The Play Date Cafe: Paper and Such

Thursday, October 6, 2011

The Play Date Cafe Challenge PDCC102

October is finally here!
It's the month that we begin to think about all facets
of the season including the
'spooky' colors of Halloween.

We thought we would get your creative juices flowing

with this terrific color story chosen by Jaclyn.

We hope you have a lot of fun with these colors!

Her suggested color palette is:

Slime Green.....Frightful Fuschia...

Putrid Purple...Black as Night

We are happy to have back in The Cafe

as this week's sponsor.

"STAMPOTIQUE Fine Art Stamps began June 1, 1996, in Phoenix, Arizona, out of the love for rubber stamping and paper crafting. We began as a fine art rubber stamp store and in January 2000, began manufacturing our own rubber stamps. We now ship all over the world, although remaining a ‘mom and pop’ business so that we can still offer full attention to each and every order.

On November 17, 2007, the retail store closed its doors in order to allow us to concentrate on our growing website, both retail and wholesale.

We hope you will find our site inspirational and continue to revisit at your leisure. Our intention is to continuously update with new images, new samples and all the latest and greatest ‘must haves’ of the industry. Feel free to send us your creations and we will post them on the website for the whole world to enjoy."

This week's Cup of the Week Winner

will receive...

A Special Collection of Stamps Valued at $30

We thank Stampotique VERY MUCH

for providing this week's images to our designers

Now for inspiration from

The Play Date Design Team...

Ruby McGuire

Andrea Ewen

Stacy Rodriguez

Colleen Dietrich

Jaclyn Miller

Jinny Newlin

Julie Day

Michele Gross

Julie Ranae

Please follow THE PLAY DATE CAFE RULES

carefully to enter.

Deadline for prizes is 11:59pm EST on Tuesday
The 'Cup of the Week' will be announced

during the next challenge.

ALL SKILL LEVELS ARE ENCOURAGED TO PLAY!
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.

Break out of the box and have fun!

The main requirement is:

PDCC COLORS BE THE

FOCUS OF YOUR SUBMISSION

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)

Allyson A ~ LaughaDaisy

Deanna~ Kloset Creations

Jenny M ~ Crafting in the Country

Maria ~ My Life...My World...My Blog

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)

Pattie G

Jayma
Jane
Karen B
Susan Joyce
KANNAdyjka
Pauline
Hilda

This group can proudly display the

'Cream in Our Coffee'

badge on their blogs!

and

The Cup of the Week...

Amy C ~ Scrapping Mommy

Amy wins the gift certificate from

and can proudly display the 'Cup of the Week' Badge

Cup of the Week Winner

please contact Michele atcookingwithmsg@msn.com

with your mailing address to receive your prize.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

The Play Date Cafe Challenge PDCC101

The week's seem to be flying by, don't they?

Each week, it is one tough decision to limit our
winners and honorable mentions down to what we do.
This week was NO EXCEPTION!
What a beautiful gallery you provided with all
the inspiring creations.
Thank you for helping us celebrate challenge #100!

Here we are with another amazing color story

from our Color Story Coordinator, Jaclyn.

Such rich colors indeed.

Her suggested colors are:

Wine...Smudge...Leather...Parchment

Now it's up to you to interpret what those

colors mean to you!

That's what we love about our challenge....

colors are subjective in many ways and we

like it that way for our challenge...so have fun!

This week, we welcome a new sponsor to The Cafe...

Paper and Such is an online store that just opened in May of 2011. Shortly after opening, we decided to debut our own stamp line, and it's been nothing short of exciting. Our stamps are clear photopolymer, and are made right here in the USA! Our HOT SHOT line is a line of chicken stamps - if you haven't seen them, be sure to check them out. We carry a variety of stamps and supplies to suit everyone's style, and we are constantly adding to our inventory with new manufacturers.

This week's Cup of the Week will receive....