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Paper Crafts Card Creations: {Favorite Occasions} Volume 2

Hey all!!! I have BIG news to share!!! Well, big to me anyways!! Today is the day that Paper Crafts Card Creations Favorite Occasions Volume 2 hits newsstands, but it's also my debut to be featured as a designer!! I am SUPER SUPER excited.

This issue is filled with all your favorite holidays: Birthdays, Congratulations, Love, Thanks and more!

You can find my two cards on pages 27 and pages 67!! Go buy your copy today to be inspired by a ton of fabulous designers!!

Paper Therapy-November 15 2010

Hello all!! Welcome to our seventh challenge at Paper Therapy. Paper Therapy is an online forum for scrapbookers and card makers to share their work, meet new friends, learn new tips and techniques and have fun!! I hope you can join us every week in our challenges! The previous six have been SUPER fun and were seeing some really incredible designs!

Here's how it works. Every monday a new challenge will be posted in the forum. You upload your design and have the chance to win the weekly challenge. A fabulous prize and winner blinkie will be awarded the first challenge winner of every month, and then subsequent challenge winners will win an awesome blinkie to share with the whole world, showing them that you rocked the Paper Therapy challenge.

This week's challenge is to create to a Thank You Card or What I am Thankful layout. I chose to make a Thank you card.

The flowers are made from two techniques: making yo-yo flowers and from gathering ribbon.

To gather ribbon into a flower, first cut a length of ribbon to desired length. Straight stitch one edge, pull the thread until it ruffles and pull into a circle. To make Yo-Yo flowers, cut a circle of fabric, straight stitch the outer edge of the circle and gather into a circle in the center. You can stitch a button on top of the Yo-Yo flower.

Now is your turn! Make sure to post your card or layout to the message board by midnight on Friday, November 18th. I hope that you play along with us this week at Paper Therapy

MATERIALS:

"For a Gracious Hostess" Card

Cardstock: (Lemon) Bazzill Paper.

Patterned Paper: (Grape Twilight from Shabby Chic collection) Prima

Clear Stamp: ( Flourish) 7 Gypsies. (Sentiment from Mixed Message set) Papertrey Ink.

Chalk Ink: (Petal Pink) Tsukineko. (Creamy Brown) Clearsnap.

Dye Ink: (Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko.

Accents: (pink and melon buttons) Papertrey Ink. (Blue button) Basic Grey. (Rose button) Joann’s.

(White pearls) Recollections.

Fibers: (Cabbage Rose ribbon) Creative Impressions. (Cream, yellow twill) Michael’s.

Other: (Border Edge Trimmer) Martha Stewart Crafts. (Doily) Wilton. (Vintage Fabric) Joann’s

Etsy Inspired #114--11.13.10

Hey All! . I hope that you're all doing well as we move into the holidays. This week our shop is Happy Day Designs Our shop offers handmade jewelry made of beautiful gemstones and silver. They are offering one winner a necklace made of sterling silver and jade, valued at $21. Here's a sampling of some goodies you'll find in their shop.

Candyland Necklace

Spring Somewhere Bracelet

Creme Bracelet

Here's the piece that I was inspired by

Pearly Bracelet

I took the black, silver and metallics from the inspiration piece. The

background is stamped with the Embellishments set from Papertrey Ink

Patterned paper was cut in to strips and zig-zag stitched to the card.

I die cut a label, and then stamped a sentiment from Waltzingmouse Stamps

Added a metallic doily with some Maya Road trinket pins, layered upon

white eyelet trim and cream crocheted trim.

Our sponsor this week is Whiff of Joy Stamps . They make quality rubber stamps that are whimsical and fun for the card maker and scrapbooker. They awarding a second winner a stamp of the winner's choice!

So, now it's your turn to play along. Make sure to visit the design team's blogs to see their BEAUTIFUL so that you can get inspired to create a fabulous project of your own! Make sure to post your design to the Etsy Inspired Challenge Blog by Friday, November 19th at noon for your chance to win a necklace made of sterling silver and jade from Happy Day Designs or win a stamp of the your choice from Whiff of Joy Stamps

MATERIALS:

Friendship Card

Cardstock: (Vintage Cream) Papertrey Ink.

Patterned Paper: (Good Junk from Thrift Shop) October Afternoon. (Feathered Fashion from Hollywood Vogue collection) Webster's Pages.

Clear Stamps: (Sentiment stamp from Rescue Remedies) Waltzingmouse Stamps.

Dye Ink: (London Fog, Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko.

Chalk Ink: (Creamy Brown) Clearsnap.

Accents: (Silver beaded stick pins) Maya Road (Silver Doily) Wilton. (Pearl stickers) Michael's.

Fibers: (White eyelet trim) May Arts. (Cream crochet trim) www. monamigabby.com

Paper Therapy-November 8 2010

Hello all!! Welcome to our sixth challenge at Paper Therapy. Paper Therapy is an online forum for scrapbookers and card makers to share their work, meet new friends, learn new tips and techniques and have fun!! I hope you can join us every week in our challenges! The previous five have been SUPER fun and were seeing some really incredible designs!

