Papercrafting Inspiration: Magazine Mondays – Week Eleven
Papercrafting Inspiration: Magazine Mondays – Week Eleven
Happy Monday Papercrafters!
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.
We attended a family reunion on Sunday and there will be plenty of fun pictures to scrapbook. It was so fun to capture the older generation and the newest generation – 46 relatives in all!
What have you been up to so far this Summer?
O.K., on to the business at hand…
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New to Magazine Mondays?
Please scroll down to the section “What is Magazine Mondays All About?”
for more information,
then scroll back up and check out this week’s challenge.
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This week’s papercrafting inspiration:
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Papercrafting Inspiration: Magazine Mondays – Week Eleven Inspiration Piece
- Papercrafting Inspiration: Magazine Mondays – Week Eleven Inspiration Piece
- (click on the magazine page to see it enlarged)
What are you focused on?
- the summery starburst
- the different typefaces
- the summer-inspired colors
- the big block of text down the center
- or, maybe something else?
We look forward to seeing this week’s creations!
Not sure how to use this page as inspiration?
Simply leave a comment (comment link above) and we’ll do our best to assist you.
Important Note
We’ve changed the rules a bit:
The deadline for submitting your papercraft projects is now Saturdays (instead of Fridays) at midnight (central). That means you have an additional day to create, submit and WIN!
And, as a reminder, this papercrafting challenge is not just open to cards or scrapbook layouts (which have both been popular entry categories), but to ALL papercrafted creations!
How about creating something for your home or office or as a gift?
Whether you like to make home decor items, work in your art journal, create “repurposed” projects out of paper products, make cards, enjoy creating scrapbook layouts, or prefer book-binding, quilling or origami, or some other form of papercrafting, it’s all welcome! Love this week’s inspiration for a Project Life or 365 entry or page? Create and enter that!
The ONLY requirements for entering the Magazine Mondays papercrafting challenge are that your entry must be a papercraft project - it must somehow incorporate paper - and that it must be submitted by the deadline.
Playing along with this papercrafting challenge is easy:
- Go create something - any papercraft project – based on this week’s inspiration (above)
- Come back to this post and leave a comment, including a link to where you’ve posted your papercraft creation, before midnight (central time) on Saturday, June 22, 2013.
- Check back often to see what others have created and posted (and show your fellow papercrafters love by commenting on their creations!)
We’ll be checking the comment section of this blog post daily for comments and links to papercrafting goodness, and we’ll pin all the creations to our Magazine Mondays Pinterest board and link to them on our Facebook page at the end of the week so everyone can be inspired. (Note: be sure your papercraft creation is not blocked from being pinned if you want it added to our board; we can’t pin images on Flickr, sorry.)
Then, on Sunday, June 23rd, we’ll randomly choose one participant from the previous week’s papercraft entries to receive a fun prize!
And, their winning entry will be the cover image for our Magazine Mondays Pinterest board until the next magazine inspiration piece is posted, and a link to their entry will forever live in our Facebook timeline!
Having a hard time remembering to check our blog for each week’s inspiration piece?
Subscribe to our daily blog feed and you’ll get a reminder every Monday.
(Plus, a bunch of fun shares each day)
Have a great week and happy papercrafting!
Steph
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What is Magazine Mondays All About?
It’s a weekly dose of papercrafting inspiration courtesy of magazines. We’ll be offering you peaks at their covers, pages, topics, typography, colors and type in hopes of inspiring you to create.
And, most importantly, it’s a chance for you to show off your papercraft creations and win fun papercrafting prizes!
PaperCrafter’s Corner (PCC) has been known for being a papercrafting information resource (store, event, retreat and kit club directories; industry news; product roundups, etc.) and provider of entertainment (product sneak peeks, challenges, giveaways, etc.).
Now we want to become your number-one source of inspiration…more specifically, papercrafting inspiration!
Magazine Mondays - How To Play Along
Each Monday we’ll post a magazine here on our blog and encourage you to use it as inspiration to create something of your very own.
You’ll create something (ANYTHING papercrafted) and add a comment on the blog post, including a link to your inspired papercraft creation, before midnight (central time) the following Saturday.
We’ll “pin” each week’s magazine – as well as everyone’s creations – to our Magazine Mondays Pinterest board to provide even more inspiration for our community.
And, we’ll link to all the creations from our Facebook page so everyone following our Facebook timeline can click through and see the creations our community has shared!
And the best part?
One lucky winner
(chosen randomly from all entries received by midnight [central time]
of the Saturday following the inspiration piece posting)
will receive a prize for participating!
And, the winner will get to see her/his papercraft creation on the cover
of our Magazine Mondays Pinterest board until the following challenge!
Play along and Good Luck!
Steph
Papercrafting Inspiration: Magazine Mondays Week Ten Entries & Winner!
