Magical Monday - Happy New Year, Something Sparkling

The special person to receive the random drawing prize for participating in last weeks challenge is: Roberta Smith

Please send me your address at magicintheair@att.net so I can get this out to you. CONGRATS and ENJOY!

I hope that this week finds all of you doing well and I truly hope you all had a blessed Christmas and you got to share it with the ones you love and hold dear. I know I certainly did.

This week is also Leigh Anne's last week on the Designer Team. Please make sure you continue to stop by Leigh Anne's blog to check out her lovely creations. Although you might have to give her a few months since she is in the process of moving into a new home!! THANKS a lot Leigh Anne we certainly will miss you!

This week's challenge has a little different twist to it. Since I have been giving away free images for 5 months now, I have given away 20 free images! How great is that?! So, this week along with Nilla's challenge listed below you can use "ANY" one of my images you have acquired over the last 5 months or you can use this freebie "Orson with Cake" (which was my very first freebie), or you can buy a new one from my store Paper Cupcakes. Regardless of what image you choose to use, it must be one of my images. (*)

(C) "Orson with Cake"
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"Orson with Cake" is no longer available for free... if by chance you missed this freebie, you can now find this image in my store Paper Cupcakes)

Nilla brings us this weeks challenge. Of course she wants you to use a Paper Cupcakes Image (see above paragraph (*) and she is thinking "Happy New Year - Something Sparkling!" Use blings, stars, glitter or something typically used for the New Year on your card. Your card does not necessarily have to be for New Years, just reflecting the challenge as stated.

The prize for this week’s random drawing for whoever participates in this weeks challenge and links their work back here is:


Each Designer got to pick out the image that they wanted to work with this week. The name and link to their image in my store is listed below their project.

Now for the oh so talented...

DESIGNER TEAM:



Danielle's Blog

Image: Madelina



Kim's Blog

Image: Faster Please



Leigh Anne's Blog

Image: Enchanted Meeting



Nilla's Blog

Image: Snowman with Star



Olga's Blog

Image: Snowman with Star




Patti's Blog

Image: Elvis in Boots



Selma's Blog

Image: Snowman with Star

December Guest Designer:



Patti J.'s Blog

Image: Shelly & Goldie - Hello

and my creation:



Nina's Blog

Image: Beary Nice Dance

I am looking forward to seeing what images of mine pop up for this challenge. What a fun way to go out with the old year and I certainly look forward to welcoming in the New Year with all of you. Thanks to all who have been with me for the first 5 months of this new venture and those who have joined in along the way. I would pray that this challenge blog would continue to grow in friendships, fun,creativity, and in numbers of participants as well! :O) I would also pray that some of the lurkers that come by regularly would either leave a message of thanks or participate in some of the challenges as well! :O) Please have a safe and Happy New Year!

Magical Monday Participants

1. Betty Benton 2. Linda B 3. Gloria Westerman 4. Janice 5. Carol 6. Jessie F

7. Lisa V 8. Pattie G 9. farida 10. Toni 11. Deanne Burton 12. Marsha Drain

13. jeanette 14. Sally McD 15. Deonna B 16. Shelly H 17. Seongsook Duncan 18. Kerstin

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Magical Monday - Sketch

Opps... Sorry this is posting a little late this morning, I have this terrible head cold and I posted it for PM vs. AM!

The special person to receive the random drawing prize for participating in last weeks challenge is: Tiffany

Please send me your address at magicintheair@att.net so I can get this out to you. CONGRATS and ENJOY!

Also, if you hopped along with our Recipe Blog Hop all the winners have been announced and you need to claim your prize... you can find the list here.

First I want to say "MERRY CHRISTMAS" to all this week and may you and your family have a blessed & joyful day. This week I bring you "Merry Moose-mas". I love this moose image and our designers truly did great things with this cute image!! If you think he is cute you can always check out my store Paper Cupcakes, because I have another image of a moose couple called "Moose Couple"... lol how original is that?! You can find that image here.

