Winner of Challenge 27

It's Tuesday and that means we have a winner for Challenge 27. The winner will receive our People's Choice Award button as well as a prize from our sponsor. Our sponsor this week is Catherine Pooler, Stampin' Up! Independent Demonstrator. Catherine is giving out a fabulous prize for the People's Choice Award winner for this challenge - One Free Month of Club InBox! Members of Club InBox (including our winner) get exclusive videos and tutorials teaching you techniques, seasonal projects, mini-albums, cards and more. All projects are new and Catherine only shares them with club members!

Our  winner is Kate @ Small Bits of Paper! Here is another look at Kate's New Year's Resolution creation. 

Congratulations Kate, please send us an email with your contact information so we can forward it on to our sponsor.


Challenge 28 opens tomorrow. Don't forget that you can always see what's coming up under our Challenges tab. Thanks for joining us here at Papercraft Star!

Super Find Sunday at Papercraft Star

This week, I happened upon a super fast and easy program for editing portraits.  I am so impressed with this program that I wanted to share it with you for our Super Find Sunday here at Papercraft Star. This easy to use software program is simply called Portrait Professional.

This program is offered both as stand-alone software and as a plug-in for Photoshop.  Earlier this week, I downloaded the free trial of this program right here. I haven't yet purchased the program, and the trial doesn't allow you to save the photos, so I am unable to share with you the amazing results.  So you'll have to see for yourself. (no, they are not paying me to say that, nor do they even know I am writing this blog post about them!) :-).  BUT... there is a video right here that shows you what the program does... check it out!  (P.S. if you do want to download the trial they ask for your email address first).

The stand-alone program is currently on sale for $39.95.

Thanks for stopping by and if you are looking to vote for your favorite projects in this week's challenge just click here and you can go right to that post!

Beth

Challenge 27 Voting Starts Now!

Friday's Executive Reveal

It's Friday's Executive Team Reveal for Challenge 27, but before we reveal Kristina's project for this challenge, we just want to remind you that this week, the People's Choice Award winner for this challenge will win a prize from our sponsor Catherine Pooler, Stampin' Up! Independent Demonstrator. Catherine is giving out a fabulous prize for the People's Choice Award winner for this challenge - One Free Month of Club InBox! Members of Club InBox (including our winner) get exclusive videos and tutorials teaching you techniques, seasonal projects, mini-albums, cards and more. All projects are new and Catherine only shares them with club members!
To find our current challenge and enter your project for this week go here.

Now for Kristina's Executive Team reveal.

Kristina made this great digital layout about her plans for 2011. Looks like No Resolutions for her, just lots of neat plans for the year. You can learn more about this digital layout by visiting her blog, Kristina's World.


One more reminder, you have until Noon (eastern) Saturday Jan 8th to get your project linked up before the voting begins. We can't wait to see what your New Year's Resolutions are!

Thursday's Tutorial from Kim

Welcome to Papercraft Star's Thursday Tutorial.  If you want to enter our current challenge, please click here. 

I (Beth) would like to extend a special thank you to our talented Design Team member Kim for putting together this sweet flower tutorial for you on short notice...yep, I was late getting out the tutuorial schedule for 2011 and Kim covered for me...yeah Kim!... in fact, I want to extend a special thank you to ALL of our Designers, Jan, Tracy, Regan, Liz, Angi, Kim, Jennifer and C... not to mention my sweet Kristina and co-founder of PCS, who all so willingly take on last minute projects, and just generally help to make my part of running PCS easier and Papercraft Star look so darn good (oh, and who all put up with me too)! :-) Thank you so much, I am so honored to be a part of such a great organization and team! 

Okay... now enough babble, here's that fabulous tutorial from Kim... visit Kim's blog, Paper Loves Glue to see more of her fantastic work!

Supplies:

• Your favorite paper (double-sided is best)
• Glue
• Scalloped circle punch

Step 1. Punch out nine circles using a scalloped shaped circle punch. 

Step 2. Set aside one of the scalloped circles. Fold each of the remaining eight circles in half, three times each. Each piece will look like a small triangle wedge. 

Step 3. Apply a generous amount of glue to the scalloped circle that you had set aside in step 2.

Step 4. Adhere each folded piece to the glue, starting in the center and working your way around the edge. It should come together and look similar to a sliced piece of pie. Let it dry.

Step 5. Once the glue has dried, you can add buttons, brads, small flowers, or any other embellishments you want. Just have fun and get creative!

Thank you for stopping by Papercraft Star today for our Thursday Tutorial from Kim.  Don't forget to check in tomorrow for our Friday Executive Team reveal from Kristina!