Week 326–midway reminder for Mega Christmas challenge!

Good morning crafters.  Wow where did the last two weeks disappear to?  We cannot believe it’s only 3 days until the BIG day arrives – we’re hope you are all done and dusted and are now sitting back and relaxing waiting 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 “let’s celebrate” and don’t forget you still have until 5th January 2015 to enter our challenge, although there is a maximum of 3 entries per person.

Before we show you the wonderful creations by Team 2 here is a quick reminder of the prizes up for grabs:

Letraset are generously offering one lucky winner a super bundle of goodies which includes:

2 x packs of Winsor & Newton Promarkers, 1 A4 bleedproof marker pad, 1 A4 pack of Safmat and 1 pack of transfers.

DigiStamp Boutique are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a £10.00 voucher to spend in her store.

Bugaboo stamps are generously offering one lucky winner a $30.00 voucher to spend in their store.

Polkadoodles is offering one lucky winner 2 gorgeous digis called ‘Serenity Blossom’ and ‘Octavia Thinking’.

Michele R Designs are offering one lucky winner a €10.00 voucher to spend in her store.

Little Claire Designs are offering one lucky winner 3 digis of their choice from their online store.

Crafty Sentiments Designs is offering one lucky winner 3 digis of their choice from their online store.

Sassy Studio Designs are offering one lucky winner a $20.00 gift certificate to spend in their online store.

The Ribbon Girl is offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

WOW amazing prizes – we’re sure you’ll agree!
In the last post two week’s ago we shared team 1’s beautiful creations so this time we are going to share the gorgeous creations from Team 2 (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Donna

Huny (GDT)

As it was her last challenge with us Huny pulled out all the stops and made 3 cards!

Kelly

Lorraine B.

Lorraine C.

Lotta

Nat

Sue

We’re sure you’ll agree that their cards are stunning. So to re-cap the challenge will run until 5th January 2015 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 2015.
Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Challenge 325–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “Christmas tree” challenge.  It was so lovely to see your beautiful entries last week and the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  We’ll be announcing Lorraine B.’s top 5 passionista in a minute but firstly let’s find out who the lucky winner is!

For last week’s challenge we were sponsored by A Day for Daisies and they offered one lucky winner a $12.00 gift voucher to spend in their online store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 12

Julie

Congratulations Julie.  Such a cute card and your image and papers are gorgeous.  Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Lorraine B. had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and she could have chosen you all as her passionista!!  However after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Annie

Ileana

Julie (it’s your lucky week!)

Loreal Blondi

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.

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

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 326–Mega Christmas Challenge 2015!

*** WARNING – LONG POST ***

Grab a cuppa and a biscuit (or two) and make yourself comfortable!

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 Lorraine B.’s “Christmas tree” challenge.  Don't forget to check back later to find out who Lorraine B. has chosen as her top 5 passionista and also to see if you are our lucky winner of the $12.00 voucher courtesy of A Day For Daisies.

This week we are launching our very special “Mega Christmas challenge” which runs for a whole month and ends on 5th January 2016!  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 “let’s celebrate”.  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 you follow the theme.  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.  Please can you help us by stating which Letraset products you have used on your creation i.e. ‘coloured with promarkers’ etc.  Thanks x x

So now for the exciting bit – the prizes!

Letraset are generously offering one lucky winner a super bundle of goodies which includes:

2 x packs of Winsor & Newton Promarkers, 1 A4 bleedproof marker pad, 1 A4 pack of Safmat and 1 pack of transfers.

DigiStamp Boutique are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a £10.00 voucher to spend in her store.

Bugaboo stamps are generously offering one lucky winner a $30.00 voucher to spend in their store.

Polkadoodles is offering one lucky winner 2 gorgeous digis called ‘Serenity Blossom’ and ‘Octavia Thinking’.

Michele R Designs are offering one lucky winner a €10.00 voucher to spend in her store.

Little Claire Designs are offering one lucky winner 3 digis of their choice from their online store.

Crafty Sentiments Designs is offering one lucky winner 3 digis of their choice from their online store.
 

Sassy Studio Designs are offering one lucky winner a $20.00 gift certificate to spend in their online store.

The Ribbon Girl is offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

Wow we are sure you’ll agree our sponsors have been super generous once again this year!

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 1 today and then in two week’s time we will be posting inspiration from Team 2. So here are the gorgeous cards from team 1 (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Anna

Sorry no card for this challenge x  

Eileen

 

Eileen was super excited and made 2 cards!

