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Carol

Hazel

Kelly

Kozmik

Sylvia (it 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.

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our current challenge which is a lovely sketch from Loopy Lou – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Challenge 227 - Sketch

Good Morning, I hope this post finds you all well. Denise is off on a girly night out with work so you are left with me again today (Gina)

This weeks challenge is a sketch from Loopy Lou - Team 1.  Don’t forget, as always, to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Letraset products (i.e. promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers, tria markers, metallic markers or neon markers) and of course follow the sketch

Our generous sponsor this week is Whiff of Joy and the prize is one gorgeous stamp of your choice

Here you go this weeks sketch:

The design team as always have worked their magic this week (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Loopy Lou

Lou

Marie

Nic

Shelly

No card this week – Shelly is poorly – sending love x x

Eileen

Julie

Lisa

No card this week - sorry!

We hope you can join in this week sketch challenge, don't forget to come back later tonight to see this weeks top 5 passionista and to see who the winner of last weeks challenge, with the winner receiving $10.00 worth of Michele R Designs digi papers from Whimsy stamps.

Hugs, Gina, Denise and the DT