Papercrafting Inspiration: Magazine Mondays Week Ten Entries & Winner!
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New to Magazine Mondays?
Please scroll down to the section, “What is Magazine Mondays All About?,“
for more information, then scroll back up and check out
this week’s challenge piece, entries and winner.
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We’ve made it through another week, week 10 of the Magazine Mondays challenge!
It’s hard for me to believe that we are heading into week 11 already.
For those who might have missed last week’s challenge post,
Papercrafting Inspiration: Magazine Mondays Week Ten,
here’s a quick look at last week’s inspiration piece:
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Papercrafting Inspiration: Magazine Mondays – Week Ten Inspiration Piece
- Papercrafting Inspiration: Magazine Mondays Week Ten Inspiration Piece
There were numerous items to focus on…
- the topic (a wedding)
- the colors
- the variety of photos (close-ups and distant shots)
- the blocking of the elements
- and, I’m sure you all could have found even more inspiration, right?
…but mostly it was chosen because I was just beyond excited for my daughter and her fiance’!
Several papercrafters were inspired and shared their creations…
First up: Alexia M.
Papercrafting Inspiration: Magazine Mondays – Week 10 Submission from Alexia M.
Alexia was definitely in the wedding spirit with this lovely card!
I’m thinking I might just have to “cardlift” this creation for a certain soon-to-be-bride!
Second up: Karen L.
(please click on the link above to see Karen’s project on Flickr)
Karen was inspired by the colors of pale pink and green and the color blocking. She was also was inspired by the lace and wedding theme.
I love the way she incorporated the doily into this wonderful Get Well card, don’t you?
Third up: Jean M.
Papercrafting Inspiration: Magazine Mondays – Week 10 Submission from Jean M.
Jean created another beautiful card inspired by the colors. She mentioned that she wants to use the color blocking as inspiration on another project (I’m in!).
And this week’s winner is…
Alexia M.!
Please join me in congratulating our winner,
Alexia M.
Alexia: please send your full name and address to me
at shackney{at}papercrafterscorner{dot}com
so I can send you your prize!
Did you miss out on playing along this week?
No worries, there’s always next week!
And, if you subscribe to our newsletter, you’ll receive an emailed reminder every Monday when the new inspiration piece is posted.
Plus, you’ll always be up-to-date on the latest and greatest in the papercrafting industry!
Want to know how to play along next week?
It’s easy:
- Go create something - any papercraft project – based on this week’s inspiration piece (the inspiration piece will be posted today, Monday, June 17, in the afternoon)
- Come back to this week’s post and leave a comment, including a link to where you’ve posted your papercraft creation, before midnight (central time) on Sat., June 22, 2013.
- Check back often to see what others have created and posted (and show your fellow papercrafters love by commenting on their creations!)
We’ll be checking the comment section of this week’s blog post daily for comments and links to papercrafting goodness, and we’ll pin all the creations to our Magazine Mondays Pinterest board and link to them on our Facebook page at the end of the week so everyone can be inspired. (Note: be sure your papercraft creation is not blocked from being pinned if you want it added to our board; we cannot pin images from Flickr nor can we add the actual image to the Winner blog post on PCC – we will link to them on Flickr.)
Then, on Sunday, June 23rd, we’ll randomly choose one participant from the week’s papercraft entries to receive a fun prize!
And, their winning entry will be the cover image for our Magazine Mondays Pinterest board until the next magazine inspiration piece is posted, and will forever live in our Facebook timeline!
Happy papercrafting!
Steph
What is Magazine Mondays All About?
It’s a weekly dose of papercrafting inspiration courtesy of magazines. We’ll be offering you peaks at their covers, pages, topics, colors and type in hopes of inspiring you to create.
And, most importantly, it’s a chance for you to show off your papercraft creations and win fun papercrafting prizes!
PaperCrafter’s Corner (PCC) has been known for being a papercrafting information resource (store, event, retreat and kit club directories; industry news; product roundups, etc.) and provider of entertainment (product sneak peeks, challenges, giveaways, etc.).
Now we want to become your number-one source of inspiration…more specifically, papercrafting inspiration!
Magazine Mondays - How To Play Along
Each Monday we’ll post a magazine here on our blog and encourage you to use it as inspiration to create something of your very own.
You’ll create something (ANYTHING papercrafted) and add a comment on the blog post, including a link to your inspired papercraft creation, before midnight (central time) the following Saturday.
We’ll “pin” each week’s magazine – as well as everyone’s creations – to our Magazine Mondays Pinterest board to provide even more inspiration for our community.
And, we’ll link to all the creations from our Facebook page so everyone following our Facebook timeline will see the creations our community has shared!
And the best part?
One lucky winner
(chosen randomly from all entries received by midnight [central time]
of the Saturday following the inspiration piece posting)
will receive a prize for participating!
