Spotlight Saturday!

Goodmorning Ladies,

Wow... What a fantastic Guest Designers have been passing by lately! All these girls show there cards at our Paper Planet Group... and Shelley picks them out!

Love to see what you all make with the beautiful images from Michelle.

Yesterday there was the Royal Wedding in England. Did you watched it, or part of it. I did... And I thought it was so beautiful. What a stunning dress Kate was wearing! 

I think they are no asleep after a long night partying in the castle!

But not for us in The Netherlands. We have our own Royals here... and in the Netherlands April 30th is our Traditional Queens Day!!!

Our Queen and the Royal Family is visiting two towns today and they will watch all kinds of things that locals of those towns prepared for them. Her sons and their wives enter those games and make lot's of fun! It's on National TV here.

And in each town in my little country there are Old Dutch Games for the children and there is a Free Market where children can sale their toys to others. 

It's a national Holiday over here! 

So when the program at TV starts I will be sitting at the couch with my Orange colored pastry and a Latte Machiatto and watch the fun on TV and after that my DD and I go to the market.

One big day of fun for us here!

Here are some Royal made Images of some of the girls!

Elenor

Irene

Claire

Wendy

Marion

Have a great day and don't forget that there still is a fantastic Challenge going on here!

xxx

Saskia Smits- Guest Designer

Hi ladies!! Hope you all are having a fabulous week.

Can you believe it's the end of April!? This month seemed to fly by.

This week I'm happy to have Saskia Smits

 with us as our Guest Designer.

Look at this gorgeous card she created featuring

Elisa - Queen of the Sea

Don't you just love this color combo! 

And here is a little bit about Sas...

I'm Saskia Smits from the Netherlands and 41 summers young. I'm married with Peter since 2004........but we are living thougher since 1988. We are living in a little city called Veghel and don't have any childeren.

I'm working full time as a technical administrative employee.

I started crafting somewhere around 1995.......first 3d-cards and after a couple of years I started to make other things. I love to scrap and make cards.

Also reading a book, hanging on the couch with a very good movie and enjoy live with my friends are my favourite things to do.

Thanks Sas for being our guest designer this week!

Make sure you join us for this week's 

Turquoise/Brown Challenge. 

We would love to see your creation,

 make sure you use a MPS image .

OUR CHALLENGE WINNER IS...

Mary J!!

Congratulations on a beautiful creation with Serena! We loved it!! You win a digi of your choice from my Etsy shop, Mary! Thank you for joining our Anything Goes challenge and thanks to all of you who played along with us!

Turquoise & Brown Challenge

Welcome to our Turquoise &

Brown Challenge!

We are excited to see your creations this week!

Thanks to all who joined us last week.

Please remember our challenge requires that you use a

Michelle Perkett Image!

The Mermaids have made some beautiful cards for your inspiration.

 Jenn featuring Peace, Love and Harmony Mermaid

 Mari featuring Amore Fairy

Karen featuring Butterfly Fairy

Irene featuring Spring Goddess

Aren't these just gorgeous!! I love seeing what the DT has created!
Now it's your turn. 
Let's see what you can come up with using an MPS image and turquoise and brown.
You can find all the images at Michelle's Etsy store or hop on over to the PCP group and look through the discussions for some awesome freebies!

One lucky winner will receive an image of their choice from Michelle's Shop.

Spotlight Saturday

Goodmorning ladies!

Today it's another beautiful day over here in The Netherlands. Everybody is busy with making preparations for Easter tomorrow. And so are the kids and I. They are cleaning the house with my help. It's not a lot of work... within a little hour the house is ready and they can be outside with friends all day!

What are you all doing for preparations for Easter? Are you decorating the house? Are you hiding Easter Eggs? Can you tell us more about your Easter Traditions?

We are looking forward to read about that!

Here are some spring/Easter cards to stay in the Easter Mood!

Pauline

Sharon

Claire

Irene

Marion

Don't forget that there is a great Anything Goes Challenge running this week!

Have a great weekend!

Hugs

xxx

Blog Hop winners!!

Hi everyone and Happy Easter!! A big thank you to everyone who took part in our fun Easter Bunny Blog Hop last weekend. It was a real treat to see so many beautiful creations with Michelles's gorgeous images.
Thanks to everyone who hopped along with us too, I hope you enjoyed it!

Anyway down to business, the lucky winners from the Secret Bunny questions are:

Jenn's winner: Scrapweaver

Marion's winner: Ali (Aqualeiga's escape)

Andrea's winner: Skye (Ramblings of a Creative Mum)

Karen: Rhonda Miller (Rhonda's Place to Share)

Congratulations ladies!! Our secret bunnies will be emailing you with your prize :-)

Happy Easter everyone

from Michelle and all the DT mermaids xx

Valerie Rankins - Guest DT

Happy Thursday!! I just love these Guest DT posts. 

