Tuesday 30 April 2013

Week 195–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again crafters, we’re back to announce the lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “animals” challenge.   The DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing all your amazing creations featuring an array of super cute images and it was lovely to see so many entries again.  We’ll be announcing Nat’s top 5 passionista in a minute but firstly let’s find out who the lucky winner is!

Last week’s challenge was sponsored by Bearly Mine Designs who are offering 1 lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.  As always we used random.org to be fair (there were 64 linked entries and 1 email entry) and he chose:

pfp winner week 195

No. 49

Annie

Congratulations Annie, what a gorgeous card.  The PB hedgie image is so cute and the die cut frame looks amazing.  Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Nat really enjoyed visiting your blogs and it wasn’t an easy task to narrow it down to just 5 but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Ali

Kelly

Lorraine

Lucy

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Maria

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.

Top 5 Passionista Blinkie

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our current challenge “to die for” – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 196 - Theme

Good morning dear crafters, I hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Before we announce the details of the brand new challenge we would like to say a big thank you for all your gorgeous entries to last week’s “animals” challenge.  The DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your wonderful creations and it was a pleasure to once again see so many entries.  Don’t forget to check back later to find out who Nat has chosen as her top 5 passionista and also to see if you are the lucky winner of the £10.00 voucher courtesy of Bearly Mine Designs

Onto this week’s challenge which has been set by Nic from Team 1 and she has chosen “to die for”.  Nic would like to see at least one die cut or punched item on your cards this week – simples!  Don’t forget you must use your Letraset products (i.e. promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers, tria markers, metallic markers or neon markers) and of course follow the theme.

Our generous sponsor this week is Whiff of Joy stamps and they are offering one lucky winner 1 stamp of their choice (must be in stock) from their online store. 

whiff of joy

The design team have worked their magic once again this week and created amazing cards for your inspiration (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Nic

Nic

close-up of image

Shelly

Vicky

Cathy

Julie

Lisa

Loopy Lou 

Lou

Gorgeous cards, I’m sure you’ll agree.  We hope you can join in with our challenge and we look forward to seeing what you create.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Tuesday 23 April 2013

Week 194–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again crafters, we’re back to announce the lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “button it up” challenge.   The DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing all your amazing creations and it was lovely to see all your different shapes and sizes of buttons.  We’ll be announcing Lou’s top 5 passionista in a minute but firstly let’s find out who the lucky winner is!

Last week’s challenge was sponsored by DigiStamp Boutique and the lucky winner will receive 6 digi images.  As always we used random.org to be fair and he chose:

PFP winner week 194

No. 28

Dawn

Congratulations Dawn.  Your card is gorgeous and I love the image and papers you’ve used.  Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Lou really enjoyed visiting your blogs but you made it was such a tough decision, however after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Kelly

Kym

Lau W.

Marie

Rita

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.

Top 5 Passionista Blinkie

We hope you all have a wonderful week.  Don’t forget to check out our current challenge “animals” – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 195 - Theme

Good morning dear crafters, I hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  You all certainly had fun with our “button it up” challenge and the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your wonderful creations.  It was a pleasure to once again see so many entries.  Don’t forget to check back later to find out who Lou has chosen as her top 5 passionista and also to see if you are the lucky winner of the 6 digi images courtesy of DigiStamp Boutique

Onto this week’s challenge which has been set by Nat from Team 2 and she has chosen “animals”.  So another easy peasy challenge for you again this week.  Don’t forget you must use your Letraset products (i.e. promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers, tria markers, metallic markers or neon markers) and of course follow the theme.  Also don’t forget you can enter our challenge as many times as you like!

Our generous sponsor this week is Bearly Mine Designs and they are offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

Bearly Mine Designs shop badge

The design team have worked their magic once again this week and created amazing cards for your inspiration (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Nat

Nat's Animals Card

Pinky

Sue

Andie

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Eileen

Thick as Thieves crop

Frida

Jane B. 

Jen

Gorgeous cards, I’m sure you’ll agree.  We hope you can join in with our challenge and we look forward to seeing what you create.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Tuesday 16 April 2013

Week 193–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again crafters, we’re back to announce the lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “cut out your images” challenge.   The DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing all your amazing creations and it was lovely to see so many entries once again.  We’ll be announcing Jen’s top 5 passionista in a minute but firstly let’s find out who the lucky winner is!

Last week’s challenge was sponsored by Pink Gem designs who are offering 1 lucky winner 4 digi images from their store.  As always we used random.org to be fair (there were 69 linked entries and 1 email entry) and he chose:

pfp winner week 193

No. 32

Linda

Congratulations Linda, your card is so pretty and I love the embossed background.  Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Jen really enjoyed visiting your blogs and it was such a tough decision but after much thought and deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Helene

Kelly

Rebecca

Sarah

Sarah

Congratulations ladies, you can now proudly display the top 5 blinkie on your blogs.  If you need any help with this please email us

Top 5 Passionista Blinkie

We hope you all have a wonderful week.  Don’t forget to check out our current challenge “button it up” – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 194–Theme

Good morning dear crafters, I hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Before we announce the details of the brand new challenge we would like to say a big thank you for all your gorgeous entries to last week’s “cut out your image” challenge.  You all did brilliantly well and we were very impressed by the intricate images some of your choose to use!!  The DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your wonderful creations.  It was a pleasure to once again see so many entries.  Don’t forget to check back later to find out who Jen has chosen as her top 5 passionista and also to see if you are the lucky winner of the 4 digi images courtesy of Pink Gem Designs

Onto this week’s challenge which has been set by Lou from Team 1 and she has chosen “button it up”, so a nice and easy one for you this week.  As long as there is at least one button on your creation you are good to go!!  Don’t forget you must use your Letraset products (i.e. promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers, tria markers, metallic markers or neon markers) and of course follow the theme.

Our generous sponsor this week is the lovely Sally-Ann from DigiStamp Boutique and she is offering one lucky winner 6 digi images from her online store.  There are lots of new and super cute images to check out at the moment so even if you’re not lucky enough to win why not check them out!

DigiStamp Boutique logo

The design team have worked their magic once again this week and created amazing cards for your inspiration (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Lou

Lou Mac

Nic

(using DSB image “Alyssa relaxing” – sentiment included)

Shelly

Vicky

Cathy

Julie

Lisa

(using DSB image “love owls”)

Loopy Lou

(using a DSB image from the “cute oriental characters collection”)

Gorgeous cards, I’m sure you’ll agree.  We hope you can join in with our challenge and we look forward to seeing what you create.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x