Week 802 - Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends; we hope you’ve had a great day so far. We’re back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s 'spots and/or stripes' challenge. It was lovely to see your entries and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations. I’ll be announcing Sue's Top 5 Passionista in a moment but firstly let’s find out who our lucky winner is!

For last week’s challenge we were sponsored by Polkadoodles and they offered one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from their online store. As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 3

Paper Whims

Congratulations Wendy what a super cute card.  The image is adorable and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com and let us know what images you would like and we will arrange for them to be sent to you.  We hope you will proudly display our winners badge on your blog:

Now onto the Top 5 Passionista and Sue had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  After much deliberation here are her favourite 5 (in linky order):

Chrissyxx

Jenny

Kathy

Wendy

Jenn Borjeson

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 at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com.

Unfortunately Week 800's re-drawn winner did not contact us to claim their prize so we are once again re-drawing the prize of 4 digi images courtesy of Lili of the Valley stamps. Using random.org the lucky second re-drawn winner is:

No. 37

Bettascrap

Congratulations Betta, your card is beautiful.  Please email us with your choice of images from Lili of the Valley and we will arrange for them to be sent to you.  Feel free to grab a winner's badge from above for your blog. 

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to join in with our current challenge 'special occasions' - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 803 - special occasions

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for all your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘spots and/or stripes’ challenge.  It was lovely to have you join us and as always the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your beautiful creations.  Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our winner of the 3 images courtesy of Polkadoodles and also revealing who Sue has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.  

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Nat from Team 2, and she has given us the fantastic theme of ‘special occasions'. Nat would like you to make something for a special occasion such as a wedding, anniversary, christening or a special birthday. Such a brilliant theme, don't you agree and we can’t wait to see what you make.  Please remember you can enter using any type of creation, it doesn’t have to be a card but whatever you make please remember you must include a hand coloured image to be eligible for our prize draw.  So come on, grab your markers, and have fun!

Our generous sponsor this week is All Dressed Up Stamps and they are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their online store.  All of the DT have used images from All Dressed Up on their creations this week.

The design team have worked their magic once again this week and have created beautiful cards to inspire you (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Nat

(using ADU image 'over the moon')

Wendy

(using ADU image 'over the moon')

Elaine

(using ADU image 'country girl')

Karen

(using ADU image 'country girl')

Kitty 

(using ADU image 'country girl')

Another week of wonderful inspiration from the DT!! We hope you can join in with our challenge this week and we look forward to seeing what you create.

Stay safe and sending our love to you all.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 801 - Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends; we hope you’ve had a great day so far. Apologies for the slightly later post today.  We’re back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s 'for a child' challenge. It was lovely to see your entries and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations. I’ll be announcing Kitty's Top 5 Passionista in a moment but firstly let’s find out who our lucky winner is!

For last week’s challenge we were sponsored by Leann's World 101 and they offered one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their online store. As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 4

Margreet

Congratulations Margaret, what an adorable card.  The image is so cute and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com and let us know what images you would like and we will arrange for them to be sent to you.  We hope you will proudly display our winners badge on your blog:

Now onto the Top 5 Passionista and Kitty had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  After much deliberation here are her favourite 5 (in linky order):

Kathy

Lorraine A. 

Silke

Helen

Chrissyxx

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 at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com.

Unfortunately last week's winner did not contact us to claim their prize so we are re-drawing the prize of 4 digi images courtesy of Lili of the Valley stamps.  Using random.org the lucky re-drawn winner is:

No. 33

Alexandra

Congratulations Alexandra, your card is super cute.  Please email us with your choice of images from Lili of the Valley and we will arrange for them to be sent to you.  Feel free to grab a winner's badge from above for your blog. 

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to join in with our current challenge 'spots and/or stripes' - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 802 - spots and/or stripes

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week. Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘for a child' challenge; as always the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your beautiful creations. Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our lucky winner who will win the 2 digi images courtesy of Leann's World 101 and we will also find out who Kitty has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which was chosen by Sue from Team 1 and she has given us a theme of ‘spots and/or stripes'. Sue would simply like you to create something which includes either spots or stripes or both!!  You can have spots and stripes on your papers, ribbons, image or even background stamps!  Such a lovely theme and we hope to have lots of entries this week!  Don't forget you can make anything you want, it doesn’t have to be a card, all creations are welcome.  We hope you’ll have fun and can’t wait to see what you create this week.  The only rule we have is that you must have a hand coloured image on your creation.  So grab your markers, join in and have some fun!

Our generous sponsor this week is Polkadoodles who are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from their online store. Most of the DT have used images from Polkadoodles on their creations this week.

The design team have worked their magic once again this week and have created beautiful cards to inspire you (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Sue

(using Polkadoodles image 'pile of surprise gifts')

Lorraine 

(using Polkadoodles image 'iceman snowman Theo penguin')

Marie

No card this week

Marlene

Sarah

(using Polkadoodles image 'pile of surprise gifts')

Another week of wonderful inspiration from the DT!! We hope you can join in with our challenge this week and we look forward to seeing what you create. Stay safe and sending our love to you all.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x