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.