Tuesday, 3 December 2024

Week 767 - 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 'fall or winter' challenge.  Thank you so much for all the 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. 27

Ileana A.

 

Congratulations Ileana, what a super cute winter card. The image is adorable and your colouring is perfect. Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.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:

Andrea Norris

Bastelmichaela

Eve

Maria

Meg

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 passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com.

Unfortunately our previous re-drawn winner has not contacted us to claim their prize so we have re-drawn another new winner.  For our 'dies and/or punches' challenge we had a prize of 2 digi images courtesy of All Dressed Up stamps and our lucky second re-drawn winner is:
No. 16
Congratulations Jenny; what a beautiful Christmas card. Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.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 (please grab it from above).

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

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 768 - presents

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for all your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘fall or 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.  Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our winner of the 3 digi images courtesy of Colour of Love Digis and also revealing 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 fantastic theme of ‘presents'. Sue doesn’t mind what you make this week as long as you include at least one present on it.  The team have all made Christmas cards but we will of course accept any occasion projects as long as there is one or more presents on them.  Such a fun and easy theme this week and we cannot wait to see all your gorgeous entries.  Just remember your entry must include a hand-coloured image to be eligible for the prize draw; so 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.  Most of the DT have used the 'Merry Christmas My Dear' 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):
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.

Just a heads up, next week is the start of our biggie month long Mega Christmas challenge so don't forget to come back and check it out as we will have lots of amazing prizes up for grabs.  

Stay safe and sending our love to you all.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Tuesday, 26 November 2024

Week 766 - 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 'dry embossing' challenge.  Thank you so much for the lovely entries; 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 Dr Digi's House of Stamps and they offered one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their online store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 7

Congratulations Suze, what a fun Christmas card. The image is adorable and your colouring is perfect. Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.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 Marlene 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:

Ellie

Lia

Melanie H. 

Suze1

Suze3

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 passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com.

Unfortunately 2 of our previous winners have not contacted us to claim their prizes so we have re-drawn new winners. Firstly for last week's 'dies and/or punches' challenge we had a prize of 2 digi images courtesy of All Dressed Up stamps and our lucky re-drawn winner is:
No. 11

Congratulations Margreet; what a beautiful Christmas card. Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.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 (grab it from above).

Secondly for our Week 763 'birthdays' challenge we had a prize of a $10.00AU voucher courtesy of Beccy's Place and our 2nd re-drawn winner is:
No. 13

Congratulations Jinny; your winter birthday card is adorable.  Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com and we will arrange for your voucher code to be sent to you. We hope you will proudly display our winners badge on your blog (grab it from above).

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to join in with our current 'fall or winter' challenge - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 767 - fall or winter

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘dry embossing’ 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.  Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our winner of the 2 digi images courtesy of Dr Digi's House of Stamps and also revealing who Marlene has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.  

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Kitty from Team 2, and she has given us the fantastic theme of ‘fall or winter'.  Kitty would simply like you to make something fall or winter related.  You could simply be inspired by the colour palettes associated with fall or winter or make a thank you or Christmas creation but of course it could also be a fall or winter inspired birthday.  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 Colour of Love Digis and they are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from their online store.  All of the DT have used images from Colour of Love Digis 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 Colour of Love image 'snowflake sprite teacup bouquet')
(using Colour of Love image 'Maiara indian maiden')
(using Colour of Love image 'witchy owl') - unable to find in the store!
(using Colour of Love image 'little pumpkin fairy')
(using Colour of Love image 'Christmas love')
(using Colour of Love image 'Emmi Lou Boo's autumn leaves')

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, 19 November 2024

Week 765 - 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 'dies and/or punches' challenge.  Thank you so much for all the lovely entries; 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 All Dressed Up stamps and they offered one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their online store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 26

Congratulations Kathy, what a fun Christmas card. The image is adorable and your colouring is awesome. Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.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 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:

Bettascrap

Carrianne B. 

Ileana A. 

MeSi

Nancy E.

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 passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com.

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to join in with our current 'dry embossing' challenge - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 766 - dry embossing

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for all your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘dies and/or punches’ 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.  Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our winner of the 2 digi images courtesy of All Dressed Up Stamps and also revealing 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 us the fantastic theme of ‘dry embossing'. Marlene doesn’t mind what you make this week as long as it has some embossing on it.  We will accept embossing with your folders, stencils, a stylus or even your scoring tool and a score board to emboss some lines, all of which are fun techniques.  So let’s see some texture on your creations.  Such a fun and easy theme this week and we cannot wait to see all your gorgeous entries.  Just remember your entry must include a hand-coloured image to be eligible for the prize draw; so grab 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.  Most of the DT have used images from Dr Digis HOS 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 Dr Digi's HOS image 'Ambrose dunderton')
(using Dr Digi's HOS image 'homebrew Herman')
No card this week

(using Dr Digi's HOS image 'Bert the brickie')
(using Dr Digi's HOS image 'baking Brian

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