Week 327–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “monochrome” challenge.  It was so lovely to see your beautiful entries last week and the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  We’ll be announcing Lucy’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 All Dressed Up stamps and they offered one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their online store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 5

Gail K.

Congratulations Gail.  Such a beautiful card and your CAS layout and flowers are gorgeous.  Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Lucy 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:

Alison B.

Andrea Norris

Jenimc

Suzi Mckenzie

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.

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

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 328–fantasy

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 ‘monochrome’ challenge.  You certainly kept the DT busy 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 2 digi images courtesy of All Dressed Up stamps and we will also find out who Lucy has chosen as her top 5 Passionista.

Before we announce the new challenge we have a couple of DT updates to share with you.  Kelly has stepped down from the DT.  She had already decided to step down when we heard the heartbreaking news that her husband had passed away and we all send our heartfelt condolences to her and her family.  Also Lotta has decided to step down due to family commitments.  On a happier note we have a new DT member – please give a warm welcome to Elaine – check out her wonderful blog, you won’t be disappointed.  Huny (our GDT) from the last few months is also staying on with us for the next few challenges. 

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Lorraine C. from Team 2 and she has given us the brilliant theme of “fantasy”.  Lorraine C. would like you to simply use a fantasy type image i.e. fairies, dragons, mermaids, etc.  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 £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

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):

Lorraine C.

(using DSB image ‘Love you more Drago’)

Nat

Sue

Taking a short break due to family issues.

Andie

Donna

Elaine

Huny (GDT)

(using DSB images from the ‘Belle Angel set’)

Lorraine B.

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

Winners of Week 326–Mega Christmas challenge

Hello again crafters, we’re back to announce all 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.  We hope you will continue to play along with our challenges in 2016.

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 any 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:

Letraset generously offered a prize of a super bundle of goodies and the lucky winner is:

** No. 9 – Rita V **

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

** No. 105 – Eemeli **

Bugaboo stamps generously offered a prize of a $30.00 voucher and the lucky winner is:

** No.117 – Carol Gill **

Polkadoodles generously offered a prize of 2 gorgeous digis and the lucky winner is:

** No. 44 – Kanda **

Michele R Designs generously offered a prize of a €10.00 voucher and the lucky winner is:

** No. 14 – AnyOldCraft **

Little Claire Designs generously offered a prize of 3 digis and the lucky winner is:

** No. 89 – Dora **

Crafty Sentiments Designs generously offered a prize of 3 digis and the lucky winner is:

** No. 108 – Aunty Sue **

Sassy Studio Designs generously offered a prize of a $20.00 voucher and the lucky winner is:

** No. 32 – Hazel (Didos) **

The Ribbon Girl generously offered a prize of a £10.00 voucher (not incl p&p) and the lucky
 winner is:

** No. 22 – Irene M. **

Edited to add – Julie (AnyOldCraft) has decided to offer her prize to someone else so I have redrawn another winner for the €10 voucher from Michele R Designs and that lucky person is:

** No. 43 - Sarah-J W **

Also Irene M has decided to offer her prize to someone else so I have redrawn another winner for the £10.00 voucher from The Ribbon Girl and that lucky person is:

** No. 66 - Crafty **

Thankfully we used random.org otherwise we couldn’t 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 All Dressed Up stamps.  Please can all our winners email us 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 ‘monochrome’ - check out all the full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 327 - Monochrome

Happy New Year dear crafters.  We trust you all had a very Merry Christmas and are now looking forward to a happy and healthy 2016.  However I know there was quite a lot of illness around this year, so hopefully if you were feeling under the weather during the holidays you are starting to feel better now.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for all your support during 2015 and we hope you will continue to support our challenges in 2016.  On the topic of challenges we had a brilliant response to our month long Mega Christmas challenge and the whole of the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  Don’t forget to come back later to check out the exciting bit – finding out who the lucky winners are!  As we had multiple sponsors there will be lots of lucky winners so come back this evening and see if you are one of them!

Ok onto the new challenge, which has been chosen by Lucy from Team 1 and she has gone for ‘monochrome’.  As the title suggests Lucy would like you to create something using a monochrome colour scheme.  For those of you who are unsure what exactly that means here is the definition of monochrome “a photograph or picture developed or executed in black and white or in varying tones of only one colour”.  We can’t wait to see what you create this week.  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

We are delighted to present a brand new sponsor for us this week – All Dressed Up stamps – and they are generously offering one lucky winner 2 digis of their choice.  Their images are so gorgeous you will be spoilt for choice.  Our DT were lucky enough to use some of their images on their cards this week.

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):

Lucy

(using All Dressed Up image ‘Top Knot’)

Marie

Nic

(using All Dressed Up image ‘Mirror Mirror’)

Shelly

(using All Dressed Up image ‘Paris’)

Anna

(using All Dressed Up image from the ‘3 Little Party Girls’) set

Eileen

(using All Dressed Up image ‘Little Flower Fairy’)

Julie

(using All Dressed Up image from the ‘3 Little Party Girls’) set

Lisa

(using All Dressed Up image ‘Paris’)

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