Saturday, January 18, 2020

PP473 Challenge Winners

Hi y’all! Anne Marie here. Thank you to everyone who played along with my color challenge last week! On behalf of everyone on The Paper Players Team, we are so happy that you joined us and shared your awesome projects. 

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

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And now, our Headliner:

I just loved Cindy’s card with the bold shapes and whimsical sentiment. Such a bright and cheery card and the layered elements really are the perfect touch. Congratulations, Cindy! You are the Headliner this week. Thanks for playing along with my color challenge!            

Once again, thank you to everyone for playing along with us.  Congratulations to all our winners! Please be sure to pick up your badges here. We hope you will display them proudly.  Come back tomorrow for a fun Clean-and-Simple Challenge from Laurie!

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

There is still time to play in Challenge #473: Anne Marie's Colour Challenge


There is still time to play in Challenge #473: Anne Marie'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, January 17th at Noon, PST.

Sunday, January 12, 2020

PP473 - A Color Challenge from Anne Marie

Hello Stampers! Anne Marie here with a new Color Challenge! But before I get to that, we want to say a big thank you to everyone who played along last week with Jaydee’s fabulous theme challenge to celebrate the New Year. We are so happy you joined us and shared your creativity in the gallery!  

This week, I have a fun color combo for you. We can’t wait to see what YOU create! 

Let’s take a peek at what the Design Team has created for your inspiration this week: 

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!

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Saturday, January 11, 2020

PP472 Challenge Winners

Hi Everyone.

WOW!  What a wonderful way to kick off the new year.  You guys really know how to make it difficult for the design team to pick our winners.  We were amazed by the variety of fabulous submissions and your take on "new".  Thank you so much to all of you who played along.

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



And now our Headliner:
Heather


I love the amount of texture and interest on Heather's beautiful wedding card.  The mix of silver, grey and white is so beautiful and the little pops of green work so well.  Her floral arrangement around that fabulous frame reminds me of Paris in Springtime.  Beautiful card.  Congratulations, Heather, on being our first Paper Players HEADLINER of 2020.

Once again, thank you to everyone for playing along with us.  Congratulations to all our winners! Please be sure to pick up your badges here. We hope you will display them proudly.  Come back tomorrow for a fresh Color Challenge from Anne Marie.

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

There is still time to play in Challenge #472: Jaydee's Theme Challenge


There is still time to play in Challenge #472: Jaydee'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, January 10th at Noon, PST.

Sunday, January 5, 2020

PP472 - A Theme Challenge from Jaydee


Happy New Year!

Jaydee here, and it is my pleasure to host the first Paper Players challenge of the year and it's a theme week.  It's also the first week we get to feature our new 2020 Guest designers!




Our DT have some fabulous inspiration for you and, although most of us seem to have gone them new baby route, there are so many different ways you can go - some of them are so beautifully illustrated in our badge created by Nance.  We can't wait what you celebrate that is new!

The Paper Players Design Team





 Now, it's over to 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!

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Thursday, January 2, 2020

Happy New Year Wishes From The Paper Players And Meet Our 2020 Guest Designers

Happy new year wishes from all of us at The Paper Players! We will be starting our new round of challenges for 2020 this coming Sunday but in advance of this would like to introduce you to the three talented guest designers that will be joining us this year: Allisa Steinlicht, Stef Perry and Mary Deatherage.

In their own words, here's a little more information about each of them to help you get to know them better:

Allisa Steinlicht


Hi, I’m Allisa from Wyoming. I started my papercrafting journey in 1995 with scrapbooking. I fell in love with having coordinating supplies, and signed up to be a Close To My Heart Consultant soon after. I started my blog, Rocky Mountain Paper Crafts, in 2011. While my passion has always been scrapbooking, cards are a close second. I can spend days on a scrapbook layout, whereas cards can be completed in minutes if needed! I am mom to three boys and countless four legged creatures. I love playing along with challenges and have played along with The Paper Players since 2012! I am super excited to a part of the Design Team in 2020!


Stef Perry




Hello, all!  I'm Stef, married 14 years to Kevin, and a recent transplant to Idaho from Oregon. I have one adult daughter, 3 fabulous grandchildren and one sweet great granddaughter. I retired 2 1/2 years ago after a 40-year career in banking and commercial lease financing.

In 2007 a friend introduced me to card making, and the rest is history, as the saying goes!  I love the variety of ways one can express creativity on a palette as small as a card and confess to being obsessed with everything crafty!  Currently I am a member of the Splitcoaststampers Color Challenge team and alumni of the SCS Dirty Dozen.


