Voting for Challenge 49 Has Begun!

Winner of Tradefish Designs Give-Away: Summer Kick-Off Blog Hop

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Summer Kick-Off Blog Hop this past week! Our leg of the blog hop was sponsored by Tradefish Designs and we've randomly selected a winner of the generous stamp set prize offered by our sponsor! 

Before we announce the winner however, we'd like to provide you with a bit of information about Tradefish Designs (just in case you missed the blog hop!).  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!

The winner of the Summer Kick-Off Blog Hop give-away here at Papercraft Star is... Jenny Evans, here is her post from from the hop,

jennyevans on June 7, 2011 3:34 PM said...

Super excited about Tradefish! I have all boys, so anything masculine would be great!! Thanks for this awesome hop!!

Jenny, please contact us via email: papercraftstar at gmail dot com and provide us with your email address so we can put you in contact with our sponsor, Tradefish Designs to claim your stamp set!

Executive Team Reveal with Beth Moore: Sketch Challenge

Our current challenge here at Papercraft Star is another fabulous sketch from Liz Chidester and we want you to use her sketch as inspiration to create any project your crafty-heart desires and then enter it for a chance to be selected as our next Papercraft Star! You'll find the link to our challenge with the details and the place to enter your project in the upper right hand of the sidebar of our blog.

Remember that this month we are challenging you to use our weekly theme as a dual challenge.  You can decide to either create a project using just our theme... or put a masculine twist to our theme and enter that project, or both for two chances to win prizes or be voted as our next Papercraft Star... now, how fun is that?!.

On Wednesday, I used this sketch along with stamps from Tradefish Designs to create a masculine project and today I am using just the sketch. To create my project, I started with some bright and cheerful patterned paper from the new Jillibean Soup, Blossom Soup on White Collection mini papers. I layered patterned paper onto Red Poppy and Lemon Tart cardstock from Papertrey Ink. Added some Lemon Tart Ribbon, a stamped sentiment and a flower die cut using Cheery Lynn Designs Judy's Blossoms flower die.

Beth Moore

Other supplies I used to create this card include Red Riding Hood Red ink from Stampin' Up, Tuxedo Black Ink from Memento, a green brad (Basic Grey) as well as the Scalloped Oval and Silver Oval Stackers from Cheery Lynn Designs.

There is still plenty of time to join our challenge here at Papercraft Star and we can't wait to see what you create!

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 !