Happy {Colourful} Wednesday!

Yes, it is…don’t you think?

First up we have a winner from last month’s Colour Lover’s Challenge……

Laura Cox!!!!

Congrats!! Please send email to ellen_sosnoski@coredinations.com with your name, phone number (if international including Canada), Colour Lover’s Challenge in the subject line ASAP! Please note we ship twice a month so please allow at least two weeks to receive your prize. We ship once all winners have contacted us with their information. Winners have one week to notify us or another one will be chosen.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…..You ready for March’s Colour Lover’s Challenge? It’s got a little bit of green for St Patty’s Day and some other gorgeous accent colors.  Make sure you follow us on Pinterest to see more of these amazing colour palettes.

{photo credit Pinterest}

First up we have a layout from Design Team Member Debbie Standard using Core Essentials and Vintage Cardstock along with Petaloo flowers designed to match our cardstock PERFECTLY!!!!!!!!!! Check out all that scoring and embossing

Last month winner please make sure to email me ASAP!

Rules:

Colours from this palette must be noticeable. You must link back to THIS post with your entry or post on Facebook letting us know it is your entry by Midnight March 31, 2012 your time. You must use Core’dinations cardstock and you know how we love technique Have fun!!!!!!!!!

CHA Booth #1091

Come  and see us!

We have a super fun make-n-take for everyone. It is a frame and easel with a cute scored star. You are going to love love love it.

Too bad we packed it up before we got a photo of it but I will post one over the weekend.

We have ONE more thing to share with you on the blog before CHA madness begins. We teamed up with Petaloo for MORE core’dinating colors. Their flowers will match our cardstock PERFECTLY!

Wanna see?  Here is a sneak of  layout using some of the new released flowers….a match made in heaven!!!!!!!!

And here are some of the sneaks of some of the cool  colors.

Glass flowers! {GASP!}

Check out their blog here for MORE gorgeous details and samples.

Halloween Inspiration

First up we have a May Arts/Petaloo week winner!

Marcia D says:

October 21, 2011 at 9:25 pm

Awesome witch hat! Love it!

email Ellen_Sosnoski@coredinations.com with your address information by next Wednesday, November 2nd.

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Today we have a super cute bag from Design Team Member Debbie Standard.

There are so many awesome details on this bag that I would sit down with your morning coffee and get ready to be inspired!

Have you ever printed digital images on your Core?  Well, this gorgeous bag is a great example of how Core is your go to cardstock for any project.

Here is a little bit about the bag from Debbie, “The flowers are from the Cuttlebug flower making kit,  some are from a tutorial by Heidi Van Lear and then some are free hand cut and I swirled them. The digital images are from Faith over at D2D.” AND Debbie also backed some of the flowers with Petaloo Color Matching flowers.

Debbie used a ton of core on here...Core Essentials, Whitewash (some of the flowers, Cemetery Stone, Spooky House), some Black Magic on the Fence….just a FABULOUS mix of Core on this festive project.

Debbie used our Core  Colour Lover’s Challenge for her inspiration. You have until

Monday to get these linked for a chance to win some goooodies!

Tuesday Tutorial from Kim Jeffress

Do you remember as a child creating those little concertina folded friends? Well today we would love to share a project on how to make them using some CORE Essentials and some scraps of pattern papers from Design Team Member Kim Jeffress.

Step 1 Take a sheet of 12×12 Core Essentials cardstock and cut a strip off about 3 inches wide. Concertina fold it (back and forth) so you have four flaps, draw a person on one flap making sure the arms of the person are touching the fold line (this will keep the attached). Cut out around the edge of the drawn image.

Step 2 Unfold your cutout and using a sanding block or sand paper distress the edges of your little friends.

Step 3 Create a dress template from scrap card and then choose 4 co ordinating pattern paper scraps and trace around the dress template on the back of the pattern paper. Cut out.

Step 4 Ink around the dress to add some definition.

Step 5 Glue your dress to each body on your friends and embellish each different using buttons, pearls, lace and bows.

And here they are all dressed up! Add some buttons…flowers and trim and you have the cutest project!

Kim used our October Color Challenge for this project. Still time to enter!!!

Fabulous Friday with May Arts and Petaloo

We are so excited to be sharing this week of May Arts, Petaloo AND Core’dinations with you!

It is over  already?  That is how time flies around here especially when you are having fun and being inspired. We love Fridays around here, too! Why is that? Well, it’s ANOTHER day to comment to win win win!

THREE awesome companies have come together to inspire you. And our teams have been working hard to create some festive projects for you, too. It’s all about the Holidays. From Halloween to Thanksgiving and even Christmas…you will see festive projects to get those creative juices flowing and hopefully give you some ideas for this time of year.