And, the winner will get to see her/his papercraft creation on the cover of our
Magazine Mondays Pinterest board until the following challenge!
Important Note:
This papercrafting challenge is not just open to cards or scrapbook layouts (which have both been popular entry categories), but to ALL papercrafted creations!
How about creating something for your home or office or as a gift?
Whether you like to make home decor items, work in your art journal, create “repurposed” projects out of paper products, make cards, enjoy creating scrapbook layouts, or prefer book-binding, quilling or origami, or some other form of papercrafting, it’s all welcome! Love this week’s inspiration for a Project Life or 365 entry or page? Create and enter that!
The ONLY requirements for entering the Magazine Mondays papercrafting challenge (at this time) is that your entry must be a papercraft project - it must somehow incorporate paper – and it must be linked to before the deadline.
Play along and Good Luck!
Steph
GET ORGANIZED! A Series for Papercrafters, Crafters & Artists
GET ORGANIZED! A Series for Papercrafters, Crafters & Artists
Greetings Everyone!
Are you enjoying your summer so far?
I sure am!
I’m especially happy that we’ve had a chance to get outside and enjoy the amazingly cool (for Texas) temperatures.
How’s the weather in your neck of the woods?
Well, it might not be January, a month well-known for major organizational overhauls in many resolution-making homes, but it IS a great time to get our papercraft, crafting and art supplies in order. It’s a perfect time for getting organized!
Why now?
Well, organizing is all about being in control of your space, productivity, time and money – and getting organized now means you can have more of all of those…just in time for summer!
GET ORGANIZED!
Today marks the beginning of a 6-week series focused on gaining control over your creative space, wherever it might be and no matter its size. But, it’s not just about getting your creative space organized, but applying the fundamentals to all areas of your home, office, and even life!
And we’re thrilled to announce that we have a wonderful new sponsor for this series – a series all about getting our craft rooms, creative spaces, craft business offices and art studios (and, even our portable crafting kits!) in order – order that can leave us with more enjoyable and functional spaces, increased productivity, less wasteful spending, and more time and mojo for creating!
Introducing Go-Organize.com!
What could be more perfect than a sponsor known for quality organizing products, products such as the Jetmax® craft storage solution?
And, Go-Organize.com not only offers products to get your creative space organized, but organizing products for the rest of your home too!
After all, once you get one space organized, it’s highly likely you’ll be so motivated by the results that you’ll want to take on the next room and the next and the next and…
Well, you get it.
And, Go-Organize.com offers
FREE REGULAR SHIPPING
on all items!
Can you believe it?
Wow!
We are thrilled to have Go-Organize.com join our papercrafting community and look forward to sharing their organizing solutions with you as we work on getting our spaces more organized.
Oh, I almost forgot…
Go-Organize.com is giving away a $100 Gift Card to their store!
Now do I have your attention?!
Stay tuned for details on how YOU could WIN that $100 gift card.
Organizing 101
As a former professional organizer (who continues to speak about the topic at conferences), I have worked with clients in organizing (and reclaiming) their craft rooms, art studios, home offices, kids’ rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, garages, closets and storage units.
What do all these spaces have in common?
All can become easily cluttered, resulting in a space you dread going into. And, all can become wonderful, happy places to be with just a little organizing know-how and effort, know-how I will share combined with a little effort from you.
What makes this series special and worth your participation?
Well, if your creative space is perfect just as it is, perhaps there’s no reason for you to participate. (Although I believe you’ll still pick up some helpful tips.)
But, I’m willing to bet there are at least a few of you who feel you need a little help in this area. And, perhaps a few of you who shudder at the thought of even opening the door to your creative space.
Am I right?
The goal with this organizing series is to provide you with organizing principles that you can apply not just to your creative space, but to every space in your home, if you so desire.
Best of all, you’re getting the benefit of my years of professional organizing experience and it won’t cost you a dime!
You’ll not only get to learn the fundamentals of organizing, the “secrets” we organizers know and put to use to create relaxing, productive and happy spaces, but you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions about your specific organizing challenges and get answers from a pro! Again, free of charge!
How’s that sound?
Hopefully, that sounds great and you’re excited to have your very own professional organizer at your disposal.
Now, I can’t commit to coming to everyone’s homes, but I CAN offer you all the knowledge and experience I have gained over the years and I will do my best to provide suggestions for your specific organizing challenges.
Each week I’ll post a new organizing lesson, followed by a request for questions about your specific organizing challenges. You’ll post your questions (and comments) in the comment section of that week’s post and I’ll provide answers to your questions in the Q&A section of the next week’s post.
And, if the demand is there, I may even offer a live webinar or two!
Sound good?
Since there’s no time like the present for getting started, we’re going to start today.
O.K. with you?
Disorganization: Lesson #1 – It Ain’t About the Stuff!
