Week 23 – Any colours & theme

Hello and welcome to a brand new week here at passion for promarkers.  Before we go into details of this week’s challenge we would like to thank you for your beautiful entries to last week’s poppy and forest green challenge.  Most of you opted for christmas cards (as did our DT) and your cards were stunning.  Please check back later to find out our lucky winner of the £10.00 voucher for Yellow Moon and also to see who our top 5 passionista will be. 
Right onto this week’s challenge, which has been chosen by Helen.  You can use any colours this week, but Helen would like to see animals somewhere on your creations. 
Our sponsor this week is Letraset and one lucky winner will receive a 5 pack of promarkers. 

We have two new guest designers joining us for 4 weeks starting this week – Barbara and Manda.  I hope you will join in with us and give them a big welcome to our team. 

Our design team have gone animal mad and come up with some gorgeous samples for your inspiration (don’t forget you can click on their names to visit their blogs and find out how they made their cards):

Helen

Ida

Manda

 

Maria

 

Michele

Natalie

Sarah

 

Sue

 

Barbara

 

Caryn

Debbi

 

Denise

We hope you enjoy the theme this week.  We can’t wait to come and visit your blogs and see your animal inspired creations.  Don’t forget to check out the weekend workshop on Friday for another fab tutorial. 
Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Weekend Workshops

Hi there,
have you noticed any changes to the blog? yup we've moved the workshops so that the challenges don't get lost further down the page.
You can find all the workshops by clicking on the "Weekend Workshops" button under the blog header. I'm sure you'll agree it tidies things up a bit.
This week's workshop is a fab Elephant image  from Helen and we can't wait to see how you get on with it.
See you over on the Weekend Workshop page, and please scroll down for the current challenge which is still running.
 Hugs
Gina, Denise and the DT xxx

Week 21 – top 5 passionista

Wow we had some gorgeous entries to Gina’s sketch challenge last week and she had a really difficult task picking just 5.  We appreciate all your fab entries and wish we could pick more than 5 but at least it’s a little more special when you are chosen.  So without further ado here is Gina’s top 5 passionista for week 21:

**** Brenda ****

**** Donna ****

**** Emma ****

**** Norma ****

**** Vix ****

Congratulations ladies, you are now free to display the top 5 passionista blinkie on your blog. 

Don’t forget to check out the weekend workshop on Friday for another fantastic tutorial.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 22 – Colour challenge Poppy & Forest Green

Hello and welcome to a new week and a new challenge here at passion for promarkers.  Before we announce the details of the challenge we would like to thank you for your gorgeous entries to last week’s sketch challenge, your creations are getting better and better.  We thoroughly enjoyed visiting your blogs and seeing your work.  We will be back later to announce the lucky winner of the 6 promarkers donated by the secret crafter and Gina will also be revealing her top 5. 
Onto this week’s challenge which has been chosen by our guest DT member Claire.  She has picked a colour challenge for us this week and would like to see your projects with Poppy & Forest Green as the main promarker colours. 
Our sponsor this week is Yellow Moon and one lucky winner will receive a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online shop. 

Our design team have worked their magic again this week and have come up with some amazing samples for you.  (If you want to visit their blogs to read how they made their cards just click on their names)

Claire (guest DT)

 

Caryn

Debbi

Denise

 

Ida

Maria

 

Michele

 

Natalie

Sam (guest DT)

 

Sarah

Sue

We would like to say a big thank you to Claire & Sam for joining us at guest DT members but sadly this week will be their final week.  Next week we will revealing two brand new guest DT members, who will be staying with us for 4 weeks. 
We hope you enjoy our colour challenge this week and we can’t wait to see what you come up with.
Also we just wanted to let you know that Natalie is celebrating her 2nd blogoversary and is offering amazing candy – so why not pop over and leave her a comment. 
Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Weekend Workshop #20

Hi there, and welcome to our 20th Weekend Workshop - yes its still Debbi here I'm afraid lol
Every week we are more and more overwhelmed with the challenge entries, and we hope that our tutorials, hints and tips are proving useful. The current challenge is a cracker (not literally) and we're looking forward to even more of you entering as you can use any colour of Promarker - please remember though that you do need to use at least 1 Promarker plus the fabulous sketch from Gina to be eligible for the prize. So get crafting, you still have until this Tuesday at 9am to enter.
Gina would also like to thank all of you who have sent her get well wishes - she really appreciates it, you might also want to pop over and enter her super birthday and blogaversary candy. I'll let you into a wee secret, she's gonna be 40 on the 22nd of October. Haha, I'm so going to get my backside kicked for that lol And talking of birthdays, today is Michele's birthday - pop over and send her some birthday wishes.