And of course…there are give-a-ways!!! All three companies will giving away tons and tons of goodies this week so make sure you head over to the Petaloo Blog and May Arts Blog for details and inspirational projects. Don’t forget about Facebook! Join us on our Facebook page here, the May Arts and Petaloo pages, too, for additional chances to win. Make sure you tell them we sent you!

Don’t forget to comment all week long for a chance win a Core’dinations prize pack! And head over to our Facebook page…you never know when we offer up another chance to win.

Did you know that Core’dinations and Petaloo have a color matching program? We sure do! We did all the hard work so that you can easily match your favorite Core Colors with favorite Petaloo flowers. How easy is that???

Today we have a variety of projects for you.

First up Design Team Member Kim Jeffress with a gorgeous wall hanging. There is nothing like some warm fall colors to brighten up any room.

This project is the perfect example of the Core’dinations and Petaloo color matching program.

And how much do you love  the colors of this card from Design Team Member Char Dobson???  Gorgeous gorgeous! I just love Core. You know why?  Because you can emboss it on your own or use the Core Impressions like Char did on this card. She embossed a piece of Core Essentials in orange and then used a piece of BasicGrey in Mantis on the bottom.  Again…the flowers match perfectly!

And Design Team Member Melissa Oliveira has another fun Fall project for us. She altered a bucket she had lying around the house with some beautiful details. Melissa used her Spellbinders dies in addtion to May  Arts Ribbon and Petaloo flowers. The great thing about these flowers is that you can color them!  Melissa used Tim Holtz Distress ink on the flowers because they were a little bright for the  fall color scheme. Again, just perfect for ANY project.

And Design Team Member Leica Forrest created this soft and feminine layout for us today. Nothing screams little girl like pink , flowers and ribbon! The base is Pink Paislee Core Impressions.

Welcome to day FOUR of our May Arts and Petaloo Week

We are so excited to be sharing this week of May Arts, Petaloo AND Core’dinations with you!

It is DAY FOUR already?  Can you believe that?  That is how time flies around here especially when you are having fun and being inspired. We love Thursdays around here, too!  Why is that?  Well,  it’s ANOTHER day to comment to win win win!

THREE awesome  companies have come together to inspire you. And our teams have been working hard to create some festive projects for you, too. It’s all about the Holidays. From Halloween to Thanksgiving and even Christmas…you will see festive projects to get those creative juices flowing and hopefully give you some ideas for this time of year.

And of course…there are give-a-ways!!! All three companies will giving away tons and tons of goodies this week so make sure you head over to the Petaloo Blog and May Arts Blog for details and inspirational projects. Don’t forget about Facebook! Join us on our Facebook page here,  the May Arts and Petaloo pages, too, for additional chances to win. Make sure you tell them we sent you!

Don’t forget to comment all week long for a chance win a Core’dinations prize pack! And head over to our Facebook page…you never know when we offer up another chance to win.

Did you know that Core’dinations and Petaloo have a color matching program?  We sure do!  We did all the hard work so that you can easily match your favorite Core Colors with favorite Petaloo flowers.   How easy is that???

Today we have a special treat for you from Design Team Member Andrea Amu. THIS is how you work Black Magic Cardstock. Just sayin’

And some close-ups. Add some Petaloo flowers and May Arts ribbon and you have a gorgeous project. Andrea also used a piece  of Tillie Spotted Core’dinations behind the frame.  For the floss-like fibers used in the button ties, Andrea pulled apart the May Arts cording… discarded the white fiber-fill from the inside and just used the flossy threads. COOL!

And one more…

Day “Tree” Here with May Arts and Petaloo

We are so excited to be sharing this week of May Arts, Petaloo AND Core’dinations with you!

It is DAY THREE already?  Can you believe that?  That is how time flies around here especially when you are having fun and being inspired.

THREE awesome  companies have come together to inspire you. And our teams have been working hard to create some festive projects for you, too. It’s all about the Holidays. From Halloween to Thanksgiving and even Christmas…you will see festive projects to get those creative juices flowing and hopefully give you some ideas for this time of year.

And of course…there are give-a-ways!!! All three companies will giving away tons and tons of goodies this week so make sure you head over to the Petaloo Blog and May Arts Blog for details and inspirational projects. Don’t forget about Facebook! Join us on our Facebook page here,  the May Arts and Petaloo pages, too, for additional chances to win. Make sure you tell them we sent you!

Don’t forget to comment all week long for a chance win a Core’dinations prize pack! And head over to our Facebook page…you never know when we offer up another chance to win.

Did you know that Core’dinations and Petaloo have a color matching program?  We sure do!  We did all the hard work so that you can easily match your favorite Core Colors with favorite Petaloo flowers.   How easy is that???

AND IT’S CHRISTMAS HERE AT THE CORE BLOG TODAY!!!!

YES, I said Christmas. It’s holiday time so grab your spiced lattes and sit back and get ready  to be inspired. You are going to want to get out those Holiday papers from last year you never used and, of course, Core’dinations Cardstock!!!

