Week 449–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I apologise for the super late post tonight but I am enjoying the World Cup so much it is interfering with everyday life lol!  Anyway I’m back to announce our lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “bears r us” challenge.  It was fantastic to see your lovely entries, although I was surprised it wasn’t more popular, and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  We’ll be announcing Nat’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 DigiStamp Boutique who offered one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 5

Krafted Kards

Congratulations Gloria, your card is beautiful.  I love the 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 Nat had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing all your amazing creations.  She had a tough decision but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

CraftyNatalie

Jenimc

Krafted Kards (it’s your lucky week!)

Marlene

Teresa

Congratulations ladies, 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 enter our current challenge ‘weather’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 449–bears r us

Good morning lovely crafters, I hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for all your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘make it manly’ challenge.  It was lovely to see your entries and as always the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your beautiful creations.  Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our lucky winner who will win the 3 digi images courtesy of Lacy Sunshine and we will also find out who Hazel has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Nat from Team 2, and she has given us the lovely theme of ‘bears r us’.  As the title suggests Nat would like you to create something that includes an image of a bear.  It can be a teddy bear, polar bear, panda or even a grizzly bear!  Remember you can enter using any type of creation, it doesn’t have to be a card.  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) and of course follow the theme.  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 DigiStamp Boutique and they are offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.  Their images are gorgeous so why not pop over to their store and check them out.  Most of the DT were lucky enough to use images from DigiStamp Boutique this week on their creations.

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):

Nat

card open

Donna

Still recovering, no card.

Elaine

Jacky

(using DSB image ‘Louie & cupcake’)

Karen

(using DSB image ‘summer Louie’)

Kitty

(using a DSB image from the ‘Louie love set’)

Linda

(using a DSB image from the ‘cute panda set’)

Lorraine C. 

(using DSB image ‘Louie & cupcake’)

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

Week 445–special anniversary winners!

Hello again crafters,  I’m back to announce our lucky winners for last week’s special anniversary challenge “birthday creations”.  There were so many gorgeous entries and the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs.  Myself and Gina would like to thank you for all your lovely comments and we really appreciate all your support over the years and for making our little challenge blog the success it is today – without you it would be nothing.

Anyway enough of the sloppy stuff, here is the real reason you are here – the winners!  There are multiple winners this week as we had lots of lovely prizes up for grabs.  As always, to be fair, we used random.org and these are who he chose:

DigiStamp Boutique offered a prize of a £10.00 voucher and the lucky winner is:

No. 26

Krafted Kards

Dies to Die For offered a prize of a £15.00 voucher and the lucky winner is:

No. 2

Kym

Uniko Stamps offered a prize of 1 stamp set (in stock) and the lucky winner is:

Crafty

A Day for Daisies offered a prize of a $12.00 voucher and the lucky winner is:

No. 11

Irene M.

Di’s Digi Stamps offered a prize of a $12.00 voucher and the lucky winner is:

No. 32

Michelle Lancaster

Cowling & Wilcox offered a prize of a 6 pack of Promarkers (vibrant tones) and the lucky winner is:

No. 3

Alison B.

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

No. 12

Jayne Harvey

Congratulations to everyone who has won a prize, we wish we could give you all something but we would need lots of prizes to do that lol!  Please can the winners email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com (please state the sponsor in the subject line) and we will arrange for you to receive your prizes.  Unfortunately if you do not contact us before the next challenge goes live we will have to re-draw a new winner.  Thank you again for making our challenge blog such a success and we look forward to spending another 9 years with you!!

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our current challenge “anything goes” – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 445–special anniversary challenge!

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Grab a cuppa and a biscuit (or two) and make yourself comfortable!

Good morning dear crafters. We hope you had a wonderful week last week and managed to fit some crafting into your busy schedules.  Thank you for your gorgeous entries to last week’s "gems and/or pearls" challenge.  Linda will certainly have her work cut out for her when she has to pick her top 5 passionista.  Don't forget to check back later to find out who she has chosen and also to see if you are the lucky winner of the 3 digi images courtesy of Ppinkydolls.

Onto this week's theme and we have a very special challenge for you this week as it's our 9th Anniversary. Can you believe it's been 9 years since Gina and myself started our little blog to share our love of all things Letraset/Winsor & Newton?  It only seems like yesterday when we nervously made our first post!  As it's a special challenge we have a really easy theme for you of "birthday creations".  As the title suggests we simply want you to make something for a birthday – simples eh!  We expect to see lots of entries this week but please note we are only accepting a maximum of 3 entries per person for this one challenge only.  To be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Winsor & Newton/Letraset products (i.e. pro, flex, tria, aqua, metallic or neon markers) and of course follow the theme.

As always we have some fantastic prizes up for grabs and our sponsors have been very generous as usual .  Here we go....

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DigiStamp Boutique is offering one lucky winner a prize of a £10.00 voucher

Dies to Die For are offering one lucky winner a £15.00 voucher

Uniko Stamps are offering one lucky winner 1 stamp set (in stock) of their choice

A Day for Daisies are offering one lucky winner a $12.00 voucher

Di’s Digi Stamps are offering one lucky winner a $12.00 voucher

Cowling & Wilcox are offering one lucky winner a 6 pack of Promarkers (vibrant tones)

All Dressed Up stamps are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice

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Wow we told you there were amazing prizes didn’t we?  Definitely lots of reasons to join in the fun this week!! To give you lots of inspiration we have both Team 1 and Team 2 to share their creations (as always please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Elaine

Hazel

Jacky

Julie

Karen

Kitty

Linda

Lisa

Lorraine C. 

Marie

Nat

Nic

Inside view:

Shelly

Sue

Donna

Is still recovering so no card this week.

Stunning cards as always I’m sure you’ll agree.  Please remember for this challenge we will only accept 3 cards/projects per person.  Also just for this one week we will not be choosing a top 5 passionista as we have lots of extra winners, however this will go back to normal next week.  We hope you have a brilliant week and we cannot wait to see what you create.  Good luck!

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x