Thursday's Tutorial from Angi !!

Today Angi Barrs has a great tutorial for you that uses handy dandy paper bags. It's fun and easy and you can design it any way you like. Just have fun with it!

Materials You will need:

• 3 Paper bags
• Hole Puncher
• Ribbon, eyelets, book rings, or fibers
• Your favorite pattern paper
• A bunch of your favorite embellishments

First lay your paper bags on top of each other. Make sure that the middle bag is going the opposite way of the first and the last bag. Adhere your bags together. You can adhere them using stitching, brads, staples or eyelets. I love to stitch/sew them together for better durability.

I also love the ready made built-in pockets that are formed when you put your paper bag album together. These pockets are great for storing mementos, cute tags, journal blocks, or any other keepsake.



Here's the paper bag album after it's put together and ready to decorate. Now it's time to make your pages.

With your paper trimmer cut enough patterned paper to cover each page. I cut each paper piece at 5" x 5.5".

Adhere each of your papers to the front cover and each page of your album. Also make sure to cut and adhere some photo mats or pockets to store journal tags. You can also ink the sides to make the mats stand out.

This is how one of my pages looks with journaling tags. I made the pocket with patterned paper.



Now it's time to embellish. I used various embellies from Me & My Big Ideas.

I add my ribbon last after I make sure all of my patterned paper and embellishments are sturdy and secure. Add different color and textured ribbon to make it more colorful.

Decorate your pages any way you want. It's best to use coordinating papers that match well together. I used paper from a ColorBok kit so that all the papers would go well together. Here are 2 of my pages in a side by side view.

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial today. Now it's your turn to create something fun using paper bags.

How cute is this !!

Tomorrow we have our Executive Reveal with Jan, our DT coordinator. Her eyes are still in shock with the bright colors she worked with !

Don't forget to link up your submission for our current color challenge !

Challenge 29 Opens !!

Welcome to Challenge 29! At the end of January we will be awarding 5 free digi stamps from our monthly sponsor - one random winner will take them all !! Be sure you are linking up your submissions here to be eligible for that drawing.

OUR SPONSOR THIS MONTH

Pink Cat Studio is our Grand Prize sponsor for this month and you'll see a number of their darling stamps used on our Designer Team projects all month long as well! Pink Cat Studio is all about offering fun and whimsical stamps to inspire your creativity. They have a huge selection of super cute digi and rubber stamps to choose from and they add more each week. Owner and artist Melissa started PCS in 2005 and over the years nothing has excited and inspired her more than to see your creations with her stamps. Melissa’s goal is to continue to delight & surprise you with her designs. Stop by the studio today and get in on the fun!

OUR SPONSOR THIS WEEK

Our winner this week will receive a $25 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 CHALLENGE THIS WEEK

Use some or all of the colors below to create your project and include at least two of the following elements:
Ribbon
Stamped Image
Embossing
Die Cut

OUR GUEST DESIGNER THIS WEEK

Kate was the Papercraft Star People's Choice Award winner for Challenge 25 and part of her prize included a Guest Designer spot here at Papercraft Star! Congratulations Kate!

Kate

Hello! My name is Kate and I’m thrilled to be a guest designer here at Papercraft Star this week. I live in Ontario, Canada with my husband and our three gorgeous children. I am a former teacher who is now “on the other side of the desk” working toward a Master of Education and Digital Technology. I’ve always enjoyed crafting and began making cards about 3 years ago. I was introduced to the blogging world last year and have been overwhelmed by the friendship and support I’ve been offered. I love to learn from the many talented crafters who share their creations over the internet. Although I do make the occasional layout, tag, or altered item, most of my creations are cards which I delight in giving away in order to brighten another’s day.

For this challenge Kate created this beautiful Sweet 16 gift collection. You can see more of Kate's designs at her blog Small Bits of Paper right here.

SENIOR DESIGN TEAM

Tracy

Tracy created her own paper using alcohol inks and Ranger Glossy paper for her project for this week's challenge. Her image, called "Lily baked a Pie", is colored with Copic markers.

Regan

Regan really enjoyed this challenge and had fun with the color combination! She added ribbon and dry embossing as her two elements. For her image she used this cute owl digi called Patches by PinkCatStudio. For more photos and details, please visit her blog.

Liz

Using this week's great combination of colours Liz scrapped a beautiful photo of her daughter. She used her Spellbinders Circle Die Cuts to make the layered embellishments. She also added some pom pom ribbon, buttons and rhinestones to complete the layout.

DESIGN TEAM

Angi

Angi loves the fun colors in this week's challenge. She took the opportunity to make a "boy" card for an upcoming craft show that she is participating in. She had fun mixing stripes, scallops, ribbon, and felt trim on her card. To see more details be sure to visit Angi's blog.

