On Tuesday, March 9th we had 4 entries in our National Craft Month Challenge a day contest. Selected by random number generator, Allison Cope is our winner. Check out Allison’s card on her blog:

Allison, please be sure to contact us via the Couture Cardstock contact form  http://www.couturecardstock.com/contacts/ to provide us your shipping address and choices for your 10 free sheets!

Today it is my turn to show you how wonderfully the printable paper and templates at My Time Made Easy work with Couture Cardstock.  First of all, I printed all of the My Time Made Easy papers on Detail Blending Paper.  It runs smoothly through my printer and takes the ink perfectly, and doesn’t bleed through or run, even on the papers with deep saturated colors.

Secondly, My Time Made Easy offers both color and black and white patterns, so it’s easy to customize and get exactly what you need.  For the small download fee, you can keep using them over and over again.

Here is the layout I made:

Cardstock: Couture Cardstock: “Seduction Monochromatic Family: The Other Woman,” White Monochromatic Family: Canvas,” “H2O Monochromatic Family: Whale Watching,” “Spring Valley Monochromatic Family: Pasture” “Pure Silk Collection: Detail Blending Paper”; Printables: My Time Made Easy, LLC “Flutters and Flowers,” “Fanciful Flourishes”; Paper: GCD Studios “Artsy Urban”

I cut the butterflies from one of the “Flutters and Flowers” My Time Made Easy papers, and colored them with my Spica Atyou markers.  They sparkle!  The diamond pattern and the text pattern (behind the photo) are also from “Flutters and Flowers.”

The photo is a fun shot of my daughter at the zoo.  She was watching the penguins when I bothered her with the camera.  :)

Todays Challenge:  Use pastel or muted tones on your project.  Have fun creating!

~Alyssa~

Rules for both of our month-long contests follow:

First, we are giving it all away! In honor of National Craft Month, we are holding a month long contest in March. The winner will receive 1 of every product in our store.  That’s 291 sheets of cardstock, in every color, weight, and texture you could ever need!  Here’s what you have to do to win: put our blinkie on your blog using the code available in the sidebar to the right.   Leave us a comment (on this post) with a link to your blog where you posted our blinkie, and you are entered to win!  That’s all there is to it! We will draw one very lucky winner on April 2nd.  (if you already have our blinkie, leave us a comment and tell us that too, you are eligible to win).

Second,  to celebrate National Craft Month, we are holding a month long contest here at Couture Cardstock, and your participation will determine the size of the prize!  Each day during the month of March, we will be offering a challenge on our blog.  Each day, you have one opportunity win a prize pack by completing that challenge and linking it to that day’s post.   For every challenge entry received, we will add a sheet of cardstock to the prize pack. All entries must be posted by 11:59 pm EST the day of that challenge and the winner for each day will be selected the following morning.  The minimum prize pack will be 10 sheets of your choice, the maximum depends on YOU!!

The details:

1. You may enter each challenge once (only one entry per person per day).
2. Entries must be posted in a gallery or on a personal blog, and must mention Couture Cardstock in the description.
3. You do not need to use Couture Cardstock in your entries, although we encourage you to do so.
4. Each project completed may only be used once.
5. All entries must by posted and linked to the corresponding challenge post by 11:59 pm EST, the day the challenge is posted.
6. The minimum prize pack per day will be 10 sheets of your choice.

Both contests are open to anyone, anywhere.  However, International winners (outside the US) will be responsible for their own shipping costs.

On Monday, March 8th we had 6 entries in our National Craft Month Challenge a day contest. Selected by random number generator, Wendy Crowe is our winner. Check out Wendy’s sweet layouts on her blog:

Wendy, please be sure to contact us via the Couture Cardstock contact form  http://www.couturecardstock.com/contacts/ to provide us your shipping address and choices for your 10 free sheets!

Today I thought I would bring you a couple of different products to coordinate with the blues in our Serenity Monochromatic Family…

First, when I first saw these AMAZING stamps by Tim Holtz, I was drooling. They have officially moved to the top of my stampers wishlist, and how fun they would be to use with this collection!

Tim Holtz “Shabby French” Stamp Set

Tim Holtz “Purely Random” Stamp Set

Onto some patterned paper, isn’t this Chic Baby Boy Collection by Teresa Collins just completely fit for a prince? I know that my own son, Jax, has me seeing royalty in a new light… particularly a blue one. (The gallery photo of our cardstock looks a tad more purple than it really is, so trust me when I say that this paper is a perfect companion to the Serenity Monochromatic Family collection!)

Today’s Challenge: Use 3 different shades of the same color!

xx Heidi

Rules for both of our month-long contests follow:

First, we are giving it all away! In honor of National Craft Month, we are holding a month long contest in March. The winner will receive 1 of every product in our store.  That’s 291 sheets of cardstock, in every color, weight, and texture you could ever need!  Here’s what you have to do to win: put our blinkie on your blog using the code available in the sidebar to the right.   Leave us a comment (on this post) with a link to your blog where you posted our blinkie, and you are entered to win!  That’s all there is to it! We will draw one very lucky winner on April 2nd.  (if you already have our blinkie, leave us a comment and tell us that too, you are eligible to win).

