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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 !!

Our Challenge This Week !

Use the letters "S", "T", "A", "R" as inspiration for your project (i.e. "S" for sentiment, "R" for ribbon, etc.,)

Our Design Team

Kim

Kim followed the challenge by creating an all occasion card using a sentiment from Missing You by TradeFish Designs. For "S" she used stitching; for "T" she used trim; "A" an acrylic heart; and "R" for ribbon. For a list of supplies, stop by Kim's blog and be sure to say hello.

Tracy

Tracy used a scallop, trim, alcohol ink, and rhinestones to create her card for this weeks challenge. Her sentiment is from the "Missing You" stamp set from TradeFish Designs.

Regan

For this challenge Regan decided to do something a little different, instead of a card or layout she created this fun award for Father's Day! This can be used as a pin, magnet, topper for a gift or even an embellishment for the special Dad in your life. As far as the challenge this was her letter inspiration: STAR DAD - S: Stamp & Stripes, T: Tim Holtz, A: Adhesive and R: Ribbon. For more please visit her blog Emora Designs.

Beth

Beth has played along with the Design Team all month long in order to help the team feature projects created using our June Design Team sponsor, Tradefish Design's stamps and in an effort to showcase the fun and versatility of these stamps as well. Beth said, "I think there has been a real niche open in the papercrafting world for masculine stamps like those designed and produced by TradeFish Designs and I am thrilled to be a part of showcasing this new product to papercrafters." Beth used the letter S.T.A.R to inspire her when she created this, "You can always use more socks, mugs, ties, underwear and hats card". She used the inspiration letters, S - "Stamps', T - "Twine", A - "Alphas" and R - "Ribbon" to complete this project. You can get a complete supplies list from her blog.

Jan

Jan used clay for her sentiment this week. She thinks she can get away with R for Rivet in her S*T*A*R recipe ! If you haven't used clay before, her blog has details.

Link up between now and Sunday (9pm Eastern US) with your STAR entries !

Tomorrows tutorial is with Regan, and Jan will have Friday's Executive Reveal. See you then !!

Winner of Challenge 49 and TradeFish Designs Special Offer

Our Prize Sponsor This Week is...

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 !!

We also have this special message from the owner of Tradefish Designs,

"I am cleaning up the office at TradeFish Designs and trying to make room for the new stamps being rleased next week (hint, hint..4 new sets) so I think a special deal would be win-win for both of us...a special Father's Day sale! For this week only I am offering 30% off the Happy Father's Day and Father Quotes stamp sets!! All you need to do is use the code DAD30 when you check out and those stamps will be discounted. This deal runs June 13th through June 19th."

Our winner this week is Calypso of Calypso's Candy Craft! Let's take another look at her adorable card,

Too cute! Congratulations Calypso, please email us your contact information so we can forward it to TradeFish Designs to claim your prize. 

Be sure to join us tomorrow for the opening of Challenge 50!

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!