18 Dec 2024

Chistmas Break Challenge

Good morning to all our Paper Shelter friends and fans! We all hope you loved our tribute post for our beloved Veronica and thank you to everyone for your condolences too. All of the DTs cards were so beautiful and touching. 

Our challenge this time, hosted 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, birthday, a thank you card or anything else you choose to make!

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 Tribute Challenge.


Here are your random numbers:

6

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Congratulations to Beebeebabs!

You have won 6 products of your choice from The Paper Shelter store.

And here is the beautiful card that Beebeebabs made for our challenge using the gorgeous Giselle.


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 "Tribute Challenge Winner" to help Pedro spot your choices, and please make sure you claim your prize by this coming weekend.

And now on to our final challenge of 2024!


 


Our usual fantastic prize will be up for grabs: 6 digital products from our generous sponsor The Paper Shelter, 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 6 digital products, 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. 

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 15th when Team A return with their new challenge. 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

4 Dec 2024

SPECIAL TRIBUTE CHALLENGE - IN HONOUR OF THOSE WE LOVE

 Normally we would be kicking off our Blog Hop today, to celebrate The Paper Shelter’s birthday, but after the tragic loss of Veronica a few weeks ago, we’ve decided to honour Veronica instead with a Special Tribute challenge.  Both design teams have contributed, either choosing to use an image that has a special connection to Veronica for them, or creating something special to honour her.


Our theme this week is:
IN HONOUR OF THOSE WE LOVE

We’d like to see your projects for those people or pets that have a special place in your heart, of any theme.  This challenge will run for two weeks, and our usual prize will be up for grabs.

Veronica was a beautiful, kind, warm-hearted woman who played such a huge part in our crafty world, and she will be sorely missed. 

Before we share the beautiful projects the team have put together in honour of Veronica, let’s choose our winner from last week’s INCLUDE A SENTIMENT challenge: 

Here are your random numbers:

31


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Congratulations Annie H!

You have won 3 products of your choice from The Paper Shelter store.

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 #620 Winner" to help Pedro spot your choices, and please make sure you claim your prize by this coming weekend.  


Time to HONOUR THOSE WE LOVE:


You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

28 Nov 2024

DT CALL

 THE PAPER SHELTER DT CALL

If you are looking for this week's challenge, you can find it here.

Sadly, a few of our treasured team are leaving and a few spots are opening up.  We'd love to welcome you to the team, so we're running a DT call for the next two weeks.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE CHALLENGE POST!  

This is only for DT applications.  You can however enter the same project in both the challenge and the DT call, but only projects entered here will be considered for the DT positions.  Please add DT after your name, when you enter your project.

This DT call will run from the 21st of November until the 5th of December.

To enter the DT call:

Please use a digital image on your project.  It doesn't have to be a Paper Shelter image, but since we are a digital image company, we'd like to see your work, using a digital image.

Please only enter one project for the DT call.  We'll scroll around on your blog to look at other projects, when we're there.

We are looking for skilled crafters with good colouring skills.

You don't have to enter a new project for the DT call.  Choose one that perfectly shows your style.

You must have a blog where you regularly post your projects.

You must be able to communicate in English, as this is the only language we use on the DT blog.

We'll be looking at the quality of the photographs you take of your projects as well.


What we require of our team members:

Your duties on the team will start in the new year, but you can begin working on those projects immediately.

You will be assigned to either Team A or Team B, who alternate weeks on the challenge blog.

You will be required to make one project every 2nd week, and during the week that your team's challenge is live on the challenge blog, you will need to comment on entries.

You will be assigned two entry numbers to comment on.

Projects need to be uploaded to the DT blog by Monday evening at the latest, in the week of that particular challenge, but you will be able to work ahead.

You will be required to take quality photos of your project, upload them to the DT blog, and in your own blog post on your personal blog, on challenge day.

You need to link back to the image and/or digital papers you have used, in the shop, so customers can find those products.

We typically run a Blog Hop every year, as well as a couple of special challenges, and you will be required to make a project for those.

While we are looking for good colouring skills, The Paper Shelter also has pre-coloured images and digital papers, and you are welcome to use those in your projects occasionally too.


What do you get as a team member?

When you join the team, you will receive a generous voucher from The Paper Shelter to stock up on images to use in your first few challenges.

You will receive all newly released products during your time on the team.

That's it!

If you have any questions, feel free to add them to the comment box.

We will only be contacting you if you have made it onto the team.


You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

27 Nov 2024

Challenge #620 - Include A Sentiment

 Good morning to all our Paper Shelter friends and welcome back to this week's new challenge. Our challenge this week is a nice easy one and perfect for this time of year when we are all busy making winter (or maybe summer if you are in the southern hemisphere!) holiday cards It is...

Include A Sentiment

You can create any project you like and can use any image as long as your project includes a visible sentiment.  There are so many fabulous images and colouring books in The Paper Shelter store, so why not pop on over there and treat yourself to a new one for this week's challenge?

We can't wait to see what you create for our challenge this time!

Team B have made a fantastic collection of cards and projects this time. The DT members have all used so many different, fabulous 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 

Add Aa Number Challenge

The lucky person chosen by Random Org is:

Here are your random numbers:

7

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Congratulations to Suze!

And here is the fabulous card Suze made using What A Mess!



We now have a quicker way for you to claim your prize of 6 products from the Paper Shelter Store for using a Paper Shelter image 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 Add A Number Challenge #619 Winner in your subject line, so that it makes it easier for Pedro 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 fabulous cards using so many different gorgeous images 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.

























 Aren't Team B's projects all so stunning?! I love how many different images have been used on each of these cards and how each DT member has used this week's theme of Include A Sentiment. The designs of every project are just so fabulous! Well done Team B and thank you so much for creating all these amazing 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 "Include A Sentiment". We are all looking forward to seeing what you decide to do with it.

We are also having a DT Call, so check out this post if you are interested in joining this fabulous team! 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

20 Nov 2024

Challenge #619 - Add A Number & DT CALL

 Good Morning Paper Shelter followers!

The first thing we'd like to tell you today is that we're having a DT call.  If you think you'd like to join our fantastic team of creators, check back tomorrow for all the details.

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Our challenge this week is
  ADD A NUMBER

There are lots of reasons you would add a number to your projects: You could be adding the age for a child, or those BIG birthdays or anniversaries, like 21, 30, 40, 50, etc.  You could also be adding a special date to your project, or even just using a number in your sentiment.  All of these would work this week.

The team have some super ideas for you, but first, let's pick our winner from last week's SPOTS and/or STRIPES challenge:

Here are your random numbers:

15


Timestamp: 2024-11-20 05:26:52 UTC

Congratulations Nelleke!

You have won 3 products of your choice from The Paper Shelter store.

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 #618 Winner" to help Pedro spot your choices, and please make sure you claim your prize by this coming weekend.  


Back to this week's challenge!

Up for grabs this we have 6 products of your choice, if our randomly chosen winner has used one of our products on your project, or 3 products of your choice, if our winner has used another brand.

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!

Now let's see what the team have come up with when they ADD A NUMBER:










Lori using Cecilia



Granmargaret used precoloured Three Wishes





Some grand ideas for you there!

We hope you have fun with this one!  It's time to ADD A NUMBER to your project!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter