Good Morning Paper Shelter Followers, well we have a fabulous surprise for you its our 5th Birthday over at The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot and each year we host a Blog Hop so for this one as usual its a 2 week Challenge and both teams will take part.


The Hop is our way of inviting you to join in with us and this one is a  "A Special Birthday" theme, which I know is extremely popular!!!! If you have landed here from The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog  you'll not want to miss out on this one! Our Design Team have worked very hard and are showcasing the gorgeous images available from The Paper Shelter Website and each blog on the hop is offering one lucky commenter a digi of their choice as well as the main prize, details of which are on The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot.
 

Good Morning Crafters, I do hope that you are fit and well, and I also hope the weather is good with you, ours keeps changing and we dont know if its Autumn or Spring here in the UK, but oh well what can you expect nothing is what you expect it is it? Anyway this weeks Challenge over on The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot is "Charming" which mean you must use a charm on your cards, its not so popular these days as it was a couple of years ago and I suspect you do still have some of them somewhere in your stash I know I do.
Anyway before I show you my card I want to tell you that 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 havent they will still give you 3 digi images of your own choice. The do regularly update their library of gorgeous images, papers and printables and will often have special offers running, so its worth paying them a visit here to see for yourself, and maybe even treat yourself to them.
And now I want to show you what I have been up to, here is my card.


And for my image I have used this gorgeous "See my on Fairy Facebook" and you will find her here, I have printed her onto white card then used my copic pens to colour her. Afterwards Ive used a Nestabilitie die to cut her out and a Deckle edge one for the mount. The sentiment was one I googled on the computer and printed it onto white card then cut it out and mounted this on another piece of pink card.
The main card is a 6"x 6" white card and the first mount is a piece of pink card, the papers I have sued are "Sweet Gardener" and you will find them here, they are also from The Paper Shelter. The first paper is a green background with flowers on and the second is a pink flower one that I have used a Cheery Lynn Doily die on, the third a blue background with a pink and pale blue pattern and this was cut in strips and then pleated across the card and I have used a pink ribbon on the top of it.
The mounted image was then placed in the center and the sentiment was put at the bottom on the right. I then used a piece of the same pink ribbon and created a bow and hung a laptop computer charm from a piece of chain underneath. The finish is the flower that I have used some of the left over paper and punched it out with my retro flower punches then created a flower for the top left hand corner and this has been stuck to the card with silicone glue on top of some punch out leaves.
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 "Charming" Challenge.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://lejdesignschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/ 
http://www.ladyanneschallenges.com/vickie-challenges.html 

Good Morning Crafters, I do hope you enjoyed last weeks theme for Bearlymine Designs Challenge Blogspot and I hope that you will equally enjoy this weeks and this one is a "Girly Pink" one and Im sure lots of you will want to take part in it.
This week we are being sponsored by:-
and here is what they say about themselves:-

Search our web site for cute and whimsical rubber stamps. We also feature background scenes in full size and miniature and we have a large selection of tea bag folding stamps. For great inspiration be sure to visit our card gallery!
and our second sponsor is 

Good Morning Crafters, I hope you are enjoying the new sponsors that Donna has found for you this year over on the Bearlymine Designs Challenge Blogspot and this week is no exception, we have yet another two new sponsors for this weeks "Anything Goes" Challenge and now I will tell you who they are firstly we have:-


How about those prizes aren't they brilliant, and Im sure that we shall have a excellent response this week as I know that we all look for the "Anything Goes" Challenges as it means we can enter without any problems so this week is going to be a busy one with the commenting Im sure. I actually bought several images from Alota Stamps and this is what I created for you.

Good Morning Everyone, I dont know about you but it amazes how quickly the weeks are flying by its not to long now before we have to start really getting into our Christmas themes, I do hope youve already started making cards I know I have. Anyway back to this weeks Challenge and we are giving you a free range as its "Anything Goes" and I know you love it so Im expecting a big response so start crafting.
But before I show you  my card I will tell you about our very generous sponsors and they are Veronica and Pedro of The Paper Shelter and they are offering a prize of
and they are giving you $30 to spend on their website, and believe me that goes along way but this is only if you use one of their products on your card, but even if you dont they will still give you 3 digi's of your own choice.
Now here is my card.

