Challenge 51 is now open !

 

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 !!

Our Challenge This Week !

Use this photo as inspiration for your project this week.

Our Design Team

Regan

For the challenge this week, Regan pulled the pink and gray colors from the inspiration photo to create this humorous card using the Happy Father's Day set from TradeFish Designs. Regan actually created two cards this week! To see both cards and the inside of this one, please visit her blog Emora Designs.

Jan

Jan's thoughts of summer travel twisted her card this week in that direction!  She used a sentiment from the "Missing You" series of stamps from TradeFish Design.  Please stop by her blog, chai tea 'n me, and say hi !

Kim

Kim used the colors, pink and gray, from the inspirational photo to create a fun and vintage-style greeting card. She even used a seashell and starfish to give it a true beach-like style! The stamped Wish You Were Here sentiment from TradeFish Designs makes this card complete. For a list of supplies, be sure to stop by Kim's blog and say hello. 

 Tracy

Tracy used the predominant gray and white colors of the photo inspiration with a tiny bit of pink mixed in on the trout.  She embossed some decorative lines into the white mat for some added interest.  The sentiment is from the "Missing You" stamp set by TradeFish Designs.

 Don't forget our tutorial tomorrow, and Kristina's Executive Reveal on Friday !

Link up between now and Sunday, 9pm (Eastern US) to be eligible for our prizes this month !!

Papercraft Star Anniversary Blog Hop Sponsored by TradeFish Designs

Welcome to Papercraft Star's First Anniversary Blog Hop sponsored by Tradefish Designs. In celebration of our First Anniversary and in honor of Father's Day as well, our theme for this Papercraft Star Hop is "For The Men We Love".

Our Design Team has created some fabulous projects that feature stamps from Tradefish Designs, a company devoted to creating stamps with masculine themes, imagery and sentiments. We are especially happy to partner with TradeFish Designs for our Anniversary Hop as both the company and stamp designs are owned by our very own Cecilia Stephens too! We have a fabulous prize for our Blog Hop randomly selected winner as well; the entire May 2011 Release Bundle of Tradefish Designs Stamps
(a $55.00 value!).... to qualify for the prize do the following:

Be a follower of Papercraft Star.

Be a follower of Tradefish Designs.

Leave a comment at every stop along the hop.

You have the entire week, June 19, through June 25th to participate in the hop and leave all your comments (that's plenty of time to visit all the stops along the way!!) Here is the list of the hop stops - just in case you get lost...

Papercraft Star (you are here!)

Jan

Kim

Regan

Beth

Tradefish Designs

Papercraft Star

Don't forget to leave a comment at every stop and to qualify for this great prize, you must be a follower of both Papercraft Star and TradeFish Designs too!  You next stop on the hop is Jan Del Bone.

Special Notice for Papercraft Star Followers:  Use this coupon code the entire month of June to receive 10% off all of your TradeFish Designs purchases! PCSTAR10

Friday's Executive Reveal from Jan !!

Hi Everyone ! Jan here this week with the Executive Reveal !

Our challenge was to use the letters *S*T*A*R* in our project. My card earlier in the week with the design team incorporated that literally. But I used it a little differently with this card.

S = support from my fellow crafters
T = tranquility as I craft
A = artistic aspiration
R = results

Stop by my blog for all the info !   Sentiment from our sponsor this week, TradeFish Designs !!

Thursday's Tutorial from Regan !!

Hi, Regan here! Today is tutorial Thursday and I have a fun tutorial to share with you.

We all use glue dots, tacky tape or tissue tape on our scrappy projects. In this tutorial I will show you how to take the cardboard circle base for your glue dots or tissue tape and turn it in to a cute bracelet!

This is what you will need....

Cardboard circle from used glue dots or tissue tape.

Ribbon of your choice (4 pieces about 1 1/2 long, 1 7-8 inch piece and 1 46 inch piece) These measurements will vary by the size of your cardboard or bracelet piece.

Scissors

Hot Glue Gun and a couple glue sticks

Embellishment(s) of your choice (optional)

Let's get started...

(Click photo to see larger view.)

1) Cut through one side of the cardboard to create the opening of the bracelet.

You may want to bend and manipulate the cardboard to get a shape that will fit your wrist. If the cardboard comes apart a bit, this is okay, we are going to cover it!

2) Glue the small pieces to each end of the bracelet letting the ribbon hang over the edge about 1/8 of an inch. This will cover the ends of your bracelet so you can't see the cardboard. (NOTE: if you have a narrower cardboard piece you may only need 1 ribbon piece for each end.)

3) Take your 7 inch piece and adhere one end like shown in the picture above. (NOTE: if you want the wrapped ribbon to show, skip this step)

4) Take longest ribbon piece and adhere cross ways like the picture above shows.

5) Wrap the ribbon tightly around the cardboard base hot gluing the ribbon down as you go.

6) Take your 8 inch piece and begin adhering across the top of your bracelet. Do not go all the way to the end.

7) Now you will have to alternate adhering the ribbon until you longer piece is flush with the end of the bracelet like shown above.

8) Fold over end of leftover ribbon and adhere to bracelet.

The base of your bracelet is done!

You can leave it as is or embellish it like shown in the photo below.

Aren't these fun!?!

I think they would make an adorable gift and the best part is it's up-cycled!!

Thank you for stopping by for Thursday's tutorial here at Papercraft Star!

Come back by tomorrow to see what our Lovely and Talented Jan has in store for you for the executive design team reveal!

Challenge 50 Opens Today !

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 !!

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 !!