They have been so much fun.  All the ladies have been so creative!

This week we are privileged to have Valerie Rankins with us.

Here is her beautiful card...

Isn't this Grace beautiful,

 you can find the image at Michelle's Etsy shop.

And here is a little bit about Valerie...

I'm a happily married empty nest Mom to 2 sons and 4 bonus daughters, I have a beautiful granddaughter and two very handsome grandsons. My grandchildren make life all worth while, they are the sunshine of my days..We have a rescue Labradoodle named Fenway, we got him to try and fill that void that our children left when they all flew the nest. He is a joy and keeps us very busy.. I have lived in Maine my whole life and work as a Paralegal and my husband (Michael) is a 911 Dispatcher.

My Dear Husband just turned one of our spare bedrooms into a craft room for me. I often ask him if he regrets that as I spend so much time in there. I have been scrapbooking since my kids were babies, so about 24 years. I love stamps and enjoy coloring them with my Prismacolor Pencils then blending with mineral spirits. My favorite is just paper crafting in general, anything from cards, mini albums to explosion boxes. I love trying new projects and techniques.

Thank you to Michelle Perkett for having me as a guest designer, I Love her stamps, she is a absolutely fabulous artist!

Thanks Valerie for being our guest designer this week!

Don't forget about our Anything Goes Challenge,

make sure you use a MPS image!

Anything Goes!

Hello and welcome to the Michelle Perkett Studios Tuesday challenge!  

What a beautiful and creative cards you all made for last weeks challenge! I was so inspired by you all!

And then the fun and amazing blog hop! You all were so fantastic in commenting and searching for our secret bunnies!

Later this week we will announce the winners of the Blog Hop Trivia Questions

Thanks for joining us and I hope that you all join us again in this weeks Challenge.

This week we are going to make cards or projects with the theme Anything Goes and 

you must use an image of Michelle!

In Michelle’s Etsy Store you can find a beautiful collection with images! There are also a few new images there.

We don’t have many rules, but no linking to previous work please!

We can't wait to see what you come up with!   

If you don't have any Michelle Perkett Studios images there are freebies at the Michelle Perkett Studios Paper Craft Planet group.  There are more for sale at Michelle's Etsy store, new releases too! This challenge is sponsored by Michelle Perkett Studios Esty store, the winner will be awarded an image by choice fromMichelle's Etsy store!

And now a little inspiration from our fabulous design team!

Andrea

Claire

Elenor

Marion

Sharon

Wendy

Our challenge time line is from today, April 19^th and ends Monday, April 25th, at 5:00 PM MST.

A winner will be chosen randomly at that time and an announcement made!

We encourage everyone to take a few moments to visit and leave comments for the design team and other participants.  Comments are a wonderful way to say thank you for sharing your creative project and inspires everyone to create.
 
Thanks for stopping by and we hope you join in the fun!

We Have a Winner....

Drum Roll Please....

Anne is our Hopping Down the Bunny Trail Challenge Winner!

 Isn't this adorable!

Michelle will be in contact with you for your freebie!

Thanks to all who participated this week. Make sure you check back tomorrow to see what fun The Mermaids have in store for you!

Fun Easter Bunny Blog Hop at MPS!!

Woo hoo you made it!! This is the final stop on the Michelle Perkett Studio

Easter Bunny Blog Hop!

I do hope you've had fun hopping round! If you've just come across our blog hop, you hop over to the here at Michelle's personal blog and join in the fun!
 Thanks so much to everyone who created an Easter project for our Blog Hop - you're all such talented ladies its a real treat to share your beautiful work!! Thanks also to everyone who  has hopped with us, we really appreciate it :-)

I hope you managed to find our 'Secret Bunnies' and answer their Easter Questions to be in with a chance of winning a supercute Easter stamp from Michelle.

Happy Easter everyone

from 

Michelle and all the MPS Design Team mermaids!!

Danni Bindel Guest DT

Welcome to another Guest Designer Thursday.

This week we are excited to have Danni Bindel

 as our Guest DT.

Just look at this gorgeous creation featuring Happy Easter Bunny.

And here is a little bit about Danni...

I'm a SAHM to Matthew who is 9 and Annabelle who is 6. US Army wife to Sam and we will celebrate our 12th anniversary on May 1st. We just moved to Fort Lewis, Washington and are loving it so far. Our last duty station was Fort Bliss, Texas so this is quite the change from the desert. We also have 2 dogs, Freckles and Daisy and I just got a friend for my craft room, Jade the parakeet.

