Buttons and/or Bows

 Hi crafters,

I'm back to let you know about the brand new challenge at Passion for Markers which has been chosen by our lovely Elaine.  She has given us the fab theme of 'Buttons and/or Bows' and we are kindly sponsored by All Dressed Up who are offering the lucky winner a choice of 2 digi images from their online store.

We were lucky enough to have one of their gorgeous images to work with this week and I've used this one which is called 'Wild About Flowers'

I coloured the image with my Promarkers and added lotos of glitter to the flowers in her hair,   I found some lovely co-ordinating flowers and added lots of lovely buttons.  This challenge was an easy one for me as I love adding buttons to my cards!!

Well I hope you'll be able to play along with this week's challenge and don't forget, you can enter any type of creation, it doesn’t have to be a card.  The only rule we have is that you have to use your markers, for example – Promarkers, Copics, Spectrum Noir, Karin Brushmarkers, Zig Clean Color Brush Markers to name just a few. 

I look forward to seeing your gorgeous creations!

Hugs, Karen x

Fave Colour Combo

Hi ,Crafters,

I'm sure you've seen the exciting news regarding the challenge blog at Passion for Promarkers.  If not, I'll just let you know that the challenges are now open to ALL types of markers!  We love our promarkers of course but realise that a lot of crafters love to use their Copics, Spectrum Noirs, Zig markers, Karin markers etc. so whatever type of marker you use - you will be very welcome at our challenges from now on!

We therefore have a new name and a brand new logo at Passion for Markers which our lovely Lisa has designed.

The brand new challeng for this week has been chosen  by our lovely Nat and she has given us the fab theme of 'Fave colour combo'.  We are kindly sponsored by Star Jam Lines and they are offering the lucky winner a choice of 2 digi images from their online store.

The Design Team were lucky enough to have one of their images to use for this week's challenge and I've used this one entitled 'Gnome with a Heart'.

This card was for my nephew so I used my favourite masculine colours of blue, grey and white.  This little gnome was so cute and really easy to colour in which was great!  I cut some grey polka dot paper into a banner shape and added a couple of red diecuts to look like hinges on the grey wood paper!  Some enamel dots and blue ribbon were the finishing touches - oh, and a teensy little bit of glitter!!  This was being posted so I couldn't add too much to my card!

I really hope you can join in with this week's challenge - don't forget you can use any of your markers now and just use your (current!) favourite colours to be eligible for this week's great prize!

Hugs, Karen x

Exciting News

 Hi crafters,

There's some exciting news over at Passion for Promarkers! Here's the post:

We are interrupting you this morning with some exciting news regarding our challenge blog.  We have decided from the first challenge on 5th January 2021 we will be opening our challenges to ALL types of markers.  We of course still love our promarkers but we have to move with the times and we know lots of crafters love their Copics, Spectrum Noirs, Zig markers, Karin markers and lots more so whatever type of marker you use you will be welcome at our challenges from January 2021. 

To make our challenge more visible we are going to update and refresh our name to ‘Passion for Markers’ and will have a new blog header and badges which are amazing and designed by our very own design team member Lisa M.  We can’t wait for you to see them.  Nothing else will change, the challenges will still be every Tuesday morning at 9am, the design team will continue to make amazing creations to inspire you each week, our generous sponsors are still supporting our challenges with their fantastic prizes and we will remain a friendly, happy part of blogland to brighten your world each week. 

We hope you will continue to support our challenges as you did in 2020.  We want to spread the word of the changes to our challenge so we would love it if you pop over to Facebook and share this post.  As a thank you we will be putting all the names of everyone who shares the post into a hat and the lucky winner will win a £10 voucher to whichever craft store they wish (or if you prefer a 10€ or $10 to a craft store in Europe/US).  You must share the original post on the Passion for Promarkers Facebook page (this will change to Passion for Markers very soon). 

Don’t forget you still have a few more days to enter our Mega Christmas challenge with a chance to win one of the awesome prizes we have up for grabs so please use the linky here (only 3 entries per person please and only promarkers allowed for this last challenge).

Stay safe and here’s to a brand new year at PFM!