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I have been seriously busy busy busy, and haven't gotten around to my favorite challenges sites as often as I have wanted in the past couple of weeks.  I sent Tracy a pic of my craft table, and she so kindly said it wasn't the worst she has ever seen.  But I am sure she is just being her kind self !!

 and of course, that is only 1/4 of the room.

Soooo, today's entry is going to City Crafter where they have this gorgeous picture

and a vintage garden theme !!

I am reading a book about Chinese immigrants, and came across a Welcome Blessing,

Happiness is coming through the gate.

How many wonderful things that could mean.

Here is my take on the photo, and the theme.

Hope your happiness is coming through the gate too !

Cardstock - Recollections

Design Paper - K & Co

Die Cut - Cuttlebug

Punches - Martha Stewart, EK Success

Flower & Bling - Recollections

Metal frame - Making Memories

Stamp & ribbon - stash

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Papercraft Star 55

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This week's challenge at Papercraft Star is one everyone always enjoys !!

Anything goes !!

Well my BF's youngest son got married on Saturday, so I made a wedding card for him and his gorgeous bride.  I have never seen a groom so happy - and calm !

The wedding was a black and white one, and so I bought myself a darling black and white patterned jacket.  Horrors - when I arrived I saw that I matched the table linens perfectly !!  Now, 2 of the same dresses at a gathering, ok, but matching the linens ??  Not quite my most embarrassing moment, but way up there !!

While the wedding was quite traditional, I chose to make a card that totally wasn't ! 

And here is the inside.  The pocket held a tag with our names on it, and a check.  The tag was made from one of The House Across the Bay's pastel digitals, to which I added two stamped corner flourishes.  It was truly one of a kind !!

Why not join us this week at Papercraft Star - what a fun and easy challenge !!

Cardstock - Cordinations
Design Paper - My Minds Eye, K & Co, Basic Gray, The House Across the Bay
Brad - Bo Bunny
Pearls - Thank you Tracy !!
Punch - Martha Stewart
Cuttlebug folder
Ribbon - Close to my Heart
Stamp - TPC
Walnut stain - Tsukinek
Ink - Versafine, Ranger Distress
Inside sentiment - K & Co Vellum sticker 

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Papercraft Star DT Call

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Hey everyone !

We are in need of a couple new designers at Papercraft Star, and maybe one of those is YOU !!  

Like Tracy said, we aren't necessarily looking for mega talent, but what we really need is commitment.  Have a look at this:

     We are looking for two new DT members.  We don’t require that you be an artist extraordinaire or have a zillion followers.  Those things are nice of course, but what we’re really looking for is someone who will be a committed member of this team.  The secret to a well run DT is the commitment of each team member to fulfill their obligations as part of the team.  When everyone does their part, everything will run smooth as silk.

     Of course we want being a part of our team to be a fun experience, but there are some things that we are looking for in our new DT members that are necessary to keep our team solid and well balanced.  These may sound like stuffy old rules, but each and every one is a very integral and important part of building a great challenge blog Design Team.  So here’s what we need:

1. Someone who loves crafting, being part of a team, and inspiring and encouraging others.
2. Although we don’t expect perfection, we do want to see quality work that will inspire our challenge participants
3. You must have a blog and be able to post well photographed projects (complete with supply lists) to promote the Papercraft Star weekly challenge
4. You must be 18 years of age or older and live in the United States/Canada.  International applicants will be considered for Guest Designer positions so we encourage you to apply.
5. You must be able to commit to a six month term on the team beginning September 1, 2011 and ending February 29, 2012
6. You must read the Papercraft Star Design Team Guidelines and be prepared to follow them as set forth
7. If selected you will be required to complete one challenge based assignment per week using product supplied by our sponsor, The House Across the Bay (please visit THATB etsy shop and check out the resources you will be required to work with).  You would also be expected to participate in any scheduled blog hops or special postings.

So what’s in this for you?

1. You’ll be part of a wonderfully supportive group of crafting ladies
2. Exposure for your own blog
3. Free product from our sponsor (please understand that the product is in digital form and CANNOT be shared.  It is for your personal use only.  Sharing digital files is illegal!)

If you would like to be a part of our growing team of fabulous crafters, please send the following to papercraftstar@yahoo.com (please use “Design Team Call” as your subject) and include:

1.       Full name, address, phone number and email address.
2.       A link to your personal blog, a link to your YouTube channel (if  applicable), and links to your online galleries (if applicable).
3.       Design teams, if any, that you work on now or have worked on in      the  past.
4.       Photos of three papercraft projects that represent both your style and your best work.
5.       Read the Design Team Guidelines and determine if you are willing to comply with the these requirements.
6.       Write a short paragraph about yourself telling us why you think you'll be a good fit for the Papercraft Star Design Team. Please also let us know that you read the Design Team Guidelines.
7.       Become a follower of Papercraft Star (if you are not already).
8.       Complete and email with your application a project created for Challenge 60 on the challenges page of the Papercraft Star Challenge blog - (this will be your first Design Team reveal if selected for the Team). The challenge: Steampunk—use something metal or go for the full fledged steampunk look

Submission deadline is August 4, 2011.  We will announce our Design Team members before the end of the month.

