Tuesday, 7 October 2025

Week 808 - 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 'autumn colours' challenge. It was lovely to see your entries and 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 Dies To Die For and they offered one lucky winner a £15.00 voucher to spend in their online store. As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 8
Congratulations Anne, what a cute card. The image is adorable and your colouring is perfect. 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 Marie had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. After much deliberation here are her favourite 5 (in linky order):

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 'favourite colours' - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 809 - favourite colours

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 ‘autumn colours’ 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 £15.00 voucher courtesy of Dies to Die For 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 favourite colours'Karen is being kind to you this week and has chosen a really simple challenge for you; you can make anything you like just let us know what your favourite colour combo is (or favourite at the moment, we know how fickle us crafters can be) and it’s always nice to find new colour combos that we might not of thought of isn’t it?   Obviously we know that our favourites can change from day to day and week to week so don’t worry you are allowed to enter more than one favourite. We hope you’ll have fun and can’t wait to see what you create this week.  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 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 hollyhocks')
favourite colours: brown, pink & cream
(using Colour of Love image 'Rory's hollyhocks')
favourite colours: pink & red
(using Colour of Love image 'Rory's hollyhocks')
favourite colours: pink & green
(using Colour of Love image 'pretty possum's sunflowers')
favourite colours: teal & yellow
(using Colour of Love image 'autumn possums')
favourite colours: brown, green, yellow & red

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, 30 September 2025

Week 807 - 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 'anything floral' challenge. It was lovely to see your entries and 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 Sheepski Designs and they offered one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice (the online store is currently closed but you will be sent a link to be able to choose your images). As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 6

Congratulations Chris, what a pretty CAS design.  The image is gorgeous and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com and we will send you the link to choose your images.  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.  After much deliberation here are her favourite 5 (in linky order):

Jenn Borjeson

Anet

Chris (must be your lucky week)

Meg

Wendy

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 'autumn colours' - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 808 - autumn colours

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week. Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘anything floral' challenge; 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 win the 3 digi images courtesy of Sheepski Designs and we will also find out who Elaine has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which was chosen by Marie from Team 1 and she has given us a theme of ‘autumn colours'. As the title suggests Marie doesn’t mind what you create or even what theme you follow as long as you use autumnal colours i.e. oranges, reds, greens, browns etc!!  Such a lovely theme and we cannot wait to see what you create.  Don’t forget you can enter any type of creation it doesn’t have to be a card.  So come on grab your markers and have fun!

Our generous sponsor this week is Dies to Die For who are offering one lucky winner a £15.00 voucher to spend in their online store. 

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):
Off this week

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 September 2025

Week 806 - 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 'animal friends' challenge. It was lovely to see all your entries and 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 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. 19
Congratulations Lisa, what an adorable card. The image is super cute and your colouring is perfect. Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com and let us know what 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 Lorraine had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  After much deliberation here are her favourite 5 (in linky order):

Jane Savage

Lorraine

Chris

Pinky

Ileana Artuffo

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 'anything floral' - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 807 - anything floral

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 ‘animal friends’ 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 images courtesy of The Paper Shelter and also revealing 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 us the fantastic theme of ‘anything floral'. As the theme suggests Elaine would like to see all your floral creations this week.  It can of course be a floral image, floral die cut or even flowery background paper but don't forget you must include a hand coloured image to be eligible for our prize draw.  Such a simple challenge, with so much possibility, and 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, so grab your markers and have fun!

Our generous sponsor this week is Sheepski Designs and they are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice (the online store is currently closed but the winner will be sent a link so that they can choose their images).  All of the DT have used images from Sheepski Designs 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 Sheepski Designs image 'wild roses')
(using Sheepski Designs image 'daisy panel')
(using Sheepski Designs image 'cake no.173)
(using Sheepski Designs image 'freesia vase')
(using Sheepski Designs image 'daisy panel')

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 September 2025

Week 805 - 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 'for a boy' challenge. It was lovely to see your entries and 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 RAM Stamps and they
 offered one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store. As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 5

Congratulations Jenny, what an adorable baby boy card.  The image is super cute and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com and let us know what 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 Wendy had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  After much deliberation here are her favourite 5 (in linky order):

Liz

Kathy

Lorraine

Jenny (must be your lucky week!)

Silke

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 'animal friends' - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x