Good Morning All, well another week has flown by and we have now reached our 73rd Challenge over on The Paper Shelter and for this one its a real easy one for all of us its themed "Anything Goes" and I know how much we all enjoy playing this one.
I do hope those that are interested in joining our very talented design teams have taken part in our DT Call over on the Challenge Blog if your still interested in trying for it, please do as its still running till this Saturday 20th July, please dont forget you must use a Digi image for your card.
Anyway back to this week Challenge and as always we are being sponsored by our very generous Veronica and Pedro from The Paper Shelter website and they are offering you a prize of


to spend on their website, but to be able to win the whole amount of $20. you must use one of their products on your card, but even if you dont you will still receive 3 digi images of your own choice, thats one very generous offer which Im sure you carnt refuse.
And now back to this weeks Challenge and for this one I have produced this card.


This little lady is called "Gypsy Dance" and you will find her here, and the paper I have used for my card came with her.  Ive printed her onto a piece of white card then used my copic pens to colour her, afterwards I used the large Mega Oval from Nestabilities to cut her out, and cut a larger one for her mount.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card and as I said I used the paper that actually came with the image, and you will find it here, I stuck this on top of some blue card and then stuck it to the base card. I then used one of the Swirl dies from Cheery Lynn and placed them either side of her, and with some of some papers from the Victorian Beauty paper set which you will find here, Ive punched out several flowers and shaped them and attached them to the swirls, in the middles I have dropped some pearldrops, and also popped some in the centres of the other flowers. The sentiment was one I downloaded from the internet and printed it onto another piece of white card and mounted it at the bottom on the right.
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 take part in this "Anything Goes" Challenge.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://cachallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://jacksonsdigitalexpressions.blogspot.ca/ 
http://lejdesignschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/ 

Good Morning Everyone, yet again another week has flown by and weve now reached out 39th Challenge over on the Bearlymine Designs Challenge Blogspot and for this one its a Bingo Card,
and Im sure you wont have any trouble picking three of these items for your card, for mine Ive used "Dies, Flowers and Sentiment", but before I show you my card you will want to know who is sponsering this weeks challenge and that sponser is:-

Good Morning Everyone, well yet another fortnight has flown by and weve now reached our 67th Challenge over at The Paper Shelter and for this one we are "Going Dottie" and yes you can guess we want to see lots of spots and dots on your cards. But before I show you my card I want to tell you all about the very generous sponsers we have and they are Veronica and Pedro and they are offering you


$20 Gift Voucher to spend on their website and thats providing you have used one of their images or products on your card, but even if you havent they will still give you three digi images of your own choice, well thats a brilliant prize and I know that they are always updating their shop with new images all the time.
Now back to my card and here she is:-

For my card I used the "Excutive Woman" and you will find her here, Ive printed her not only onto white card which I then coloured with my copic pens, and then I printed it again onto blue and white spotted paper and then cut it out and stuck it to my image as you can see, it was then cut out with a Oval Nestabilitie die and mounted on a deckle edged one. The sentiment was one I found on the internet and I thought it was just right for this image.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card and for my first mount I have used blue card and the papers are from the "Tea Time" paper set and you will find there here. The first paper is a light blue background with circles and spots on the second is a pink paper and the third a dark blue one.
To finish of I used some of the left over paper and one of the die-namic rolled flower dies, I have created several flowers that have been stuck to the card with silicone glue and some punched out leaves, these were stuck on top of a circle doily diecut which was cut from a piece of pink tissue paper.
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 take part in this "Going Dottie" Challenge.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenge:-

Good Morning Everyone, well yet another week has flown by and we are almost in April and the holdiay season, so we thought we would get ahead of the game and devote this weeks challenge to "Easter" so hopefully it will give your lots of time to get your cards done and into the post for all little ones you make for.
And of course this week as always we are being sponsered by our very talented and generous couple Veronica and Pedro from The Paper Shelter and they are offering

Good Afternoon Everyone, well its a funny old day today weve had downpours and now weve got sunshine, its almost like April, its a shame but I suppose its better than snow or at least thats what I think. Anyway Im sorry I havent posted any cards for a few days but still trying to get over the busy time we had last week and Im hoping to get back to some sort of normality by next week but we shall see. Todays card has been created for the Saturated Canary's "Doilie Challenge, and Ive used this sweet image for my card and coloured it with my tria pens then used the Nestabilitie Die Labels No.11 to cut it it out then used the die again to create the mount. The sentiment is one of the LOV stamps and has been cut out with a circle die.
The main card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of purple card and one paper from the Kaisercraft "Lilac Avenue" paper pad, a very pretty white background with sead heads on in different colours, on top is a yellow doily cut with a Cheery Lynn Pastry die and this was stuck to the right handside of the card. Then around the middle I have wrapped a organza flower ribbon with a piece of satin ribbon on top and attached to the back of the card.
To finish of I have used three lily flowers and two tulips to create a flower spray, these were attached to the card with some silicone glue and punched out fern leaves.
This card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://saturatedcanarychallenge.blogspot.com/
http://www.craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.com/
http://www.alwayscrafting.blogspot.com/
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/
http://smudgyantics.blogspot.com/

