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 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 836 - 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 'furry friends/animals' 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 Wendy'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 Di's Digi Stamps and Di offered one lucky winner a £6.00 voucher to spend in her online store. As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 18

crafticarri

Congratulations Carrianne, what a fantastic card. The image is so much fun and your colouring is amazing. 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 Wendy had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. After much deliberation here are her favourite 5 (in linky order):

crafticarri (must be your lucky week!)

Silke

Paper Whims

Diane A.

CraftyKiwiMama

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 join in with our current challenge 'masculine' - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 836 - furry friends/animals

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘heroes: super or real’ 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.  Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our lucky winner who will receive the £15.00 voucher courtesy of Dies to Die For and we will also be finding out who Sarah has chosen as her top 5 passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Wendy from Team 2 and she has given you the theme of ‘furry friends/animals’ to inspire you this week.  Wendy has given you all a very easy theme this week, she would like you to include a furry friend or any animal on your creations this week; it can be your focal image, your patterned paper, ribbon or even die cuts; just remember your entry must include a hand-coloured image to be eligible for the prize draw.  You can enter using any type of creation, it doesn’t have to be a card we love to see all your handcrafted items such as ATC's, scrapbook pages, etc., so grab your markers and get colouring!

Our generous sponsor this week is Di's Digi Stamps and Di is offering one lucky winner a £6.00 voucher to spend in her online store.  

The design team have created beautiful cards once again this week (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs and leave them some love!):

Wendy

Elaine

Karen

Kitty

(using Di's Digi Stamps image 'buddy in the garden')

Nat

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 834 - 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 'dots and/or stripes' 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 Nat'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 Polkadoodles and they offered one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from their online store. As always we used random.org and he chose:

No. 15

Jackie C.

Congratulations Jackie, what a beautiful card.  The image is so pretty and your colouring is amazing. Please email us at passionformarkerschallenge@gmail.com with your choice of images 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 Nat had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations. After much deliberation here are her favourite 5 (in linky order):

Wendy (Paper Whims)

Stacey

Renske

Jenn Borjeson

Helen

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 join in with our current challenge 'heroes: super or real' - full details in the post below.

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 834 - dots and/or stripes

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week’s ‘spring colours’ 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.  Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing our lucky winner who will receive the 2 digi images courtesy of Leann's World 101 and we will also be finding out who Sue has chosen as her top 5 passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Nat from Team 2 and she has given you the theme of ‘dots and/or stripes’ to inspire you this week.  Nat doesn't mind what you make as long as you include either dots or stripes (or both).  It can be dots or stripes on your image, papers, ribbon, embossing folder, it's entirely up to you.  Such a brilliant theme, don't you agree and we can’t wait to see what you make.  Just remember your entry must include a hand-coloured image to be eligible for the prize draw; so grab your markers and get colouring!

Our generous sponsor this week is Polkadoodles and they are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from their online store.  Most of the DT have used images from Polkadoodles on their creations this week. 

The design team have created beautiful cards once again this week (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs and leave them some love!):

Nat

(using Polkadoodles image 'Helga hippo bedtime')

Wendy

(using Polkadoodles image 'Helga hippo study work hard')

Elaine

Karen

(using Polkadoodles image 'flower fairy Winnie daisy')

Kitty

(using Polkadoodles image 'gnome grown bee buzzy gnome')

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