Last week we introduced you to Christine's postcards, and gave you a chance to win some of them in a fantastic giveaway. Hundreds of you participated by leaving a comment, and we bet you're anxious to know who got one of the postcard sets... but first, here's a word from Christine herself:

Dear postcrossers,
I was overwhelmed by the fantastic response on the By Kris Give away. I congratulate the winners! To say thank you to everybody else that did not win: if you place an order this week in my etsy shop, I will charge NO shipping costs. Just use the promo code: FREESHIPPING.
Happy Postcrossing!

Christine/ By Kris

Sweet! So without further ado, here are the 10 lucky winners: Iefonnuh, Saouri, fory, zphyrs, Linni, Hildegarde, ParallelSouls, Sisko1, WeepingWillows and red_sun. Congratulations! You'll be receiving an email from us shortly!

A huge thank you to Christine for sponsoring the giveaway, and also to everyone who participated!

When Christine (aka Chriz) joined Postcrossing back in 2009, she would had never guessed where it would lead her. She loved postcards but quickly discovered that she also really liked to make her own cards, especially through collages...

Everyone seemed to like receiving her special made creations, so she decided to print them and open a webshop! Things were going well and half a year later, a publisher found her cards on a local bookstore and got in touch with a business proposal. These days, By Kris cards are sold all over the Netherlands (and also abroad), in giftstores and bookshops, both online and offline!

In her own words:

I think it’s amazing how one step can lead to another. Yes, it was scary and yes it was exciting, but I learned to believe in myself and not to be afraid of challenges.

Christine says Postcrossing brought a lot of good things to her, and so she's happy to give something back - by offering 10 sets (of 10 postcards each) to 10 lucky postcrossers! :)

To win one of these packs, visit the By Kris shop, and leave a comment below, letting us know which card is your favourite! We'll pick 10 random winners on Monday next week. Good luck!

We're a bit late to this announcement, but here it goes...

The two winners of the FunnyCard.nl giveaway are myshadow from Canada and AleksAndFlo from Germany. Congratulations!

And a big thank you to BrendaP, for sponsoring this giveaway! :)

This weekend's giveaway is sponsored by FunnyCard.nl, an online shop run by BrendaP, who was addicted to Postcrossing but found it hard to find nice cards... so she decided to start her own shop!

Today she is offering a set of 25 Postcrossing themed cards to 2 lucky users!

To participate, have a look at Brenda's shop and leave a comment below, with a greeting in your own language. We'll randomly pick the two lucky commenters by this time next week. And have a nice weekend!

Last week we showed you a wonderful project by a group of Lithuanian members, who designed and printed their own postcards. They offered to send 16 lucky postcrossers a postcard from their special set... but the response was so overwhelming, they had a lot of trouble picking the winners, and therefore decided to increase that number to 45! :D

So, without further ado, the members who will receive a postcard from Lithuania are: qvovadis, AnaPinto, pierrev, strummer, MrPooney, famvanrems, tiira, Kazoline, budzin, milko, SueJames, Kirst, drup, leojus, niteshyft, cinghiospol, hulottati, Mayangiras, neitrino, Roo17, vchera, TinTin, GSD, SilentSilence, araneia, arti_baki, hillie67, Ilona500, Hansgom, geekerella, ARod26, PoppySu, signhild, Olha_K, diome, emma-cole, sofree, ceoramalho, mahoema, wikinet, MiniP, rhackett, only_rose, Dechen and zie.

Congratulations everyone! And a big thank you to this group of postcrossers, for their generosity!

On a somewhat related note, another group of postcrossers from Lithuania is currently working on convincing their postal services to make a Postcrossing stamp. If you're Lithuanian and want to help this idea move forward, please join them on this Facebook group. Thank you!