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 571–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘Christmas’ 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 Linda’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 Clearly Besotted stamps they offered one lucky winner a £20.00 voucher to spend in their online store.   As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 17

Eemeli

Congratulations Eemeli, your card is so cute.  Your image is adorable and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us at [email protected] and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the Top 5 Passionista and Linda had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations and you made it such a tough decision with so many entries.  After much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Cat Goodwin

Jenimc

Katrina Bufton

Kraftyscot (D)

Lorraine B.

Congratulations everyone, you can still proudly display the top 5 passionista blinkie on your blogs.  If you need any help with this please email us at [email protected].

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our extra special month long Mega Christmas challenge ‘add a sentiment’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe everyone and take care.

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 570–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘sparkle & glitter’ 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 Julie ’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 The Paper Shelter and they offered one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from their online store.   As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 3

Nicola Gold

Congratulations Nicola your card is gorgeous.  Your image is so sweet and your colouring is perfect.   Please email us at [email protected] and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the Top 5 Passionista and Julie had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations and you made it such a difficult decision.  After much deliberation here is her Top 5 Passionista:

Alison B.

Jenimc

Marlene

Nick

Nicola Gold (must be your lucky week!)

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 [email protected].

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

Stay safe everyone and take care.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 571–Christmas

Good morning lovely crafters, I hope you’re all doing ok and managed to fit some crafting into your busy schedules last week.  Thank you for all your lovely entries for last week’s 'glitter/sparkle’ challenge.  It was great to see your gorgeous entries and as always the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your creations.  Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our lucky winner who has won the 3 digi images courtesy of The Paper Shelter and we will also find out who Julie has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Linda from Team 2, and she has given us the theme of ‘Christmas’.  As the title suggests Linda wants to see all your Christmas creations this week.  As the ‘big’ day is fast approaching I’m sure most of us are making our Christmas cards and projects or if we’re super organised and made them already one or two more are always needed!  Such an easy and fun challenge and we can’t wait to see what you make.  Don’t forget you can enter any type of creation it doesn’t have to be a card.  Remember 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 Clearly Besotted Stamps and they are offering one lucky winner a £20.00 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):

Linda

Nat

Elaine

Karen

Kitty

Still unwell so no card this week.

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.

This is the last challenge before our month long Mega Christmas challenge begins.  You don’t want to miss it as we have lots of amazing prizes up for grabs.

Stay safe and sending our love to you all.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x