All that Glitters is…

Blue, green, red, yellow, pink…

You get the idea!  We have some more Glitter Silk projects for you today this fine Thursday!

And if you weren’t here yesterday, make sure you check out this awesome Lip Balm Holder tutorial from Design Team Member Shaunte Wadley! It is so fun and easy for some quick gift ideas.

So today we have some cards from Design Team Member Debbie Standard. Doesn’t Glitter Silk look gorgeous embossed????

It looks great mounted on some Core Essentials, too. Mixing and matching Core’dinations is so much fun!

Good Friday Morning!

Before we do some inspiration…we have an update for you:

We would like to extend our sincerest apologies to the winners of our Tim Holtz Kraft Core giveaway. We had a programming glitch which prevented the shipping addresses of the winners from being collected. The good news is that we’ve found the problem, it is fixed, and all future giveaways will work very smoothly.

To show how much we appreciate everyone’s patience, we are doing ANOTHER giveaway! We have THREE SIGNED Tim Holtz Kraft Core packs ready to give away to our Facebook fans. So if you aren’t a Facebook fan, LIKE US NOW! Tell your friends and hurry!!! We’ll be picking our 3 random winners on January 10th.

Please note this is only a Facebook giveaway so make sure you Like us over here!

We wish everyone a safe and prosperous New Year from here at Core! Hope it is off to a good one so far.

How about some inspiration to get that New Year kicked off in the right direction?

Today we have a layout from Design Team Member Debbie Standard using our January Color Lover’s Challenge as inspiration.

Debbie die cut, embossed, sanded, embossed some more You get the idea of how much detail is on this layout. And she used some goodies from one of our preferred partners, Maya Road. Looks gorgeous, don’t you think?

Happy New Year’s Eve Eve

Can you believe the next time we post on the blog will be 2012!?!?!?!?!?!!?

They year goes so quickly and we want to thank all of you for continued support of Core’dinations.  It has been an amazing year! We have a lot of exciting things happening right now for next year…it’s going to be GREAT!

Today we leave you with a fun page that is all about winter and glitter. What could be better than that for New Year’s Eve Eve?

Design Team member Andrea Amu created this layout for us today using our Glitter Silk, Vintage, Core Essentials, and WhiteWash.  Also Basic Grey Nordic Holiday and May Arts Ribbon from some of our favorite partners! How gorgeous are those blues…

Gift Card Holder by Core Teacher Kimber McGray

1. Cut the base 3 1/2” x 5 1/2” from Spotted (red) cardstock using the Silhouette machine and the Library Pocket set from Silhouette. Lightly sand the embossed swiss dots with the Sand-It Gadget. Fold and assemble the pocket.

Happy Wednesday!

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!

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.

Fabulous Friday Finds

We have been so busy with blog swaps and events that we haven’t had time to share those awesome creations we see all over the web using Core’dinations.

Today we wanted to share with you this awesome layout from Lisa Peeples!  AND how perfect is that scoring with the perfect touch of sanding??? We just love it and purple is hot hot hot right now and with  Core Essentials, you cannot go wrong with finding that perfect color.

Did you know that Each Core Essentials color is part of a color family for easy matching?  Each color family has 4 Core Essentials ranging from light to dark. And purple has over FIVE color families! Check out our Core Essentials page to find that perfect colour for your project. We LOVE colour and if you do too, make sure you check out our monthly Colour Lover’s Challenge here.

Here is a little bit about Lisa and the neat story behind this layout:

My name is Lisa Peeples.  I started scrapbooking 14 years ago when my first son was born. Absolutely love to sit and scrap or make cards.  It is my relaxing therapy time.  I actually made this layout for the daughter of some very dear friends of ours. Having only sons, Casey quickly became the little sister and the daughter that we never had.  She is so sweet and became my scrapbook buddy in Virginia.  She loved to come over and scrap with me and try out all my little gadgets.  When I moved, her parents made a little scrap area for he,r so I decided to make a little wall art for her new space.  I gathered the inspiration for the scored corners from the August 31st entry on the Core’dinations blog.  As soon as I saw Char’s layout I knew I needed to make a layout using the same technique.  I am so thankful for the inspiration I find on this blog!

Thank you so much, Lisa!

Send your creations to ellen_sosnoski@core’dinations.com, link them to our blog or Facebook Page and you might see your layouts and projects here on the Core blog.

And don’t forget….

She runs…she shoots..she SCORES!

Okay maybe we don’t have that kind of “Score”  here at the Core Blog but we got something BETTER!

We do this kind of SCORING! Need some more tips?  Make sure you check out our videos here. The possibilities are endless. You can make any design you want!!!! There is one  important tip  to remember when you are  SCOR with CORE.

Remember to score from the BACK of the cardstock. That way the raised scor image is on the front and you can sand it.

Design Team Member Leica Forrest scor’d her heart out on these layouts.

Core Essentials works beautifully for scoring. Notice the outline sanding Leica did for her title, too? SO COOL!

This layout is jam-packed with technique, too. From the embossed Black Magic scalloped shapes (using Spellbinder’s dies)to the  scoring and use of the label maker…

This is one awesome layout!

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