Saturday, June 30, 2012

Winners for Lesley's Sketch Challenge

Happy Saturday! Lesley here! Wow, so many amazing entries this week and so difficult to narrow it down!  I have chosen 4 Cut Above's this week! Thank you to everyone who joined in and played along with my sketch! I am sorry I could not comment on all the submissions this week, life has been so very hectic! But I did managed to get around and see all the beautiful submissions.












Mikki Sarkisyan of 


I chose Mikki's card because of the bold impact the flowers made in bright pink against the neutral background. The designer paper is a lovely background for her stunning floral image and the bow is so pretty! I love how she used the sketch! Congratulations Mikki!!

Tomorrow Ann has a wonderful theme challenge all ready to go and the brand new design tea will be joining us for their very first challenge!

Thanks for stopping by!
Lesley and the Paper Players


Friday, June 29, 2012

Some Exciting News!

Happy Friday! July is just around the corner and with the new month, comes some new design team members. I have invited 4 new teammates to join us for a 6 month term and I am thrilled that they all accepted! Our new design team members are:

Amy White


I have asked them to share a little about themselves...here is what they had to say!



Hiya! My name is Amy White and I live in Bristol, England. I come from a creative family and grew up loving pencils and paper and all things arty. I was introduced to card making through a class I attended around 8 years ago and was instantly hooked (I wanted to buy eveything in the shop lol!). A couple of years later I discovered the wonders of Splitcoast Stampers and online crafting, and through this was introduced to Stampin Up. I went along to a taster session and ended up becoming a demonstrator. I've met so many great people through this hobby and one of my favourite things to do is teaching classes in my home, where I have a great group of ladies come to chat, make cards and have lots of fun! I trained as a teacher and currently work in an education position in our city's Cathedral. I have a long-suffering husband who puts up with paper and stamps all over the place as well as four kitties who enjoy sitting right in the middle of my craft table and playing with scrap bits of paper! I am so excited to be joining the Paper Players DT and I look forward to playing along with the fabulously talented design team.






Howdy folks! I'm Jen Arkfeld and live in the rolling hills of the heartland - Iowa! I was born and raised in Iowa, have ventured to other parts of the country to live briefly and was beckoned back to this fine state.  It's where I met my husband, Andy and where we prefer to raise our three children; Will, Alex and Aubrie.  I have always been a crafty soul, testing the waters of several mediums, but it's paper crafting that has me hooked.  I discovered it about 6 years ago when a co-worker asked me to take a card making class with her, and I haven't looked back!  I became a Stampin' Up! demonstrator shortly after that, and have been fortunate enough to become a stay at home mom now!  I think that being a paper crafter is the best job I could ever have.  I don't ever dread going to work any more!!!  I've met so many fabulous people in this industry and am now thrilled to be able to join The Paper Players as a Design Team Member!





Hi, I am Helen (aka H or H2) & I live “down under” in Melbourne, Australia. I’m a wife, mum & papercraft addict! I’ve always enjoyed arty pursuits in various forms, but have only recently rediscovered the wonderful world of stamping. I love to experiment, stretching both myself & my stash, & then share my discoveries. I am very thankful for meeting so many amazing artists & making fantastic friendships, due to a shared passion for this ever evolving hobby. I'm honoured to be invited to join the Design Team at The Paper Players for the next 6 months & am very excited to be working with this incredibly talented group of ladies.




Hello, my name is Dawn Easton and I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I'm a wife, mom and work full time. My spare time is spent stamping as much as possible. I started paper crafting about 8 years ago when my daughter started school and I needed a hobby. Over the years I've done several things and been fortunate enough to be on many different design teams as well as the Splitcoast Dirty Dozen back in 2008. Recently I signed back up to be a SU! demo and look forward to making some new friends. I'm lucky enough to have a very supportive family when it comes to this hobby and in fact they love to shop and create along with me! I am looking forward to this opportunity given to me to work with some amazing ladies here at the Paper Player's Challenge Blog!


Thank you ladies! We are looking forward to having you with us as Paper Players for the next term!! Join us on Sunday for a fun Theme Challenge from Ann, when our new design team will participate in their first challenge with us as designers!


Thank you for stopping by!
The Paper Players Design Team

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

There's Still Time to Play in Challenge #101---Lesley's Sketch Challenge

There's still time to play in Challenge #101:  Lesley's Sketch Challenge.  To see the original post and to view the Design Team inspiration cards, click HERE! We can't wait to see what you create! But hurry...the challenge ends Friday, June 29th at Noon, PDT!

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Challenge #101-A Sketch from Lesley

Welcome to Challenge #101 at the Paper Players! Thank you to everyone who took part in last week's 100th Celebration Challenge! Lesley here! This week I am the hostess and I have a sketch for you to try! It can have a lot of layers or can be clean and simple!!! Before we get to the design team samples, I would like to welcome the talented Vicki Burdick to our team for the next month. Our lovely Nance Leedy is off on a blogging vacation and Vicki has kindly agreed to fill in for her! Welcome Vicki!!! 


The Paper Players Design Team

Vicki Burdick

Jaydee

Our Rules:
***Only combine THREE challenges TOTAL. 
  1. You must include our graphic and a link back to our challenge.
  2. A Direct link to your blog is appreciated.
  3. Any offensive or inappropriate submissions will be respectfully deleted. 
We can't wait to see what you create!  Won't you please join us this week?

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Winners for our 100th Challenge!

Wow, a lot of wonderful submissions and we were excited to see some of our favourite challenges rekindled from the past 100! Thank you to everyone who joined us!  It is always challenging to choose winners! The design team have chosen their Cut Above Winners for the week:



Our Headliner and winner of the Blog Hop is...
Lesley's choice: Julie Gearinger
I chose Julie's amazing card to be our Headliner this week! The way she used this new stamp set from Stampin' Up was so inspiring, the vintage feel with the sponged and torn edges is perfect with this set! I love how she used our past colour challenge to create this card! And isn't that bow amazing! Congratulations Julie on being the Headliner for our 100th Challenge! Please email your mailing address to us and the team will send their 100th Celebration cards to you! 

Tomorrow we have a Guest Designer with us, who is filling in for Nance as she takes a wee blogging break! Who could it be? You will have to wait to see!!!

Thank you for stopping by!
The Paper Players

Thursday, June 21, 2012

There's Still Time to Play in Our 100th Challenge

There is still time to play in our 100th challenge, which is to simply choose any of our past challenges.  Need a review of what they are?  Here is a link to all of them:

But hurry! The challenge ends Friday, June 22 at Noon (PST).  We can't wait to see what you create!

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Exciting News....Welcome to our 100th Challenge Celebration!

Wow! 100 Challenges at the Paper Players and two years of fun! Thank you to my wonderful design team, our fantastic past guest designers and to all of our participants! Doesn't seem that long ago, when I started the Paper Players Challenge on my blog with LeAnne and Jaydee on my newly formed design team. 

Here is this week's challenge...
choose any of our past challenges! 
Here is a link to all the past challenges created by Jaydee...

Please no ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGES...thank you! 

BLOG CANDY ALERT!
  1. We are offering all of our blog hop cards to our Headliner this week!  We will mail them to you!
  2. So go ahead and HOP along to the design team blogs to see their favourite challenge from the past two years...and then create a card with one of our past challenges and link it up!

Have fun hopping!

The Paper Players Design Team


Our Rules:
***Only combine THREE challenges TOTAL. 
  1. You must include our graphic and a link back to our challenge.
  2. A Direct link to your blog is appreciated.
  3. Any offensive or inappropriate submissions will be respectfully deleted. 
We can't wait to see what you create!  Won't you please join us this week?

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Winners for Lesley's Colour Challenge

Thank you to everyone who played along with my colours this past week! There were so many awesome entries, it was difficult to narrow it down! I chose 4 cards that caught my eye to be our Cut Above Honorable Mentions this week! Congratulations ladies! What wonderful cards! Please feel free to grab your winner badge if you would like it for your blog!





