Friday's Executive Reveal from Jan !!

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Hi ! Welcome to today's Executive Reveal at Papercraft Star. This is our last week with most of our Design Team - we will sure miss Angi, Jen and Cecilia. Meanwhile, I will carry on with Tracy, Regan and Kim until the end of the summer. AND of course, we still have our founders, Beth and Kristina.

This week we have this sketch !

And here is my idea of that same sketch .... We also had to include
1) 1 card stock paper
2) 2 patterned papers
3) 3 pieces of bling

Still working on more "girly" with my favorite card colors. This is a wonderfully easy sketch to work with, and I know I will be using it again.

Hope you are looking forward to a wonderful long Memorial Weekend here in the States - I am hoping someone will cook outside for me !

Still time to link up here at Papercraft Star with your entries !!

Summer Re-Runs at Papercraft Star with Kristina Harmon

The mild weather is finally upon us in the United States and we're arranging our schedules and Design Team commitments for the summer months (so that the Design Team can have a bit of a break now and again).... so just like on television, we'll be playing some "re-runs" during the summer and until our new Design Team starts in September. 

These re-runs are actually tutorials that the lovely Kristina Harmon shared over at The Kraft Journal earlier this year... but in case our followers here at Papercraft Star missed them, we are going to play a few for you on our Thursday tutorial days!  We hope you enjoy them!

Today Designer Kristina Harmon shares a sweet Matchbook project perfect for Valentine's Day.  Enjoy!

Remember, there is still time to get in on our current challenge here at Papercraft Star this week too!  Check out the link in our top right sidebar to learn more and enter your project too!!

Papercraft Star 47

Welcome to this week's challenge !! On a very sad note, we are saying goodbye to three members of our design team, Angi, Jennifer and C. We want to thank them for all their hard work, tutorials, and designs. It is not easy being a DT member as there are so many little jobs going on behind the scenes - we hope you will join us in thanking each of them.

Jan, Regan, Tracy and Kim will be staying on another three months, until the end of August. Watch for our DT call later on this summer !!

This Month's Grand Prize Sponsor

This Week's Challenge

Include 1 Colored Cardstock
2 Patterned papers
3 Pieces of Bling


Senior Design Team

Tracy

Tracy used some beautiful prima floral papers to create her card based on this week's sketch and recipe challenge. She added a sweet sentiment to go along with the pretty papers.

Regan

Regan has really been wanting to make a pinwheel embellishment and she thought this sketch was the perfect way to showcase it. What a fun card for the birthday boy or girl in your life! For more details, please visit her blog Emora Designs.



Design Team

Kim

Kim says she felt right at home while playing along with this week's sketch. She loved being able to add flowers as her main focal point, while using a fun sentiment stamp. For her bling, she added three small jewels and a vintage glass button from Germany. For more information, be sure to stop by Kim's blog and say hello while you're there!

Jennifer

Jennifer made this card with some lovely coordinating papers and embellishments, a stamped tag, and some pretty baker's twine. Head over to her blog for all of the details!

Angi

Angi loved the angle of the sketch this week. She used up some of her Cosmo Cricket stash for her card. She also added texture to the design by adding an oversized Canvas Bloom and Canvas Ribbon. For more details be sure to visit Angi at Cokie Pop Paper.

Cecilia

C's card was created using some fun celebration-style paper, some bling, fun distressing ink and a sentiment celebrating grandfather. Check out her blog, TradeFish Designs for more details on how this card came together!

C will be back with us again next month for our blog hop, and as DT sponsor with her new line of stamps. You are going to love them !!

Link up now until Sunday 9pm (Eastern US).

We will have a summer rerun tutorial tomorrow and Jan has our Executive Reveal on Friday - see you then !!

Winner of Challenge 46

Did you see all of the new Blog Hop info on the left sidebar? How exciting, not one but TWO blog hops next month!! We hope that you will join us for all of the fun.

Now....let's get on to this week's winner. The winner of Challenge 46 is no stranger to winning here at Papercraft Star! Anitra at Stamping While They Sleep has done it again with this adorable layout,

Congratulations Anitra!! You did a great job with that sketch.

With summer fast approaching we know how busy you all get. School is out, kids are home, vacations happen and we just seem to push crafting aside during this fun time. Don't forget that we post all of our challenges in advance on our Challenges page. We hope that you will work ahead in your spare time so you don't miss out on being entered for some fabulous prizes!

Be sure to join us tomorrow for the opening of Challenge 47.

Announcing TradeFish Designs our Newest 2011 Sponsor

Everyone here at Papercraft Star is excited to announce the opening of TradeFish Designs, owned and operated by our very own Papercraft Star Designer Cecilia Stephens.

Cecilia established TradeFish Designs (aka “TFD”) in April 2011 in Raleigh, North Carolina. TFD was created because she felt there was a need for stamps sets that she could use in cards, scrapbook pages and other crafty projects for the boys and men in her life. TFD is devoted to creating stamps with masculine themes, imagery and sentiments. You can use the images and sentiments for feminine cards or projects too, but the focus in Cecilia's design work is really about the boys. She promises that there will be no flowers, butterflies and/or girly swirls in any TFD sets. All the designs are a product of her own quirky design style and sense of humor, as well as a reflection of the boys and men she has had the privilege to know and love. Cecilia hopes you enjoy TFD stamps and create wonderful projects for the people you care about.

TradeFish Designs is the official Design Team Sponsor at Papercraft Star for the month of June as well as our Prize Sponsor for our Up-coming Anniversary Blog Hop Scheduled for June 19 through June 25. Cecilia has lots of prizes to give away in June... so we hope you'll join us! 

Please visit TradeFish Designs often and check out the latest designs and projects (and giveaways that are going on now!). New products are released on the third Monday of each month. You can follow TFD on Twitter and Facebook. TFD designs, manufactures and distributes clear stamps created in the United States from the finest photopolymer available.