Hooray! It’s Friday, there was a huge royal wedding today and now a spring challenge to jump start your creativity. For this challenge, it’s all about those soft hues. Those photos taken by Tina are amazing! Love the tea theme! You do not have to use the tea theme, just create a square card! You know if you want to scrap, we’ll check that out too!

Please make sure you review the rules below.

The photograph(s) in the challenge inspiration board are by Flying House Studios and from our very own designer, Tina Fussell!

 

JustRite^® has over a 100 year history in making product for the commercial stamping industry. It was acquired by Millennium Marking Company in 2004. JustRite began using its knowledge of stamp products to introduce stamp making technology to crafters.

Our images and unique stamping system of are what set us apart in the stamping community. Our priority is a regular introduction of fresh high-quality stamping images for beginners to seasoned stampers. From line art images, to big bold and colorable you are sure to find something to spark your creativity. We go far beyond simply showing stampers new images. We feature beautiful handmade projects from the stamping community’s most talented designers. In addition to enjoying the sheer “art of the project” we strive to share how you could re-create the project yourself including complete supply lists for the project.

Our stampers are sold in sets of images that you can mix and match with borders, centers and font to enhance your creative experience. All stampers are precision engineered for a clear sharp impression.

The JustRite stamping community is all about fun designs, facilitating inspiration and sharing ideas. Sharing is the optimal word because we value our communication with you the stamper and want you to find the right creative opportunity. We desire a two way communication in which you share with us and others so that we all grow in our creative journey. Social media enables us to offer new ways to communicate and share ideas and you will find a number of ways to communicate with us and each other. We love to hear from you.

 

This challenge requires you to create a square card using the color challenge. Any square card size you want to create will fit this challenge requirement. For those scrappers out there, just make a square layout and that will work too! We want to see how you create within the square!

The main colors are featured in the challenge inspiration board above. 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. If you would like to use a neutral of white/cream and black/brown, please feel free to add it!

Upload a photo of your project to your blog or online gallery, such as Splitcoaststampers or Flickr, then copy the direct link to your project to the embedded link widget below or on one of the design team’s blogs. 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.

NOTE: **If you are having difficulties with our link widget, please click the question mark link to get help from their blog. They offer useful step-by-step instructions.

IE v6 Browser Users: The link widget is not compatible with IE version 6. Please feel free to download Firefox for free here. You can also update your IE browser here. Sorry for any inconvenience in the cross-browser issues, but we hope you give Firefox a try!

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 top designers who created hot projects to highlight. The designers will be highlighted in a blog posting. You can find all blog postings related to challenge winners in the category menu in the footer below, called “Embellish What’s Hot.”

Additionally, there will be a designer who will be featured and will JustRite stamps (Fancy Labels, Kindness, Vintage Oval Frames). The winner must contact Embellish within 48 hours of the announcement. We reserve the right to select a new winner if the designer makes no contact.

Even if you’re feeling a bit square, the designers have some creative inspiration to share with you to help you think outside of the box. Check out how they used JustRite cling stamps to make some beautiful square cards.

Ashley created a friendship card using the Vintage Ovals stamp set. She stamped the ornate label design, hand cut it, and layered it with petite oval die cut and a sentiment strip. She kept the design very simple, allowing the label and sentiment to steal the show.

Charlene created this embossed friendship card using Friendship Blooms stamp set. She dry embossed the leaf pattern and heat embossed the blooms and the label.

Cristina designed a sweet baby card using the Fancy Labels stamp set. She stamped the entire background and embellished the card with a tag wrapped with twine and cute letters.

Mariana made this square thank you card that features the Fancy Frames stamp set. She stitched around the frame and layered it with additional die cuts with coordinating JustRite stamps.

Sarah used the You Inspire Me stamp set as the focal point of her shabby chic card. She embellished the label with a sentiment and trims.

Tina designed this card using the Fancy Tags stamp set and Happy Everything coordinating dies. She layered the card with embellishments and add the tag with twine.

Click the image above for additional rules. There are new rules, so please visit the link. Your entry may be deleted if your submission is also a part of a lot of other challenges.

Challenge ends Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 11:59 pm EST

 

 

 

My apologies for posting the winners so late. So we’ve heard you all loud and clear, you love decorative trim and we do too! We absolutely loved “OOOOHING and AAAAHING” over your designs. Please join us in congratulating, Cee Cee on her beautiful clean and graphic card all dressed up with trim! Please contact us with your mailing address and we will make sure you receive your decorative trim by May Arts.

