The Paper Girls Challenge Blog

Monday, March 21, 2016

Challenge #100!!

It is time for challenge number 100!

Before we get to the challenge, here is a little history of how we got started. Many years ago many of us "met" on the ScrapbookSteals facebook page. Sharing our family and personal stories through their scrapbooking blog naturally led to online friendships and then a facebook group where we could "talk" all things crafty, not just the fabulous steal of the day. One day talk of starting our own challenge site began. A few months later The Paper Girls Challenge blog was born! So now here we are 4 years and 100 challenges later! Many of the original 9 Paper Girls are no longer active with us, but we have had many more join us throughout the years.

To celebrate today's milestone, our theme is

PAPER GIRLS

The theme "Paper Girls" is open to interpretation. You can go with Girls, Paper, Paper Dolls, Friendship, Scrapbooking, even the number 100 or a big celebration! We invited all Paper Girls, past and present, to participate in this challenge.

Here is the current design team's projects:

Amber scrapped a photo from a ScrapbookSteals retreat where she got to meet several Paper Girls.

Erica

Karrie

The best girlfriends you have are the ones you have to stand up with you on your day!

Kerys

Kristy

Michele

Brittany

Past Paper Girls:

Becci

Charissa (another Scrapbook Steals retreat photo!)

Charity

Cristine

Deborah

Heather

Jessica

Sheryl

Misty

Please come join us in this special challenge. The prize is special too. It is being sponsored by Scrapbook Steals! If you've ever been lucky enough to win one of their prizes, you know they don't mess around. Those boxes are always jam-packed with crafty goodness!

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And before we go, here is the winner announcement.

The winner of challenge #99 (Rainbows) is:
Lillian

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

New to our Challenges? Please refer to the rules here: http://thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.com/p/how-to-play.html

Monday, March 7, 2016

Challenge #99 - Rainbows

Happy Monday, everyone! Michele here, with the next Paper Girls challenge for you. Does anyone else feel like spring is in the air? To help celebrate the coming of spring, my challenge theme is

RAINBOWS!!

I can't wait to see all of the colorful projects you all create!

Here's my card. First I inked up a background stamp with a rainbow of Distress Inks and stamped onto watercolor paper. Then brushed over the stamped image with water to spread and blend the ink. I just cut off a little strip of it to add to my black background. The sentiment is heat embossed in white.

I love what the other Paper Girls have created this time around, please take a look!

Kerys

Brittany

Karrie

Plain and simple journal page with a quote perfect for this chall:

"Be the Rainbow in someone else's cloud"

Kristy

Amber scrapbooked a photo she took of a rainbow.

The winner of Challenge #98 is:

5. CG

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

New to our Challenges? Please refer to the rules here: http://thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.com/p/how-to-play.html

Monday, February 15, 2016

#98 - Show me Some Sunshine

Welcome to the Paper Girls Challenge. It's Karrie, ready with our latest challenge. It's the middle of winter here, and I'm ready to see see some sunshine. Can you help me with this? Show me your best SUNSHINE PROJECTS. We can't wait to see what you show us!

Karrie

Here is how I made mine:

And from our Lovely guest designer:

Tara Sell

Hi, I'm Tara and I have always enjoyed creating crafty projects and within the last couple of years have decided to seriously pursue my love of all things paper, stamps, home decor, glitter, and more! I started up my blog a little over a year ago and have been slowly learning more skills and adding to my collection of crafty tools, tricks, and must-haves! The blog is a place for me to share what I've learned and hopefully inspire others to pursue their passion, whatever that may be. Six months ago I decided to try my hand at creating crafty videos and started a YouTube channel to share my projects. The crafting community is full of wonderful minds, open hearts, and amazing talent - I'm so excited to be a part of it!

Join me:

Blog: http://curlecues.blogspot.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CurlECues

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/Curlecue/

Instagram: https://instagram.com/curlecues/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr6FsAQDe5EGbPHp4U48uFA

For this card I wanted to get bright and happy with some vibrant, sunny yellows! I love the contrast of yellow on black and couldn't resist this little sunshine with shades on!!

The PaperGirls:

Kerys

Kristy

Amber

Michele

Erica

Brittany

Thanks for sharing your Sunshine with us!

Who are the winners of Challenge #97 ??

Our random pick is none other than: Andrea W

And our sponsor also had a pick. She chose the gift bag made by Janis

Congratulations! Please send an e-mail within two weeks to papergirlschallengeblog@gmail.com to claim your prize. Alisha from Scrap N' Dipity will then email you your gift code.

New to our Challenges? Please refer to the rules here: http://thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.com/p/how-to-play.html

Monday, February 1, 2016

PGCB #97 - Valentine/Love

Hello, Brittany here to kick of our first challenge for February with the Paper Girls! Since February is the month of love - we challenge you to create something for your Valentine or about love.

