The Play Date Cafe

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

The Play Date Cafe Anniversary Final Day!

It has been

ONE MAJOR CELEBRATION

over the past 5 days and today we say

THANK YOU

once again for being such a fan of our color challenge!

Over $300 in prizes have been offered this week,
so you MUST come play!

To get all the details of the current challenge

and to see amazing inspiration from our

Design Team, CLICK HERE

A new color story will be coming your way

this Thursday, but until then, we have

THREE MORE FANTASTIC SPONSORS

who are sharing prizes with our players this week.

Hello and welcome to The Craft's Meow! My name is Lisa Hjulberg and
I'm the owner of The Craft's Meow. Opening this store is a dream come true for me...
I'm following Henry David Thoreau's advice to Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined. I've imagined this for a very long time!

We offer an array of stamp sets designed by some of the best artists in the business! The variety means we have something for everyone!

What a fun stamp set for one of our Winners

{$15 Retail Value}

My Creative Classroom is an online arts and crafts learning center.
Our interactive and in-depth courses are instructor led and filled with wonderful projects and techniques
to help you get the most out of your supplies.

What a terrific opportunity for one of our winners

And OH what a bundle of goodness here

{$45 Retail Value}

It has been such a fabulous celebration!
We are so appreciative to all of our sponsors.

This challenge would not be what it is without a
FIRST CLASS DESIGN TEAM
&
THE PLAYERS THEY INSPIRE

Thank you from the bottom of my heart
Here's to the future & lots more fun!

~ Julie Ranae

Monday, October 22, 2012

The Play Date Cafe Anniversary Celebration Day #5

We are getting down to the final days of our celebration

as we celebrate Day #5!

We are happy to share that, although we originally announced

only 5 days of celebration & sponsorships, we are adding

ONE MORE DAY

to the party, so we will go through Tuesday with even

MORE SPONSORS!

To get all the details of the current challenge

and to see amazing inspiration from our

Design Team, CLICK HERE

We have THREE amazing sponsors with us today

including one brand new stamp company, a

fabulous sticker company and a dear stamp designer

friend who has been with us many times.

Mama Elephant is owned and operated by two childhood friends from NYC. We are so happy to bring the collaboration of our aesthetics to Mama Elephant! Our stamps are designed with card makers and scrapbookers in mind! All our designs are carefully curated to provide optimal versatility with a wide variety of styles -

cute, whimsical, bold, graphic, and fun!

What a wonderful gift to one of our players

SRM Stickers is a leading scrapbooking and card making sticker manufacturer. SRM Stickers are crystal clear and melt into your patterned paper or cardstock for a seemless sentiment, embellishment, title, or journaling feature. SRM Stickers has assembled a dream team of Designers offering amazing samples every weekday at their blog - stop by for sticker inspiration like you've never seen before

How would you like to win

Tami Mayberry has been a friend of The Cafe for a

l.o.n.g. time and we always love when she stops by

to play along and share a prize.

Her stamps designs are always fun & are sold

through Gina K Designs

Someone is going to win THIS

Tami shares a card using our color story and

her newest stamp illustrations

This anniversary celebration would not be the same

without a visit from these Alumni Designers.

Please welcome back Co-Creator of The Play Date Cafe

Sarah Anderson

Colleen Dietrich

Fiona Schultz

To link up your project, visit our original

post HERE, scroll down to the end of the post

and click on the

BLUE

'add your link'

button

We hope you will join us for this week's challenge.

We will be giving away over 15 prizes packages

and you won't want to miss it!

You can stay up-to-date with all that's

happening here in The Cafe.

Come *LIKE* us on Facebook

and

@ThePDCC

Sunday, October 21, 2012

The Play Date Cafe 3rd Anniversary Celebration Day #4

It is Day #4 of our Anniversary Celebration and the

party continues as we welcome two more

ALUMNI GUEST DESIGNERS

and

THREE MORE TERRIFIC SPONSORS!!!

To get all the details of the current challenge

and to see amazing inspiration from our

Design Team, CLICK HERE

Avery Elle offers fun and fresh clear photopolymer stamps, premium heavy card stock and coordinating grosgrain ribbon. Our entire collection of image stamp sets has matching free .svg and .pdf cut files. Yes, we did say free! If you have an electronic cutting machine, you have the ability to cut shapes for our stamp sets for no added cost. How great is that? All of our products are proudly made in the USA. For our complete line of high quality products, ideas and inspiration go to www.averyelle.com

How would YOU like to win...

