Tuesday 27 February 2024

Week 727 - 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'.  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 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 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. 21

Congratulations Silke, what a sweet card.  Your image is adorable and your die cuts look fab.  We have a new email address so please contact us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com and let us know which images you would like 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:

Jenimc

Lorraine B.

MeSi

Silke (must be your lucky week)

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 passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com.

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

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 728 - Fabulous florals

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week. Thank you for 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 lucky winner who will receive the 2 digi images courtesy of Dr Digi's House of Stamps and we will also be finding out 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 theme of ‘fabulous florals' to inspire you this week.  Karen wants to see all your flowers this week. It could be a floral image, floral papers or even die cut flowers (as long as you also include an image coloured with markers).  Such a fun theme; 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 to 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.  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 'Rory's marigolds')
(using Colour of Love image 'Geisha Rory')
(using Colour of Love image 'Little black-eyed Susan flower cup')
(using colour of Love image 'Flower petals')
(using Colour of Love image 'Little black-eyed Susan flower cup')
(using Colour of Love image 'Carnation')

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 20 February 2024

Week 726 - 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 ‘add some sparkle’ 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 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 Rachelle Anne Miller and she offered one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No 10.

Congratulations Shaz, what a pretty card.  Your flowers are beautiful and your glitter card is gorgeous.  We have a new email address so please contact 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 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:

Jenimc

Lia

Lolo

Shaz (must be your lucky week)

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 passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com.

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

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 727 - dies and/or punches

Good morning lovely crafters; we hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week's 'add some sparkle' 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 £10 voucher courtesy of Rachelle Anne Miller 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 us the theme of ‘dies and/or punches'.  Marie doesn't mind what you make this week as long as you include some die cuts or punched pieces.  This is always a very popular challenge; I know I can’t make a card anymore without reaching for the dies, so hopefully this week’s challenge will have lots of entries.  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 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 Digi's HOS on their cards.

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 'knitty Nora')
(using Dr Digi's HOS image 'Bob's balloons')
(using Dr Digi's HOS image 'telescopic Terry')
(using Dr Digi's HOS image 'Bob's balloons')
(using Dr Digi's HOS image 'Mini Cooper ')

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 13 February 2024

Week 725 - 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 red and/or hearts’ 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 Lorraine'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 Dies to Die For and Tracy offered one lucky winner a £15.00 voucher to spend in her online store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 21

Eve

Congratulations Eve, what an adorable card.  Your image is so sweet and your papers are gorgeous.  We are having a few issues with our email at the moment so please contact 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:

Now onto the Top 5 Passionista and Lorraine 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:

Clare

Ellie

Jane

Kathy Tanner

MeSi

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 challenge ‘add some sparkle’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 726 - add some sparkle

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 red and/or hearts’ 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 £15.00 voucher courtesy of Dies to Die For and we will also be finding out who Lorraine has chosen as her top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Elaine from Team 2 and she has given you the theme of ‘add some sparkle' to inspire you this week.  Elaine would like you to include something sparkly on your creations this week i.e. glitter paper/card, stickles, sequins, gems etc.  Such a lovely theme; we hope you like it!   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 Rachelle Anne Miller and she is offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online store.  All of the DT have used images from Rachelle Anne Miller's newest release 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):
Elaine
(using RAM image 'stacked chicks')
Karen
(using RAM image 'bunny's Easter egg')
Kitty
(using RAM image 'bunny's bike')
Linda
(using RAM image 'bunny's bike')
Nat
(using RAM image 'bunny's bike')
Wendy
(using RAM image 'stacked chicks')

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 6 February 2024

Week 724 - 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 ‘friends/friendship’ 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 Wendy'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 from their online store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 8

Congratulations Jenny, what a pretty card.  Your flowers are beautiful and your background is gorgeous.  We are having a few issues with our email at the moment so please contact 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 Wendy 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:

Gale K.

Lia

Lorraine Lowe

Vannessa

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 passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com.

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

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x