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Embellish Hearts Color Challenge :: Sponsored by The Cutting Cafe
20 Comments »Posted in ChallengeJan 1, 2010
We’re back this year with a fun and fresh challenge sponsored by The Cutting Cafe. The Cutting Cafe is your one stop shop for affordable printable stamps and cutting files. Designer and crafter, Regina Easter owns and operates The Cutting Cafe and offers a wide array of digital images. The shop provides great information and tips on how to use digital files.
The focus of this challenge is on Valentine’s Day. We want to offer some inspiration for the upcoming holiday so that you can feel confident in starting your heart-filled projects. This challenge requires the use of hearts in any way, such as stamps, punches, or patterned paper. Additionally, make sure you use all of the colors on any paper crafting design (i.e., card, scrapbook layout, mini book, tag, gift bag, box, etc.). The main colors are highlighted in Polaroid inspired color swatches. If you want additional direction on the actual colors, Papertrey Ink’s pure poppy, true black, and sweet blush are sample hues for this challenge. Feel free to use other manufacturers, such as Stampin’ Up!’s real red, basic black, and pretty in pink. Additionally, various color hues are permitted, but try to keep the color combination as close as possible to the colors listed above. White or cream are optional color choices to add to your projects to create neutrality. Remember, colors can be incorporated into your project in more ways than cardstock. Don’t forget to embellish with your project with hearts!
Upload a photo of your project to your blog or online gallery, such as Splitcoaststampers, Flickr, or Papertrey Ink, then copy the direct link to your project to the Mr. Linky widget below. If you do not have a direct link to your blog/gallery posting that features the challenge, your link may be deleted. If it is deleted, no biggie, just come back and re-link the correct link! Only links left in the Mr. Linky widget will be considered for challenge submissions.
After the challenge ends, the design team will select six designers who created hot projects to highlight. Additionally, there will be a designer who will be featured and will win 3 digital images of his/her choice from The Cutting Cafe. So, what are you waiting for? Let’s get started in designing some cute Valentine’s projects so you can win some new digital images to use in the future!
We also have a Flickr Group available to share your projects. Please add your projects to Embellish Magazine Flickr group.
If you want to use the graphic above, feel free to, but make sure you right-click and choose the “Save Image As” choice to save it to your computer, then upload to your blog!
Photo credits from left to right: M&Ms photo by disneychick, red mini clothespins can be purchased at Paper Source, listen to your heart photograph by ninakupenda81.
Looking for some inspiration? Check out these great designs by the new design team and thanks for participating in the challenge! Don’t forget, you can also hop over to The Cutting Cafe to select some digital images to use for your projects because they are affordable and are available really quickly to use! Enjoy!
Ashley Cannon Newell
My card features The Cutting Cafe’s Valentine Borders + All About Valentine’s Day printable stamps. Guess what the inside says?
Charlene Austin
Char’s card features The Cutting Cafe’s All About Valentine’s Day + Valentine’s Set One printable stamps.
Maile Belles
Maile’s card features The Cutting Cafe’s All About Valentine’s Day + I Love You background printable stamps.
Mariana Grigsby
Mariana’s card features The Cutting Cafe’s All About Valentine’s Day + Huge Frame + Heart background printable stamps.
Sarah Martina
Sarah’s heart-shaped card features The Cutting Cafe’s All About Valentine’s Day + Huge Heart Frame printable stamps.
Tina Fussell
Tina’s coloring book features The Cutting Cafe’s All About Valentine’s Day + Sweetheart background printable stamps. See more on her blog!
The challenge ends Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 11:59 PM EST. If the Mister Linky widget should fail, please provide a direct link to your project in a reply comment to this post.
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[...] forget that you are invited to participate in the challenge, and submit your creation here. The challenge ends Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 11:59 PM [...]
I am so excited about this new group of designers, I vistit all of your blogs, EVERYDAY, seriously! Anyway, I really LOVE Valentines day, and I am doing a card drive over at my blog all this month. This challenge will work with it perfectly, I can’t wait to play and I hope other’s will play and also check out the card drive too. It’s for a GREAT cause!
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG…what a awesome group of designers and the projects are jaw dropping gorgeous…Ashley, I couldn’t wait to see what your team was going to produce…truly AMAZING…you ladies rock…hugs
what a fabulous challenge and love what the DT created! The diversity from chic to shabby is amazing!
Another fabulous challenge …. Love this colour combo!
gorgeous inspiration by the fabbie design team!!! I don’t see mr. linky so I’ll leave my link here:
happy valentines day girlfriend!
Thanks for the inspiration! I leave my link in Mr. Linky.
Fabulous inspiration…can’t wait to play along:)
[...] This card was created using the Whoo’s Your Valentine stamp set from Stampin’ Up!, cardstock’s from Papertrey Ink, ribbon is PTI and the black is unknown, the border punch is Fiskar and I used Copic markers to color the hearts. The color combo came from Embellish Magazine. [...]
WOW- amazing cards from the design team, so happy to see such pretty creations. Thanks for another great challenge.
I love these colors, Ashley!!! And your new design team is awesome. I can’t wait to post my creation. I’ve missed way to many. Time to catch up
I just found your site and I love it! Can’t wait for the next challenge
I just discovered your site and love these challenges (the color combos are awesome!) … I posted a card for this one … thanks for the inspiration!
[...] Embellish Magazine is bringing on a valentine challenge. I wasn’t quite ready to jump into valentines yet, so here is a {lovey} thank you. [...]
Thank you to all the design team members for inspiring us with your fabulous cards! I’m glad to get a chance to play this one
Thank you for all of the creative inspiration! I had so much fun participating in this challenge!!!
Very inspiring colours!!! Thanks for the challenge. I’ve posted my link above.
Hi
On Maile’s blog I saw this challenge and thought that it would be a great idea to join in.
So I did.
Hope You like it
xx Anita
Oh no! Did I miss the mister linky already?!?!?! I whipped up a card last night and posted it on my blog today to play along: http://whoistracy.com/myhead/index.php?/archives/605-Stuck-on-You.html
Did I miss the wrapping up of this challenge? I hope not! I can’t find it anywhere!
Cheers!!