Angie


Tracey


Monica



And our Headliner this week is...

Sue




I was amazed by Sue's pretty card! The grid style background, with the different colours in the squares looks so cool! I love that flagged sentiment coming off of the main circle and popped up on dimensionals. The colours come across as clean and crisp! A wonderful card! Congratulations Sue!!

Thank you to everyone who joined us! We hope you will join in the fun tomorrow at our 100th Challenge Blog Hop! We are excited to celebrate two years as a Challenge Blog and as a design team!

Thursday, June 14, 2012

There's Still Time to Play in Challenge 99...Lesley's Colors

There's still time to play in Challenge #99:  Lesley's Color Challenge.  To see the original post and to view the Design Team inspiration cards, click HERE! We can't wait to see what you create! But hurry...the challenge ends Friday, June 15th at Noon, PDT!

 

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Paper Players #99-Colours from Lesley


Welcome to the Paper Players. Lesley here! This week I am the hostess and I decided to choose some bright and happy colours! Lucky Limeade, Melon Mambo and Basic Gray. And did you notice that this is our 99th Challenge! WOW! When I created this challenge 2 years ago on my blog, I never believed it could become what is has become! I have made some wonderful friends with my Paper Player team! Thank you ladies! Next week we are having a special 100th Challenge Celebration!!! But that is next week! For now, the team has created some amazing samples to get your creative juices flowing, I hope you get the chance to play along with my colours this week! 

The Paper Players Design Team

Our Rules:Only combine THREE challenges TOTAL. 
  1. You must include our graphic and a link back to our challenge.
  2. A Direct link to your blog is appreciated.
  3. Any offensive or inappropriate submissions will be respectfully deleted. 

We can't wait to see what you create!  Won't you please join us this week?

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Winners - Challenge #98 Jaydee's Summertime Challenge

WOW!   It was really hard choosing winners this week.  I felt a little like Father Christmas.  I made my list, I checked it and I checked it again.   Thank you all for joining us and sharing your truly fabulous projects.

Here are my choices for Cut Above this week - in no particular order.


Justin

Allisa


Gisela

Erna

Vicki



Now for our Headliner.   

Dawn


What's not to love about Dawn's amazing card? :-)  The soft blue and white background remind me of the sky on a warm summer day.  The cut grass with the stitching.   The colors of the buttons perfectly echo the colors of the flowered DSP.   The stitching around the card echo the tails of the kites.  This card just made me happy and I immediately visualized young children running, laughing, through green fields under a warm summer sun.   Dawn, congratulations on being my Headliner this week and thank you for creating such vivid imagery in my head :-)

We invite all of our winners this week to grab their badges for their blogs.

Now....... we hope you will join us again tomorrow.  The very talented Lesley has chosen a color combo guaranteed to get your crafting mojo going.

Jaydee

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

There's Still Time to Play in Jaydee's Summertime Challenge

There's still time to play in Challenge #98:  Jaydee's Summertime Theme Challenge.  To see the original post and to view the Design Team inspiration cards, click HERE! We can't wait to see what you create! But hurry...the challenge ends Friday, June 8th at Noon, PDT!

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Challenge # 98 - Jaydee's Theme Challenge

Hi Everyone.  Jaydee here and I'm thrilled to be hosting the challenge this week.  

Once again we were wowed by the number of fabulous projects you submitted for LeAnne's sketch challenge.  We do appreciate you playing along with us every week.

The challenge this week is to create a project showcasing something that represents summertime for you.  We can't wait to see what you do with this challenge.


Now, let's see what our fabulous design team have created for you as inspiration. 

The Paper Players Design Team




Our Rules:Only combine THREE challenges TOTAL.
You must include our graphic and a link back to our challenge.
A Direct link to your blog is appreciated.
Any offensive or inappropriate submissions will be respectfully deleted.
We can't wait to see what you create!  Won't you please join us this week?

Please link up your creation here! All stamping products are welcome!  Thanks for joining the Paper Players this week.  This linky will close on Friday, June 8th at noon (PST).