Christmas in July Blog Hop

(Voting for Challenge #5 has started, click HERE to go and vote)

Welcome to the first ever PCS Blog Hop! We are so glad that you came to join us. You certainly wouldn't want to miss out on all of the fun.

Each Designer and both of our Judges have fabulous "Christmas in July" projects to share with you. Not only will you find some great inspiration...you'll find lots of Blog Candy to win along the way.

You'll have 3 days to make the rounds and get entered into all of the Blog Candy give aways, starting here at PCS. Make sure to visit each stop on the Hop so you don't miss out.

To start you off, you can get entered to win a $15.00 Gift Certificate to My Favorite Things here at PCS. All you have to do is become a follower of PCS and leave us a comment letting us know. If you are already a follower then just leave a comment. Don't forget to come back on July 26th to see who wins. 

Now, on to our line up...                    

First stop is Tracy...then

Regan
Jan
Kristina
Dawn
Beth
Christy
Liz
Caroline
Steph D
Suzy
Stephanie
Catherine

Just a reminder, the Hop runs July 23 - 25th and all of the Blog Candy winners will be announced on July 26th.

Have fun and thanks for joining us here at Papercraft Star!

Thursday Inspiration - Challenge 5

(Link up your project right HERE)

Welcome back! So glad you could join us. Today we'll share the rest of the Designer's projects for Challenge 5- Circles. Normally we would split these up between Thursday and Friday, but this Friday is the start of our first ever Papercraft Star Blog Hop. Be sure to come back tomorrow and play along, there are lots of paper crafting goodies to be won!

So, on to our wonderful Designer's inspiration for the Circles challenge....

Catherine

Catherine chose to layer her circles, and used a small flower print to add more circle like images to the layout. She chose to incorporate a scalloped journal sheet that match the patterned paper.

Regan

Regan was inspired to make a circle shaped mini album with this weeks challenge. She used old CDs to create the base of the mini album. For embellishments she used buttons, circle punches and bling! She even used a "2 Piece Set" circle tag that came off of an outfit she purchased! For more information and pictures of this project, please visit her blog.

Tracy

Circles abound on this easel card that Tracy created. The focal point of the card is a stamped image that she layered with Nestabilities die cuts. Even the stamped image has lots of bubbly circles. You can find a close up of the accents she used on the bath tub and bubbles on her blog.

Stephanie A.

This week at Papercraft Star, it's all about circles. Stephanie used a swiss dot background paper on which she added a frame and several circles about friendship.

Christy

Circles, Circles, Circles!  Christy made some darling little lollipop flowers motivated by our challenge this week!  She started with a blank canvas that she painted light yellow and went on to finish up with lots if diecuts from her punches and Cricut!  The "grass" was done by cutting thin strips of paper and rolling them to a desired length adding more...CIRCLES!

Suzy

As soon as she saw the "circles" theme, Suzy knew she had to scrapbook this photo of her husband and his coworkers playing a round of charity golf earlier this summer. Let's just say they were the talk of the tournament LOL! Head over to her blog to read more about how she made this layout.

Dawn

This week, our challenge is circles. Dawn grasped that guideline and ran with it! Lots of circles fill this page, the background paper also being covered in (you guessed it...) circles as well! She added some embossing and sanding for dimension, and bling to spruce up the vintage look of the page.

Steph D.

Steph D. was inspired by the Basic Grey Granola DP to create this Circle-themed card. She used Graphic 45 A Proper Gentleman images, including circular clocks, and a vintage button along with some jute ribbon and string.

Weren't they great! That's LOADS of inspiration all in the same day. So get rollin and create your Circle project. You've got until 12 Noon Eastern time on Saturday to get your project linked up. After that, the voting begins. Be sure to come back and vote for your favorite entry.

Don't forget, tomorrow is the first day of the PCS Blog Hop! Be sure to come back and check out what is happening, you won't want to miss it!

Challenge Number 5 - Circles

Whew, the time is just flying by!  Already we're on Challenge Number 5 here at Papercraft Star!  We certainly are having a great time and hope you are as well!   Challenge 5 gives you lots and lots of room for interpretation and inspiration as the guidelines are simply "CIRCLES". 

We're really looking forward to revealing all of our Design Team creations this week as well because we just know you are going to love what they created for you to get you excited about joining us in the challenge this week!

As always, you'll have until 12 noon (Eastern Time) on Saturday to enter your project that is inspired by "Circles" and after that, the voting begins! 

