From the kitchen

I hope you are all  having a great Sunday.
I got some smash*ing done today for Lizzie's challenge on Smash*aholics, which was to use a digi image. I used a tea cup for mine from PaperCupcakes "afternoon tea". I also used some of my favourite "regular" stamps from  Stampendous "from the Kitchen". The bingo and love stamped embellishments were from a friend.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Magical Monday on PaperCupcakes

Good morning and welcome to PaperCupcakes last challenge of this year. I'm really sorry to say that this is my last week as a design team member. Life has been getting in the way of my crafting time lately. So I'm taking a break from being a DT member :( Hopefully life will slow down in the new year and I can get back to having some fun crafting again.
Dru brought us the challenge of using the traditional red & green colour scheme and using this cute snowman image (you can pick this up for free on the challenge blog).

I also made a second card using the colour scheme with the adorable Santa's helpers image

Thanks for stopping by and I want to say a big thank you to Nina for giving me the wonderful opportunity of working on her DT and another big thanks to all the amazing DT, it's been so much fun working with you all.

Have a great day!

Christmas decoration

Good afternoon! We have had lots of snow and heavy frost here the last few days so I have made the most of being indoors by putting up the Christmas tree and decorations, which brings me on to this weeks challenge on Paper Cupcakes. Carol challenged us to make a Christmas ornament. I decided to decorate a candle with the cute gingerbread girl image from PaperCupcakes and added some ribbon and fibre and a little gem for her hair and a rose for her hand.

Make sure to stop by the challenge blog to see what the rest of the DT created and to pick up the freebie image.

Thanks for stopping by and stay warm wherever you are!

Magical Monday - Anything goes

Good morning, I hope you are nice and warm wherever you are, it is -2 here! This week Patti challenged us to an anything goes challenge on Paper Cupcakes. I made a recipe card using Merry Moosemas & one of the cute Christmas tickets. I love the ticket collections! If you haven't seen them already you really have to check them out!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Red & Cream...

Hello! I can't believe we're near the end of November! Christmas is nearly here and I have so much to do. Thankfully I have nearly all my Christmas cards made though :) Ok, on to this weeks challenge on Paper Cupcakes. Nilla challenged us to make a card using the colours red & cream, so here is what I came up with

I used the sweet image and a sentiment from the cold days, warm hearts collection and some Papermania pp. I hope you can play along with the challenge and don't forget to ckeck out the rest of the DT's creations.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Thanksgiving to anyone celebrating it this week!

Glitter & ribbon

Good morning! I hope you all had a good weekend. This weeks challenge on PaperCupcakes is to make a Christmas card using glitter and ribbon and the design team got to use the cute Who's candy image, which you can download for free from the challenge blog.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Christmas with a twist

Hello all! I hope you had a great weekend! I went to see my favourite band play in Dublin and went out for dinner for my sisters birthday, so a fun weekend all round :)

Ok, on to this weeks challenge on PaperCupcakes. Debbie challenged us to make a Christmas card with non traditional colours and here is my take on it.

 

I used the cute Angel snowman image, DCWV pp, organza ribbon, bow easy, Nestabilities, Papermania gem and the sentiment - Nollaig Shona is computer generated and means happy Christmas in Irish.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your day :)

Be Thankful...

Good morning! I hope you all had a safe and fun Halloween. This weeks challenge on PaperCupcakes is "Be Thankful" - make a Thanksgiving or thank you card. I used one of my favourite PaperCupcakes images "birthday wishes" as I thought it would be perfect for this challenge, plus I think it's nice to use the images in different ways.

Supplies: Birthday wishes image from PaperCupcakes, Papermania pp, flowers & pearls

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you play along with the challenge :)

Die Cuts....

Happy bank holiday Monday to everyone in Ireland! Don't you just love long weekends? :)

Ok, on to this weeks challenge on PaperCupcakes. Gloria challenged us to use any aquired image along with some die cuts.  I used the lovely Autumn splendor image and some leaf die cuts made with my cricut and doodlecharms cart. I also used my new Victorian Fleur embossing folder by Papermania. I finished the card off with some ribbon and gems.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you play along with the challenge, as always there's a lovely prize up for grabs :)

Tag it

I'm a bit late getting around to my PaperCupcakes post today! This weeks challenge, as you probably guessed is to make a tag. I used the lovely tea party princess image, some organza ribbon and a little pearl for my mine. As the image is so pretty I kept the colouring pretty simple by adding just a touch of some purples.

There's a great prize of some stamps this week for the winner so I hope you can come and play along with the challenge!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Frame it

Good morning and welcome to another magical Monday at There's magic in the air. Carol challenged us this week to create a card with the deco flower image from PaperCupcakes (you can pick it up for free on the challenge blog) and to frame it. The frame can be anything from flowers, ribbon, wood etc. as you can see I framed my image with some ribbon and finished it off with some gems.

Supplies: PaperCupcakes art deco digi stamp, Papermania pp & gems, American Crafts ribbon

Thanks for stopping by :)

There's magic in the air - inspiration challenge

Good morning! Patti brought us this weeks inspiration challenge on There's magic in the air. I created a Halloween card using the cute Batty about candy corn PaperCupcakes image.

