Guest Design slot for Paper Creations Ink challenge 12

I was privileged to have my card spotlighted on Paper Creations Ink for their challenge 8 and, as a result, was given a Guest Design slot for their challenge 12. You will find details of this challenge here.

Holiday wishes for kids

Paper Creations Ink have teamed up with SAS4KIDS for challenge 12. Here is some information given on Paper Creations Ink blog:

Send A Smile 4 Kids is a charitable blog created for the purpose of collecting donated handmade cards to be distributed to children while they are inpatient at Children’s Hospitals. Currently SAS4Kids is donating them to the Children’s Hospitals in Neenah and Milwaukee, WI, University of Iowa Children's Hospital, Iowa City, IA, Blank Children's Hospital, Des Moines, IA, Sandford Children's Hospital, Sioux Falls, SD and to the B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia and the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton , Alberta in Canada. On any given day, there are many children inpatient in these hospitals, so SAS4Kids would love to receive as many cards as you can send to cheer them and their families. The kids may also use your cards as Thank You Notes to the nurses and doctors and to give to parents or relatives on special days like birthdays or Mothers or Fathers Day.

At this time SAS4Kids is hoping to receive enough Holiday cards so that every child in these hospitals on or around Christmas will receive a card to cheer them and their families. Please do not make your cards religion specific as the nurses do not always know what religion the child’s family is. Any cheery winter or holiday card would be great!

Send a Smile 4 Kids is going to be the featured charity in CardMaker Magazine’s January issue (on stands in December) in their Readers Reach Out section. We are thrilled to be helped by card drives such as this one at Paper Creations Ink and in the Cardmaker Magazine and look forward to receiving your cards to help cheer our kids.

The addresses to send your cards to are:

SAS4Kids c/o Sarah Taylor, 3419 7th Ave, Sioux City, Iowa 51106 OR

SAS4Kids (Canada) c/o Shelley Dureau, 2525 Cable Court, Coquitlam, BC V3H 3G1 Canada OR

SAS4Kids (Canada) c/o Lynnette Pinno, Box 1256, Camrose, Alberta T4V 1X2 OR

SAS4 Kids c/o Karen Hasheck, 5507 Hickory St, Schofield, WI 54476

Please refer to the blog at http://sendasmile4kids.blogspot.com/ for card guidelines and any other details you may need as well as information on the Send a Smile 4 Kids twice monthly challenges.

Digi Doodle Shop is sponsoring Paper Creations Ink challenge 12 and supplied the team with digis to be used for this challenge, so my card features their delightful Stocking Puppy digital image, coloured with copics. I added stickles crystal ice glitter glue to the cuff of the stocking. All papers used are K & Co Secret Santa. I used a 7 x 5 card base. I'm entering this into Digi doodle shops best 81: a wintry theme.

I used the sketch for Paper Pretties Wednesday challenge 178:

This is also another card for my own CHNC challenge 45: bright colours and/or sparkle.

I'm also entering this into the following challenges:

If the shoe fits fashionista Friday 95: KISS (keep it simple sweetheart)

Bows and berries 13: clean and simple

I did it 80: it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

There she goes 129: holiday projects

Cupcake craftroom November: sweet Christmas

Winter wonderland: make your cards sparkle

The paper shelter 38: Christmas fun

Pixie cottage 94: get started - make a Christmas card

Delightful: a very sparkly Christmas

Mami doodles 37: Christmas

Lothian crafts 20: Christmas

St Luke's November: Christmas is coming

Heidi's hobbystuggu November: Christmas card with bling/sparkle

Crimbo crackers 1: anything goes

Mark's finest papers speedy the cat 80: fall or winter theme

Crafty purple frog 27: sparkle

Allways something creative 17: it has to sparkle

Forever friends: bling bling

Crafty boots: young at heart

One stitch at a time 87: use a digi

Daisy doodles 46: anything goes with a digi

Paper crafting journey 22: use a digi

Freshly brewed 71: anything goes

Papertake: anything goes

Make it Monday 62

Inspire me Fridays 31

So sophie

This card is for this sketch for My Mind's Eye 29:

One of the conditions of the challenge is to use 80% My Mind's Eye products - not difficult, because I love them, so I used the double sided So Sophie little lady considerate tulip paper. The lighter pink paper is from Dena Designs. The butterfly stamp by Inca is called 'queen of Spain' - it was stamped with memento rich cocoa. The scalloped circles were cut with Nellie's die cuts and edges were distressed with brushed corduroy DI, as were the edges of the scalloped strips cut on my rotatrim.

This is an A5 card to accommodate the shaped piece of the So Sophie paper at the bottom.

This is also for:

Craft your passion 83: anything goes + brown

Crafty cardmakers 55: colour combo - pink, brown & cream

Penny Black and more at Allsorts November challenge: all creatures great and small

4 crafty chicks 62: die cuts

Raise the bar 82: no embellishments - can use die cuts or anything paper made

Crazy challenge 92: something with wings

Let's ink it up 17: show us your favourite technique - distressing

Our craft lounge 90: distressed & stressed

Creatalicious 27: distress your edges

Freshly brewed 71: anything goes

Papertake: anything goes

Make it Monday 62

Inspire me Fridays 31

A few goodies

I went to Hobbycraft the other day - they had a 25% discount afternoon, so I thought it was an opportunity to stock up on a few 'essentials'. I also got a few bits elsewhere, so this is my new haul: