Christmas Crackers

Hi everyone and hope all is well xxx

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us last week and as always there were some wonderful pieces of work and fabulous takes on the sketch.

And from of all that fabulousness, we need a winner

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Here are your random numbers:46
Timestamp: 2009-11-24 12:32:13 UTC

Well done Sue McClelland - you are our winner :)

EDITED - ooops, I forgot that this week we are having 2 winners, so our other lucky girlie is -

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Here are your random numbers:58
Timestamp: 2009-11-24 17:22:57 UTC

And well done Bella cos it's you,- and if you e-mail me YOUR details I'll pass them on to Peggy as well. Sorry about that peeps xxx

Big thank yous to Peggy for her sponsorship xxxx

And we have another fabulous sponsor this week and it's the turn of our featured sponsor, Heidi at ...

And Heidi is offering a whopping $25 to spend in her store, and that's the full amount as she pays your shipping costs. As always, huge thank yous Heidi xxx

So what's our challenge?
Well as it's nearly the big day, we thought we'd like to see your fave Christmas cards this week so it's a bit of an open challenge, and it is

Christmas Crackers.

As always our fabulous girlies have weaved their seasonal magic, so without further ado, here's the cards peeps.

Lorraine (GDT)

Saskia (GDT)

Donna


Steph

Jill

Mandy

Sharon

Debi

Dawny P

So those are our faves and now it's ho ho ho-ver to you (sorry!!)

If you get a sec, don't forget to check out our individual blogs and see what else we've all been up to.

Have a great week and see you next Tuesday xxx

Sketch #28

Hi everyone and hope all is well xxx

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us last week and as always there were some stunning bling-tastic pieces of work.

And from of all that fabulousness, we need a winner

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Here are your random numbers:106
Timestamp: 2009-11-17 13:27:29 UTC

Yoohoo Kathrin - it's you chick :)

Please e-mail me your details and I'll pass them on to Heather so that she can organise your prize. Big thank yous to Heather for her sponsorship as well xxxx

And we have another fabulous sponsor this week. and it's Peggy at






Now for those of you who don't already know, Peggy is the sister of our very own Sharon :)

And here's a little bit about her and her fabulous products -

I just love working with the Vintage Greeting Cards and have collected quite a large number of them. I am in heaven when I get a new vintage scrapbook and can spend time pouring over the collected cards, letters and mementos. Each scrapbook gives just a little insight into the life and times of the author and their families. The scrapbooks are created with such care and loving that you just know that it was very important to them to save all the tidbits and memories.

I try and take this love and care right into creating my Vintage Greeting Card Image CDs and Cut Outs. Sometimes, I'll even include something from the scrapbook, like a wedding picture of the couple or a sweet little handmade heart from a child to their mommy.

So many times, the scrapbooks are torn apart and the individual pieces sold or thrown away. It just breaks my heart! So all of my scrapbooks are kept together and the CDs are organized by the families not by the grouping of image types.

I have thousands of cards, so if you're looking for that special image or just want to create a quick special card visit one of my stores.

my web page http://www.PeggyLovesVintage.com
or
my etsy store http://www.PeggyLovesVintage.etsy.com
or
my ebay Store PackRat Basement Bargains

And Peggy's fabulous prize is 5 sets of cut outs for not one but TWO winners.

So what's our challenge?
Well it's sketch time here at Papertake and this week it's this one here -

As always, feel free to flip, rotate and resize to your hearts' contents peeps, and as long as you can still the basic sketch then that is fabbidoodles with us xxx

All the DT cards this week have been made using a Peggy Loves Vintage image

And here's the cards peeps.

Lorraine (GDT)

Saskia (GDT)

Steph

Jill

Mandy

Sharon

Debi


Donna


Dawny P


So there's our cardage which we hope you like, and now it's over to you lovely peeps.

If you get a sec, don't forget to check out our individual blogs and see what else we've all been up to.