Don’t forget to stop by the rest of the “hot” designers’ blogs to see their decorative trim creations in their entirety. Click on each image to visit their blogs. Make sure to leave everyone some blog love and comment on their gorgeous designs! If you’re looking for more inspiration, there are plenty more entries we were not able to highlight here that deserve some serious blog stalking! So go check them out too!

Don’t forget to take on our current Crochet Trim Color Trends Challenge. You have a little more than 24 hours to get that project complete…YOU CAN DO IT! We want to be inspired too and can’t wait to see what you all create. There are already some really great submissions so far that have WOW’d us already with that citrus color palette. You never know…you may just be the winner of the crocheted decorative trim from May Arts.

Stay tuned because on THIS FRIDAY, we will feature a new Color Trends Challenge and a new sponsor! You won’t want to miss this one!

 

Crochet trims can be found in just about any manufacturer’s collections. They are the perfect way to dress up and embellish paper crafting projects. Whether your style is vintage, shabby chic, elegant, or just plain and simple, adding decorative trim to projects is easy, yet so effective. Join us and add some decorative trim to your project for this challenge.

Please make sure you review the rules below.

The photograph(s) in the challenge inspiration board are by Flying House Studios and from our very own designer, Tina Fussell!

May Arts is a leading distributor of high quality ribbon products, serving a wide variety of merchants from large retail outlets to home-based business in the craft and scrapbooking, gift, stationery, quilting, fancy food, floral, interior design and jewelry industries. Since its founding, May Arts has built its business on a foundation of quality products, affordability, and outstanding customer service.

May Arts was founded in the early 1980’s in Greenwich, Connecticut. The original products were high-end silk flowers imported from Taiwan, which were decorated using quality ribbons. The decorative ribbons proved so popular among customers that the business gradually evolved into a dedicated ribbon wholesaler.

As a family-owned and operated business, May Arts began a long-standing tradition of quality, affordability, and exceptional customer service. We are dedicated to carrying on this same tradition by offering high quality products at competitive prices. Our friendly, knowledgeable staff is always happy to answer your questions or to assist you in placing your order.

 

This challenge requires you to create a paper craft project using the color challenge and crochet trim. Creating paper craft projects with crochet trim can be so easy! Just add an entire strip or a small sample to your card, layout, or altered art. Embellish the trim, make it an accent, or let it steal the show. You can use lace trim, crocheted trim, punched or die cut lacey patterned paper or cardstock – even lacey doilies will count! We can’t wait to see what you create.

The main colors are featured in the challenge inspiration board above. 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. If you would like to use a neutral of white/cream and black/brown, please feel free to add it!

Upload a photo of your project to your blog or online gallery, such as Splitcoaststampers or Flickr, then copy the direct link to your project to the embedded link widget below or on one of the design team’s blogs. 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.

NOTE: **If you are having difficulties with our link widget, please click the question mark link to get help from their blog. They offer useful step-by-step instructions.

IE v6 Browser Users: The link widget is not compatible with IE version 6. Please feel free to download Firefox for free here. You can also update your IE browser here. Sorry for any inconvenience in the cross-browser issues, but we hope you give Firefox a try!

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 top designers who created hot projects to highlight. The designers will be highlighted in a blog posting. You can find all blog postings related to challenge winners in the category menu in the footer below, called “Embellish What’s Hot.”

Additionally, there will be a designer who will be featured and win an entire roll of crochet trim (more than 10 yards) from May Arts. The winner must contact Embellish within 48 hours of the announcement. We reserve the right to select a new winner if the designer makes no contact.

Need some inspiration? The design team has worked really hard to showcase various May Arts crochet trims. Take a look at the details by clicking on the image or linked names.

 

Ashley created a canvas mini album decorated with crochet trim on the page ends.

Charlene created this dimensional flower card and used crochet trim as decorative border strips.

Cristina designed this bright and cheery spring card that showcases crochet trim finished off with a button.

Mariana made this note card that uses crochet trim as a dividing border with lots of texture.

Sarah used the crochet trim to layer and border her feminine thank you card. She also added the other trim behind the sentiment embellishment!

Tina designed this card using crochet trim layered with baker’s twine.

Click the image above for additional rules. There are new rules, so please visit the link. Your entry may be deleted if your submission is also a part of a lot of other challenges.

