Week 849 - 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 'use your favourite embellishments' 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 Dr Digi's House of Stamps who offered one lucky winner 1 digi image of their choice from their online store. As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 13

Alice K.

Congratulations Alice, what a beautiful card. The is feather fantastic and your blending is perfect. Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com and let us know what image you would like and we will arrange for it to be sent to you. 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

Donna W.

Kathie

Pat P.

Jenimc

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.

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

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 849 - use your favourite embellishments

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you had a great week last week. Thank you for the gorgeous entries for our ‘use 3 of something’ 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 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 theme of ‘use your favourite embellishments’. Elaine has given you a free rein for her challenge this week, she just wants to know what your fave finishing touches are on your creations (please let us know what your favourite is in your post). You must also include a hand coloured image as always to be eligible for our prize draw. Easy peasy, so let’s see lots of entries. 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 Dr Digi’s House of Stamps who are offering one lucky winner 1 digi image of their choice from their online store. Most of the DT have used images from Dr Digi’s HOS 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):

Elaine

(favourite embellishments are brads)

(using Dr Digi's HOS image 'damp Douglas')

Karen 

(favourite embellishments are clouds, grass & embossed die cuts)

(using Dr Digi's HOS image 'hole in one Hal')

Kitty

(favourite embellishments are die cuts)

(using Dr Digi' HOS image 'Noreen's neighbourly natter')

Nat

(favourite embellishments are bows and card candi)

(using Dr Digi's HOS image 'adoption day')

Wendy 

(favourite embellishments are sequins)

(using Dr Digi's HOS image 'surfin' Santa')

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 839 - 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 'happy birthday' 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 The Paper Shelter and although they have now sadly closed their store we are offering the lucky winner the digi set called 'A Curious Cake' that the DT were sent to use on their cards last week.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 2

Jenn Borjeson

Congratulations Jenn,  what a beautiful card.  The image is so much fun and your background is amazing.  Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com and we will send out the prize to you. 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):

Chris

Jenn Borjeson (must be your lucky week!)

Silke

Darlene

Silke

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 a few of the winners from our special anniversary challenge did not contact us to claim their prizes so we have re-drawn new winners using random.org as always.  

The lucky re-drawn winners are: 

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Polkadoodles offered 3 digi images and the lucky re-drawn winner is:

** No. 3 - Paper Whims **

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

** No. 8 - Stacey **

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Sheepski Designs offered 3 digi images and lucky re-drawn winner is:

** No. 38 - Deanne **

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Congratulations to our re-drawn winners; Please grab yourselves a winner's badge from above for your blog.  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 ‘summertime’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 839 - happy birthday

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week and had a fun Bank Holiday weekend (in the UK at least) and for a change the weather was scorchio!  Thank you for your fab entries in last week’s Special Anniversary 'anything goes' challenge.  As always it was lovely to see your wonderful creations and the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs.  Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our lucky winners - yes multiple winners - who will win the amazing prizes offered by our very generous sponsors.  Just for this one week there will be no Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Elaine from Team 2 and she has given you the theme of ‘happy birthday’.  Elaine has given you a super easy theme this week, make a creation for a birthday – it couldn’t be any simpler could it?  We want to see lots of lovely entries this week as we all need birthday cards for our stash right!  We hope you’ll have fun and can’t wait to see what you create this week. Please remember you can enter using any type of creation, it doesn’t have to be a card, but whatever you make 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 The Paper Shelter who sadly have now closed their store.  I have decided to offer the image that the DT were given to use as the prize this week called 'A Curious Cake' which is perfect for birthday cards.  

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):

Elaine

Karen

Kitty

Nat

Wendy

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 828 - 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 'masculine' 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 Dr Digi's House of Stamps and they offered one lucky winner 1 digi image of their choice from their online store. As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 1

Diane A.

Congratulations Diane, what an awesome card. The image is fantastic and your colouring is perfect. Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com with your choice of image we will arrange for it to be sent to you.  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):

Diane A. (must be your lucky week!)

 

Arlene R.

Darlene Pavlick

Silke

Wendy R.

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 'make it bloom' - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 828 - anything masculine

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week. Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘lots of layers' 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 of the £15.00 voucher courtesy of Dies to Die For and we will find out who Lorraine has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which was chosen by Elaine from Team 2 and she has given us a theme of ‘anything masculine'. As the title suggests Elaine would like you to make something for a man or boy this week.  We know male creations are difficult, and they are not our favourite things to make, but we always need them so come on take the plunge and join in the fun.  Please remember you can enter using any type of creation, it doesn’t have to be a card but whatever you make 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 Dr Digi's House of Stamps who are offering one lucky winner a prize of 1 digi image of their choice from their online store.  Most of the DT have used images from Dr Digi's HOS 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):

Elaine

(using Dr Digi's HOS image 'Professor Wiggingson')

Karen

(using Dr Digi's HOS image 'Mr Speaker (birthday)')

Kitty

(using Dr Digi's HOS image 'Mr Speaker (birthday)')

Nat

(using Dr Digi's HOS image 'Aubery Bumblethorpe')

Wendy

(using Dr Digi's HOS image 'Aubery Bumblethorpe')

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