UmWowStudio is the baby of DeeDee Catron, an Industrial Designer who combines her love of paper arts with industry knowledge to create extraordinary crafting. DeeDee is a designer, a creator, an experimenter and a get your hands messy girl. UmWowStudio currently carries an extensive line of handmade paper flowers and other embellishments, but will soon be expanding! They offer a monthly handmade embellishment kit club with no commitment, each month themed or coordinating to aid in the memory saving, card making or art altering of each individual. To keep up with UWS and see where they're headed in the future you can follow them on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UmWowStudio, via blog/their website: http://umwowstudio.com, and check out the wares on Etsy: http://umwowstudio.etsy.com.

UWS is offering up a pile o' handmade goodies, a Kit sampling and some coordinating flowers,

to one fabulous fan of the Play Date Cafe Challenge!

{$20 Retail Value}

We're a small company from Utah that specializes in clear photopolymer stamps that are made right here in the USA! These stamps are fun, whimsy, and sometimes a little quirky. We try to keep them trendy. The sentiments will always put a smile on your face. We began in January 2012 with the release of four stamp sets and are now up to 38 sets and growing.

We at The Alley Way bring you one of a kind stamp. All of our stamps are hand created with you in mind; even our sentiments are made to go perfectly with each set. One of our favorite things to do is pick out PUNNY sentiments and the perfect stamp name.

We hope our designs here at The Alley Way will inspire a little creativity in everyone. From the oldest to the youngest, we hope it brings out the fun in crafting. We can't wait to see The Alley Way Stamps in your next project!

{$15 Retail Value}

Look who's back as Alumni Guest Designers Today!

Savannah O'Gwynn

Alison Spelman

To link up your project, visit our original

post HERE, scroll down to the end of the post

and click on the

BLUE

'add your link'

button

We hope you will join us for this week's challenge.

We will be giving away over 15 prizes packages

and you won't want to miss it!

You can stay up-to-date with all that's

happening here in The Cafe.

Come *LIKE* us on Facebook

and

@ThePDCC

Saturday, October 20, 2012

The Play Date Cafe Anniversary Celebration Day #3

Welcome to Day #3 of the party!

We are so enjoying the entries you've share in our gallery

using the color story above.

Don't forget, we accept all types of creations here in The Cafe.

We love cards and layouts, mixed media & 3-D.

Heck, we've even had cupcakes!

To get all the details for the current challenge

and to see the inspiration from our Design Team

CLICK HERE

We are so happy to welcome two more sponsors for

our special celebration week!

One is an old 'sweet friend and the other is

brand new and a 'lucky' charm for sure!

Our friend Nicole Rixon is the owner of this

'sweet' company, providing adorable & versatile images

to suit all stamping styles.

You can find there terrific photopolymer stamps and more

at Sweet Stamp Shop

How 'sweet' to win...

{$30 Retail Value}

Viva Las VegaStamps! is the world's largest stamp manufacturer with over 19,000 individual images in their line. Stamps available from VLVS! range from vintage to steampunk, men and women to people and sayings, animals to food, architecture to insects and anything before, during or after! We pride ourselves in offering the highest quality pink deeply etched rubber stamps available. They're available mounted on wood blocks, mounted on cling cushion(for a 20% discount), or as just the rubber die(for a 40% discount). Visit vlvstamps.com today and start your very own wishlist! If you end up checking out before the 31st you're invited to use the coupon code "OCTSHIP" for free shipping

enter the code in your cart WHILE you shop,

before you start the checkout process to take advantage of the savings!
And visit us on Facebook to keep up with all new things VLVS!" and the link to that is : https://www.facebook.com/vlvstamps

One 'lucky' winner will receive

It has been so great having Design Team Alumni

with us this week and today, we welcome back

two more delightful designers who are

sure to inspire!

Andrea Ewen

Jinny Newlin

To link up your project, visit our original

post HERE, scroll down to the end of the post

and click on the

BLUE

'add your link'

button

We hope you will join us for this week's challenge.

We will be giving away over 15 prizes packages

and you won't want to miss it!

You can stay up-to-date with all that's

happening here in The Cafe.

Come *LIKE* us on Facebook

and

@ThePDCC

Friday, October 19, 2012

The Play Date Cafe Anniversary Celebration Day #2

Welcome back to Day #2 of our Anniversary Celebration!

We hope you joined us yesterday as our uber-talented Design Team

shared their beautiful inspiration using the color story above.

