Thank You!

I want to extend a huge thank you to all of you who have joined in our challenges over these last few months and to the awesome DT who gave us all so much inspiration for each challenge.

This will be the last challenge here for Paper Blooms at this time. I feel that for now it's run it's course and I think we all had a lot of fun:) Perhaps in the future I will re-open it, but for now it is good-bye.

I wanted to end on a happy note though, so our last challenge is about thankfulness. Use the work thankful, thanks, thank you or the like somewhere on your project.

Again, THANK YOU for making Paper Blooms a fun challenge blog. And now our amazing DT:

Shelly

Rose

Christi

Carla

Color Challenge

Such great circle cards from all you who played along with us:) This next challenge is a color challenge, use the colors BLUE, ORANGE & WHITE. Look at the fabulous DT's cards for a ton of inspiration:)

Carla

Shelly

Christi

Rose

Circle Card

Welcome to another challenge:) This week we'd like to see you make a circle card or LO.

Your entries last week were all lovely, it was fun to see all the colors for the monochromatic use. This week's featured artist Irit created this beautiful LO, be sure to visit her BLOG.
The DT once again made gorgeous, inspiring art to help get your mojo going.

Christi

Shelly

Rose

Michelle

Carla

Monochromatic

Good Wednesday to you all! I'm a little late today, but have lots to share with you:) First let's get right to our featured artist. You all did fabulous creations with the sketch and this super cute card by Hazel is our featured pick! Go visit her blog here.

We also have a guest designer for the next 2 challenges. Please welcome Michelle, and here is a little about her.
I am a 52 year old married woman with two grown daughters and three delightful grandchildren all of whom I absolutely adore, I am nothing without them. I have been in the Australian Army for 6 years and was with the Queensland Police Service for 10 years and also worked for the Queensland Education department and I took time out to be a SAHM to look after my two daughters. Late last year I was forced to resign from my job in the Disability field due to workplace bullying and it really made me think what I wanted for myself. I decided that I no longer wanted to work for anyone and decided to start my own business using the art of rubberstamps, Off the Page projects, journals, teaching etc. I did a small business management course and am now living my dream. It is hard because it has been slow to get started but I will hold out and stick with it. I have been making cards for over 20 years on and off and about two years ago I became a Stampin" Up! demonstrator. Once I got my blog up and running I wanted traffic to visit and my daughter told me to put myself out there so I looked at challenge blogs and Paper Blooms amongst a few others just appealed to me. I have met some beautiful women through doing challenges and there are quite a few I now regard as friends with a couple of special friends (they know who they are) that I chat to regularly. Thanks Leah for giving me an opportunity to be a guest designer for Paper Blooms.

On to the next challenge! We are going monochromatic. Have a look at your inspiring DT creations!

Michelle

Christi

Rose

Shelly

Carla

Sketch!

Wow! on the number of participants this last challenge! SO great to see all your beautiful creations, we appreciate you joining in so much! Before I get to the sketch for this week's challenge I want to share our featured artist for this week. Her card is the perfect blend of cute and elegant and well, bling:) Be sure to check out her BLOG.

So this next challenge is a favorite for many, a sketch! Can't wait to see what you come up with.

We have a guest designer for this week too, Nikki Love. A little about her:

Hello. My name is Nikki Love-Salinas and I'm from South Carolina. I am "Wife" to a wonderful man named Victor and "Mama" to six beautiful children ranging from ages 20 to 4. I am a Correction Officer by night and an avid scrapper by day. I am also the owner of Touched By Love Florist and La Pasadita Restaurant. I have been scrapping for about 20 years now but avidly scrapping for 10 years. My style is linear with a touch of freestyle. I am a designer at Pages In Time http://pagesintimestoresite.ning.com/ and love participating in forum and blog challenges.

Now let's see all the fabulous DT creations!

Nikki

Shelly

Christi

Rose

Carla

B.L.I.N.G!

For those of you that joined us last week thank you! We love seeing your creations and remember you don't need to have any Paper Blooms to play along!

This week's featured artist is Kim S. with her very creative take on "It's a Flower, but it's Not!". She made little prima flowers into butterflies. Take a look at her beautiful card. Please email me your addy and I'll send you out some Paper Blooms goodies:)




This week's challenge is all about the BLING! Anything that sparkles or shines will do! Take a look at what the talented DT came up with to inspire you!

Carla

Christi

Shelly

Rose

It's a Flower, But It's Not!

Thank you for joining us last week with your beautiful entries for a Home Decor piece. I know I was inspired by you all! This week's featured artist is Chupa with her beautifully re-claimed box for her bathroom. Lovely job!



This week's challenge is to use a flower as something other than a flower!

*Remember you don't need to have any Paper Blooms to play along, but we'd love to see them if you do!*

Now onto the fabulous DT creations which are sure to get your creative juices flowing! Be sure to join us for this challenge as the next featured artist will not only get their project featured on the blog but I will send them a sampling of some Paper Blooms! Happy creating!

Christi

Carla

Shelly

Rose

Evelin