Good Morning Everyone, well I dont know if youve discovered that Sugar Nellie have a Weekly Challenge on Facebook, and its a Colour Challenge again this week, and these are the ones they want us to use on our cards.
And Ive used one of the new stamps from Funky Kits its one of the Puppy Love set, and Ive stamped her onto white card and used my copic pens to colour her, then cut her out with my rotatrim and created a mount for her out of dark beige card. The basic card is a 6"x 6" white card with again a first mount of the same beige card and then used two papers from the Maja "Life in the Country" paper pack, the first one is a beige pattern on a white background and the second is a white spot on a blue background.
I then wrapped a piece of pink ribbon around the card and attached it to the back of the first mount. I then positioned my mounted image to the right hand side, and my sentiment which is also a Sugar Nellie stamp at the bottom on the left.
I then used one of the Die-namics loopy flower die with a piece of felt and stuck it to the card with some punched out leaves from Cheery Lynn and some silicone glue.
This card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://www.craftysentiments.blogspot.com/
http://deepoceanchallengeblog.blogspot.com/
http://everybody-art-challenge.blogspot.com/
http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.com/
http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/
http://ribboncarouselchallenge.blogspot.com/
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/

Good Morning Everyone, well it was another frosty morning and Ive just got back from taking Missy for a walk and luckily the ground was so solid I did get muddy for a change. Anyway todays card has been created for the Crafters Companion "Love is in the Air" Challenge and Ive used this new image from Strawberry Kisses for my image, arnt they just so cute, mind you not every dog will accept a cat but luckily our little girl would, Ive coloured it with my copics then used the Nestabilitie Die No.1 to cut it out and the same for the mount. The sentiment is the one that actually comes with this image so was just right for my challenge card.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of red card and Ive used one of the papers from the CD that comes with the images a very pretty pink, red and blue background, then on top I have used my Cheery Lynn heart die to create the two large hearts and the new Memory Box Corner die to lay on top. To finish of Ive used four heart gems and popped them in the two opposite corners.
This card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://ccmonthlychallenge.blogspot.com/
http://annabellestamps.blogspot.com/
http://cardmakinmamas.blogspot.com/
http://clearlyistamp.typepad.com/my_weblog/
http://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/
http://thestampmanchallenges.blogspot.com/
http://sweetnsassydigis.blogspot.com/

Good Morning Everyone, well we are into a brand new year and we have already reached our fortyfifth Challenge and for this one I know its your most favourite "Anything Goes" so Im sure lots of you will want to take part. As always our fabulous sponsers are Veronica and Pedro of The Paper Shelter and they are offering you a prize of

to spend in their webshop, and I carnt help saying that their images, papers and accessories are gorgeous and are well worth visiting as they are such good value, and this is why to win this Certificate all we ask is that you use one of their products on your card, but even if you dont they are still going to let you pick 3 images of your own choice, you carnt help but be aware of the generousity.

Anyway back to my card for this weeks Challenge I have chosen "A Smart Snowhite" for my image


and you will find her here, Ive printed her onto white card then used my copic and tria pens to colour her, afterwards I used Nestabilitie Die Labels No.15 and after cutting out I used the die again to create 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 green pearlescent card, on top I have used two papers from "Sweet Gardener" Papers and you will find them here, the first paper is all over green background with flowers on, then I used a blue paper and cut it into a 5" square and with the flower corner and border punch have created a square that was stuck on top. I then cut out a doily with one of the Cheery Lynn dies and distressed it with a little yellow ink and then positioned towards the right hand side of the second layer.
I then wrapped a piece of lace and yellow ribbon across my card and attached to the back of the first mount, the mounted image was then positioned in the middle with the sentiment at the bottom on the right.
With some left over paper I used a Die-namics Gardenier die to create a rolled flower which was stuck to the top on the left hand side on some punched out leaves.
Now that youve seen my card I do hope that you will go and visit the rest of my very talented "A" Team have for your inspiration and I do hope that you will take part in this weeks "Anything Goes" Challenge over on The Paper Shelter Blogspot.
This card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.com/
http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.com/
http://stamp-n-doodle.blogspot.com/
http://toptiptuesday.blogspot.com/
http://cupcakecraftroom.blogspot.com/

