Challenge #148 - Embossing

Welcome back to the Paper Girls Challenge Blog!  Michele here, and today I challenge you to use Embossing in your project.  Please use either heat embossing or dry embossing, maybe even both!  When I first started to stamp and do paper crafting, what really excited me was heat embossing.  Sadly I rarely pull out my supplies to emboss anymore, and I thought that might be true for many of us crafters. So I challenge you to get out that embossing folder or embossing powder and put them to use!

Challenge #148 - Embossing

Here's one of my favorite embossing projects. I heat embossed a background stamp with white embossing powder.  I then colored it with watercolors.

I look forward to seeing your creations!

Please welcome our guest designer for this challenge:

Maria Fischer

Guten Tag! My name is Maria Fischer and you might know me as maria f. or rieslingmama which is the name of my blog and Instagram.  I'm a Michigan gal but live  in German wine country! I've been making cards for over five years and although my style tends to be all over the place, my favorite cards are CAS ones. I love techniques too and used a couple variations on dry embossing for today's project.

My background panel was dry embossed, and then I gently sponged acrylic paint over the raised areas and around the edges. The smaller pink panel I dry embossed after painting some cardstock pink and giving it a few splatters of gold. And though not embossing, I used one more technique for the stamped image... coloring a rubber stamp with water-based markers and spritzing it with water before stamping!

Thank you so much for joining in our challenge this week, Maria!

Here is some more inspiration from our Paper Girls:

Heather Conklin

For today's challenge, I finally got out my Topography stamp set from Neat and Tangled. I loved the possibilities with this, especially with my watercolors. The watercolors are the wonderfully opaque Kuretake Gansai Tambi paints. And the melon color of the cardstock picks up the very color from in the painted card.

Brittany
I heat embossed this sunray stamp with clear embossing ink on a white card then used Distress Oxide Inks to color in the background. 

Kristy

I think one of my favorite techniques is the emboss resist technique.  I stamped my image with the Versamark ink, and heat embossed it with white embossing powder.  I used Stampin' Up ink and daubers to color in my image, as well as the background.  I also used black embossing powder on the sentiment. Head to my website to see how my daughter also colored this image.  

And now...congratulations to the winner of Challenge #147:

                                        

9.	Marty McGee

Please send an e-mail to papergirlschallengeblog@gmail.com within the next two weeks and we'll send you details!!!  We want to encourage all of our challenge participants to refer our rules and prize structure here: http://thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.com/p/how-to-play.html. 

Also, follow us on our new Instagram account for more chances to win! For this challenge use #PGCBchallenge148 and tag us @papergirlschallengeblog for an extra entry.

Challenge #147 - Travel/ Vacation Fun

Karrie here in the midst of a crazy winter with blizzards, rainstorms, ice buildup and mud puddles!  Dreaming of getting away from it all again, I have chosen this fortnight's theme of 

 "Travel / Vacation fun"

So whether you've gone on vacation or had a staycation or enjoy making

Bon Voyage cards, we want to see it!

  Karrie
The beach is my favourite place, I wish my life was ON a beach 24/7!  These pix of this beautiful beach we visited in Cuba last month inspired this mini album, and I busted some OLD stash, and a bit of new!  (more on the blog)

Here are the other PaperGirls ideas of a good time:

Michele

I created a layout for our first family trip to Disneyland.

Brittany

I documented meeting Goofy while on our trip to Disneyland a few years ago.

Heather

I created a card that would be great for anyone planning a trip, vacation, or even a move. 

Cathryn
I have also been working on a Disney Album for my daughters family.

And now...congratulations to the winner of the Black and White  challenge:



3.

Hazel

Please send an e-mail to papergirlschallengeblog@gmail.com within the next two weeks and we'll send you details!!!  We want to encourage all of our challenge participants to refer our rules and prize structure here: http://thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.com/p/how-to-play.html. 

Also, follow us on our new Instagram account for more chances to win! For this challenge use #PGCBchallenge147 and tag us @papergirlschallengeblog for an extra entry.

