The Play Date Cafe Challenge PDCC118

Welcome to a bold & bright Cafe this week!

Stunning color palette, isn't it?!

Just wait until you see what our designers did to

inspire you to play!

We are happy to welcome back this week's sponsor...



In business since 2002, Simon Says Stamp is striving to offer you the best online selection of Rubber Stamp, Altered Art, Scrapbooking, Artist Trading Card, Card Making and Paper Crafting products in the world.  We stock over 100,000 items in our warehouse so that we can offer you quick service and one stop shopping at a great price!

Happy customers are the heart of our business.

We work hard to find and deliver to you the latest in stamping and paper crafting supplies!  Attending classes, workshops, and sales meetings around the world, our goal is to keep our product offerings fresh and current.  Make us your one stop easy shop - and we'll deliver right to your door!


This week's Cup of the Week wins...

Now for inspiration from

The Play Date Design Team...

Colleen Dietrich

 Denise January

 Jaclyn Miller

 Jinny Newlin

 Julie Ranae

 Ruby McGuire

 Savannah O'Gwynn

Stacy Rodriguez

 Alica Thelin



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 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)

Calypso ~ Calypso's Cards

Gitte~ Blomsterbox
Jen ~ Only Love is Real

Fiona ~ Made by Fee

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) 

Michelle B

Cissy
Swantje

Christyne

N@
Anja
Charlotte
Nina Dee

This group can proudly display the

'Cream in Our Coffee'

badge on their blogs!

and
 

The Cup of the Week...

 Julia ~ Scraphappy

Julia wins the generous prize from

 Melanie Muenchinger for Gina K 

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

The Play Date Cafe Challenge PDCC117

Welcome back to another challenge in The Cafe.

It's an exciting week here as we begin aNOTHer term

with one of the best design teams you can find in

the challenge world and with that comes announcements

regarding our designers.

We are SUPER excited to welcome...

Alica Thelin

"I’m a born and raised California girl whose been transplanted to little ol’ Herriman, Utah. I’ve been married to my devastatingly handsome husband, Brett, for twenty years. We have three sassy children: Meagan-16, Madeline (Maddie)-14, 

and my baby Alexander (Alex) 12.

In 1999 I became a Stampin’ Up Demonstrator in order to get out of the house, you know, a little grown-up conversation? I adored learning and teaching all about stamping. A few years later I found myself in the position to leave the home and go back to work full time while my husband went back to college. Blessings come in crazy ways you know! Before I knew it I was working full-time as an Event Coordinator at the Stampin’ Up! home office here in Riverton, Utah. My job blossomed into a Concept Artist for that team. Soon the actual Art Department approached me and felt like I’d be a good fit. Greatest job ever. Stamping with new products all day long, everything in their catalog at my fingertips. Fun days! 

Oh, but the criticism was hard to swallow…

Eventually my husband finished school with another two degrees and obtained employment. I LOVED my job, but MISSED my kids. Time to come back home. It was excruciating to leave to say the least, but I still have some great friends that I’ve been able to keep in touch with. Not to mention all the mad stamping skills I was able to develop and take with me.

Over the last three years I’ve been re-learning how I like to create and share projects and experiences on my blog, ScrappyBetties. This is my little corner of the paper-crafting world that I hold dear, where I share my h{art}. It’s a place for kind words, encouragement and a dose of reproducible inspiration. I try to make things, and then let you know where I succeeded and any little tips and tricks I may have learned along the way."

Stacy Rodriguez 

joins The Play Date Cafe team

as a First Term Designer after being a 

Private Blend Designer.

We know how 'in demand' she has become out there in

the creative world and are so blessed that she said YES

to staying on with us for a full term.

We are also very excited to announce that

Colleen Dietrich

will be joining the Senior Group of Designers.  

She organizes all of the creative files for our design team 

and assists with our social media.

Jinny Newlin, Denise January, 

Ruby McGuire, Jaclyn Miller, 

Savannah O'Gwynn & Julie Ranae

are all returning to team members who will continue

to inspire you week after week.

Like we said.....one of the

BEST DESIGN TEAMS 

OUT THERE!

A big welcome to our sponsor...