 

We have a lot of fun with our team, and we have gotten to be such great friends with one another !  Ok, sometimes we do get a little silly, I admit.

But that is what our craft is about - some hands on stuff, but lots of friendships and giggles too.  

Think about it.  You can always ask either me or Tracy if you have any questions at all !!!

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Papercraft Star 54

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Summer beaches are the theme this week at Papercraft Star !!  Here is our inspirational photo...

Now, never ever do Oregon summer beaches look like this.  Never.  Gray, cloudy, and rarely, a sparkly wave, with some sort of deep blue, but not turquoise.

So, not having ever been to a tropical beach (ok ok I did see a Florida beach when I was at Cape Kennedy, but I didn't get as far as the water) I had to imagine a blue ocean.

Stop in at Papercraft Star this week - I know you have a turquoise ocean in your past you can share !!

Don't forget our DT Call begins today.  Hope to see you enter !!

Cardstock - scrap of something

Design Paper - DCWV

Flip-flops - something I won somewhere, no name

Sentiment - Deja Views

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Papercraft Star 53

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This week at Papercraft Star we have this sketch.

When I put up the post this week for Papercraft Star I was so surprised at how differently we had done our cards.  I guess I say that a lot about sketches, but they do come out differently, don't they !

Here is mine:

Hope you will play along with us at Papercraft Star !!

AND in just a couple of weeks we do have a Design Team call coming up, along with some more announcements.  We have been so busy at Papercraft Star while things are transitioning - and we hope you will enjoy what we have new !!

Cardstock - Bazzill
Design Paper - K & Co
Bling - Recollections, Bo Bunny
Ribbons - stash
Stickles - Ranger
Sentiment - Deja Views

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Card Patterns 123

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Card Patterns has this wonderful sketch for us this week.  I believe I could have made my card in about 5 minutes, but for all the cutting and matting !  So, it really took about 10.  Unheard of in my household.

This was my first Asian card.  The paper is all from The House Across the Bay - the patterned one is actually a digital image of real Asian silk.  

Guess who came to visit me today ...

How cute is that little golf bag.  All his clubs were made by the professional club makers at Fiddlers Green here in Eugene.

  

Cardstock - Recollections

Designer digital paper - The House Across The Bay

Hemp - Stash

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Hi !!

I am 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 PCS 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 !!

CCCB 64

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This week City Crafter is hosting a bird/birdcage challenge !

It took me a little while to sort through my hundreds of birds, images, papers, stamps.  You know what I mean, don't deny it.  You have them too.

I don't often go for the "cute" stuff, but I do love cute birds.  Instead I end up with something from a bird book !  Hmmm.

Stop over at CCCB - what a nice bunch of ladies !

Cardstock - Recollections
Paper -K & Co
Punches - Martha Stewart
Flowers - Michael's $1 bin
Stamp - Inkadinkado
Ribbon & Jewelry cording - stash
Hand dyed seam binding - Hug Snug

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Papercraft Star 52

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Papercraft Star opens its 52nd challenge today with this photo as our inspiration.

Now, this reminds me of the sofas we had in our common area in our dorms when I was in college, in the middle ages.  The boys would have to wait here for us to descend the stairs in our skirts and twin sets, out for the evening, but back by curfew, 11:00.  Can you even imagine ...

We were in the last vestiges of the old world, and on the brink of a new one.

An old Chinese proverb says something like "may you live in interesting times."  The year I met Dom, 1968, was the most tumultuous of all those 1960 years - the death of Martin Luther King, and of Robert Kennedy, the Democratic convention with its massive uprising in the streets, riots all over the country.  Not to mention a terrible war, the older people believing it was just, the younger knowing it wasn't.  Yes, most interesting times.

But of course, we really want to remember the sweetness of it all too - a true belief we could find peace, people reaching out to one another, the thrill of the possibilities.  Today we benefit from that innocent time - greener living, less trash, better knowledge of the world around us, even community farms.  

Well, enough of all my wanderings ....

Cardstock - Coredinations

Design Paper - Bo Bunny

Brads, thread, LOVE charm - stash

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City Crafter 63

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Ros has a sketch for us this week at City Crafter Challenge ! 

I generally scrawl a sketch into a little notebook, so they are never precise.  If you are like I am, you probably measure every little inth to make sure it is right on target.  For me, not a good thing.  So I draw it, look at it only a couple of times, and hope it ends up kinda close.

Ok, now that I see them together, they are just the right amount of  near enough !

