Week 670–midway reminder for Mega Christmas challenge

Good morning crafters.  Wow where did the last two weeks disappear to?  We cannot believe it’s only 5 days until the BIG day – we’re sure you are all super organised and are now sitting back and relaxing waiting for the day to arrive (if you’re anything like me you are running around like a headless chicken lol!).

Well we are now half way through our Mega Christmas challenge and we have to say we are stunned by all your gorgeous cards.  The theme is “use die cuts” and don’t forget you still have until 3rd January 2023 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:

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)

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

Polkadoodles are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

Di’s Digi Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner a $6.00 voucher

Sheepski Designs are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

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):

Elaine

Karen

Kitty

Linda

Lisa G.

Card to follow!

Nat

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

So to re-cap the challenge will run until 3rd 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 2022.  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 2023 an even better year.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT xx

Week 669–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends.  We’re back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘anything other than Christmas’ challenge.  We had some really lovely 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 Dr Digi’s House of Stamps and they offered one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice.   As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 12

Irene M.

Congratulations Irene, your card is gorgeous.  Your image is adorable and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us your choice of images to promarkerchallenge@gmx.com and we will arrange for them to be sent to you.  We hope you will proudly display our winners badge 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 a really tough decision but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Chrissyxx

Ileana

Jenimc

Margreet

Rachael

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 month long Mega Christmas challenge – ‘use die cuts’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 670–Mega Christmas challenge–use die cuts

*** 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 “anything other than Christmas” challenge.  Don't forget to check back later to find out who the lucky winner of the 2 digi images courtesy of Dr Digi’s House of Stamps will be and also to see who Linda 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 3rd January 2023!  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 “use die cuts”.  We don't mind what you create for this challenge, as long as you use some die cuts and 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)

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

Polkadoodles are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

Di’s Digi Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner a $6.00 voucher

Sheepski Designs are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

Wow we are sure you’ll agree our sponsors have been super generous once again this year!  We are so grateful to have their continued support. 

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):

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 3rd January 2023 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 2023.

We cannot wait to see your creations and look forward to visiting your blogs. We’ll be back on 20th December to share Team 2’s gorgeous selection of cards, so don’t forget to stop by for more wonderful inspiration.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 668–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends.  We’re back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘traditional Christmas colours’ challenge.  We had some really lovely entries and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  I’ll be announcing Sue’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 Colour of Love digis and they offered one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice.   As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 2

Margreet Burger

Congratulations Margreet, your card is gorgeous.  Your image is adorable and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us your choice of images to promarkerchallenge@gmx.com and we will arrange for them to be sent to you.  We hope you will proudly display our winners badge on your blog:

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

Aimeslee

Chris

Jenimc

Margreet Burger (must be your lucky week!)

NanaConnie

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 new challenge ‘anything other than Christmas’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 669–anything other than Christmas

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you had a great week last week.  Thank you for all your gorgeous entries for our ‘traditional Christmas colours’ 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 Colour of Love digis and also who Sue has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Linda from Team 2, and she has given us the theme of ‘anything other than Christmas’.  This week Linda is fed up with making Christmas cards so has given you an anything goes challenge but she doesn’t want to see any Christmas creations!  I’m sure some of you are already finished making your Christmas creations so this is the perfect opportunity to get started on next year’s birthday cards.  A super easy theme and we cannot wait to see what you create.  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 Dr Digi’s House of Stamps and they are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their online store.  All of the DT have used images from Dr Digi’s House of Stamps 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):

Linda

(using Dr Digi’s HOS image ‘Marvin’s marvelous mower’)

Lisa G.

Taking a short break so no card this week

Nat

(using Dr Digi’s HOS image ‘witchy Wilma’)

Elaine

(using Dr Digi’s HOS image ‘charcoal Chuck’)

Karen

(using Dr Digi’s HOS image ‘bath time Deirdery’)

Kitty

(using Dr Digi’s HOS image ‘cake and candles’)

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 our final weekly challenge of the year before our special month long Mega Christmas challenge so we hope you can join us next week as we have lots of fantastic prizes up for grabs!

Stay safe and sending our love to you all.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x