Homemade Flower Blog Hop

We could not let the last Monday of April pass by without a treat to our followers.  The Paper Girls have put together an amazing blog hop with lots of inspiration.  Take a few minutes for yourself and hop along our blog hop.  The theme of our hop is homemade flowers.  A sneaky peak :

The Prize:

 Xyron 2.5" create-a-sticker 

Creatopia Shapez

Here is the line up:

The Paper Girls Challenge Blog---You Are Here!

Charity Hotrum
Erica Bass
Deborah Johnson
Heather Gray
Jessica Arrant
Kristina McKeen

What do you have to do to participate? 

 Would you like a chance to win? Get an entry for commenting on each of the blog posts, "Like" the Paper Girls Challenge on Facebook, and being a follower on our blog (all are required for an entry). You will see some fabulous projects and find some inspiration.

You have until Sunday, May 5, 2013 at 11:59pm MST to comment.  We will announce the winner on Monday, May 13, 2013 at 9:00 am MST.  International readers are welcome to play along but currently we are only shipping prize packs to the US and Canada due to shipping costs.

Challenge #30 - Travel

Hello, Judy here with Challenge #30.  The challenge this week is travel.  Do you have some vacation pictures that need to scrapped?  A travel stamp or paper collection that you want to use?

 One reason I did this challenge is I have vacation photos from 2010 that still need to scrapped.  I am 5 layouts away from finishing our South Dakota album and am happy to have one more done.  Here is the layout I created:

Here are the fabulous projects created by my fellow Paper Girls.  We have layouts, cards and a smash book creations to share.

Erica created a fun layout about her daughter fitting into a suitcase.  What a cute stowaway.

Charity scrapped these amazing photos of Pisa.  Look at the cute travel washi she used!

Sheryl's layout documents one of the many adventures her jet setting children have taken:

Heather created a layout for her honeymoon album.  The bright colors just pop off the page.

Kyla's project is a two page spread in her Smash book.  The bits and pieces in the two pages are endless.

Kristy created this lovely card, I love the nautical feel it has.

 

Amber created a fun card using some lots of techniques!  I see stamping, ink spots and coloring.

Our fabulous guest designers designed:

Deborah scrapped photos from a family vacation.  Look at what she used as one of the papers, a map with the location!

Jessica created an adorable layout of her little guy off to Grandma's house.

I hope you find a bit of inspiration and join us for our challenge!

Now the winner for Challenge #29 is:

~DEANNA~

Congratulations!  Please email us at papergirlschallengeblog@gmail.com with your info and we will get your prize sent out.

How to Join the Fun at the Paper Girls Challenge Blog:

1. Start by following our blog. To do so, click on the "Join this site" button on the right hand side of our blog.
2. We will post new challenges the first and third Monday of every month. It will be up to you to create a project that has been inspired by our challenge!
3. Your entry should be made after the challenge has been posted. We will not say no to older projects but we prefer to see your new creations!
4. Create a blog post about your entry and make sure to include a link back to The Paper Girls Challenge Blog. If you do not have a blog, you may post on our Facebook page or to an online gallery and then link that photo to our linky. However, please only do this if you do not have a blog.
5. Add a link to your blog post (or Facebook /gallery photo) on our Challenge using the Inlinkz tool located at the bottom of our posts. Please make sure you link the actual post with your entry and not your blog's address.
6. The Deadline for each challenge will be the Saturday at 11:59pm MST before the next challenge is posted. This will give you 1 week and 6 days to complete your projects.
7. Please limit your entries to 3 per person per challenge.
8. We use Random.org to pick the winner. Prizes will be sent directly from the hostess of the challenge. At this time, we can only ship to US and Canadian addresses, due to postage rates. We hope this will change in the future. In the meantime, we love to see creations from all over the world!
9. The most important thing is to have Fun.

Challenge #29 - April Showers bring May Flowers

Amber here today with our first challenge of April. It's finally Spring here in North America and we couldn't be more excited! So I've chosen "April Showers bring May Flowers" for our challenge theme. This means you can use raindrops, umbrellas, or flowers on your projects.

Here's what I came up with:

On this first one I used an umbrella and rain with one of my favorite stamps. I wanted the couple to be black and white with the umbrella just popping with color.

 

  And then I had to make a simple flower card too!

 

 

Let's check out what the rest of the design team came up with:

Charity made a great photo frame with rainboots and a matching 3-d umbrella.

Erica used the rock and roll technique to get this beautiful ombre look on her flowers.

Judy watercolored her stamp image for this gorgeous card. Did you notice we used the same stamp? Love it!

 

Kristy made this colorful card using flowers, raindrops AND umbrellas. I love her gem raindrops.

 

Kyla has this super cute paper-pieced umbrella and fun glittery rain.

Sheryl  has a fun rainboot card to share with us with more glittery rain. This makes me wish I had a fun pair of rainboots to wear and splash around with the kids. Or by myself!

 

 And from our April guest designers:

 

Jessica has this gorgeously romantic and bold card to share with us today!

 

Deborah has the only layout of the bunch today. I love her colorful raindrops and the variety of flowers on this!

Get creating! You have until April 13th to play along with this challenge.

Oh, one more thing....

The winner of Challenge #28 using the photo inspiration is lucky #3

Andrea E

 Please send us an email papergirlschallengeblog@gmail.com with your info and we will get that prize mailed out to you!

How to Join the Fun at the Paper Girls Challenge Blog:

1. Start by following our blog. To do so, click on the "Join this site" button on the right hand side of our blog.
2. We will post new challenges the first and third Monday of every month. It will be up to you to create a project that has been inspired by our challenge!
3. Your entry should be made after the challenge has been posted. We will not say no to older projects but we prefer to see your new creations!
4. Create a blog post about your entry and make sure to include a link back to The Paper Girls Challenge Blog. If you do not have a blog, you may post on our Facebook page or to an online gallery and then link that photo to our linky. However, please only do this if you do not have a blog.
5. Add a link to your blog post (or Facebook /gallery photo) on our Challenge using the Inlinkz tool located at the bottom of our posts. Please make sure you link the actual post with your entry and not your blog's address.
6. The Deadline for each challenge will be the Saturday at 11:59pm MST before the next challenge is posted. This will give you 1 week and 6 days to complete your projects.
7. Please limit your entries to 3 per person per challenge.
8. We use Random.org to pick the winner. Prizes will be sent directly from the hostess of the challenge. At this time, we can only ship to US and Canadian addresses, due to postage rates. We hope this will change in the future. In the meantime, we love to see creations from all over the world!
9. The most important thing is to have Fun!