I want to make pink cards all the time, but the little card fairies draw me to something different.  This time I pooh-poohed them away.

Had breakfast this morning with my bestie, Rufina, at a quaint little restaurant on campus.  Eggs benedict with salmon - how good does that sound about now !  Dom is returning a borrowed item to Rufina's hub tonight, I will send this little card along with him as she treated me to that scrumptious feast.  {Heavens, if I go over it will be another 3 hours til I get home !!  Though she only lives around the corner, she and I don't dare drop in for "a minute", EVER.  Yak yak.}

Cardstock - Recollections

Design Paper - K & Co, Jenni Bowlin

Flowers - Prima

Stamp - Inkadinkado

Brad - Bo Bunny

Hand dyed seam binding - Hug Snug

Punch - Martha Stewart

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Papercraft Star 51

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Papercraft Star has hit its year anniversary, and we are now on to the second year of our papercrafting adventures !!

This week we had this picture for our inspiration.

I started off with one idea, and here is how it turned out ....

Now, I am not quite sure how I got from there to here, except that Spencer is flying home right this moment, and just missed his connecting flight from Salt Lake City.  His other g-ma says he ran for all he was worth.  I have been thinking about him returning, which prompted the paper with airline information.  

The sentiment is from TradeFish Designs, as we finish up their month long sponsorship.  Hope you have enjoyed all the manly sentiments and stamps we have used during June.  Please stop in and say howdy to our Cecilia - and have a look at her new endevours.  She will be coming out with new stamps every month!

Sentiment - TradeFish Designs

Design Paper  and tickets - GCD Studios

Coin envelope - The Kraft Outlet

Ticket with sentiment - Color Bok

Ink - Ranger Distress, Versafine

"passport", eyelet, string -  stash

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The House Across The Bay

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How amazing is this ....

My friend Rilly at The House Across the Bay is offering my readers a 20% discount for the month of July !!!  Just you, and no one else.

Not only does The House Across The Bay offer the usual ATC and inchie images, Rilly has just launched a Card Maker series - larger sizes made especially for the card maker.  

The discount code is CHAITEA20.  All month long.  Just for YOU !!

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Unscripted Sketches 112

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Another week of Unscripted Sketches !!  Thank you US ladies for a top three last week, Yippee !!   Here is a look at this week's sketch.

AND here is my take this week ....

The gorgeous French balloon image is from The House Across the Bay. ! 

Spencer returned safely from his trip to Indiana.  He had a lot of fun things to report on !  He missed his flight at Salt Lake City, and told us he ran through the airport so fast his pants fell down !  This poor baby just got out of size 2 pants, he can hardly hold up a pair anyway.  Well, he thought it was quite amusing, and not one bit embarrassing.  That is our boy.

Cardstock - Recollections
Design Paper - K & Co., Martha Stewart
Balloon image - The House Across the Bay etsy shop
Flourish - Thickers
Plate, brads, jewelry cording - stash

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Unscripted Sketches 111

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First of all, I would love to thank the ladies at Unscripted Sketches for awarding me a top 3 last week !!  That was very fun, and unexpected too !

Here is their sketch for this week.  I spent so much time on it I figured I should at least post it - even though it is so far out of my comfort zone I have no idea if it is really terrible or simply just awful.  Isn't it funny how that works.  Anyway, not my style one bitty bit, but it did make itself...

And now, (as Monty Python was wont to say) for something completely different.

Cardstock - Coredinations

Design Paper - Cosmo Cricket, Fancy Pants, gcd studios

Stamp - Inkadinkado

Stickles - Ranger Ink

Frame and sentiment - K & Co.

Brads - stash

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TKJ 24 - Guest Designer

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This week I am the guest designer over at the Kraft Journal. One very cool thing about this challenge site is that they use Kraft and grungy type things from the Kraft Outlet.

The challenge this week is WELCOME SUMMER - and I always think of all the books I plan to read during the summer, and all the memories I have of books from the past. My dad took us to the library every week, and packed a giant suitcase with the books we were returning. I believe he presented a very very strange picture lugging that baby blue thing to the library each week.

I am not the frequent library visitor I was, even last year, as I now own a Kindle. I love my Kindle, but the library will always be a destination for me.

The Wizard of Oz book is actually some corrugated cardboard bound with masking tape (covered with ink) and a digi book cover image from The House Across the Bay.

Hope my card told YOU a story. I was very happy making it.

Library card, card holder, and fiber - The Kraft Outlet
Digital image on the Wizard book - The House Across the Bay
Kraft Cardstock - Recollections
Library card design paper - Bo Bunny
Glasses rub on - Michaels $1 bin
Ink and paint - Ranger
Word Rub ons - Close to my heart
Ticket and A sticker - Tim Holtz
Micron pen
Brads & staples - stash

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