The Paper Girls Challenge Blog: October 2015

Monday, October 19, 2015

PaperGirls #90 - Get Ready for Halloween!

Karrie here to tell you how much I love October because it brings Halloween!

If you love to celebrate Halloween too, show me how you get ready - make treat bags for the kiddos? Elaborate costumes or home decorations? Cards?

I had fun using up some old rubons with mists, paint, and dollar store Halloween decorations to make my own wall hanging.

So let us see your creations!

If you do not celebrate - just make something with the halloween colours, black, orange, purple.

Once again, here is our guest designer for October, Gaylynn Martling:

Hi, I’m Gaylynn and I enjoy making handmade cards, decorations and party related items. Mixed media art is another interest of mine. Making time to document my kids (now adults) and family life are things I want to catch up on. I have a creative blog called Neat Nook Creations, where I post projects that I make along the way.

Gaylynn's Creative Links:
Blog: Neat Nook Creations http://NeatNook.blogspot.com
Facebook Page: Neat Things https://www.facebook.com/NeatThingsBoutique
Google+ https://plus.google.com/+GaylynnNeatthingsbtq/posts
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/neatthingsbtq/handmade-cards/

Here is what Gaylynn created for this challenge:

I like to include a handmade touch for our Halloween candy each year. The theme for this week's challenge was the inspiration for these bat wraps. This shape was cut and scored from Cricut Artiste. The cute face and funny sentiment were stamped in white craft ink, then heat embossed. I added a sentiment tag and twine bow. The colors are black and white. Small treats work best for this favor wrapper.

Be sure to visit Gaylynn's blog, Neat Nook Creations, because she is offering up a giveaway of her own right now for blog followers/commenters!! She's giving away this fun stamp:

...and a couple of the other DT members have been busy too!

Michele

Kerys

The winner of Challenge #89 (Food) is #14 Lillian A !

Congratulations! Please send an e-mail with your shipping info to papergirlschallengeblog@gmail.com to claim your prize within two weeks.

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Monday, October 5, 2015

Challenge #89 - Food

Hello, Kerys here from Scrappinnhappy. I'm hosting the first challenge for the month of October and it is:

#89 - Food!

Our Guest Designer for the month of October is........

Gaylynn Martling

Hi, I’m Gaylynn and this is my first time being a Guest Designer for the Paper Girls Challenge Blog. I enjoy making handmade cards, decorations and party related items. Mixed media art is another interest of mine. Making time to document my kids (now adults) and family life are things I want to catch up on. I have a creative blog called Neat Nook Creations, where I post projects that I make along the way.

Gaylynn's Creative Links:
Blog: Neat Nook Creations http://NeatNook.blogspot.com
Facebook Page: Neat Things https://www.facebook.com/NeatThingsBoutique
Google+ https://plus.google.com/+GaylynnNeatthingsbtq/posts
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/neatthingsbtq/handmade-cards/

Being a Florida girl and loving the tropical life is my inspiration for my project. This penguin card incorporates a few techniques. The inside panel background was blended using Ranger distress ink pads and sponges. The waves were made with a white Sharpie marker. If you distress over the marker, it looks whiter. I paper pieced the penguin and colored the rest with Copics. Then I trimmed and placed all three images on the background. For a frame accent, I stamped and placed a diagonal panel. Supplies include My Favorite Things stamps and dies from Blueprints 15, Penguins in Paradise and Diagonal background.

And now from the Paper Girls:

Kerys