(C) "Merry Moose-mas"
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"Merry Moose-mas" is no longer available for free... if by chance you missed this freebie, you can now find this image in my store Paper Cupcakes)


Danielle brings us this weeks challenge and she wants you to use this image "Merry Moose-mas" and her fab sketch (You can stretch it, rotate it, reverse it etc as long as the original sketch can still be seen. You also do not have to necessarily use stars, be creative!

Since this is the week of Christmas I thought I would have an EXTRA special prize for this week. The prize for this week’s random drawing for whoever participates in this weeks challenge and links their work back here is this lovely Prima keepsake ornament box:

The Prima Keepsake Ornament Box includes:
• One black and white striped keepsake storage tray containing five crystal plastic ornament bottles that measure approximately 3” x 3.5”
• 22 red paper poinsettias with red and metallic gold glitter accents
• 22 mauve paper poinsettias with purple glitter accents
• 22 cream paper poinsettias with metallic gold glitter accents
• 30 triple leaf paper and holly sprigs
• Red, green and metallic gold rickrack

Now for the oh so talented...

DESIGNER TEAM:



Danielle's Blog




Kim's Blog




Nilla's Blog




Olga's Blog




Patti's Blog




Selma's Blog

December Guest Designer:



Patti J.'s Blog


Now, Patti J. accidentally did this card first and then realized she was suppose to follow the sketch, but I thought it was super cute so I thought I would go ahead and post it here for you too see, but you are suppose follow the sketch, so make sure you do! :O) She did the above card that followed the sketch, both cards are just lovely!

and my creation:



Nina's Blog


Well, this week is a super busy week for everyone. Make sure you take the time to truly enjoy it and appreciate what the season is all about. May the gift you hold dearest be the simple gift of Love. Merry Christmas to all of you!

Magical Monday Participants

1. Mary Anne K. 2. Jeanette 3. Roberta Smith 4. Jackie Edwards 5. Jessie F 6. schnuti 7. Pattie G

8. Geri Utterback 9. Darsie Bruno 10. Dwita 11. Deonna Bemish 12. Suzanne 13. farida 14. Theresa

15. Linda Payne 16. Sally McD 17. Katarina 18. Kerstin 19. Pat Mayne

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AND THE WIINNERS ARE....

.... well, I knew that would get your attention!! :O)

Before I announce the winners I personally want to thank all of you who hopped along the Recipe Blog Hop and those who participated in all the challenges! And many many many THANKS to my wonderful designers as well!!

This was suppose to be in line with my grand opening of my new store PAPER CUPCAKES, but unfortunately it did not go live that day, but it did open a few days later, although all of you were probably out Christmas shopping while I was freaking out! I would love it when you slow down from this busy season to stop by and take a look around, or maybe you might need a break from all the business now which would be a great break just to do some mindless looking at my images and possibly some shopping :O). Remember you can't purchase these images ANYWHERE else! I am so excited to continue to bring you freebies as well, so help support me, get my name/images out there and send all your friends to my store. I will be building on my images monthly. Remember I am a one person show when it comes to designing these images. I have about 90 images to start out with and already have some new ones to add. Which I will be doing monthly. I have to say I am really excited. You can find Paper Cupcakes here.



OK.. now on to the winners!!

I need all winners to send me an e-mail to magicintheair@att.net. Please indicate your full name and reference the give-a-way that you won in the subject line so I will catch it in my e-mails.

Grand prize, secret sentence, cupcake and Martha Stewart bird punch winners please enclose your snail mail address.

9-bundle package and single image winners, please send me an e-mail that you want your image to be forwarded to.

Grand Prize and February GD for the "Recipe Challenge": Linda Payne
This was judged by the Designers and I have to state, this was soo close! I had to have 3 votes from each designer and it was a good thing because even with the 3 votes a piece it was way close.

Secret Sentence Challenge: Theresa

Cupcake Give-a-way: Justa Ann Nabors

9 Image bundle give-a-way: Katarina Hamstersson

Martha Stewart Bird Punch: Denise Lynn
Sponsored by: Joan Fricker @ Joan’s Gardens www.atjoansgardens.com Make sure you check out Joan’s site!

