2022 BLOG HOP COMMENT WINNERS

 Thank you to everyone who participated in our 2022 Blog Hop and celebrated The Paper Shelter's 12th Birthday bash with us!  We hope you had fun.  We certainly had fun visiting your blogs and reading your wonderful comments along the way.

We have a long list of winners to announce.  Each DT member chose one winner from the comments left on their blogs, and we have one final winner from the comments left on our main challenge post.  

Here we go...

Linda chose Lucy

Christine chose Tracy

Ilonka chose Josje

Granmargaret chose Fikreta

Heidi chose KT Fit Kitty

Isabelle chose Aimeslee

Julie chose Uschi

Lori chose Beebeebabs

Sammy Jean chose Krista

Susan chose Angela

Anet chose Monique

Cristena chose Gina

Dawn chose Ewin

Merja chose Aunty Sue

Natascha chose Krista

Nicola chose Angela

Patsy chose Karen C

Priyadarshini chose Josje

Dewi chose Tracy

Vannessa chose Cynthia

and our final winner, from our main challenge post is: Crea Astrid

CONGRATULATIONS to you all, and THANK YOU for celebrating with us!

To claim your prizes, just click on the CONTACT tab at the top of the page, and type '2022 BLOG HOP COMMENT WINNER' in the subject line.

Then include your name, email address and blog address, along with your choice of image.  Veronica will need these details to confirm your win.  She already has our list of lucky winners and is waiting to hear from you.

We'd like to send a special THANK YOU to The Paper Shelter for sponsoring these fantastic prizes and all the prizes throughout the year.  We'd also like to thank our wonderful Design Teams for all their hard work throughout the year.  

From all of us here at The Paper Shelter, we wish you, our loyal followers, a blessed Christmas and a successful and Happy New Year.

Don't forget, we have our month long ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE running, and we'll be back with a brand new challenge on the 18th of January.

Posted in: Blog Hop Comment Winners 2022

Christmas Break Challenge 2022

Good morning to all our Paper Shelter friends and fans! We all hope you loved our Birthday Blog Hop and thank you to everyone who hopped all the way round. Please be sure to check out the winners blog post coming soon to see if you were a winner of a Paper Shelter digital stamp from one of your comments on the DT blogs.

Our challenge this time, joined by both teams, is our annual Christmas Break challenge, which will last for four weeks. This is an Anything Goes challenge and we would love to see anything you want to create be it Christmas, winter or anything at all! To give all of our DT time to spend with their family and friends this festive period, there will be no commenting on your entries, but be assured we will all be looking at your fabulous entries! 

But before we show all the amazing DT cards and projects, I know you want to know who has won the Birthday Blog Hop Challenge. 

Here are your random numbers:

30

Timestamp: 2022-12-20 20:40:43 GMT

Congratulations to Bernadet! 

We have a quick and easy way for you to claim your prize: Just click on the CONTACT tab at the top of the page, which will take you to a form where you can list your choices from The Paper Shelter store.  Please include "Birthday Blog Hop Challenge Winner" to help Veronica spot your choices, and please make sure you claim your prize by this coming weekend.

And now on to our final challenge of 2022!

Dewi using What a Mess !!

Sammy using Christmas Eve Night

Heidi using What a Mess!

Priyadarshini using Washing dishes

Dawn using Casual Boy

Ilonka using Santa Collection

Anet using Winter Walk

Linda using Daisies on my Hat

Cristena using Here We Go

Patsy using Are you ready my friend?

Julie using The Snowflake Fairy

Lori using Berry Delight

Granmargaret
using precoloured So Chic! and Chocolat and Fraise paper set

Natascha using For Santa

Nicola using Intertwined Hearts

Merja using A New Beginning

Isabelle using Skating is such fun

Vannessa using Santa Selfie

Our usual fantastic prize will be up for grabs: a $30 voucher from our generous sponsor The Paper Shelter, to spend in their store.

This fantastic prize will only be available if our randomly chosen winner has used one of our products on your project.  This could be a black & white image, paper or pre-coloured image.  

You can still be a winner, even if you haven't used one of our products, winning 3 digi images of your choice, from The Paper Shelter store, so it's still worth entering!

You can submit 3 entries into our challenge, provided you've used a Paper Shelter product on at least one of them.

Please be sure to enter a new project.  NO BACKLINKING!

Everyone at The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog would like to wish you and your families a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year. We look forward to seeing you all again on January 18th when Team A return with their new challenge. 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Posted in: Christmas Break Challenge 2022 - Anything Goes

The Paper Shelter's 12th Birthday and Blog Hop

 Good Morning Paper Shelter followers!

It's an extra special day here today!  It's time for our SPECIAL CHALLENGE and BLOG HOP!

The Paper Shelter is turning 12 on the 8th of December, and to celebrate, we're not only running our usual challenge, but if you participate in our BLOG HOP, you'll also be in line to win one of 21 images, just for leaving a comment on each Design Team member's blog along the Hop.  

Before we get too carried away with the excitement, let's see who has won last week's WINTER CELEBRATIONS challenge:

 Here are you random numbers:

18	

Timestamp: 2022-12-06 20:49:52 UTC

Congratulations Dawn Frost!  

Brilliant colouring of your fun image!

You've won 3 digi images from The Paper Shelter store.

We have a quick and easy way for you to claim your prize: Just click on the CONTACT tab at the top of the page, which will take you to a form where you can list your choices from The Paper Shelter store.  Please include "Challenge #536 Winner" to help Veronica spot your choices, and please make sure you claim your prize by this coming weekend.

Now let's get our celebration started!

Our usual challenge will run for the length of the BLOG HOP, so you have two weeks to get your entries in for this one, and our usual fantastic prize will be up for grabs: a $30 voucher from our generous sponsor The Paper Shelter, to spend in their store.

This fantastic prize will only be available if our randomly chosen winner has used one of our products on your project.  This could be a black & white image, paper or pre-coloured image.  

You can still be a winner, even if you haven't used one of our products, winning 3 digi images of your choice, from The Paper Shelter store, so it's still worth entering!

You can submit 3 entries into our challenge, provided you've used a Paper Shelter product on at least one of them.

Please be sure to enter a new project.  NO BACKLINKING!

Our theme for this challenge is:

CELEBRATIONS

In addition to the challenge, we're also running a BLOG HOP.  This is our way of thanking The Paper Shelter for sharing their wonderful images with us, throughout the year.

There is no obligation to participate in the BLOG HOP, but if you do, you could one of the winners, each winning one image of their choice, chosen by our Design Team members, from the comments left on their blogs.  There will also be a final comment winner, chosen from the comments left on this challenge post.  That's 21 opportunities to win an image, in addition to our GRAND PRIZE!

Below you'll find your journey through the Blog Hop, starting on my blog, visiting each DT member, and ending on Vannessa's blog, before making your way back here, to leave a final comment to let us know how you liked the Hop.  Each Design team member will have links for you to use, to Hop on over to the next stop on the Hop, but if you get lost, just make your way back here to use these links to make your way back to where you left off.

From all of us on the DT, we'd like to thank The Paper Shelter for sponsoring our challenge, and wish you a

VERY HAPPY 12TH BIRTHDAY!

Here we go...

Linda using Halloween Casual 

Christine

Ilonka

Granmargaret

Heidi

Isabelle

Julie

Lori

Sammy Jean

Susan

Anet 

Cristena

Dawn

Merja

Natascha

Nicola

Patsy

Priyadarshini

Dewi

Vannessa using Gypsy Dance

We hope you have fun on the Hop, and find lots of inspiration from the teams!

Good Luck!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Posted in: Blog Hop & Challenge,The Paper Shelter's 12th Birthday

Challenge #536 - Winter Celebrations

     Good morning to all our Paper Shelter friends and welcome to this week's new challenge! This week's challenge is a Fabulous colour challenge! We all hope you will all enjoy it as well! 

This week's challenge is …

Winter Celebrations

You can create any project you like and can use any image as long as your project uses the theme of Winter Celebrations. It does not have to be a Christmas card, but can be for any celebration with a winter theme. 

Team B have made a fantastic collection of cards and projects this time.  The DT members have all used so many different, gorgeous images for inspiration as well. Be sure to click on their blog links to find out more about each of the projects and the digi stamps they have used too. 

Before I share their cards though, I'm sure you are eager to know who won our 

Festive Colours Challenge

The lucky person chosen by Random Org is:

Here are your random numbers:

14

Timestamp: 2022-11-29 20:25:42 GMT

Congratulations to Pam Sebring!

We now have a quicker way for you to claim your prize of 3 digi stamps from the Paper Shelter Store and this is by clicking on the Contact Link at the top of the blog. This will take you directly to a page for you to fill out with your choices.

Please can you also add Festive Colours Challenge #535 Winner in your subject line so that it makes it easier for Veronica to see your choices. Please can you also make sure you claim your prize by this coming weekend. 

As always for this week's challenge our sponsors are The Paper Shelter and they are generously offering a really fabulous prize of $30 to spend in their store.

 

 

I know that you have heard this before, but this amazing prize will only be given if you have used one of our products on your card which could be either an image, paper or printable. 

However, even if you haven't used an item from The Paper Shelter and you are picked as a winner you will still receive 3 digi images of your own choice, so I'm sure you will agree that it's still worth taking part in our challenge. 

So many more of you are actually using The Paper Shelter items in your creations so a lot more winners are now winning the whole $30 to spend, which is just fantastic!

You can enter up to three projects but one of these must show one of our products please; its only fair you do so. 

Please make sure your project is a new project for this challenge and not one that has been entered in previous challenges. No backlinking please. 

Now for Team B and their absolutely wonderful red, black and white coloured cards this week, I know you will love them and I'm sure you will find lots of inspiration from them for your own cards and projects.

Vannessa using Fun In The Snow

Dewi using Little Hazel

Dawn using Fa-la-la-la-la, La-la-la-la

Priyadarshini using It's cold out there

Anet using Ice Skating Santa

Patsy using The Red-Nosed Unicorn

Nicola using Here We Go

Natascha using Follow the Stars

Cristena using Cocoa Jacuzzi

Merja using Here Come the Christmas Penguins! image
and backround from A Snowman in the Wind

 Aren't Team B's projects all so wintery and just fabulous! I love how so many cute images have been used - the designs of every project are just so fabulous! Well done Team B and thank you so much for creating all these fabulous projects.

Don't forget if there is a image which the Team have used above on their card which you would like to use for your own, don't forget to click on the "Using" link above each of the cards and it will take you directly to the webpage where you will be able to buy it. They really are fabulous value too.

Please don't forget, if you wish to take part in the challenge, that you are allowed to enter up to 3 projects, but please can you make sure that you add one of our products to at least one of your entries. If you don't, unfortunately, you will not be eligible for any of the prizes.

And now it's over to you to show us what you can do with this week's challenge theme "Winter Celebrations". We are all looking forward to seeing what you decide to do with it.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Posted in: Challenge #536 Winter Celebrations

Challenge #535 - Festive Colours

 Good Morning Paper Shelter followers!

The countdown continues this week, with only 4 and a half weeks to go till Christmas!  Our theme for the week is

FESTIVE COLOURS

You can make whatever you like.  It doesn't even have to be a Christmas card, just as long as you use FESTIVE COLOURS.

We're looking for one new team member to join the A Team in the New year.  If you're interested in joining us, please add 'DT' to your entry name.  

The Team A ladies have crafted up a storm this week.  Before we see their beautiful work, let's see who our winner is, from last week's RED, BLACK & WHITE challenge:

 Here are you random numbers:

11	

Timestamp: 2022-11-22 21:47:23 UTC

Congratulations Gina!  

Your card is so sweet!

You've won 3 digi images from The Paper Shelter store.

We have a quick and easy way for you to claim your prize: Just click on the CONTACT tab at the top of the page, which will take you to a form where you can list your choices from The Paper Shelter store.  Please include "Challenge #534 Winner" to help Veronica spot your choices, and please make sure you claim your prize by this coming weekend.

Up for grabs this week is a $30 voucher from our generous sponsor The Paper Shelter, to spend in their store.

This fantastic prize will only be available if our randomly chosen winner has used one of our products on your project.  This could be an image, paper or printable.  

You can still be a winner, even if you haven't used one of our products, winning 3 digi images of your choice, from The Paper Shelter store, so it's still worth entering!

You can submit 3 entries into our challenge, provided you've used a Paper Shelter product on at least one of them.

We're seeing so many more entries using The Paper Shelter products lately, meaning our winners are getting to enjoy the grand prize of $30 to spend in the store, which is fantastic!

Please be sure to enter a new project.  NO BACKLINKING!

Now let's see what the Team A ladies have to share:

Sammy using Unforgettable Moment

 Lori using Follow the Stars

Linda using Christmas Carols

Heidi using Here We Go!

 

Ilonka using Checking it Twice

Granmargaret

using precoloured Are You Ready My Friend and Christmas Spirit paper pack

Julie using Snowflake Garland

Isabelle using a Christmas campfire

Susan using Winter Buddies

Christine using Ice Fishing Day

Gorgeous projects this week, I'm sure you'll agree!

Remember, you can visit the team's blogs to see more, by clicking on their names, and if you're interested in one of the images used by the team, you can click on the image name after "using" for each project to go directly to that image in The Paper Shelter store.

Please be sure to check our rules above.   

Over to you now.  We're looking forward to seeing your FESTIVE COLOURS

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Posted in: Challenge #535 - Festive Colours

Challenge #534 - Red, Black and White

    Good morning to all our Paper Shelter friends and welcome to this week's new challenge! This week's challenge is a Fabulous colour challenge! We all hope you will all enjoy it as well! 

This week's challenge is …

Red, Black and White

You can create any project you like and can use any image as long as your project uses the theme of Red, Black and White. Initially, I planned this challenge with Mickey's Mouse birthday in mind as his first ever TV appearance was on November 18th, but they are also the perfect colour combo for Santa images too! 

Team B have made a stunning collection of projects this time, all so fabulous and so striking in this colour combo as well.  Each DT member has used so many different, gorgeous images for inspiration as well. Be sure to click on their blog links to find out more about each of the projects and the digi stamps they have used too. 

Before I share their cards though, I'm sure you are eager to know who won our 

Show Me Some Bling Challenge

The lucky person chosen by Random Org is:

Here are your random numbers:

10

Timestamp: 2022-11-15 20:07:19 GMT

Congratulations to Olga B!

We now have a quicker way for you to claim your prize of 3 digi stamps from the Paper Shelter Store and this is by clicking on the Contact Link at the top of the blog. This will take you directly to a page for you to fill out with your choices.

Please can you also add Show Me Some Bling Challenge #533 Winner in your subject line so that it makes it easier for Veronica to see your choices. Please can you also make sure you claim your prize by this coming weekend. 

As always for this week's challenge our sponsors are The Paper Shelter and they are generously offering a really fabulous prize of $30 to spend in their store.

 

 

I know that you have heard this before, but this amazing prize will only be given if you have used one of our products on your card which could be either an image, paper or printable. 

However, even if you haven't used an item from The Paper Shelter and you are picked as a winner you will still receive 3 digi images of your own choice, so I'm sure you will agree that it's still worth taking part in our challenge. 

So many more of you are actually using The Paper Shelter items in your creations so a lot more winners are now winning the whole $30 to spend, which is just fantastic!

You can enter up to three projects but one of these must show one of our products please; its only fair you do so. 

Please make sure your project is a new project for this challenge and not one that has been entered in previous challenges. No backlinking please. 

Now for Team B and their absolutely wonderful red, black and white coloured cards this week, I know you will love them and I'm sure you will find lots of inspiration from them for your own cards and projects.

Vannessa using A Cheerful Snowman

Dewi using Monique

Anet using Dear Santa and Waiting For Santa Too

Dawn using That's Amore

Priyadarshini using Scorpio (pre-coloured)

Cristena using Autumn Starter Kit

 

 Nicola using Harlequin

Patsy using Karate Girl

Natascha using For Santa

 

Merja using Sundae Time!

 Aren't Team B's projects all amazing?! I love how so many cute images have been used - the designs of every project are just so fabulous! Well done Team B and thank you so much for creating all these fabulous projects.

Don't forget if there is a image which the Team have used above on their card which you would like to use for your own, don't forget to click on the "Using" link above each of the cards and it will take you directly to the webpage where you will be able to buy it. They really are fabulous value too.

Please don't forget, if you wish to take part in the challenge, that you are allowed to enter up to 3 projects, but please can you make sure that you add one of our products to at least one of your entries. If you don't, unfortunately, you will not be eligible for any of the prizes.

And now it's over to you to show us what you can do with this week's challenge theme "Red, Black and White". We are all looking forward to seeing what you decide to do with it.

EXCITING NEWS

Team B are looking for one new DT member to join the team from January. If you are interested, please add DT at the end of your name for your entry. 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Posted in: Challenge #534 Red Black & White