Tuesday 31 January 2023

Week 674–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends.  We’re back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘for a child’ challenge.  We had some really lovely entries and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  I’ll be announcing Nat’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 Dr Digi’s House of Stamps and they offered one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 14

Margreet Burger

Congratulations Margreet, your card is so cute.  Your little blue bear is adorable and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us your choice of images to promarkerchallenge@gmx.com and 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 Nat had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  It was a really tough decision but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Anet

Anne

Pam’s Pearls

Silke

Vannessa

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 promarkerchallenge@gmx.com.

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to join in with our current challenge ‘use die cuts’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 675–use die cuts

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you had a great week last week and enjoyed our ‘for a child’ challenge.  Thank you for all your gorgeous entries; it was so lovely to have you join us and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. Don’t forget to pop back later to find out who won the 2 digi images courtesy of Dr Digi’s House of Stamps and also who Nat has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Lorraine C. from Team 1, and she has given you a fun theme of ‘use die cuts’.  Lorraine C. doesn’t mind what you make this week as long as you include some die cuts in addition to your coloured image.  Such a simple theme this week and we cannot wait to see all your gorgeous entries.  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 brand new to us this year at PFM - Alex Syberia - and they are offering one lucky winner a £10.00 gift card to spend in their online store (only applies to digital products: digital stamps and cut files).  All of the DT have used images from Alex Syberia Designs on their cards 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):

Lorraine C.

(using Alex Syberia image ‘fabulous floral slimline card panel’)

Marie

(using Alex Syberia image (‘fabulous floral slimline card panel’)

Marlene

(using Alex Syberia image ‘be girly’)

Sue

(using Alex Syberia image ‘all star’)

Julie

(using Alex Syberia image ‘Valentines gnomes slimline panel’)

Lisa M.

(using Alex Syberia image ‘love u giraffe’)

Another great 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.  If you haven’t already, don’t forget to grab our logo from the sidebar for your own blogs.

Stay safe and sending our love to you all.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Tuesday 24 January 2023

Week 673–Winner & Top 5 Passionista (and new DT member!)

Hello again friends.  We’re back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘going dotty’ challenge.  We had some really lovely entries and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  I’ll be announcing Lisa M.’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 and they offered one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice.   As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 12

Jinny

Congratulations Jinny, your card is gorgeous.  Your image is adorable and your colouring is perfect.  Love your dotty bow too.  Please email us your choice of images to promarkerchallenge@gmx.com and 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 Lisa M. had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  It was a really tough decision but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Bridget Curnow

Craftyem

Julie Austin

Jinny (must be your lucky week!)

Paperesse

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 promarkerchallenge@gmx.com.

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to join in with our new challenge ‘for a child’ - full details in the post below.

Before we go we want to introduce to our newest DT member who will be joining Team 2.  Please say hello to Wendy Jackson.  I’m sure you will give her a warm welcome.  She will be joining us for Team 2’s next challenge on 7th February.  Thank you to everyone who expressed an interest in joining us; please don’t be discouraged, we only needed one new member this time around. 

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 674–for a child

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you had a great week last week.  Thank you for all your gorgeous entries for our ‘going dotty’ challenge; it was so lovely to have you join us and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. Don’t forget to pop back later to find out who won the 2 digi images courtesy of All Dressed Up stamps and also who Lisa M. has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Nat from Team 2, and she has given you the lovely theme of ‘for a child’ so a nice easy theme for you this week! Basically Nat wants to see anything you could give to a child, for any occasion, including baby cards.  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 Dr Digi’s House of Stamps and they are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their online store.  All of the DT have used images from Dr Digi’s House of Stamps on their cards 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):

Nat

(using Dr Digi image ‘Stacy the stegosaurus’)

Elaine

(using Dr Digi image ‘Stacy the stegosaurus’)

Karen

(using Dr Digi image ‘Alistair the alligator’)

Kitty

(using Dr Digi image ‘Chaz the chimp’)

Linda

(using Dr Digi image ‘Keith the cool koala’)

Another great 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.  If you haven’t already, don’t forget to grab our logo from the sidebar for your own blogs.