Now, did you notice the title of this post?  I said “TREE” instead of THREE…and you will see why.

First up we have just the coolest card ever from Design Team Member Shaunte Wadley. I mean….a ribbon tree???  Yes! It’s ribbon, flower and cardstock (Core Essentials to be specific ) heaven here! That is all you need to create gorgeous projects.

And speaking of cool trees…..

Design Team Member Lydia Jackson made a tree out of flowers. How cool is that!?  Looks awesome…such a great way to  use up those flowers in your stash. And Lydia used ribbon, patterned paper and cardstock (Core’dinations Spotted Tillie Collection) on this layout seemlessly.

Here is a close-up of that tree….LOVE the star out of some Core Whitewash that Lydia sanded.

And here we have a layout from Design Team Member April Derrick. How awesome is that sanded Tim Holtz Kraft-Core????

From the ribbon banners to the flowers off the page…such a festive and FUN layout!

MAKE SURE YOU HEAD OVER TO MAY ARTS AND PETALOO WEBSITES FOR ALL OF YOUR HOLIDAY RIBBON AND FLOWER NEEDS. YOU CANNOT GO WRONG WITH THESE TWO COMPANIES.

Day TWO of May Arts and Petaloo Week

We are so excited to be sharing this week of May Arts, Petaloo AND Core’dinations with you!

THREE awesome  companies have come together to inspire you. And our teams have been working hard to create some festive projects for you, too. It’s all about the Holidays. From Halloween to Thanksgiving and even Christmas…you will see festive projects to get those creative juices flowing and hopefully give you some ideas for this time of year.

And of course…there are give-a-ways!!! All three companies will giving away tons and tons of goodies this week so make sure you head over to the Petaloo Blog and May Arts Blog for details and inspirational projects. Don’t forget about Facebook! Join us on our Facebook page here,  the May Arts and Petaloo pages, too, for additional chances to win. Make sure you tell them we sent you!

Don’t forget to comment all week long for a chance win a Core’dinations prize pack! And head over to our Facebook page…you never know when we offer up another chance to win.

Did you know that Core’dinations and Petaloo have a color matching program?  We sure do!  We did all the hard work so that you can easily match your favorite Core Colors with favorite Petaloo flowers.   How easy is that???

Today is all about Halloween!!!

We have some awesome layouts from our team that celebrate this fun holiday.

Nothing screams Halloween like Goth. Design Team Member April Derrick used some Core’dinations Spotted Tillie Cardstock on this layout along with loads of purple and black ribbon from May Arts and flowers from Petaloo. From the purple ink splats to the ruffled May Arts Satin ribbon….this is one great layout. And that May Arts metallic velvet ribbon adds the perfect sparkle.

Design Team Member Shaunte Wadley designed this layout using Black Magic as her base. Check out all the amazing details!!! Banners, tags, flowers ribbon, tons of sanding :):)  It’s gorgeous!  The May Arts Satin Striped ribbon on orange, black and purple that Shaunte used for the photo banner is PERFECT for Halloween. Pair it with some flowers at the end and you have a perfect banner.

Welcome to the May Arts and Petaloo Week

We are so excited to be sharing this week of May Arts, Petaloo AND Core’dinations with you!

THREE awesome  companies have come together to inspire you. And our teams have been working hard to create some festive projects for you, too. It’s all about the Holidays. From Halloween to Thanksgiving and even Christmas…you will see festive projects to get those creative juices flowing and hopefully give you some ideas for this time of year.

And of course…there are give-a-ways!!! All three companies will giving away tons and tons of goodies this week so make sure you head over to the Petaloo Blog and May Arts Blog for details and inspirational projects. Don’t forget about Facebook! Join us on our Facebook page here,  the May Arts and Petaloo pages, too, for additional chances to win. Make sure you tell them we sent you!

Did you know that Core’dinations and Petaloo have a color matching program?  We sure do!  We did all the hard work so that you can easily match your favorite Core Colors with favorite Petaloo flowers.   How easy is that???

So are you ready for some projects???

Don’t forget to leave a comment every day this week for a chance to win a Core’dinations prize pack!!!

Today we have some Thanksgiving and Fall Inspired  projects from Design Team Member Melissa Oliveira.

Melissa used her Fiskars Paper Crimper for this tag…

Let’s talk about these flowers and leaves. First off the cluster is awesome. Add some cool vintage buttons from your stash and you have a gorgeous embellishment.  And did you notice the leaves are May Arts ribbon?  Melissa cut them into leaf shapes and then held them near a flame (PLEASE be careful if you try this at home) to melt the edges so they won’t fray. And it just gives is a really cool, rustic look. Add some ink to your Jenni Bowlin Core Impressions after you sand it to help accent the different colors in your layout.

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