Good Morning Paper Shelter Followers, todays theme over on The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog is for a "Birthday Card" and as you know its probably the one thing that originally bought us all to creating cards I know it was for me so Im sure it will be a easy theme for you all to follow and we always look forward to seeing your projects.
As always our sponsers are The Paper Shelter and they are offering a fabulous prize of $30. to spend on their website


But as always it comes with the rule that you must have used one of their products on your card or project, this could be a Image, Paper or Printable and even if you dont they will still give you 3 digi images of your own choice, so it really is a win win situation dont you think.
And now to show you the Card I created for this Challenge.


This little man is called "Casual Boy" and you will find him here, I printed him onto white card then coloured him with my copic pens, afterwards I used a rectangle die to cut him out, then used a larger one and black card for the mount.
The base card is a 6.50"x 6.50" white card with a first mount out of black card and the paper I have used is also from the same image set "Casual Boy" and you will find it here, and then on top I placed my mounted image towards the left, I cut out the leave scrolls and laid them down the right hand side
and then on top I placed my sentiment which was typed on my computer and printed and placed on another piece of black card to mount it.
Now that youve seen my card I do hope that you will pay a visit to The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot and see what the rest of the very talented Design Team have created for your inspiration and hopefully you to will want to take part in this "Birthday Card" Challenge.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges.
http://craftysentiments.blogspot.co.uk/ 
https://digichoosday.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://lemonshortbreadchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://stampartpapel.com/category/comunidad/ 
http://ttcrd.blogspot.co.uk/ 

Good Morning Paper Shelter Followers, well we are now half way through the year can you believe it? and this weeks Challenge over on The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot is a card created from a the colours in this photo


And as always our sponsors are Veronica and Pedro of The Paper Shelter and they are offering a fabulous prize of $30 to spend on their website


but this is only if you have used one of their products on your card and that could be either a Image, Paper or Printable and you will find them here on their website.  But even if you do not use any of their products you will still receive 3 digi images of your own choice so you really cannot loose can you? Please dont forget that you are only allowed to enter our Challenges 3 times and at least one of the entries must have one of our products on it or they will be disallowed in the choice of a winner.
And here is the Card that I created for this Challenge, its a real fun one and I hope you like it as much as I do.


This image is called "Monkeys" for the obvious reason and you will find them here,  and I printed it onto white card then used my copic pens on it to colour and then cut out completely by hand.
The base card is a 6.50"x 6.50" white card with a first mount out of kraft card and I have used the backing paper that came with the "Monkeys" image and you will find them here, I then used a mixture of Cheery Lynn, Marianne and Tattered Lace dies to create the background of grass, leaves and monkeys and these were placed around the edges and the image was then stuck in the middle of the card and a sentiment was then stamped and mounted on a banner die across the top in the left hand corner.
Now that I have shown you my card I do hope that you will pay a visit to The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot and see what the rest of the very talented Design Team have created for your inspiration and hopefully you will want to take part in this "Photo Inspiration" Challenge.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://doodlepantryblog.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/DPDC 
http://fattastictuesday.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://stampartpapel.com/category/comunidad/ 
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://www.craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://melonheadzfriends.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://notjustcardschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 

Good Morning Crafters, I dont know about you but this year is going by much to fast for me, because here were are already into June and Im still looking for the summer weather, not sure if we are going to be lucky as Im sure I have now grown webbed feet. Anyway this weeks Challenge over on The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot is being hosted by the A Team and we are expecting you to create a card with "Flower Power" and I know how much if you are anything like me love your flowers so I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
As always we are being sponsered by Veronica and Pedro of The Paper Shelter, and they are offering a fabulous prize of $30.


