Top 5 week 33 - oops sorry it's late :(

Well I have no excuse …….. I forgot all about the Top 5 passionista this week until I was brushing my teeth for work this morning!! I hope you’ll all forgive me just this once :)

Michele had a really difficult job last week as you all seemed to love her sketch and we had some gorgeous entries. Without further ado here is Michele’s top 5 for last week:

Paula

Emma

Sonia

Chelsea

Jane

Congratulations, you are now welcome to display the top 5 passionista blinkie on your blogs.

Don’t forget to check out the new weekend workshop posted today, to see a girly tutorial by Maria.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 34 – Colour challenge

Wow we’re already on our second challenge of 2010 – where does the time go?  We hope you are all keeping warm and safe during this snowy/icy weather – although it is perfect for crafting!!  Before we announce this week’s challenge we would like to say a big thank you for all your gorgeous entries last week, Michele is going to have a tough job picking her top 5 as you all seemed to enjoy using her sketch very much.  Please come back later to find out who the winner of the 5 pack of promarkers donated by Letraset will be and to see who Michele has chosen as her top 5. 

Onto this week’s challenge, which has been chosen by our guest designer Samantha.  She would like to see your projects using the colours cool aqua and cocoa (you can use other colours but these must be the predominant colours on your image). 

Our sponsor this week is Sugar Nellie stamps and one lucky winner will receive these 2 gorgeous stamps:

Go Fetch

       Cute as Cupcakes   

Our design team have created some gorgeous samples for you again this week (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs).

Samantha (GDT)

 

Sue

Anjie (GDT)

Caryn

Debbi

Denise

Gina

Ida

Maria

Michele

We hope you enjoy using the colour scheme this week and look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing what you create.  Don’t forget to check out the weekend workshop on Friday for another fantastic tutorial. 

We also wanted to let you know that Denise has some gorgeous candy up for grabs on her blog so why not pop on over and take a look – you have to be in it to win it!! 

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

MEGA PRIZE WINNERS

Thank you to everyone who has entered into the Mega Prize challenge over Christmas, we had some fantastic entries, luckily the winners have all been decided by random.org otherwise we may have been here till next Christmas trying to decide.

So without further a do here are the Winners, Congratulations! to you all :)

The winner of a full set of ProMarkers is

Sue

The Winner of a pack of 5 ProMarkers is

Jenny

The winner of a pack of 5 ProMarkers is

Shelly

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The Winner of a £10 voucher from Joanna Sheen is

Julye

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The Winner of a Sugar Nellie stamp each are

Debbie

Suzanne

Kathy

Ali

Anne

Cheryl

Jane

Gro

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The Winner of a £10 Voucher from Stampeezee is

Kat

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The Winner of “Fred Celebrating Elephant from Whiff of Joy is

Tracy

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The Winner of a stamp Set “a little bit of happiness” and a roll of ribbon from Julie is

Jane

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If all of the winners would please email your name and address to cardkabin@talktalk.net and we will get your goodies to you asap.

Sorry about the long post but I think you will all agree it was worth it :). Don’t forget we are back to normal this week with the challenge post which this week is a sketch and theme and the weekend workshop will be on Friday, Debbi has now made it super easy to download any of the tutorials now, there is a link at the bottom of each tutorial, just click it and you will be taken to a separate page to download :)

Hugs Gina, Denise and the DT xxx

Challenge #33 – sketch & theme

Good morning everyone! A Happy New Year to you all and we hope that you had a fab time over the Christmas holidays. Perhaps Santa gave you some new crafting goodies to play with! We hope you are all ready and raring to go for our first challenge of 2010!

Thank you to everyone who entered our mega Christmas challenge over the last month...we were totally wowed with the number of entries we received and some of you entered more than once...brilliant! Don’t forget to check back later to see if you are one of our lucky winners!!!!

Right then onto our challenge this week, which has been chosen by our lovely Michele. She has given us a gorgeous sketch to use but would like you to incorporate the theme of love into your project. You are free to use any colours of promarkers you like this week *yay*.

Here is the sketch

Our sponsor for this week is Letraset and one lucky winner will receive a 5 pack of promarkers.

We have two guest designers with us for the next four weeks -Anjie and Samantha. We hope you will give them a warm welcome.

The design team are well rested and have come up with some beautiful samples for you this week (remember if you wish to visit any of their blogs just click on their names above their cards or alternatively in the sidebar).

Michele

Samantha (Guest DT)

Sarah

Sue

Anjie (Guest DT)

Caryn

Debbi

Denise

Ida

Maria

We can’t wait to see what you create this week and look forward to visiting your blogs. Don’t forget to check out the weekend workshop and Debbi has now made it super easy to download any of the tutorials – there is a link at the bottom of each tutorial – just click it and you will be taken to a separate page to download – simples!!

Don’t forget to check back later to see if you are one of our lucky winners of the mega Christmas challenge – how exciting!!

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x