Tuesday 28 February 2023

Week 678–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends; we hope you’ve had a great day so far.  We’re back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘favourite digi or stamp’ 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 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 Conie Fong and they offered one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 5

Maria

Congratulations Maria, your card is so pretty.  Your image is beautiful 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 Karen 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

Ilonka

Irene M.

Lesley K

Marjeta Gomboc

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 ‘things with wings’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 679–things with wings

Good morning lovely crafters; can you believe it's already the last day of February, where did the month go?  We hope you had a great week last week and enjoyed our ‘favourite digi or stamp’ 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 Conie Fong and also who Karen has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Marlene from Team 1, and she has given you a theme of ‘things with wings’.  Marlene would like you to simply include things that have wings on your creations this week i.e. fairies, butterflies, bees, birds, or even aeroplanes!  Your 'things with wings' can be die cut elements but just remember your entry must include a hand-coloured image also.  Easy peasy, so let’s see lots of 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 Di’s Digi Stamps and they are offering one lucky winner a $6.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

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):

Marlene

Sue

Julie

Lisa M.

Lorraine C. 

Marie

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.

Stay safe and sending our love to you all.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Tuesday 21 February 2023

Week 677–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends.  We’re back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘add some flowers’ 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 Marie’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 and they offered one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice to spend in their online store.   As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 13

Anet

Congratulations Anet, your card (and the other 2 in your post) is gorgeous.  Your image is beautiful 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 Marie 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 (must be your lucky week!)

Clare

Jenimc

Kraftyscot Donna

Priya

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 ‘favourite digi or stamp’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 678–favourite digi or stamp

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you had a great week last week.  Thank you for all your gorgeous entries for our ‘add some flowers’ 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 3 digi images courtesy of Colour of Love digis and also who Marie has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Karen from Team 2, and she has given you the lovely theme of ‘use your 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 you have lots of favourites which can change from day to day so will accept multiple entries as usual.  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 PFM this year – Conie Fong - and they are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from their online store (single images only).  All of the DT have used images from Conie Fong on their cards this week.

Conie Fong is a self-taught artist residing in California, USA with her husband, daughter, pet hamster and fishes.  In her early childhood years, she was inspired by every kind of art and crafts.  She loved watching demonstrations by artists on the streets and at festivals and spent most of her free time perusing arts and crafts books in the library, drawing, crafting and experimenting with her art supplies at home.  Conie first started sharing her art with the world by selling ACEO reprints of her ACEO paintings of fairies, mermaids, and kitty art on eBay in 2010.  She was a full time account manager for a University before becoming a full time mom and part time artist.  She currently enjoys spending time with her family traveling, exploring the outdoors, and designing beautiful, cute, and magical art for craft and coloring lovers.

Conie has also kindly offered a 25% discount code to her store to everyone (you can even share with your friends).  Please use this code at checkout for 25% off your total spend – PASSIONFORMARKERS25 (valid between 21st-28th February only).  

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):

Karen

(using Conie Fong image ‘Bella Rose’)

Kitty

(using Conie Fong image ‘Winter Wendy’)

Linda

(using Conie Fong image ‘Winter Wendy’)

Nat

(using Conie Fong image ‘Dragon bouquet’)

Wendy

(using Conie Fong image ‘Bella Rose’)

Elaine

(using Conie Fong image ‘Dragon bouquet’)

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 14 February 2023

Week 676–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends.  We’re back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘add a heart’ 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 Elaine’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 Leann’s World 101 and they offered one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 27

Sarah R.

Congratulations Sarah, your card is so cute.  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 Elaine 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

Chris

Izzy Scrap

Sarah R. (must be your lucky week!)

Silke

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.

Sadly last week’s winner did not contact us to claim their prize, so we have re-drawn another winner and the prize is a £10.00 voucher to spend at Alex Syberia Designs (valid on digital products only).  The lucky re-drawn winner is:

No 35

Julie Reed

Congratulations Julie; your card is so pretty and the purple colour scheme is gorgeous.  Please email us with your choice of images (up to the value of £10.00) and we will get them sent out to you.  Don't forget to also grab the winner's badge (above) for your blog.

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

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 677–add some flowers

Good morning lovely crafters and Happy Valentine’s Day to you.  We hope you had a great week last week and enjoyed our ‘add a heart’ 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 Leann’s World 101 and also who Elaine has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Marie from Team 1, and she has given you a fun theme of ‘add some flowers’.  Marie has given you a super easy theme this week and would like to see flowers on your creations.  It could be a floral image, floral papers or even die cut flowers (as long as you also include an image coloured with markers).  We can’t wait to see what you make. 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 Colour of Love digis and they are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from their online store  Some of the DT have used images from Colour of Love digis 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):

Marie

Marlene

(using Colour of Love image ‘Sugi’s tulips’)

Sue

Is poorly so no card this week

Julie

Lisa M.

(using Colour of Love image ‘Rory’s poppy bouquet’)

Lorraine C. 

(using Colour of Love image ‘flower petals’)

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 7 February 2023

Week 675–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends.  We’re back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘use die cuts’ 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 Lorraine C.’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 Alex Syberia and they offered one lucky winner a $10.00 voucher to spend in their online store (only applies to digital products: digital stamps and cut files).   As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 17

Tracey Mowbray

Congratulations Tracey, your heart shaped 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 Lorraine C. 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

Chris

Koraliki Beaty

Lorraine B. 

Maria Nicotra

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 ‘add a heart’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x