Julie

 

Lisa

Lucy

 

Marie

 

Nic

 

Shelly

 

Wow we’re sure you’ll agree that their cards are stunning. 

So to re-cap the challenge will run until 5th January 2016 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 2016.

We cannot wait to see your creations and look forward to visiting your blogs. We’ll be back on 22nd December to share Team 2’s gorgeous selection of cards, so don’t forget to stop by for more wonderful inspiration.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Challenge 326 - 'Mega Christmas challenge'
Theme - let's celebrate!

1.	Michelle Lancaster	45.	Iwona	89.	Dora
2.	Cathy(Kraftykoolkat)	46.	Karen Davies	90.	Jane's Journal
3.	Kym	47.	N-Eva	91.	Norma
4.	Rita V	48.	Rita V	92.	crafty
5.	Janice	49.	Irene M	93.	Kari
6.	Tip Top	50.	Katarina	94.	Tinz
7.	Sharon	51.	Jo	95.	Bettina
8.	N-Eva	52.	*Kitty	96.	crafty
9.	aNNie ♥	53.	chanelle	97.	kanda
10.	pinky	54.	Pöydän kulmalla näpertelijä	98.	Renata
11.	jackie cornfield	55.	jackie cornfield	99.	NanaConnie
12.	ali.b.	56.	Jessi	100.	Cazzy
13.	Wendy.F	57.	Saskia Pullen	101.	Cazzy
14.	AnyOldCraft	58.	Andrea Norris	102.	Cazzy
15.	Jo	59.	Mervi	103.	Crafty Kiwi Mama
16.	Lynda C	60.	meg	104.	doudou2106
17.	Jessi	61.	Papersniffer	105.	Eemeli
18.	Nick	62.	Wendy.F	106.	Andrea Norris
19.	Crafty Kiwi Mama	63.	gail K	107.	Eemeli
20.	Angel 007	64.	Repolainen	108.	AUNTY SUE
21.	jackie cornfield	65.	Lisbeth	109.	Glittertastic
22.	Irene M	66.	crafty	110.	Nicky
23.	AUNTY SUE	67.	Alison B	111.	Nicky 2nd Entry
24.	Kym	68.	NanaConnie	112.	Nicky 3rd Entry
25.	Sharon	69.	Ruby	113.	Kraftyscot (Donna)
26.	Pia	70.	Andrea Norris	114.	Lilibet
27.	Ileana A,	71.	Marianne	115.	Lilibet
28.	Norma	72.	Crafty Kiwi Mama	116.	kanda
29.	Lau W	73.	Irene M	117.	carol gill
30.	Jayne	74.	*Kitty	118.	Marianne
31.	Teresa	75.	Jessi	119.	Dora
32.	Hazel (Didos)	76.	vic	120.	Wendy.F
33.	Helen	77.	Alison B	121.	meg
34.	NanaConnie	78.	NanaConnie	122.	Vixykins
35.	Iwona	79.	Jo	123.	Grá O'Neill
36.	Katrina Bufton	80.	Lau W	124.	Rachel
37.	N-Eva	81.	doudou2106	125.	MARLENE
38.	Rita V	82.	Iwona	126.	Andrea Norris
39.	MARLENE	83.	jenimc 2	127.	crafty
40.	Mirella DK	84.	Loreal Blondi	128.	Ruby 2nd
41.	pinky	85.	AUNTY SUE	129.	Grá O'Neill
42.	jenimc	86.	Jane	130.	Helen
43.	Sarah-J W	87.	Suzi McKenzie	131.	Dawn E
44.	kanda	88.	Mervi

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Week 324–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “Christmas is coming” challenge.  It was so lovely to see so many beautiful entries last week and the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  We’ll be announcing Lisa’s top 5 passionista in a minute but firstly let’s find out who the lucky winner is!

For last week’s challenge we were sponsored by Letraset who offered one lucky winner a 12 pack of Limited Edition Autumn/Winter (2013) Promarkers.  Such a brilliant prize, especially if you missed them first time around!  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 29

Helen

Congratulations Helen.  Such a cute card and your image and papers are gorgeous.  Please email us your postal details and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Lisa had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and she could have chosen you all as her passionista!!  However after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Anita

Bettina

Jane

Rita

Sasha

(she made a beautiful box – visit her blog for more photos)

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 this week’s ‘Christmas tree’ challenge – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x