Have a great week and see you next Tuesday xxx

Digi Sparkle

Hi everyone and hope all is well xxx

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us last week and as always there were some stunning pieces of work and awesome takes on the sketch.

Massive apologies if I didn't leave you a comment - for some reason either Mr Blogger or my computer decided that it would let me on some blogs but not on others. What a pain!!!

But anyway, we need a winner

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Here are your random numbers:41
Timestamp: 2009-11-10 12:28:16 UTC


Yoohoo Fliss, it's you chick :)
Please e-mail me your details and I'll pass them on to our Lou so that she can organise your prize. Big thank yous to Lou and the team for their sponsorship as well xxxx

And we have another fabulous sponsor this week. and it's Heather at

And check out this prize -

The winner of the challenge will have their account at digisparkle.com upgraded to 'club member status' for a period of one month which will run from when we are notified of the winner till the same numerical day of the following month.

And don't worry if you don't have an account - it is so easy to create one.

As a 'club member' you will be able to download all our products completely free, including any new digistamps that are added to our catalogue during your club membership period. At the end of the month the winner's account will become a normal account again, and any further purchases will be at full price.

That's free access to over £28 worth of digistamps!

And also, the wonderful Heather has joined us for the challenge as well. So I better stop waffling and tell you all what it is :)

Well, in honour of our sponosr, our challenge this week is

Digi Sparkle.

So we want to see a something digi on your card - could be an image or paper, whatever you want to use - plus a bit of something nice and sparkly and blingy.

As always the fab Papertake chicksters have weaved their magic and created some stunners which we hope wil inspire you, and all the images you see on our cards are available from Heather.

We are also saying hello to a new GDT girlie and that is Saskia who will be with us for 4 weeks. And the wonderful Lorraine is also staying with us for another 4 weeks :)x

So here's the cards peeps.

Heather

Lorraine (GDT)

Saskia (GDT)

Jill

Mandy

Sharon

Debi


Donna

Dawny P

Steph

So there's our digi sparklers, and now it's over to you lovely peeps.

If you get a sec, don't forget to check out our individual blogs and see what else we've all been up to. Have a great week and see you next Tuesday xxx

Sketch #27

Hi everyone.
Well didn't that last week fly by!!!!

And what a wonderful response we had to last week's challenge. Huge thanks to everyone who took part and for your lovely spotty stripey creations - fabulous!!

Huge thanks also to Heidi for sponsoring us and our lucky winner is

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Here are your random numbers:115
Timestamp: 2009-11-03 13:20:26 UTC

It's Itzuvit :)
Well done chick and if you e-mail me your details, I'll pass them on to Heidi.

So onto this week. It's time for another sketch and it's this on here ...

And we have another fabulous sponsor this week and it is the sweetness that is Lou at Lily-Boo

When I showed Lou the sketch, she sprung into action and sent it to Sam who designed some images especially for the sketch - how special do we feel xxxx

And it is these 6 very special images that are up for grabs this week.

Not only that, but Lou has joined us as our special guest designer and has done a gorgeous card as well.

Before we get to the team cards, sadly this is the last week for Lorraine and Heather who have been with us for the last 4 weeks.Huge thank yous to you both for all your hard work and wonderful cards.

And apologies to both Heather and Lou, cos some very dozy person forgot to send Heather her image to work with.

No prizes for guessing who that was!!!
We will have a new GDT for you next week.

So onto the team cards - feast your eyes on these :)x

Lou

Lorraine (GDT)

Heather (GDT)

Steph

Mandy

Debi

Donna
Jill

Sharon

Dawny P

We hope you like them :)

If you get a sec, don't forget to pop over to our individual blogs and catch up with what else we've all been up to.

And have fun with the sketch. As always you can rotate and resize any of the elements and flip or rotate it. As long as you can still see the basic sketch then that's fine.
And the text is an optional extra :)

See you all next week xxx