Week 852 - 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 'ribbon and/or bows' 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 Marlene'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 Uniko who offered one lucky winner 1 product of their choice from their online store (stamp, die or stencil which must be in stock). As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 8

Lorraine B.

Congratulations Lorraine, what a gorgeous card. The image is so sweet and your colouring is amazing. Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com and let us know what prize you would like and we will arrange for it to be sent out to you.  We hope you will proudly display our winners badge on your blog:

Now onto the Top 5 Passionista and Marlene had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. After much deliberation here are her favourite 5 (in linky order):

Silke

Jenn Borjeson

Liz Cavill

Lorraine B. (must be your lucky week!)

Helen

Congratulations to you all; 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 last week's winner did not contact us to claim their prize so we have re-drawn another winner.  So, using random.org as always, the redrawn winner of the 3 digi images courtesy of Sheepski Designs is:

No. 12

Jenn Borjeson

Congratulations Jenn, please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com and we will send you the link to choose your images from Sheepski Designs as their store is currently closed.  Please also grab a winner's badge from above for your blog.  

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our current challenge ‘stitching: real or faux’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 853 - Stitching: real or faux

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you had a great week last week. Thank you for the gorgeous entries for our ‘ribbons and/or bows’ 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 prize courtesy of Uniko and also who Marlene has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista. 

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Kitty from Team 2, and she has given us the theme of ‘stitching: real or faux’. Kitty has given you a super easy theme and would like to see some stitching on your creations this week.  There are so many stitched dies around now that it's easy to go the faux way but of course if you like to machine or hand-stitch on your cards that's great too.  Of course it could be patterned paper with stitching or ribbon that has stitched lines on it.  Such a fun theme 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. The only rule we have is to use your markers, hand colour an image and have fun!

Our generous sponsor this week is Di's Digi Stamps who are offering one lucky winner a £6.00 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):

Kitty

Nat

(using Di's Digi Stamps image 'hot chocolate & cookies')

Wendy

(using Di's Digi Stamps image 'Sammy's surprise') - not currently in the store

Elaine

Karen

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