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Tuesday 21 December 2010

Winners galore

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'll be back tomorrow with our Top 3's.

Friday 17 December 2010

Unclaimed prizes

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.

Thursday 9 December 2010

Challenge 24 - Winner and Top 3

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?

Our winner, picked using random.org is

Sol'ka.  Congratulations, please email cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk and I'll get you in touch with Nikki for your prize.

Our top 3 are




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.

Monday 6 December 2010

Challenge No. 25 and our Anniversary Blog Hop

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:

For the Card Category

A £15 gift voucher from One Stop Card Crafts


At One Stop Card Crafts we have a big range of ever changing discount card 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.



For the Gift Category

A set of 12 Promarkers from Letraset


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:




























Aren't they fab?  The usual rules apply:

1. Your card/gift must be suitable for a man/boy
2. It must be new for the challenge
3. It must follow the theme set.

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.

Monday 29 November 2010

Challenge 23 - Winner and Top 3

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


Christine Craig.  Congratulations, Christine, email your name and address to cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk and I'll pass it on to Claire.

The top 3 this time were,




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.

Monday 22 November 2010

Challenge No. 24 - Christmas Cards

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:




Robins at Play













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.





Tuesday 9 November 2010

Challenge 22 - Top 3 and Winner

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.

Our top 3, in no particular order, were




Congratulations girls, please grab the top 3 badge from our sidebar and add it to your own.

Finally, a special mention to some of our younger entrants.





It's really wonderful to see your creations.  Keep on crafting! xx

Monday 8 November 2010

Challenge No. 23 - Animals

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:











Robin


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.


Monday 1 November 2010

Challenge No 21 - Winner & Top 3

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

Now for the top 3, in no particular order,




Congratulations to you all.  Please grab the top 3 badge from our sidebar and add it to your own.

Don't forget, our current challenge runs for another week and you can join in here.

Monday 25 October 2010

Challenge No. 22 - Anything goes (as long as it's male)

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!!


The prize is a $10 gift certificate, to spend at Digital Delights which I'm sure you'd all love.  Please pop over and take a look around.

Here's what the wonderful Design Team came up with this time:



















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.