Winners of Week 572–Mega Christmas challenge 2020!

Hello again crafters, we’re back to announce all of our lucky winners for the month long Mega Christmas challenge.  It was wonderful to see so many entries and you certainly kept the DT busy!  We all had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations and we hope you will continue to play along with our challenges in 2021.

Firstly we would like to thank all our generous sponsors, without whom our challenges would not be the same!  We are grateful that so many of them have once again continued to sponsor us this year along with some lovely new sponsors too.
As we explained at the start of the Mega Christmas challenge we weren’t choosing our usual top 5 passionista for this one challenge only so listed below are all winners of prizes!  We used random.org to choose our winners and we went in order of the prizes listed in the challenge post.

Ok here we go, good luck everyone, here are the lucky winners for the Mega Christmas challenge 2020:

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Dies to Die For offered a £20.00 gift voucher and the lucky winner is:

** No. 73 – Gail K **

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Uniko Stamps offered 1 stamp set (which must be in stock) and the lucky winner is:

** No. 81 – Diane Louise **

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Di's Digi Stamps offered a $6.00 gift voucher and the lucky winner is:

** No. 21 – Lorraine B. **

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Dr Digi's House of Stamps offered 2 digi images and the lucky winner is:

** No. 12 – Tinz **

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Leann’s World 101 offered 2 digi images and the lucky winner is:

** 19 – Pöydän kulmalla näpertelijä **

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Crafty Sentiments Designs offered 3 digi images and the lucky winner is:

** No. 13 – Nick **

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Colour of Love digis offered 2 digi images and the lucky winner is:

** No. 70 – Cat **

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All Dressed Up stamps offered 2 digi images and the lucky winner is:

** No. 1 – Crafty **

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Bugaboo Stamps offered a $12.00 voucher and the lucky winner is:

** No. 58 – NanaConnie **

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Cowling & Wilcox offered a 12 pack of Promarkers (Manga set) and the lucky winner is:

** No. 63 – Ionabunny **

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Thankfully we used random.org otherwise we could never have chosen our winners, all your entries were so beautiful.

Congratulations to all our winners – we’re sorry you couldn’t all be winners but check out this week’s challenge for another chance to win a prize courtesy of Lee Holland Designs.

Please can all our winners email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com stating the sponsors name in the subject line.  Please note you have until next Monday to claim your prize, otherwise a new winner will be chosen.

Have a great week and check out our current challenge ‘birthdays’ - full details in the post below.  Also a big thank you for all your positive comments and messages regarding our blog re-vamp - it is so lovely to know you are all in agreement and behind us.  Here's to an amazing 2021!

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 572– 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 “add a sentiment” and don’t forget you still have until 5th January 2021 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)

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

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

Bugaboo Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner a $12.00 voucher

Cowling & Wilcox are offering 1 lucky winner a 12 pack of Promarkers (Manga set)

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

Nat

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

So to re-cap the challenge will run until 5th January 2021 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 2020.  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 2021 an even better year (although after this year that won’t be difficult lol!).

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 572–Mega Christmas challenge 2020!

*** 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” 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 Linda has chosen as her top 5 Passionista.

Before we announce the details of this special challenge we would like to introduce you to our 2 newbies who will be joining the DT for our first challenge in 2021.  The lucky ladies are Lisa Goodall and Marlene Atkinson.  If you are a regular participant of our challenges you’ve probably seen their names are they also regularly take part.  I’m sure you will join me in welcoming them to our team. 

This week we are launching our very special “Mega Christmas challenge” which runs for a whole month and ends on 5th January 2021!  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 “add a sentiment”.  We don't mind what you create for this challenge, as long as you include a sentiment on your creation!  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 £20.00 gift voucher

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

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

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

Bugaboo Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner a $12.00 voucher

Cowling & Wilcox are offering 1 lucky winner a 12 pack of Promarkers (Manga set)

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 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

inside of card:

Sue

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

So to re-cap the challenge will run until 5th January 2021 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 2021.

We cannot wait to see your creations and look forward to visiting your blogs. We’ll be back on 22nd December to share Team 2’s gorgeous selection of cards, so don’t forget to stop by for more wonderful inspiration.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 555–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘flower power’ challenge.  It was so 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 Elaine’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 Cowling & Wilcox and they offered one lucky winner a 3 pack of neon markers.  I also purchased an A4 bleed proof marker pad to add to the prize too .   As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 2

Lisa Goodall

Congratulations Lisa, your card is so cute.  Your image is adorable and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com with your full postal address and we will arrange for your markers to be sent out to you.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Elaine had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  She loved all your creations and you made it such a tough decision however after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Hazel (Didos)

Jane Willis

Lisa Goodall (must be your lucky week)!

Meg

Nicola Gold

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.

Unfortunately last week's winner didn't contact us to claim their prize so we have re-drawn another winner who has won the 2 digi images courtesy of Dr Digi's House of Stamps and again using random.org our re-drawn winner for Week 554 is:

No. 2

Liz Cavill

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our current challenge ‘shades of blue’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe everyone and take care.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x