Second,  to celebrate National Craft Month, we are holding a month long contest here at Couture Cardstock, and your participation will determine the size of the prize!  Each day during the month of March, we will be offering a challenge on our blog.  Each day, you have one opportunity win a prize pack by completing that challenge and linking it to that day’s post.   For every challenge entry received, we will add a sheet of cardstock to the prize pack. All entries must be posted by 11:59 pm EST the day of that challenge and the winner for each day will be selected the following morning.  The minimum prize pack will be 10 sheets of your choice, the maximum depends on YOU!!

The details:

1. You may enter each challenge once (only one entry per person per day).
2. Entries must be posted in a gallery or on a personal blog, and must mention Couture Cardstock in the description.
3. You do not need to use Couture Cardstock in your entries, although we encourage you to do so.
4. Each project completed may only be used once.
5. All entries must by posted and linked to the corresponding challenge post by 11:59 pm EST, the day the challenge is posted.
6. The minimum prize pack per day will be 10 sheets of your choice.

Both contests are open to anyone, anywhere.  However, International winners (outside the US) will be responsible for their own shipping costs.

On Sunday, March 7th we had 2 entries in our National Craft Month Challenge a day contest. Selected by random number generator, Kelly Massman is our winner. Check out Kelly’s pretty card on her blog:

Kelly, please be sure to contact us via the Couture Cardstock contact form  http://www.couturecardstock.com/contacts/ to provide us your shipping address and choices for your 10 free sheets!

The hues of the  infinite sky, the deep seas, and the vast oceans, all appear blue to our human eyes. Blue signifies depth and distance, offers a calm depiction of peace. Some soothing shades of blue appear icy, others are invigoratingly brilliant or intense. Couture Cardstock’s Serenity Monochromatic Family offers all of these elements.

For my layout today, “Beautiful Boyhood”, I used several shades from this collection. For the background I used Harmony, accented with some vanilla, white, black, and teal colored paint. The embellishments were created using rub-ons and stamps on top of  Peace of Mind, Calm, and Zen.

Tomorrow I will be showing you some gorgeous products to accompany the beautiful blue hues of this collection!

xx Heidi

Today’s Challenge: Use paint somewhere on your project!

Rules for both of our month-long contests follow:

First, we are giving it all away! In honor of National Craft Month, we are holding a month long contest in March. The winner will receive 1 of every product in our store.  That’s 291 sheets of cardstock, in every color, weight, and texture you could ever need!  Here’s what you have to do to win: put our blinkie on your blog using the code available in the sidebar to the right.   Leave us a comment (on this post) with a link to your blog where you posted our blinkie, and you are entered to win!  That’s all there is to it! We will draw one very lucky winner on April 2nd.  (if you already have our blinkie, leave us a comment and tell us that too, you are eligible to win).

Second,  to celebrate National Craft Month, we are holding a month long contest here at Couture Cardstock, and your participation will determine the size of the prize!  Each day during the month of March, we will be offering a challenge on our blog.  Each day, you have one opportunity win a prize pack by completing that challenge and linking it to that day’s post.   For every challenge entry received, we will add a sheet of cardstock to the prize pack. All entries must be posted by 11:59 pm EST the day of that challenge and the winner for each day will be selected the following morning.  The minimum prize pack will be 10 sheets of your choice, the maximum depends on YOU!!

The details:

1. You may enter each challenge once (only one entry per person per day).
2. Entries must be posted in a gallery or on a personal blog, and must mention Couture Cardstock in the description.
3. You do not need to use Couture Cardstock in your entries, although we encourage you to do so.
4. Each project completed may only be used once.
5. All entries must by posted and linked to the corresponding challenge post by 11:59 pm EST, the day the challenge is posted.
6. The minimum prize pack per day will be 10 sheets of your choice.

Both contests are open to anyone, anywhere.  However, International winners (outside the US) will be responsible for their own shipping costs.

On Saturday, March 6th we had 7 entries in our National Craft Month Challenge a day contest. Selected by random number generator, Gale Varland is our winner. Check out Gale’s pretty card on her blog:

Gale, please be sure to contact us via the Couture Cardstock contact form  http://www.couturecardstock.com/contacts/ to provide us your shipping address and choices for your 10 free sheets!

Do you have pictures of an important event that you haven’t scrapped because they are just a little off? Perhaps they were a little blurry, something (or someone) walked through the back of your shot, or maybe the composition was just peculiar. When this happens to me, I do one thing – PROCRASTINATE!

I put those little red-headed step children of my photo collection in the “do not disturb” corner of my crafting space and try to forget about them. Well, this week my youngest celebrated her 2nd birthday which caused me to remember guiltily, that her 1st birthday photos were still collecting dust in the corner. You see they have a very odd blue/orange color combination going on in them and I couldn’t find the embellishments or patterned papers that I thought would do these precious pics justice.  But no more, using our amazingly textured Alabaster Columns cardstock and a little metallic vellum (Little Mermaid and Fairy Godmother) I can now proudly say my “put off till tomorrow” pile is a few photos shorter.