to spend on their website, but this is providing you have used one of their products on your card and that could be either a Image, Paper or Printable, but even if you havent they will still give you 3 digi images of your own choice. But its worth a visit to their website The Paper Shelter and see for yourself what stunning images they have to offer and what fabulous value they are to.
And now to show you my card


for my image I have used "Spring Princess" and you will find her here, I have printed onto white card then used my copic pens to colour her, afterwards I used Oval Nestabilitie Die to cut her and the Cheery Lynn Swedish Oval Die doe the mount. The sentiment is one from my stash and has also been cut with Nestabilitie Labels No.1 die to cut it out and a larger one for the mount.
The paper is also from the "Spring Princess" and you will find it here, and I have placed it onto a mount of peach card, which was then placed on a 6"x 6" white card and the mounted image was stuck in the center with the sentiment in the bottom right hand corner.
To finish of I have created two flower sprays with roses on different sizes and placed them in opposite corners to flag the main image. And the final flourish are the three pearls in the top left hand corner.
Now that youve seen my card I do hope you will pay a visit to The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot and see for yourself what stunning cards the girls have created for this "Flower Power" Challenge.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://cardsundmore-challengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://www.craftysentiments.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://justinspirationalchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.co.uk/ 

Good Morning Crafters, well tomorrow Im of to Scotland for my eldest daughters Wedding on Saturday and this will be my last post for a few days, hopefully the weather will stay nice and dry and not to chilly as Ive already been warned, keep your fingers crossed.
Before I tell you again about our sponsors I must introduce you to our two new DT members and they are Anna and Eileen (who has joined us from Maries Team) and is unfortunately unable to join us for this first Challenge as shes away on holiday at the moment, and I do hope that you will pay a visit to both of their blogs and congratulation them on joining us and wishing them all the best during the time with us. Anyway this weeks Challenge over on The Paper Shelter the theme is "Shabby Chic" and as always our very generous sponsors are Veronica and Pedro of The Paper Shelter and they are offering a prize of $30.
But as always the rule is you must have used one of their products on your cards, that could be either a image, paper or printable and you will find them here with brand new images being uploaded often.
But even if you havent used one of their products they will still give you 3 digi images of your own choice, that is one generous offer dont you agree you really carnt loose with this Challenge.
And now for my Card here it is:-

Good Morning Crafters, oh wow its certainly been hot here in Gloucestershire and my poor husband is finding it a trial, hes not good with it, and my poor dog is also finding it difficult but I dont mind much prefer it to the cold for sure. Anyway this weeks Challenge over on The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot is all about a "Clean and Simple" design and I hope that you wont find it to difficult to create a card with it. 
Anyway as usual our sponsors are Veronica and Pedro of The Paper Shelter and they are offering a fabulous prize of $30.
but this is providing you have used with one of their gorgeous products on your card, and that can be either a image, papers or a printable and if you like to browse their website here is the link to their site. But even if you dont use one of their products you can still take part in our challenge and if you are chosen by random org. you will receive 3 digi images of your own choice, so you really cant loose can you.
And now I want to show you what I have created for the Challenge.
The image I have used for my card is "I Win" you will find her here, and I have printed her onto white card then used my copic pens to colour her, afterwards I cut her out completely. I then used some of the fawn card and a Cheery Lynn "Swedish Spring" die created a mount for her to be placed on. The sentiment is one from my stash and has also been stamped onto a piece of white card then mounted on a ribbon slider. I then threaded it with a piece of blue ribbon ready to stick to the card.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of the same fawn card, the paper is the one that came with the image and I have mounted it onto the first mount. I then cut some swirls and stuck them around the top two corners and stuck the mounted image towards the top. I then wrapped the ribbon with the sentiment around the first mount and stuck it to the back.
To finish of I have used several roses of various creams and stuck them on top of the leave swirls (stash item) down the top two sides.
Now that youve seen my card I do hope that you will pay a visit to The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot and see what the rest of the Design Team have created for your inspiration, and hopefully you to will want to take part in this "Clean and Simple" Challenge.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://clearitoutchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://scrap-creations1.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://inkychicks.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/ 