What?
How can it not be about the stuff when we’re talking about getting organized?!
It’s simple…
It’s about the space, the productivity, the money and the time, or a combination of one or more of these – and it’s about a lack or misuse of one or more of these due to a lack of organization.
Sometimes a total lack of any kind of organization.
Sometimes a lack of an organizational solution that’s right for YOU. Right now.
It’s important to note that being organized is NOT about being perfect – it’s about finding and employing solutions that enable you to enjoy your space; it’s about being productive when you have time to create; it’s about using your money and time efficiently; and, most importantly, it’s about finding what works for YOU!
Assignment #1 – You:
Yup, we’re getting right down to business! But, I promise this assignment is not hard, and it’s vital to finding a solution that works for YOU!
Your first assignment is to jot down all the areas where you think you need guidance – what are your biggest challenges around getting, and staying, organized?
Once you have your list compiled (and there are NO right or wrong answers here!), share them in the comments section of this post (link above).
Assignment #2 – Me:
I will compile a master list of everything everyone shares and we’ll start tackling the challenges in next week’s Get Organized! post.
Till then,
Steph
Papercrafting for Father’s Day – Oodles of Papercraft Ideas for Dad!
Papercrafting for Father’s Day – Oodles of Papercraft Ideas for Dad!
Greetings papercrafters!
I hope you are enjoying your summer (even if the season hasn’t “officially” started).
The weather here in Austin has been amazingly mild…so far.
Are you ready for Father’s Day?
Father’s Day Clip Art for Papercrafting from DoverPictura.com
Have you created a card and/or present just for YOUR favorite Dad?
If so, we’d love to see what you made – and sharing it with us and your fellow papercrafters might even win you a nice prize!
Yup, that’s right, share your papercrafted Father’s Day creations
(by leaving a comment with a link to your papercrafted Father’s Day
gift, card, gift wrap, party decor, etc.
before midnight, Monday, June 17th)
and YOU could win!
What will you win?
Well, that’s our little secret…but we promise, it’s a nice prize!
Not quite ready for Father’s Day?
NO idea what to make for your dear old dad, husband, brother, uncle, cousin, colleague, friend, etc.?
Well, we’re here to help!
First up: Manly Images for Creating
Our newest sponsor, DoverPictura.com, has some amazing clip art and illustrations for creating cards, gift wrap and presents just perfect for your favorite guy.
In fact, that awesome vintage automobile poster you see above? That’s one of their images!
Check out their Pick & Click, Who Is Your Dad? page and you’ll be presented with options perfect for the kind of dad you need to create for, whether he’s the sporty type, a scholar or a guy who loves fishing or fast cars.
Grab one of these collections – perfect for your guy(s) – before his big day, Sunday, June 16, and you could save up to 50% off!
The best thing is that you don’t have to be a Photoshop pro to use their files – these files can be used in a variety of applications, including Word and PowerPoint!
Click on DoverPictura’s ad
(to the right, above, in the sidebar),
and you’ll get 3 FREE images just for checking them out!
Cool, huh?!
Next up: Oodles of Father’s Day Papercrafting Inspiration on Pinterest
We’ve been busily scouring the internet (and Pinterest) in search of fun Father’s Day project ideas just for you!
From cards to home decor items to party decor and gift wrap, there is no shortage of ideas to inspire you to create something – ahem, papercraft something – for the dad(s) in your life.
Check out our Papercraft – Father’s Day Ideas Pinterest board and let us know what you decide to make.
Grab some clip art images from Dover and incorporate them into one of these ideas and you’ll have a unique gift/card/wrap item in no time!
Share a Father’s Day project made with DoverPictura’s clip art
and you’ll get an additional entry into our prize drawing!
Don’t forget:
Share a link to your finished Father’s Day project
in the comments section (link above)
to be eligible to WIN!
And finally: Create a Photo Card Online
Some of you may have seen the link we shared on our Facebook page a few weeks ago, the link to the online card-creation service called Treat.
I used their service to create a card for my Mom for Mother’s Day and I was so impressed with the quality, that I prepaid a pack of cards for future use.
And yes, you guessed it, I made one for my Dad!
Now, depending on where your recipient lives, you might still be able to create a Father’s Day card and have Treat deliver it for you by Father’s Day.
Check out Treat’s website to see if you made it under the wire!
If not, check out the many card ideas we linked you to on Pinterest and get craftin’!
Hopefully these ideas have inspired the procrastinators in the bunch (raising hand!), and the potential to WIN a cool prize has inspired ALL OF YOU to not only papercraft something for dad this year, but to share a link to your creation in this post’s comments (before midnight, Monday, June 17th).
Include DoverPictura’s clip art in your project and you’ll get an extra entry in the prize drawing!
We can’t wait to see what you all create!
Have a great week,
Steph
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