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To submit your contest/call/event, please use our submission form.

Let’s Get Shabby - Geometric Shapes

Deadline: 20-05-2012

Create a Shabby Project (for eg: layout, card, atc, otp) with a repeated geometrical shape pattern.

There’s only a few days to go : due by midnight on the 20th May (Sydney Australia time)

There’s a wonderful shabby prize up for winning!

We’d love to see how you interpret this! Come and view the design team examples and let’s get shabby!

Just Imagine Crafts / Kreaxion - Blog Hop

Deadline: 17-05-2012

Please join the Just Imagine Crafts / Kreaxions Design Team for a weekend full of fun, inspiration and prizes. See our unique 4- in – 1 punches, our amazing circle cutter (cuts up to 10” circle) and the other tools in action.
The fun starts 3:30am EST Friday May 18th and goes through 11:59pm EST Sunday May 20th.
It starts here. Hope to see you there!!

Creative Scrappers - Creative Call

Deadline: 01-06-2012

Submissions will be taken until June 1st 2012. New Designers will be revealed on June 5th 2012

Please include in your application:
Name, Country of Residence, email address, link to your blog and online gallery, List of Current Design Teams

Please Send:
3 of your recent layouts to showcase your scrapbook style, At least 1 Layout using a CS Sketch, indicate Sketch #

The Design Team will be required to:
- Complete 2-3 layouts per month with sketches provided
- Exclusive to Creative Scrappers*
(no other sketch blog is permitted)
- post our CT Blinkie/Badge in signatures & on your blog!
- Posting our sketch & your layout on your Blog/Facebook (Your Sunday Reveals)

- This is a Term position from July 1 – October 31 2012
- Call is Open to Past and Present Design Team Members
- We have a Private Group on Facebook for CT Members
- Call is open to all countries

Please Mail your entries toCreatingWithSketches@gmail.com
Subject line – CS Creative Call

Creative Scrappers - Sketch Designer Call

Deadline: 20-05-2012

Creative Scrappers is looking for a sketch designer!
Interested in creating sketches for our creative layout team?
This is what you need to know!

* Digital Sketches would be preferred but will consider hand-drawn
* Black & White
* 1-3 Photos
* Your name included on the sketch
* Not Designing for ANY other Sketch Blog ( Stores, Manufactures ok )
* Sketches must be original and made exclusively for us.
* Post the sketch on your blog when revealed

The new Sketch Team member will have to submit:
- 3 sketches per month ( or 12 at once ) and the first set submitted by June 1st 2012.

Please send —
- Your Full Name
- Blog Address (required)
- and 3 of your sketches to reveal your style

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS May 20 2012. Sketch designer will be announced shortly after. This is a term ending October 31 2012.

One designer will be selected! Designers returning are Kristine Davidson, Nicole Nowosad and Juliana Michaels

email address is CreatingWithSketches@gmail.com
Subject line – Sketch Team Application

Scrapping Everyday Miracles - May Sketch Challenge

Deadline: 31-05-2012

Getting Sketchy @ Scrapping Everyday Miracles

Charis has a wonderful mulit-photo sketch for us this month. This fun and versatile challenge is open to all. Join us this month at Scrapping Everyday Miracles, we’d love to see what you create with such inspiration. By submitting your layout based on the sketch by May 31 you will be entered to win a $15 gift certificate to Seals, Tags and Stuff, a great little Etsy shop full of fun scrappy product. You won’t want to miss this, we hope to see you there.

Pink Persimmon - New Antiquated Collection Stamp Giveaway

Deadline: May 18th @ noon (PT)

Pink Persimmon and Lisa Pace are giving away a complete set of the new Antiquated Collection stamps (5 stamp sets) to one lucky winner over at the Pink Persimmon blog.  Entries close on May 18th at noon, so hurry on over. Lots of ways to increase your odds of winning by helping to spread the word about the Antiquated Collection to your friends and fellow crafters.

Paper Issues - Stretch Your Comfort Zone

Deadline: 26-05-2012

We are teaming up with Gauche Alchemy for this theme! We want you to bust out of your comfort zone and use nontraditional supplies on your projects. Gauche has generously offered a fabulous coupon for their store and we are giving away a mini kit to one lucky reader! This contest is open to everyone. It lasts until May 26th. Come link up and you might be the next feature!

Welcome to Roben-Marie Smith's biggest, jam-packed most ambitious workshop to date! Join her for new techniques and tips, new products and five (Yes, FIVE!) ARTastic projects to keep for yourself or give as gifts in Collage, Construct & Affirm. 

In 25+ videos, you will see her step by step process illustrating how you will work together to create multi-layered, yummy collaged canvases that will then be transformed as you construct a large, pocketed, clutch style journal with inspiring affirmation cards to guide you on your journey as creative souls. Then in three BONUS projects, you will create a wallet styled mini journal, a gift pouch, and a mail art piece to share with treasured friends.