Stay safe and sending our love to you all.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Tuesday 17 January 2023

Week 672–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends.  We’re back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘sketch’ challenge.  We had some really lovely entries and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  I’ll be announcing my (Denise) 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 Polkadoodles and they offered one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice.   As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 11

Paper Whims

Congratulations Wendylynn, your card is gorgeous.  Your image is adorable and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us your choice of images to promarkerchallenge@gmx.com and 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 I had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  It was a really tough decision but after much deliberation here are my favourite 5:

Helen

Jenimc

Julie Austin

Rose Andrew

Wendy Jackson

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 promarkerchallenge@gmx.com.

Unfortunately 2 of our re-drawn winners from the Mega Christmas challenge (week 670) did not contact us to claim their prizes so we have re-drawn them for the third and final time; if prizes are not claimed this time they will be forfeited.  As always we used random.org and here are the re-drawn winners:

Polkadoodles offered 3 digi images and the lucky re-drawn winner is:

No. 28 – Ionabunny

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Sheepski Designs offered 3 digi images and the lucky re-drawn winner is:

No. 19 - Jenimc

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We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to join in with our current challenge ‘going dotty’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 673–going dotty

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you had a great week last week and enjoyed our sketch challenge.  Thank you for all your gorgeous entries; it was so lovely to have you join us and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. Don’t forget to pop back later to find out who won the 3 digi images courtesy of Polkadoodles and also who I (Denise) have chosen as my Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Lisa M. from Team 1, and she has given you a fun theme of ‘going dotty’.  Lisa doesn’t mind what you make this week as long as it has lots of dots on it.  It can be dots on your image, dotty paper, dotty ribbon or even a dotty embossing folder.  Such a simple theme this week and we cannot wait to see all your gorgeous entries.  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 All Dressed Up stamps and they are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their online store.  All of the DT have used images from All Dressed Up stamps on their cards 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):

Lisa M. 

(using ADU image ‘birthday monkey’ – which doesn’t appear to be in the store at the moment)

Lorraine C. 

(using ADU image ‘prosecco time’)

Marie

Not very well this week so no card.

Marlene

(using ADU image ‘summer fairy’)

Sue

(using ADU image 'new hair do')

Julie

(using ADU image ‘prosecco time’)

Another great 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.  If you haven’t already, don’t forget to grab our logo from the sidebar for your own blogs.

DT call

We’ve decided to run the DT call for one more week just in case anyone missed it last week.  Here is a re-cap of what we are looking for:

* You will need to have excellent colouring skills using markers of course!
* You will need to have a blog and update it regularly, at least once a week.

* You must be able to commit to creating at least one card every fortnight.

* You must have a Facebook account (or be willing to join Facebook) as this is where all the information for the DT will be located.

* You must be able to comment on your allocated number of entries (we have a commenting rota in place).
* Most importantly if selected you can start creating for us straight away.

If you feel you meet all the above then please add DT after your name and we’ll pop over for a look. If you would like more information please feel free to email us (but please don’t apply by email). We will review everyone who has expressed an interest and announce the lucky new DT member very soon. 

We hope you have a great week.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Tuesday 10 January 2023

Week 671–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends.  We’re back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘new’ challenge.  We had some really 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 The Paper Shelter and they offered one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice.   As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 7

Nunzia

Congratulations Nunzia, your tag is gorgeous.  Your image is adorable and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us your choice of images to promarkerchallenge@gmx.com and 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 Julie had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  It was a really tough decision but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Chris

Donna W.

Jenimc

Marjeta

Nunzia (must be your lucky week!)

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 promarkerchallenge@gmx.com.

Unfortunately 3 of our winners from the Mega Christmas challenge (week 670) did not contact us to claim their prizes so we have re-drawn them.  As always we used random.org and here are the re-drawn winners:

Uniko Stamps offered 1 stamp set (which must be in stock) and the lucky re-drawn winner is:

No. 17 - Clare Lloyd

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Polkadoodles offered 3 digi images and the lucky re-drawn winner is:

No. 2 – Tinz

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Sheepski Designs offered 3 digi images and the lucky re-drawn winner is:

No. 59 – J. Atterbury Creations

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Please can all our winners email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com stating the sponsors name in the subject line and what images you would like.  Please note you have until next Monday to claim your prize.

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to join in with our new challenge ‘sketch’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x