Week 827 - Winner and 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 'lots of layers' 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 Lorraine'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. 24

NGCARDS

Congratulations Natalie, what a gorgeous card. The image is super cute and your colouring is perfect. Loving the distressed layers too. 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 Lorraine had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. After much deliberation here are her favourite 5 (in linky order):

Sigrid den Hollander

Jane Savage

Pinky

NGCARDS (must be your lucky week!)

Sigrid den Hollander

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 'anything masculine' - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 827 - lots of layers

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you had a great week last week.  Thank you for your gorgeous entries for our ‘spring 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. Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our lucky winner of the prize courtesy of Uniko 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 the theme of ‘lots of layers’.  Lorraine doesn’t mind what you make this week but she wants to see lots of lovely layers this week - no CAS cards allowed lol!   I’m sure we all have lots of patterned paper/cardstock in our stash that is piling up so come on and join in the fun and clear some space!  We can’t wait to see what you create.  Don’t forget you can make anything you want, 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 Dies to Die For and they are offering one lucky winner a £15.00 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 and see more views of their amazing makes this week):

Lorraine

Marie

Marlene

Sarah

Sue

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 491–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “lots of layers” challenge. It was fantastic to see all your lovely entries, and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  I’ll be announcing Lisa’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 Lee Holland Designs who offered one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from his online store. As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 9

Carol Gill

Congratulations Carol, your card is so pretty.  I love your image and your colouring is perfect.  Please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Lisa had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  She loved all your creations and it was a really tough decision but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Carol Gill (must be your lucky week!)

Ileana Artuffo

Jenimc

Lorraine B.

Nick

Congratulations ladies, 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 enter our current challenge ‘feminine’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 491–lots of layers

Good morning lovely crafters, I hope you all had a fantastic week last week. Thank you for all your gorgeous entries for last week’s ‘favourite digi or stamp’ 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 winner who will receive the 6 pack of promarkers (rich tones) courtesy of Cowling & Wilcox and we will also be finding out who Karen has chosen as her top 5 passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Lisa from Team 1 and she has given us the theme of ‘lots of layers’.  As the title suggests Lisa wants you to use as many layers on your card as you like, the more the merrier!  No one-layer, CAS cards allowed this week, sorry!  We hope you’ll have fun and can’t wait to see what you create this week.  Remember you can enter using any type of creation but as always to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Winsor & Newton (formerly Letraset) products (promarkers, flex markers, tria markers, aqua markers or metallic markers). Please can you help us by stating which products you have used on your creation i.e. ‘coloured with promarkers’ etc. Thanks x x

We have a brand new sponsor this week, the wonderful Lee Holland Designs and Lee is offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice from his online store.  His designs are super cute so pop over to the store and check them out.  The design team were lucky enough to use images from Lee Holland 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):

Lisa

(using Lee Holland image ‘pig in wellies’)

Marie

(using Lee Holland image ‘girl holding kitten’)

Nic

Shelly

(using Lee Holland image ‘girl holding kitten’)

Sue

(using Lee Holland image ‘pig in wellies’)

Julie

(using Lee Holland image ‘pig in wellies’)

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.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 428–Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our lucky winner and top 5 passionista for last week’s “lots of layers” challenge.  It was a popular challenge and it was fantastic to see so many of your lovely entries and as always the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  We’ll be announcing Linda’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 DigiStamp Boutique who offered one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 23

Teresa

Congratulations Teresa, your card is so pretty.  I love the fab image and colouring is perfect.  Please email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.com and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and Linda had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  She had a difficult decision this week but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Alison B.

Babs

CraftyNatalie

Louise Forsyth

Sheryl Hare

Congratulations ladies, you can now proudly display the top 5 passionista blinkie on your blogs.  If you need any help with this please email us.

We hope you all have a wonderful week and find some time to enter our current challenge which is a gorgeous ‘inspiration photo’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 428 - lots of layers

Good morning lovely crafters, I hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘something new’ challenge.  It was a popular challenge and it was lovely to see so many entries.  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 Little Miss Muffet stamps and we will also find out who Nic has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Linda from Team 2, and she has given us the theme of ‘lots of layers’.   As the title suggests Linda would like you to make something using as many layers on your creations as you like, the more the merrier!  No one layer, CAS cards allowed this week, sorry!  Remember you can enter using any type of creation, it doesn’t have to be a card.  As always to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Winsor & Newton (formerly Letraset) products (promarkers, flex markers, tria markers, aqua markers or metallic markers) and of course follow the theme.  Please can you help us by stating which products you have used on your creation I.e. ‘coloured with promarkers’ etc.  Thanks x x

Our generous sponsor this week is DigiStamp Boutique and they are offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.  Their images are so cute so why not pop over to their store and check them out. They currently have 50% off all their digi images so it’s the perfect time to visit the store!  The DT were lucky enough to use images from DigiStamp Boutique on their cards 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):

Linda

(using an image from DSB ‘Summer Louie set’)

Lorraine C. 

(using DSB image ‘Abi & pony’)

Nat

(using DSB image ‘Arthur & flower’)

Donna

Still poorly – no card this week.

Elaine

(using DSB image ‘Star Harry’)

Jacky

(using DSB image ‘for you quacky’)

Karen

(using DSB image ‘spring Bently’)

Kitty

(using an image from DSB ‘Dan collection 1’)

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.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x

Week 319–Winners and Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends, I’m back to announce our 2 lucky winners and top 5 passionista for last week’s “lots of layers” challenge.  Well you certainly kept me busy and it was so lovely to see all your brilliant entries last week and the DT had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  We’ll be announcing My (Denise’s) top 5 passionista (on behalf of Andie) in a minute but firstly let’s find out who the lucky winners are!

For last week’s challenge we were lucky enough to have 2 sponsors!  Our first sponsor was DigiStamp Boutique who offered one lucky winner a prize of a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.  As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 49

Carol

Congratulations Carol.  Such a cute card and your image and papers are beautiful.  Please email us and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Our second sponsor last week was Letraset and they offered one lucky winner a Promarker 5 pack of pens in Brights, again we used random.org and he choose:

Ali

Congratulations Ali.  Your card is gorgeous and your image and papers are so pretty.  Please email us with your full address details and we will arrange for you to receive your prize.

Now onto the top 5 passionista and I had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and I really could have chosen you all as my passionista!!  After much deliberation here are my favourite 5:

Andrea

Carol

Julie

Karen

Kitty

Congratulations ladies, you can now proudly display the top 5 passionista blinkie on your blogs.  If you need any help with this please email us.

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

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT x x