Well I think we can safely say that our first ever blog hop went well. I know that everyone is waiting for the winners so here they are:
Card category (£15 gift voucher from One Stop Card Crafts) - 72. Amanda
Gift category (Promarkers from Letraset) - 7. Ruthie
Bloghop (Dovecraft Gift Set) - 11. Made by Mandy
Follower candy (digi stamp from Squiggle Stamps) - 479. NikkiNix
Donna's winner (Greeting Farm 'Hugh' stamp) - Stefeni
Alison's winner (3 digis from Hope Jacare)- lindyloos
Amy's winner (5 digis from The Stamping Boutique) - Vicky
Kitty's winner (Pink Cat Studio 'Billy' Stamp sheet) - Ribena ruby Kym's winner (5 digis from Prairie Fairy) - Suzi
Mandy's winner (Lil' Frog die from Peachy Keen Stamps) - StickyVickyCrafts
Patricia's winner (3 digis from Fresh Brewed Designs) - Shelly Sarah's winner (6x6 Paper Pad from Bunny Zoe Crafts) - Laney
Viv's winner (Happy Bird die from Peachy Keen Stamps)- Marisa
Shirley's winner (4 digis from Meljen Designs) - Monika Reeck
Congratulations to all our winners and a big Thank You to all our generous sponsors. Can the winner's email cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk to collect prizes. If the prize is a physical one then please provide your name and address, otherwise just visit the sponsor and let me have your digi choices. All our sponsors have their shop links in our sidebar.
I've just realised that the prizes for a couple challenges have not been claimed. To refresh your memories they were:
Challenge 22 sponsored by Digital Delights won by Linda
Challenge 23 sponsored by Hope Jacare won by Christine Craig
Girls, please email me on cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk so that I can sort out your prizes. If the prizes have not been claimed by midnight (GMT) on Sunday 19 December 2010 then I'll redraw them on Monday when we're doing all the other draws.
There's still time to enter our challenges and bloghop so take a look here and have a go.
So, another really great challenge finished. I'd like to thank Nikki over at Bunny Zoe's Crafts for sponsoring us and if you haven't visited her wonderful shop, why not take a look now?
Congratulations to you all, grab our Top 3 badge from the sidebar and add it to your own. Don't forget there's still time to enter our current Christmas challenges and join us on our bloghop. We've got plenty of prizes up for grabs and lots of ideas for you to look at.
So here I am, scheduling our first ever blog hop. I'm very nervous and keeping everything crossed that there are no hiccups. This is a first time for quite a few of us (including me) although, I've taken part in a few hops to know the basics.
First of all, I want to say a huge thankyou to all the participants of our last challenge (over 160 at the time of posting). We've had tons of entries for the last few months and it really feels like we're making a successful go at this blogging lark.
There's a lot to get through this week so please bear with me and such a long post. Our challenge this week has a Christmas Theme. We're actually going to have two categories, Card or Gift, and you can enter either one or both. The prizes will be:
At One Stop Card Crafts we have a big range of ever changing discountcard making and cardmaking craft supplies. We are always adding to our range of craft supplies which are ideal for making handmade greeting cards, do-it-yourself invitations scrapbook pages, altered items and much more. Our card making craft supplies include free UK postage* and our popular discount scheme and quick service means our customers keep coming back for more. Our prices are very competitive and this makes us an ideal place to buy your cardmaking supplies online.
ProMarkers are made by Letraset and are a twin tipped, dye based alcohol marker offering a high quality product at a great price. Avilable in 148 colours, they give incredible tonal range and can be applied to a diverse range of materials, not just paper and card. ProMarkers produce vivid, bright colours right through to the subtlest pastel shades - the translucent inks can also be overlaid and blended, even further extending the range of shades and hues on offer. ProMarker's quality nibs and inks provide flawless colour lay down with consistent coverage and no unsightly streaking.
Two wonderful prizes there, I'm sure you'll agree. Our Design Team have been busy making cards and gifts to give you some inspiration and here's what they've come up with:
Both challenges will close at midnight (GMT) on 19 December 2010 and winners will be chosen at Random on the 20th. Leave your name and a direct link to your entry (not just to your blog) below. If the link tools are not there for some reason, then please leave details in the comments and I'll add you in before I do the draw.
Now for our second event, the anniversary blog hop. As I said we've not done this before, so fingers crossed all goes to plan. The hop has 10 stops and at each stop you'll get a word (or two in some cases). when you have finished you should have 11 words which can be re-arranged to make a festive phrase. You'll need to come back to this post and leave your phrase in the comments. I've turned the review function back on for this challenge so your comments wont be visible until the end of the hop. I'd like it if you can post about us on your own blog but it's not a requirement for entry, just a request.
The full list of stops are here, so if at any point you get lost or you find a broken link, come back here and check it out.
At the end of the hop we'll choose a random winner who will get a Dovecraft Gift set from my leftover stock. You may remember I closed my shop in September. I have lots of surplus stock and you can find some of it listed at very reasonable prices here. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture, but it contains more than £40 worth of cardmaking goodies.