 Melanie Muenchinger 

Hi, my name is Melanie Muenchinger and I am an illustrator and senior designer for Gina K Designs.  I got my start stamping 9 years ago and started illustrating for Gina K in 2008. To date,  I’ve created almost 50 stamp sets exclusively for Gina K Designs, with sets ranging from clean graphic to realistic nature images, whimsical animals, decorative elements, and am always looking to put a fresh spin on a theme or start a trend. In January of this year, I published my first book “A Year of Flowers” through Annie’s Attic, featuring a year’s worth of floral card designs and step by step stamping tutorials, all based on my bestselling stamp set of timeless and all occasion floral images of the same name! 

My latest series “Stately Flowers”, 

includes realistic flowers from every state.

I thank God for all the success I’ve had doing something I love and the opportunities I’ve been given to use my gifts.

I’m honored to have been asked to sponsor this week’s The Play Date Café challenge!  All of your online galleries, blogs and challenges are what keep the inspiration flowing for our stamp sets and I am so blessed and appreciative to have the support of so many working with my images and spreading the news about our product offerings from Gina K Designs! You can check out more of my past work and ongoing projects, tutorials and inspiration for all my stamps and our other fabulous Gina K Designs sets on my blog 

“Hands, Head and Heart”.

I live in Austin with my husband and two sons and am grateful to be a stay at home mom who gets to draw and play with stamps and paper for a living.

Just look at what this week's winner will get...

Stately Flowers 

(23.95 retail value)

AND

A Year of Flowers

(23.95 retail value)

Now for inspiration from

The Play Date Design Team...

 Alica Thelin
 

Colleen Dietrich

Denise January

Jaclyn Miller

Jinny Newlin

Julie Ranae

Ruby McGuire

Savannah O'Gwynn

Stacy Rodriguez 

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 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)

Allyson ~ Laughadaisy

Amy C~ Scrapping Mommy
Emily F ~ Pieces by Emily

SentSue ~ Sentimentally Sue

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) 

Kasey in Oz

Pauline P
Jean M

Anya

Denisse
Narelle
Tamytha

This group can proudly display the

'Cream in Our Coffee'

badge on their blogs!

and
 

The Cup of the Week...

Maureen ~ Buttons & Bling


Maureen wins the generous prize 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

The Play Date Cafe Challenge PDCC116

Hello all and welcome back to another great challenge

at The Play Date Cafe.

This week's suggested colors are:

Plum...Pear...Moldy Cheese

This week is a bittersweet week for us as we say

farewell to two of our designers.

Andrea Ewen began with us as our

2nd Private Blend Designer in 2010 and then joined our

team for two full terms.

She hadn't been blogging all that long when we 'found' her

and now, her blog and style are so very recognized.

Michele Gross hit the ground running here at The Cafe.

She joined our team over a year ago as our

Sponsorship Coordinator & Senior Designer.

We love her Clean and Classic style and know that

whatever she has up her sleeve next in the

creative world, she will be a dynamo!

We know it's not 'goodbye'....

We wish them both best wishes as they continue

on to each point in their creative careers.

Next week, we will be introducing a

brand new designer joining us for a first term

and we're looking forward to the next chapter

here at The Play Date Cafe.

We are very happy to welcome a fabulous new

sponsor.... 

We are a small, family-owned, Christian company offering exclusive hand-drawn images in both clear and digital stamps to the paper crafting community.
In addition to our "sweet 'n sassy" images and sentiments, we pride ourselves in offering many KJV-only scripture stamps.  Our personal conviction is that the KJV Bible is the most accurate and we found the industry really lacking in this area, so we decided to do something about it.  God's Word is so important to us and we love sharing it with others in this way!
check us out at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

This week's 

Cup of the Week 

will win...

Now for inspiration from

The Play Date Design Team...

 Andrea Ewen

 Michele Gross

 Jinny Newlin

 Denise January

 Savannah O'Gwynn

 Ruby 2 Shoes

 Stacy Rodriguez

Colleen Dietrich

 Julie Ranae

 

 Jaclyn Miller

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 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)

Anni ~ Anni-Karten

Evelyn~ Beyond Just Black and White
Ivy ~ Scrapgaleria

Rochelle ~ Two Tears in my Bucket

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) 

Birgit

Michelle B
Rebecca D

Lisa

Karen B
Natasha

This group can proudly display the

'Cream in Our Coffee'

badge on their blogs!

and
 

The Cup of the Week...

Julie S ~ Elves in the Attic

Julie wins the wonderful Baker's Twine Sampler 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