Exciting Changes at The Paper Players!

Greetings everyone!  The Design Team thought that you might need a little excitement here at The Paper Players to keep you coming back to our challenges in 2015.  We are thrilled to announce SIX fabulous new additions to our team.

First, please join us in welcoming 3 new Guest Designers to the team.  These creative gals will work with us through June, 2015 and we are so excited they agreed to join us.  We asked them to tell us a little bit about themselves:

Debbie Mageed
Secret Stamper

Hello! I am so happy to be a Guest Designer for The Paper Players! I have been a Stampin' Up! demonstrator since 2011 and love classic, layered cards. I have lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan for 11 years and love this wonderful city! I am married to Aly, my wonderful husband and have 4 children, ages 35 to 17. Stamping is a wonderful way to transition to being an empty nester since my youngest daughter will be heading to college next year!

Karren Johnson
Stamping Stuff

Hi!  My name is Karren Johnson and I'm so happy to be guest designing at The Paper Players for the next six months.  I live in Christchurch, New Zealand with my other half, Pete, our two sons Matt (17) and William (12) and our dog, Dexter.  I've been stamping for about 12 years now and my style has evolved over that time to the point where I feel most comfortable creating clean cards with lots of white space.  At the time of writing this, I am still enjoying a hiatus from working life but normally I work in the accounting/finance field.

Shannon Jaramillo

Shannon Kay Paperie

Greetings! My name is Shannon Jaramillo. I have been a scrapbooker since 2001. I discovered card making in general and Stampin’ Up! in particular in 2010. I signed up as a demonstrator immediately and have never looked back!  I live in Southern California with my wonderful husband and have two fine grown sons living close by. I process payroll by day and play with paper by night. My style tends toward the clean and simple with a fair amount of white space.  I am SO excited and honored to have been invited to be a guest designer with The Paper Players for the next six months. I look forward to the challenge of designing along side this talented group of card makers! I can’t wait to get started!!

And, we can't wait for them to get started!  Now, we did say there were SIX didn't we?  And that's only three....so the next three must be...new members of The Design Team!  We know you will love seeing their work each week and enjoy the challenges they host.  Please give a warm welcome to our three newest members of The Design Team!

Claire Broadwater

Claire Creates Cards

Joanne James

The Crafty Owl's Blog

Laurie Schmidt

Stampin' Up North with Laurie

We are delighted to begin working with all these talented gals and look forward to seeing their creations each week!  Please join us for their premiere challenge, and our first of 2015, on Sunday January 4th.  Until then, from all of us at The Paper Players, warm wishes for a Happy New Year!

PP225 Winners: Nance's Black Tie Theme Challenge

WOW, when we said FANCY you all really took it to heart.  Gorgeous creations in the gallery this week--thank you so much to everyone who helped us close out the Paper Players year in style! We so appreciate you playing along with us.

Thank you, also, to our amazing crew of Guest Designers--you have been such a wonderful addition to our team and we hope you will still play along with us each week!

Now...before we get to the Headliner, let's see what caught the eye of our design team:


And now to our Headliner:

Bhavana 

BlenDiNg ArT aNd CrAfT

Oh my, Bhavana's beautiful card caught my eye right away.  Blue and green for the holidays make my heart sing and this vellum poinsettia is gorgeous!  The textured embossing and clean layout really let the beauty of the colored vellum pop.  This stunning card has a  a quiet elegance just perfect for the winter holidays.  Congratulations, Bhavana for being a stand-out at our Black Tie event...you're my choice for Headliner!

Winners, please pick up your badges--available HERE!  As the holidays approach, we are taking a much-needed break.  Please join us again on Sunday January 4, 2015 for another awesome year of challenges!  Until then...we wish you Happy Holidays and all the best in the new year!

There Is Still Time to Play in Challenge #225: Nance's Black Tie Theme Challenge

There is still time to play in Challenge #225:  Nance's Black Tie Theme Challenge! To see the original post and to view the Design Team's inspiration cards, click HERE. We can't wait to see what you create! This two-week challenge ends Friday, December 19th at Noon, PST.

PP225: Black Tie Theme Challenge from Nance

Hello, friends, Nance here!  This week, we have a very special challenge for you.  Special because it honors a wonderful group of Guest Designers who are sharing their last project with us today.  Andrea, Claire, Joanne, Laurie ,Yapha and Mike (who had to leave in October) are creative, hard-working and among our very best Guest Designers.  We are so sad to see them go but thank them for making our team better over the last six months; it's been a pleasure.

So what do you do when you've got a special occasion?  You make it FANCY, of course!  Our Black Tie Theme challenge calls for Holiday Projects that are Fancy.  What is fancy?  Sparkle!  Shine!  Texture!  It's a project with a little something extra.  You know...the one that requires a litle extra postage!  Just remember, if it's fancy to you, it's fancy to us!  So, let's see how the Design Team dressed up fancy!

The Paper Players Design Team

Ann Schach

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy

Sandy Mathis

Andrea Whisman

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt

Yapha Mason

Jaydee

Anne Marie Hile (on leave)

With this busy time of year we want to give everyone time to play along so Challenge PP225 will run for two weeks--through Friday, December 19th.  Also, this will be our last challenge of 2014.  After this challenge, the Design Team will take a much needed break until January. So help us close out 2014 in style!

Challenge Rules:

1. Create a NEW paper, or digital, project.
2. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
3. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
4. Please link your card to no more than three challenges, TOTAL. Entries linked to more than 3 challenges, including ours, will be deleted without notification.
5. Have fun!

PP224 Winners - Jaydee's Tic Tac Toe Challenge

Hi everyone!  Well, there was an amazing display of fabulous cards in the gallery this week and you made it very hard for us to choose our winners.  We are so grateful that you play along with us each week and it's great to see so many return players :-) Before we get to the Headliner, let's see what caught the eye of our design team: Rach  lnrstamp I absolutely fell in love with the clean lines of Rach's card.  The touch of silver embossing and silver glimmer paper frame was stunning.  The pop of red over the green Season's Greetings was just the right touch.  This card is CAS perfection.  Congrats, Rach on being my Headliner this week. We hope that you will join us for our final challenge this week - and it's a beauty.  It's also our last challenge with our fabulous guest designers.  We hope you help us close out the year in style.

There Is Still Time to Play in Challenge #224: Jaydee's Tic Tac Toe Challenge

There is still time to play in Challenge #224:  Jaydee's Tic Tac Toe 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! The challenge ends Friday, December 5th at Noon, PST.