This week's challenge was to make a project based on the following advertisement that we were given. I was inspired by the fun and fresh colors, and the shoes!

Here's what I came up with.

It was SUPER fun working on a this colorful ad-inspired card for this week's challenge! Make sure to post your card to the message board by midnight on Friday, November 12th. I hope that you play along with us this week at Paper Therapy

MATERIALS:

“I Love Shoes” Card

Cardstock: (Kraft) Papertrey Ink. (Lemon, Dark Pink) Bazzill Paper. (Green) Die Cuts with a View.

Patterned Paper: (Elements from Girl Friday collection) Cosmo Cricket.

Clear stamp: (Letter from Traditional Alphabet) Three Bugs in a Rug.

Dye Ink: (Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko.

Accents: (Light pink, yellow buttons) Papertrey Ink. (Dark Pink button) Basic Grey. (Pink Glitter heart) Melissa Frances. (Yellow rhinestones) Kaisercraft.

Etsy Inspired #113--11.6.10

Happy Saturday all!!! Today's shop is

Putu Princess Escapes They create clean, graphic out of the ordinary hand-painted tees that take you to another place of peace and tranquility. They're offering one lucky winner a t-shirt of their choice! Here's some fun shirts for sale in their shop!

Bali Koi pink tee

Origami Sea Turtle Organic cotton tee

And, here's the design that inspired my project.

Balboa Water Lily blue halter top

I was inspired by the soft fabric and the simple tropical flower.

This week's sponsor is Some Odd Girl . Some Odd Girl is the place to find fun and quirky digis that you'll love. Some Odd Girl was inspired by two great friends who are such dolls! It started with taking a pencil drawing and making it into a red rubber and that act of generosity spiraled into the shop that you see today. The shop's owner is a married FTWM of 2, whose hubby not only supports her crafting, but also manages her site at the resident IT guy! Some Odd Girl's owner is an artist from the beginning who started out with pencils, then moved on to acrylic paints and now is a cardmaker and scrapbooker. She designs art that she hopes her customers will love and have as much fun designing with as she does making them. Visit Some Odd Girl for monthly freebies and S.O.G. Points program. Their challenge Blog has bi-weekly fun that you can showcase your S.O.G. digis in! Check them out! They're offering a second winner three digis of their choice!

So, now it's your turn to play. Visit our shop for the week and choose an item to base your creation on. Make sure to post your design to Etsy Inspired Challenge Blog by Friday, November 12th at noon! One lucky person will win a t-shirt of their choice! from

Putu Princess Escapes or a three digis of their choice from Some Odd Girl

Don't forget to take a look at our fabulous design team's blogs for more inspiration and get your creative juices flowing! We also want to welcome our new Guest Designer Angie Blom!

MATERIALS:

Hi Card

Cardstock: (Kraft) Papertrey Ink.

Chalk Ink: (Clover) S.E.I.

Accents: (Letter stickers from Tinsel and Twig collection) The Girl's Paperie.

Fibers: (White satin ribbon) Joann's.

Embellish Vintage Color Challenge

Hey all!! I am a big fan of Embellish Magazine and their blog! They have AMAZING challenges, and the level of talent that participates is FANTABULOUS!!
As I was making birthday gifts to mail my niece who's stationed in South Korea, I realized that this project would be perfect for their latest challenge which was to use the following colors in a vintage design. I LOVE LOVE LOVE vintage and shabby chic designs, and after I made this frame from Basic Grey's new Curio line, I thought that I'd give it a shot and submit this design!

Rolled paper flowers and lusciously curled paper

Yummy Prima pearls and pretty butterflies

Paper Therapy-November 1 2010

Hello all!! Welcome to our fifth challenge at Paper Therapy. Paper Therapy is an online forum for scrapbookers and card makers to share their work, meet new friends, learn new tips and techniques and have fun!! I hope you can join us every week in our challenges! The previous three have been SUPER fun and were seeing some really incredible designs!

This week is the FIRST week of the month, so we are giving out a prize in addition to the blinkie! This week's challenge was to make a project that has a hole or cutout in it. So, I decided to get creative this week. Instead of making a card, I decided to make a treat bag with a cutout using new paper from My Mind's Eye.

loving the ruffled satin ribbon

It was SUPER fun working on a treat bag for this week's challenge! Make sure to post your card to the message board by midnight on Friday, November 5th. I hope that you play along with us this week at Paper Therapy

MATERIALS:

Patterned Paper: (Polka glittered paper from Pretty Collection; Madison Avenue, Labeled paper from Happily Ever After; Madison Avenue; “Sister” Lace glittered paper; Madison Avenue collection from Lost and Found collection) My Mind’s Eye.

Clear Stamps: (Sentiment from Signature greetings set) Papertrey Ink.

Dye Ink: (Rich Cocoa) Tsukineko.

Chalk Ink: (Chestnut Roan) Tsukineko.

Accents: (Diamond flower centers) Prima.

Fibers: (Brown pleated ribbon) May Arts. (Glitter ribbon trim).

Other: (Border edge punch) Martha Stewart. (Label dye) Spellbinders. (Treat bag) Michaels.