Challenge Blog Hop-Wednesday

Wednesday Giveaway: Today we have another gift certificate to Heart & Soul Rubber Stamp Company.

Congrats to our winner Crystal:
"My favorite brand of paper is Close to My Heart. I just love how they are already coordinated."
Crystal please e-mail us at practicalscrappers@gmail.com

Transparency Challenge - Cricut/Cuttlebug Projects

Today we have projects from our Cricut/Cuttlebug Design Team using transparencies. As I said yesterday - we have had an amazing week of projects - today is no exception!

I have enjoyed working with the transparencies more than I expected.

For both of my projects today I ran my transparency through the Cuttlebug. It works beautifully for that! On my layout I also made my flower on the Cricut with a pattern I read about from Sandy Windsor. It wasn't too hard and was fun to put together!

On a fun note-Angela & I are both in the picture on my layout. I'm in the purple and she's the short haired red-head (we have one person in between us). I wish we were next to each other because it would be a great picture for the sidebar :).

Cricut/Cuttlebug Transparency Projects

Kerri

Jamie: Card our for Publication -Sorry!

Meg

Nadya

Jenny T

Samantha

Transparencies Day Two

On Tuesdays we always feature cards. Today is an extra special treat - because these cards are just incredible. I am blown away with what the design team has done this week with transparencies!

My card is completely made of a transparency - a super fun thing to try! I had my little girl put her painted hand on there and then just added a little to it. My idea was inspired by something similar Jennifer McGuire had done. Who doesn't love to see a kiddos hand print?

Check out these cards...we'll see you tomorrow with our Cricut/Cuttlebug projects!

Don't forget the deadline to enter this challenge is 5:00 ET on Friday.

Challenge Blog Hop-Tuesday

TUESDAY GIVEAWAY: The Eyelet Outlet is our sponsor today. They are giving away your choice of either two sets of your choice or 40% off an order.

Carolyn is our winner of the Eyelet Outlet giveaway:
"These cards are so cool, haven't tried this yet. I'm a follower and post a card for blog hop challenge."

Transparency Cards

Brenda




Jessica

Jamie

Nadya

Kim S

Monday giveaway winner

Monday's Winner: As chosen by the random number generator is Kerri

"I'd love to see a challenge with paper clips Christine and Angela!! I've got so many in my stash of all shapes and colors....I need motivation ladies to use them up...LOL!!"

This Week's Challenge: Transparencies

This week's challenge is to use transparencies-anything that is clear will work! For the layout above I used a transparency I have had for years (the letters in the background). This layout was a challenge because the colors were way out of my comfort zone. I guess that is why it took me so long to use it! Have fun working with clear items this week and we look forward to seeing what you create! The deadline for entry is 5:00 ET on Friday!

Transparency Layouts

Marjorie

Heidi

Kim S

Barbara

Brenda

Kristin


Kerri

Challenge Blog Hop-Sunday Prize Winner

The winner of the files from Paperthreads is Patty:

"Hi I am new, I have a cricut, and wow it is hard to choose a favorite cartridge, i think it depends on what you are looking for and the season, one that i use a lot is doodlecharms, so I will say at this moment doodlecharms"

Patti please e-mail us at practicalscrappers@gmail.com to claim your prize!

Gift Card Holder

Since our challenge is to use die cuts and our Sunday prize is electronic files-I thought we would showcase a project using both for you. Our talented designer Jamie makes all sorts of neat things including this gift card holder. You can find directions for it by clicking HERE.

Challenge Blog Hop-Saturday

SATURDAY GIVEAWAY:
A $10 gift certificate from Heart & Soul Rubber Stamp Company.

Our winner is Lori!
"I'm a new follower.
My blog is here:
http:lorispurplegiraffes.blogspot.com
Thanks for the fun challenge!"

Lori please e-mail us at practicalscrappers@gmail.com to claim your prize!

Friday Giveaway Winner

If you have ended up here from Peachy Keen Stamps...this isn't where you want to be! Our most recent info can be found by clicking here!

FRIDAY GIVEAWAY: $15 gift certificate to Scrappin Sports Stuff

We used Random.org to pick a number...numbers were based on the order in the comments and then new followers were added a second time to the end.

Congratulations to Lisa

"I became a follower yeah! The color use the most when scrapping is PINK! I have 2 girls which are usually the stars of my work so I use PINK the most! Thanks for the chance to play! I will be working on the blog hop challenge this weekend!"