Anyway, moving swiftly on.... Caryn has done this fantabulous flower tutorial for us all, and its so easy - but so effective.

Spikey flower tutorial by Caryn

I have been asked by a few people how to make the spikey flower that I had on my card for the “Cool Aqua and Apricot” challenge.  I have tried to show it as well as I can but it was at night when I took the photos so please excuse the poor light!! 
You start by cutting a strip of paper into an elongated triangle (remember isosceles from school??).  The size of the strip will determine how big your flower will be.  Go by the width of the “fat” end – what ever length this is your finished flower will be just under double this. Next you need to cut along the entire length of the strip so that you end up with a fringed edge.  Be careful not to cut all the way through but just up to the edge. 
 
For the next bit you need a simple quilling tool (like a double-pointed pin – but not sharp!!)
Slide the thin end of the strip into the quilling tool and start rolling it up.

If you are using single-sided paper, then make sure the patterned/coloured side is on the inside of the roll.  Like-wise if you’re using double-sided then the side you want the flower to be should be on the inside of the roll.

At this point you will need to make any little adjustments but DON’T LET GO!!!  Carefully remove it from the quilling tool and add a small dot of glue to the loose end to hold it in place.  Finally, carefully bend the “petals” back from the outside working in.  Lay the flower down on the table and press firmly on the centre to flatten it as much as possible.  Add a dot of glue to the bottom and then it’s ready to go on your card!

Ok, that’s it!  Hope someone out there finds this of use – I’ll be scouring blogland now looking for examples!! 
Take care,
Hugs,
Caryn xxx

I don't know about you, but I can see these flowers popping up on loads of my cards now.
Remember all our tutorials are available in PDF format so you can print them out and keep them. Just email me (Debbi) and let me know which one(s) you would like.
coming up NEXT WEEK – We have an animal image tutorial for you

Hugs Gina, Denise and the DT xxx

Top 5 passionista – week 20

Wow you really enjoyed our challenge last week and we had some gorgeous entries.  Denise had the unenviable task of choosing her top 5 this week and boy did she struggle.  However there has to be only 5 and here are her selection:

**** Kim ****

**** Angela ****

**** Jenny ****

**** Tracy ****

**** Marie ****

Well done ladies, you can now add the top 5 passionista blinkie to your blog. 

Don’t forget to check out the weekend workshop on Friday for another fantastic tutorial. 

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 21 – any colours & sketch

Hello and welcome to a brand new week here at passion for promarkers.  Before we go into the details of the new challenge we would like to thank everyone who entered last week’s recipe challenge, and boy did we have some gorgeous cards & projects to look at.  We will be announcing last week’s winner later tonight of the 5 pack of promarkers kindly donated by Letraset and don’t forget to check back to find out who the top 5 passionista as chosen by Denise will be. 
Right onto this week’s challenge, which has been chosen by Gina…. once again this week you can use any colours you like but we have a sketch for you to follow.  

Our sponsor this week is the secret crafter and one lucky winner will receive 6 promarkers of their choice. 

Our design team have thoroughly enjoyed using Gina’s sketch this week and have come up with the following cards to inspire you:

Unfortunately Gina is still unwell so hasn’t been able to make a card for her challenge this week, so I hope you’ll join us in wishing her a speedy recovery – we miss your gorgeous cards Gina!

Ida

Maria

 

Michele

Natalie

Sam

Sarah

Sue

Caryn

Claire

Debbi

Denise

 

We hope you will all enjoying using Gina’s sketch as much as we did and we look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  Don’t forget to check back on Friday for our weekend workshop as we have another fantastic tutorial lined up for you!
Also we thought you might like to know that Gina is offering some gorgeous candy over on her blog to celebrate her upcoming birthday and also her blogoversary so why not pay her a visit – you could win some lovely goodies!
Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x