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Tuesday, 30 April 2019

Week 490–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “favourite digi or stamp” challenge. It was fantastic to see all your lovely 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 Cowling & Wilcox who offered one lucky winner a 6 pack of promarkers in rich tones. As always we used random.org and he chose:
No. 22
Congratulations Glennis, your card is super cute.  I love your image and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us with your postal address to promarkerchallenge@gmx.com and I will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Karen had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  She loved all your creations and it was a really tough decision but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:
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 at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com.
Top 5 Passionista Blinkie
We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our current challenge ‘lots of layers’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 491–lots of layers

Good morning lovely crafters, I hope you all had a fantastic week last week. Thank you for all your gorgeous entries for last week’s ‘favourite digi or stamp’ challenge, as always it was lovely to see your wonderful creations and the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs. Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our lucky winner who will receive the 6 pack of promarkers (rich tones) courtesy of Cowling & Wilcox 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 Lisa from Team 1 and she has given us the theme of ‘lots of layers’.  As the title suggests Lisa wants you to use as many layers on your card as you like, the more the merrier!  No one-layer, CAS cards allowed this week, sorry!  We hope you’ll have fun and can’t wait to see what you create this week.  Remember you can enter using any type of creation but as always to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Winsor & Newton (formerly Letraset) products (promarkers, flex markers, tria markers, aqua markers or metallic markers). Please can you help us by stating which products you have used on your creation i.e. ‘coloured with promarkers’ etc. Thanks x x

We have a brand new sponsor this week, the wonderful Lee Holland Designs and Lee is offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from his online store.  His designs are super cute so pop over to the store and check them out.  The design team were lucky enough to use images from Lee Holland Designs 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 Lee Holland image ‘pig in wellies’)
(using Lee Holland image ‘girl holding kitten’)
(using Lee Holland image ‘girl holding kitten’)
(using Lee Holland image ‘pig in wellies’)
(using Lee Holland image ‘pig in wellies’)
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.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Tuesday, 23 April 2019

Week 489–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “patterned paper” challenge. It was fantastic to see all your lovely entries, and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  I’ll be announcing Julie’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 All Dressed Up stamps who offered one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their online store. As always we used random.org and he chose:
No. 2
Congratulations Shona, your card is super cute.  I love your image and your colouring is perfect.  Please email me at denisemorgans@aol.com and I will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Julie had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  She loved all your creations and it was a really tough decision but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:
Congratulations ladies, you can now proudly display the top 5 passionista blinkie on your blogs. 
Top 5 Passionista Blinkie
We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our current challenge ‘favourite digi or stamp’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 490–favourite digi or stamp

Good morning lovely crafters; I hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for all your wonderul entries for last week’s ‘patterned paper’ challenge. As always it was lovely to see your gorgeous entries and the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs. Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing the lucky winner of the 2 digi images courtesy of All Dressed Up stamps and we will also be finding out who Julie has chosen as her top 5 passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which was chosen by Karen from Team 2 and her theme is ‘favourite digi or stamp’.  Karen would simply like you to use your favourite digi or stamp on your creations this week.  Now if you are anything like us your have lots of favourites which can change from day to day so will accept multiple entries as usual.  However please can you tell us why the image you’ve used is particularly your favourite.  We cannot wait to see what your favourite images are.  As always to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Winsor & Newton (formerly Letraset) products (promarkers, flex markers, tria markers, aqua markers or metallic markers) and of course follow the theme.  Please can you help us by stating which products you have used on your creation I.e. ‘coloured with promarkers’ etc.  Thanks x x

Our generous sponsor this week is Cowling and Wilcox and they are offering one lucky winner a 6 pack of Promarkers in rich tones. 

Cowling & Wilcox Ltd. was born in London in 1960 and has been going strong supplying the very best art products for nearly 60 years. To this day, they maintain their original concept of providing specialist fine and graphic art materials at exceptional prices, and they’re devoted to upholding this mission statement as they expand and evolve into the future.  Check out their current ‘Spring Sale’ on the website for some amazing deals.  They have Promarkers at fantastic prices, so grab them before they sell out!

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 'Stamping Bella: Huggy Friends'
(using ‘Heather Valentin: Raven Avian’)
(using ‘The Paper Nest Dolls: Princess Rose’)
(using 'Woodware: follow your art')
(using ‘Penny Black: hedgehog visit')
(using one image from ‘LOTV: bunny wishes trio')
(using Penny Black: birthday dog’)
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.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Tuesday, 16 April 2019

Week 488–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Apologies for the late post tonight friends, I’ve got a bad back so everything is working at a slower pace at the moment lol!.  I’m back to announce our lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “embossing (heat or dry)” challenge. It was fantastic to see your lovely entries, and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  I’ll be announcing Jacky’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. 4
Congratulations Alison, your card is so beautiful.  I love your image and your colouring is perfect and your embossed stars look amazing.  Please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Jacky had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  She loved all your creations and it was a really tough decision but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:
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 at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com.
Top 5 Passionista Blinkie
Unfortunately last week’s winner did not email us to claim their prize so we have re-drawn another winner to receive the 3 digi images courtesy of Crafty Sentiments designs.  Again using random.org our lucky re-drawn winner is:
No. 28
Congratulations Mandy, your giraffe card is very cute and coloured perfectly.  Please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com to claim your prize. 

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our current challenge ‘patterned paper’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 489–patterned paper

Good morning lovely crafters, I hope you all had a fantastic week last week. Thank you for your gorgeous entries for last week’s ‘embossing (heat/dry)’ challenge; sadly not as many entries as we would have liked but as always it was lovely to see your wonderful creations and the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs. Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our lucky winner who will receive the 3 digi images courtesy of Colour of Love digis (formerly Lacy Sunshine) and we will also be finding out who Jacky has chosen as her top 5 passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Julie from Team 1 and she has given us the theme of ‘patterned paper’.  As the title suggests Julie would like you to use patterned paper on your creations this week.  There are so many gorgeous papers around at the moment that I know you won’t disappoint us.  Remember you can enter using any type of creation but as always to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Winsor & Newton (formerly Letraset) products (promarkers, flex markers, tria markers, aqua markers or metallic markers). Please can you help us by stating which products you have used on your creation i.e. ‘coloured with promarkers’ etc. Thanks x x

Our generous sponsor this week is All Dressed Up stamps and they are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their online store.  The design team were lucky enough to use images from All Dressed Up stamps 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 All Dressed Up image ‘butterfly wings’)
(using All Dressed Up image ‘butterfly wings’)
(using All Dressed Up image ‘pretty bonnet’)
(using All Dressed Up image 'prom princess')
(using All Dressed Up image ‘butterfly wings’)
Sue
(using All Dressed Up image ‘pretty bonnet’)
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.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Tuesday, 9 April 2019

Week 487–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “make it cute” challenge. It was fantastic to see all your lovely entries, and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  I’ll be announcing Sue’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 Crafty Sentiments Designs 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. 11
Congratulations Pops, your card is super cute.  I love your fun image and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Sue had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing all your amazing creations.  It was a really tough decision but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:
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 at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com.
Top 5 Passionista Blinkie
We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our current challenge ‘embossing (heat or dry)’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x