 

25+ hours of instructional video prepared to take you on an inky, paint filled collage collaboration with Roben-Marie. All content is presented in a self-paced format allowing you to work as your schedule permits. She will share in a download some of her favorite affirmations as well as a .pdf supply list with shopping links to help you gather any needed supplies. 

This class is self-paced and all materials are available to you.  Join in when you want and finish on your schedule!

See a video Preview HERE!

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Jeanne Oliver describes some details from her art studio here.  See one photo below as well.

Craft and Creativity stores embroidery floss on clothespins – so pretty! See one photo below and more details here.

Elise Cripe shows her changing inspiration clipboards here.

BahayKoobo's studio is shown below.

Oh, I love the looks of this studio/workspace by Johanna Vintage.

Elsie Larson shows how to make your own herringbone stamp here.

Oh Happy Day shows how to make these paper baskets in a post here. There is a free printable available as well.

Ing Things has a template available here for making these cute paper dolls.

Happy National Scrapbook Day!

Decor8 has a post up here called "15 Clever Ideas for Instagram Photos."  Love the idea of little stickers!

Oh Happy Day has a Bride Kit DIY which is such a neat idea for a bridal shower gift. (One photo at left.)

Love this idea posted by Eline Pellinkhof of a stamping project done by Mira. (One photo at right.)

I'm enjoying following Judy Wise's latest adventures on her blog.  She has just travelled from her home in the U.S. to live and paint in an artists' residency in Spain for an extended period of time.

Diane Salter shows a very nice mixed media piece she created on a large cupboard door, here.

Lastly, take a look at this beautiful paper quilt by Recipe for Crazy.

Birds of a Feather Kit Co. - NSD Flock Together Crop

Deadline: 06-05-2012

Come celebrate National Scrapbook Weekend (because one day just isn’t enough) with all the Chicks at Birds of a Feather Kit Co.! Beginning Friday, May 4th, we’ll be cropping, playing scrappy games, and having tons of fun doing what we love best! There are challenges to inspire you and more than $250 in prizes to be won. Come join the celebration!

To submit your contest/call/event, please use our submission form.

Childs Play Challenges - Blog Hop

Deadline: May 1, 2012

It’s Child’s Play Challenges first ever Blog Hop!! We’re so excited to have you here, and hope you enjoy visiting the Design Team and seeing all the great inspiration they have to share with you! We have a great little collection of playful goodies to send to one lucky hopper, just link up with us by May 1st.

Let’s Get Shabby - Challenge #34 Geometric Shapes

Deadline: 20-05-2012

Come join us here at ’Let’s Get Shabby’ and share a shabby chic project of tessellations or fun geometric repeated patterning.

Check out the design team examples!

You can submit any kind of papercraft project for example – layouts, cards, off the page or atcs!

Looking forward to your creations!

Colorful Creations - Birthday Sketch A Thon

Deadline: 31-05-2012

May is going to be an exciting month full of great sketches and prizes to give here at Colorful Creations! To help celebrate our 2nd Anniversary, we are having a month long sketch a thon. Please come join us!

My Scraps & More - ”Mother May I” Crop

Deadline: 20-05-2012

You know the old game, ”Mother May I?”…well, My Scraps & More is holding a fun crop based off of this idea! There will be tons of challenges to pique your creativity with hints for extra draws based on this game. Please plan on joining us to play along! The fun starts on the My Scraps blog May 9th with pre-crop challenges posted as early as May 6th! We look forward to seeing you soon!

Scrap It GIrl -  May Flowers Challenge

Deadline: 31-05-2012

April Showers Bring May Flowers. Do you have a stash of flowers, flower stamps, or the newest Flower Cartridges? This is a great challenge for those of you who have been wanting to make homemade flowers or even use up a few. You can be creative. Scrapbook layouts, cards, altered art, kids crafts, etc.. whatever you want. You can submit up to 3 projects. Winner will be announced on June 1st. Winner will receive an assortment of crafty items from Close To My Heart, paper, stamps, & embellishments. Bring on the Flowers~

C’est Magnifique Kit Club - May Sketch Challenge by Nadia Cannizzo

Deadline: 31-05-2012

Time for a new sketch challenge designed by DT member Nadia Cannizzo. You do not need to be a member of C’est Magnifique to participate in our sketch challenge. It is open to anyone! You are welcome to use any supplies you have, but if you are the winner and it is obvious that you used any one of our kits – the prize will be DOUBLED!!!

The winner of the challenge, selected by a random draw, will win a $10 gift certificate (or $20, as mentioned above if you use a kit) from C’est Magnifique which you can use to shop in our store.

As an added bonus, from the entries for this challenge, we will select a few layouts to ”feature”. One of the featured layouts will receive a beautiful La Blanche Victorian Swirl stamp from C’est Magnifique.

Have fun and we can’t wait to see your entries!