Lisa - please e-mail us @ practicalscrappers@gmail.com to claim your prize!

Felt Challenge Winners

Christine's Pick
This one caught my eye because I always need fresh ideas for scrapping water layouts. I feel like I've done so many of them, that I am tapped out!
Great job Joni!

Angela's Pick

I love making mini albums and I think Krista's album with felt embellishments is really sweet. Take a look at the whole book! Thanks, Krista!

Congrats

Congrats to Kim Sparks our winner for the Scrapsketch Challenge! Thanks to all who participated!

Tomorrow the fun begins!

Tomorrow, along with several others, we begin a Challenge Blog Hop. Here at Practical Scrappers we will have a special week-long challenge just for the blog hop. We will have a prize for that challenge! We will also be giving away prizes from our sponsors throughout the week. Check in each day to find out how to win prizes!!! We encourage you to check in with all the blogs in the blog hop beginning at Scrapsketch. But don't forget to check back in with us daily-we'll have prizes and fun you won't want to miss!

We'll have lots more information posted tomorrow-we look forward to you joining in the fun then!

It's Wednesday and here's more felt ideas!

Hasn't this been a great week of design team work? Today we have Cricut/Cuttlebug Projects with some more great inspiration. When I saw these flowers-I knew they had to go with Winnie the Pooh! What a fun layout this was to put together! I think I like felt more now than I did last week!

Don't forget the deadline to enter is 5:00 ET on Friday

Focus: Felt

When I think of felt, I think of Sunday School felt boards and small crafts my mom made when we were little. She is a talented seamstress and, well, I’m not. So after I figured that out, I tried to stay away from fabric. But over the last few years I’ve seen the potential that fabric could have on my pages and I’ve tried a few things. I love depth and texture, so felt should be a material I use. But I was worried about this medium only being appropriate for little girl pages. My experience, and the layouts of so many talented women, proves otherwise.

Not feeling confident about creating my own embellishments for this one, I started looking. I found a felt pumpkin placemat 50% off and immediately knew what I wanted to do with it. Originally the pumpkin was quite a bit wider than this, so I trimmed it down to fit my page. I’m enjoying the texture and the materials I ended up using. When you start using fabric, you might find other new possibilities unfolding.

I think felt embellishments would be great for a mini-book. Used consistently they would make it easy to create unity among pages. Just the little details add so much. Kim S’s page is a great example of this with her corner, border, and heart. So cute. What Katherine did with borders is a great idea – they serve so many purposes here. Circles were all the rage this week, and I especially love Brae and Laurel’s – very different layouts that both utilize felt’s full potential to make a statement. Jenny T’s creative approach reminds us YES we can cut fabric with our die cut machines, so now what’s your excuse? J

Now that I’ve seen the potential of felt, I can’t stop with these great examples! I can’t resist pointing out Craftalicious Caper’s submission to this week’s challenge. These details are fantastic! I stumbled across the fabric queen Tinia Willis. Check out her creative ideas and sweet card here.

Felt frames, felt books – you can do about anything with this stuff. Of course, these aren’t really new ideas. Felt has been a favorite for decades. And it makes sense that a nostalgic hobby like scrapbooking would find a place for it. If you don’t have felt in your stash already, this is one week when I’m going to say – go get some! And if you do, let these designers inspire you. Enjoy your supplies!

Felt Cricut/Cuttlebug Projects

Jenny T

Kerri

Samantha

Jamie

Nadya

Meg

This week's challenge is Felt

This week we are trying to use up felt. I managed to use one container of felt flowers on four different projects-I can't wait to see what you do!

Submissions will be by Friday at 5:00 ET.

Go check out the great layouts we have from the weekend contest andput your vote in for your favorite!

Today we have felt cards from our fabulous designers on team A, if you enjoy their work go to their blog and tell them so!

Felt Cards

Christine

Kim S

Brae

Felt Layouts

Kim G

Stephanie

Kim S

Jessica

Katherine

Brae

Laurel

Time to vote

The layouts from the weekend contest are posted here-take a few minutes and pick your favorite! Voting ends on Thursday.

Let the Weekend Contest Begin!

Thanks to Stephanie from Scrapsketch for her awesome sketch! Complete and submit this to us by Sunday at 11:00 ET. The layouts will be posted and up for voting here on Practical Scrappers on Monday. The winner will receive a doodling template from Crafter's Workshop.

If you are a new follower-please scroll down to the post about new followers and leave a comment so we can enter you into the contest as well for a chance at a Doodling Template.