We can't wait to see all of your beautiful creations!!!  Thanks for stopping by!!!

Challenge #146 - Black & White

Hi! It's Kristy, bringing you the newest challenge here on The Paper Girl's!  About 4 months ago, when I was working on another project for Paper Girls, I thought how fun would it be to do a Black and White Challenge?!?  Only black and white projects, a black and white photo, black and white with a little pop of color, generally black and white as the focal.  (Little did I know this would be a popular theme among the crafting world!!!)  

I love how you can take such a simple idea of Black and White and make such beautiful work.  

Help me welcome our Guest Designer for this challenge: Ruth Cunliffe

I've crafting for a long time and have to fit it in around a very busy work life and home life!  I live in the UK in Lancashire and I primarily colour with Promarkers and Watercolour pencils although I'm happy to be taken out of my comfort zone, every now and again!  I'm on a number of different design teams and also run my own challenge blog - the secret is lists - lots of lists to make sure I don't miss anything and to be organised and not leave anything to the last minute!

For my Guest Designer Project, I've used a Sizzix die plus white linen effect papers with black card behind for effect.  I handwrote the sentiment and layered everything up before adding to the card base with foam pads for extra depth.  

Here are the projects from the Paper Girls to help inspire you:

Kristy

I used a B&W photo, B&W papers and titles, with a pop of red to offset the page.

Erica

I used a combination of die cuts and stamps to make this super simple B&W card.

Cathryn

For my HAPPY BIRTHDAY card I used an alphabet from Silhouette cut out of black cardstock and backed it with a black & white patterned paper. The Birthday and flowers are stamped.

Cathryn

Here is a second project, featuring my SENDING LOTS OF LOVE stamp set.  This card is simply stamped images on white cardstock, with a bit of water colour in the background.

Karrie

MME Bloom was perfect for this challenge, and my page about my

21st Valentine's day with my Hub.

Heather

I white heat-embossed a large floral image on black cardstock. Once it was cooled, I added white goauche watercolor paint to create depth within the image. To finish it off, I added a simple sentiment.

Brittany

I used some black and white lace paper and fabric flowers I've been holding onto for far too long for this 2-page layout of my friends wedding.

And now...congratulations to the winner of the Anniversary challenge and the Cutterpillar Crop (my personal paper cutter!):

5. Barbara Greenberg

Please send an e-mail to papergirlschallengeblog@gmail.com within the next two weeks and we'll send you details!!!  We want to encourage all of our challenge participants to refer our rules and prize structure here: http://thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.com/p/how-to-play.html. 

Also, follow us on our new Instagram account for more chances to win! For this challenge use #PGCBchallenge146 and tag us @papergirlschallengeblog for an extra entry.

I can't wait to see all of your beautiful creations!!!  Thanks for stopping by!!!

Challenge #145 - 6th Anniversary

Today our post is going up one day late but we did it on purpose. Do you want to know why? Because it is our Sixth Anniversary!! Time really has flown by. We have had many changes in our team but we are so happy to still have our Challenge blog going strong.

Since it is our Sixth Anniversary we thought the theme for this Challenge would be the number six. What we want you to do is to use six items of the same thing: ie six flowers, six buttons, six stamps, six gems... The list could go on and on.

But before we show off our projects, how about we talk about an extra special giveaway??

We have been ever so lucky to be able to offer up a Cutterpillar Crop compliments of Cutterpillar. What paper crafter doesn't need an awesome paper trimmer?!? They have the coolest paper cutters out there. Their super lightweight paper trimmer has an imperial and metric ruler, an illuminated cutting track and a gear driven blade for precise cuts. I want to win this prize!! Make sure you check our rules tab for participation. The best news yet is that this prize is open worldwide!

Erica

For my project I stamped six Pandas and also six balloons.

Karrie

Happy anniversary to the best challenge blog!  I've been so happy to be part of the team.

For our "6" challenge, I've covered my whole page with counts of 6!  Can you find them all?

It was a good challenge for me too because I usually use a rule of 3

design.

Michele

I used 6 different patterned papers and 6 chipboard stickers on my layout.

