Passion for Promarkers - 10th Anniversary

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Grab a cuppa and a biscuit (or two) and make yourself comfortable!

Good morning dear crafters. I hope you had a wonderful week last week and managed to fit some crafting into your busy schedules.  Thank you for your gorgeous entries to last week’s "summer is coming" challenge.  Marie will certainly have her work cut out for her when she has to pick her top 5 Passionista.  Don't forget to check back later to find out who she has chosen and also to see if you are the lucky winner of the $8.00 gift code courtesy of A Day for Daisies.

Onto this week's theme and we have a very special challenge for you this week as it's our 10th Anniversary. Can you believe it's been 10 years since Gina and Denise started their challenge blog to share their love of all things Letraset/Winsor & Newton?
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 – simples eh!  We expect to see lots of entries this week but please note we are only accepting a maximum of 3 entries per person for this one challenge only.  To be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Winsor & Newton/Letraset products (i.e. pro, flex, tria, aqua, metallic or neon markers).

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 one lucky winner a £15.00 voucher

Bugaboo Stamps are offering one lucky winner a $12.00 voucher

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

Crafty Sentiments designs is offering one lucky winner 3 digi images

Leann’s World 101 is offering one lucky winner 2 digi images

Dr Digi’s House of Stamps is offering one lucky winner 2 digi images

Cowling & Wilcox are offering one lucky winner a 12 pack of promarkers (set 1)

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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 over on the Passion for Promarkers challenge blog and here's a look at my DT card...

I decided to use the free digital images that I featured in this month's Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine, issue 191 (you can download the images HERE) I coloured the pretty Spring Bouquet up with my Pro/Flexmarkers and here's the colour list I used :

Leaves - Apple, Forest Green, Holly

Lavender - Orchid, Amethyst, Red Violet

Daisies - Blender, Pale Pink, Buttercup, Pastel Yellow, Sunflower

Small flowers - Sorbet, Fuchsia Pink

Background - Pastel Blue, Blender

I also used the free papers that come with the downloads, plus a bit of dotty pink from my stash for the corners. I inked the edges with Tuxedo Black Memento and drew a doodled border around the image...a touch of glitter, pearls and diamantes finished things off, plus the pink grosgrain for a bit of texture.

I have a busy day today, trying to catch up with housework and doing a bit of tidying, though I should've been photographing the samples for my upcoming project (but I forgot to get hubby to leave me his phone with the bells and whistles!) It just means days get switched around and I'll try doing that tomorrow...feeling like there's not enough days in this week, I'll just have to be a bit more organised with my time?!! Now there's a laugh! I'm a bit of a goldfish when the sun is shining and get distracted by the call to be outdoors!...
I do hope you can play along with our special anniversary challenge this week and look forward to seeing all your lovely creations!

To play along with our challenge this week, hop over to the Passion for Promarkers blog HERE

Crafty hugs,

Passion for Promarkers - Summer is on the way...

Good morning, crafty friends! Well, it certainly seems like Summer could be on the way with this fabulous weather that we're having! It's amazing how a bit of sunshine can lift my mood and give me motivation to get stuff done...though it doesn't help with my crafting, as I want to be outside rather than in!...
We have a brand new challenge starting today over at Passion for Promarkers and the lovely Marie has picked a topical theme of 'Summer is on the way'...

We're being sponsored by A Day for Daisies who are offering one lucky winner an $8 gift code to their online store...just don't forget that to be in with a chance of winning the prize, you must use your Winsor & Newton/Letraset products and follow the challenge theme...

We were lucky enough to get an image to play with and I went with the ever so pretty Flowers in my Garden...

I used an offcut from the Sweet Garden Roses paper pad that I got from The Works and coordinated my colouring to match (this doesn't happen very often!) I coloured up the sweet image with my Pro/Flexmarkers and if you'd like the colour list, then here goes :

Skin - Blush, Dusky Pink, Sunkissed Pink, Coral

Hair - Buttercup, Pastel Yellow, Champagne, Sandstone

Dress - Pale Pink, Cerise, Shocking Pink

Flowers - Cool Aqua, Surf Blue, Buttercup, Sunflower, Pastel Peach, Rose Peach

I added a die cut sun, inking through the die with Wild Honey Distress Oxide and clouds...just because I can! Some glittery organza ribbon, pearls, a touch of glitter and some doodling (which I find I do much more of thanks to the lovely Shelly!) finished my card off, plus a sentiment that I thought was apt for the image.

Right, off to see if there's anything I can do outside, rather than getting on with the housework that I should be doing! Have a totally terrific Tuesday, whatever you're up to and I hope the sun is shining on you today...
Happy crafting!