There Is Still Time to Play in Challenge #258: LeAnne's Clean and Simple Challenge

There is still time to play in Challenge #258: LeAnne's Clean and Simple Beach 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, August 21st at Noon, PST. 

PP258: A Clean-and-Simple Challenge from LeAnne

Hi everyone!  LeAnne here, and I must say, it was so much fun to see all the beautiful creations using Claire's color palette last week!  They were almost autumn-ish, and I've seen a lot of fall stamping lately, but I am still hanging on to summer!  We have a lot of warm weather left!  So for my clean and simple challenge this week, we're doing a beach theme:

And thank you to Nance, for providing a personal photo for my challenge this week!  (Isn't that a beautiful beach scene?)  There are so many ways to interpret this, but remember to keep it CLEAN and SIMPLE!  Keep your layers and embellishments to a minimum!!  Let's see what the designers came up with this week:

The Paper Players Design Team

Ann Schach

Claire Broadwater

Jaydee

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy

Sandy Mathis

Amy Koenders

Jodi McKinney

Lisa Elton

Anne Marie Hile (on leave)

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!

Challenge #257: Winners

Hi Everyone!  Thank you to all of you who played along with our challenge this week.  As always, it was VERY difficult for our design team to choose their favorites. There were so many creative entries using the color combination.  You certainly made the colors shine!  

Before we get to my choice for Headliner, let's see what caught the eye of our design team: 

Now, let's take a look at our headliner:
  

 Colleen Begley

Colleen's Creative Corner

             

Colleen's card is absolutely stunning!  She certainly made my colors shine!  I LOVE all  the polka dots, twine, ribbon and the beautiful floral sentiment!  The inside of her card is "A Whole Lot of Lovely", too!  Congratulations, Colleen, on being my HEADLINER this week!

 

Don't forget to come back tomorrow for a fun Clean-and-Simple challenge from lovely LeAnne!

There's Still Time to Play in Challenge #257: Claire's Color Challenge

There is still time to play in Challenge #257: Claire's Color 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, August 14th at Noon, PST.

Paper Players 257: A Color Challenge from Claire

Hello Everyone!  Claire here--  We sure enjoyed all of your awesome cards for Jaydee's, "Hip To Be Square Challenge"!  Thank you to all of you that played along!  We really do appreciate it!  We had such a difficult time selecting the winners!!

It'smy pleasure to host our Color Challenge this week and we can't wait to see what you create!  Now, let's see what the Design Team has created to inspire you!  

The Paper Players Design Team

Ann Schach

Claire Broadwater

Jaydee

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt
(off this week)

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy

Sandy Mathis

Amy Koenders

Jodi McKinney

Lisa Elton

Anne Marie Hile (on leave)

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!

Challenge #256 Winners

Another week of amazing cards! It was wonderful to see such a variety of designs and they provided lots of great inspiration for us all.  Square cards are difficult for me - but you all made them look so easy!  I know we say this every week, but we really do appreciate you all playing along with us.

Before we get to my choice for Headliner, let's see what caught the eye of our design team: 

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

1. Ann's Choice: Soft colors and awesome texture make Vicki's mountain scene adorable! Congrats!	2. Claire's Choice: Cornelia's faux textured metal card is gorgeous! It stands out in the gallery!	3. Nance's choice: Jan's card is a stunning twork of art! Gorgeous depth, dimension & colors. Bravo!	4. Sandy: Cori's adorable gnome and fun mix of patterned papers won me over! Congrats!
5. Laurie's choice: Nancy's cute duck sitting in the rain is adorable! Congrats!	6. Lisa:The shimmery focal and background DP are a perfect match on Seraphina's pretty card!	7. Joanne's choice: Elina's watercoloured beach is the perfect background - just beautiful!	8. Amy's Choice: I love Petra's beautiful, CAS card. The image is just perfect with the sponging!
9. LeAnne's Choice: Ann's sweet card features a quilt AND Halloween! I love that little kitty, too!

Now, let's take a look at our headliner

Hannelie

Desert Diva

Hannelie's bold, graphic, birthday card made my CAS-loving heart sing.   The stripes mixed with the softness of the centers of the a and the p's add so much interest and the little pearls were the perfect finishing touch.   The angled arrangement of the color blocks showcases a square card beautifully.   Then all of that wonderful white space allows the eye to settle and focus on the sentiment.   Gorgeous card.   Hannelie, congratulations on being my HEADLINER this week.

Don't forget to come back tomorrow for a wonderful color challenge from the fabulous Claire.

There's Still Time to Play in Challenge #256: Jaydee's "It's Hip to Be Square" Challenge

There is still time to play in Challenge #256: Jaydee's "It's Hip to Be Square" 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, August 7th at Noon, PST.

It's Hip to be Square: Paper Players Challenge #256

Hi Everyone.

Jaydee here and once again you rocked our challenge last week and I know that we all had a hard time choosing our winners.  Thank you to all of you who play along with us.  We really do appreciate it.  It's my pleasure to host our challenge this week and I have a theme challenge for you.

We can't wait to see what you do with it.  Let's see what our design team have created for your inspiration:

The Paper Players Design Team

Ann Schach

Claire Broadwater 

Jaydee

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy

Sandy Mathis

Amy Koenders

Jodi McKinney

Lisa Elton

Anne Marie Hile (on leave)

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!

Winners for PP255: Sandy's Sketch Challenge

What a gorgeous gallery of cards this week! We loved seeing all your different takes on the sketch, and as always you made it hard to chose a winner.

Before we get to my choice for Headliner, let's see what caught the eye of our design team: 
 
Now, let's take a look at our Headliner:

Deanne

Three Trees Paper Creations

There were so many beautiful cards in the gallery but I kept coming back to Deanne's for another look. The scallops and stitching create a wonderful and delicate frame, her pretty tag has so much dimension, and those colors! De-lish! Congrats Deanne, you are my headliner this week! 

Don't forget to come back tomorrow and check out Jaydee's fabulous theme challenge.  I promise you it's a great challenge and the design team have some great inspiration for you.