Challenge #97 - Valentine/Love

We have exciting news - this challenge is sponsored by Alisha from Scrap N' Dipity! Here is a bit more about this fabulous artist:

"Hi! My name is Alisha, I'm 31 years old and live in Ontario Canada. I've been creating graphics since I was 13 years old, which was a long time ago now! I like to create anything cute and kawaii style. I'm a huge crafter, I love to create all kinds of things! If it's a DIY project I will definitely try it. I started creating pixel graphics and have recently decided to jump into Scrapbooking products with my site Scrap N' Dipity. When I'm not creating I like to spend my time with my husband and our furbabies."

Site: Scrap N' Dipity

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scrapndipity/

Alisha will be giving away two (2) $10 gift certificates to shop from her amazing digital shop - we'll randomly select one winner from participants from the Valentine challenge and Alisha will select one winner of her choice! We'll post the winners with our next challenge on Monday, 2/15/16.

Lucky us, we got to play with one of her darling digital images for this challenge - Scribble Sally - Be My Valentine.

Please welcome our Guest Designer for the month of February:

Tara Sell

Join me:

Blog: http://curlecues.blogspot.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CurlECues

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/Curlecue/

Instagram: https://instagram.com/curlecues/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr6FsAQDe5EGbPHp4U48uFA

For this project I printed the adorable image on kraft cardstock and colored her in with my Prismacolors. This is one of my favorite coloring techniques and it really allows the image to be the star of the show! For some added whimsy I outlined her with a white gel pen and used some cute puffy stickers and patterned papers to create a lovey dovey Valentine's theme.

Beautiful card, Tara! Here is how the rest of the design team used this sweet image:

Brittany

I wanted to use Scribble Sally to make Valentines for my girls - she was PERFECT!

Kerys

Kristy

My daughter has already declared this cute little girl and card as hers! Scribble Sally is just the cutest little girl and perfect for Valentine's Day.

Amber

And now the winner of Challenge #96 (Forest Friends) is:

Vickie O'Dell

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

We can't wait to see your Valentine projects!!!

You have two weeks to complete and enter your project.

New to our Challenges? Please refer to the rules here: http://thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.com/p/how-to-play.html

Monday, January 18, 2016

Challenge #96 - Forest Friends

Hello, Erica here from Stamping Starlette. Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day to everyone! If you have some time off today I hope you can spend it with family or squeeze some time in your craft room. I thought a fun theme for today would be to use forest creatures in your project. I won't limit you on what kind of creatures you have in the forest either, it could be your kids, friends or magical creature too. Let's see what the Paper Girls came up with:

Erica

I used one of my favorite stamps from Lawn Fawn, Yeti, Set Go along with an older collection of papers from Crate Paper, Sleigh Ride.

Karrie

Perfect subject for a baby book for an outdoorsy couple.

(see blog for full album)

Adorable baby woodland images from Pretty Little Studio,

and also features my fave line ever Simple Stories Baby Steps

Michele

I love these adorable foxes from the Autumn Day collection by Photo Play Paper!

Kerys

I used a silhouette file to make the owl tote, and the same file to cut out the owl for the matching card.

Amber made this little raccoon valentines tag:

Brittany

I had to use the cute lil' bear, hedgehog, and bird from this adorable mini kit from EP.

And now the winner of Challenge #95 (Home and Family) is

#8 Sandy Ross!!

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

Get creating! We can't wait to see your Forest Friends projects!!

You have two weeks to complete and enter your project.

New to our Challenges? Please refer to the rules here: http://thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.com/p/how-to-play.html

Monday, January 4, 2016

Challenge #95 - Home/Family

Hello, Kerys here from Scrappinnhappy. Happy New Year! I'm hosting the first challenge of 2016 for the month of January and it is:

#95 - Home/Family

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

Sonia Jessop

"I've been a "crafter" for long as I can remember. I made a scrapbook of my trip to Disney World with my family when I was in sixth grade out of construction paper, and that is where my scrapbooking journey started! Ever since then, I have loved taking my photographic memories of trips and every day moments and turning them into visual works of art; it my way of truly cherishing those moments and sharing them with people that I love. I also just got married, so now I have a whole new life event to start scrapping, woo hoo!!"

Please visit Sonia's blog: www.scrapsugar.wordpress.com

Check out Sonia's beautiful project:

"This is a glass casserole dish that I made as a gift for my cousin. I felt it worked well with the family theme, and is engraved with their wedding date. I love this idea because it's perfect for entertaining and pot lucks, you'll always get your dishes back! To make it, I designed the piece in Cricut Design Space and cut it on contact paper. Then I laid it over the glass and covered with Armour Etch to permanently etch the glass."

And now from the Paper Girls:

Kerys