Challenge #39

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! I am finally able to get online, so I am posting last week's challenge finally :)
This challenge is to create a Winter Wonderland layout using this palette:

Just one layout to share for this one, but it's an awesome one!

Elisabetta

Also, I want to announce the winner of our Guest DT Deb Pulford. Deb submitted a layout based on Challenge #33 Family and will be participating in 2 of our January Challenges.

Challenge #37 & #38

For some reason, I totally thought I had posted last week's challenge, but evidently, I have not. That's the problem with working retail this time of year- it scrambles your brain.
So, this week, we have  Two-fer!

For challenge #37, our DT was challenged with using the song "Jingle Bells" as their inspiration... it could be lyrics, the title, anything! Here's an awesome layout from Elisabetta for this one:

For challenge #38, It's in the bag! This week's challenge is to create a set of 3 greeting cards and a gift bag for your friends to get them in a festive mood!

Connie

Missy

Paula

Also, I am still reviewing the Guest DT submissions & will be announcing them on Monday

Challenge #36

Since last we had Black Friday & Cyber Monday, the theme of this week's challenge is shopping! But not just any kind of shopping, it's an Ad Challenge! Our DT was challenged with choosing a store's ad ad adapting it to their layout. I find it kinda funny that the ads of choice were both Target ads...

Paula

Took her inspiration from the Target Logo for this sweet layout!

Missy

Used the actual Target Black Friday Ad as a basis for her whole layout! Awesome layers!

Connie

Used an ad of a different sort for this awesome layout!

Hope everyone has fun with this one! Don't forget to share if you're playing along! Also, today is the last day to enter for those guest dt spots, so please email me your layouts! I will be making the decisions & sending out the challenges by the end of next week hopefully :)

Challenge #35

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving stateside :) Today's challenge is a Just One Word Challenge- use "Thanks" as the basis for your layout.
Our DT has some gorgeous layouts to share!

Elisabetta

July

Don't forget to share your layouts if you're playing along!
I am still accepting layouts for the Guest Design Team spots!

Challenge #33

This week, our challenge is all about Family. Create a page about your relatives. You can scrap about current family members, or create a heritage page!
Only one layout to share with you this week, due to illness. But it's a wonderful one!

Elisabetta

I absolutely love the colors on this one!

Please make sure to post your link to our comments or on Facebook if you are playing along!

Paper Thrills is looking for some good Guest DTs! If you are interested, please email a layout using one of our challenges to jroriente@gmail.com with the subject "Guest DT". This open call will end November 30th and I will be assigning our guests to different weeks.

Happy Scrapping!

Meet Our Design Team!

Here's our six talented brand spankin' new Design Team! Thank you to everyone who applied! It was a hard decision, but I managed to narrow it down to these lucky ladies:

Missy Whidden

Paula Jennings

*Sorry, Paula, but for some reason blogger is only letting me load your layouts sideways*

Connie Myers-Kelly

Elisabetta Colavero

Christi Spadoni

July Gaceta

Congrats to all you talented ladies! I look forward to seeing more of your work in the upcoming challenges.

I will be also putting together a blog/ gallery list of our designers as well, so please check back for that later this week!

Design Team Follow-Up

Thank you to everyone who has submitted for the design team! I will be using this next week to review all of them. Also, we didn't get as may submissions as I had hoped for, so the design team will be cut down to 6 people instead. I will announce the Design Team on Sunday, April 17.

Welcome to the Paper Thrills Challenge Blog!

I am one of those people that loves to get inspiration from outside people, places and things for my crafts. I have noticed a lack of sites that have a variety of challenges as of late, so I wanted to start one that would offer weekly challenges.

That being said, for this new site, I will need a design team. I am looking for 11 talented designers to offer their expertise on a bi-weekly basis for a 1 year term. I can't offer anything other than exposure at the moment, but at least we get to have fun! I will close out the call on Sunday, April 10th. Please submit your 3 designs based on these 3 inspirations:
1) Use this color palette to create a layout, card, or altered item

2) Create a layout or card based on this magazine ad

3) And, finally, create a card or layout using this sketch:

Please send all Design Team Application items with your full name, email, and addresses of any galleries or blogs that you have your work on to jroriente@gmail.com with the subject "Paper Thrills DT". Happy scrapping!