Thursday's Tutorial from Kim !!

Hi everyone! Kim here to share with you another tutorial for quick and easy flowers using scrap pieces of gift wrap tissue paper. If you're like me, you may have plenty of tissue paper leftover from gift wrapping. If so, these quick and easy spiral flowers are a cinch to create and will use up some of that tissue paper you may have been holding on to!

So let's get started!

Supplies:

Tissue paper

Glue

Scrap Paper

Glimmer Mist (optional)

Bling (optional)

Step 1. Take one sheet of tissue paper and fold into three of four layers. Cut the layers into strips approximately 1" wide. Measurements do not have to be exact - just eyeball it.

Step 2. Twist each stack of layered tissue paper. Spray with Glimmer Mist (optional way to color white tissue paper).

Step 3. Roll each piece into a spiral.

Step 4. Punch out 1" circles and glue onto the back of the spiral tissue paper to provide support.

Step 5. Cut tissue paper into the shape of leaves. Spray with Glimmer Mist and adhere to back of spiral flower. Add a piece of bling to the center of the flower.

Now your flower is ready to embellish any of your papercraft creations! I hope you have fun creating your own version of these little flowers! If you create one, I'd love to see it. You can stop by my blog to share what you've created.

Link up between now and Sunday evening, 9pm (Eastern, US) for a chance at our weekly and monthly prizes !!

Welcome to Challenge 49 !

Welcome to Challenge 49 !

Our Grand Prize Sponsor This Month !

Our Grand Prize randomly selected winner this month will receive a gift voucher to The Scrapbooking Cottage !!!

At The Scrapbooking Cottage we carry a variety of products to meet all your paper crafting needs. Our desire is to carry the newest products for you at great prices. We pride ourselves in outstanding customer service and fast shipping. All orders over $25.00 receive FREE SHIPPING (anywhere in the U.S.)

Our Prize Sponsor This Week as Well as Our Design Team Sponsor All Month Long is...

For the entire month of June our Design Team is being sponsored by Tradefish Designs, a company devoted to creating stamps with masculine themes, imagery and sentiments. In recognition of these masculine stamps we are holding DUAL CHALLENGES all month long. As a participant in our challenges you can choose to create a project using the current challenge theme as it is written or take it a step further (like our Design Team did) and use the challenge theme to create a masculine project, or you can even choose to enter two projects, one for the regular challenge and one for the challenge with a masculine twist.

As a special gift to the winner of each week's challenge, Tradefish Designs will award one stamp set (selected by the winner) to our top Papercraft Star too, so we hope you join us for all our challenges this month!

As a special gift to all our Papercraft Star followers you can use this code, PCSTAR10, for a 10% discount at Tradefish Designs all month !!

Beth

Beth used the Tradefish Designs, "TV Time" stamps and flipped the sketch on its' side to create this masculine card as part of our dual challenges this month. Just as a reminder, you can use our theme this week to create any project of your choosing, or use it to create a masculine project like the one Beth created here. You can learn more about this card at Beth's blog.

Regan

Regan had a great time using the Happy Father's Day stamp set from TradeFish designs along with the sketch this week. She did some fussy cutting and inking to create this fun father's day card. For more photos and information, please visit her blog Emora Designs.

Tracy

Tracy used alcohol inks to create the background panels on her card. The image is stamped with Distress ink and the chipboard star was double coated with embossing powder and imprinted with a rubber stamp. She also added some Baker's twine and some silver brads. She used TradeFish Designs "Missing You" stamp set.

Jan

The perfect sketch for Jan's DCWV Tattered Time design papers ! She made use of her Cuttlebug folders, and Spellbinders too. Her blog has all the details.

Kim

Kim followed the sketch to create a card for her son using a sentiment from Missing You stamp set from Tradefish Designs. Kim curved the stamp and hand-cut her sentiment into a fun shaped banner. Be sure to stop by Kim's blog for a list of supplies and to say hello.

Link up between now and Sunday evening at 9:00 (Eastern US). We have some wonderful prizes all month !!

Tomorrow is our weekly tutorial - this week it is Kim ! Beth will be back on Friday with another Exec Reveal. See you then !

Winner of Challenge 48

What a fantastic week of projects! You all did some amazing work on Challenge 48. Our winner this week will receive the People's Choice Award button as well as a prize from our sponsor.

 For the entire month of June our Design Team is being sponsored byTradefish Designs, a company devoted to creating stamps with masculine themes, imagery and sentiments. In recognition of these masculine stamps we are holding DUAL CHALLENGES all month long. As a participant in our challenges you can choose to create a project using the current challenge theme as it is written or take it a step further (like our Design Team did) and use the challenge theme to create a masculine project, or you can even choose to enter two projects, one for the regular challenge and one for the challenge with a masculine twist.

As a special gift to the winner of each week's challenge, Tradefish Designs will award one stamp set (selected by the winner) to our top Papercraft Star too, so we hope you join us for all our challenges this month!

As a special gift to all our Papercraft Star followers you can use this code, PCSTAR10, for a 10% discount at Tradefish Designs all month !!

The winner this week is Kate of Down Right Crafty! Here is another look at Kate's beautiful layout,

Congratulations Kate, please send us and email with your contact information for your prize.

Be sure to join us tomorrow for Challenge 49!

Voting for Challenge 48 Has Begun!

Summer Kick-Off Blog Hop

Welcome to The Summer Kick-Off Blog Hop....

We've assembled a great line-up of Blogs for you this week, each with a variety of different ideas to share with you!   Some of the blogs change content daily, so you'll want to check in throughout the week for your chance to win prizes!  The Twinery has provided a giveaway for one person who visits each blog!  Here's all you have to do to qualify:  Visit each blog and then send Practical Srappers one email telling them a topic that is currently or has recently been featured on each site.  Not hard and it gives you a chance to really check out these great blogs!  To enter send the email to practicalscrappers@gmail.com.  (P.S. If you didn't arrive here from Practical Scrappers, please go there now and start the hop there so you don't miss a thing!)

We've got a great prize here too...so read on!


Here's the Blog Hop Line-Up

Practical Scrappers
Papercraft Star (You are Here Now!)
Pile It On
Stuck on U Sketches
Getting Cricky
Frosted Designs
Amy Chomas
 
Your stop at Papercraft Star on this special combined Blog Hop is sponsored by
Tradefish Designs.

Tradefish Designs, is a company devoted to creating stamps with masculine themes, imagery and sentiments. We are especially happy to partner with TradeFish Designs for our this special hop as both the company and stamp designs are owned previous PCS Design Team Member Cecilia Stephens too! We have a fabulous prize for our leg of this combined Blog Hop. One randomly selected winner will win a Tradefish Designs Stamps set of their choice. 

To qualify for the Tradefish Designs Stamp Set prize simply leave a comment on this post before you move on to the next stop on the hop! It's that easy!

(...and hey, we'd love it if you visited Tradefish Designs and became a follower of Papercraft Star too... but that's not mandatory to win!)

Our challenge for this week starts on Wednesday June 8, 2011 so we hope you come back to play along with us too... in the meantime, head on over to the next stop on the Summer Kick-Off Blog Hop which is Pile it On!