I started scrapbooking about 13 years ago and swore I'd never stamp....then about 6 years ago I hosted a TAC (The Angel Company) party and I was hooked! I signed up to be a demonstrator that next day..hehe.

Now-a-days I stamp almost daily, it's my passion!! I love stamps and paper and copics and etc.and etc!! LOL! I love it all!!

A big thank you to Michelle Perkett for having me as a guest designer as I just {adore} her stamps!

Thanks Danni for being our Guest DT this week! 

Hopping Down the Bunny Trail Challenge

This week at Michelle Perkett Studios 
we are Hopping Down the Bunny Trail. 

Easter is fast approaching, so we want to see your Easter creations.

A Michelle Perkett Image is required.

You can find the newest images at the Etsy shop or visit the PCP group for some freebies.

The DT has some beautiful cards to share with you this week.

Mari's  beautiful Spring card features

 Oh Happy Spring. 

Pauline's elegant card features

Happy Easter Bunny.

Irene created these two beauties with

Happy Easter Bunny.

Karen's card with these lovely pastels features

Oh Happy Spring. 

Jenn's charming, sparkly card features 

Happy Easter Bunny.

Shelley's bright, cheerful card features

Harvey the Easter Bunny.

I hope you all join us for our challenge this week and help us celebrate Easter. Come back this weekend for our Easter Bunny Blog Hop.

Our challenge time line is from today, April 12th and ends Monday, April 18th at 5:00 PM MST.

The randomly chosen winner will receive an image of their choice from Michelle's Etsy Store.

We encourage everyone to take a few moments to visit and leave comments for the design team and other participants.  Comments are a wonderful way to say thank you for sharing your creative project and inspires everyone to create.

There is a new winner!!

I was a bit suprised that not so many made a card for this challenge.... I mean...

wow.. there is always a reason to send a card and thanks to you Mom!

Anyway.... we still had some fantastic entries and we have a winner!

Congratulations Sas!!!

You are the winner at this weeks challenge! You made a fantastic card!

Please contact Michelle to claim your prize! 

Have a great day and we hope to see you all back for the new challenge tomorrow!

Hugs

xxx

Easter Bunny Blog Hop order

Its nearly time for our fab ‘Easter Bunny Blog Hop’, I’m really looking forward to it and its great to see some new faces joining us for the blog hop!!  Its going to be a lot of fun and get us all in the mood to celebrate Easter.

Here’s the blog hop order:

Michelle’s personal blog  http://www.michelleperkett.blogspot.com/

Karen: http://karensdigi.blogspot.com/

Michelle http://scrapweaver.blogspot.com/

Abby http://abbyscreations.blogspot.com/

Rhonda  http://bluepoohbear753.blogspot.com

Brenda www.imsumbunie.blogspot.com

Shelley www.shelleyscreations.blogspot.com

Ali http://aqualeigasescape.blogspot.com

Andrea http://AndreasScraps.com

Amber http://www.amberscraftsandstuff.com/

Sharon http://sharonshowcase.blogspot.com

Irene http://itsallinthecards.blogspot.com

Jenn http://stampinangeljenn.blogspot.com/

Wendy http://wendypslittlecorneroftheworld.blogspot.com/

Lydia http://scrappenbylydia.blogspot.com/

Mari http://trailsofpaper.blogspot.com/

Theresa http://craftsfriendsangels.blogspot.com/

Claire http://clairescraftycreations.blogspot.com/

Mootseeka http://cropchick.blogspot.com/

Pauline http://paulineguttrey.blogspot.com/

Skye http://ramblingsofacreativemum.blogspot.com/

Marion http://cardsbymarione.blogspot.com/

Elenor http://ellispysselochdittadatt.blogspot.com/

Michelle Perkett Studio http://michelleperkettstudio.blogspot.com/

Wow its great to see so many people taking part in the blog hop :-)
 Along the way you'll find some fun Easter trivia questions on some of the DT members blogs, all you have to do to win a fab Easter freebie stamp from Michelle is answer the questions  as you hop around!

We'll be starting the blog hop on Saturday so if you can post on your blog by midnight on Friday then everyones posts should be up for the start of the blog hop :-)

See you at the hop!!

Claire xx

A little reminder .....

You still have a couple of days to sign up and join in our forthcoming Easter Bunny Blog Hop!!

I'll be posting the blog hop order on Tuesday so don't miss your chance to join in. All you have to do is create an Easter themed project using one of Michelle's beautiful images and you can join the DT members on the blog hop!! Michelle has designed some gorgeous Easter images to win too :-)

Click here for more details and to sign up

Claire xx



Spotlight Saturday!