Kimberly

Kimberly loved the colors from the challenge this week. They were the perfect combination to create a birthday card for her son, which is later this month! And the "Rex Loves Cake" digi stamp from Pink Cat Studio was the perfect image to create a fun birthday card for her son. Kim was able to use ribbon, a die cut circle with an embossed edge and a digi stamp to fill all the challenge details. Be sure to stop by Kim's blog for a list of products used and more inspiration!

Auxiliary Design Team

C

C is having fun using the colors in this week's challenge. She is Just Chillin' with her CTMH paper and thinks that it sets off her beautiful digital stamp from the Pink Cat Studio called Tulips in Easter Vase. Visit C's blog, Trade Fish Designs, for more details about her card.

Jennifer

Jennifer loved the bright colors of this week's challenge and created this adorable kid's card using another great image from Pink Cat Studio! Head over to her blog to see more!

Link up your submissions between now and Saturday noon (Eastern, US) to be eligible for this weeks great prize !! Public voting begins thereafter, and continues until midnight Monday. Great colors this week for your inspiration.

Tomorrow brings Angi's tutorial - you will want to return for that !!

Winner of Challenge 28

We had another great sponsor for our winner this week. Not only will the winner receive the People'e Choice Award button for their blog, they will receive a prize from our sponsor:

Michelle's Scrapbooking & More

Our winner this week will receive a digi stamp. Michelle's Scrapbooking & More is the home of The Pixie Cottage stamps, with many different illustrators/artists contributing their art work we have a stamp for every taste. We are now selling not only single stamps, but some stamp sets as well. Red rubber and digital images are both available, so stop by and take a look at our latest images. If stamps are not your thing, we have a wide selection of papercrafting supplies too !

The winner of Challenge 28 is The Sleepy Stamper! Take a look at her beautiful card.

Congratulations, beautiful job! Please send us and email to claim your prize.

We will be back tomorrow with Challenge 29! 

It's a Fabulous Day in Crafty Cyberspacedom!

Today is a FABULOUS day in our little crafty cyberspacedom... Today is the day that YOU are going to get in on a bunch of chances to win some FABULOUS prizes and YOU heard it RIGHT HERE at Papercraft Star!

First... if you aren't already a follower of Papercraft Star, we hope you sign up TODAY.  Go to this post right here to read about how you can win a $25.00 Gift Certificate to either My Favorite Things or Papertrey Ink. We only need 30 more crafty followers to draw that prize and we hope to meet this goal before the end of this month!

Second... today is Make it Monday at The Kraft Journal. It's a new papercraft challenge blog sponsored by Kraft Outlet... and it's dear to our hearts here at Papercraft Star for a few reasons... and they are; our co-founders here at PCS Beth and Kristina, as well as our very own Designer Tracy!  Please hop on over there to say "hi", and while you are there, become a follower and join in this week's "Family" challenge for a chance to win $20.00 worth of yummy Kraft Outlet products.

and last... but NOT least.

Today at around 9:00 AM Eastern time, is the kick-off of the Animal Crackers Collection release party at Imaginisce.  (You might recall that Beth (one of our co-founders here at PCS) is on the 2011 Design Team over there). Imaginisce is giving away lots of totally AWESOME prizes this week... and you can win, just by hopping on over there this week and leaving a comment or two on the posts.  (Remember, you heard it here first!!)... in fact, if you want to let them know that Papercraft Star sent you...that'd be ever so fabulous too!

Here's a peek at just one of the projects you are going to see over at Imaginisce this week... a gift set created by Beth using the fun new Animal Crackers collection.  Beth created this "Movie Night" gift set that includes a gift bag with attached card, an altered cover for a DVD, a microwave popcorn slider and bottle covers for a couple of pops. Later today on Beth's blog, you'll find a tutorial to create your own Microwave Popcorn Slider too.

See, we told you today was a fabulous day... with so many chances to win free goodies, how could it not be?  Have fun and go win something good! :-)

Papercraft Star and 1000 Followers...

Have you signed up to win our 1000 follower give-away yet at this post right here?  We are ALMOST there before we draw the $25.00 gift certificate!  Tell your friends to check us out and help us reach our goal!

Okay...so here's how you can enter to win this gift certificate.  First, make sure you are a follower of Papercraft Star (of course!), and leave a comment here on this post (or at the first post that we wrote about this give-away right here) between now and Midnight (Eastern Time) on January 30, 2011 or when we reach 1000 followers, whichever is LATER. 

Next, get your name entered a second time if you post about this give-away on your blog (please leave us your blog address so we can check it out!), Tweet or Facebook about it if you don't have a blog!

And... get your name entered a third time if you put this button on your blog sidebar with a link to THIS POST!

Three awesome ways to win your choice of a $25.00 Gift Certificate to either Papertrey Ink or My Favorite Things!

Now go forth and craft (oh, and tell everyone about Papercraft Star too!)