Week 760 - 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 'include an insect' challenge.  It wasn't a super popular challenge but thank you so much for the lovely entries we did have; 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 Linda) in a moment but firstly let’s find out who our lucky winner is!

For last week’s challenge we were sponsored by Clearly Besotted Stamps 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 

Silke

Congratulations Silke, what a gorgeous card. The images are 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 I had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. It was a really tough decision but after much deliberation here are my favourite 5:

Chrissyxx

Jenimc

Miss Lorraine V. Lowe

Lynne

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.

Unfortunately two of our winners for the Mega Christmas challenge did not contact us to claim their prizes so we have re-drawn two more winners.  

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For the Leann's World 101 prize of 2 digi images our re-drawn winner is:

** No. 74 - NanaConnie **

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For the RAM Stamps prize of a £10.00 voucher our re-drawn winner is:

** No. 67 - Tinz **

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Congratulations both; please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com to claim your images/voucher. 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 challenge 'for the girls' - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 771 - for the girls

Good morning lovely crafters, I hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for all your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘include an insect’ challenge.  It was lovely to see your entries 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 win the £15.00 voucher courtesy of Clearly Besotted Stamps and we will also find out who I have chosen (on behalf of Linda) as my Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has be chosen by Sarah from Team 1 and she has given us a theme of ‘for the girls’.  Sarah would like you to make something for the girls in your life.  It can be for a baby girl, a child, a teenager or a lady.  It’s up to you what you make as long as it’s suitable for a female.  Don’t forget you can enter any type of creation it doesn’t have to be a card although you do have to include a hand coloured image; so grab your favourite markers and get colouring.  

Our generous sponsor this week is The Paper Shelter who are offering one lucky winner a prize of 3 digi images of their choice.  There are so many gorgeous digis in their store you will be spoilt for choice.  Most of the DT have used the 'vintage Amy' 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):

Sarah

Sue

Lorraine

Marie

Marlene 

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

Winners of Week 769 - Mega Christmas challenge 2024!

Hello again crafters, we’re back to announce all of our lucky winners for the month long Mega Christmas challenge ‘anything goes’. It was wonderful to see so many entries and you certainly kept the DT busy! We all had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations and we hope you will continue to play along with our challenges in 2025.

Firstly we would like to thank all our generous sponsors, without whom our challenges would not be the same! We are grateful that so many of them have once again continued to sponsor us this year along with some lovely new sponsors too.

As we explained at the start of the Mega Christmas challenge we aren’t choosing our usual top 5 Passionista for this one challenge only so listed below are all winners of prizes! We used random.org to choose our winners and we went in order of the prizes listed in the challenge post.

Ok here we go, good luck everyone, here are the lucky winners for the Mega Christmas challenge 2024:

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Dies to Die For offered a £20.00 gift voucher and the lucky winner is:

* No. 57 - Clare *

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Uniko Stamps offered 1 product of the winner's choice and the lucky winner is:

* No. 12 - Miss Lorraine V Lowe *

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Leann’s World 101 offered 2 digi images and the lucky winner is:

* No. 62 - Deanne * 

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All Dressed Up stamps offered 2 digi images and the lucky winner is:

* No. 50 - Patricia * 

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Polkadoodles offered 3 digi images and the lucky winner is:

* No. 75 - Marjeta * 

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Sheepski Designs offered 3 digi images and the lucky winner is:

* No. 24 - Bettascrap * 

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RAM Stamps offered 1 lucky winner a £10.00 voucher and the lucky winner is:

* No. 111 - Lynn *

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Di's Digi Stamps offered 1 lucky winner a £6.00 voucher and the lucky winner is:

* No. 113 - Chris * 

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Thankfully we used random.org otherwise we could never have chosen our winners, all your entries were so beautiful.

Congratulations to all our winners – we’re sorry you couldn’t all be winners but check out this week’s challenge for another chance to win a prize courtesy of Clearly Besotted Stamps. 

Please can all our winners email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com stating the sponsors name in the subject line and what images you would like.  Please note you have until next Monday to claim your prize, otherwise a new winner will be chosen.

Have a great week and check out our current challenge ‘include an insect’ - full details in the post below.  Also a big thank you for all your comments and support during the last year.  Here's to an amazing 2025!

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 770 - include an insect

Good morning and welcome back to our lovely crafters; we can’t wait to share our first challenge of 2025.  We hope you’ve all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year and managed to fit in some crafting over the holiday period.  The last month has just whizzed by hasn’t it!  We would like to say a big thank you for all your support in 2024 and we hope you will continue to support us this year.  We were blown away by all your lovely entries for our Mega Christmas challenge; it was amazing to see them all and as always the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your creations.  Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing all of our lucky winners – how exciting!

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Linda from Team 2, and she has given us the fun theme of ‘include an insect’.  As the title suggests Linda wants to see any insect on your creations this week; i.e. bees, ladybugs, butterflies etc.  I don’t think it can get any easier than that to start us off this year.  Don’t forget you can enter any type of creation it doesn’t have to be a card.  So pull out your favourite markers and get colouring.  Sadly Linda is not joining us for this challenge as she is taking an extended break due to work and house renovations so I will be choosing the top 5 on her behalf this week.  

Our generous sponsor this week is Clearly Besotted Stamps and the lovely Stephanie has given us a £15.00 voucher for one lucky winner 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):

Linda

On an extended break

Nat

Wendy

Elaine

Karen

Kitty

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.

Don’t forget to pop back later to see if you are one of our lucky winners from our Mega Christmas challenge; as we have lots of winners there will be no top 5, but this will re-start again this week with Linda's challenge.  

Stay safe and sending our love to you all.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x