The Cafe Presents 'Smoke & Sky'

Welcome in to The Cafe!

The week gone by was simply a terrific week in
our player's gallery.  You really loved the
color story and your beautiful creations proved it!

Let's get to this week's 
suggested colors ...

Smoky Plum ... Cherry Blossom ... Lava

This week, our prize is coming directly from our prize vault
provided by

Now for inspiration from

our Design Team...

Alicia Thelin

 

Anya Schrier

 

Donna Bowman

Jaclyn Miller

Jen Cuthbertson

 Lynn Adams

Rachel Kleinman

Veronica Zalis

Please link up your project below

and have fun!

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

happening here in The Cafe.

Come *LIKE* us on Facebook

and

Follow us on Twitter

@ThePDCC

Join us again Monday night as we 

announce the 'Cup of the Week'

and Honorable Mentions

here in The Cafe!

Stuck on Color PDCC171

Welcome one and all to The Cafe!

We are so happy to have you back and can we just say...

what a stunning gallery of projects 

entered in last week's challenge!

Many of you played along with baker's twine as well

which was really fun.

It shows just how versatile it is in crafting, doesn't it?!

This week's suggested colors. . .

Tangerine . . . Apricot . . . Mint

This week, our team played with fabulous stickers

from our favorite sticker sponsor

SRM Stickers is a leading sticker and container manufacturer.  SRM Stickers are crystal clear and melt into your patterned paper or cardstock for a seamless sentiment, embellishment, title, or journaling feature.  SRM also carries fun-to-decorate containers such as tubes, pillow boxes, and glassine bags!  SRM Stickers has assembled a dream team of Designers offering amazing samples every weekday at their blog.  SRM products can be purchased through their online retail store.

Our 'Cup of the Week' will win 

a wonderful

prize package from SRM!

Our team thank SRM so very much for providing such a

generous package for our designers to share with you

Now for inspiration 

from our Design Team...

Alicia Thelin

Anya Schrier

Donna Bowman

 Jaclyn Miller

Jen Cuthbertson

Julie Ranae

Private Blend Designer

Ashley Bores

Lynn Adams

Rachel Kleinman

Veronica Zalis

Please link up your project below

and have fun!

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

happening here in The Cafe.

Come *LIKE* us on Facebook

and

Follow us on Twitter

@ThePDCC

Join us again Sunday night as we 

announce the 'Cup of the Week'

and Honorable Mentions

here in The Cafe!

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

Follow us on Twitter

@ThePDCC

The Play Date Cafe PDCC147

Welcome to challenge #147 here in The Cafe

We are going to get straight to it this week!

Our suggested colors are ...

Evergreen ... Olive ...

Smoke ... Cherry Blossom

We are super excited to have a new sponsor with us

Our gel-à-tins® are clear stamps that are soft and sticky like a gelly candy that come stored in handy metal tin. You'll find a wide assortment of letter and image stamps as well as our build-your-own layering stamps where you can create your own unique designs.
Totally Yummy!

gel-à-tins® is also one of the original creators of the super popular scented embossing powders! Reminiscent of those great scratch-and-sniff stickers; scented embossing powders adds that extra special and uniqueness to any crafting project! Add some fun today to your heated embossing projects with a wide variety of scents to compliment your crafting project!

Take a look around our site where you can find layouts featuring gel-à-tins® as well as stamping tips and techniques 

in our brand new blog!

And if you're a gelly artist, be sure to email us your layout featuring the stamps for possible use in our online gallery 

or to be featured here on Facebook.

Check out what this week's winner will receive .....

All of our designers had lots of fun playing with

'gelly jr's' this week so . . . . .

Now for inspiration from

The Play Date Design Team...

Donna Bowman 

 
Private Blend Designer
Amy Tsuruta 

Jen Cuthbertson 

Jocelyn Olson 

 Julie Ranae

 Lynn Adams 

  Ruby McGuire 

 Stacy Rodriguez 

Veronica Zalis 

 Alicia Thelin

 Angi Barrs 

Private Blend Designer
Connie Mercer

 Anya Schrier

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)

Elizabeta

Hannelie
Jurgita
Tina Hale

The Fab 4 can proudly display the

'I Made the Fab 4'

badge on their blogs!

The Cream in our Coffee...

( honorable mentions in random order) 

9

Val

19

Kathy Curry
23

Marisa
31

Kerry Louise

33

Ivanka
49
Therese

56

Rachel

88

Jeni
89

Kelly L
92

Hazel

This group can proudly display the

'Cream in Our Coffee'

badge on their blogs!

and
 

The Cup of the Week...

Lisa Alonzo - My Creative Endeavors

Lisa wins the terrific prize package 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