Week 424–Midway reminder for the 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 “add a sentiment” and don’t forget you still have until 2nd January 2018 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:

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 $21.00 voucher.

Dies to Die For are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a £15.00 voucher.

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

All Dressed Up stamps are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a $12.00 voucher.

Crafty Sentiments designs are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of 3 digi images.

Sasayaki Glitter are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of 1 digi image.

Alicia Bel are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a €10.00 voucher.

Uniko stamps are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of 1 stamp set (must be in stock).

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):

Kitty

Linda

Lorraine C. 

Nat

Donna

No card, still unwell.  We hope 2018 will be better for you Donna x x

Elaine

Jacky

Karen

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

So to re-cap the challenge will run until 2nd January 2018 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 in the brand new year 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 2017.  We appreciate every entry and every comment you leave for us.  Our little challenge blog would be nothing without all of you. 

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 423–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “use your favourite colours” challenge.  It was a popular challenge and it was fantastic to see so many of your lovely entries.  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 moment but firstly let’s find out who our lucky winner is!

For last week’s challenge we were sponsored by Lemon Shortbread who offered one lucky winner 3 digis of their choice from their online store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 7

NannaConnie

Congratulations Connie, such a gorgeous card.  I love the adorable image and colouring is perfect.  Please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com 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 seeing your amazing creations.  She had a really tough decision this week but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Iwona

Krafted Kards

Marlene

Pinky

Sheryl Hare

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.

Unfortunately last week’s winner did not contact us to claim their prize so we have re-drawn another winner.  The prize up for grabs was a £10.00 voucher courtesy of DigiStamp Boutique and using random.org our re-drawn winner is:

No. 16

Marina

Congratulations Marina, such a super cute card.  I love the adorable image and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

We hope you all have some time to enter our month long Mega Christmas challenge and the theme is ‘add a sentiment’ – full details in the post below.  We’ll be back in 2 week’s time with our reminder post and inspiration from Team 2.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 424–Mega Christmas challenge 2017!

*** 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 “use your favourite colours” challenge.  Don't forget to check back later to find out who the lucky winner of 3 digi images courtesy of Lemon Shortbread will be and also to see who Karen has chosen as her top 5 Passionista.

This week we are launching our very special “Mega Christmas challenge” which runs for a whole month and ends on 2nd January 2018!  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 “add a sentiment” which is such a simple theme for you so we expect lots of entries!!  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!

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 $21.00 voucher.

Dies to Die For are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a £15.00 voucher.

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

All Dressed Up stamps are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a $12.00 voucher.

Crafty Sentiments designs are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of 3 digi images.

Sasayaki Glitter are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of 1 digi image.

Alicia Bel are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a €10.00 voucher.

Uniko stamps are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of 1 stamp set (must be in stock).

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):

Marie

Nic

Shelly

No card, still unwell.  Hope 2018 will be better for you Shelly x

Sue

Hazel

Julie

Lisa

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

So to re-cap the challenge will run until 2nd January 2018 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 2018.

We cannot wait to see your creations and look forward to visiting your blogs. We’ll be back on 19th 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

Week 422–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas” challenge.  It was a popular challenge and it was fantastic to see so many of your lovely entries.  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 moment but firstly let’s find out who our lucky winner is!

For last week’s challenge we were sponsored by DigiStamp Boutique who offered one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 1

Lisa J.

Congratulations Lisa, such a gorgeous card.  I love the fun image and colouring is perfect.  Please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com 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 seeing your amazing creations and after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Alison B.

Kristmas Kards

Marianne

Teresa

Wendy Rudd

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 ‘use your favourite colours’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 423–use your favourite colours

Good morning lovely crafters, I hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas’ challenge.  It was a popular challenge and it was lovely to see so many of your wonderful creations.  As always the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your beautiful creations.  Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our lucky winner who will win the £10.00 voucher courtesy of DigiStamp Boutique and we will also find out who Lisa has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista. 

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Karen from Team 2, and she has given us the very easy and lovely theme of ‘use your favourite colours’.   As the title suggests Karen doesn’t mind what you make this week as long as you use your favourite colour schemes.  Obviously we know that this can change from day-to-day so just use your current favourite!  We’re always on the look out for different colour schemes so please can you tell us your favourite colours in your blog post?  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 products you have used on your creation I.e. ‘coloured with promarkers’ etc.  Thanks x x

Our generous sponsor this week is Lemon Shortbread and they are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from their online store.  Their images are so beautiful so why not pop over to their store and check them out. The DT were lucky enough to use images from Lemon Shortbread on their cards this week.

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 and see more views of their amazing makes this week):

Karen

(using Lemon Shortbread image ‘penguin umbrella’)

Kitty

(using Lemon Shortbread image ‘winter snow muff girl’)

Linda

(using Lemon Shortbread image ‘winter snow muff girl’)

Lorraine C. 

(using Lemon Shortbread image ‘winter snow muff girl’)

Nat

(using Lemon Shortbread image ‘swing girl’)

Donna

Still unwell - no card this week.

Elaine

(using Lemon Shortbread image ‘winter snow muff girl’)

Jacky

(using Lemon Shortbread image ‘penguin umbrella’)

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. 

Don’t forget to mark your calendars as next week is the start of our month long Mega Christmas challenge!!  We have lots of amazing sponsors offering fantastic prizes so you don’t want to miss out.  Until then enjoy this week’s challenge.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x