Week 818 - Mega Christmas challenge - add a sentiment

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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 your fabulous creations for our 'add some bling' 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 Elaine 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 6th January 2026!  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 'add a sentiment'.  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 include a hand-coloured image using 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 £25.00 gift voucher

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Uniko Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 1 product of your choice (must be in stock)

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Leann’s World 101 are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images

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All Dressed Up stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images

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Polkadoodles are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

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Sheepski Designs are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

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RAM Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner a £10.00 voucher

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Di's Digi Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner a £6.00 voucher

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Colour of Love Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

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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.  

Here are the gorgeous cards from Team 1 (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Lorraine

Marie

Marlene

No card as having issues with her laptop

Sarah

Sue

taking a short break but will be back in January!

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

So to re-cap the challenge will run until 6th January 2026 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 2026.

We cannot wait to see your creations and look forward to visiting your blogs. We’ll be back on 23rd 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