Good Morning Crafters, when is Spring going to start, my garden has some crocus out and a few daffodils in but its so depressing as normally at this time of the year more green would be showing on our bushes and trees, but here in Gloucestershire everything seems to be on hold I do hope it soon warms up and starts to feel warmer, lets hope it wont be long.
Anyway todays Challenge over at The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot is I hope the start of this process as we want to see some "Spring Delights" on your cards, colour, image and even hopefully some flowers and as usual our very generous sponsors are Veronica and Pedro from The Paper Shelter and they are offering you a fabulous prize of $30.
And this is providing you have used one of their images on your card, but even if you havent they are still going to give you three images of your own choice. Ive also got some brilliant news as we are nearing a 1000 followers and once weve hit that target they are going to offering you some really fabulous prizes, and we are only 4 people away from that magic time.
And now here is my card for this weeks Challenge I hope you like it.


Isnt she cute and this image is called "Enchanted Love" and you will find her here, Ive printed her onto white card then used my copic pens to colour her, afterwards I have used Nestabilitie Die No.7 to cut her out then drawn around the die to create the mount. The sentiment is one of my stash and its been then stamped onto a white card and cut out with a tag die, and I have created the mount in the same way as the image's mount by drawing around the die and then cutting out.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of blue card, and papers I have used are from The Paper Shelters "Zoe's Spring Papers" quite appropriate and you will find them here. I have then placed a very pretty pink one for my first mount is has flowers all around the edge of it, then used a green paper and a large doily die from Create, and placed it on top in the center.
The mounted image was then placed towards the top left hand corner and the tag sentiment tucked behind it at the top on the right. I then used several swirl dies on some green card and also used a Joy die to create the leaf sprays and created a corner at the bottom on the right hand side. Afterwards I used several rolled flower dies to create the flowers, then placed them at different places in different sizes along the whole length of the spray.
Now that youve seen my card I do hope that you will go and visit The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot and see what the rest of the very talented Design Team have created for your inspiration and hopefully you to will want to take part in this weeks "Spring Delights" Challenge.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://clearitoutchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://scrap-creations1.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://sassycherylschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/ 
http://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.co.uk/ 

Good Morning Crafters, I do hope that you are ready for this weeks Challenge over at Bearlymine Designs Challenge Blogspot as its bound to be a high entry one as its a "Anything Goes" one, and weve been lucky to have three sponsors for this one and here they are.

Good Morning Crafters, its only days away now to my own big birthday I know you want me to write up exactly how old I am but I find it embarrassing to actually say it out loud anyway you can see from my profile what it is, its plus one. Anyway today's Challenge over on The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot is just right for all of those experiencing birthday like myself its a "Birthdays" theme and I know its one of the most popular themes for making cards so you can start putting your thinking caps on while taking part in it.
As usual our very generous sponsors are Veronica and Pedro of The Paper Shelter and they are offering a fabulous prize of  $30.


but as always this is providing you have used one of their products on your card, but even if you have'nt they will still give you three images of your own choice. I wish you would take a visit to their website The Paper Shelter, (click on this) and you can see for yourself what stunning and beautiful images they have for sale, they are always updating their catalogue and they also have some lovely papers that go with their images and printables, plus which they really are so reasonably priced as the exchange rate is brilliant and gives you real value for money.
Now I want to show you the card I created for this Challenge.

Good Morning Crafters, today is my first challenge as Team Leader for the "A" Team over on the Bearlymine Designs Challenge Blogspot and Im really excited and nervous, I just hope that I fulfil Donna's wishes in running it at least near to her standards, only time will tell. Anyway for this Challenge we want to see lots and lots of "Flowers" on your card, and we are being sponsored this time by:

Good Morning Everyone, Christmas is creeping nearer isnt it? but firstly we will have to cope with "Halloween" and that is our theme for this weeks Bearlymine Designs Challenge, and I do hope that you will take part in this one. If like me you have several youngsters in the family it does mean that you need to make several cards for them.
Anyway before I go any further I want to tell you who our sponsors are for this one and they are:-

I have used one of these frames on my card so you will get an idea of what it might look like, and here it is.


I have used a Magnolia stamp and this is Witch Tilda, I have coloured her with my copic pens, then used the large rectangle die from Nestabilitie Die to cut her out, then used a larger one for the mount. The sentiment is one of the Magnolia ones as well and has been treated in the same way as the image.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of red card, the paper I have used is one of Donna's of Bearlymine Designs and its called "Happy Hauntings" and you will find it here, its a all over sentiment, and then with one of the Halloween frame dies from Cheery Lynn I have cut out in black a large frame which has been then placed to the right of the base mount.
On top I have then placed my mounted image towards the left with the sentiment at the moment on the right, to finish of I have used a spook charm in the top right hand corner.
Now that youve seen my card I do hope that you will go and visit Bearlymine Designs Challenge Blogspot and see what the rest of the very talented team have created for your inspiration and hopefully you will then take part in this "Halloween" Challenge.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://artwithnoboundaries.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://cheerylynndesignschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://dutchmagnolialovers.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://hookedoncraftchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://craftspotbykimberly.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://mygraficocrafts.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://theresmagicintheair.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://totallystampalicious.blogspot.co.uk/
http://magnolia-licioushighlites.blogspot.co.uk/

Good Morning Everyone, today is the 49th Challenge over on Bearlymine Designs Challenge Blogspot and for this one its going to be a busy week as its your favourite "Anything Goes" I do hope that you will also go and visit Donna's website Bearly Mine Designs as she does have some really beautiful papers for you and they are extremely reasonable priced to.
Anyway back to this weeks Challenge and for this one we are being sponsored by "Fred She Said"

And now here is my card for this Challenge.
And I have chosen to use "Emma and Rosey" for my image and you will find it here on the "Fred She Said" website. I coloured her with my copic pens and then cut her out with Nestabilitie Die No.1 and used a larger one for the mount. The sentiment is one from my stash and has been treated in the same way as the image.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of lilac card, and on this I have used a lilac background paper with a roses design on it, this is one of the Bearlymine design papers and you will find it here its called "Roses Dreams", I have also used a second one in yellow and a Cheery Lynn Doily die and then placed it on top of the first layer, the mounted image was then placed in the center. I then used my Memory Box fence and gate dies to create the front and then placed my sentiment on top  of this at the bottom on the right hand side.
To finish of I have used some of the left over paper to create several flowers with punches and layered them up with a pearl brad in the center of them, I then placed them in the top left hand corner on top of some punched out leaves.
I do hope that now youve seen my card that you will go and visit The Bearlymine Designs Challenge Blogspot and see what the rest of the very talented Design Team have created for your inspiration and hopefully you also will want to take part in this "Anything Goes" Challenge.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-

Good Afternoon All, well the sun is out and theres a lovely breeze here in Gloucestershire, mind you its still hot and our dog is feeling it just as much. Anyway todays card has been made for this weeks Magnolia "In the Country" Challenge and any other one I can find. Ive used this sweet Tilda image carrying a bunch of flowers, not sure what they are meant to be, probably hellibores but I wouldnt depend on that. Ive coloured it with my copics then cut it out with my square Nestabilitie Die, then used with some lilac card a Heart Square from Spellbinders. The sentiment is one from my stash and has also been mounted on some lilac card.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card, but Ive also cut a 8" square then used the larger Martha Stewart Border and Corner punches to create a mount for the smaller one, the papers I have used are from Nitwits "Oh the Possibilities" digi paper set. Its all shades of pink and lilac and Ive used several papers, the main one under the mount is one with lilac punches on and the rest I used on the rolled flower in the top left hand corner.
Ive used a large piece of Cobweb ribbon around the card, then on top I have placed a lavender satin ribbon which was attached to the back of the first mount, I then cut a Cheery Lynn doily and tucked it under the ribbon in the bottom left hand corner. The mounted image was then positioned to the right and the sentiment at the bottom on the right hand side. Ive also cut a flower with a Memory Box die and this was stuck in the bottom left hand corner. To finish of Ive used several of the left over papers to create the rolled flower in the top left corner and this was stuck to the card with some punched out leaves on some silicone glue.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://justmagnolia.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.totallytilda.blogspot.co.uk/
http://magnoliadownunderchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/
http://magnoliastamplovers.blogspot.co.uk/