I'm cheating a little bit with this post....

I've made this one a bit sooner... wanted to work ahead... don't ask me why... I just feel that...

So here is my post.

Every time I think of what will I write about this saturday. What will I share with you from my personal life and feelings, hoping that you like it and don't mind me being so personal.

Well today I want to share a bit of me again. Some of our mermaids have such a great place to leave all the cards that they make. 

They send them to Operation Write Home, www.chemoangels.com, 

just two that came by and I was touched by this. Because I have 3 boxed filled with cards and they are just doing nothing there. Now and then I sell one or sent one to someone... but most of them stay in their boxes.

So I decided to find organisations in my country to sent my cards to... well.. big disappointment... but I can't find any!!! How strange is this? I googled and surfed the internet.. but none.

Now what I began to wonder is.... what are you all doing with all those cards that you make.

Can you share more organisations with us who are in need for our cards? 

Just somewhere on this planet... there must be more of those?? Right?

Well share them with us in our comment section please... and if you are just like me.. having boxes filled with cards... please donate them to a good cause and make some people happy with them!

Lot's of writing this week... almost took all the place that I want to use for sharing some more cards. Because don't forget, this week we have this fabulous challenge with the theme to Thank your Mom!

Here is some more inspiration for you all from our talented mermaids:

Jenn

Irene

Andrea

Karen

I hope that you all respond to my post today and that I can hop by your blogs to thank you again and that we can have a bigger list with organisations that need cards!

Thanks a million girls!

With Love

xxx

Jen McLaughlin - Guest DT

We have another fabulous Guest DT for you this week.

Jen McLaughlin

And here is her beautiful creation using Thanks Mum...

Isn't this gorgeous!?! I love the purple!!

And here is a little bit about Jen...

I live in Bethpage, TN.  We've been here 5 years, but our hometown is Marysville, Washington, which is where most of our friends and family still are today.  I have two handsome sons, Nate is 20 and my youngest, Dennis is 17 and graduating this year.  Oh dear!!   I started scrapbooking when my kids were just learning to walk.  I am so thankful today that I took the time to do that.  Time goes by so fast and we often enjoy looking back and reminiscing on old times. It was one of those Creative Memories classes for me too.   One lesson and I was hooked!  I started card making just over a year ago and I'm addicted!  I'm not really sure what my style is because I like to try them all.  In the beginning I only used stamps and different forms of inking UNTIL.......I found digi's.  Will I ever be able to sell enough cards to cover the cost?  probably not!  Do I care? - NOPE!!  I love them too much.  As a young artist I enjoyed coloring and shading and was thrilled when I found an outlet for it today.    I started my own personal blog almost a year ago to keep up with all the challenges and meet new friends.   I 've met the most wonderful people from all over the world and thank God that I have them in my life.

 

Don't forget about the Thanks Mom Challenge this week.

A Michelle Perket Image is required.

One lucky winner will receive an image of their choice from Michelle's Etsy Store!

New Challenge at Michelle Perkett Studio

Thank you Mom!

Hello and welcome back to the Michelle Perkett Studios Tuesday challenge!  

What a beautiful and creative cards you all made for last weeks challenge! Allthough we had some trouble with Linky.. you all found us and linked your cards to us! We are so happy with that!

Thanks for joining us and I hope that you all join us again in this weeks Challenge.

This week we are going to make cards or projects to say Thanks for our Mom. This week it’s Mother’s day in England and so we decided to give some attention to that right now!

We don’t have many rules, but no linking to previous work please!

And there is one important rule in this Challenge:

!! you must  use an image of Michelle!!

In Michelle’s Etsy Store you can find a beautiful collection with images! There are also a few new images there.

We can't wait to see what you come up with!   

If you don't have any Michelle Perkett Studios images there are freebies at the Michelle Perkett Studios Paper Craft Planet group.  There are more for sale at Michelle's Etsy store, new releases too! This challenge is sponsored by Michelle Perkett Studios Esty store, the winner will be awarded an image by choice fromMichelle's Etsy store!

And now a little inspiration from our fabulous design team!

Andrea

Claire

Elenor

Marion

Sharon

Wendy

Our challenge time line is from today, April 5th and ends Monday, April 11nd at 5:00 PM MST.

A winner will be chosen randomly at that time and an announcement made!

We encourage everyone to take a few moments to visit and leave comments for the design team and other participants.  Comments are a wonderful way to say thank you for sharing your creative project and inspires everyone to create.

 

Thanks for stopping by and we hope you join in the fun!