Christmas Break Challenge - Anything Goes with the Optional Twist of Christmas

  Good morning to all our Paper Shelter friends and welcome back to this week's new challenge. This week's challenge is our annual Christmas Break Challenge in which both teams join together again and share their fabulous creations with you all. We will be taking a two break this time, but we will not be commenting on your entries, so as to give our DT members some time to celebrate with their loved ones during the holiday season.

Our Challenge this week is...

Christmas

But if we did not celebrate Christmas, then please feel free to enter under the Anything Goes option instead. You can create any project you like and can use any image, but if you want the chance at double entries to this week's challenge, then create a Christmas themed card or project! 

Remember using one of the fabulous stamps from The Paper Shelter also makes you eligible for this week's top fantastic prize of 6 digital products from the store! 

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!

Both teams 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 

Birthday Blog Hop

The winners from all the comments on the Design Team members blogs as well as this one will be announced in the next couple of days in a new post, so keep your eyes open for that one! 

As always for this week's challenge our sponsors are The Paper Shelter and they are generously offering a really fabulous prize of up to 6 digital products from 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 full 6 digital products prize, 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 all of our design team members and their fabulous cards using so many different gorgeous images this week using this challenge's theme of Christmas! 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 Santa's Family Selfie

Jenn using Santa's Family Selfie

Maritza using Christmas Delivery

Anet using Christmas Delivery

Cathie using Cocoa Jacuzzi

Ilonka using Christmas Carol Bunnies.

kel using A Merry, Fluffy Christmas!

Maria Tinyworks using Here is Santa

Kitty using Christmas Delivery & Christmas Eve Wishes

Jane using Grandma's Christmas Tales

Granmargaret
using pre-coloured What Did I Get and Christmas Spirit Paper pack

Natascha using Santa in his Sleigh

Merja using images Are You There, Santa? and Christmas Delivery

& Merry Little Nutcracker background paper

 

Nicola using Lunar Dreamer

Helen using Whole Lotta Snow

Gina using Berry Delight

Aren't the projects all so amazing?! I love how many different images have been used on each of these cards and how the DT members have used this week's optional twist of Christmas. The designs of every project are just so fabulous! Well done to our fabulous team members 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.

We will be back on December 31st with our new challenge and some exciting changes in store for you all as well. I look forward to sharing all the details with you then! 

And now it's over to you to show us what you can do with this week's challenge theme "ATG/
Christmas". 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: Christmas Break Challenge - Anything Goes

The Paper Shelter's 15th Anniversary Birthday Blog Hop

 Good Morning to all our loyal followers!

It's that time of the year!  Time to celebrate The Paper Shelter's birthday with a 

🥳SPECIAL BIRTHDAY PARTY🥳

and we do that with a Blog Hop!

This year, The Paper Shelter store is celebrating their 15th Birthday on the 8th of December, and we would like to invite you to celebrate with us, by joining in on our Blog Hop.  Both teams are taking part, and we have a wonderful selection of Paper Shelter images to showcase for you along the way.  The best part? YOU get all the presents!

As you make your way through the Blog Hop, all you need to do is leave a comment on each Team Member's blog, to be in line to win one image of your choice.  At the end of the Blog Hop, each Team Member will choose a winner from one of the comments on their blogs, and we'll have a special post with the names of all our lucky winners.

Don't forget to leave a comment on this post as well, because we'll choose a winner from those comments too.

We're also running our usual challenge, so you can enter your projects here as usual, to be in with a chance to win our fantastic prize, and the normal challenge rules apply.  The Blog Hop and challenge will run for 2 weeks, so you have lots of time to enter and play along.

Our theme for this SPECIAL CHALLENGE is:

CELEBRATIONS

Before we get going, let's hand out the prize for last week's Anything Goes/Gift Tags Galore challenge:

Here are your random numbers:

 5

Timestamp: 2024-12-02 20:03:57 GMT

Congratulations to Sandy J! 