Good Morning All, I do hope your enjoying the drier weather, I certainly took advantage of it on Saturday and shampooed all my carpets, luckily most of them did'nt take to long to dry and they do look a lot cleaner to. You should have seen the dirt that came up out of them you don't realise how much dirt you grind into your carpets do you? Anyway back to this weeks Bearlymine Designs Challenge, and for this one we want to see "Shaped Cards" some of you do brilliantly at this, Im not so good so I rather cheated and just cut a fancy edge to mine.
Anyway before I show you my card I had better let you know who the sponsor is for this weeks Challenge and that is

and the theme for this Challenge is "Pearls and Lace" so thats what we want to see on your cards, and here is my card for this Challenge.
I have used this Bildmalarna image isnt she cute, Ive stamped her onto white card then used my oval die to cut her out, then used a ink pad around the edge to distress it. I then cut a Floral Oval Die from Cheery Lynn and stuck some lace around the edge before sticking my image to it.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a paper from Donna's "Petunia Parade" Digi paper set, you will find them here. I then positioned my mounted image towards the right with the sentiment at the bottom on the left hand side.
To finish of I have created a floral spray in the top left hand corner with a couple of different sized roses and some punched out leaves and a pearl spray.
Now youve seen my card I do hope you will go and visit the Bearlymine Designs Challenge Blogspot and see what the rest of the girls have created for your inspiration and hopefully you will also want to take part in this "Pearls and Lace" Challenge.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-

Good Morning All, I hope your surprised as we are that weve all ready reached our 41st Challenge over on the Bearlymine Designs Challenge Blogspot and for this one its a real favourite one of all of us, and that is "Anything Goes" and this time we are being sponsered by Saturated Canary.

Good Morning Everyone, I do hope that you are ready for yet another Challenge over on The Paper Shelter, I carnt believe that weve already reached out 69th Challenge and for this one we want to see images that show "The Great Outdoors" I do hope it doesnt cause you any problems and Im sure you must have images in your stash that will cover this theme.
Before we start you will want to know who is sponsering us this week and as usual our very generous couple Veronica and Pedro and they offering you


and that is $20 to spend on their website The Paper Shelter, but this is providing you have used one of their products on your card but even if you havent they will give you three images of your own choice. You really should pop across and see for yourself what fabulous images and gorgeous papers plus accessories they have to offer you and the value of them is just brilliant.
They also have a discount code for you at the moment so its worth a visit to see what stunning images they have on offer.


And now you I will show you my card I created for this Challenge,

and for my card I have used "Bath Team" and you will find it here, I have printed it onto white card and coloured it with my copic pens, afterwards I used my square Nestabilitie die to cut it out, then created a larger one for the mount. The sentiment is one I found on the internet and printed it onto white card and mounted it onto a piece of the same green card.
The base card is 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of green card, the paper is one of two from "Sweet Gardener" design papers and your will find them here, then on top I have used a second one and one of my Cheery Lynn Pastry dies then used a piece of the same green card and one of my cuttlebug folders then placed it on top of the first mount. Ive also used a piece of muslin under the mounted image that was placed in the centre with the sentiment at the bottom on the right hand side.
I then created three flowers with yet more of the papers from the same digi paper set, and stuck them in the top left hand corner on some punched out rose leaves. The final flourish is the three pearls stuck at the bottom on the left hand corner.
Now that youve seen my card I do hope that you will go and visit The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot and see what the rest of the Design Team have created for your inspiration and hopefully you also will take part in this "Great Outdoors" Challenge.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://craft-roomchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://thestampingboutiquechallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.co.uk/