Good Morning Everyone, as you are probably aware our DT Leader and Owner hasn't been very well now for quite a few weeks and the news is still very sketchy, but we do want to wish her a speedy recovery and hope it wont be to long before shes back to her normal self, she works so hard and we do so miss her, Get Better Quickly Donna we need you. Anyway back to this fortnights Challenge for Bearlymine Designs and is all to do with using "Your Favourite Things" and if you anything like me you have certain things you just can't do without when making Cards and mine I will show you as we go along. This Challenge is being sponsored by the following people:-


 Wow there some awesome prizes there again and I know if would be just fabulous to win one of them I just wish is were possible for us to do so. Anyway Ive created this easel card as its one of my most favourite shapes to use.
And Im also led to believe its one of Donna's favourite shapes to, anyway I had the luck to be able use this gorgeous "Tickled Pink" image and her name is "Lolita Kellita" Ive printed her onto white card then used my copics and tria pens to colour her, then Ive used the large Rectangle Nestabilitie Die to cut her out and the they Deckle edged one for the mount. The sentiment is one from my stash and I think its got a really lovely way of expressing the feeling of the season.
The base size of this card is a 6"x 6" and Ive used to mounts in red with one of two papers from Donna's Bearlymine Designs "Winters Swirl" digi set this first paper is a beautiful red background with holly leaves on, on top is a red green and white pattern paper which has been cut into a 5" square and Ive used the holly all around punch set from Martha Stewart, these where then layered up and Ive used a deep cream lace on both with a wide red satin ribbon which has then been attached to the back of this mount.
For the front of my card I then used the large heart die from Cherry Lynn on some red pearlescent card and this was then tucked into the back of the ribbon and lace and Ive then positioned my mounted image on top. For the inside I used my mounted sentiment as a stop this was positioned in the middle of the lace but before sticking it down Ive tucked a further heart shape behind it on the left hand side.
To finish of the front I have created a floral spray with two colours of hellebore's and some holly berries these were attached to the card on top of some punched out holly leaves on some silicone glue.
Ive got to say that this is one of my most favourite designs of cards I love the simplicity of the layering and the lace and ribbon which finishes it of, and the flower sprays brings the whole thing alive. I do hope you enjoy seeing this card and now you've seen my card I do hope that you will go and visit the Bearly Mine Challenge Blogspot and see what the rest of a extremely talented team have created for you and hopefully it will inspire you to take part in this "Your Favourite Things" Challenge.
This card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://daisydoodlescreativechallenges.blogspot.com/
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/
http://sparklesforumchallenges.blogspot.com/

Good Morning Everyone, hope you enjoy Trick or Treating today its amazing how quickly these months are flying by and tomorrow starts November I just can't get my head around it, anyway have a wonderful day. I am going to hospital later on today to have a varicose vein injected, not really looking forward to that just hope its not as painful as the stripping but we shall see, keep your fingers crossed for me as I have plans to go to the NEC on Thursday and I don't want them scuppered.
Well today's card has been created for Mo's Challenge "Any Holiday or Celebrations" and Ive used this sweet candy cane fairy as a Xmas card and I have printed her onto white card then used my copic pens to colour her, afterwards I used Nestabilitie Die Labels No.1 to cut her out, I then used the same die on some pink pearlescent card for the mount, the sentiment is one of the Pink Gem ones that's been treated in the same way as the image.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of pink card and one of two papers from the First Editions two new Christmas Packs "Christmas Treat and "Festive Joy",  the first paper is a white background with hearts and the second paper is a pink background with candy canes on, and this one has been cut into a strip and Ive used the Martha Stewart Cherish Border Punch along both of the edges then positioned it down the middle of my card. I then wrapped a wide pink satin ribbon around the middle of the card and stuck it to the back of the first mount.
I then used some more of the same pink card and one of the Cherry Lynn Doily dies to cut out a circle and this was then stuck to the left and the mounted image was positioned in the centre of the card, and the sentiment at the bottom on the right hand side. To finish of Ive used a white and pink edged Hellebore with two lilies either side in a spray stuck on some silicone glue and punched out leaves in the bottom left hand corner.
This card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://mosdigitalchallenge.blogspot.com/
http://natalduranteoanotodo.blogspot.com/
http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.com/
http://onestitchatatimechallenge.blogspot.com/
http://ribbongirls.blogspot.com/

