Paper Sweeties are just so sweet.

Today I am super thrilled to be Guest Designer at Paper Sweeties for my little win in the April Challenge.  Thanks so much Paper Sweeties for having me xo

I so enjoyed playing with these great products.  I love the co ordinating stamps and dies and must say what great quality the acrylic stamps are.

Its Party time in the Boutique and here is the inspiration graphic for Challenge #32

 My inspiration came from the colour combination and the pretty banner with clean spaces.

My First happy little card is made using stamps and dies from the Tree of Life add on, Spring, 

with Stitched Tags #1 .  

 The papers and sentiments  are from Lili of the Valley.  

Thanks for popping by today.

Make sure you drop in to the Paper Sweeties Blog for this challenge 

and more wonderful inspiration.

Angel Johns

Annette Witherspoon

Cheryl Lea

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties 

Emily Frasier

Jill Norwood

Julie Tucker-Wolek

Kathy Schweinfurth 

Larissa Heskett

Mackie Robertson

Maria Patrick

Michelle Bala
Mynnette Kitchen

Nancy Penir

June Guest Designer:  Karen Oliver  - Thats Me

Playful Kitty - Bon Voyage

The latest clear stamp set at Gerda Steiner Design is called Playful Kitten and playful she is.
This little cutie is trying to smuggle into a suitcase.  I made it an envelope and card all in one. Prrretty Great Friend and the hearts are from the set.

Inside I used a luggage tag stamped with one of the sentiments in the set as the background.  

This is my last project as part of the Gerda Steiner Design Team, I have loved my time with Gerda and have enjoyed watching her little business grow and flourish. 

I am sure her whimsical little images will become firm favourites with many. 

Its been a pleasure and I wish Gerda and her little characters all the very best.

xoxo

# Cheers

I created this little card for the Paper Smooches Sparks May Designer Drafts Challenge. Unfortunately I don't have any Paper Smooches Stamps (haven't come across them down here) fortunately there are some kindly supplied freebie digis to play with.  I do have a few Paper Smooches dies which I use often.  The ones used here are # from the card booking dies and cheers from Birthday Words. Check out the whole range at the Paper Smooches store. I inked clouds onto the background using a hand cut template.

This is the draft.

And here's my card

The Card Concept

I received some Goodies from Paper Sweeties for winning a Challenge.  Yay for Me!!!

So I have been playing around with them as I also get a Guest Designer Spot in June.  Yay for me again!!!

The heart die and stamp is from the Stitched Tags 1 bundle and the lovely little flower shaped sequins are called Spring Peeps.

I made this card inspired by Challenge #35 at The Card Concept.  I think it comes under the style banner of Clean and Layered.

Thanks for stopping by!

Lili of the Valley second card for May

Well its a miserable wet cold evening here.  But here's a little card to cheer you up.  Its my second May card for the LOTV Design Collective. There is a special running at the moment on Art Pads so scurry on over quick. This is the third stamp in the set "Present Trio''.

Stamps Present Trio and Small Greeting General

Paper is from the Pastel Dreams collection 

Spots and Dots at Southern Girls

Its time for a new challenge over at Southern Girls this round its all about Spots and dots.

Heres my DT card using the super cute Harry from our lovely sponsor Zuri Stamps.  He had a very vintage feel about him so I went with this.  The papers are an older Kaisercraft collection and the sentiment (which was perfect) is from Lili of the Valley.

Hope to see all your entries popping up at Southern Girls.

Entered into the following challenges

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #10

Crafting from the Heart #60

Creative Fingers #80

Avenue 613 Create #124

Sister Act #10

Off to the Beach....

I wish....the weather here is only good if you look like a duck, quack like a duck, or in fact are a duck.

This little cutie is a digi set from Gerda Steiner Design called Beachgirl.  The papers are from Lili of the Valley  Up, Up and Away Collection.

Lili Of the Valley Card for May

First a big thank you to all my new followers over recent weeks,  I hope you pop back often for a visit.  I love reading all your comments. xo

Today I am sharing my first card for the LOTV Design Collective for May.

This gorgeous image is from a pre coloured Art Pad called Jsck, Patch and Puss which can be purchased in either a Taster Pack (1 of each design) or an Art Pad (3 of each design).

The papers are from the Always and Forever Collection 

The sentiment is from the General Greetings Small set.

I added a few little embellishments just to finish it off.

Entered into these Challenges

Sister Act # 105

Natalie & Amy's #32 Animals

Stinkin cute..

Yes indeed this little guy is just too stinking cute and is the challenge image at Gerda Steiner Design for May.  Check out the details HERE  of how to play along.

The paper and sentiment are from LOTV, coloured in Derwent coloursoft pencils.

Entered into the following challenges.

613 Avenue Create #122

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #9

Crafting from the Heart #58

Creative Fingers #78

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy (inter) National Scrapbook Day

Happy NSD all!  

We are totally excited that you’ve joined us this weekend for this extra special blog hop.“You should have arrived here from the lovely Julie's blog.  "Wasn’t her blog inspiring!” 

SpiegelMom Scraps and the Southern Girls Challenge Blog owners and Design Teams have united and are aspiring to inspire YOU!  This hop has such wide variety of paper crafting styles and media being used that it’s sure to get your creativity flowing.

Jody Spiegelhoff, owns SpiegelMom Scraps! And one of her lovely Design Team Sparklers, Louise Forsyth is a co-owner of the Southern Girls Challenge Blog.  Louise and Jody thought having their Design Teams join forces for this weekend would be loads of fun.   I think they were so right.  

Stop a while and enjoy some projects made using products from Spieglemom Scraps.

First a layout:

The paper is from Magiczna Kartka with additional stencilling using Gesso, sentiment is a project life card.  All the additional embellishments (including the washi tape used to cover the card behind the photo) are available from Jody's store.

The beautiful crocheted roses inspired me to keep this card white on white with just a touch of colour from the hearts and sequins.  Behind the roses is a pleated (scrunched) doily, all available from SpiegelMom Scraps

 Finally a mini album made using one sheet of 12 x 12 cardstock.  The Design Paper is from Maya Design.  The embellishments, tags, washi tape and other embellishments are from Jody.  The little chipboard oval on the cover was from a freebie set that came with a magazine.

I really hope you enjoyed having a look around.  Hope to have you visit again soon.

Don't forget to leave a comment to be in to win this fabulous prize.

Now I’m going to send you over to the amazing Kat!  Get ready for some more beautiful paper crafting!”   

Happy NSD everyone and thanks for joining in the blog hop!

Karen