Week 853 - Stitching: real or faux

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you had a great week last week. Thank you for the gorgeous entries for our ‘ribbons and/or bows’ 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. Don’t forget to pop back later to find out who won the prize courtesy of Uniko and also 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 theme of ‘stitching: real or faux’. Kitty has given you a super easy theme and would like to see some stitching on your creations this week.  There are so many stitched dies around now that it's easy to go the faux way but of course if you like to machine or hand-stitch on your cards that's great too.  Of course it could be patterned paper with stitching or ribbon that has stitched lines on it.  Such a fun theme and we can’t wait to see what you make. Don’t forget you can enter any type of creation it doesn’t have to be a card. The only rule we have is to use your markers, hand colour an image and have fun!

Our generous sponsor this week is Di's Digi Stamps who are offering one lucky winner a £6.00 voucher to spend in their 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):

Kitty

Nat

(using Di's Digi Stamps image 'hot chocolate & cookies')

Wendy

(using Di's Digi Stamps image 'Sammy's surprise') - not currently in the store

Elaine

Karen

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 851 - 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 'floral vibes' 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 Sheepski Designs who offered one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice (the online store is currently closed but you will be sent a link to be able to choose your images). As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 4

Urška

Congratulations Urška, what a gorgeous card. The image is beautiful and your colouring is perfect. Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com and we will send you the link to choose your images. 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):

Chris

Pauline C. 

Lia

Silke

Alice K.

Congratulations to you all; 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 enter our current challenge ‘ribbons and/or bows’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 852 - ribbons and/or bows

Good morning lovely crafters, I hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for all your entries for last week’s ‘floral vibes’ challenge.  It was lovely to see all your beautiful entries and as always the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our lucky winner who will receive the 3 digi images courtesy of Sheepski Designs and we will also be finding out who Karen has chosen as her top 5 Passionista. 

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Marlene from Team 1, and she has given us the fantastic theme of ‘ribbons and/or bows’.  This week Marlene doesn’t mind what you make as long as you include a ribbon and/or a bow (or both) on your creations!  I’m sure we all have a stash of unloved ribbons in our craft cupboards so why not take the opportunity to use some up this week.  Such a fun theme; 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 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 Uniko Stamps and they are offering one lucky winner 1 product of their choice i.e. stamp, die, or stencil (which must be in stock) from their online store.  Bev has lots of beautiful products in her store so why not pop over and check them out.  I promise you won’t leave empty handed!

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):

Marlene

Sarah

Sue

Lorraine

Take a short break

Marie

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 850 - 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 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 Colour of Love Digis who 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

Margreet

Congratulations Margreet, what a gorgeous 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 Marie had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. After much deliberation here are her favourite 5 (in linky order):

Silke

Bettascrap

Alice K.

Jenn Borjeson

Helen

Congratulations to you all; 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 enter our current challenge ‘floral vibes’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x