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

Kathy Asper

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):

Marlene

(using Dr Digi's HOS image 'Ambrose dunderton')

Sarah

(using Dr Digi's HOS image 'homebrew Herman')

Sue

Lisa

No card this week

Lorraine

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

Marie

(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

Week 763 - redrawn winner

Sorry for the extra post this week but unfortunately the winner from Week 763 did not contact us to claim their prize and I completely forgot to redraw another winner.  The prize is a $10.00AU voucher courtesy of Beccy's Place and the re-drawn winner is:

No. 12

Vannessa

Congratulations Vannessa; what a beautiful birthday card. The image is wonderful and your colouring is fantastic. 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:

Don't forget our current challenge is still running until 08:55am tomorrow morning and we want to see all your projects using 'dies and/or punches'.  

Have a great evening. 

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 764 - Winner and 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 'Christmas' 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 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 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. 10

Sheryl Hare

Congratulations Sheryl what a sweet 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 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:

Andrea Norris

Carrianne Banul

Elin

Irene M.

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 passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com.

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

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 765 - 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 ‘Christmas’ 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 Polkadoodles and also revealing 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 us the fantastic theme of ‘dies and/or punches'. Karen 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 and 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 All Dressed Up stamps and they are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their online store.  All of the DT have used images from All Dressed Up Stamps 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):

Karen

(using ADU image 'potted plants')

Kitty

(using ADU image 'potted plants')

Linda

(using ADU image 'bubbles')

Nat

(using ADU image 'little Christmas girl 01 from the '3 little Christmas girls' set)

Wendy

(using ADU image 'potted plants')

Elaine 

(using ADU image 'potted plants')

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

Week 763 - 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 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 my Top 5 Passionista (on behalf of Elaine) in a moment but firstly let’s find out who our lucky winner is!

For last week’s challenge we were sponsored by Beccy's Place and she offered one lucky winner a $10.00AU voucher to spend in her online store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 11

Pam's Pearls

Congratulations Pam; what an adorable winter birthday card. The image is so cute and your colouring is fantastic. 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:

Now onto the Top 5 Passionista and I had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. It was a really tough decision, and I could have chosen you all, but after much deliberation here are my favourite 5:

Carol Gill

Imke

Lisa J. 

Lynne

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 'Christmas' challenge - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 764 - Christmas

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 ‘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 winner of the S10.00AU voucher courtesy of Beccy's Place and also revealing who I have chosen as my Top 5 Passionista (on behalf of Elaine).  

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Marie from Team 1, and she has given us the fantastic theme of ‘Christmas'. Marie would like you to simply make a Christmas themed creation this week.  We know most of you have started your Christmas cards/tags etc production by now but I'm sure there are quite a few you that haven’t begun yet and hopefully this challenge will give you a little kickstart!!  Don’t forget you can enter any type of creation it doesn’t have to be a card.  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 Polkadoodles 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 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):

Marie

(using Polkadoodles image 'Santa snowman gift')

Marlene

(using Polkadoodles image 'wrap it up Winnie heavenly angel' clear stamp)

Sarah

(using Polkadoodles image 'Santa snowman gift')

Sue

(using Polkadoodles image 'Santa Merry Christmas banner')

Lisa

(using Polkadoodles image 'Santa Merry Christmas banner')

Lorraine (welcome back!)

(using Polkadoodles image 'Santa Merry Christmas banner')

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