Passion for Markers: September 2012

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Week 167–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again crafters. I’m back to announce the lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “clean and simple” challenge. It was nice to see so many entries and the standard of entries was excellent as always. The DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and we hope the number of entries will continue to rise on the run up to Christmas!

Firstly we are going to announce the lucky winner of the £10.00 voucher courtesy of Joanna Sheen and as always to be fair we used random.org (there were 56 linked entries and 2 email entries) and he chose:

No. 39

Oksana

Congratulations Oksana, your card is beautiful and the butterfly die cut is gorgeous. Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Nic certainly had her work cut out for her this week. It was such a popular theme and Nic could have chosen so many more but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Congratulations ladies, you can now proudly display the top 5 passionista on your blogs. If you need any help with this please email us.

We hope you all have a wonderful week and don’t forget to check out our current challenge “autumn leaves” – full details in the post below.

Hugs Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 168 - Theme

Good morning dear crafters. Well autumn has officially arrived and judging by the weather we had yesterday it’s arrived with a vengeance. I hope you are all safe and wrapped up warm – it is perfect weather for staying inside and crafting *yay*. Before we announce the details on the new challenge I would just like to say a big thank you for all your gorgeous entries to last week’s “CAS” challenge. The DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing all your amazing creations. Don’t forget to check back later to find out who Nic has chosen as her top 5 passionista and also to find out the lucky winner of the £10.00 voucher courtesy of Joanna Sheen.

Onto this week’s challenge which has been chosen by Andie of Team 2 and her theme is “autumn leaves”. Andie would specifically like to see an autumnal image and leaves not just autumn colours. Don’t forget to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Letraset products i.e. (promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers, tria markers, metallic markers or neon markers) and of course follow the theme.

Our sponsor this week is Bugaboo stamps and the lucky winner will receive 7 digis of their choice from their online store.

Team 2 have worked their magic once again this week and created gorgeous samples for your inspiration (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

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Stunning cards I’m sure you’ll agree. We hope you will be able to join in with our challenge and we look forward to seeing what you create.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Week 166–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again crafters. We’re back once again to announce the lucky winner for last week’s challenge and also to find out who has been chosen as our top 5 passionista. The DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous “green & yellow” creations last week.

Firstly we are going to announce the winner who will receive 6 digi images of their choice courtesy of DigiStamp Boutique. As always, to be fair, we used random.org (there were 30 linked entries and 1 email entry) and he chose:

No. 29

Anita

Congratulations Anita. Your card is gorgeous and your colouring is perfect. Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and originally last week’s challenge was chosen by Maya but sadly she has now stepped down from the DT therefore in her absence I have chosen the top 5 passionista. It was such a difficult decision and I could have chosen at least 10 but I had to follow the rules lol! So here are the top 5 for last week’s challenge:

Congratulations ladies, you can now proudly display the top 5 passionista blinkie on your blogs. If you need any help with this please email us.

We hope you all have a wonderful week. Please don’t forget to check out our current challenge “CAS cards” full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

New DT members

Hello everyone, we’re back with a quick post to let you know about some changes to Design Team 2. Unfortunately a few of the girls have decided to step down and we are sorry to say goodbye to Donna, Maya and Lis but wish them well for the future.

Therefore we have 3 new DT members to announce who will be joining Team 2 over the next few weeks. We hope you will give a warm welcome to:

** EILEEN **

** NAT **

** PINKY **

Welcome ladies, we are eagerly looking forward to seeing your wonderful creations for us here at PFP.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 167 - Theme

Good morning dear crafters. I trust you all had a great week last week. I cannot believe there are less than 100 days to Christmas! Boy the time does fly when you’re having fun doesn’t it lol! We’re back once again with another brand new challenge to entice you with but before we give you the details we would like to say a big thank you for all your gorgeous entries to last week’s “green & yellow” challenge. The DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and don’t forget to check back later to find out if you have been chosen as one of our top 5 passionista. We will also be revealing the lucky winner of the 6 digi images courtesy of DigiStamp Boutique.

Onto this week’s challenge which has been chosen by Nic of Team 1 and she would like to see all your “CAS cards”. In case you are a newbie CAS stands for Clean and Simple so therefore we want to see your basic but beautiful cards this week, very few embellishments or layers, let the image shine through!! As always to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Letraset products (i.e. promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers, tria markers, metallic markers or neon markers) and of course follow the theme.

Our sponsor this week is Joanna Sheen and one lucky winner will receive a £10.00 to spend in her online store. Don’t forget there is free p&p when you spend over £9.00 and super fast delivery as standard!

Design Team 1 have worked their magic once again and created beautiful samples for your inspiration (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Poorly this week – get well soon x

Stunning cards, I’m sure you agree. We hope you can join in with our challenge this week and we cannot wait to see what you create.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Tuesday, 11 September 2012

Week 165–winner & top 5 passionista

Hello again dear crafters. We’re back to announce the lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “lace & swirls” challenge. We had lots of gorgeous entries and the DT really enjoyed visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. We’ll be announcing Michele’s top 5 in a sec but firstly let’s find out who the lucky winner is.

The prize up for grabs last week was a New Promarker Collectors set courtesy of Letraset and as always to be fair we used random.org to choose our winner (there were 26 linked entries and 1 email entry) and the winner is:

No. 14

Monika

Congratulations Monika, your tag is gorgeous and I love the cute dragon image. Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Michele had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and had such a tough time choosing her favourites but after much deliberation here are her top 5 passionista for last week:

Congratulations ladies, you can now proudly display the top 5 passionista blinkie on your blogs. If you need any help with this please email us.

We hope you all have a wonderful week. Please don’t forget to check out our current challenge “green & yellow” – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 166–colour combo

Good morning dear crafters. I hope you all had a great week last week and are now raring to go with a brand new challenge. Before we announce the details we would like to say a big thank you for all your entries into last week’s ‘lace & swirls’ challenge. The DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations. Michele will certainly have her work cut out for her when she has to choose her top 5 passionista. Please check back later to find out who Michele has chosen and also to find out if you are the lucky winner of the New Promarker collector set courtesy of Letraset.

Onto this week’s challenge and it’s the turn of Team 2 to set the theme and this week we have a colour combo for you to use of “green and yellow”. Therefore we will only allow entries which use predominantly these colours. Don’t forget to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Letraset products (i.e. pro, flex, tria, aqua or metallic markers) and of course follow the theme.

Our sponsor this week is DigiStamp Boutique and Sally-Ann is offering one lucky winner 6 digi images of their choice from her fantastic range in her store.

The design team have once again created amazing samples for your inspiration (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Andie

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Anja

Jane B.

criss-cross card

criss-cross card open

Jen

Kim enjoyed the theme so much she made 2 cards!

(card 1)

(card 2)

Lis

Stunning cards again this week girls. I hope you have been inspired to join in with our challenge this week and we cannot wait to see what you create.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Tuesday, 4 September 2012

Week 164–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Good evening dear crafters. We’re back once again to announce the winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “needles & pins” challenge. We had some gorgeous entries and the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing all your different interpretations of Lis’ theme.

Firstly we are going to announce the winner of the 7 digi images courtesy of Bugaboo and as usual to make it fair we used random.org (there were 22 linked entries and 1 email entry) and he chose:

No. 12

Dee

Congratulations Dee. What a fantastic card and the image is just adorable, perfect for a back to school card. Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Lis had so much fun looking at all your entries this week and it was such a tough decision however after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Ali