Tuesday 25 May 2021

Week 592–Special anniversary challenge winners!

Hello again crafters,  I’m back to announce our lucky winners for last week’s special anniversary challenge “spots and/or stripes”.  There were so many gorgeous entries and the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs.  Myself, Gina and all the DT would like to thank you for all your lovely comments and we really appreciate your support over the years and for making our little challenge blog the success it is today – without you it would be nothing.

Anyway enough of the sloppy stuff, here is the real reason you are here – the winners !  There are multiple winners this week as we had lots of lovely prizes up for grabs.  As always, to be fair, we used random.org and these are who he chose:

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Bugaboo Stamps offered a $12.00 voucher and the lucky winner is:

No. 19

Jenimc

Crafty Sentiments Designs offered 3 digi images and the lucky winner is:

No. 30

Teresa

Dr Digi’s House of Stamps offered 2 digi images and the lucky winner is:

No. 16

Glittertastic

JMC Designs are offered 1 digital collection and the lucky winner is:

No. 4

Marga Bisschops

Leann’s World 101 offered 2 digi images and the lucky winner is:

No. 27

NanaConnie

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Congratulations to everyone who has won a prize, we wish we could give you all something but we would need lots of prizes to do that lol!  Please can the winners email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com (please state the sponsor in the subject line) and we will arrange for you to receive your prizes.  Unfortunately if you do not contact us before the next challenge goes live we will have to re-draw a new winner.

Thank you again for making our challenge blog such a success and we look forward to spending many more years with you!!

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our current challenge “ribbon and/or lace” – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 593–ribbon and/or lace

Good morning lovely crafters, We hope you all had a fantastic week last week and enjoyed celebrating our 12th anniversary with us.  Thank you for all your gorgeous entries for last week’s special anniversary challenge where our theme was ‘spots and/or stripes’.  We were delighted to see lots of lovely entries and as always the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs. We want to say a big thank you for all the lovely comments you left; it’s fab to know that you still enjoy our challenge, especially now we’ve opened up our rules to all markers.  Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our 5 lucky winners!

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Kitty from Team 2 and she has given us the theme of ‘ribbon and/or lace.  Kitty is making it really easy for you this week; she doesn’t mind what you make as long as your creations include either some ribbon or lace or both!   We hope you’ll have fun and can’t wait to see what you create this week. Don’t forget you can enter any type of creation it doesn’t have to be a card.  The only rule we have is use your markers and have fun!

Our generous sponsor this week is The Paper Shelter who are offering one lucky winner a prize of 3 digi images from their online store.  The DT all used an image from The Paper Shelter this week called ‘Maggie’ on their creations.

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

Linda

Taking a short break

Lisa G.

Nat

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.  Normal service resumes this week, so Kitty will be choosing her Top 5 Passionista at the end of the challenge. 

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Tuesday 18 May 2021

Week 591–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘use your favourite colours’ challenge.  However before I get onto that I would like to say a huge thank you for the lovely comments you’ve left for us today regarding our 12th anniversary.  It’s great to hear how much you enjoy the challenges and how some of you have even been with us from the start.  We really appreciate you all.  Ok, back to the business in hand.  It was so lovely to see so many of 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 Star Jam Lines and they offered one lucky winner 2 digi images of their chioce from their online store.   As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 25

MeSi

Congratulations Merja, your card is beautiful.  Your image is so cute and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.  We have a shiny new winners badge for you to display on your blog:

Now onto the Top 5 Passionista and Marlene had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  It was such a tough decision but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Cari S.

Chris

Danka

Lori Podolsky

Maz

Congratulations everyone, you can now proudly display the brand new top 5 passionista blinkie on your blogs.  If you need any help with this please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com.

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our special anniversary challenge ‘spots and/or stripes’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe everyone and take care.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 592–Special Anniversary challenge!

*** WARNING – LONG POST ***

Grab a cuppa and a biscuit (or two) and make yourself comfortable!

Good morning dear crafters. We hope you had a good week last week and managed to fit some crafting into your busy schedules.  It was lovely to see all your gorgeous entries for last weeks ‘use your favourite colours’ challenge; as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and see your beautiful creations.  Don't forget to check back later to find out who the lucky winner of the 2 digi images courtesy of Star Jam Lines will be and to see who Marlene has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista. 

Onto this week's challenge and we have a very special one for you this week as it's our 12th Anniversary. Can you believe it's been 12 years since Gina and myself started our little blog?  It only seems like yesterday when we nervously made our first post!  Time flies when your having fun.  As it's a special challenge we have a really fun theme for you of "spots and/or stripes".  As the title suggests you can make anything you like this week as long you include some spots, stripes or both!  We are hoping to see lots of entries but please note that as we have extra prizes up for grabs this week we are only accepting a maximum of 3 entries per person for this one challenge only.  The only other rules we have are use your markers and have fun!

As always we have some fantastic prizes up for grabs and our sponsors have been very generous as usual.  Here we go....

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Bugaboo Stamps are offering a $12.00 voucher

Crafty Sentiments Designs are offering 3 digi images

Dr Digi’s House of Stamps are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images

JMC Designs are offering one lucky winner 1 digital collection

Leann’s World 101 are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images

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Wow we told you there were amazing prizes didn’t we?  Definitely lots of reasons to join in the fun this week!! To give you lots of inspiration we have both Team 1 and Team 2 to share their creations (as always please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Elaine (inside out card)


Julie

Karen

Kitty

Linda

Taking a short break

Lisa G.

Lisa M.

Lorraine C. 

Marie

Marlene

Nat

Sue

Stunning cards as always I’m sure you’ll agree.  Please remember for this challenge we will only accept 3 cards/projects per person.  Also just for this one week we will not be choosing a Top 5 Passionista as we have lots of extra winners, however this will go back to normal next week.

We hope you have a brilliant week and we cannot wait to see what you create.  Good luck!

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Tuesday 11 May 2021

Week 590–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘say it with flowers’ challenge.  It was so lovely to see all 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 Crafty Sentiments Designs 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. 30

Aimeslee Winans

Congratulations Aimeslee, what a fantastic accordian fold card; I’m sure it was well received.  Your images are beautiful and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.  We have a shiny new winners badge for you to display on your blog:

Now onto the Top 5 Passionista and Karen had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations and you made it such a tough decision.  After much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Chris

Debbie

Maz

Sarah R.

Wenche

Congratulations everyone, you can now proudly display the brand new top 5 passionista blinkie on your blogs.  If you need any help with this please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com.

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our current challenge ‘use your favourite colours’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe everyone and take care.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x