Week 743 - 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 ‘add a sentiment’ challenge.  It was lovely to have so many of 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 winner of the 3 digi images courtesy of Polkadoodles and also revealing who Marlene has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.  

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Kitty from Team 2, and she has given us the fantastic theme of ‘animals’.  Kitty knows how much we all love our animals so she simply wants to see your cute critters (including birds) this week. It doesn’t have to be an animal image it could be animal themed patterned paper or an animal die-cut/embellishment as long as you also include a hand coloured image. Hopefully this will be a popular challenge and we can’t wait to see what you make.  The only rule we have is use your markers and have fun! Don’t forget you can enter any type of creation it doesn’t have to be a card.  So just grab your markers, join in and have some fun!

Our generous sponsor this week is Sheepski Designs and they are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from their online store.  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):

Kitty 

(using Sheepski Designs image 'for you image no. 259')

Linda

(using Sheepski Designs image 'party animal image no. 196')

Nat

(using Sheepski Designs image 'mini me image no. 174')

Wendy

(using Sheepski Designs image 'my pad image no. 106')

Elaine 

(using Sheepski Designs image 'my pad image no. 106')

Karen 

(using Sheepski Designs image 'curly image no. 172')

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 741 - Winner & Top 5 Passionista

Hello again friends; we hope you’ve had a great day so far.  Apologies for the slightly later post tonight but time got away from me.  We’re back to announce our lucky Winner and Top 5 Passionista for last week’s ‘going dotty' challenge.  Thank you for all your lovely entries; 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 Clearly Besotted Stamps 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. 13

Jinny

Congratulations Jinny, your gift box is beautiful.  The image is gorgeous and your eclipse sentiment looks fantastic.  We have a new email address so please contact 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 Karen had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  It was a really tough decision but after much deliberation here are her favourite 5:

Helen

Ionabunny

Jinny (must be your lucky week!)

Maz

Silke

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 one of our winners from the special anniversary challenge did not contact us to claim their prize so we have re-drawn another winner for the All Dressed Up stamps prize. So once again using random.org the re-drawn winner who will receive 2 digi images is:

No. 40

Pam's Pearls

Congratulations Pam; please email us (address above) and let us know which 2 images you would like from All Dressed Up and we will arrange for them to be sent to you.  Please also grab a winner's badge for your blog.  

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

Stay safe and keep on crafting.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 742 - add a sentiment

Good morning lovely crafters; we hope you all had a fantastic week last week.  Thank you for your gorgeous entries into last week's 'going dotty' 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 £15.00 voucher courtesy of Clearly Besotted Stamps and also who Karen has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Marlene from Team 1, and she has given us the theme of ‘add a sentiment'.  Marlene has given you a super easy theme this week and would simply like you to add a sentiment to your creation.  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 Polkadoodles and they are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from their online store.   The DT have all used images from Polkadoodles 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

(using Polkadoodles image 'pretty handbag cute Helga Hippo')

Sarah

(using Polkadoodles image 'balloon days - Winnie special moments')

Sue 

(using Polkadoodles image 'lantern/candle light - gnome festival fun')

Lisa

(using Polkadoodles image 'balloon days - Winnie special moments')

Lorraine

(using Polkadoodles image 'surprise gift - Winnie celebrations 2')

Marie 

(using Polkadoodles image 'balloon days - Winnie special moments')

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 740 - special anniversary challenge winners!

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. 42

Chris

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Rachelle Anne Miller offered a £10.00 voucher and the lucky winner is:

No. 10

Lisa J.

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Polkadoodles offered 3 digi images and the lucky winner is:

No. 44

Silke

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

No. 34

Aimeslee

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Sheepski Designs offered 3 digi images and lucky winner is:

No. 1

Alice

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

No. 32

Lia

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

No. 28

Melanie H.

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 ‘going dotty’ – full details in the post below.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x