Week 704–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 ‘embellish it’ challenge.  Thank you for all your lovely entries; 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 Conie Fong 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. 17

Helen

Congratulations Helen, your card is super cute.  Your image is adorable and your colouring is perfect.  Love your papers too.  Please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.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 Marlene 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:

Anet

Carrie Sheridan

Jenimc

Patsy Long

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 promarkerchallenge@gmx.com.

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to join in with our current challenge ‘feminine cards’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 704–embellish it

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘let’s celebrate’ 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 2 digi images courtesy of All Dressed Up stamps and also 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 ‘embellish it’.  Marlene would simply like you to make a creation using one or more embellishments.  It can be as simple as adding a gem or pearl or if you prefer you can add an abundance of die cuts, flowers, sequins, ribbons etc.  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.  Easy peasy, so let’s see lots of entries.  The only rule we have is use your markers and have fun!

Our generous sponsor this week is Conie Fong 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 Conie Fong on their creations this week.  

Conie Fong has generously given us a 25% discount code to anything in her store from today (Aug 22) for one week.  Use the code AUGSPONSOR25 at checkout to claim 25% off your total. 

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 Conie Fong image ‘angel whispers’)

Sue

(using Conie Fong image ‘mailbox gnome’)

Julie

(using Conie Fong image ‘mailbox gnome’)

Lisa M.

(using Conie Fong image ‘eucalyptus tree koala’)

Lorraine C. 

(using Conie Fong image ‘skateboarding Benny’)

Marie

(using Conie Fong image ‘mailbox gnome’)

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 678–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 digi or stamp’ challenge.  We had some really lovely 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 Conie Fong and they offered one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 5

Maria

Congratulations Maria, your card is so pretty.  Your image is beautiful and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us your choice of images to promarkerchallenge@gmx.com 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:

Bridget

Ilonka

Irene M.

Lesley K

Marjeta Gomboc

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 promarkerchallenge@gmx.com.

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to join in with our new challenge ‘things with wings’ - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 678–favourite digi or stamp

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you had a great week last week.  Thank you for all your gorgeous entries for our ‘add some flowers’ challenge; it was so lovely to have you join us and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. Don’t forget to pop back later to find out who won the 3 digi images courtesy of Colour of Love digis and also 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 ‘use your favourite digi or stamp’.  Karen would simply like you to use your favourite digi or stamp on your creations this week.  Now if you are anything like us you have lots of favourites which can change from day to day so will accept multiple entries as usual.  Don’t forget you can enter any type of creation it doesn’t have to be a card.  The only rule we have is use your markers and have fun!

Our generous sponsor this week is brand new to PFM this year – Conie Fong - and they are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from their online store (single images only).  All of the DT have used images from Conie Fong on their cards this week.

Conie Fong is a self-taught artist residing in California, USA with her husband, daughter, pet hamster and fishes.  In her early childhood years, she was inspired by every kind of art and crafts.  She loved watching demonstrations by artists on the streets and at festivals and spent most of her free time perusing arts and crafts books in the library, drawing, crafting and experimenting with her art supplies at home.  Conie first started sharing her art with the world by selling ACEO reprints of her ACEO paintings of fairies, mermaids, and kitty art on eBay in 2010.  She was a full time account manager for a University before becoming a full time mom and part time artist.  She currently enjoys spending time with her family traveling, exploring the outdoors, and designing beautiful, cute, and magical art for craft and coloring lovers.

Conie has also kindly offered a 25% discount code to her store to everyone (you can even share with your friends).  Please use this code at checkout for 25% off your total spend – PASSIONFORMARKERS25 (valid between 21st-28th February only).  

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 Conie Fong image ‘Bella Rose’)

Kitty

(using Conie Fong image ‘Winter Wendy’)

Linda

(using Conie Fong image ‘Winter Wendy’)

Nat

(using Conie Fong image ‘Dragon bouquet’)

Wendy

(using Conie Fong image ‘Bella Rose’)

Elaine

(using Conie Fong image ‘Dragon bouquet’)

Another great 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.  If you haven’t already, don’t forget to grab our logo from the sidebar for your own blogs.

Stay safe and sending our love to you all.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x