Tuesday, 14 April 2026

Week 833 - spring colours

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you had a great week last week.  Oh dear, last week's 'no square or rectangle cards' challenge did not inspire you but we want to thank the two entrants that did take part.  The DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our lucky winner of the 3 digi images courtesy of Sheepski Designs but sadly Kitty won't need to choose a top 5 this week.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Sue from Team 1, and she has given us the theme of ‘spring colours’. Sue doesn’t mind what you make as long as the colours remind you of spring.  We are thinking pastel shades such as lemon, green, blue, pink, purple etc, but anything that makes you think ‘spring’ would fit the bill!  We hope you’ll have fun and can’t wait to see what you create this week.  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 Leann's World 101 and they 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 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):

(using Leann's World 101 image 'birthday balloons')
(using Leann's World 101 image 'birthday balloons')
(using Leann's World 101 image 'Azalea's new dress')
(using Leann's World 101 image 'birthday balloons')
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, 7 April 2026

Week 831 - 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 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 RAM Stamps and Rachelle offered one lucky winner a £10 voucher to spend in her online store. As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 6

Congratulations Jane, what a beautiful card. The image is super cute and your colouring is amazing. Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com with your choice of images 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):

Jane Savage (must be your lucky week!)

Chris

Carol Gill

Renske N.

Handmade Easter card with three coloured dog stamps sitting inside a twine floral wreath, decorated with layered paper flowers and leaves on a soft ink blended background

Diane A.

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 'no square or rectangle cards' - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 832 - no square or rectangle cards

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week and enjoyed the Bank Holiday weekend (in the UK). 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 £10 voucher courtesy of RAM Stamps and we will also be finding out 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 you the theme of ‘no square or rectangle cards’ to inspire you this week.  Kitty is a big fan of shaped cards so she wants you to step away from the usual square and rectangle cards and make something different this week. She would love to see shapes such as circles, ovals, stars, whatever your creativity can think of.  Such a brilliant theme, don't you agree and we can’t wait to see what you make.  Just remember your entry must include a hand-coloured image to be eligible for the prize draw; so grab your markers and get colouring!

Our generous sponsor this week is Sheepski Designs and they are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice (the store is currently closed but the winner will be sent a link so that they can choose their images).  All of the DT have used images from Sheepski Designs on their creations this week. 

The design team have created beautiful cards once again this week (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs and leave them some love!):

(using Sheepski Designs image 'spring lamb')
(using Sheepski Designs image 'garden party')
(using Sheepski Designs image 'floral heart')
(using Sheepski Designs image 'clematis trellis')
(using Sheepski Designs image 'shopping in Yorkshire')

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, 31 March 2026

Week 830 - 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 'think pink' 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. 7
Congratulations Wendy, what a sweet card. The image is super cute and your colouring is perfect. Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com with your choice of images 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):

Deanne

Paper Whims

Chrissyxx

Gale

Pinky

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 Darlene has generously asked me to re-draw another winner for the All Dressed Up Stamps prize of 2 digi images; how kind is she?  So using Random.org the lucky re-drawn winner is:

Congratulations  Kathy what a beautiful card; your coloured vellum is gorgeous.  Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com with your choice of images and we will arrange for them to be sent out to you.  Don't forget to grab a winner's badge from above to display on your blog. 

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

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x