ANNOUNCING A PERMANENT SPONSOR !!

Hi PCStar readers !!

We are so pleased to announce that Papercraft Star will be welcoming a permanent sponsor on board as of August 3rd. !!  That sponsor will be The House Across The Bay Etsy shop.

And we are EXCITED !!!

The House Across The Bay Etsy Shop offers high quality vintage and retro digital collage sheets.  Victorian, Grunge, Oriental, Fabric, all sizes, all colors ! AND their new Card Makers Series was created especially for YOU !! 

Each week THATB will be offering two prizes for our entrants - a Grand Prize, and also a 2nd place prize.

AND Papercraft Star will be featuring freebies from THATB each and every single week !!

We will be kicking off the month of August with a pile of freebies for our readers, do not, DO NOT miss that !!

We know our new association with The House Across The Bay is going to be a lot of fun for you, our readers, and great inspiration for your projects !!

Challenge 52 is now open !

Welcome to the 52nd edition of our Papercraft Star Challenge ! We have winners from weeks 50 and 51, as well as our monthly winner !!

Week 51 - Carolyn

 and 

Week 52 - E.T. (sorry, we couldn't get a photo)

will both receive stamps from TradeFish Designs

     Our random winner of the gift certificate to the Scrapbooking Cottage is

Becky Garrison

Please send us your deets at : papercraftstar@yahoo.com.  Congratulations !!

Our Sponsor This Month

We are proud to announce our Grand Prize sponsor for this month, 

 

Scrapbook Circle has been creating monthly papercrafting kits for over 5 years. We love the creative challenge of gathering our favorite papers and embellishments for fresh monthly kits. We have a talented design team who shares daily inspiration on our blog and on our ideas page.  Our kits are available to anyone without a monthly commitment. If you would like to receive a discount on our kits, then you have the option to sign up for our 2+ subscription. This option allow you to receive at least two consecutive kits at a discounted price.
We love sharing and creating with others who love preserving memories as much as we do.

Scrapbook Circle will be giving away one of their July kits to our lucky July winner !

Our Challenge This Week

Use this photo for your inspiration !

Our Design Team

Kim

Kim used the orange and gray from the inspirational photo to create a rootin' tootin' card. As an added pop of color, she added a splash of purple ribbon inspired by the flower in the photo. Be sure to visit Kim's blog for details on how she created her pleated ribbon or her technique for embossing patterned paper!

Tracy

Tracy has created a fun birthday card with a cute birthday bear image and several of the colors, major and minor, from the inspiration photo.  The image is colored with Copic markers.

Regan

The black, white and orange in the inspiration photo intrigued and inspired Regan this week. Using the colors from the photo she created these elegant baby cards. She did some heat embossing, emboss resist and misting when creating her cards. For more photos and details, please visit her blog Emora Designs.

Jan

It is back to the '60s for Jan this week.  Stop by chaiteanme, say "peace", and grab all the details!!

Beth - Alumni

Congrats to our own Tracy who has been named Design Team Coordinator here at Papercraft Star, and Kim who has been named Senior Designer !!

Link up between now and Monday 9 am Eastern US time !

This week, and through the remainder of the summer our DT will be determining our weekly winners.  We will be offering you a little more time for your submissions too.  Thanks for playing !!!

Blog Hop Winner ! And some PCS News.

Our blog hop winner is

Marg from I Didn't Have Potatoes !

Marg wins the entire May 2011 Release Bundle of TradeFish Designs Stamps
(a $55.00 value!)....


Email us, Marg, at Papercraftstar@gmail.com, with all your info !!

Thank you all for your participation - we enjoyed having you visit !

And for some other Papercraft Star News -

Effective immediately both of our founders, Beth Moore and Kristina Harmon, have stepped down from our executive committee.  Papercraft Star will still be up and running, with Jan at the executive helm, and our most wonderful Design Team, Tracy, Regan and Kim.

We will be a little quieter here over the summer, dropping down to just one post a week, but we will continue with each weekly challenge, just as always !

Watch for our Design Team call later on this month, as we add two more talented ladies (or guys!) - you may be exactly what we are looking for !!

Meanwhile, thanks to both Beth and Kristina, whose vision brought about Papercraft Star.  You cannot imagine all the hard work they both put into this endeavor,  we will surely miss them.  Please stop by their blogs, Beth, and Kristina, and wish them the very best !

Thursday Tutorial: Summer Re-Runs with Kristina Harmon

Like we'd mentioned before, summer is 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!

Don't forget, there is still time to join this week's challenge here at Papercraft Star.  You can find our current challenge and enter by following the Current Challenge link located in the upper right hand sidebar of the blog!

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 !!