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!

Spring has Sprung Challenge Winner

Thanks so much to everyone that played along with us for our Spring has Sprung Challenge. All of the creations were gorgeous. I want to apologize for the trouble with our linky last week.

This week's luck winner is Anne

Isn't this beautiful!!

Congratulations Anne!

 Michelle will contact you for your prize.

Make sure you check back tomorrow for our new challenge!

Spotlight Saturday!

Spring Has Sprung is the challenge that this week is running at the blog....

And what a stunning creations the team made! I love them so much....

And today it's almost summer here in the Netherlands... it's so sunny and warm at my balcony..

it's almost to hard to stay in all day. So I went up early to do some crafting and will be sitting outside for some sun. 

(tomorrow it will rain again)

How is the weather in your country... I know that we have a lot of girls following us from all over the world.. How is the weather in your country?

I talked about my village and that it has the biggest flower garden of Europe...

Well on request here are some photo's fromt that large garden..

  

 

And at the end of April we have a parade of wagons with theme's that are build up with flowers!

My DD and her scouting group make such a car each year! 

Then my village is filled with tourist from all over the world to see this...

And the fields around my village are filled with spring flowers. So I live in fantastic smells when we ride through the fields...

  

Now to get back to the Challenge... We so hope that you will join us this week....

Please use an image from Michelle on your card!

Here are some more examples from the team to inspire you!

Tulip card by Marion with Amore Fairy

Forest Fairy in Spring Colors by Claire

Flowers and daydreaming by Andrea

Angelica by Elenor

Friends by Sharon

And more friends with flower by Wendy

Hope you enter in our challenge and win a great image from Michelle...

Have a great weekend and leave a comment about the weather in your country!

Hugs

xxx