The Play Date Cafe: Practicing Creativity Designs

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Thursday, November 10, 2011

The Play Date Cafe Challenge PDCC107

Oh yeah!! It's everyone's favorite challenge!!

It's 'Color Splash' Week here in The Cafe.

How does it work?

Create anything you'd like using...

Black & white with a

SPLASH OF ORANGE!!!

We are really happy to welcome this week's sponsor

The Scrapping Cottage was founded in January 2002 by Joanne Stone. Since then, almost 10 years of providing products to crafters, the business has grown and expanded many times over. Focused on selling metal dies for crafters, The Scrapping Cottage sold QuicKutz, Sizzix, Boss Kut, Go Create, Spellbinders and many other brands. Then a new thing changed the business – the creation of CottageCutz.

CottageCutz brand of metal dies were created by Joanne in late 2008. By the end of 2009, there were over 230 CottageCutz designs. And by 2011, over 800 CottageCutz designs have been created. This also led to partnering with companies such as Peachy Keen Stamps and My Little Shoebox. CottageCutz® became a registered trademark in 2010.

Today, CottageCutz brand of metal dies are sold around the globe. And customers can always buy them directly at www.scrappingcottage.com or at www.cottagecutz.com

Check out what this week's

'Cup of the Week' will win...

Now for inspiration from

The Play Date Design Team...

Jinny Newlin

Denise January

Michele Gross

Ruby McGuire

Savannah O'Gwynn

Andrea Ewen

Stacy Rodriguez

Colleen Dietrich

Jaclyn Miller

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 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)

Lili ~ Something by Lili

Linda B~ Hands to Work Heart to Love
Sadie ~ Creation Lane

Wendy F ~ Happy Stamping Designs

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)

Rochelle

Therese
Lisa
Nicole
AKa
Jan Smith
Katy D
Karen B

This group can proudly display the

'Cream in Our Coffee'

badge on their blogs!

and

The Cup of the Week...

Klaudia ~ kszp

Klaudia wins the FAB prize from

and can proudly display the

'Cup of the Week' Badge

Cup of the Week Winners

please contact Michele atcookingwithmsg@msn.com

with your mailing address to receive your prize.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

The Play Date Cafe Challenge PDCC106

What a creative week!
You never cease to amaze us when you share your
beautiful interpretations in our gallery and this
week made it very difficult for our designers
to narrow down our winner & honorable mentions.

Thank you so much for bringing so much
beauty to The Cafe each week.

You seem to be really enjoying the beautiful subtle

shades we've bee sharing, so here is another color story

to whet your creative appetite.

Jax's suggested colors for this week are:

Gray...Yellow...Pink

It has been truly amazing to see all of the wonderful

entries you bring to our gallery each week.

We also want to take a moment to welcome so many

brand new players

who have made their way here to The Cafe.

We thank you for supporting our challenge and most

of all, our designers and sponsors each week.

This week's joining us in The Cafe is...

Practicing Creativity is the result of a dream, a supportive husband, and a fantastic book called A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller. After a year of wishing and dreaming of designing stamps we made the plunge. We were determined to try, and the quote below helps remind us of our dream.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain

Our Goal

First we want to provide you with fantastic designs, made with top quality materials, and great service to boot! Secondly we want you to be inspired! We hope you'll find our products as well as our design team as fuel for your inspiration.

Thank you to all of you who have encouraged and supported us!

This week's 'Cup of the Week' will win

So let's get right to it!

Now for inspiration from

The Play Date Design Team...

Jaclyn Miller

Jinny Newlin

Denise January

Julie Day

Michele Gross

Ruby McGuire

Savannah O'Gwynn

Andrea Ewen

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)

Fee ~ Made by Fee

Ivy~ Scrapgaleria
Joanne ~ Creative Stamping Ideas

TuKara ~ Twory Tukary

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)

Tracy

Sherry
Annie Rose
Steph C
Greta
Cindy M
Anya
Cindy H
Fern

Jan S

This group can proudly display the

'Cream in Our Coffee'

badge on their blogs!

and

The Cup of the Week...

Michelle B ~ My Passion for Crafting

Michelle wins the FAB prize package from

and can proudly display the

'Cup of the Week' Badge

Cup of the Week Winners

please contact Michele atcookingwithmsg@msn.com

with your mailing address to receive your prize.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

The Play Date Cafe Challenge PDCC95

Welcome in to The Cafe everyone!

We are having so much fun this summer sharing

amazing color stories from all different point of view.

We genuinely love that you play along with us each week!

This week, Jax's suggested colors are:

Navy...Bubblegum...Leaf Green

Always remember that we love when you interpret the

colors you see to what's on your creative palette,

so please play with that in mind.

We are VERY excited to welcome this week's sponsor.

Michelle Ogdahl has been a friend to The Cafe

since we started and has recently started a

fabulous stamp line with the help of Lisa Hetrick.

Avocado Arts is a new company that offers high-quality, clear, photopolymer stamps that are made in the USA. We love that you can "SEE" what you're stamping. Each month, we release a 4 x 6, clear photopolymer set with images that are interchangeable, giving you endless possibilities in stamping and are perfect for the beginner to the advanced stamper. We offer our club members exclusive inspiration for each stamp set that is purchased along with perks and discount on other stamp sets. We believe in providing as many ideas throughout the month as possible and encourage our customers to share their creativity as well. We also offer a color and sketch challenge every month because we LOVE to get stampy!

In addition to our monthly stamp set we also offer 3 Scrappy stamp sets and a stamp set “My Wish for You” that is part of our Giving Good program. We believe in paying it forward and giving so each month a portion of the sales from the “My Wish for You” set is donated to a different organization, group, foundation or cause that we support.

We have an outstanding Design Team called the "Pit Crew". These ladies are super talented and will inspire you with their creativity on our blog throughout the month.

We look forward to seeing you over at Avocado Arts!

Here's what our 'Cup of the Week' winner will win..