Heather

Happy Anniversary Paper Girls! I ended up using 6 washi tapes and 6 enamel dots for this clean and simple card in bright colors and whites. 

Kristy

I used 6 butterflies, 6 hearts and 6 enamel dots on my page.

Brittany

 6 stamped and die cut hearts to embellish the layout.

And now...congratulations to the winner of Challenge #144:

24. Maria F

Please send an e-mail to papergirlschallengeblog@gmail.com within the next two weeks and we'll send you details!!!  We want to encourage all of our challenge participants to refer our rules and prize structure here: http://thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.com/p/how-to-play.html. 

Also, follow us on our new Instagram account for more chances to win! For this challenge use #PGCBchallenge144 and tag us @papergirlschallengeblog for an extra entry.

I can't wait to see all of your beautiful creations!!!  Thanks for stopping by!!!

Quarterly challenge winner!

Hello all!

We are delaying our challenge until tomorrow (2/6/18) for a very special reason - it is our 6 year Anniversary! So, please be sure to come back tomorrow for a very fun and exciting challenge with an extra special give away!

However, we have another exiting announcement today, and that is our quarterly challenge winner for the period of October thru December of last year.

The winner is...

Paperesse...

our challenge winner from our October 16th challenge!

Please send an e-mail within two weeks to papergirlschallengeblog@gmail.com to recieve details about your win.

New to our Challenges? Please refer our newly updated rules and prize structure here: http://thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.com/p/how-to-play.html

We'll see you back here tomorrow for our next exciting challenge!!!

Challenge #144 - Water Colours

Hello and welcome.......Cathryn here!!!  I am so happy to be back

creating with this wonderful group!!!

And today our second challenge of the year is

WATER COLOURS

The past year I have found that our scrapbooking world has truly expanded beyond paper, adhesive and embellishments.  And our already beautiful paper creations are becoming true pieces of art!

One of my new obsessions has been the addition of inks and paints, and creating my own backgrounds.  I have especially fallen in love with water colour paints.  There are now so many types of water colour products that have arrived in the crafting world making them easily available, inexpensive and just plain fun!!!!

Now I am by no means an expert LOL !!! Just really learning myself, enjoying the play

and the results.

I hope you will all join in and play as well.

Kind of makes you feel like a kid again!!!!!!!!!!!

ENJOY

One thing that is important to protect your paper is to Gesso it first. Gesso is much like 

a primer that prepares your surface for paint.  It comes in white, clear and black and can be applied with any brush, or even something like a gift card for heavier coverage.

My favourite Gesso to use while scrapbooking is a spray Gesso like the one in the picture below. 

After the gesso is completely dry I then added the colours of paint I chose.  At this point I thought it just looked like a total mess.  That always happens.  But once you finish your layout things all fall into place.

Here is my finished layout. 

And below some more gorgeous work to enjoy!!!

Karrie

Oh yeah I cheated and used this fabulous Basic Grey paper, already beautifully water coloured.

Kristy

I used a combination of shimmer watercolor "cakes" for the background, and watercolor pencils and water brush for the little sloth.  Here you can see my inspiration for my sloth.  :-D

Heather

I used the same stamp for both cards, but changed up both the embossing powders and styles for two totally different looks. The watercolors are from my set of Peerless watercolors. 

Michele

I painted a simple watercolor background and then punched out hearts to create this card.

Brittany

I traced die cut hearts and then used watercolors to color them in and shade them so they look like they pop off my paper a bit.

Erica

I stamped my images in archival ink and then watercolored with water based inks.

And now...congratulations to the winner of Challenge #143:

21. Valérie 

Please send an e-mail to papergirlschallengeblog@gmail.com within the next two weeks and we'll send you details!!!  We want to encourage all of our challenge participants to refer our rules and prize structure here: http://thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.com/p/how-to-play.html. 

Also, follow us on our new Instagram account for more chances to win! For this challenge use #PGCBchallenge144 and tag us @papergirlschallengeblog for an extra entry.

I can't wait to see all of your beautiful creations!!!  Thanks for stopping by!!!