The Play Date Cafe: Donna Bowman

Thursday, May 3, 2012

The Play Date Cafe PDCC130

It's an exciting week here at The Cafe!

We are super excited to welcome our newest
Private Blend Designer
Donna Bowman from The Crafty Corgi
with her first official post!

Donna Bowman

We are on the lookout for one more PB Designer
here at The Play Date Cafe, so make sure you play
along and you never know, that invitation may be
in your inbox!

This week's Cup of the Week
will win a terrific prize
from our prize vault!

Now for inspiration from

The Play Date Design Team...

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)

Arielle ~ Snappy Stampin'

Bird~ Birds Cards
Linda B ~ Paper Cutting Kind of Day
Lyndal ~ Dreams & Other Realities

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)

SentSue

Meadie
Rochelle
Erica
Mandy L
Gayatri
Audrey
Lynn
Dana
Helen

This group can proudly display the

'Cream in Our Coffee'

badge on their blogs!

and

The Cup of the Week...

Lisa ~ My Paper Tales

Lisa wins the 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, April 19, 2012

The Play Date Cafe PDCC128

What an exciting week here in The Cafe!

Before we get to this Amazing color story, we have some pretty

big news to share with you.

If you've been coming to The Cafe for any length of time, you know

that we have an invitation-only position here called

We are proud to announce that we have a brand new

PBD waiting in the wings. She will be starting with us during

the first challenge in May, but we wanted to introduce you to

her now so you could get to know her, but we bet you

already know her quite well!

She has been a long-time supporter of our challenge,

was recently a Moxie Fabber of the Week

and can be found frequently in your

favorite paper crafting magazines.

The Play Date Cafe Welcomes...

Donna Bowman

" I’m so excited to be a Private Blend Designer for
The Play Date Cafe!!

I’m a southern girl from Irmo, SC which is a
suburb of Columbia. I’m a high school teacher and teach computer
classes. My favorite classes to teach are Photoshop and Web Page
Design. I enjoy exercising and you can
catch me at the gym several days
a week at 5am on a cardio machine browsing through current card
making magazines. I also love to travel. My favorite places to visit are
London, England and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
I started making cards and scrapbooking in the late 1990s
when a friend
of mine introduced me to stamping. I have always loved card making
and in 2010, I rekindled my love of papercrafting. My favorite things to
make are cards and mini-scrapbooks and have recently started art
journaling. I started my current blog, The Crafty Corgi, in February
2011. I also teach card making and paper craft classes at some local
scrapbooking stores and at a local assisted living facility. I really enjoy
getting to know new people through my paper crafting hobby. I’m
always trying different styles and techniques so you never know what I
might put up on my blog next."

Our design team are so excited to have Donna with us and she is

already making herself at home as part of the family!

We'll see her first official post with us May 3rd.

Now for this week's very scrumptious colors....

Along with white

this week's suggested colors are: