Week 819 - 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 'dies and/or punches' challenge. It was lovely to see all your entries and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations. I’ll be announcing Marie'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 The Paper Shelter and they offered one lucky winner 3 digi images their choice from their online store. As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 16

Birgit

Congratulations Birgit, what a fun card. The image is super 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 Marie had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. After much deliberation here are her favourite 5 (in linky order):

Lia

Donna

Marjeta

Vannessa

Inkami

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 3 of our winners from the Mega Christmas challenge did not contact us to claim their prizes so we have re-drawn new winners. 

For the Uniko prize of 1 product of winner's choice (must be in stock) - the lucky redrawn winner is:

** No. 47 - Pauline C. **

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For the Leann's World 101 prize of 2 digi images - the lucky redrawn winner is:

** No. 27 - Pam's Pearls **

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For the Sheepski Designs prize of 3 digi images - the lucky redrawn winner is:

** No. 48 - Donna W. **

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Congratulations to our redrawn winners.  Please email us and let us know what images/product you would like and we will arrange for them to be sent out to you.  Donna if you email us we will send you the link to choose your images from Sheepski Designs as the store is currently closed.  

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

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 820 - favourite digi or stamp

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week. Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘dies and/or punches’ 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 lucky winner who will receive the 3 digi images of their choice courtesy of The Paper Shelter and we will also be finding out who Marie has chosen as her top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Karen from Team 2 and she has given you the theme of ‘favourite digi or stamp' to inspire you this week.  Karen would simply like you to use your favourite digi or stamp on your creations this week.  Now if you are anything like us your have lots of favourites which can change from day to day so will accept multiple entries as usual.  However please can you tell us why the image you’ve used is particularly your favourite.  We cannot wait to see what your favourite images are.  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 heir choice from their online store.  All the DT have used images from All Dressed Up Stamps 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):

Karen

(using ADU image 'garden wheel barrow')

Kitty

(using ADU image 'daisy fairy')

Nat

(using ADU image 'daisy fairy')

Wendy

(using ADU image 'garden wheel barrow')

Elaine

(using ADU image 'hedgehog with flowers')

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

Winners of Week 818 - Mega Christmas challenge 2025

Hello again crafters, we’re back to announce all of our lucky winners for the month long Mega Christmas challenge ‘add a sentiment’. It was wonderful to see so many entries and you certainly kept the DT busy! We all had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations and we hope you will continue to play along with our challenges in 2026.

Firstly we would like to thank all our generous sponsors, without whom our challenges would not be the same! We are grateful that so many of them have once again continued to sponsor us this year along with some lovely new sponsors too. 

As we explained at the start of the Mega Christmas challenge we aren’t choosing our usual top 5 Passionista for this one challenge only so listed below are all winners of prizes! We used random.org to choose our winners and we went in order of the prizes listed in the challenge post.

Ok here we go, good luck everyone, here are the lucky winners for the Mega Christmas challenge 2025:

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Dies to Die For offered a £25.00 gift voucher and the lucky winner is:

** No. 64 - Vic **

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Uniko Stamps offered 1 product of winner's choice (must be in stock) and the lucky winner is:

** No. 61 - Jackie C. **

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Leann’s World 101 offered 2 digi images and the lucky winner is:

** No. 28 - Becca Yahrling **

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All Dressed Up stamps offered 2 digi images and the lucky winner is:

** No. 36 - Julie B. **

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Polkadoodles offered 3 digi images and the lucky winner is:

** No. 35 - Pöydän kulmalla näpertelijä **

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Sheepski Designs offered 3 digi images and the lucky winner is:

** No. 14 - Gloria Shirr ** 

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RAM Stamps offered a £10.00 voucher and the lucky winner is:

** No. 12 - Jenn Borjeson **

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Di's Digi Stamps offered a £6.00 voucher and the lucky winner is:

** No. 29 - Pinky **

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Colour of Love Stamps offered 3 digi images and the lucky winner is:

** No. 62 - Helen ** 

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Thankfully we used random.org otherwise we could never have chosen our winners, all your entries were so beautiful.

Congratulations to all our winners – we’re sorry you couldn’t all be winners but check out this week’s challenge for another chance to win a prize courtesy of The Paper Shelter. 

Please can all our winners email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com stating the sponsors name in the subject line and what images you would like.  Please note you have until next Monday to claim your prize, otherwise a new winner will be chosen.

Have a great week and check out our current challenge ‘dies and/or punches’ - full details in the post below.  Also a big thank you for all your comments and support during the last year.  Here's to an amazing 2026!

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 819 - dies and/or punches

Good morning and welcome back to our lovely crafters; we can’t wait to share our first challenge of 2026.  We hope you’ve all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year and managed to fit in some crafting over the holiday period.  The last month has just whizzed by hasn’t it!  We would like to say a big thank you for all your support in 2025 and we hope you will continue to support us this year.  We were blown away by all your lovely entries for our Mega Christmas challenge; it was amazing to see them all and as always the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your creations.  Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing all of our lucky winners – how exciting!

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Marie from Team 1, and she has given us the fun theme of ‘dies and/or punches’.  As the title suggests Marie doesn't mind what you make this week as long as your project includes die cuts or punched pieces.  I don’t think it can get any easier than that to start us off this year.  Don’t forget you can enter any type of creation it doesn’t have to be a card.  So pull out your favourite markers and get colouring.  

Our generous sponsor this week is The Paper Shelter and they are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from their online store.  The DT were given an image to use on their cards this week called 'daisies on my hat'.  

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):

Marie

Marlene

Sarah

Sue

Lorraine

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.

Don’t forget to pop back later to see if you are one of our lucky winners from our Mega Christmas challenge; as we have lots of winners there will be no top 5, but this will re-start again this week with Marie's challenge.  

Stay safe and sending our love to you all.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x