Week 473–midway reminder for Mega Christmas challenge!

Good morning crafters.  Wow where did the last two weeks disappear to?  We cannot believe it’s only 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 “hip to be square” and don’t forget you still have until 1st January 2019 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:

Uniko Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 1 stamp set (must be in stock)

Di's Digi Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner a $12.00 gift voucher

Dr Digi's House of Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images

Lacy Sunshine are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

Cowling & Wilcox are offering 1 lucky winner a 6 pack of promarkers (metallic) & a 3 pack of neon markers

The Paper Shelter are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

A Day For Daisies are offering 1 lucky winner a $12.00 gift voucher

Dies to Die For are offering 1 lucky winner a £15.00 gift voucher

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):

Julie

Lisa (frame unlit)

(frame lit)

Marie

Nic

Shelly

Sue

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

So to re-cap the challenge will run until 1st January 2019 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 the love and support that you’ve shown us in 2018.  Without you and all of our generous sponsors our little blog would not be the success it is and still going strong after all these years.  We hope you will all continue to support us in the new year.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 472–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “sparkle and shine” 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 Shelly’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 Leann’s World 101 who offered one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 12

Pat Tatum (email entry)

Congratulations , Pat your card is super cute.  The image is coloured perfectly and your shimmery Christmas tree is gorgeous.  Please email us and with your choice of 2 digi images we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Shelly 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:

Ileana Artuffo

Kraftyscot (Donna)

Michelle Lancaster

Miranda K.

Pat Tatum (email entry) – must be your lucky week!

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 ‘hip to be square’ – 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 473–Mega Christmas challenge

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 our “sparkle and shine” challenge.  Don't forget to check back later to find out who the lucky winner of the 2 digi images courtesy of Leann’s World 101 will be and also to see who Shelly 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 1st January 2019!  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 very simple theme for the Mega Christmas challenge is “hip to be square”.  We would like to see your square cards/creations for this challenge.  You are welcome to make Christmas creations 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!

Uniko Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 1 stamp set (must be in stock)

Di's Digi Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner a $12.00 gift voucher

Dr Digi's House of Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images

Lacy Sunshine are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

Cowling & Wilcox are offering 1 lucky winner a 6 pack of promarkers (metallic) & a 3 pack of neon markers

The Paper Shelter are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

A Day For Daisies are offering 1 lucky winner a $12.00 gift voucher

Dies to Die For are offering 1 lucky winner a £15.00 gift voucher

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):

Elaine

Jacky

Karen

Kitty

Linda

Lorraine C. 

Nat

Donna

No card, still recuperating.

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

So to re-cap the challenge will run until 1st January 2019 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 2019.

We cannot wait to see your creations and look forward to visiting your blogs. We’ll be back on 18th 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 471–Winners & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our 2 lucky winners and top 5 passionista for last week’s “use 3 of something” challenge.  It was fantastic to see so many of your lovely entries, and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  We’ll be announcing Jacky’s top 5 passionista in a moment but firstly let’s find out who our 2 lucky winners are!

For last week’s challenge we were lucky enough to have 2 generous sponsors.  Firstly we had Uniko stamps who offered one lucky winner 1 stamp set of their choice (which must be in stock) from their online store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 16

Glennis

Congratulations Glennis, your card is so much fun.  I love your fab image and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com with your full address and choice of stamp set from Uniko Stamps and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Our second sponsor was Cowling & Wilcox who offered 1 lucky winner a 6 pack of promarkers (mid tones) and again using random.org the lucky winner is:

No. 1

ValeryAnne

Congratulations ValeryAnne, your card is beautiful.  I love your image and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com with your postal address and we will arrange for you to receive your promarkers.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Jacky had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing all your amazing creations.  It was a really tough decision but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Alison B.

Kanda

Pat Tatum (email entry)

Pöydän kulmalla näpertelijä

ValeryAnne (must be your lucky week)!

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 at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com.

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our current challenge ‘sparkle and shine’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 472–sparkle and shine

Good morning lovely crafters, I hope you all had a fantastic week last week. Thank you for your gorgeous entries for last week’s ‘use 3 of something’ challenge; as always it was lovely to see your wonderful creations and the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs. Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our 2 lucky winners; one of whom will receive the 1 stamp set (which must be in stock) courtesy of Uniko Stamps and one of whom will receive the 6 pack of promarkers (mid tones) courtesy of Cowling & Wilcox. We will also be finding out who Jacky has chosen as her top 5 passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Shelly from Team 1 and she has given you the lovely theme of ‘sparkle and shine’ to inspire you this week.  Shelly would like you to include something sparkly or shiny on your creations this week i.e. glitter paper/card, stickles, sequins, gems.  Such a lovely theme; we hope you like it!  Remember you can enter using any type of creation but 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). 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 Leann’s World 101 and they are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their online store.  Their images are so cute so why not pop over to the store and check them out.  Some of the DT were lucky enough to use images from Leann’s World 101 on their creations 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):

Shelly

(using Leann’s World 101 image ‘rockin Rita’)

Sue

(using Leann’s World 101 image ‘fun with stockings’)

Julie

(using Leann’s World 101 image ‘fun with stockings’)

Lisa

(using Leann’s World 101 image ‘fun with stockings’)

Marie

Not very well this week so no card.

Nic

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.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x