Week 375–midway reminder for Mega Christmas challenge!

Good morning crafters.  Wow where did the last two weeks disappear to?  We cannot believe it’s less than a week 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 “use your dies and/or punches” and don’t forget you still have until 3rd January 2017 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:

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

In the last post two 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):

Ali

Eileen

Hazel

Julie

Lisa

Marie

(she got very excited and made 2 cards!)

Nic

Shelly

Still poorly - no card.

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.  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 2016.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 374–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “eat, drink and be merry” challenge.  It was lovely to see all your beautiful entries and as always 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 our lucky winner is!

For last week’s challenge we were sponsored by Clearly Besotted Stamps who offered one lucky winner 1 stamp set of their choice (which must be in stock).  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 6

Alison B.

Congratulations Alison, your tag looks super cute.  The image is coloured perfectly and Jasper looks like he is really enjoying that Christmas pudding!  Please email us 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:

Danijela

Diane Louise

Jenimc

Lucy Woods

Teresa

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 couple of weeks and find some time to enter our brand new month long Mega Christmas challenge and the theme is a very simple ‘use your dies and/or punches’ – full details in the post below.  Don’t forget to come back in 2 weeks time for part 2 of our challenge when we will be showcasing the beautiful creations from Team 1. 

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 375–Mega Christmas challenge!

*** 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 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

Week 373–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “3 favourite colours” challenge.  It was lovely to see all your beautiful entries and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  We’ll be announcing Karen’s top 5 passionista in a minute but firstly let’s find out who our lucky winner is!

For last week’s challenge we were sponsored by Winsor & Newton who offered one lucky winner a 12 pack of Letraset promarkers (neutral tones).  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 7

Kristina’s Art Corner

Congratulations Kristina, your card is gorgeous.  The image is coloured perfectly and your background looks amazing.  Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Karen 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:

Kbrandy4

Kitty

Kristina’s Art Corner (must be your lucky week!)

Nick

Zeljka Grizic

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 brand new challenge ‘eat, drink & be merry!’ – full details in the post below.

We’ll be announcing our new DT members very soon, thanks to everyone that entered.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 374–Eat, drink & be merry!

Good morning dear crafters, I hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for all your entries for last week’s ‘3 favourite colours’ challenge.  As always it was lovely to see your wonderful entries and the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs.  Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our lucky winner who will receive the Winsor & Newton 12 pack of Promarkers (neutral tones) and we will also be finding out who Karen has chosen as her top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Lisa from Team 1, and she has given us the fantastic theme of ‘eat drink & be merry’.  Lisa would simply like you to make a creation that includes some form of food or drink on it.  Lisa would love to see all your Christmas creations but it doesn’t have to be Christmas themed, you can create anything you like for any occasion as long as there is some food and/or drink on it.  Remember you can enter using any type of creation, it doesn’t have to be a card.  As always to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Winsor & Newton (formerly Letraset) products (promarkers, flex markers, tria markers, aqua markers or metallic markers) and of course follow the theme.  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

Our generous sponsor this week is Clearly Besotted Stamps and they are offering one lucky winner 1 stamp set of their choice (which must be in stock) from their online store.  I know the store is currently closed but Jenny will very kindly send the chosen stamp set out straight away!  They have so many gorgeous stamps to choose from you will be spoilt for choice!

The design team have worked their magic once again this week and have created beautiful cards to inspire you (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Lisa

Marie

Nic

Shelly

No card, Shelly is still poorly.

Ali

Eileen

Hazel

Julie

No card this week, Julie is galavanting in France!

Another week of wonderful inspiration from the DT!! We hope you can join in with our challenge this week and we look forward to seeing what you create.

This is the last week before our month long Mega Christmas challenge begins on 6th December, how exciting.  We have lots of amazing sponsors which means lots of fantastic prizes up for grabs. 

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x