Sunday, July 20, 2025

PP747 - A Clean-and-Simple Challenge from LeAnne

Hello, stampers!  LeAnne here with a new challenge for you this week---Clean-and-Simple!  This should be a fun one, since it could be used for masculine or feminine cards!  Just remember to keep it CLEAN and SIMPLE---use only a minimum of layers, stamps and embellishments!  



Let's see what the Design Team has come up with!

The Paper Players Design Team





Anne Marie Hile
On leave






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!

Saturday, July 19, 2025

PP746 Challenge Winners

Hi, Stampers! It's Ann! I want to thank everyone for playing in my color challenge this week. There were so many beautiful cards gracing the gallery. The Design Team loved what you created. We certainly had our work cut out for us in picking out the winners.  Before we get to my choice for HEADLINER, let's see who was selected as our three top choices for CUTS ABOVE:









And now for our Headliner!




Gorgeous freesia die cut flowers steal the show on Michele's beautiful card. While a yellow die cut "ribbon" connects everything together, brick embossing provides a lovely backdrop for the wreath. Michele, you showcased the challenge colors perfectly. Congratulations on being named my Headliner this week!

Congratulations to all the winners!  You can pick up your winner's badges HERE.

Don't forget to join us tomorrow for a new Clean and Simple challenge from LeAnne. Until then, happy stamping!



Wednesday, July 16, 2025

There is still time to play in Challenge 746: Ann's Colour Challenge


There is still time to play in Challenge 746: Ann's Colour 
Challenge.  To see the original post and to view the Design Team's cards, click HERE. We can't wait to see what you create! This challenge ends Friday, July 18th at Noon PST.

Sunday, July 13, 2025

PP746 - A Color Challenge from Ann

Hey, Stampers! It's Ann! I'm back with this week's Color Challenge. But before I get into the details, The Paper Players would like to thank everyone who participated in Stef's Theme Challenge. What a fun one it was! There were so many wonderful cards in the gallery. 

This week I have a lovely trio of colors for you: Pretty Peacock, Fresh Freesia, Lemon Lolly.  We can't wait to see what YOU create. But before you rush off to gather up your stamps, papers and inks, please check out what our talented design team has created for your inspiration.


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!

Saturday, July 12, 2025

PP745 Challenge Winners

Hello crafty friends!  Stef here to share the challenge winners for this week.  But before we take a peek at those, I'd like to thank everyone who played along with our circle challenge. The gallery was full of amazing, creative designs using circles!  

Now let's see what caught the eye of our Design Team for their Cut Above favorites.











And now, on to my choice for this week's Headliner.



Karen created a clean, classy and sophisticated design. While her card may be CAS, those three circles manage to pack a punch with the varied paper designs and fun layers. CONGRATULATIONS on being my headliner this week, Karen!


Congratulations to all our winners! Be sure to pick up your badges HERE. And be sure to come back tomorrow for a new challenge from Ann.

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

There is still time to play in Challenge 745: Stef's Theme Challenge


There is still time to play in Challenge 745: Stef's Theme Challenge.  To see the original post and to view the Design Team's cards, click HERE. We can't wait to see what you create! This challenge ends Friday, July 11th at Noon PST.

Sunday, July 6, 2025

PP745 - A Theme Challenge from Stef

Hello, crafty friends!  Stef here to welcome you back to the Paper Players for a new challenge.  Before we get to that, I'd like to thank everyone for all the amazing cards for Jaydee's Tic Tac Toe Challenge.  It was fun to see what everyone made!

This month we start with the theme of using circles on our cards.  Easy peasy, right? 



 As always, the design team has some amazing inspiration for you!

The Paper Players Design Team










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!

Saturday, July 5, 2025

PP744 Challenge Winners

Happy Saturday.

Firstly, we hope that those of you who celebrate had a wonderful 4th July!    Secondly, a huge shout out to all of you who played along with my Tic Tac Toe board last week.  What a gallery we had and we loved visiting each and every one of your creations.

Before we get to our Headliner this week, let's check out what caught the eye of the design team.








And now on to my HEADLINER:



Jenny's hibiscus wedding card is full of so much wonderful texture.  That gorgeous embossed background is perfect for the profusion of flowers and leaves that make up the focal point.  The colors are subtle and are perfect for a wedding card.  The rounded corners of the sentiment tag echo the shapes of the flowers and bring the whole creation together.  Absolutely stunning.  Congratulations on being my HEADLINER this week, Jenny.

Congratulations to all of our winners.  We hope you will all join us tomorrow for Stef's fabulous THEME challenge.

Jaydee


Wednesday, July 2, 2025

There is still time to play in Challenge 744: Jaydee's TicTacToe Challenge


There is still time to play in Challenge 744: Jaydee's TicTacToe Challenge.  To see the original post and to view the Design Team's cards, click HERE. We can't wait to see what you create! This challenge ends Friday, July 4th at Noon PST.

Sunday, June 29, 2025

PP744 - A Tic Tac Toe Challenge from Jaydee

Happy Sunday, Players.

Jaydee here and it is my pleasure to host our Paper Players challenge this week.  Before we get to our latest challenge, a huge shout out to those of you who played along with Eliz's fabulous one-layer clean and simple challenge last week.  We know that one-layer cards are hard, but you rocked the challenge!

As it's the 5th Sunday in June, we are playing Tic Tac Toe.  The board has choices of lots of layers or clean and simple - so it should give you lots of scope.





As always, the design team have some fabulous inspiration for you.  Let's take a look at how they used the board.


The Paper Players Design Team












Now it's over to you and we can't wait to see what inspires you.

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!