If not, you can simply click HERE

to not only see the beautiful design work, but also the

fabulous sponsors who are joining us all week

and our Alumni designers who joined in the fun!

We LOVE the reaction to the new look here in
The Cafe and we want to thank our
Color Story Coordinator & Senior Designer,
Jaclyn Miller!
She is the creative mind behind the design
and we just love it. We're glad you do too!

Today, we welcome back

another fabulous sponsor!

Freckled Fawn is an online shop specializing in

washi tape. With over 300 different styles, you have

plenty of options to indulge!

You know what they say...

"Careful...it's a sticky situation!"

Someone is going to win

The Play Date Cafe Prize Vault

is also sharing prizes

from the following companies...

Today we welcome back two more

Alumni Designers and it's a joy to have them with us!

Mona Pendleton

Libby Hickson

To link up your project, visit our original

post HERE, scroll down to the end of the post

and click on the

BLUE

'add your link'

button

We hope you will join us for this week's challenge.

We will be giving away over 15 prizes packages

and you won't want to miss it!

You can stay up-to-date with all that's

happening here in The Cafe.

Come *LIKE* us on Facebook

and

@ThePDCC

Thursday, October 18, 2012

The Play Date Cafe Cup of the Week Challenge #153

It's time to announce the

'Cup of the Week'

'Fab 4'

and

'Cream in our Coffee'

for Challenge #153

Congratulations to . . .

Denise January

She wins the generous shopping spree from

This week's Fab 4 is . . .

Lea

Angie

Kerrianne

Chrissy

Our Design Team Also Enjoyed Projects From . . .

All players linked in this post are

welcome to place the appropriate badges

on their blogs. Simply copy & paste.

Cup of the Week Winner ...

Please contact julieranae@hotmail.com

to get your prize details

Join us this week for Challenge #154

and visit The Cafe over the next

5 days as we celebrate!

The Play Date Cafe Celebrates 3 Years!

The week is finally here!

We are so happy you've joined us for our

3rd Anniversary Celebration!

The Play Date Cafe is ready to celebrate in style with

a whole new look

and

5 days of amazing inspiration

from our

Creative Design Team

and

Returning Alumni Designers

We also have very generous sponsors offering

prizes during the 5-day celebration!

We are hoping to achieve our next major milestone of

2,000 followers!

Make sure YOU are a public follower

then spread the word

because our designers will be visiting your blogs.

We'll be offering random prizes to those who

have the new 'I Play...' badge on their blog

so make sure you post it with the link to our challenge.

We are making a BIG CHANGE in order to make

room for even more inspiration each week.

Beginning this week, we will be posting our

winners on Fridays.

This will give us an opportunity

to give our 'Cup of the Week'

and our Honorable Mentions

their own spotlight!

We have LOTS to get to during this first post,

so let's get right to it, shall we ?!

This week's suggested colors

are great for Halloween

and all the beautiful autumn inspiration around us . . .

Flame ... Grape ... Mulberry

We have terrific prizes that will be shared throughout

the next 5 days from a variety of sponsors.

We are super excited to share prizes to share prizes

with our

'Cup of the Week'

'Fab 4'

and

(10) 'Cream in Our Coffee'

Winners

So there are definitely GREAT reasons to play along!

Today's sponsors include:

Our twine is made from 100% cotton, it's eco-friendly and made in the USA. Whether you're gift wrapping, crafting or tying up baked goods to give to a friend, our baker's twine adds a fresh, yet nostalgic look to any project at hand! Our baker's twine comes in 18 delicious colors and is uniquely twisted against a bright white hue, creating an eye-popping burst of color and a creative embellishment! Our twine has lots of color which lends to a fun, candy-striped look.

{$48 Retail Value}

At Technique Tuesday, we are committed to offering the most beautiful, high-quality, affordable clear stamps and paper crafting products. We are also committed to sharing the art of stamping and our enthusiasm for paper crafting through our website, blog, newsletters, and workshops. Whether you prefer a simple style or an embellished look, are a beginner or have been crafting for years, our products will help you create beautiful scrapbook pages, personalized handmade cards, unique gifts, and one-of-a-kind home décor items.

{$10 retail value}

Our goal is to provide versatile, high quality stamps and beyond that - a supportive, friendly atmosphere where everyone feels comfortable hanging out with their stamping friends, asking questions, and sharing their latest Market Street creations! Be sure to check out Market Street Stamps in our Neighborhood - aka our virtual hangout!