Week 704–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends; we hope you’ve had a great day so far.  We’re back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘embellish it’ challenge.  Thank you for all your lovely entries; as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  I’ll be announcing Marlene’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 Conie Fong 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. 17

Helen

Congratulations Helen, your card is super cute.  Your image is adorable and your colouring is perfect.  Love your papers too.  Please email us at [email protected] with your choice of images and we will arrange for them to be sent to you.  We hope you will proudly display our winners badge on your blog:

Now onto the Top 5 Passionista and Marlene had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  It was a really tough decision but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Anet

Carrie Sheridan

Jenimc

Patsy Long

Silke

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 join in with our current challenge ‘feminine cards’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 705–feminine cards

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week and enjoyed the extra BH yesterday. Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘embellish it’ challenge.  It was lovely to have you join us 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 receive the 3 digi images courtesy of Conie Fong and we will also be finding out who Marlene has chosen as her top 5 passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Kitty from Team 2 and she has given you the lovely theme of ‘feminine cards’ to inspire you this week.  Kitty doesn’t mind what you make this week as long as is it for a woman or a girl.  So get out all your girly images, pretty papers and embellishments and go to town! We hope you’ll have fun and can’t wait to see what you create this week. A nice open theme so let’s see lots of entries!  The only rule we have is use your markers and have fun!  Just remember your entry must include a hand-coloured image.

Our generous sponsor this week is Leann’s World 101 and they are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their online store.  All of the DT have used images from Leann’s World 101 on their creations 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):

Kitty

(using Leann’s World 101 image ‘Sweets’)

Linda

(using Leann’s World 101 image ‘Briannah’)

Nat

(using Leann’s World 101 image ‘Caite’)

Wendy

(using Leann’s World 101 image ‘Sweets’)

Elaine

(using Leann’s World 101 image ‘Briannah’)

Karen

(using Leann’s World 101 image ‘Sweets’)

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.

Stay safe and sending our love to you all.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 703–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends; we hope you’ve had a great day so far.  We’re back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘let’s celebrate’ challenge.  Thank you for all your lovely entries; as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  I’ll be announcing Karen’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 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. 2

Tinyworks

Congratulations Maria, what a gorgeous card.  Your image is adorable and your colouring is perfect.  Love your floral arrangement too.  Please email us at [email protected] with your choice of images and we will arrange for them to be sent to you.  We hope you will proudly display our winners badge on your blog:

Now onto the Top 5 Passionista and Karen had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  It was a really tough decision but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Chris

Helen

Lesley K.

Lorraine B. 

Sarah R.

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 join in with our current challenge ‘embellish it’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 704–embellish it

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘let’s celebrate’ challenge.  It was lovely to have you join us and as always the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your beautiful creations.   Don’t forget to pop back later to find out who won the 2 digi images courtesy of All Dressed Up stamps and also who Karen has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Marlene from Team 1, and she has given us the fantastic theme of ‘embellish it’.  Marlene would simply like you to make a creation using one or more embellishments.  It can be as simple as adding a gem or pearl or if you prefer you can add an abundance of die cuts, flowers, sequins, ribbons etc.  Remember you can enter using any type of creation, it doesn’t have to be a card but whatever you make please remember you must include a hand coloured image to be eligible for our prize draw.  Easy peasy, so let’s see lots of entries.  The only rule we have is use your markers and have fun!

Our generous sponsor this week is Conie Fong and they are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from their online store.  All of the DT have used images from Conie Fong on their creations this week.  

Conie Fong has generously given us a 25% discount code to anything in her store from today (Aug 22) for one week.  Use the code AUGSPONSOR25 at checkout to claim 25% off your total. 

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):

Marlene

(using Conie Fong image ‘angel whispers’)

Sue

(using Conie Fong image ‘mailbox gnome’)

Julie

(using Conie Fong image ‘mailbox gnome’)

Lisa M.

(using Conie Fong image ‘eucalyptus tree koala’)

Lorraine C. 

(using Conie Fong image ‘skateboarding Benny’)

Marie

(using Conie Fong image ‘mailbox gnome’)

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.

Stay safe and sending our love to you all.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 702–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends; we hope you’ve had a great day so far.  We’re back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘dies and/or punches’ challenge.  Thank you for all your lovely entries; as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  I’ll be announcing Marie’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 Sheepski Designs 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. 21

Susan Sudbury

Congratulations Susan, your card is beautiful.  Your image is so pretty and your colouring is perfect.  Such a great embossing folder too.  Please email us at [email protected] with your choice of images and we will arrange for them to be sent to you.  We hope you will proudly display our winners badge on your blog:

Now onto the Top 5 Passionista and Marie had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  It was a really tough decision but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Jenimc

Pinky

Sarah R.

Silke

Susan Sudbury (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 join in with our current challenge ‘let’s celebrate’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 703–let’s celebrate

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week. Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘dies and/or punches’ challenge.  It was lovely to have you join us 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 receive the 3 digi images courtesy of Sheepski Designs and we will also be finding out who Marie has chosen as her top 5 passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Karen from Team 2 and she has given you the lovely theme of ‘let’s celebrate’ to inspire you this week.  Karen would simply like you to create something for any kind of celebration i.e. birthday, new baby, wedding, Halloween, Christmas etc.  A nice open theme this week so let’s see lots of entries!  Don’t forget you can enter any type of creation it doesn’t have to be a card.  The only rule we have is use your markers and have fun!  Just remember your entry must include a hand-coloured image.

Our generous sponsor this week is All Dressed Up stamps and they are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their online store.  All of the DT have used images from All Dressed Up on their creations 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):

Karen

(using ADU image ‘birthday monkey’)

Kitty

(using ADU image ‘birthday monkey’)

Linda

(using ADU image ‘pool party’)

Nat

(using ADU image ‘season to sparkle’) can’t find in the store

Wendy

(using ADU image ‘birthday monkey’)

Elaine

(using ADU image ‘birthday monkey’)

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.

Stay safe and sending our love to you all.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 701–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends; we hope you’ve had a great day so far.  We’re back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘favourite colour combo’ challenge.  Thank you for all your lovely entries; as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  I’ll be announcing Elaine’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 Dr Digi’s House of 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. 10

Julie Odil

Congratulations Julie, what a sweet card.  Your image is adorable and your colouring is perfect.  Love your layered frames too.  Please email us at [email protected] with your choice of images and we will arrange for them to be sent to you.  We hope you will proudly display our winners badge on your blog:

Now onto the Top 5 Passionista and Elaine had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  It was a really tough decision but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Jane Savage

Julie Odil (must be your lucky week)

Kathy Asper

Nancy E.

Sarah R.

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 join in with our current challenge ‘dies and/or punches’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x