This is the listing for the sinlge image give-a-way:

Danielle's Blog - First Snow Image: Diana
Kim's Blog - Beach, Ball & Book: Emmy
Patti J's Blog - Owls on Candy Cane: Shelly
Nilla's Blog - Holiday Cheer: StampingDi
Patti's Blog - Mouse Cupcake: Patti G
Selma's Blog - Mary & Jesus Bulb: GeorgiaBabyDoll
Olga's Blog - Gingerbread Fun: Deanna C
Leigh Anne's Blog - Jessie: Linda
Nina's Blog - Afternoon Tea: Jessie

Also, Danielle, Kim and Patti J had their own personal blog candy to give away I believe they have already announced their winners on their personal blogs, so make sure you stop by there to check it out as well.

BIG THANKS AGAIN to ALL of you!! As soon as I hear from the winners I will do my best to get things out to you in a timely manner. Since I am a busy mom to four children I have some really busy days this next week. I have lots to get accomplished that has been put on hold while I got this blog hop up, completed and my site up and going! So, Have a great week-end and I hope you all have worked off those extra calories from just reading those recipes!!

Many blessings to all of you this Holiday Season and Merry Christmas!

Magical Monday - Glitz It Up

The special person to receive the random drawing prize for participating in last weeks challenge is: Pat Mayne

Please send me your address at magicintheair@att.net so I can get this out to you. CONGRATS and ENJOY!

Well, it certainly feels like a Magical Monday for me today since I finally have my store up and running. YAHOO can you see me grinning and jumping up and down? Well, I am!! Although, I'm exhausted and it still has some tweaking to do with the thumbnail images which I will be working on this week (so if you don't see a full view image make sure you click on it to enlarge it to a full view), as well as some small things to be added and fixed. Please feel free to stop & shop and/or look around. You can either click the icon to the right there with Nate & Av or you can find it at http://papercupcakes-stamps.com or here. There are about 90 images there right now which are some of the freebies if you missed out on them, as well as the ones from the blog hop and ones that have never been seen. These are all my original art and you will not be able to find these images anywhere else, unless of course if someone has pirated them and is doing unlawful things. So, please stop by and take a look around, I am still under construction and will be adding images to my shop monthly, so make sure you keep visiting! :O)

One thing I like about my images is that I do a wide range of designs. I did something floral vs. cute this week. So, I hope you enjoy this one. It is somewhat more traditional for a Christmas image. I think the designers made some very elegant projects this week. Always make sure you check out their blogs for more details as well!

(C) "Christmas Arrangement"
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("Christmas Arrangement" is no longer available for free... if by chance you missed this freebie, you can now find this image in my store Paper Cupcakes)

Selma brings us this weeks challenge and she would like to see you use this weeks image "Christmas Arrangement" and she also wants you to "Glitz It Up"!! Let's use glitter and/or Stickles on our project.

The prize for this week’s random drawing for whoever participates in this weeks challenge and links their work back here is:


Now for the oh so talented...

DESIGNER TEAM:



Danielle's Blog




Kim's Blog




Leigh Anne's Blog
Leigh Anne and her family just purchased their first home! How exciting, but also very busy this time of year. They took possession of it this past Friday and so she is busy packing, painting and moving, let alone all this Holiday stuff! So, she will most likely not be joining us through the season. GOOD LUCK LA and CONGRATULATIONS!



Nilla's Blog




Olga's Blog





Patti's Blog




Selma's Blog

December Guest Designer:



Patti J.'s Blog




and my creation:



Nina's Blog


I know it is an extremely busy time of year for all of us, so if you have time I would love to see what you have done with "Christmas Arrangement". Have a great week!

Magical Monday Participants

1. Geri Utterback 2. Jessie F 3. KymKreates 4. Theresa Pollack

5. Gloria Westerman 6. Pattie G 7. Candace 8. Toni

9. farida 10. Katarina 11. Tammy Miller 12. Tiffany

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