Week 838 - Special Anniversary challenge - ATG!

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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

Week 800 - 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 'anything goes/hand coloured image' challenge. It was lovely to see so many of 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 Marlene who is still recovering) in a moment but firstly let’s find out who our lucky winner is!

For last week’s challenge we were sponsored by Lili of the Valley and they offered one lucky winner 4 digi images of their choice from their online store. As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 20

Sheryl Hare

Congratulations Sheryl, what a fantastic shaped card.  The image is so 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 I had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  Boy it was such a tough job this week but after much deliberation here are my favourite 5 (in linky order):

Doreen

Meg

Alexandra

Inkami

Jackie C.

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 'for a child' - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 800 - anything goes

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week. Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘dies and/or punches' 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 £6.00 voucher courtesy of Di's Digi Stamps and we will also find out who Karen has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which was chosen by Marlene from Team 1 and she has given us a theme of ‘anything goes'. Marlene doesn't mind what you make this week as long as you have hand coloured your images using markers.  It can’t get any easier than that can it, so go wild and get colouring.  Such a great challenge 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 Lili of the Valley who are offering one lucky winner 4 digi images of their choice from their online store. All of the DT have used images from LOTV 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

Unfortunately Marlene had a fall off her bike and cannot take part this week - feel better soon x x 

Sarah

(using a LOTV image from the 'sweet wishes') set 

Sue

(using LOTV image 'candles')

Lorraine

(using LOTV image 'James big sign')

Marie

(using LOTV image 'toy rabbit')

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 789 - 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 ‘favourite colour combo’ 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 3 digi images courtesy of The Paper Shelter will be and to see who Karen 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 16th Anniversary. Can you believe it's been 16 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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Di's Digi Stamps are offering one lucky winner a £6.00 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

Lorraine

Marie

Marlene

Nat

Sarah

Sue

No card this week.

Wendy

No card this week.

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

Winners of Week 769 - Mega Christmas challenge 2024!

Hello again crafters, we’re back to announce all of our lucky winners for the month long Mega Christmas challenge ‘anything goes’. It was wonderful to see so many entries and you certainly kept the DT busy! We all had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations and we hope you will continue to play along with our challenges in 2025.

Firstly we would like to thank all our generous sponsors, without whom our challenges would not be the same! We are grateful that so many of them have once again continued to sponsor us this year along with some lovely new sponsors too.

As we explained at the start of the Mega Christmas challenge we aren’t choosing our usual top 5 Passionista for this one challenge only so listed below are all winners of prizes! We used random.org to choose our winners and we went in order of the prizes listed in the challenge post.

Ok here we go, good luck everyone, here are the lucky winners for the Mega Christmas challenge 2024:

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

* No. 57 - Clare *

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Uniko Stamps offered 1 product of the winner's choice and the lucky winner is:

* No. 12 - Miss Lorraine V Lowe *

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

* No. 62 - Deanne * 

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

* No. 50 - Patricia * 

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Polkadoodles offered 3 digi images and the lucky winner is:

* No. 75 - Marjeta * 

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Sheepski Designs offered 3 digi images and the lucky winner is:

* No. 24 - Bettascrap * 

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RAM Stamps offered 1 lucky winner a £10.00 voucher and the lucky winner is:

* No. 111 - Lynn *

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Di's Digi Stamps offered 1 lucky winner a £6.00 voucher and the lucky winner is:

* No. 113 - Chris * 

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Thankfully we used random.org otherwise we could never have chosen our winners, all your entries were so beautiful.

Congratulations to all our winners – we’re sorry you couldn’t all be winners but check out this week’s challenge for another chance to win a prize courtesy of Clearly Besotted Stamps. 

Please can all our winners email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com stating the sponsors name in the subject line and what images you would like.  Please note you have until next Monday to claim your prize, otherwise a new winner will be chosen.

Have a great week and check out our current challenge ‘include an insect’ - full details in the post below.  Also a big thank you for all your comments and support during the last year.  Here's to an amazing 2025!

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x