Now before we show you some of our Design Team's creations (remember we'll reveal more all week until Friday), we have some exciting news.... We've got a BIG FAT JUICY BLOG HOP coming your way this weekend beginning on Friday July 23 through Sunday July 25.  Every one of our Designers, as well as our two Judges are participating in this Christmas in July event!  Starting Friday, we will have Christmas inspired projects posted on all of the Design Team and Judge's blogs and a chance to win some SWEET blog candy at each and every blog as well!  How's that for an early Christmas present...eh? So make sure you start here at Papercraft Star on Friday for the big Christmas in July Blog Hop!

Okay...now back to this week's challenge!  Here are the projects to inspire you direct from our very own Designers here at Papercraft Star.... Challenge Number 5 - Circles...

Jan

Circle card, circle sentiment, and circle swirly all compliment Jan's circle paper and paper piercing. Jan used her beloved SCAL software for all her cutting.  Visit Jan at her blog to see more of her creations or visit us at the Papercraft Star Forum (link is in the sidebar at top left) to read learn more about SCAL software from Jan herself!

Liz

Circles, circles everywhere! For this week's 'circle' challenge Liz used lots of circles for her layout. She chose patterned paper that had circles and used various sized plates to trace her circles and then cut them out. She layered her circles using foam tape for extra dimension. For her title and journaling Liz used dimensional magic. Check out her blog for some close up shots.

Caroline

This week Caroline made a simple shaker box card using circles for the gumballs. This card could be used for a kid's birthday. All the information on how Caroline made this fun shaker card can be found on her blog.

Lotsa Winners at Papercraft Star...

This week for the Sports Team inspired Challenge 4 People's Choice Award it is a tie between two great projects!  Janis with this cute South Carolina Gamecocks inspired card.

and Deb with her darling New York Giants inspired card.

Congratulations to both Deb and Janis and thank you to everyone who participated in last week's Sports Team Inspired Challenge. 

We also had a tie between 5 of our Design Team's projects for this past challenge as well. Congratulations to all of them!  Since so many of our talented team members tied, we won't be awarding a Designer People's Choice Award this week.

However, this week is also the Judge's Papercraft Star Award.  Kristina and Beth, Judges of Papercraft Star have reviewed the projects that have won the People's Choice Award for the first three challenges. (As you may recall, every three weeks the Judges will choose a Papercraft Star from the previous three challenge People's Choice Award Winners!).

The Judges have spoken.... Runners up for the Papercraft Star Award are...

Challenge 1 Winner Vicki with her Indy Layout.

and Challenge Winner 3 April with this great layout...

And our first Papercraft Star Winner is Abby with this amazing layout, An American Boy...

Join us in Congratulating Abby.  She will receive the Judge's Papercraft Star Award for her Blog for her selection as our first ever Papercraft Star!  (Abby...send us your email address so we can send you your new Papercraft Star Blog Button!) Her layout will also be linked on our sidebar here at Papercraft Star...immortalized forever as a Papercraft Star! :-)

Now don't forget to come back tomorrow as we roll out Challenge #5 here at Papercraft Star!

Challenge 4 - Voting In Progress!

Who is your favorite sports team? How could your team inspire you? Their colors, the mascot, their name, the home city... use any or all of these concepts to make a card, layout, or project inspired by your favorite team.

You have until Saturday July 17, at 12 noon to enter your sports inspired project and after that, the voting begins! Until then, we'll have a Stadium full of inspirational projects made just for you by the talented Papercraft Star Design Team. We'll post those projects today, Thursday and Friday so be sure to come back often to see what our Team has created to inspire you for this Sports Team Challenge!

Jan

Any Oregon golf team, whether the sun is rising or setting, is Jan's inspiration for this 10 minute card. Clip art printed on the background, and a SCAL file to cut the trees made it quick and simple!

Liz

For this week's challenge Liz used her favourite Aussie Football team 'Port Power' as her inspiration. She used their theme song to inspire her son to never give in. The words to the theme song can be found at her blog. She made some pinwheels to embellish her page. Liz also used rubons, ribbon, buttons, die cuts, stickers, felt alphas and staples.

Caroline

This challenge took a lot of thinking for Caroline. Neither Caroline or her husband are into sports. So what is one to do about that? Well, what do they like to do? They both love the outdoors. Living in Sunny South Florida being outside isn't a problem. So that got her thinking ... then it hit her ... Water sports. Caroline loves to be on the water. So that was the inspiration for this fun little card.