The Paper Girls Challenge blog hop!

Welcome to The Paper Girls first ever blog hop!

We're so happy you're hopping with us!!

{First of all I want to apologize in case my post doesn't make sense! It's been a loooooonnnngggg week. I'm running on very little sleep, survived tornadoes, power outage, and now to top it off I think I have the flu. So I hope you can make some sense of this all!}

I love that we chose to make ATCs for this hop . I made several with a Spring theme:

My first one is very simple - I cut out some Webster's Pages paper, stamped "Spring time", added a die-cut butterfly,  attached a ruffle of washi tape at the top, and glittered the butterflies and flowers.

I'm starting to acquire quite the washi tape collection so I thought I could utilize that stash to make an ATC. I attached diagonal strips of tape to white cardstock, made a tape flower, added a tape banner, and then stamped the word bloom.

The last one is my fave:

I misted white cardstock with blue glimmer mist, stamped a brown branch, punched white flowers, added a yellow glittered center, inked the edges gray, and added 3 butterflies.

But I feel like it needs a sentiment. Or am I wrong? Let me know what you think!
Also linking this to Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge #137 which is to use your "green thumbs", meaning something planted or something green.

Here's a reminder of what you can win on the hop:

Man, I wish I was eligible to win. ; )

I love that monster paper!

And who couldn' use an adhesive dispenser??

Want to win? Get one entry for:

• commenting on each stop of this blog hop
• liking the Paper Girls Challenge on Facebook
• becoming a follower on our blog

Extra credit:

Want to have more fun after seeing all of the inspiring projects? Join in! Link up an ATC created by you and you will get an extra entry for the prize!

International readers are welcome to play along but currently we are only shipping prize packs to the US and Canada due to shipping costs.

Here's the hopping order:

The Paper Girls Challenge Blog
Amber Sheaves ---you are here!
Kristina MacKeen ---next stop!
Judy Stech
Kyla Norris
Charity Becker
Erica Bass
Heather Gray

Thanks for playing and GOOD LUCK!!!

Winter Wishes ATC

Here's my SP & Company weekly Design Team post. I forgot to schedule this for the right time. So I'm sorry if you stopped by earlier and missed it.

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I love participating in ATC swaps. It is so much fun to receive all those little pieces of art from so many talented artists. A group I'm in does a quarterly exchange. This last one was a winter themed swap.

Here's the card I came up with:

I created the background by embossing white cardstock with Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, stamping two images - a flourish in black and branch in gray, both from Unity's Imagine It set. Then inked the edges in Black Soot, and randomly ran the entire pad of Weathered Wood over the entire card. I stamped snowflakes from the Falling Snow stamp set to add a little blue to the card. I've used this set so much! It's an oldie but a goody!

I loved the background so much I didn't want to cover it so I stamped the sentiment from the same set onto vellum so you could still see it. I finished it off by adding two snowflakes I cut using SCAL and sprayed with Glimmer Mist and then added some I-rock bling.

All 21 cards:

 I can't wait to see what I get back! Now to start my Spring cards...

I'm entering this into Scrapbook Place Challenges current ATC challenge.


Thanks for stopping by today. For more inspiration using SP stamps stop by the blog for some great ideas.

My Summer ATC card

Projects #6-23

My craft group, Crafty Enablers, did an ATC swap with a "Summer" theme. Here's what I came up with:

18 cards. Way more work than I thought it would be! I cut, I inked, I stamped, I fussy cut, I paper-pieced, I printed and inked some more, I glued and then I stitched! Whew!

And since these each took longer than my normal greeting cards I decided to count each one in my 100 Projects Challenge (even though the other participants decided 3 ATCs would equal 1 project). They took a LOT of work so that's what I'm doing! : )

I used this wonderful sun stamp from Unity's A Pocket Full of... set and pieced it with two different papers. 

 Added some I-Rock bling:

Printed out the sentiment (which I found while going through one of my old crafty mags) on my Dymo label maker and inked it in yellow.

And I FINALLY broke out my Sew Easy tool. It was seriously still in the package. Just sitting there all lonely and unused. And now it's finally fulfilled its destiny!

I am loving getting everyone else's cards! I will post a photo when they all finally get here.

The ATCs are here!!!!!!!!!

The ATC swap I participated in in April have all finally been made and sent out and I received mine today!!

Chloe and Kristy:

Kristina and Misty:

Melissa and Heather:

Brenda and Charissa:

Kelly and Erica:

Kyla and Elizabeth:

Jen:

 (This swap was organized by http://www.scrapbooksteals.com/ on their facebook page. Hence, the "steal" reference above. My husband didn't get it until I explained this!)

And my two:

I think they're all so pretty and it's neat to have a piece of artwork from so many people!

ATC Swap, part 2

Ok, so here is the second half of my ATC swap cards:

 I misted the card with a couple colors. Distressed and inked the edges.

Both the flower (stamped 3 times) and the sentiment are the Of The Earth set from Stampin Up.

 I love this ribbon!

 And all 16 cards.

 Is it weird I did 2 different cards? 16 just seemed like too many to do of one card.

Hmmm, still not sure how I feel about half getting one card and half getting another.



And initially I thought this would be my favorite.

But I think the other more colorful one might be winning now.

I am still waiting on my cards from the swap. I'm told they'll be here any time now.....

: )

ATC Swap, part 1

So I participated in my first ATC (Artist Trading Card) Swap!

It was through ScrapbookSteals and we had 16 participants!

The thought of doing 16 of the same thing hurt.

Really.

I have a small attention span and little patience!

So I came up with 2 ideas and did 8 of each. Still, a bit much, but better than 16 : )

Here is the first bunch:

First I disressed and inked all the edges. Then misted every card with a Glimmer Mist.

 I used the beautiful stamp from Unity called Untamed Beauty.
{I'm linking up to their Friends with Flair post!}

And colored in every. single. petal. Whew. Had to break that up in to several days' work.

 I added some glitter glue and an embossed butterfly.

And then I heat embossed the sentiment with some metallic copper Zing.

I'll post the second set later. Must clean house now and get lots done!

I'm so excited to get my set of cards for the trade.