Week 341–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “bingo board” challenge.  It was lovely to see so many beautiful entries and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  We’ll be announcing Lisa’s top 5 passionista in a minute but firstly let’s find out who the 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. 9

Leona

Congratulations Leona.    Your card is so sweet.  The image is adorable and your embellishments are gorgeous.  Please email us we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Lisa had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and she could have chosen you all as her passionista!!  However after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Anita

Aunty Sue

Crafty Natalie

Lucy

Sheena

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.

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our brand new challenge ‘things with wings’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 341–Bingo Board

Good morning dear crafters, I hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for all your gorgeous entries for last week’s ‘4 legged friends’ challenge.  You kept the DT busy with your entries and as always they had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our lucky winner, who will receive the $12.00 voucher courtesy of A Day for Daisies and we will also be finding out who Elaine has chosen as her top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Lisa from Team 1 and she has given us a brilliant “bingo board” to use this week.  Here is the bingo board to follow:

Lisa wants you to simply choose any line to follow (horizontal, vertical or diagonal) and use everything in that line on your card – simples!  Of course you can use extra items on your card but you must have all 3 items from the line on your card to be eligible for our prize draw.  Please tell us in your post what line you’ve used. Please 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 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 Letraset products you have used on your creation i.e. ‘coloured with promarkers’ etc.  Thanks x x

Our generous sponsor this week is DigiStamp Boutique who are offering one lucky winner a prize of a £10 voucher to spend in their online store.  There are so many gorgeous digis in their store you will be spoilt for choice.

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):

Lisa

(using a DSB image from the ‘Funtime Dan set 2’)

Bingo board: middle line buttons, image, kraft and centre line down ribbon, image, sentiment

Marie

Bingo board: bottom row flowers, sentiment, die cut and diagonal row gems/pearls, image, flowers)

Nic

(Made 2 cards using images from the DSB  ‘Baby Bunnykins set’)

Bingo board: Flowers, sentiment, die-cuts

Bingo board: Embossing, ribbon, pearls

Shelly

(using a DSB image from the ‘flower and heart circles set’)

Bingo board: flowers, sentiment, die-cuts

Ali

(using DSB image ‘Alyssa relaxing’)

Bingo board: middle line: image, sentiment & ribbon

Eileen

(using DSB image ‘party Rach’)

Bingo board: ribbon, image sentiment

Hazel

Bingo board: buttons, image, kraft

Julie

Bingo board: ribbon, image, sentiment

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

Challenge 277–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 2 days until the BIG day arrives – we’re hope you are all done and dusted and are now 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 “bingo” and don’t forget you still have until 6th January 2015 to enter our challenge, although there is a maximum of 3 entries per person. 

Here is the bingo board that you must use for your creations (you can use any line horizontal, vertical or diagonal).  Please tell us which line you have used in your post: :

Before we show you the wonderful creations by Team 2 here is a quick reminder of the prizes up for grabs:

Letraset are generously offering 4 lucky winners a 6 pack of promarkers (blending set)!

DigiStamp Boutique are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a £10.00 voucher to spend in her store.

Bugaboo stamps are generously offering one lucky winner a $30.00 voucher to spend in their store.

Polkadoodles is offering one lucky winner 2 gorgeous digis called ‘Dollie Sleepyhead’ and ‘Dollie Trendsetter’.

Michele R Designs are offering one lucky winner a €10.00 voucher to spend in her store.

Little Claire Designs are offering one lucky winner a gorgeous stamp set called ‘changing birdhouse’.

A Day for Daisies is offering one lucky winner a $12.00 gift certificate to spend in their online store.

Crafty Sentiments Designs is offering one lucky winner 3 digis of their choice from their online store.

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):

Andie

(die-cuts, free, glitter)

Donna

(die-cuts, free, glitter)

Donna has used a gorgeous image from DSB called ‘sleigh fun’)

Jane B.

(ribbon, free, blooms)

Kelly

(die-cuts, free, glitter)

Lorraine

(glitter, free, die-cuts)

Lotta

(die-cuts, free, glitter)

Nat

Card to follow!

Sue

(glitter, free, die-cuts)

Sue has used a gorgeous image from DSB from the ‘Christmas tweets’ set

We’re sure you’ll agree that their cards are stunning. So to re-cap the challenge will run until 6th January 2015 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 your support that you’ve shown us in 2014.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 277–Mega Christmas challenge!

*** 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 you fabulous creations for Jane B.’s “hark the herald angels sing” challenge.  Don't forget to check back later to find out who Jane B. has chosen as her top 5 passionista and also to see if you are our lucky winner of the 4 digis courtesy of Sassy Studio Designs. 

This week we are launching our very special Mega Christmas challenge which runs for a whole month and ends on 6th January 2015!  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 “bingo”.  You are welcome to make Christmas cards but as the challenge will still be running after the ‘BIG’ day you can of course make any type of creation as long as you use the bingo board.  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.

Here is the bingo board you must use for your creations (you can use any line horizontal, vertical or diagonal).  Please tell us which line you have used in your post:

So now for the exciting bit – the prizes!

Letraset are generously offering 4 lucky winners a 6 pack of promarkers (blending set)!

DigiStamp Boutique are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a £10.00 voucher to spend in her store.

Bugaboo stamps are generously offering one lucky winner a $30.00 voucher to spend in their store.

Polkadoodles is offering one lucky winner 2 gorgeous digis called ‘Dollie Sleepyhead’ and ‘Dollie Trendsetter’.

Michele R Designs are offering one lucky winner a €10.00 voucher to spend in her store.

Little Claire Designs are offering one lucky winner a gorgeous stamp set called ‘changing birdhouse’.

A Day for Daisies is offering one lucky winner a $12.00 gift certificate to spend in their online store.

Crafty Sentiments Designs is offering one lucky winner 3 digis of their choice from their online store.

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):

Eileen

(ribbon, free, blooms)

Julie

(die-cuts, free, glitter)

Lisa

(ribbon, free, blooms)

Loopy Lou

(buttons, lace, blooms)

Lou

(ribbon, die-cuts, buttons)

Marie

(ribbon, die-cuts, buttons)

Nic

(die-cuts, free, glitter)

Shelly

On maternity leave!

Wow we’re sure you’ll agree that their cards are stunning.  So to re-cap the challenge will run until 6th January 2015 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 2015.

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 & DT x x