Love your collection of Christmas tags! 

You've won 3 digi images 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 #661 Anything Goes/Gift Tags Galore Winner" to help Pedro to see your choices, and please make sure you claim your prize by this Monday 8th December.

Our randomly chosen winner of our new challenge will be able to win one of these fabulous prizes from our generous sponsor The Paper Shelter, to spend in their store.

This fantastic prize of 6 products will only be available if our winner has used one of our products on your project.  This could be a black and 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 make sure your project is a new project for this challenge and not one that has been entered in previous challenges. No backlinking please. 

And now back to the BLOG HOP!

Below you'll find links to all the Design Team members' blogs, starting with mine, and ending back here at the Paper Shelter Challenge blog.  There'll be a link on each blog, to the next.  If you get lost along the way, just make your way back here, and click on the link you need to pick up where you left off.  We hope you have a lot of fun along the way!

Remember, there's no obligation to participate in the Blog Hop, if you'd just like to enter your project in the challenge as usual.

On behalf of both design teams, I would like to thank The Paper Shelter for sponsoring our challenge, and allowing us to showcase these gorgeous images all year long.

HAPPY 15TH BIRTHDAY!!

Vannessa using Sweet Amy

Cathie

Maritza

Jenn

Gale

Granmargaret

Kitty

Helen

Gina

Jane

Anet

Merja 

Natascha

Nicola

Maria

Kel

Ilonka

Thanks for playing along, and for all your support throughout the year!

For a chance to win our grand prize for the challenge, enter your CELEBRATIONS project below. 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Posted in: 15th Aniiversary Birthday Blog Hop

Challenge #661 - Anything Goes with the optional twist of Gift Tags Galore

 Good morning to all our Paper Shelter friends and welcome back to this week's new challenge. As you  know by now, all of our challenges are now ANYTHING GOES with an optional twist each week. Should you include a card or project using the optional twist in our challenge, you will have double entries to win the fantastic weekly prize.

Our optional twist this week is...

Gift Tags Galore

You can create any project you like and can use any image, but if you want the chance at double entries to this week's challenge, then create a gift tag or two! A perfect challenge for all the gift giving you might be doing in th upcoming holiday season. Remember using one of the fabulous stamps from The Paper Shelter also makes you eligible for this week's top fantastic prize of 6 digital products from the store! 

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 A 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 

ATG/November Sketch Challenge

The lucky person chosen by Random Org is:

Here are your random numbers:

9

Timestamp: 2025-11-25 20:56:32

Congratulations to Marjeta!

And here is Marjeta's fun wintery card using the adorable Snow Angel.

Thank you so much for using one of the Paper Shelter digis this time with your fabulous card! 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 ATG/November Sketch Challenge #660 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 next Monday 1st December? (How is it December already next week?!)

As always for this week's challenge our sponsors are The Paper Shelter and they are generously offering a really fabulous prize of up to 6 digital products from 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 full 6 digital products prize, 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 A and their fabulous cards using so many different gorgeous images this week and most following our optional twist of Gift Tags Galore! I know you will love them and I'm sure you will find lots of inspiration from them for your own cards and projects.

Jenn using My Christmas Snowball

Cathie using Snowman

Granmargaret 
using Granny Christmas and Christmas Spirit paper pack

Maritza using Christmas Present Fairy and  A Cheerful Snowman

Jane using Santa on a Sled, Xtreme Xmas, Yep I Have My Methods and paper from Snowball Fight

Gina using Birthday Cupcake Paper Pack and Birthday Cupcake

Aren't Team A's projects all so amazing?! I love how many different images have been used on each of these cards and how the DT members have used this week's optional twist of the Sweater Weather Mood Board The designs of every project are just so fabulous! Well done Team A 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.

And now it's over to you to show us what you can do with this week's challenge theme "ATG/
Gift Tags Galore". 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 #661 ATG/Gift Tags Galore

Challenge #660 - Anything Goes with the optional twist of November's Sketch

 Good morning to all our Paper Shelter friends and welcome back to this week's new challenge. All our challenges are now ANYTHING GOES with an optional twist each week. Should you include a card or project using the optional twist in our challenge, you will have double entries to win the fantastic weekly prize.

Our optional twist this week is...

November's Sketch

You can create any project you like and can use any image you want as well,  but if you want to join in with the twist, we love the see how you interpret this month's sketch. Remember using one of the fabulous stamps from The Paper Shelter makes you eligible for this week's top fantastic prize of 6 digital products from the store! 

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 using this week's twist. 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 

ATG/Sweater Weather Mood Board Challenge

The lucky person chosen by Random Org is:

Here are your random numbers:

5

Timestamp: 2025-11-18 22:03:26

Congratulations to Elle-Jeanne!

We now have a quicker way for you to claim your prize of 3 products 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 ATG/Sweater Weather Mood Board Challenge #659 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 Monday 24th October?

As always for this week's challenge our sponsors are The Paper Shelter and they are generously offering a really fabulous prize of up to 6 digital products from 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 full 6 digital products prize, 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 and each following our optional twist of November's Sketch! 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 Christmas Delivery

Anet using Keep Warm

Maria Tinyworks using: Victorian Christmas Ladies

Ilonka using Merry Gnome Light

Merja using Frosty Fun (image) and Snowmen Singing Carols (background paper)

 

Nicola using Flowers Colouring Book Pg15

Natascha using Christmas Present Fairy

Kel is taking a break this week.

 Aren't Team B's projects all so fabulous?! 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 November's Sketch! The designs of every project are just so fantastic! 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.

And now it's over to you to show us what you can do with this week's challenge theme "ATG/November's Sketch". 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 #660 - ATG/November Sketch

Challenge #659 - Anything Goes with the optional twist of Sweater Weather Mood Board

 Good morning to all our Paper Shelter friends and welcome back to this week's new challenge. As you  know by now, all of our challenges are now ANYTHING GOES with an optional twist each week. Should you include a card or project using the optional twist in our challenge, you will have double entries to win the fantastic weekly prize.

Our optional twist this week is...

Sweater Weather Mood Board

You can create any project you like and can use any image, but if you want the chance at double entries to this week's challenge, then use the above mood board as inspiration for your card or project. Just be sure to let us know where your inspiration came from! Remember using one of the fabulous stamps from The Paper Shelter also makes you eligible for this week's top fantastic prize of 6 digital products from the store! 

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 A 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 

ATG/Light My Fire Challenge

The lucky person chosen by Random Org is:

Here are your random numbers:

1

Timestamp: 2025-11-11 20:16:41

Congratulations to Wilma!

And here is Wilma's adorable card using the cute Santa in his Sleigh.

Thank you so much for using one of the Paper Shelter digis this time with your fabulous card! 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 ATG/Light My Fire Challenge #658 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 next Monday 17th November?

As always for this week's challenge our sponsors are The Paper Shelter and they are generously offering a really fabulous prize of up to 6 digital products from 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 full 6 digital products prize, 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 A and their fabulous cards using so many different gorgeous images this week and most following our optional twist of Sweater Weather Mood Board! I know you will love them and I'm sure you will find lots of inspiration from them for your own cards and projects.

Cathie using My Big Scarf

Jenn using Warm Feelings

Maritza using Christmas Eve Night

Jane using Autumn Starter Kit

Granmargaret

used precoloured Fun in the snow and Winter Breeze paper set

Kitty using You Never Know

Helen's card is on its way!

Aren't Team A's projects all so amazing?! I love how many different images have been used on each of these cards and how the DT members have used this week's optional twist of the Sweater Weather Mood Board The designs of every project are just so fabulous! Well done Team A 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.

And now it's over to you to show us what you can do with this week's challenge theme "ATG/
Sweater Weather Mood Board". 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