Week 768 - 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 'presents' challenge.  It wasn't a super popular challenge but thank you so much for the lovely entries we did have; as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  I’ll be announcing Sue'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. 6

Silke

Congratulations Silke, what a fun Christmas card. The image is adorable and your colouring is perfect. 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 Sue 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:

Bettascrap

Glennis F.

Jenimc

Lisa J.

Miss Lorraine V. Lowe

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].

Unfortunately our winner for last week's 'fall or winter' challenge did not contact us to claim their prize of 3 digi images courtesy of Colour of Love Digis so we have re-drawn another winner.  Our re-drawn winner is:

No. 8.

Donna W.

Congratulations Donna; what a beautiful Christmas card. The image is stunning and your colouring is perfect.  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 (please grab it from above).

We hope you all have a wonderful two weeks and find some time to join in with our current Mega Christmas challenge 'anything goes' - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 769 - Mega Christmas challenge - anything goes

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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 your fabulous creations for our 'presents' challenge.  Don't forget to check back later to find out who the lucky winner of the 3 digi images courtesy of The Paper Shelter will be and also to see who Sue has chosen as her top 5 Passionista.

This week we are launching our very special 'Mega Christmas challenge' which runs for a whole month and ends on 7th January 2025!  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 'anything goes'.  We don't mind what you create for this challenge, as long as you colour with your markers!  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 include a hand-coloured image using your markers such as Promarkers, Copics, Spectrum Noir, Karin, Zig Clean Color etc. 

So now for the exciting bit – the prizes!

Dies to Die For are offering 1 lucky winner a £20.00 gift voucher

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Uniko Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 1 product of your choice (must be in stock)

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Leann’s World 101 are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images

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All Dressed Up stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images

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Polkadoodles are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

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Sheepski Designs are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

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RAM Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner a £10.00 voucher

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Di's Digi Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner a £6.00 voucher

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Wow we are sure you’ll agree our sponsors have been super generous once again this year!  We are so grateful to have their continued support.  

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 2 today and then in two week’s time we will be posting inspiration from Team 1.  

Here are the gorgeous cards from Team 2 (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Elaine

Karen

Kitty

Linda

Nat

Wendy

We’re sure you will agree that their cards are stunning.

So to re-cap the challenge will run until 7th January 2025 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 2025.

We cannot wait to see your creations and look forward to visiting your blogs. We’ll be back on 24th December to share Team 1’s gorgeous selection of cards, so don’t forget to stop by for more wonderful inspiration.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 767 - 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 'fall or winter' challenge.  Thank you so much for all the lovely entries; as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  I’ll be announcing Kitty'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 Colour of Love Digis 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. 27

Ileana A.

 

Congratulations Ileana, what a super cute winter card. The image is adorable and your colouring is perfect. 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 Kitty 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:

Andrea Norris

Bastelmichaela

Eve

Maria

Meg

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].

Unfortunately our previous re-drawn winner has not contacted us to claim their prize so we have re-drawn another new winner.  For our 'dies and/or punches' challenge we had a prize of 2 digi images courtesy of All Dressed Up stamps and our lucky second re-drawn winner is:

No. 16

Jenimc

Congratulations Jenny; what a beautiful Christmas card. 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 (please grab it from above).

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to join in with our current 'presents' challenge - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 768 - presents

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for all your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘fall or winter’ 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 winner of the 3 digi images courtesy of Colour of Love Digis and also revealing who Kitty has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.  

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Sue from Team 1, and she has given us the fantastic theme of ‘presents'. Sue doesn’t mind what you make this week as long as you include at least one present on it.  The team have all made Christmas cards but we will of course accept any occasion projects as long as there is one or more presents on them.  Such a fun and easy theme this week and we cannot wait to see all your gorgeous entries.  Just remember your entry must include a hand-coloured image to be eligible for the prize draw; so grab your markers and have fun! 

Our generous sponsor this week is The Paper Shelter and they are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from their online store.  Most of the DT have used the 'Merry Christmas My Dear' image from The Paper Shelter 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):

Sue

Lisa

Lorraine

Marie

Marlene

Sarah

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.

Just a heads up, next week is the start of our biggie month long Mega Christmas challenge so don't forget to come back and check it out as we will have lots of amazing prizes up for grabs.  

Stay safe and sending our love to you all.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x