Week 445–special anniversary challenge!

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

Good morning dear crafters. We hope you had a wonderful week last week and managed to fit some crafting into your busy schedules.  Thank you for your gorgeous entries to last week’s "gems and/or pearls" challenge.  Linda will certainly have her work cut out for her when she has to pick her top 5 passionista.  Don't forget to check back later to find out who she has chosen and also to see if you are the lucky winner of the 3 digi images courtesy of Ppinkydolls.

Onto this week's theme and we have a very special challenge for you this week as it's our 9th Anniversary. Can you believe it's been 9 years since Gina and myself started our little blog to share our love of all things Letraset/Winsor & Newton?  It only seems like yesterday when we nervously made our first post!  As it's a special challenge we have a really easy theme for you of "birthday creations".  As the title suggests we simply want you to make something for a birthday – simples eh!  We expect to see lots of entries this week but please note we are only accepting a maximum of 3 entries per person for this one challenge only.  To be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Winsor & Newton/Letraset products (i.e. pro, flex, tria, aqua, metallic or neon markers) and of course follow the theme.

As always we have some fantastic prizes up for grabs and our sponsors have been very generous as usual .  Here we go....

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DigiStamp Boutique is offering one lucky winner a prize of a £10.00 voucher

Dies to Die For are offering one lucky winner a £15.00 voucher

Uniko Stamps are offering one lucky winner 1 stamp set (in stock) of their choice

A Day for Daisies are offering one lucky winner a $12.00 voucher

Di’s Digi Stamps are offering one lucky winner a $12.00 voucher

Cowling & Wilcox are offering one lucky winner a 6 pack of Promarkers (vibrant tones)

All Dressed Up stamps are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice

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Wow we told you there were amazing prizes didn’t we?  Definitely lots of reasons to join in the fun this week!! To give you lots of inspiration we have both Team 1 and Team 2 to share their creations (as always please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Elaine

Hazel

Jacky

Julie

Karen

Kitty

Linda

Lisa

Lorraine C. 

Marie

Nat

Nic

Inside view:

Shelly

Sue

Donna

Is still recovering so no card this week.

Stunning cards as always I’m sure you’ll agree.  Please remember for this challenge we will only accept 3 cards/projects per person.  Also just for this one week we will not be choosing a top 5 passionista as we have lots of extra winners, however this will go back to normal next week.  We hope you have a brilliant week and we cannot wait to see what you create.  Good luck!

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x