Good Morning Everyone, it does seem strange to be home its been such a busy few days and trying to get back to normal is taking time, and of course we went to pick up our baby yesterday and she was so excited to see us, but now shes feeling a little down and is limping a bit, not sure whats shes done and if it doesnt improve today a trip to the vets I think is called for. Anyway back to this weeks Challenge from Cuddly Buddly we want to see "A BIG Number or Letter" on your cards and its my turn this time to use Kim's own beautiful images and papers and I chose one of the "Eliza and Bro" images called "Birthday Girl" and created a card for our little granddaughter who will be the big "4" next year, you will find the image here in the Cuddly Buddly Webshop.
Ive printed her onto white card then used my copic and tria pens to colour her, then cut her out with Nestabilitie Die Labels 8 and then drawn around the same die to create the mount out of pink card. The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of pink card and one of three beautiful papers from Kim's "Cottage Garden, Poppy" digi paper Collection and you will find them here. The first one is a very pretty pink background with daisies on, and on top is a strip of pink card with the second paper a pink and white spotted paper. And with the last one which is a pretty lace pattern I have used one of the Cherry Lynn Doily Dies and stuck it down just under the mount going down the card.
I then wrapped a beautiful piece of white lace around the middle with a pink heart ribbon along the top and stuck it to the back of the first mount. I then positioned my image in the centre and created a badge Sentiment with a large number 4 on my computer in My Craft Studio graphics program and cut it out with one of the circle nestabilitie dies, then used a larger one for the mount. I did use some glitter on the number though it isnt to easy to see. To finish of Ive used some of the left over paper to create the rolled flowers in the top left hand corner which have been attached to the card with silicone glue on top of some punched out leaves.
Now that youve seen my card I do hope that you will go and visit The Cuddly Buddly Challenge Blogspot to see what the rest of the very talented team have created for you and hopefully it will inspire you to take part in this "Big it Up" Challenge this week.
This card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-

Good Morning All not only is it my 11th Wedding Anniversary today but its also my second Challenge DT card for Cuddly Buddly, and this time I am using the most gorgeous "Fairy" by Kate Middleton, she really does create the most beautiful images and if you would like to go and visit her you will find her here at Cuddly Buddly,  Kim has some really very talented Artists and Designers for her beautiful Digi Stamps and Papers and Im sure you will fall in love with them as I have, please do go and see for yourself I know you wont be able to leave without one or two in your basket.
Heres my card for this weeks Challenge:-
Isnt this image beautiful and its called "Little Friends" and I printed her onto white card then used my Copics and Tria pens to colour her, afterwards I cut her out with a Circle Nestabilitie Die, and for her mount I have used one of the Cherry Lynn Doily Die with blue pearlescent card. The base card is a 6"x 6" white card and again Ive used the same blue card for the first mount, then for my papers I have used "Enchanted Wishes" in a blue check and on top is a yellow paper thats been cut into a square and punched with one of my border and corner punch sets from Martha Stewart.
This have been layered up and then I used a beautiful piece of lace around the middle and attached to the back of the first mount, I then punched out a 8"x 8" square from White pearlescent card for the whole thing to be mounted on, once this was dry I then mounted my image in the center and created a tag with one of the "Enchanted Wishes" sentiments and at the bottom I used a circle one with a lovely sentement on again.
To finish of Ive used several different sized roses for the spray in the top left hand corner, and this was attached to the card with silicone glue and punched out leaves, I also used some stickles glue on them to make them sparkle. Now that youve seen my card I do hope you will pop over to the Cuddly Buddly Challenge blog and see what the rest of the very talented team has created for you and Im sure it will inspire you to take part in this weeks Challenge "Add a Tag".
This card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.com/
http://delightfulsketches.blogspot.com/
http://atsblog.typepad.com/wednesdayschallenge/
http://craftfancy.wordpress.com/
http://flutterbywednesdays.blogspot.com/
http://kelleykidschallenges.blogspot.com/
http://mymumscraftshopchallenges.blogspot.com/
http://stampwithsarahkay.blogspot.com/