Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Rocking Horse Owen

Hello everyone ............
Today I would like to share a card with you the very handsome " Rocking Horse Owen " .  Ilene Tell made this adorable card using him, and I think it turned out fabulous ....ENJOY!! = )



Monday, April 29, 2013

A Rainy Day…

Good morning Paper Doll Fans! Hope your all having a wonderful day! Its Katrina here with you today and I'm sharing one of my all time favourite Paper Doll images - this image is so versatile and I have used it LOADS!! Meet Rainy Day Friends - available from the store!


Are they not just the cutest pair! 
I LOVE them to bits.  This card was made for my cousins little girl for her 6th birthday a couple of days ago! 


When I coloured them up i coloured them a bit like my little ones - i don't quite know why! The image was coloured with copics

x

all the papers and ribbons are from my stash and the flowers from a friend of mine.  You can find more details on this card on my blog :)

Hope you will pop over to the Challenge Blog - some AMAZING entries this week. 

See you again soon 

x

Sunday, April 28, 2013

New Release Blog Hop!


Welcome to The Paper Nest Dolls' first 
"official" New Release Blog Hop!


Today the very talented and creative design team of The Paper Nest Dolls has put together this hop to share with you projects made using our 9 new stamps!



Digital versions of these stamps regularly sell for $3.00 each, but from today through Friday May 3rd you can get ALL 9 images for only $18 here in our shop!

We couldn't host a blog hop without fun giveaways! One lucky winner will receive our entire set of new images, and one lucky winner will receive a $25 gift certificate to our shop!
Participants must comment on every stop of the hop and be a follower of our blog for a chance to win! We also encourage you to become a fan of our Facebook page!

Winners will be announced on Friday May 3rd over at


You're next stop is Ashley's blog!

Here's the complete lineup:


Thanks so much for hopping with us! :)

Saturday, April 27, 2013

I Love You

Hello everyone
It's Erika here again with another card for you.
Today I have made a card using an adorable image called Girl With Kite.



For this card I did something a bit different. Usually I color all my digital images with Copic Markers, but now I wanted to try watercolor. So I used my Distress Markers and a water brush to color this image. Coloring with watercolor or distress markers are a bit different from copics, but I think it turned out quite ok. I like the look of watercoloring and I will definitely try it some more.


For the rest of the card I kept it pretty simple and used some adorable papers from My Minds Eye and to give the card some interest I die cut the image with a spellbinders die leaving a small part around the kite so I could trim that out with my scissor. I like how the kite is flying outside the diecut circle.

I really hope you enjoyed the card today and be sure to check back tomorrow for some more cards from the rest of the amazing design team.

Thanks
/Erika

Friday, April 26, 2013

We are Proud of You!

Hi everyone,
My name is Sharon, and I am the face behind the SMSCRAPPER videos on Youtube, as well as The Night Owl Scrapper Blog. I love everything crafty, and I'm very into scrapbooking, card making, and altered projects. I have been creative, and into the arts all my life, being introduced to many different aspects of it since very young. I am the busy mom of a toddler, who loves creating, and sharing with people from all over the world. I've been actively scrapbooking since the end of 2008, and have been  making video tutorials, and more on YouTube since April of 2010. I currently teach at my local scrapbooking store, and have been lucky to work with several companies in the field. This hobby is my way to relax, and I could not live without it!

Today I'm very excited to share my Guest Design Post for The Paper Nest Dolls. I used Graduation Ellie for my card, and I loved using her, as well as the Glitz "Yours Truly" Design Paper.

Ellie is super adorable, and so easy to paper piece, which is what I did with her outfit. I colored her skin, hair, and accesories with my beloved Copic Markers. I added some cheese cloth for some texture in the back of the image, and added some paper flowers and some bling from my stash. Below you can see a picture of the inside of the card.


I enjoyed working with Ellie, and I hopeyou liked my project. Thanks so much to The paper Nest Dolls for inviting me to Guest Design. I had a blast! Take care everyone!

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Ringmaster Ellie... On a Necklace!


Hello!  I am Kim of Kimbee's Creations.  I have been papercrafting for a long time...probably over ten years.  I started with scrapbooking and then eventually got hooked on card making about four years ago, while I was on maternity leave with my daughter.  I am also into other crafts, such as crocheting, jewelry making, altered arts, etc.  You can find some of my finished products in my blog of course and my Etsy store.

It is my pleasure to be guest designing for The Paper Nest Dolls!  Christine's stamps/images are super adorable and fun to color!

I've made lots of cards with The Paper Nest Dolls images already so for my post today, I decided to make this pendent using a round glass dome and pendent tray.  I used Ringmaster Ellie.  This pendent necklace is super easy to make.  I colored Ellie and adhered her to the glass dome. I then glued the glass dome to the tray.



The pendent is about an inch in diameter.  The ball chain is 24 inches.

