The Paper Palace

To get started, let's be sure you are on track...you don't want to miss anything! You should have come here after visiting CEAL. If not don't worry you can find the start of the hop at The Sew Many Cards Challenge Blog!

What are friends for?!?! My Image for this Hop is, Jovi painting Halen....Jovi is helping Halen get all dolled up...we all need friends like that...someone to get those hard to reach places!!! I think this new image is just adorable! I always have so much fun with Angela's images!

For this Hop we have 2 sponsors! Yep 2....so this is what we are going to do....the Winner of hop will receive a gift certificate to Simon Says Stamp! AND we have a Challenge for you and the Winner of the challenge will win a $25 gift certificate to SoftPencil!!!!

Remember You Must Leave a comment on Every Blog along the way for a chance to Win....my comment link is above the picture!! Your next stop is.....Back to our Challenge Blog!

Hope you Had a Great Time...can't wait to see your challenge entries!

Challenges This card has been entered into...

Die Cut Dreams ~ #36 Easter
Inky Impressions ~ #30 Think Spring
Your Next Stamp Challenge ~ #10 Spring Colors
Incy WincyDesigns ~ # 39 Touchy Feely
Creatalious Challenges ~ #7 Create a Little Something
Lexi's Creations ~ #8 Anything Goes!

So...how fitting is this darling Dragon from Dustin Pike! Once I saw it I knew I was going to use it for my Hubby's card! I dressed it up for Valentine's day with a few sentiments from the Cutting Cafe, one on his banner and one on his shield...and the L O V E across the top!

I colored this card with Prismacolors, some paper from my stash, I just love the purple paper...and the green, has a faint heart pattern on it. I don't count the shiny spots as bling....they are metal dots and I refer to them as "studs" since this is a "manly" card....LOL...My DD did not agree with me... The studs are blue and silver. I popped the "love" and the other sentiments up with foam glue dots.

Overall I like how it turned out, I feel like it is a fun and playful card. Kinda like us!

Love to hear what you think about it too! My comment like is above the post....

Hope You all had the chance to spend Valentine's Day with the ones you Love!

Challenges for this card...

Cute and Girly ~ LOVE
Digital Tuesday ~ It's All about the Animals
Simon Says ~ What's Love got to do with it
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge ~ #37 Digi Coloring
Cute Card Thursady ~ #99 In the Name of Love

For my card, I use this "LOVE"-ly Digi from Tellen's Place Designs! If you haven't been by, you really need to check it out! She too has weekly challenges at Tellen's Place Challenges! Also....Tellen's Place is the sponsor of this challenge! Yep, by showing us your Love, you have to chance to win a $10.00 gift certificate to Tellen's Place!!! You have to love the gift certificates...you get to personally choose your prize!!! Super Cool Huh....See show us the love and we give it right back!!!!! LOL

So did you notice the difference int he pictures?!?! Yep, I took the picture before I added some sparkle...I think I must have a fever!!! LOL Just kidding, I don't know what I was thinking....and I didn't notice UNTIL I uploaded it.....needless to say, I corrected that "error"!

Which do you like better....the With or Without???? The Before or After??? The Then or the Now....OK....I'll Stop....But you don't have to...tell me, you can find a comment link at the top of this post....then hop on over to Sew Many Challenges, check the DT's projects and stop by and Tellen's Place too!!!

Image ~ Tellen's Place
Coloring ~ Prismacolors
Flowers ~ Prima Fabric Fancies
Valentine Ribbon and Brads from my supplies

Ummm...now to find a challenge or two to play in!

Challenges for this Card

Tellan's Place ~ 5 Hearts
Die Cuts R Us ~ #25 Love Challenge
Little Red Wagon ~ #15 Red with Bling
The Pixie Cottage ~ #9 Love Theme
Dutch Dare Card Challenge ~ #71 Valentine's Day
Cute Card Thursday ~ #99 In The Name of Love
Hand full of Stamps ~ #16 Open the Fun
Cupcake Craft Challenge ~ #77 Red and White all Over

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge ~ #37 Digi Coloring

This week's challenge is sponsored by The Cutting Cafe.

The winner will receive 3 stamp sets of your choice! Very Cool, don't you think?!?!?

For this challenge I combined a Sew Many Cards image, Eris with a Cutting Cafe Image, Truly...Madly...Deeply.... I love both the images, Best Part, there is a song by Savage Garden, Truly Madly Deeply, which is "our song"....so this was perfect for me!!

The hardest part I faced with this challenge was my background paper...I had a paper in mind, but it was black and white....I wanted to try only using black and red for the back ground! So I punched the edge of the paper for some detail, embellished around the punch and added the silver ribbon. I popped up the cheeks and trunk on Eris for a little depth and painted her toes to show off her little sassy attitude! LOL

Eris ~ Sew Many Cards
Sentiment ~ Cutting Cafe
Coloring ~ Prismacolor and Gamsol
Punch ~ Martha Stewart, it cuts and embosses
Flowers ~ Prima, Black, Sliver and Garnet
Charm ~ Stamp and Create
Brads, Ribbon, Stickles, Bling ~ from my stash

Hop on over to Sew Many Challenges and join in the fun! But before you go, tell me what you thing of my challenge card! A comment link is at the top of the post, and you know I love hearing from you!

AND...Speaking of Comments...I have picked Winner from the comments left on my Blog Hop Post...the Winner of the New Release Tayla image I used is.......BlackDragon!!! Congrats! Please email our DT Coordinator Jeri, Jeri@SewManyChallenges.com and she will get your image to you!! See it pays to leave comments!

Other challenges I entered this card into:

Sophisticat ~ #20 Love
Creative Card Crew ~ #44Valentine's
Dancing in Pajamas ~ Inspired By Photo
Crafty Card Makers ~ Hearts and Romance
Pile it On ~ No More Winter Colors
Be Crafty ~ # 23Romance
Fussy and Fancy ~ #3 Hearts
Your Next Stamp Challenge ~ #9 Charms
The Secret Saturday Challenge ~#68 Hearts
Belli Challenge ~ #84 Ribbons
Stamp Scrap & Doodle Saturday ~Week 25 Open
Corrosive Challenge ~# 49 All you Need Is Love
Dare U 2 Digi Stamp ~# 30 Valentine's/Hearts
No Time to Stamp ~ #124 Bleeding Heart
Stamp Something ~ Love Something
Crazy 4 Challenges ~ Valentine Theme
Charisma Cardz Challenges ~ I Love You
C.R.A.F.T Challenge ~ Valentines or Love
Lili Of the Valley ~ Challenge 46 Valentines
PaperPlay Challenges ~ Week 5 - Love Notes
Stampin' for the Weekend ~ Valentines Themed
Crafty Calendar Challenges ~ Love & friendship
Penny's Paper-Craft Challenge ~ Valentine/Love
Tanda Stamps ~ For a Loved one
Double Dutch ~ Be My Valentine
The Pink Elephant ~ # 53 Mushy Gushy Valentine
La-La Land Crafts ~ #25 No DP!
Digital-Ink Co. ~ Show Us Your Love!

I posted another Mag Cover Below!