Week 375–Mega Christmas challenge!

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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 last week’s “eat, drink & be merry” challenge.  Don't forget to check back later to find out who the lucky winner of the stamp set (must be in stock) courtesy of Clearly Besotted stamps will be and also to see who Lisa has chosen as her top 5 Passionista.

Before we announce the details of our biggest challenge of 2016 we would like to let you know who our new DT members will be and who will be joining Team 2 in January 2017.  Please welcome Jacky and Kitty.  Check out their blogs to see their amazing creations.  Thank you to everyone who entered our DT call.

This week we are launching our very special “Mega Christmas challenge” which runs for a whole month and ends on 3rd January 2017!  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 “use your dies/punches”.  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!

Winsor & Newton are offering one lucky winner a Student Designer pack of 24 promarkers

DigiStamp Boutique are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a £10.00 voucher.

Bugaboo stamps are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a $30.00 voucher.

Dies to Die For are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a £25.00 voucher.

Di’s Digi Stamps are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a $12.00 voucher.

A Day for Daisies is generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a $12.00 voucher.

2 Cute Ink are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of 3 digi images.

Clearly Besotted Stamps are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of 1 (in stock) stamp set.

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 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

Donna

Elaine

Karen

Lorraine C.

Nat

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

So to re-cap the challenge will run until 3rd January 2017 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 2017.

We cannot wait to see your creations and look forward to visiting your blogs. We’ll be back on 20th 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 375 - Mega Christmas challenge 2016

1.	Kraftyscot(D)	35.	NanaConnie	69.	Christi C
2.	kbrandy4	36.	Katrina Bufton	70.	ionabunny
3.	N-Eva	37.	N-Eva	71.	Sasha
4.	Crafty Kiwi Mama	38.	crafty	72.	Hanne
5.	Alison B	39.	Papersniffer	73.	Lucy W
6.	Danijela	40.	Loreal Blondi	74.	sharon h
7.	Dora	41.	Lucy W	75.	patty
8.	Dora	42.	Wendy F	76.	Jennifer H.
9.	Marianne	43.	Michelle Lancaster	77.	Kym
10.	Kathyk	44.	Kristina's Art Corner	78.	crafty
11.	Tinz	45.	Andrea Norris	79.	Mirella #2
12.	Kristina's Art Corner	46.	Tinz	80.	julye Bott
13.	jenimc	47.	Doreen	81.	Jane
14.	miranda k	48.	Michelle Lancaster	82.	Andrea Norris
15.	Repolainen	49.	Mirella	83.	Nick
16.	Lucy W	50.	Alison B	84.	kanda #2
17.	Mervi	51.	Mervi	85.	Andrea Norris
18.	Wendy R.	52.	Alison B	86.	Margreet Burger
19.	Teresa	53.	Diane Louise	87.	Tip Top
20.	Pöydän kulmalla näpertelijä	54.	Diane Louise No2	88.	Dora
21.	Kitty	55.	Eemeli	89.	wendy rudd
22.	Saskia Pullen	56.	kbrandy4 3rd entry	90.	Jane's Journal
23.	kbrandy4	57.	ileana artuffo	91.	Dawn E
24.	Kym	58.	Diane W	92.	Kitty
25.	Marianne	59.	kanda	93.	Wendy F
26.	Jessi	60.	N-Eva	94.	kanda #3
27.	Sue Hughes	61.	miranda k 2	95.	Kitty
28.	Kristina's Art Corner	62.	Michelle Lancaster	96.	Jessi
29.	Michelle Lancaster	63.	Marianne	97.	ileana artuffo
30.	crafty	64.	Traci l	98.	ileana artuffo
31.	Helen	65.	Diane Louise No3	99.	Ginny
32.	Papersniffer	66.	Ginny	100.	Marianne
33.	Eemeli	67.	Janette D	101.	Eemeli
34.	ionabunny	68.	NanaConnie

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