Week 840 - 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 'summertime' 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 Colour of Love Digis who offered one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from their online store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 7

Pinky

Congratulations Pinky, what a beautiful card.  The images are so much fun 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 out 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):

Gale K.

Pinky (must be your lucky week!)

Kathy (myasperations)

Wendy (CraftyKiwiMama)

Wendy (Paper whims)

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 we still have one prize outstanding from our special anniversary challenge so we have re-drawn new winners yet again using random.org.

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Colour of Love digis offered 3 digi images and the lucky re-drawn winner is:

No. 2

Ionabunny (Gail)

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Congratulations Gail; please grab yourselves a winner's badge from above for your blogs.  Please can you email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com (please state the sponsor in the subject line) and let us know which images you would like and we will arrange for you to receive your prizes. Unfortunately if you do not contact us before the next challenge goes live we will have to re-draw a new winner.

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our current challenge ‘favourite colour combo’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 840 - summertime

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you had a great week last week. Thank you for your entries into last week's 'happy birthday' challenge; the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our lucky winner of the 'A Curious Cake' digi set courtesy of The Paper Shelter and we will find out 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 'summertime’.  Marie would like you to create something that depicts summer; it can be a beach scene, sitting in the garden, riding a bike, or simply eating an ice-cream.  We hope you’ll have fun and can’t wait to see what you create this week.  Don't forget 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 Colour of Love Digis and they are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from 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):

Marie

(using Colour of Love image 'Rory's summer flower fantasy')

Marlene

(using Colour of Love image 'honeybee enchantress')

Sarah

(using Colour of Love image 'Rory's summer fun')

Sue

Lorraine

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 830 - 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 'think pink' 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 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 Colour of Love Digis 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. 7

Paper Whims

Congratulations Wendy, what a sweet card. The image is super cute and your colouring is perfect. Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com with your choice of images 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. After much deliberation here are her favourite 5 (in linky order):

Deanne

Paper Whims

Chrissyxx

Gale

Pinky

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.

Last week's winner Darlene has generously asked me to re-draw another winner for the All Dressed Up Stamps prize of 2 digi images; how kind is she?  So using Random.org the lucky re-drawn winner is:

No. 23

myasperations

Congratulations  Kathy what a beautiful card; your coloured vellum is gorgeous.  Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com with your choice of images and we will arrange for them to be sent out to you.  Don't forget to grab a winner's badge from above to display on your blog. 

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 830 - think pink!

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week and enjoyed the sunshine. Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘make it bloom’ 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 All Dressed Up 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 lovely theme of ‘think pink’ to inspire you this week.  Karen doesn’t mind what you make this week as long as the dominant colour on your creation is pink; you can use other colours but we must see lots of pink.  We all love making our girly creations so hopefully this will be a popular theme.  We hope you’ll have fun and can’t wait to see what you create this week.  The only rule we have is to hand colour your image using your markers.  

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.  Most of the DT have used images from Colour of Love on their creations this week. 

The design team have created beautiful cards once again this week (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs and leave them some love!):

Karen

(using Colour of Love image 'Rory's bleeding heart')

Kitty

(using Colour of Love image 'hibiscus kokeshi doll')

Nat

(using Colour of Love image 'Rory's celebration Sundae' {not in the store currently})

Wendy

No card this week

Elaine

(using Colour of Love image 'unicorn hugs')

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 821 - 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 'favourite colours' 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 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 Colour of Love Digis and they offered one lucky winner 3 digi images their choice from their online store. As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 16

Helen

Congratulations Helen, 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 Marlene had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. After much deliberation here are her favourite 5 (in linky order):

Margreet

Jane Savage

Carol Gill

Donna Walls

Jenny

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 last week's winner did not contact us to claim their prize so we have re-drawn another winner who will win the 2 digi images courtesy of All Dressed Up Stamps.  Using random.org our lucky re-drawn winner is:

No. 11

Chrissy

Congratulations Chrissy ; please email us and let us know what images you would like and we will arrange for them to be sent out to you. Feel free to grab the winner's badge from above for your blog. 

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

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 821 - favourite 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 ‘favourite digi or stamp’ 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 of their choice courtesy of All Dressed Up stamps and we will also be finding out 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 you the theme of ‘favourite colours'.  Marlene 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).  Hopefully we can inspire each other as 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.  Most 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):

Marlene

(using Colour of Love image 'Sugi with Nibbles')

Favourite colours - pink, blue & green 

Sarah

(using Colours of Love image 'wish upon a star dreamer')

Favourite colours - purple, green & red (hair)

Sue

Favourite colours - pink & brown

Lorraine

Is poorly so no card this week

Marie

(using Colour of Love image 'Rory - paint the world')

Favourite colours - blue, pink & green

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 809 - 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 'favourite 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 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 Colour of Love Digis 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

Kathy

Congratulations Kathy, what a gorgeous card. Your colouring is fantastic and we love your shimmery background.  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 Karen had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. After much deliberation here are her favourite 5 (in linky order):

Silke

Chris

Pinky

Betta

Kathy (must be your lucky week!)

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 'only square cards' - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x