Tuesday 24 December 2019

Week 523–Midway reminder for the Mega Christmas challenge!

Good morning crafters.  Wow where did the last two weeks disappear to?  We cannot believe it’s only one more sleep until the BIG day arrives – we’re sure you are all 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 “anything goes” and don’t forget you still have until 7th January 2020 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:

Dies to Die For are offering 1 lucky winner a £15.00 gift voucher
Dies to Die For logo
Uniko Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 1 stamp set (must be in stock)
UnikoLogo
Di's Digi Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner a $6.00 gift voucher
Di's Digital Stamps
Dr Digi's House of Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images
Dr Digi's House of Stamps
Leann’s World 101 are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images
Crafty Sentiments Designs are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images
Colour of Love digis are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images
All Dressed Up stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images
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):
Sue

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

So to re-cap the challenge will run until 7th January 2020 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 2019.  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

Tuesday 10 December 2019

Week 522–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘Christmas critters’ challenge. It was lovely to see all your entries and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  I’ll be announcing Shelly’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 Clearly Besotted Stamps and they offered one lucky winner a £20.00 voucher to spend in their online store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:
No. 11
Congratulations Sarah, your CAS card is so cute.  I love your adorable Christmas critter and your 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 Shelly had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  She loved all your creations and it was a really tough decision but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Congratulations everyone, 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.

Top 5 Passionista Blinkie

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our biggest challenge of the year – our Mega Christmas challenge – the theme is a super easy ‘anything goes’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 523–Mega Christmas challenge 2019!

*** 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 our “Christmas critters” challenge.  Don't forget to check back later to find out who the lucky winner of the £20.00 voucher courtesy of Clearly Besotted stamps 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 7th January 2020!  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 “anything goes”.  We would like to see absolutely anything for this challenge, no restrictions apart from the obvious one of course!  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 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!
Dies to Die For are offering 1 lucky winner a £15.00 gift voucher
Dies to Die For logo
Uniko Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 1 stamp set (must be in stock)
UnikoLogo
Di's Digi Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner a $6.00 gift voucher
Di's Digital Stamps
Dr Digi's House of Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images
Dr Digi's House of Stamps
Leann’s World 101 are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images
Crafty Sentiments Designs are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images
Colour of Love digis are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images
All Dressed Up stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images
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):

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

So to re-cap the challenge will run until 7th January 2020 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 2020.

We cannot wait to see your creations and look forward to visiting your blogs. We’ll be back on 24th 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

Tuesday 3 December 2019

Week 521–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘3 or more layers’ challenge. It was lovely to see all your entries and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  I’ll be announcing Kitty’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 A Day for Daisies and they offered one lucky winner a $12.00 voucher to spend in their online store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:
No. 18
Congratulations Connie, your z shaped card is gorgeous.  I love your image and your 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 Kitty had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  She loved all your creations and it was a really tough decision but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

NanaConnie (must be your lucky week)!

Congratulations everyone, 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.
Top 5 Passionista Blinkie
We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our current challenge ‘Christmas critters’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 522–Christmas critters

Good morning lovely crafters, I hope you all had a fantastic week last week. Thank you for all your gorgeous entries for last week’s ‘3 or more layers’ 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 the lucky winner of the $12 voucher courtesy of A Day for Daisies and we will also be finding out who Kitty has chosen as her top 5 passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Shelly from Team 1, and she has given us a theme of ‘Christmas critters’. As the run up to Christmas is now in full swing and most of us are scrabbling to complete all our cards Shelly has given you all a very easy theme this week, she would just like you to include any Christmas critter on your creations.  We can’t wait to see what you make.  Remember you can enter using any type of creation, it doesn’t have to be a card 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 Clearly Besotted Stamps and they are offering one lucky winner a £20.00 voucher to spend in their online store. 
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):
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