The Play Date Cafe: May 2012

Thursday, May 31, 2012

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Welcome back to The Cafe!

We are so happy you stopped by and we hope you enjoy

creating with us this week.

We cannot TELL YOU ....

how difficult it was for our team to narrow down

our choices for winner & honorable mentions

this past week. You guys really used the patriotic colors

to celebrate the Memorial Day weekend and we are so

honored that you chose to spend some of your holiday

with us.

We just love our Color Story Coordinator,

Jaclyn Miller!

Check out the fabulous photos that accompany these colors.

So creative!

This week's suggested colors are:

Apricot...Canary...Latte...Rose

We also love our design team and they have created an

amazing variety of projects using this week's colors,

so we hope you are ready to create along with us.

Don't forget, we encourage to create any type of

projects you'd like using our colors as the main theme.

Cards ... layouts ... mixed media ...

digital art ... knitting ...

crochet ... baking ...

We'd love to have you play along!

This week, our Cup of the Week will win something

pretty fantastic from the Play Date Cafe prize vault!

Now for inspiration from

The Play Date Design Team...

Jinny Newlin

Denise January

Stacy Rodriguez

Donna Bowman

Alicia Thelin

Savannah O'Gwynn

Colleen Dietrich

Please follow THE PLAY DATE CAFE RULES

{on our left sidebar} carefully to enter.

Deadline for prizes is 11:59pm EST on Tuesday

The 'Cup of the Week' will be announced

during the next challenge.

We want you to enjoy this challenge.

Interpret the colors the way you see them.

We do not use specific card stock color names or brands.

The main requirements are:

PDCC COLORS BE THE

FOCUS OF YOUR SUBMISSION
and
THE PROJECT BE BASED ON THE CURRENT
CHALLENGE AND HAVE NOT BEEN POSTED
PRIOR TO THE CURRENT CHALLENGE DATE

When using additional colors,
they must be limited to neutrals.

You are welcome to combine challenges,
but we do ask that:
1. The PDCC name and/or photo is used
2. OUR colors are the focus of the card.

See complete rules on sidebar at left

The Fab 4

The Cream in our Coffee

and

THE CUP of the WEEK

Another great challenge has come to a close.

A very warm thank you to all who entered.

This challenge is only successful because of YOU

so please, PLEASE play with us again!

This Week's Fab 4...

(in alphabetical order)

Jennifer

Joanne
Michelle B
Rebecca D

The Fab can proudly display the

'I Made the Fab 4'

badge on their blogs!

The Cream in our Coffee...

( honorable mentions in random order)

Mona

36

Tracy Evans

42

Chrissy L

55

Lisa A

Margo

65

Jen A

72

Debra

Cheryl

92

Kelly G

101
Dani C

108
Tiffany

This group can proudly display the

'Cream in Our Coffee'

badge on their blogs!

and

The Cup of the Week...

Ann Cox ~ Creative Antics

Ann wins the terrific shopping spree from

and can proudly display the

'Cup of the Week' Badge

Cup of the Week Winners

please contact Julie Ranae atjulieranae@hotmail.com

with your mailing address to receive your prize

Thursday, May 24, 2012

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It's another 'colorful' week here in The Cafe.

What a terrific 'splash' week we had with our

last challenge. We always know it's your favorite

because of the number of entries that come into our

gallery. Our designers pour over each one and put

in their votes for our 'Cup of the Week' and the

'splash' remains one of the most difficult to judge

because they are ALL FANTASTIC!

This week's colors are simply....

Baby Blue...Denim...Cherry

We are happy to welcome back this week's sponsor

This week, Mr Cricut Crazy is offering our

'Cup of the Week'...

We are excited to have the Mr. Cricut Crazy Design Team
participating in our challenge so make sure you stop by
The Mr. Cricut Crazy Blog!

We thank our sponsor for providing stamp sets
for each of our designers to use so...

Now for inspiration from

The Play Date Design Team...

Colleen Dietrich

Jinny Newlin

Denise January

Stacy Rodriguez

Donna Bowman

Julie Ranae

Alicia Thelin

Savannah O'Gwynn

Please follow THE PLAY DATE CAFE RULES

{on our left sidebar} carefully to enter.