Supplies: paper from my stash, cricut & doodlecharm cart for spider, Haunted studio g clear stamp.

Cards for men have an autumn challenge and A Spoonful of Sugar have an anything goes challenge going on so I'm entering my card into their challenges. I would also like to tell you about the Crafters Digital Art Centers first blog hop. It will be on from the 1st - 3rd of October and There's magic in the air will be a part of this fun hop! There is lots of fun prizes up for grabs and of course lots of inpiration from all the wonderful digital image companies, so I hope you will join in on the fun.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day :)

There's magic in the air - sketch challenge

Good morning! This weeks challenge on There's magic in the air is a sketch challenge. I love sketches, they are by far my favourite kind of challenge!

Melanie gave us this fantastic sketch to work with

and here is the card I made using it

I used the lovely Kacey image from PaperCupcakes and some paper from my stash and I thought the buttons would be perfect for the circular elements on the sketch. I added a little glitter to her wings but it doesn't really show up in the photo. Don't forget if you don't own any PaperCupcakes images you can always download the freebie Hello Cupcake here because we would love to have you play along :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

Paper Cupcakes recipe challenge

Good morning and welcome to another magical Monday with There's magic in the air! Our challenge this week brought to us by Nilla is a recipe challenge - use 1 ribbon, 2 embellishments, 3 patterned papers, 4 flowers and any acquired PaperCupcakes image. For my card I used the freebie image Hello Cupcake :)

This image is definately one of my favourites! Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you play along with the challenge :)

I'm back!

Hello everyone! I'm a day late with my There's magic in the air design team card, sorry. Between visitors, football and getting the boys ready to go back to school (they're back tomorrow), I'm running a bit behind.
Ok, so on to my card. This weeks challenge brought to us by Marie was to create a card using any Paper Cupcakes image and NO pattern paper. So this is what I came up with

I used the "beached boat" image and the Script cuttlebug embossing folder and my hubby made the knot embellishment for me. Cards for men have a challenge at the moment for "long summer days" so I'm also using the card for that challenge.

I want to say a big thank you to Fleur and Lea for the lovely blog awards! Thank you girls! You are both so sweet! I'll be back later on today or tomorrow to pass them on :)

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

There's magic in the air - punch it

A you probably guessed, the challenge this week on There's magic in the air is to use punches (border, flowers, leaves etc) along with the very cute Joyful Ride image. For my card I used a butterfly and a border punch and some papers from MME.

There is a lovely flower punch to be won this week so I hope you can come and play along!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Bunny and Cupcake

Good morning! I can't believe it's Monday again! Where is the time going? Our challenge this week on There's Magic in the air was to make a card with any Paper Cupcakes image and to make our own flowers to embellish the card with. Here is my card for the challenge

I used a cute image called Bunny and Cupcake and I made some flowers with two flower punches and some pearls. I hope you can play along with the challenge and don't forget there's still time to join in on our tea party sketch blog hop!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Paper Cupcakes Tea Party Sketch Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Paper Cupcakes tea party sketch blog hop!

If you haven't started at the Paper Cupcakes challenge blog you will want to start there so you don't miss any of the fun :)

Leave a comment on the challenge blog  then hop on to:

Amber's blog

Dru's blog

Gloria's blog

Jessie's blog (that's me)

Marie's blog

Melanie's blog

Pat's blog

Patti N's blog

Patti P's blog

Kim's blog

Carol's blog

Nilla's blog

Nina's blog

Along the way you will see the lovely new tea party images which are available to buy from the Paper Cupcakes store and you will also get to collect some sketches for your own personal use. There's also some blog candy up for grabs too so enjoy!

Now on to my card. I am very happy to be showcasing the beautiful "Orchid tea cup with bird" image :)

and here is my sketch

Thanks for joining us today and have fun hopping!

Birthday Cupcake

Welcome to another magical Monday on There's magic in the air. Amber challenged us this week to use at least three patterned papers on our card and any aquired image from Paper Cupcakes.  I used birthday hat cupcake and some papers from Cosmo Cricket. To make up my three papers I made a flower from some of the paper and added a gem. I hope you can play along with our fun challenge this week as there is a fantastic prize up for grabs and don't forget we''ll be having a tea party sketch blog hop next week too!

Dog days of summer

Patti challenged us to make a card with the inspiration of "dog days of summer" for our challenge this week on There's magic in the air. I used the image beached bear from Paper Cupcakes and some My minds eye paper.

We have some exciting news about Paper Cupcakes too! We will be having a tea party sketch blog hop from August 11th to 18th where we will be showcasing some new images and some fun sketches.

So help us spread the word and grab the icon below, paste it on your sidebar on your blog and link it back to There's magic in the air. We would love it if you would blog about it, share it with your friends and followers and most importantly don't forget to come and enjoy yourself!



You won't be disappointed with all the new releases showcased on this hop! And best of all you could win some! How cool is that?

Thanks for stopping by!