Week 858 - 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 some orange' 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 my Top 5 Passionista (on behalf of Lorraine) in a moment but firstly let’s find out who our lucky winner is!

For last week’s challenge we were sponsored by Sheepski Designs who offered one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice (the store is currently closed but you will be sent a link to be able to choose your images).  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 7

Inkami

Congratulations Inkami, what a super adorable shaped card. The image is so cute and your colouring is perfect. Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com and we will send you the link to choose your images.  We hope you will proudly display our winners badge on your blog:

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

Silke

Jenn Borjeson

Inkami (must be your lucky week!)

Renske N.

Irene M.

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 ‘birthdays’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 858 - use orange

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had another great week.  Thank you so much for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘add some sparkle’ challenge; not as many as we hoped but the ones we did have were fantastic.  As always the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs.  Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our lucky winner who has won the 2 digi images courtesy of All Dressed Up Stamps and we will also find out who Wendy has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Lorraine from Team 1, and she has given us a fantastic theme of ‘use orange’. Lorraine would love to see some orange on your projects this week – it can be a little or a lot, it’s entirely up to you.  Obviously at this time of year you may want to make a Halloween card but you don't have to, you are free to make anything you like as long as you include some orange. 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 Sheepski Designs and they are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice (the online store is currently closed but the winner will be sent a link to be able to choose their images). 

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):

Lorraine

Taking a short break

Marie

Marlene

Sarah

(using Sheepski Designs image 'shopping in Yorkshire')

Sue

(using Sheepski Designs image 'catching leaves')

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 851 - 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 'floral vibes' 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 Sheepski Designs who offered one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice (the online store is currently closed but you will be sent a link to be able to choose your images). As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 4

Urška

Congratulations Urška, what a gorgeous card. The image is beautiful and your colouring is perfect. Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com and we will send you the link to choose your images. 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):

Chris

Pauline C. 

Lia

Silke

Alice K.

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 ‘ribbons and/or bows’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 851 - floral vibes

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you had a great week last week. Thank you for the gorgeous entries for our ‘dies and/or punches’ 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 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 us the theme of ‘floral vibes’. Karen has given you a super easy theme and would like to see flowers on your creations this week.  It could be a floral image, floral papers or even die cut flowers (as long as you also include an image coloured with markers).  Such a fun theme; 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 use your markers and have fun!

Our generous sponsor this week is Sheepski Designs who are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice (the online store is currently closed but the winner will be sent a link so that they can choose their images). All of the DT have used images from Sheepski Designs 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):

Karen

(using Sheepski Designs image 'sunflowers')

Kitty

(using Sheepski Designs image 'it's a spring thing')

Nat

(using Sheepski Designs image 'buttercups')

Wendy

(using Sheepski Designs image 'fuchsias')

Elaine 

(using Sheepski Designs image 'peonies')

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

Winners of Week 838 - special anniversary challenge

Hello again crafters,  I’m back to announce our lucky winners for last week’s special anniversary challenge “anything goes”.  There were so many gorgeous entries and the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs.  Myself, Gina and all the DT would like to thank you for all your lovely comments and we really appreciate your support over the years and for making our little challenge blog the success it is today – without you it would be nothing. We would also like to say a big thank you to our sponsors for offering such amazing prizes each week.

Anyway enough of the sloppy stuff, here is the real reason you are here – the winners!  There are multiple winners this week as we had lots of lovely prizes up for grabs.  As always, to be fair, we used random.org and these are the chosen ones!:

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Dies to Die For offered a £20.00 voucher and the lucky winner is:

** No. 32 - Helen **

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Polkadoodles offered 3 digi images and the lucky winner is:

** No. 26 - Julie Austin **

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

** No. 1 - crafticarri (Carrianne) **

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Sheepski Designs offered 3 digi images and lucky winner is:

** No. 29 - Meg **

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All Dressed Up stamps offered 2 digi images and the lucky winner is:

** No. 33 - myasperations (Kathy) **

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Leann’s World 101 offered 2 digi images and the lucky winner is:

** No. 11 - Irene M. **

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RAM Stamps offered a £10.00 voucher and the lucky winner is:

** No. 30 - Lorraine B. **

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Congratulations to everyone who has won a prize, we wish we could give you all something but we would need lots of prizes to do that lol! Please can the winners 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.

Thank you again for making our challenge blog such a success and we look forward to spending many more years with you!!

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

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 838 - Special Anniversary challenge - ATG!

*** WARNING – LONG POST ***

Grab a cuppa and a biscuit (or two) and make yourself comfortable!

Good morning dear crafters. We hope you had a good week last week and managed to fit some crafting into your busy schedules.  It was lovely to see your gorgeous entries for last weeks ‘masculine’ challenge; as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your beautiful creations.  Don't forget to check back later to find out who the lucky winner of the 1 digi images courtesy of Dr Digi's House of Stamps will be and to see who Lorraine has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto this week's challenge and we have a very special one for you this week as it's our 17th Anniversary. Can you believe it's been 17 years since Gina and myself started our little blog?  It only seems like yesterday when we nervously made our first post!  Time flies when you’re having fun.  As it's a special challenge we have a really easy theme for you of "anything goes".  As the title suggests you can make anything you like this week as long you colour with markers.  We are hoping to see lots of entries but please note that as we have extra prizes up for grabs this week we are only accepting a maximum of 3 entries per person for this one challenge only.  Remember the only rule is colour your image with your markers and have fun!

As always we have some fantastic prizes up for grabs and our sponsors have been very generous as usual.  Here we go....

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Dies to Die For are offering a £20.00 voucher

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Polkadoodles are offering 3 digi images

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Colour of Love digis are offering 3 digi images

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Sheepski Designs are offering 3 digi images

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All Dressed Up stamps are offering 2 digi images

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Leann’s World 101 are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images

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RAM Stamps are offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher

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Wow we told you there were amazing prizes didn’t we? Definitely lots of reasons to join in the fun this week!! To give you lots of inspiration we have both Team 1 and Team 2 to share their creations (as always please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Elaine

Karen

Kitty

(using Colour of Love image 'Thea Boo's balloons')

Lorraine

(using ADU image 'play day' - not currently in the store)

Marie

Marlene

(using ADU image 'flower girl')

Nat

Sarah

Sue

Wendy

(using Polkadoodles image 'love moo bunches')

Stunning cards as always I’m sure you’ll agree.  Please remember for this challenge we will only accept 3 cards/projects per person.  Also just for this one week we will not be choosing a Top 5 Passionista as we have lots of extra winners, however this will go back to normal next week.

We hope you have a brilliant week and we cannot wait to see what you create.  Good luck!

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x