Week 672–sketch (& DT call!)

Good morning lovely crafters, we hope you had a great week last week and enjoyed the first challenge of the year.  Thank you for all your gorgeous entries for our ‘new’ 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. Don’t forget to pop back later to find out who won the 3 digi images courtesy of The Paper Shelter and also who Julie has chosen as her Top 5 Passionista.

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by me (Denise) on behalf of Team 2, and I have given you a lovely ‘sketch’ to use.  This week I thought we would have a change and have a sketch to follow; no other rules, except use your markers and have fun.  We hope you enjoy using the sketch 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. 

Here is the sketch:

Our generous sponsor this week is Polkadoodles 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 Polkadoodles 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):

Elaine

(using Polkadoodles image ‘gnometastic celebration balloons’)

Karen

(using Polkadoodles image ‘spring bunch gnome’)

Kitty

(using Polkadoodles image ‘BBQ gnome’)

Linda

(using Polkadoodles image ‘Winnie – sunshine delight coffee’)

Nat

(using Polkadoodles image ‘swimming girl’)

Another great 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.  If you haven’t already, don’t forget to grab our logo from the sidebar for your own blogs.

DT call:

Sadly Lisa G. from Team 2 has decided to step down from the DT so we are looking for a new team member to join Team 2.  There are a few conditions that you would need to fulfil to be successful:

* You will need to have excellent colouring skills using markers of course!

* You will need to have a blog and update it regularly, at least once a week.

* You must be able to commit to creating at least one card every fortnight.

* You must have a Facebook account (or be willing to join Facebook) as this is where all the information for the DT will be located.

* You must be able to comment on your allocated number of entries (we have a commenting rota in place).

* Most importantly if selected you can start creating for us straight away.

If you feel you meet all the above then please add DT after your name and we’ll pop over for a look. If you would like more information please feel free to email us (but please don’t apply by email). We will probably keep the call open for next week’s challenge also so there is plenty of time to get your name in the hat.  If you know of someone that may be interested then please let them know about the call.    

We hope you have a great week.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Winners of Week 670–Mega Christmas challenge 2022

Hello again crafters, we’re back to announce all of our lucky winners for the month long Mega Christmas challenge ‘use die cuts’.  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 2023.

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 2022:

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

No. 10 - Lynne R

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Uniko Stamps offered 1 stamp set (which must be in stock) and the lucky winner is:

No. 48 – Carol Gill

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

No. 37 – Marjeta Gomboc

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Crafty Sentiments Designs offered 3 digi images and the lucky winner is:

No. 78 – Cards with Caitlin

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Colour of Love digis offered 2 digi images and the lucky winner is:

No. 75 – Chrissyxx

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

No. 20 – ~DEANNE~

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Polkadoodles offered 3 digi images and the lucky winner is:

No. 82 – Diane Louise

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Di’s Digi Stamps offered a $6.00 voucher and the lucky winner is:

No. 35 – Irene M.

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

No. 5 – Melanie H.

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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 The Paper Shelter.

Please can all our winners email us at promarkerchallenge@gmx.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 ‘new’ - 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 2023!

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 671 - new

Good morning and welcome back to our lovely crafters; we can’t wait to share our first challenge of 2023.  We hope you’ve all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year and managed to fit in some crafting over the holiday period.  The last month has just whizzed by hasn’t it!  Thank you for all your lovely entries for our Mega Christmas challenge challenge; it was amazing to see them all and as always the DT had a brilliant time visiting your blogs and seeing your creations.  Please remember to come back later as we will be announcing all of our lucky winners – how exciting!

Onto the new challenge, which has been set by Julie from Team 1, and she has given us the very appropriate theme of ‘new’.  As the title suggests Julie wants to see something new on your creations this week; it can be as simple as using new crafty goodies (please tell us what they are so we can go shopping) or something for a new house, new baby or new year etc.  I don’t think it can get any easier than that to start us off this year.  Don’t forget you can enter any type of creation it doesn’t have to be a card.  So pull out your favourite markers and get colouring.

Our generous sponsor this week is The Paper Shelter and they are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from 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):

Julie

(using The Paper Shelter image ‘cabaret lolly’) - new die set

Lisa M.

(using The Paper Shelter image ‘cabaret lolly’) - new year card

Lorraine C. 

(using The Paper Shelter image ‘cabaret lolly’) - new technique using a ‘wobbler’ spring

Marie

(using The Paper Shelter image ‘cosy winter wishes’) - new paper pad

Marlene

(using The Paper Shelter image ‘snowball fight’)

Sue

(using The Paper Shelter image ‘funny giraffes’) - new baby card

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.

Don’t forget to pop back later to see if you are one of our lucky winners from our Mega Christmas challenge; as we have lots of winners there will be no top 5, but this will re-start again this week with Julie's challenge.  

Stay safe and sending our love to you all.

Hugs, Denise, Gina and DT x x

Week 670–midway reminder for Mega Christmas challenge

Good morning crafters.  Wow where did the last two weeks disappear to?  We cannot believe it’s only 5 days until the BIG day – we’re sure you are all super organised and are now sitting back and relaxing waiting for the day to arrive (if you’re anything like me you are running around like a headless chicken lol!).

Well we are now half way through our Mega Christmas challenge and we have to say we are stunned by all your gorgeous cards.  The theme is “use die cuts” and don’t forget you still have until 3rd January 2023 to enter our challenge, although there is a maximum of 3 entries per person.

Before we show you the wonderful creations by Team 2 here is a quick reminder of the prizes up for grabs:

Dies to Die For are offering 1 lucky winner a £20.00 gift voucher

Uniko Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 1 stamp set (must be in stock)

Leann’s World 101 are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images

Crafty Sentiments Designs are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

Colour of Love digis are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

All Dressed Up stamps are offering 1 lucky winner 2 digi images

Polkadoodles are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

Di’s Digi Stamps are offering 1 lucky winner a $6.00 voucher

Sheepski Designs are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digi images

WOW amazing prizes – we’re sure you’ll agree!

In the last post two week’s ago we shared team 1’s beautiful creations so this time we are going to share the gorgeous creations from Team 2 (please click on their names to visit their personal blogs):

Elaine

Karen

Kitty

Linda

Lisa G.

Card to follow!

Nat

We’re sure you’ll agree that their cards are stunning.

So to re-cap the challenge will run until 3rd January 2022 and you can enter a maximum of 3 times.  Please continue to link up your cards with Mr Linky in our original post here.

We can’t wait to see your creations and look forward to visiting your blogs.  We’ll be back in 2 week’s time to launch our new challenge and also to announce all the lucky winners of our amazing prizes.  Don’t forget you have to be in it to win it lol!

Before we go we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year and thank you for all the love and support that you’ve shown us in 2022.  Without you and all of our generous sponsors our little blog would not be the success it is and still going strong after all these years.  We hope you will all continue to support us in the new year and make 2023 an even better year.

Hugs, Denise, Gina & DT xx