I hope everyone enjoyed looking at my project as much as I enjoyed making it!


Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Strawberry Emma


Happy Wednesday everyone!!!! Hope everyone out there in Blogland is feeling fine, it's Lydia here today and I'm sooooo excited about this one as she is one of my faves!!!!

So with out further ado here she is...... Strawberry Emma..... 


And a lil close-up of the lil cutie....


I am such a BIG lover of the Emma images, as she reminds me such a lot of my little girl as her hair refuses to grow. So it's so lovely having a little girl image with short hair- just love her !!!

Remember this image as well as many many more are available from The Paper Nest Doll Store. Also these lil cuties are available in either in digi and rubber - so are prefect for everyone's type of crafting!!!

PS. We have a Release Blog hop on the 28th, I do so hope you can make it!!!!!

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Bikini Ellie

Hello Everyone ....

Today I am going to show you another card made my Kimberly Yu . She used super cute Bikini Ellie,  and I think its adorable. Cant wait to see what she does for her Guest Designer post on the 25th ! ENJOY! =)


Monday, April 22, 2013

Raining Hearts ........


Hello Everyone...
Today I would like to share you with this adorable card made by the very talented Kimberly Yu. She will  also be a guest designer this month, on the 25th. She used our Raining Hearts stamp  to create this beautiful card ...enjoy ! 


Saturday, April 20, 2013

Old, New, Borrowed, & Blue Blog Hop - Day 2

Welcome to Day 2 of the Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue Blog Hop!


Wedding bells will soon be ringing as the wedding season is almost here, and the design teams of Red Carpet Studio and The Paper Nest Dolls have teamed up to provide you with some beautiful wedding inspiration by creating projects using Paper Nest Dolls digital stamps! If you've just come across the hop and would like to start at the beginning, please visit Red Carpet Studio.

Red Carpet Studio is a movie-themed challenge blog that runs weekly challenges, alternating between layout and card challenges each week. All of their challenges are inspired by either a movie or aspect of Hollywood!
The Paper Nest Dolls is a brand new digital/rubber stamp shop that sells adorable stamps inspired by the designer's children. Their stamps are sold here and they just started a challenge blog as well!










For Day 2 of the hop we'd like to share with you some wedding-themed cards created by past guest designers!

The first two cards were created by Elizabeth from Cardville:


This card was created by the lovely Iulia from My Adored Adorables:


The Paper Nest Dolls owner and artist, Christine, is very generously providing us with some blog candy from her online stamp shop and her brick and mortar scrapbooking store! To be eligible to win you must comment on every stop of both days of the hop. 

Two $20 Gift Certificates

Prima Flower Prize Pack

Ready for the next stop? It's Ashley's blog!

Happy Hopping! :)

Friday, April 19, 2013

Old, New, Borrowed, & Blue Blog Hop - Day 1

Welcome to Day 1 of the Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue Blog Hop!


Wedding bells will soon be ringing as the wedding season is almost here, and the design teams of Red Carpet Studio and The Paper Nest Dolls have teamed up to provide you with some beautiful wedding inspiration by creating projects using Paper Nest Dolls digital stamps! If you've just come across the hop and would like to start at the beginning, please visit Red Carpet Studio.

Red Carpet Studio is a movie-themed challenge blog that runs weekly challenges, alternating between layout and card challenges each week. All of their challenges are inspired by either a movie or aspect of Hollywood!
The Paper Nest Dolls is a brand new digital/rubber stamp shop that sells adorable stamps inspired by the designer's children. Their stamps are sold here and they just started a challenge blog as well!










I used an older Kaisercraft collection and FWAB Adhesive Rhinestones 100 Pack Silver, and FWAB Elise Flourish Silver.









The Paper Nest Dolls owner and artist, Christine, is very generously providing us with some blog candy from her online stamp shop and her brick and mortar scrapbooking store! To be eligible to win you must comment on every stop of both days of the hop. 


Two $20 Gift Certificates

Prima Flower Prize Pack


Ready for the next stop? It's Tonya's blog!

Red Carpet Studio
The Paper Nest Dolls
Tonya
Lori Ann
Chas
Kelly
Kim
Erika
Dawn
Lydia
Anneliese
Darcy
Sandra

Happy Hopping! :)

Thursday, April 18, 2013

A Card with Graduation Ellie

Hi Fellow Scrappers!
This is Valerie here,  and today I'm really excited to be writing my first post for The Paper Nest Dolls blog!

I  just love working with the stamp images that we have, and this one is NO exception - Graduation Ellie is the perfect stamp image for this time of year, as a lot of us prepare for graduations coming up. So without further adieu, here's Graduation Ellie in her finest!




The card is 6" x 6", and is loaded with all kinds of goodies. I used Copic markers to color her. You can find the details on my blog, of which colors I used and what the other products are that worked so well with Ellie

I hope you've been inspired to start those graduation cards, because alas, it will be here before you know it! 

