Today, we have a fun blog hop for all of our fans, readers, members, and subscribers!   We have some great designers who are featured in Embellish Magazine’s Premiere Issue who have created some awesome projects to share with you today.   All of the designers created projects featuring the first issue’s challenge.  We all used red, turquoise, kraft, and brown color combination and embellished the projects with twine.  We are really excited about our first issue and its success and we hop you will celebrate with us this weekend.

Exclusive Crinkly Stained Ribbon Tutorial is now available to Embellish Magazine members and subscribers!  If you have access to view the magazine, then you will have access to this great new tutorial!  Embellish Magazine members and subscribers, please click here and login to access the video.  If you get lost, go to the “Dashboard” and it will be the first posting under the “News” section.

If you are not already a member or subscriber, you can easily obtain access here.

Make sure you hop around to each designer and leave a comment on every blog.  There will be prizes awarded to blog hoppers who leave a comment.  There will be 10 winners of various prizes, including twine samplers, crinkly stained ribbon, Embellish Magazine subscriptions, Lawn Fawn stamps, and as an added surprise bonus a Clear and Simple Stamps gift certificate.

The blog hop will be open through Monday, May 31, 2010 at 5:00 pm EST.  Winners will be announced on this blog on Tuesday as well as the selected ‘mystery’ designer’s blogs.

The blogs will be chosen at random as will the winners, so make sure you leave some ‘love’ on each designer’s blog for your chance to win the following:

5 persons will win a subscription to Embellish Magazine

2 persons will win a twine sampler

2 persons will win crinkly stained ribbon

2 persons will win Lawn Fawn stamps

1 person will win a $25 Clear and Simple Stamps gift certificate

*Make sure you stop by CSS blog for your chance to win*

Embellish Blog

Ryann Salamon

Tessa Wise

Charlene Austin

Renee Van Stralen

Lori Roop

Julie Campbell

Sara Martina Parker

Tammy Fite

Heather Pulvirenti

Regan D’Agostino

Emily Niehaus

Maile Belles

Tiffany Johnson

Anya Schrier

Leigh Ann Baird

Amy Rohl

Mariana Grigsby

Kelly Marie Alvarez

Michelle Woerner

Tina Fussell

Maureen Plut

Brenda Weaver

Julie Lacey

Ashley Cannon Newell

Clear & Simple Stamps

Embellish Blog

Thank you to all of our sponsors, designers, and subscribers who have supported us on this great adventure!

Angeline Yong

1. Ange Kelly
2. Chupa
3. Gabriela Dulces
4. Jessica Rosario
5. Laura O’Donnell
6. Teresa Kline

Congratulations to the featured designers in the Embellish Dimension Color Challenge.  Angeline, please send me an e-mail via the contact form to retrieve your prize, sponsored by Renaissance by Design.  Thank you to all of the designers who participated in the challenge.

Your dimension ideas were awesome!  There were so many flowers and stamped images popped off projects to keep us going for a year!   If you need some inspiration or want to participate in the current challenge, click here.

Details available here on Thursday

See you then!

Skipping Stones Design (SSD) is a stamp company whose mission is to help paper crafters share the gift of laughter one stamp at a time.  SSD started in 2005 and has a variety of stamps in their online store to attract all paper crafters.  Their stamps are photopolymer high quality clear stamps and priced just right.  On their blog, SSD challenges crafters with a sketch every week.

This challenge requires you to create a project using butterflies. Butterflies may be stamped, die cut, punched or on patterned paper!  You can incorporate the theme in many ways, such as a card, scrapbook layout, mini book, tag, gift bag, box, etc. The main colors are highlighted in Polaroid inspired color swatches. Keep the colors of your project as close to the colors in the challenge image.  Remember, colors can be incorporated into your project in more ways than cardstock.

Don’t forget:

1. Use the colors in the Polaroid-inspired color swatches (featured in the image above) and

2. Use butterflies.

You have until Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 11:59 pm EST to submit your entries below.

The photos used in the graphic are by Ashley McArthur Photography.

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 embedded link 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 link widget will be considered for challenge submissions.

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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!

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 three stamp sets, including Garden Stamp Kiss, Whispering Wings, and Healing Wings. The featured designers and the winner will be posted the week following the challenge end date. The winner must contact Embellish Magazine within 48 hours of the announcement. We reserve the right to select a new winner if the designer makes no contact.

Ashley used the Healing Wings stamp set to create her gratitude card.

Charlene used Healing Wings + Dandelion Dreams stamp set and created this cute fluttering card.

Challenge ends Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 11:59 PM EST

Lynn

1. Brenda
2. Chupa
3. Jenna
4. Lisa
5. Nicky
6. Savitri

Congratulations to the featured designers in the Embellish Embossing Color Challenge. Lynn , please send me an e-mail via the contact form to retrieve your prize, sponsored by Practicing Creativity Design.  Thank you to all of the designers who participated in the challenge.

Your embossing ideas were so great and I really enjoyed going through the entries using those bright colors!   If you need some inspiration or want to participate in the current challenge, click here.