I am so thrilled and honored to be a guest design for The Paper Players in 2020!


Mary Deatherage


Hey, y'all!  

Mary here - and I'm tickled to have been asked to be a Guest Designer here on The Paper Players for 2020!

I'm a retired Air Force pilot and a retired Army contractor - I recently left the workplace for good to pursue full-time retiree status - and build my Stampin' Up! business.  I live in Fayetteville, GA with my husband Wayne - that's him up there! - who is my strongest supporter in this business (he's rolled WAY more than his fair share of ribbons!).  We're the full-time staff for a very bossy cat (that's the Department of Redundancy Department right there!) and the nearly world-famous Finn, our Australian Shepherd.  There are also two pretty-spoiled-rotten Haflinger ponies sharing our home.  So...we're busy!

I started in Stampin' Up! in late 2015 - while on a business trip (for that Army contracting job) in California.  The hotel there was only the first in a very LONG list of hotels that received Stampin' Up! boxes for me! I've done a ton of traveling with so much of my craft room... well, let's just say "Have SU!, will travel!" :)

I picked card making purely because I love the “stuff” that goes with and into it, and I love the end results that I can make with just some paper and ink and a little bling.  I've also got the soul of a teacher, so I love teaching folks the tips and tricks that will help them get the most out of this wonderful creative endeavor.  The people I've met - whether in person or online - have been the icing on the cake for me!

So - I hope you'll join us each week for some paper project fun!


These ladies have been faithful players with us and are outstanding design talents and we are thrilled that they have agreed to work with us and inspire you with their creative takes on our challenge each week. 


Join us on Sunday for our first challenge of the year when we will have a theme challenge hosted by the lovely Jaydee. We look forward to seeing you then!

Saturday, December 14, 2019

PP471 Challenge Winners

Hi everyone!  LeAnne here!  Thanks so much for all your beautiful creations this week!  Such a nice variety using the challenge colors!  Before we get to my choice for Headliner, let's see what caught the eye of the Design Team this week:


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And now our Headliner:

           

My Paper Tales
Lisa Elton



Lisa's cute little snowmen, complete with gold noses and big gold snowflakes, just stole my heart!  My favorite one is the one sticking his tongue out to get a taste!!  The font in the sentiment is a perfect whimsical match!  Congrats, Lisa, on being my Headliner this week!

Once again, thank you to everyone for playing along with us.  Congratulations to all our winners! Please be sure to pick up your badges here. We hope you will display them proudly.  The Players be taking a break until the end of the year, so we hope that you'll have a wonderful holiday and you'll be back to play with us in 2020!!


Wednesday, December 11, 2019

There is still time to play in Challenge #471: LeAnne's Colour Challenge



There is still time to play in Challenge #471: LeAnne'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, December 13th at Noon, PST.

Sunday, December 8, 2019

PP471 A Color Challenge from LeAnne

Happy Sunday, stampers!  It's LeAnne here with our last Paper Players challenge of the year!  First, thanks to all who participated in Laurie's snowman challenge..such fun creations!  Also, we'd like to say good-bye to our fabulous guest designers Windy, Wanda and Su!  Their wonderful contributions made our challenges even more special!  Thanks, ladies!

Today, I've got a color challenge for you!  Hope you like it--and hope you can find some time in your holiday schedule to play along!  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!

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Saturday, December 7, 2019

PP470 Challenge Winners

Hi everyone! Laurie here with this week's winners. Thanks to all of you that played along, the gallery was full of Frosty the Snowmen!!!

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


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And now our Headliner:




I just fell in love with this lil QT snowman that Colien created! He has such a fun carrot nose. I loved the colors she chose too. Congrats Colien, you are the headliner this week!

Once again, thank you to everyone for playing along with us.  Congratulations to all our winners! Please be sure to pick up your badges here. We hope you will display them proudly.  Please join us tomorrow for a pretty Color Challenge from LeAnne!

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

There is still time to play in Challenge #470: Laurie's Theme Challenge


There is still time to play in Challenge #470: Laurie'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, December 6th at Noon, PST.

Sunday, December 1, 2019

PP470 - A Theme Challenge from Laurie

Hi Players!  It's Laurie here with a new theme for you today!  Thanks to all who played with Joanne's sketch..it's always fun to see what you come up with!  Now today, we want to see your snowmen!



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!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!
Click here to enter