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February Colour Challenge

Ellen — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:46:10 +0000

Anyone know what happened to January???

Time flies…and with a new month means new challenges!

First up we want to congratulate Alexia Nguyen! She is our January Colour Lover’s Challenge winner.

Please email ellen_sosnoski@coredinations.com with your name, address and phone number (if international).

We are here with February’s Colour Lover’s Challenge already! If you didn’t see it posted on our Facebook page over the weekend, here it is for you to get started!

Remember, you must used Core’dinations ColorCore Cardstock on your project and link to THIS post or our Facebook page. You have until the end of February and we will announce a random winner early in March.

Design Team Member Lydia Jackson created this fun layout for us today using these colors. So bright and fun! How much do you love that new Spotted cardstock?????????????????????? Lydia always adds such fun details to her cardstock like the sanded dots on the yellow Core Essentials to mimic the spotted dots.

Have fun and we will post more projects from our team using this colour palette throughout the month.

January Color Lover’s Challenge

Ellen — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:47:36 +0000

Happy Tuesday!

We are here some Color Lover’s inspo! January’s color palette is up. Get started on it now so you can get your entry in by the end of them month. Remember to link to this post or post on Facebook and use Core.

Here is Design Team Member Kim Jeffress’s interpretation.

Love how she focused on the darker blue with that Tim Holtz Kraft Core and sanded the edges of the cardstock.

January Colour Lover’s Challenge

Ellen — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:50:53 +0000

WE are a bit early posting this but we thought since some people may be off due to the Holidays that you could get a jump start for January!

All entries are due by January 31st either link to this post or posted on Facebook. Please note: due to CHA falling at this time, we may be delayed in posting a winner until the 2nd week in February.

Are you on Pinterest? Make sure you follow us if you are. We loooooooooove pinning!

Today’s layout is from Designer Ellen Sosnoski. I used Vintage Cardstock and Cosmo Cricket Core Impressions for this layout and lots of layering! Love love to layer as much Core as I possibly can!

The little hearts are a Cuttlbug die…I use this one all the time! And the flower is cut from some May Arts ribbon.

Remember you must use Core’dinations Cardstock on your project. Cards, layouts…anything will do just make sure you use some Core and you know how we love techniques

Due by January 31st, 2012 link to THIS post or on our Facebook page.

Happy Wednesday!

Ellen — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:34:22 +0000

Good Morning!

I know a lot of us in the states are hunkering down with our turkeys and families getting ready for Thanksgiving tomorrow. That means a lot of us will be off for a very long weekend.

What better way to start off that weekend with a MONSTER GIVE-A-WAY?!

We are giving away 50 Tim Holtz Kraft Core packs and THREE lucky winners will receive a SIGNED copy from Tim Holtz himself.

Don’t miss out! CLICK HERE to sign up to win win win!

Today it is all about Fall. Don’t forget about our November Colour Lover’s Challenge. Working on this project would be a great way to start off that long weekend, wouldn’t it?

Design Team Member Lydia Jackson created this beautiful layout using this month’s colour palette.

The palette …

And Lydia’s design…

Gorgeous. Love the mix of Vintage and Core Essentials cardstock and how Lydia used the backside of the lattice print from the Pink Paislee Core Impressions line. Don’t be afraid to mix your own embossing folders and the Core Impressions line like Lydia did here. Looks BeauTiFul!

November Color Challenge

Ellen — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:43:26 +0000

In case you missed Monday’s post here is the introduction to this month’s Core Colour Lover’s Challenge!

Here is the inspiration piece. These muted fall tones are just GorgeOus! Remember, you have until the end of the month to get your projects linked or posted to our Facebook page.

Design Team Member Kim Jeffress created this beautiful layout for us using some of the Tillie dot cardstock. You must get some of this for your scrapbooking stash. It is the perfect go to cardstock for any project.

Have a GREAT week everyone!

And don’t forget to mark your calendars……….

Happy Monday Morning!

Ellen — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:08:08 +0000

So we have LOADS of winners to announce!

There is no better way to start a week than to win some Core, right?

We have our October Colour Challenge Winner….

drum roll please………….

Amy at PluckingDaisies.com made this…..

SO COOL!

CORE ON A PUMPKIN! LOVE IT!

Amy email ellen_sosnoski@coredinations.com with name, address and phone (if international).

Next up are the Graphic 45 Winners!!!

From the blog …..

Denise Bryant

Great layouts! I love the colors one the circus page! The dance page is lovely.

And our FAcebook Winner is….

Susan Kesselman

It’s so much fun waking up the computer each morning to see what your dt members have created to delight the senses!

Winners make sure you email Ellen_Sosnoski@coredinations.com with your name, address and phone number (if you are international).