Deadline for prizes is 11:59pm EST on Tuesday

The 'Cup of the Week' will be announced

during the next challenge.

We want you to enjoy this challenge.

Interpret the colors the way you see them.

We do not use specific card stock color names or brands.

The main requirements are:

PDCC COLORS BE THE

FOCUS OF YOUR SUBMISSION
and
THE PROJECT BE BASED ON THE CURRENT
CHALLENGE AND HAVE NOT BEEN POSTED
PRIOR TO THE CURRENT CHALLENGE DATE

When using additional colors,
they must be limited to neutrals.

You are welcome to combine challenges,
but we do ask that:
1. The PDCC name and/or photo is used
2. OUR colors are the focus of the card.

See complete rules on sidebar at left

The Fab 4

The Cream in our Coffee

and

THE CUP of the WEEK

Another great challenge has come to a close.

A very warm thank you to all who entered.

This challenge is only successful because of YOU

so please, PLEASE play with us again!

This Week's Fab 4...

(in alphabetical order)

Gitte

Lisa A
Robyn
Tracy

The Fab can proudly display the

'I Made the Fab 4'

badge on their blogs!

The Cream in our Coffee...

( honorable mentions in random order)

19
Elena

24

Joyce M

30
Julie S

36
Meadie

38
Sanketi

46
Chrissy L

66
Nancy IA

79

Paula J

80
Gail G

110
Robin K

117
Ivy

128
Kelly H

132

Rachel P

This group can proudly display the

'Cream in Our Coffee'

badge on their blogs!

and

The Cup of the Week...

Virginia Lu ~ Yes, Virginia....

Virginia wins the terrific shopping spree from

and can proudly display the

'Cup of the Week' Badge

Cup of the Week Winners

please contact Julie Ranae atjulieranae@hotmail.com

with your mailing address to receive your prize

Thursday, May 17, 2012

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It's 'Splash' Week here in The Cafe.

Before we get to our challenge, we want to send

VERY SPECIAL HAPPY WEDDING WISHES

to our Senior Designer

Ruby McGuire !!

Ruby is getting married on Friday, May 18th

and we are so very happy for her.

We can't wait to see honeymoon photos!

If you are new to the 'Color Splash' there are two things you

need to know before you get started.

1...It's become one of THE most popular

& favorite challenges

hosted by The Play Date Cafe

2...The focus is simple.

Black...White...and a

'SPLASH' of Mustard Yellow

The 'splash' MUST be some shade of yellow
{ALL OTHER COLORS WILL BE DELETED}

We are really excited to share a brand new sponsor

with you here at The Cafe and a terrific guest designer!

Karen Taylor

Hello! My name is Karen Taylor.

I am lucky to have two children Jessie and Douglas. I have been blessed with two grandson's, a granddaughter and another

on the way.

I have been a paper craftier for six years but creating

has always been a part of my life.

I was raised by my grandmother who taught me the love of creating. Inspired by her 1930's scrapbooks

I love all things vintage and old. When I am at home you can find me in my studio.I love to create very special layouts, cards and altered items my mini pieces of art.

I have been lucky to have work with major paper craft companies including Spellbinders Paper Arts,Best Creations, Inc, Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker to name a few and in magazines, on TV (Local TV segments, Creative Memories TV Show, Terri O Show, QVC, Home Shopping Network US and Canada and was published in a book last year as well as work in catalogues and at the Craft and Hobby Association Show for the last six shows. For the past two years I have been a VIP speaker at Midland Memory Expo speaking along side Cardmaker magazines Editor Tanja Fox, Creating Keepsakes Creative Editor, Megan Hoeppner and NikkiSivlis, Scrapbook Paper Company owner just to name a few.

I currently am the Design Team and Social Media Coordinator for Want2Scrap and a Spellblogger for Spellbinders Paper Arts

This week's brand new sponsor is...

Your leading site for all your scrapbooking needs. We specialize in bling, acrylic albums, chipboard albums and album kits as well as laser designs, designer paper and ribbons.
Make sure you visit the Want2Scrap blog!

Our ' Cup of the Week' winner will receive...