Week 719 - midway reminder for the Mega Christmas challenge!

Good morning crafters.  Wow where did the last two weeks disappear to?  We cannot believe it’s only 6 days until the BIG day – we’re sure you are all super organised and are now sitting back and relaxing waiting for the day to arrive (or if you’re anything like me you are running around like a headless chicken lol!). 

Well we are now half way through our Mega Christmas challenge and we have to say we are stunned by all your gorgeous cards.  The theme is “add a sentiment” and don’t forget you still have until 2nd January 2024 to enter our challenge, although there is a maximum of 3 entries per person. 

We have some news for you before we show you the wonderful creations by Team 1.  Sadly this will be Julie's last challenge for us at PFM, after being here since almost the start of the blog she has decided to step down and devote more time to her family and her new grand baby.  We would like to say a huge thank you for all her hard work and the wonderful creations she has shared for us over the years.  We will miss you lots Julie.  However on a happier note we are happy to say that we have Sarah joining us in January and if you play along regularly I'm sure you will know her and her wonderful work.  Welcome Sarah!

Here is a quick reminder of the prizes up for grabs:

Dies to Die For are offering 1 lucky winner a £20.00 gift voucher

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Uniko Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 1 stamp set (must be in stock)

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Leann’s World 101 are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images

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Colour of Love digis are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

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All Dressed Up stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images

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Polkadoodles are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

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Sheepski Designs are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

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Alex Syberia Designs is offering 1 lucky winner a £10.00 gift voucher

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WOW amazing prizes – we’re sure you’ll agree!

In the last post two week’s ago we shared team 2’s beautiful creations so this time we are going to share the gorgeous creations from Team 1 (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Julie

Lisa 

Taking a short break

Lorraine 

Marie

Marlene

Sue

We’re sure you’ll agree that their cards are stunning.

So to re-cap the challenge will run until 2nd January 2024 and you can enter a maximum of 3 times.  Please continue to link up your cards with Mr Linky in our original post here.

We can’t wait to see your creations and look forward to visiting your blogs.  We’ll be back in 2 week’s time to launch our new challenge and also to announce all the lucky winners of our amazing prizes.  Don’t forget you have to be in it to win it lol!

Before we go we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year and thank you for all the love and support that you’ve shown us in 2023.  Without you and all of our generous sponsors our little blog would not be the success it is and still going strong after all these years.  We hope you will all continue to support us in the new year and make 2024 an even better year.

Love and hugs to you all.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT xx

Week 718 - 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 ‘baby it's cold outside’ challenge.  Thank you for all your lovely entries; 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 The Paper Shelter 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. 14

myasperations

Congratulations Kathy, what an sweet card.  Your image is so adorable and your background looks fantastic.  Please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com with your choice of images 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 Sue 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

Ileana A.

Irene M.

Leona

Lisa J.

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 month long Mega Christmas challenge ‘add a sentiment’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 719 - Mega Christmas challenge - add a sentiment

*** WARNING – LONG POST ***

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

Good morning dear crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week. The DT really enjoyed visiting your blogs and seeing all your fabulous creations for our “baby it's cold outside” challenge.  Don't forget to check back later to find out who the lucky winner of the 3 digi images courtesy of The Paper Shelter will be and also to see who Sue has chosen as her top 5 Passionista.

This week we are launching our very special “Mega Christmas challenge” which runs for a whole month and ends on 2nd January 2024!  I’m sure you’ll agree that both design teams have worked extremely hard once again this year and they deserve a little break to catch up on their last minute gifts and cards.  However to make up for the lack of challenges we have some fantastic prizes up for grabs!

Our theme for the Mega Christmas challenge is “add a sentiment”.  We don't mind what you create for this challenge, as long as you include a sentiment and colour with your markers!  You are welcome to make Christmas creations but as the challenge will still be running after the ‘BIG’ day you can of course make any type of creation.  As time is precious for our DT at this time of year we are limiting the number of entries you can make to just 3 for this month long challenge.  Please remember to be eligible for our prizes you must use your markers such as Promarkers, Copics, Spectrum Noir, Karin, Zig Clean Color etc

So now for the exciting bit – the prizes!

Dies to Die For are offering 1 lucky winner a £20.00 gift voucher

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Uniko Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 1 stamp set (must be in stock)

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Leann’s World 101 are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images

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Colour of Love digis are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

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All Dressed Up stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images

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Polkadoodles are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

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Sheepski Designs are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

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Alex Syberia Designs is offering 1 lucky winner a £10.00 gift voucher

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Wow we are sure you’ll agree our sponsors have been super generous once again this year!  We are so grateful to have their continued support.  

We have asked both design teams to share some inspiration with you but as it such a long challenge we will be posting the inspiration from Team 2 today and then in two week’s time we will be posting inspiration from Team 1.  

Here are the gorgeous cards from Team 2 (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Elaine

Karen

Kitty

Linda

Nat

Wendy

We’re sure you will agree that their cards are stunning.

So to re-cap the challenge will run until 2nd January 2024 and you can enter a maximum of 3 times.  Unfortunately during the Mega Christmas challenge we will not be choosing a Top 5 Passionista but this will re-commence for the first challenge in 2024.

We cannot wait to see your creations and look forward to visiting your blogs. We’ll be back on 19th December to share Team 1’s gorgeous selection of cards, so don’t forget to stop by for more wonderful inspiration.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 717 - 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 ‘winter’ challenge.  Thank you for all your lovely entries; as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  I’ll be announcing Kitty'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 from their online store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 23

Renske Neutel

Congratulations Renske, what an adorable card.  Your image is so cute and your colour combo is fantastic.  Please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com with your choice of images 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 Kitty 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 C.

Jinny

Renske Neutel (must be your lucky week!)

Susan Sudbury

Unfortunately Susan's blog is down at the moment so I can't grab her card :(

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 ‘baby it's cold outside’ - full details in the post below.

We start our special month long Mega Christmas challenge next week, so don't forget to come back and find out all the details.  We are so excited and have so many wonderful prizes up for grabs from our generous sponsors!

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 718 - baby it's cold outside

Good morning lovely crafters; we hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘winter’ challenge.  It was lovely to have you join us and as always the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your beautiful 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 Kitty has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Sue from Team 1, and she has given us the theme of ‘baby it's cold outside'.  Sue wants you to make something inspired by the cold weather; it doesn't have to be Christmas themed it can be winter or simply using an image that is bundled up in their scarves/hats for outside fun.  Such a great challenge don’t you think and we hope it will be a popular one.  Please remember you can enter using any type of creation, it doesn’t have to be a card but whatever you make please remember you must include a hand coloured image to be eligible for our prize draw.  So come on, grab your markers, and have fun!

Our generous sponsor this week is The Paper Shelter and they are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from their online store.  All of the DT have used the 'winter walk' image from The Paper Shelter 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):

Sue

Julie

Lisa

Taking a short break

Lorraine 

Marie

Marlene

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