Along the way, you'll find each stop has a candy to give away. Leave a comment at each stop to be in with a chance of winning their prize. We originally had 11 stops but one of our girls has had a major meltdown with her internet and had to drop out. We rejiggled everything, but I'm left with one candy prize to give away. It's a digi image from Squiggle Stamps:
I think the fairest thing to do would be to have a random draw of all our followers and send someone an extra xmas present. I'll do that at the same time as all the other draws on the 20 December 2010.
I have to say that, my mind is starting to go now. It's very late but I think I've covered everything. Good luck and we hope you enjoy our blog hop. Finally, a big thankyou to all our sponsors throughout the year. We wouldn't be here without you.
I swear I don't know where the weeks are going. I'm really sorry for the time I've taken to publish the winner of our last challenge. Without further ado, the winner of the wonderful Rubber Stamp from Hope Jacare is
Well done to you all. Please grab our top 3 badge from the sidebar and add it to your own. That's all for now, but please take a look at our current challenge which still has a week to go and a fab prize from Bunny Zoe Crafts.
We had some wonderful entries for the last challenge, thank you to everyone who entered. Before I introduce this fortnight's challenge, I just want to give you advance warning of our fast approaching 1st Anniversary. We started our challenges on the 1st December last year so, to celebrate the success, we are having a blog hop on the 6th December. We have lots of prizes up for grabs together with challenges and, of course the blog hop. Please make sure you put the date in your diaries and come back to join in.
So now lets get on with the current challenge which is sponsored by the wonderful Bunny Zoe Crafts.
Bunny Zoe's Crafts is a family run online Craft store who ships worldwide. We provide friendly and efficient customer service, with quick processing and dispatch of orders. We sell a great range of Rubber Stamps from around the world, Digital Images, Personalised Stamps, Designer Papers, Stamping Essentials, Copic Ciao's, Distress Inks, Dies, Flowers, Ribbons & Lace, Buttons. Charms, Flat back Pearls and many, many fabulous card making goodies.
The prize is a £10 voucher to spend at Bunny Zoe Crafts where I'm sure you'll find lots of goodies to tempt you.
Here's the examples from our Design Team which I'm sure you'll think are wonderful:
Sadly, this is Issy's last challenge with us. I'm really sorry to see you go, Issy, and wish you all the success in the future. Hopefully, we'll still see your wonderful cards entering into our challenges in the New Year.
Finally some rules:
1. Your card must be for a man/boy.
2. It must follow the theme/sketch set.
3. It must be a new card for our challenge.
The challenge will close at 12 midnight (GMT) on the 5th December 2010. Leave your name and a direct link to your entry (not just to your blog) below. If the link tool is not there for some reason, then please leave details in the comments and I'll add you in before I do the draw.
Wow, nearly 300 entries! That's beaten our Father's Day record, lol. I couldn't possibly have managed the top 3 without the wonderful suggestions from the Design Team. It was a true team effort. Thanks so much to you all.
The winner of the prize from our fab sponsor, Digital Delights, as chosen by Random.org is
Linda. Congratulations, Linda! Please send your email address to cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk so that I can pass it on to the sponsor to organise your prize.
This week's challenge is sponsored by my good friend, Claire, from Hope Jacare. Claire kindly let us have images for our cards and as you can see there is a great variety in her catalogue. If you haven't visited Hope Jacare before, you really should. I'm sure you won't be disappointed.
Our theme this time is Animals which should give plenty of scope. The prize available to the random winner is a Rubber Stamp from Claire's first release,
Isn't it wonderful? I think so and you'll find an example in our DT creations.
But there's more! I have a fab Robin image to give away as well. This will be emailed to anyone who enters a card in the challenge and leaves a comment requesting it. Please remember to leave your email in the linky tool so that I can send it out. Here's a preview of the image and again you'll find examples in our DT cards.
Now that's all done and dusted, here are the examples from the Design Team to give you some ideas:
I always love seeing the different ideas the Design Team come up with. Now for some rules:
1. The card must be for a man/boy.
2. You need to follow the theme/sketch that is set.
3. It must be a new card.
The challenge will close at 12 midnight (BST) on the 21st November 2010. Leave your name and a direct link to your entry (not just to your blog) below. If the link tool is not there for some reason then leave the details in the comments and I'll add you in when I'm doing the draw.
It took a long time this week going through everyone's card and picking the top 3. Without further delay, here's the winner of the digis from Fresh Brewed Designs is
Natascha. Congratulations, Natascha, take a look at Heather's shop and let me know which 3 digis you'd like. You can email me on cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk
Wow, what a fortnight. As I'm scheduling this we've had 138 entries which is fab. It really is wonderful seeing everyone's ideas and we just want you all to keep on coming back to us.
Our theme this week is sticking with some general ideas, Anything Goes. The sponsor is the fabulous Digital Delights
Welcome to Digital Delights, a magical place filled with my little digi creations from all walks of life. We have a wide range of digital stamps which are delivered straight to your email 24/7!!
Aren't they wonderful. It never ceases to amaze me what wonderful ideas the team can come up with. Now for some rules:
1. The card must be for a man/boy.
2. You need to follow the theme/sketch that is set.
3. It must be a new card.
The challenge will close at 12 midnight (BST) on the 7th November 2010. Leave your name and a direct link to your entry (not just to your blog) below. If the link tool is not there for some reason then leave the details in the comments and I'll add you in when I'm doing the draw.
