Tuesday, 21 October 2025

Week 810 - 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 'only square cards' 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 Marlene'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. 11
Congratulations Wendy, what a 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 Marlene had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. After much deliberation here are her favourite 5 (in linky order):

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.

Last week's winner Kathy has kindly asked me to gift her prize to someone else (how lovely is that?) so using random.org the lucky re-drawn winner of the 3 digis from Colour of Love is:
No. 6
Congratulations Maria, what a cute card. 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. Please grab the winner's badge (above) for your blog.

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

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 811 - fun folds

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘only square cards’ 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 2 digi images courtesy of Leann's World 101 and also revealing who Marlene has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.  

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Kitty from Team 2, and she has given us the fantastic theme of ‘fun folds'Kitty wants you to step out of your comfort zone this week and make a card with more than one fold.  It could be as simple as an easel card, z-fold card or even a stepper card.  Whatever you decide to make we cannot wait to be blown away by all your beautiful fun fold creations, which can be for any occasion and theme.  So come on, grab your markers and have fun!

Our generous sponsor this week is Di's Digi Stamps and Di is offering one lucky winner a £6.00 voucher to spend in her online store.  

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):

made a cute Halloween z-fold card
the image is a freebie from Di's Digi Stamps
Nat 
No card this week

made a bright and happy centre pop up card
made a cool winter easel card

made an elegant wedding easel card
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

Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Week 809 - 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 'favourite colours' 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 Karen'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 Colour of Love Digis 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. 19

Congratulations Kathy, what a gorgeous card. Your colouring is fantastic and we love your shimmery background.  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 Karen had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. After much deliberation here are her favourite 5 (in linky order):
Kathy (must be your lucky week!)
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.

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

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 810 - only square cards

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week. Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘favourite colours' 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 3 digi images courtesy of Colour of Love Digis and we will also find out who Karen has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which was chosen by Marlene from Team 1 and she has given us a theme of ‘only square cards'. As the title suggests Marlene only wants to see your square cards this week; it can be any size square but no rectangles or shaped cards allowed this week!  The card can be for any occasion so this should be an easy challenge for you.  
Such a lovely theme and we cannot wait to see what you create.  So come on grab your markers and have fun!

Our generous sponsor this week is Leann's World 101 who are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their online store.  Most of the DT have used images from Leann's World 101 on their cards 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):
(using Leann's World 101 image 'Azalea's new dress')
No card this week 
(using Leann's World 101 image 'Ann & Ron')
(using Leann's World 101 image 'Azalea's new dress')

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