Also, don't forget to check out our Challenge Blog to see our second challenge, Happy, Happy Birthday! We have a wonderful prize with lots of yummy goodies! 



Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Mermaid Ellie with Manatee


Happy Wednesday everyone, I do hope you are all feeling well!! It's Lydia here today and I thought I would share a card with you using one of my favorite mermaid images with you.. Mermaid Ellie With Manatee ...


And a lil' close up ...


I so do love this image- the way her hair flows and that cute little manatee are just so easy to love. 

After I coloured this little beauty up, I added embossing glitter to her tail - it just gives a great effect, just like I imagine a real mermaids tail to be! ;)

I hope I have inspired you this Wednesday morning and remember this image as well as many other little cuties are available in the store ... in digi and also in rubber !!! YAY.... 

PS. Don't forget to check out this fortnights The Paper Nest Challenge for a chance to win some fab goodies!!! This fortnights challenge is 'Happy, Happy Birthday'. 

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

King Owen

Guest Designer Katie Tate is back with another fabulous card!

It's time for another card for my guest spot here at The Paper Nest Dolls
Today I got to play with the adorable King Owen and I decided he would be perfect for a cute birthday card.


Card Recipe:
Image - King Owen
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper and Sentiment - Hootenanny by My Minds Eye
Embossing Folder - Tiny Stars by The Paper Studio
Die Cut - Sizzix
Rhinestones - Michaels
Balloon Punch - Marvy
Ribbon - Hobby Lobby
Flower - Sassafras





I colored and cut out Owen and layered the head section for more dimension.
He sure does look regal with his rhinestone encrusted crown doesn't he?
I have enjoyed my little visit here at The Paper Nest Dolls and I hope you have too.
Katie

Monday, April 15, 2013

Sending Hugs

Hello
It's Erika here again with another card to share with you.
This time I had some wonderful stamps from The Paper Nest to work with and I chose this cute little fairy called "Faerie With Flower Umbrella". Isn't it the most adorable image?



This card is made using some great patterned papers from the Echo Park Sweet Day Collection. I just loved this 6x6 paper pad and I think they worked so well together with the digital image.

As usual the image is colored with Copic Markers and unfortunately I can't remember what colors I used. For some reason I always forget to write that down and by the time I put my markers back I forget which one I used.

On the little fairy wings I added some diamond stickles as a final touch. Love the way they turned out.

Hope you like the card

/Erika

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Cowgirl Ellie ( with pet pig, Piper ! )

Hello Everyone,

Today I am going to share a card made by the very talented Janiel Corley . I've always loved her work and feel honored to have her color one of my images . She colored Cowgirl Ellie ( with her pet pig, Piper ) , look at how adorable it turned out ...i loveeee it . You can check her blog out for more details on how she did it.
                                                http://scrappyjandesigns.blogspot.com









Saturday, April 13, 2013

Congratulations on your Graduation!

Morning all - well its me Katrina here with you today! Im here to share with you a lovely little man that deserves lots of praise! Now just look at how cute he is - I have to say I think I could eat him all up :)


I have been working away very hard and have come up with this card for you this week! I just love this image this is Graduation Owen and he is available here


I had so much fun colouring him up! he was coloured with copics

T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9
E000, E00, E02, R20 
E50, E51, E53
R39

I also used my SU distressing tool and Tim Holtz distress ink to keep the black and white theme going!

The papers are School Papers - I have used them so much as they are printable so I can choose how big I want them :) 

The scroll was made by rolling some paper up and adding a ribbon and the stamp is a rubber one that I have had for ages :) 

Well I hope you like him there are more details on my blog so please feel free to pop over! 

I really hope you will pop to the challenge blog and see the fantastic team over there :) 

See you soon 
x

Friday, April 12, 2013

You Are My Sunshine

Hi everyone! Today we have a wonderful guest designer sharing a gorgeous card with you all!

Katie Tate from Both Sides of the Paper
I’m Katie and am a wife of 18 years and a Mum to 3 beautiful children. I have been papercrafting for 14 years now and card making for 4. I am English by birth but have been in the US for 16 years and now reside in sunny North Texas. I love to color, I have done it all my life, you could always find a coloring book and felt tip pens in my Christmas stocking. Copic Markers are my medium of choice and I am certified in the use of them.

It's a great day today as I get to share my card for my Guest spot here at The Paper Nest Dolls
Today I got to play with the super sweet Ellie with Kite


Card Recipe:
Image - Ellie with Kite
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper and Sentiment - Sunshowers by Heidi Grace
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Felt Flowers - Michaels





I colored an extra kite for Ellie and popped it up for a little dimension.
I hope you like her and be sure to pop back as I have another card coming up next week :)
Katie
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