Your mission  (should you choose to except it) is to finish something you started and set aside. This could be a layout, mini, card or present you started making for someone and never finished. You will feel great when you do and don’t forget to share your accomplishment with us!

Have fun creating,

CarrieAnne

Rules for both of our month-long contests follow:

First, we are giving it all away! In honor of National Craft Month, we are holding a month long contest in March. The winner will receive 1 of every product in our store.  That’s 291 sheets of cardstock, in every color, weight, and texture you could ever need!  Here’s what you have to do to win: put our blinkie on your blog using the code available int eh sidebar to the right.   Leave us a comment (on this post) with a link to your blog where you posted our blinkie, and you are entered to win!  That’s all there is to it! We will draw one very lucky winner on April 2nd.  (if you already have our blinkie, leave us a comment and tell us that too, you are eligible to win).

Second,  to celebrate National Craft Month, we are holding a month long contest here at Couture Cardstock, and your participation will determine the size of the prize!  Each day during the month of March, we will be offering a challenge on our blog.  Each day, you have one opportunity win a prize pack by completing that challenge and linking it to that day’s post.   For every challenge entry received, we will add a sheet of cardstock to the prize pack. All entries must be posted by 11:59 pm EST the day of that challenge and the winner for each day will be selected the following morning.  The minimum prize pack will be 10 sheets of your choice, the maximum depends on YOU!!

The details:

1. You may enter each challenge once (only one entry per person per day).
2. Entries must be posted in a gallery or on a personal blog, and must mention Couture Cardstock in the description.
3. You do not need to use Couture Cardstock in your entries, although we encourage you to do so.
4. Each project completed may only be used once.
5. All entries must by posted and linked to the corresponding challenge post by 11:59 pm EST, the day the challenge is posted.
6. The minimum prize pack per day will be 10 sheets of your choice.

Both contests are open to anyone, anywhere.  However, International winners (outside the US) will be responsible for their own shipping costs.

On Friday, March 5th we had 2 entries in our National Craft Month Challenge a day contest. Selected by random number generator, Nana is our winner. Check out Nana’s amazing butterfly mini album on her blog:

http://youniquereflections.blogspot.com/2010/03/couture-cardstock-challenge.html

Nana, please be sure to contact us via the Couture Cardstock contact form  http://www.couturecardstock.com/contacts/ to provide us your shipping address and choices for your 10 free sheets!

I am delighted to  be the weekend challenge presenter during our month long challenge contest.

Several very talented seamstresses have attempted to teach me to sew, with little success. I am simply incapable of creating anything with fabric that resembles a garment. This means that I have bits and bobs lurking in my craft room from many half-hearted attempts to cure my sewing inadequacy. So today’s challenge is to use a sewing technique or supply in a paper project.

In the below Eiffel Tower layout I used a layer of batting between the American Crafts pink patterned paper and an unseen sheet of our light weight chipboard to create a tufted look with brads. I love the depth and dimension it added at very little cost. I also used my paper piercer to punch tiny wholes around the green Pink Paislee Patterned Paper.  I look forward to what you come up with and the fine print for both of our contests follows below.

Have fun creating,

CarrieAnne

Couture Cardstock: The White Collection: White Linen, A Girl's Best Friend: Onyx; Patterned Paper: American Crafts, Pink Paislee; Brads: Making Memories; Baubles: My Favorite Things.

First, we are giving it all away! In honor of National Craft Month, we are holding a month long contest in March. The winner will receive 1 of every product in our store.  That’s 291 sheets of cardstock, in every color, weight, and texture you could ever need!  Here’s what you have to do to win: put our blinkie on your blog using the code available in the sidebar to the right.   Leave us a comment (on this post) with a link to your blog where you posted our blinkie, and you are entered to win!  That’s all there is to it! We will draw one very lucky winner on April 2nd.  (if you already have our blinkie, leave us a comment and tell us that too, you are eligible to win).

Second,  to celebrate National Craft Month, we are holding a month long contest here at Couture Cardstock, and your participation will determine the size of the prize!  Each day during the month of March, we will be offering a challenge on our blog.  Each day, you have one opportunity win a prize pack by completing that challenge and linking it to that day’s post.   For every challenge entry received, we will add a sheet of cardstock to the prize pack. All entries must be posted by 11:59 pm EST the day of that challenge and the winner for each day will be selected the following morning.  The minimum prize pack will be 10 sheets of your choice, the maximum depends on YOU!!

The details:

1. You may enter each challenge once (only one entry per person per day).
2. Entries must be posted in a gallery or on a personal blog, and must mention Couture Cardstock in the description.
3. You do not need to use Couture Cardstock in your entries, although we encourage you to do so.
4. Each project completed may only be used once.
5. All entries must by posted and linked to the corresponding challenge post by 11:59 pm EST, the day the challenge is posted.
6. The minimum prize pack per day will be 10 sheets of your choice.

Both contests are open to anyone, anywhere.  However, International winners (outside the US) will be responsible for their own shipping costs.