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Tuesday, 30 January 2024

Week 723 - 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 ‘birthdays’ 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 Lisa'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. 9

Congratulations Silke, what an adorable card.  Your image is so cute and your papers are 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 Lisa 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

Julie B. 

Lorraine Lowe

Melanie H. 

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.

Unfortunately last week's winner did not contact us to claim their prize so we have redrawn another winner. As always we used random.org.  

For the Polkadoodles prize of 3 digi images - the lucky re-drawn winner is:

No. 16

Lorraine B. 

Congratulations Lorraine, your card is beautiful and the PB image is adorable. Please email us (address above) and let us know which images you would like from Polkadoodles and we will arrange for them to be sent to you.  

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

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 724 - friends/friendship

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week. Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘birthdays’ 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 lucky winner who will receive the 3 digi images courtesy of Colour of Love Digis and we will also be finding out who Lisa has chosen as her top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Wendy from Team 2 and she has given you the theme of ‘friends/friendship' to inspire you this week.  Wendy doesn't mind what you make as long as you create something for your friends or to celebrate your friendship.  It can be a friend sentiment or phrase or just an image that indicates friends together.   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 Leann's World 101 and they are offering one lucky winner 2 images of their choice from their online store.  Most of the DT have used images from Leann's World 101 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 Leann's World 101 image 'friendly walk')
(using Leann's World 101 image 'happiness')
(using Leann's World 101 image 'friendly walk')
(using Leann's World 101 image 'Katie & friend')
(using Leann's World 101 image 'happiness')

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, 23 January 2024

Week 722 - 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 ‘dots and/or stripes’ 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 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 Polkadoodles 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. 11

Congratulations Eve, what an adorable card.  Your image is so cute and your colour scheme is so bright and cheerful.  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 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:

Andrea

Helen

Kathy

Lia

Lorraine B. 

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 ‘birthdays’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 723 - birthdays

Good morning lovely crafters; we hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week's 'dots and/or stripes' 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 2 digi images of their choice courtesy of Polkadoodles and also who Nat has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Lisa from Team 1, and she has given us the theme of ‘birthdays'.  Lisa knows we always need birthday cards so you can make anything you like, any style, any shape, as long as you include a birthday sentiment.  It really cannot get any easier than that can it?  Such a great challenge and we cannot wait to see what you create.  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 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 'sitting pretty')
(using Colour of Love image 'sitting pretty')
(using Colour of Love image 'Evony city girl')
(using Colour of Love image 'Sarah Jane and Nibbles')
(using Colour of Love image 'Lil' possum sundae bellyful')
(using Colour of Love image 'Rory's birthday party')

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, 16 January 2024

Week 721 - 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 ‘use a stencil’ 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 Sarah'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 Di's Digi Stamps and Di offered one lucky winner a £6.00 voucher to spend in her online store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 5

Congratulations Chris, what a sweet card.  Your image is adorable and your stencilled clouds look fab.  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 Sarah 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:

Lorraine Lowe

Melanie H.

MeSi

Renske Neutel

Spring Chick Card featuring a delightful chocolate-loving chick, surrounded by heart-shaped leaves and a vibrant background. Perfect for crafting and spreading joy. Crafted with the Polkadoodles 'Chocolate Time Chick' digital stamp, 'Spring Gnomes' digital paper set, and 'Coffee, Tea, and Cake Greetings' sentiment set.

Wendy Waldorf

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 ‘dots and/or stripes’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x




Week 722 - dots and or stripes

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week. Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘use a stencil’ 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 lucky winner who will receive the £6.00 voucher courtesy of Di's Digi Stamps and we will also be finding out who Sarah 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 theme of ‘dots and/or stripes' to inspire you this week.  Nat doesn't mind what you make as long as you include either dots or stripes (or both).  It can be dots or stripes on your image, papers, ribbon, embossing folder, it's entirely up to you.  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 Polkadoodles and they are offering one lucky winner 3 images of their choice from their online store.  All of the DT have used images from Polkadoodles 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):

Nat

(using Polkadoodles image 'Pickles flowers')

(using Polkadoodles image 'Bookworm/study rebel')

Elaine

(using Polkadoodles image 'Spring hedgehog gnome')

Karen

(using Polkadoodles image 'Butterfly flowerpots')

Kitty

(using Polkadoodles image 'Butterfly flowerpots')

Linda

(using Polkadoodles image 'Butterfly flowerpots')

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