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 :)

A Christmas card

Good morning! Did you all have a good WCMD? I only got the one card made after but it's better than none right?! Today I have my There's magic in the air DT card to show you. Our challenge this week was to make a Christmas card with any aquired PaperCupcakes image and to include snowflakes. I used the really cute snowy flight image for mine. I made a recipe card before with this image too. You can see it here if you want.

Supplies: Smirk pp, Cricut & doodlecharms cart, foam snowflake, gem

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you can play along with our challenge :)

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 :)

Easy does it - bling it up

Good morning! The challenge on There's magic in the air this week is brought to us by Patti. She challenged us to "bling it up" along with using the "easy does it image" (you can pick it up for free on the challenge blog!) I added some bling to the cupcake and the flowers and I think it turned out cute :)

Supplies: PaperCupcakes easy does it digi image, My minds eye pp & flower, Papermania bling, ribbon

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!

Just Ducky

Welcome to another magical Monday with There's magic in the air. This weeks challenge is brought to us by Dru and she challenged us to make a card using sewing along with using the cute Just Ducky image. Don't forget to stop by the challenge blog to pick up your free image! For some strange reason my image printed out in orange again, I really don't think my printer likes me, we are having some serious issues again lately! Both pp are from a DCWV stack and the pretty ribbon is from Papermania.

Don't forget to join us on Wednesday for our Tea Party Sketch blog hop! It's going to be so much fun and I can't wait for you all to see the new tea party images! Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you play along!

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!

Strawberries and cream

Welcome to another magical Monday! This weeks challenge is to use this lovely PaperCupcakes image called party cake and to take your inspiration from strawberries and cream :) Here is my take on the challenge

The image is so pretty I wanted to keep my card simple, so I embossed some cs with the Victoria Cuttlebug folder and added some flowers. I hope you can join in on the challenge and thanks for stopping by :)

There's magic in the air - box challenge

Good morning! Olga is our challenge hostess this week and she challenged us to use any  PaperCupcakes/There's magic in the air image on a box or container. I was a bit tight for time this week so I decorated a trinket box instead of making one. I used the pretty poppies image again and a double bow made with the bow easy tool.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you can play along!

Let's get spotty

Good Morning! Pat is our challenge hostess this week on There's magic in the air and she challenged us to make a "spotty" card using the very cute "cats" image. You can pick up the image for free on There's magic in the air  so you can play along and the prize this week is a PaperCupcakes image of your choice! Also don't forget to check out There's magic in the air on Crafters digital art center.

Thanks for stopping by :)

There's magic in the air

Welcome to another magical Monday at There's Magic In The Air. Patti gave us a fun challenge of monochromatic and to use any Paper Cupcakes image. I used the beautiful poppies image and chose the colour pink. I used this weeks Papertake sketch, all papers are Papermania and I finished the card with some hot pink ribbon and a double bow made with the bow easy. The prize for this week is one of Nina's fab images so make sure you come and play along! There's Magic In The Air is now on the fun Crafters Digital Art Center. There's lots of great free digi's on it at the moment including an awesome cupcake one by Nina and you can use it to play along in the first Crafters Digital month long challenge. So I hope to see you play along in both these fun challenges and don't forget to join the There's Magic In The Air group!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Magical Monday - sketch challenge

Welcome to another Magical Monday! This week I am hosting and I came up with a sketch for the challenge. The second requirement is to use this weeks free image - catch of the day. I also used some Cosmo Cricket paper and Papermania buttons. I hope you can come and play along with our challenge and don't forget to check out the rest of the DT's cards.

Thanks for stopping by :)

There's magic in the air

Good morning! Our challenge hostess on There's Magic In The Air this week is Kim and she gave us a vintage Hawaiian poster for inspiration. Although I have never been to Hawaii (not from lack of wishing!) I think of sunshine, beautiful colours and flowery lei's. So I decided to make a flower shaped card and used some mini Prima flowers and the lovely "Aloha" image from Papercupcakes.

I hope you can play along with our Hawaiian inspired challenge and don't forget to stop by TMITA to see the rest of the design teams beautiful creations.

Have a great day :)

Magical Monday - Anything but a card

Good morning and welcome to this weeks challenge on There's Magic In The Air - anything but a card. Nina gave us a really cute image to use called simple pleasures and you can download it for free on the blog :) I made a gift card holder, matchbook style for the challenge, you can find a great tutorial here.

I hope you can play along in the challenge and there's a great prize (photo below) up for grabs too :)

 Don't forget to stop by the blog to pick up the cute free image and to see what the rest of the design team created!

Thanks for stopping by :)