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…

ready for next month’s Colour Palette for the Colour Lover’s Challenge?!??!!?!?

Make sure you post your entries on Facebook or link back to this post for a chance to win.

AND, yes ONE more thing…

MARK YOU CALENDARS!!!

World Card Making Day

Ellen — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:02:33 +0000

WHO WANTS TO WIN SOME CORE??????

We are brining in WCMD with our October Colour Lover’s Challenge.

This month is all about fall and autumn colors.

AND WE ARE GIVING YOU THE CHANCE TO WIN TWO PACKS OF CORE!

We will pick one winner that creates a card with this color palette by Tomorrow, October 2nd at Midnight PST and links it here on this post or on our Facebook page to win a pack of Core’dinations Cardstock! REMEMBER…you must use Core’dinations Cardstock to be eligible.

AND you will still be entered to win the October Colour Lover’s Challenge, too! That is two chances to win this month so get busy! (Please note: You can create any project you want for our monthly Colour Lover’s Challenge but for this weekend we are looking for cards to celebrate WCMD)

Here is the color palette design by Design Team Member Lydia Jackson:

And a card created by Ellen Sosnoski using Whitewash as the base and some Tim Holtz-Kraft Core:

One of my favorite sentiments by myStamp Box…

All entries for our monthly colour lover’s challenge must be linked to this post by the end of October 31st at midnight PST.

For the WCMD challenge, they must be linked by October 2nd, midnight PST.

You may link your project to our Facebook page as well.

September’s Color Challenge

Core'dinator — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:25:27 +0000

Happy Friday!

(edited with last month’s winner)

First up we want to Congratulate Courtney! She is the winner for last month’s Colour Challenge. Email ellen.sosnoski@coredinations.com with your address information. Prizes will not go out until September 12 due to us being out of the office at an event.

Here is the cute card she made. Love all the great Cricut work and the glossy accents. A GREAT example of how Core’dinations ColorCore Cardstock can be your go to cardstock for any project.

You can see her entry here on her blog.

Now it is time to live with September’s Colour Challenge!!!

It is all about colour for sure.

Again, our inspiration piece comes from our Pinterest Colour Lover’s Board. Every Month Design Team Member Lydia Jackson gets the incredibly difficult task of choosing one of the beautiful color schemes found in Pinterest.

This month it is all about back to school!

What is better than rainbow crayons???

Our Core Essentials line is PERFECT for this challenge. LOADS AND LOADS of gorgeous colours…..

Design Team Member Debbie Standard Created this fun card using this colour inspiration using loads of embossing and sanding:

AND…Debbie created a layout, too.

The great thing about this inspiration piece is that you don’t have to use every single colour like Debbie did here. She focused on the blue, red, yellow, orange and brown. Looks awesome, don’t you agree? The Stacy Julian Line Core Impressions is great for this challenge as well. No one does Colour like Stacy!

Remember you must use Core’dinations Cardstock on your project and link back to THIS post by September 30th or link us up on our Facebook page.

Cheery Lynn..ONE more Day!

Core'dinator — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:04:22 +0000

So the blog has not been cooperating with me this weekend.

I spend most of Saturday morning copying and pasting and reposting

but nothing worked.

So we have ONE MORE CHEERY LYNN project for you! You may have seen this on

Facebook over the weekend but that is okay. It is too cute not to share with you today.

And what a perfect way to announce the random winner of our give-a-way from last week………….

Krista’s Paper Cafe says:

August 18, 2011 at 9:02 am

I think it looks more antique then grungy. I like it. I want to try. Now i know what to use a white/off white Core’dinations paper for.

Congrats!!! Email ellen_sosnoski@coredinations.com your address information.

Now let’s see this layout…..

Design Team Member Melissa Oliveira created this super cute layout using the French Scallped Flair nesting dies. She used the smallest size and then cut it to create the fun green border along the photo. BRILLIANT! And of course that fun banner.

AND she used our August Colour Challenge as her colour inspiration.

And check out this cuuuuuuutie of a layout!

Are you ready for the Colour Challenge?

Core'dinator — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:49:37 +0000

We are!

Here is the inspiration piece for this month from Pinterest that Debbie Standard pinned for us from the shepaperie.blogspot.com.

Isn’t it beautiful?

SIX gorgeous colours to play with…..

Here is Design Team Member Shaunte Wadley’s take on the challenge using

ooodles and oodles of Vintage Cardstock.

For the Colour Lover’s Challenge you must use a noticeable amount of Core’dinations Cardstock

on your project. And since we are technique junkies here…we wanna see some technique, too! Sanding…embossing…sky is the limit!

Link your submission to THIS post or post on our Facebook account by August 30th for a chance to win some fabulous Core’dinations Cardstock!!!