We're brewing up something new here at Papercraft Star!

  "Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble."  (MacBeth)

All of us witches here at Papercraft Star are brewing up a caldron of magic potion that is sure to please even the most discriminating of Papercrafter tastes. 

Beginning with the month of October, we're offering a  monthly grand prize and you won't believe the exciting products our sponsors are giving to our randomly selected monthly winner!  Yes, right now...at this very moment... we are lining up some of the best papercrafting products evah...and you can win them just by participating in our challenges!

At the end of every month, beginning in October we'll randomly select a grand prize winner from all of the project entries for that month!  So, not only will you have an opportunity to be voted the People's Choice Award winner for the projects you enter in our weekly challenges, you also have a chance to win the randomly selected grand prize every month that you participate in one of our challenges!

As always, we encourage papercrafters of all skill levels to participate in our challenges and we hope that the chance to win fabulous monthly prizes just for participating will be even more incentive to get you crafting here at Papercraft Star! Am I right or am I right?

Don't forget that we post our challenges WAY in advance so you can be ready to enter them right when we post the weekly challenge. Here at Papercraft Star you don't have to wait to find out what the challenge is for that week, because you already know! You will find our future challenges listed on the challenge page (the link is at the top of our page... look up now... see it?).

Speaking of prizes... have you subscribed to our Papercraft Star Facebook Page yet?  As soon as we have 150 followers, we're giving away a $15.00 gift certificate to Papertrey Ink or My Favorite Things (your choice!)...  So go visit our page and let us know you "like" us!  The page is right here.

Stay tuned for the announcement of October's grand prizes we'll be giving away thanks to our generous sponsors.

Papercraft Star is Now on Facebook!

Papercraft Star is excited to announce that we are now on Facebook!  You can visit us at our page right here.

To encourage you to visit (because we all enjoy a little encouragement now and then, don't we?), we are offering a prize of a $15.00 Papertrey Ink or My Favorite Things Gift Certificate (winner's choice!)  once we reach 150 followers on Facebook!  EVERYONE that signs up is eligible to win (unless the laws overwise prevent that....and we're not really sure what laws those would be, but we figure we better say that anyhow) :-)

All you have to do is visit our page right here. Select that you "like" us and subscribe to our page updates!  As soon as we hit 150 followers, we will randomly select a winner from the Facebook page!  How fun is that?!!

Okay, so head on over there right now (yes, RIGHT now) and sign up to keep up-to-date with all the happenings at Papercraft Star on one of the most popular social networking sites EVAH, Facebook.

By the way... we're on Twitter too.  Find us via our email.  It is:  papercraftstar at gmail dot com or you can visit this link right here and sign up to get all of our tweets!

Time to Vote for Challenge 11

It's NOON on Saturday, and you know what time that is!

It's time to go and vote for your favorite submission to Challenge 11. You can vote 2 times and have until Monday night to get your vote in. We'll announce our weekly People's Choice Award winner on Tuesday.

Click HERE to cast your vote.

Challege 11 - Friday's Designers !

Link up your submissions here !

Friday's design team has come up with some very cute ideas. Be sure you visit each blog to check out the details about each project ! And now on to Friday's inspirational projects !!

Tracy

For this fun Back to School card Tracy used the Fabulous Finds Cricut cartridge to die cut a cute little clipboard. "Clipped" to the clipboard is a sweet little note made with some fun digital stamps from Meljen's Designs at the Whimsy Stamps Store. Decorated with a little sparkle and shine, what teacher wouldn't enjoy this message from one of her students.

Suzy

1987, Suzy's first day of Kindergarten. Oh my - check out those black and white leather saddle shoes and vinyl crayon bag. Let's not forget the knee high socks! ;) She made sure her classic photo was the center of this layout with just a few die cuts from Cricut's Doodlecharms cartridge, a sheet of DCWV Grade School stack patterned paper and vellum title/poem.

Steph

Steph D. created this fun back-to-school themed tag. She incorporated a cute apple die-cut along with some fun trim, buttons, and twine.

Suzy looks so proud in that photo, doesn't she !

So, submissions close tomorrow, Saturday at noon. Voting opens immediately thereafter, and closes on Monday 9/6 at midnight. Remember, you have two votes now - one for a Design Team member, and one for another submission ! Vote, vote, vote !!

Thursday's Challenge 11 Inspiration !

Link up your submissions here.

Welcome to Thursday's Papercraft Star inspirations ! Our design team has some pretty amazing stuff for you today - check it out !!

Christy

Christy put this mini album together documenting the first day of school for her nephews. Using her Cricut she cut an apple out multiple times and layered them to get a great dimensional piece for the cover. Hard to believe the school bells are already ringing!

Dawn

It's back to school time around most of the country, and Dawn used her Cricut Expressions & Stretch Your Imagination Cartridge to make this whimsical school bus card. It's perfect for sneaking into that first day of school lunchbox, or sending a note to the new teacher!

Catherine

This challenge is perfect for Catherine, she teaches high school! This will be her fourth year to teach and she enjoys every moment! One of the first Cricut cartridges she ever bought was Locker Talk! This challenge gave her the perfect opportunity to use it and create a layout using pictures of her newly decorated classroom! She teaches World History, so she just had to include a globe!

So there you have it for today, and tomorrow we will have our Friday team on hand with even more. Don't miss it ! Entries are open until Saturday, 9/4.