Challenge ends Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 11:59 pm EST

WOW! The Masculine Color Trends Challenge turned out to be a huge hit! You all have definitely mastered the art in creating paper craft projects for me. We even had TWO male designers offer their creativity on a masculine design. We are truly grateful for all of the entries and participation. Please join us in congratulating, Jen Rzasa on her masculine card that really “hammered” the design team in voting for her project! Please contact us with your mailing address and we will make sure you are all set up to receive your Grunge stamp set by Skipping Stones Design

Make sure you stop by the rest of the “hot” designers’ blogs to see their masculine creations in their entirety. Click on each image to visit their blogs. Make sure to leave everyone some blog love and comment on their “manly” designs! If you’re looking for more inspiration, there are plenty more entries we were not able to highlight here that deserve some serious blog stalking! So go check them out too!

Don’t forget to take on our current Decorative Trim Color Trends Challenge. We want to be inspired too and can’t wait to see what you all create. There are already some really great submissions so far and will surely spark that creative nerve in your body when using that decorative trim. You never know…you may just be the winner of the velvet and crocheted decorative trim and more crochet trim from May Arts.

 

 

Decorative trims can be found in just about any manufacturer’s collections. They are the perfect way to dress up and embellish paper crafting projects. Whether your style is vintage, shabby chic, elegant, or just plain and simple, adding decorative trim to projects is easy, yet so effective. Join us and add some decorative trim to your project for this challenge.

Please make sure you review the rules below.

The photograph(s) in the challenge inspiration board are by Flying House Studios and from our very own designer, Tina Fussell!

May Arts is a leading distributor of high quality ribbon products, serving a wide variety of merchants from large retail outlets to home-based business in the craft and scrapbooking, gift, stationery, quilting, fancy food, floral, interior design and jewelry industries.  Since its founding, May Arts has built its business on a foundation of quality products, affordability, and outstanding customer service.

May Arts was founded in the early 1980’s in Greenwich, Connecticut. The original products were high-end silk flowers imported from Taiwan, which were decorated using quality ribbons. The decorative ribbons proved so popular among customers that the business gradually evolved into a dedicated ribbon wholesaler.

As a family-owned and operated business, May Arts began a long-standing tradition of quality, affordability, and exceptional customer service. We are dedicated to carrying on this same tradition by offering high quality products at competitive prices. Our friendly, knowledgeable staff is always happy to answer your questions or to assist you in placing your order.

 

This challenge requires you to create a paper craft project using the color challenge and decorative trim. Creating paper craft projects with decorative trim can be so easy! Just add an entire strip or a small sample to your card, layout, or altered art. Embellish the trim, make it an accent, or let it steal the show. We can’t wait to see what you create.

The main colors are featured in the challenge inspiration board above. 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. If you would like to use a neutral of white/cream and black/brown, please feel free to add it!

Upload a photo of your project to your blog or online gallery, such as Splitcoaststampers or Flickr, then copy the direct link to your project to the embedded link widget below or on one of the design team’s blogs. 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.

NOTE: **If you are having difficulties with our link widget, please click the question mark link to get help from their blog. They offer useful step-by-step instructions.

IE v6 Browser Users: The link widget is not compatible with IE version 6. Please feel free to download Firefox for free here. You can also update your IE browser here. Sorry for any inconvenience in the cross-browser issues, but we hope you give Firefox a try!

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 top designers who created hot projects to highlight. The designers will be highlighted in a blog posting. You can find all blog postings related to challenge winners in the category menu in the footer below, called “Embellish What’s Hot.”

Additionally, there will be a designer who will be featured and win an entire roll of crochet trim (more than 10 yards) and also the decorative trim from May Arts. The winner must contact Embellish within 48 hours of the announcement. We reserve the right to select a new winner if the designer makes no contact.

Need some inspiration? Well, you’re at the right place! The design team has embellished their projects with velvet and crocheted decorative trim.

 

Ashley created postal card. She added the velvet and crocheted decorative trim under the layered embellishments and accented it with rhinestones.

Charlene created this feminine card using the velvet and crocheted decorative trim. She ever so cleverly used the reversed side of the trim on a part of her design.

Cristina designed this cute Easter gift bag. She wrapped the velvet and crocheted decorative trim around the bag to give it perfect texture and color.

Mariana made this elegant card. She used the velvet and crocheted decorative trim as a creative border on her design.

Sarah used the velvet and crocheted decorative trim as an accent to her layered embellishments. She tucked a couple of strips of the trim under the embellishments for dimension, color and texture.

Tina designed this clean and simple layout. She used the velvet and crocheted decorative trim as a border between the photo and more crocheted trim.

Click the image above for additional rules. There are new rules, so please visit the link. Your entry may be deleted if your submission is also a part of a lot of other challenges.

Challenge ends Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 11:59 pm EST