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 829 - 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 'make it bloom' 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 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 All Dressed Up Stamps and they offered one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their online store. As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 13

Darlene Pavlick

Congratulations Darlene, what a gorgeous card. The flowers are beautiful 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 Marie had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. After much deliberation here are her favourite 5 (in linky order):

Kathie

Chris

Irene M. 

Rachael

Lia

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 'think pink' - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 829 - make it bloom

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you had a great week last week. Our 'masculine' challenge didn't really grab you but the entries we did have were fantastic. 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. Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our lucky winner of the 1 digi image courtesy of Dr Digi's House of Stamps and we will also 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 ‘make it bloom’.  As the title suggests Marie would love to see lots of flowers on your creations this week.  It can be a floral stamped image, a die cut flower or even floral background paper, Marie will be happy as long as you include some flowers.  This is always a very popular challenge so hopefully we will have lots of pretty entries.  Please remember you can enter using any type of creation, it doesn’t have to be a card, all creations are welcome. The only rule we have is that you must hand colour an image using your markers and of course have fun!

Our generous sponsor this week is All Dressed Up Stamps and they are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from their online store.  Most the DT have used images from All Dressed Up Stamps 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):

Marie

(using ADU image 'jam jar with flowers')

Marlene

Sarah

(using ADU image 'potted plants')

Sue

(using ADU image 'little gardener' - not currently in the store)

Lorraine

(using ADU image 'potted plants')

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 819 - 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 'dies and/or punches' 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 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 The Paper Shelter 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

Birgit

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

Lia

Donna

Marjeta

Vannessa

Inkami

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 3 of our winners from the Mega Christmas challenge did not contact us to claim their prizes so we have re-drawn new winners. 

For the Uniko prize of 1 product of winner's choice (must be in stock) - the lucky redrawn winner is:

** No. 47 - Pauline C. **

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For the Leann's World 101 prize of 2 digi images - the lucky redrawn winner is:

** No. 27 - Pam's Pearls **

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For the Sheepski Designs prize of 3 digi images - the lucky redrawn winner is:

** No. 48 - Donna W. **

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Congratulations to our redrawn winners.  Please email us and let us know what images/product you would like and we will arrange for them to be sent out to you.  Donna if you email us we will send you the link to choose your images from Sheepski Designs as the store is currently closed.  

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

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 819 - dies and/or punches

Good morning and welcome back to our lovely crafters; we can’t wait to share our first challenge of 2026.  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 2025 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 Marie from Team 1, and she has given us the fun theme of ‘dies and/or punches’.  As the title suggests Marie doesn't mind what you make this week as long as your project includes die cuts or punched pieces.  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.  

Our generous sponsor this week is The Paper Shelter and they are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from their online store.  The DT were given an image to use on their cards this week called 'daisies on my hat'.  

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

Marlene

Sarah

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.

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 Marie's challenge.  

Stay safe and sending our love to you all.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 808 - 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 'autumn 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 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 Dies To Die For 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

Anne

Congratulations Anne, what a cute card. The image is 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 Marie had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. After much deliberation here are her favourite 5 (in linky order):

Silke

Donna

Poydan

Jenny

Lorraine B.

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 'favourite colours' - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 808 - autumn 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 ‘anything floral' 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 who will win the 3 digi images courtesy of Sheepski Designs and we will also find out who Elaine has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which was chosen by Marie from Team 1 and she has given us a theme of ‘autumn colours'. As the title suggests Marie doesn’t mind what you create or even what theme you follow as long as you use autumnal colours i.e. oranges, reds, greens, browns etc!!  Such a lovely theme and we cannot wait to see what you create.  Don’t forget you can enter any type of creation it doesn’t have to be a card.  So come on grab your markers and have fun!

Our generous sponsor this week is Dies to Die For who are offering one lucky winner a £15.00 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):

Marie

Marlene

Sarah

Sue

Off this week

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