Sending Thanksgiving Wishes The Paper Players 416

October 28, 2018

It's Sunday and time for a new challenge at  The Paper Players!
The Amazing Anne Marie  is our hostess this week and she has a fabulous Sketch Challenge for all of us!  Have fun and we can't wait to see what you create!  Oh, the possibilities are endless with this fabulous sketch!  

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.  I love that it is all about family, friends and food!  I used a Early Expresso card base for my card.  I used a variety of Fall patterned DSP that I found in my stash.  I backed each layer with Early Expresso to make it pop off the barn red background.  I used the SugarPea Designs Indian Summer stamp set.  The little raccoons, tepee and sentiment are all from this set.  I colored them with Copic Markers and cut them out with the matching dies.  Wink of Stella was added for shine. 

Looking for some inspiration?  Make sure you check out all the blogs of the Design Team Members.

 Create a NEW paper, or digital, project.

                                                

Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us. 

1. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
2. Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL.  Entries linked to more than 3 challenges, including ours, will be deleted without notification!
3. Have fun!

The Paper Players Design Team
Claire Broadwater
Jaydee
Anne Marie Hile
Joanne James
Laurie Schmidt
LeAnne Pugliese
Sandy Mathis
Annie Abrahamson (on break)
Jan Clothier
Elizabeth Stewart

All stamping products are welcome.  Thank you for joining us at The Paper Players!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!  Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts!

HUGS!

Claire

Trick or Treat Sketch Saturday #537

Good Morning Everyone and Happy Saturday!

It's the last Saturday of the month, so once again we're looking for our monthly Guest Designer!!

Requirements:

- Must participate in all challenges for the month (weekly, 4-5 challenges)

- Responsible for emailing completed project by Thursday (2 days before challenge is posted)

- Card must follow the sketch for the week

- You will be emailed all shared digis the team was provided for the month, use of sponsor images is not required but HIGHLY encouraged

If you are interested, please put GDT after your name when you enter/link up on this week's challenge.  Please keep in mind we only have guest designers periodically, so if you are not picked right away please don't be discouraged!!

Now onto our challenge!!

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We have a great sponsor this week:

The Paper Nest Dolls!

The Paper Nest Dolls has lots of fantastic stamps, digis and more! Here is their blog.

The Paper Nest Dolls has generously offered 3 digital stamps of the winner's choice.

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Here is Sketch #537

My card is created on a black card stock square base.  (5 X 5)  I added a layer of polka dot paper from my stash. 

The two black layers of haunted borders are from Craftin Desert Divas.  I used the Harvest Borders Dies and cut two black borders.  
I added a few black bat stickers and the sentiment is a sticker I had in a pack of Halloween goodies.  No stamping requires on this card.  Don't you love it?

Thank you for stopping by my blog!  Don't forget to visit all the DT blogs for lots of inspiration!  We sure hope you will play along with us!  

HUGS!

Claire

Ho Ho Ho Keeping Christmas

October 25, 2018

WOW!  Only 2 months until Christmas!  Time to get started on your stash!

I am honored to be a part of the Keeping Christmas Inspiration Blog Hop.  

It's time for this month's installment of Keeping Christmas with The Challenge Design Team!  We will be sharing Christmas creations on the 25th of each month!!!

The whole idea is to have some Christmas cards and projects in our stash ready to go for December 2018!

So hop along and be sure to visit each blog. 

There is a lot of inspiration and ideas to get your creative juices flowing!

Kelly Lunceford

Lesley Croghan (off this month)

Anita Madden

Broni Holcombe

Claire Broadwater (me)

Julee Tilman

Kim Heggins 

Lori Tecler

Nance Salkeld

Nina Forsyth

I had a lot of fun creating these four cards.  

My base cards are all a shade of green.  The paper was in my stash, so I am not sure what the correct color is.  I cut four white backgrounds using the Avery Elle Wonky Stitches Die.  

  

Next, I used white paper and sponged Cracked Pistachio, Fossilized Amber, Picked Raspberry, and Salty Ocean 

Distress Oxide inks on four different pieces.  I used the Ho Ho Ho Die from My Favorite Things and cut the words out of each color of distressed paper.  

I mixed the colors to create the cards.  This was a super quick way to make four fun cards!.

 I hope these make your smile! 

Thanks for stopping by!  Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts.  I love to hear from you!

The hop is hosted by the fabulous Kelly Lunceford's blog, so head over there to start from the beginning.

ENJOY the blog hop!  I hope we inspired you to make a few cards, too!

HUGS!

Claire