Week 621 – 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 a few more sleeps 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 4th January 2022 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 £20.00 gift voucher

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

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

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 3 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):

Julie

Lisa M.

Lorraine C. 

Marie

Marlene

Sue

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

So to re-cap the challenge will run until 4th January 2022 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 2021.  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 and make 2022 an even better year.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 620–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 so lovely to see all your fabulous entries and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  I’ll be announcing Julie’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 £15.00 voucher to spend in their online store.   As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 16

Helen

Congratulations Helen, your card is so cute.  Your image is adorable and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com and we will get your voucher code off to you.  We hope you will proudly display our winners badge on your blog:

Now onto the Top 5 Passionista and Julie had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  It was a really tough decision, especially with so many entries, but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Ileana

Ine Creaine

Lynne

Sarah R.

Sheryl Hare

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.

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to join in with our special month long Mega Christmas challenge ‘anything goes’ - full details in the post below.  Don’t forget we won’t be posting next week but will be back for our midway reminder post on 21st December so until then stay safe, stay warm and keep on crafting. 

Lots of love,

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 621–Mega Christmas challenge–anything goes

*** 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 all you fabulous creations for our “Christmas critters” challenge.  Don't forget to check back later to find out who the lucky winner of the £15.00 voucher courtesy of Clearly Besotted stamps will be and also to see who Julie 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 4th January 2022!  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 “anything goes”.  We don't mind what you create for this challenge, as long as you colour with your markers!  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 markers such as Promarkers, Copics, Spectrum Noir, Karin, Zig Clean Color etc

So now for the exciting bit – the prizes!

Dies to Die For are offering 1 lucky winner a £20.00 gift voucher

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

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

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 3 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):

Elaine

Karen

Kitty

Linda

Lisa G.

Nat

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

So to re-cap the challenge will run until 4th January 2022 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 2022.

We cannot wait to see your creations and look forward to visiting your blogs. We’ll be back on 21st 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 619–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘happy & thankful’ challenge.  It was so lovely to see your fabulous entries and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  I’ll be announcing Linda’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 The Paper Shelter and they offered one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from their online store.   As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 16

Sarah R.

Congratulations Sarah, your card is so cute.  The image is adorable and your colouring is perfect.  We loved reading what you were happy & thankful for.  Please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.  Here is your winners badge for you to display on your blog:

Now onto the Top 5 Passionista and Linda had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  It was such a difficult decision but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Irene de Mars

Jenimc

Laurie A.

NanaConnie

Sarah R. (must be your lucky week!)

Congratulations everyone, you can now proudly display the brand new 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 ‘Christmas critters’ - full details in the post below.

Lots of love,

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 620–Christmas critters

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you had a great week last week.  Thank you for your gorgeous entries for our ‘happy & thankful’ challenge.  It was so lovely to have you join us and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  Don’t forget to pop back later to find out who won the 3 digi images courtesy of The Paper Shelter and also to see who Linda has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Julie from Team 1, and she has given us the theme of ‘Christmas critters’.  Julie knows most of you are well into your Christmas production by now but I’m sure there are some of you (like me) who haven’t even started yet so hopefully this week’s challenge will help you kickstart your creativity.  Julie doesn’t mind what you make this week as long as it’s a Christmas creation.  There are so many lovely images around for the Christmas period so we cannot wait to see all your gorgeous entries.  Don’t forget you can enter any type of creation it doesn’t have to be a card.  The only rule we have is use your markers and have fun!

Our generous sponsor this week is Clearly Besotted Stamps and they are offering one lucky winner a £15.00 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):

Julie

Lisa M.

Lorraine C. 

Marie

Marlene

Sue

No card this week. 

Another great 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.  If you haven’t already, don’t forget to grab our logo from the sidebar for your own blogs.

This is the last challenge before our month long Mega Christmas challenge begins.  You don’t want to miss it as we have lots of amazing prizes up for grabs.

Stay safe and sending our love to you all.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x