PP398 Challenge Winners

Hi Everyone.  
Thank you to all of you who played along this week.  The variety of creations was amazing and we all had such fun visiting with each and everyone of your cards.

It was a tough decision, but we finally settled on our winners.

Before we get to my choice for Headliner, let's see what caught the eye of the Design Team this week.

Before we get to my choice for Headliner, let's see what caught the eye of the Design Team this week.

And the Design Team selections for A Cut Above are....

1. Claire's Choice:Wei's chubby penguin playing at the beach is a winner! CAS perfection!	2. Annie's Choice: Patricia's Bird Crazy card is perfectly CAS with a beautiful color combo! Congrats!	3. LeAnne's Choice: Birgit's little bough of birds is so cute, especially with the feathery accents!	4. Sandy: I love all the detail of Julie's cute little quilted owl and her fabulous sponged background!
5. Joanne's Choice: Colleen's creatively framed seascape is the perfect backdrop for her perky seagull!	6. Laurie's choice: I love Trina's fun beach scene! Awesome CAS card...congrats!	7. Elizabeth's Choice: Laurie's sweet birds are colored to perfection. A simple & lovely card! Congrats

Now on to our HEADLINER:

JENNY

Jennystampsup

 

Jenny's gorgeous bird was so perfectly watercolored.  I also love how she anchored the bird with the abstract leaves and the branch.  There is so much wonderful white space around here bird and that space allows the bird to shine.  The white embossing on the grey cardstock was the perfect finishing touch.   Gorgeous card.    Jenny, congratulations on being my HEADLIENR this week.

I hope you will join us tomorrow for Laurie's fabulous sketch challenge and..... remember.... we are one week away from our 400th EXTRAVAGANZA!

Jaydee

There is still time to play in Challenge #398: Jaydee's Clean And Simple Challenge

There is still time to play in Challenge #398: Jaydee's Clean And Simple 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 challenge ends Friday, June 22nd at Noon, PST.

PP398 - A Clean-and-Simple Challenge from Jaydee

Hi Everyone.  Jaydee here and it is my pleasure to host our 398th challenge!  It's a CLEAN and SIMPLE challenge with a theme.  We loved the wonderful creations that you submitted using Nance's fresh and bold color scheme last week and we can't wait to see what you do with our challenge this week.

Our design team have created some fabulous cards as inspiration for you.

The Paper Players Design Team

Claire Broadwater

Jaydee

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy

off this week

Sandy Mathis

Annie Abrahamson

Jan Clothier

Elizabeth Stewart

What do we mean by CAS?  Here are some reminders for you:

• Minimal layers and embellishments
• Plenty of open space, aka "white" space
• Simple and uncluttered  Thanks for playing along with us - we wouldn't be here without you.

We hope you will be playing along with us in a couple of weeks as we celebrate our FOUR HUNDRETH CHALLENGE!!!!  (I don't generally use a lot of ! but I think 400 challenges deserves a vew more !!!! :-)  We have lots of wonderful things in store for you, so don't forget to check back.  Now it's over to you and we can't wait to see what you create.
 

Challenge Rules:

1. Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
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 four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
5. Please be considerate of our requests; entries that do not follow any of these rules will be deleted without notification.
6. Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!

PP397 Challenge Winners

There were so many beautiful creations in the gallery this week!  We enjoy seeing how each of you are inspired by our challenges, it's always a thrill.  Thank you to everyone who played along with us.  Before we get to my choice for Headliner, let's see what caught the eye of the Design Team this week.

And now for our Headliner:

Danni Bindel
Danni's Dreams

Danni's beautiful card uses the silhouette and masking techniques, two favorites of mine.  Her sunset background uses all the challenge colors to great effect and the masked panel keeps the bright colors from being too dominant.  I love the look of the silhouette flowers and butterflies against this backdrop. She also achieves a perfect visual balance in her layout with the largest butterfly and sentiment on one side balanced by the tallest flower on the left.  All together it makes a stunning card worthy of our  headliner, congratulations Danni!

Thank you again to everyone for playing along with us.  Congratulations to all our winners, please pick up your badges here.  Come back tomorrow for a fun Clean-and-Simple Challenge from Jaydee!

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There is still time to play in Challenge #397: Nance's Colour Challenge

There is still time to play in Challenge #397: Nance's Colour 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 challenge ends Friday, June 15th at Noon, PST.

PP397 - A Color Challenge from Nance

Hi there friends!  Thank you to everyone who played along with Joanne's animal antics theme challenge last week--so many fun cards in the gallery.   Nance here with a fun color challenge for you...kind of tropical...kind of playful...kind of whatever you want it to be!  We just hope you're inspired to play along.

The Paper Players Design Team

Claire Broadwater

Jaydee

Joanne James

off this week

Laurie Schmidt

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy

Sandy Mathis

off this week

Annie Abrahamson

Jan Clothier

Elizabeth Stewart

Challenge Rules:

1. Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
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 four challenges, TOTAL including ours.
5. Please be considerate of our requests; entries that do not follow the rules will be deleted without notification.
6. Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!

PP396 Challenge Winners

Hi everyone, Joanne here - what a wonderful selection of animals you've shared in the gallery this week! Big and small and all shapes and sizes, you clearly enjoyed getting creative with your animals. Before we get to my choice for Headliner, let's see what caught the eye of the Design Team this week.

And now for our Headliner:

Cornelia - Stempel Spass (Fun Stamping)

Cornelia's cute kitty really made me chuckle - as angelic as she looks, I'm sure she would be mischief for those birds! I love the combination of the stamped image, grounded by the washi tape, and the dry embossing for the uncoloured birds on a wire, almost as if they aren't meant to be seen. The combination of image and sentiment truly sums up my theme; congratulations Cornelia on being my headliner this week!

Thank you again to everyone for playing along with us.  Congratulations to all our winners, please pick up your badges here.  Come back tomorrow for a fun Color Challenge from Nance!

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There is still time to play in Challenge #396: Joanne's Theme Challenge

There is still time to play in Challenge #396: Joanne's 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 challenge ends Friday, June 8th at Noon, PST.

PP396 - A Theme Challenge from Joanne

Hi everyone it's Joanne here with a new challenge for you this week! Firstly, a big thank you to everyone who played along with LeAnne's sketch challenge last week - we loved seeing the different ways you interpreted the sketch. This week I have a fun theme challenge for you: animal antics. I would like you to feature any animals on your card - big or small, it's up to you. I look forward to seeing what you create!

The Paper Players Design Team

Claire Broadwater

Jaydee

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy

Sandy Mathis

Annie Abrahamson

Jan Clothier

Elizabeth Stewart

Challenge Rules:

1. Create a NEW paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
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 four challenges, TOTAL. Entries linked to more than 4 challenges, including ours, will be deleted without notification.
5. Have fun!

PP395 Challenge Winners

Hi everyone!! LeAnne here, thanks so much for wonderful creations you share this week, using my sketch!!  So fun to see them all!

Before we get to my choice for Headliner, let's see what caught the eye of the Design Team this week.

And now for our Headliner:

Aromas and Art
Su Mohr

Su's gorgeous vellum-embellished jar with the beautiful florals in the background really caught my eye!  The colors are so soft and serene...a wonderful take on the sketch, too!  Congrats, Su, for being my Headliner this week!

Thank you again to everyone for playing along with us.  Congratulations to all our winners, please pick up your badges here.  Come back tomorrow for a fun Theme Challenge from Joanne!

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