Introducing Jennifer Edwardson!

Introducing Jill Lebbin!

Who’s having fun this week???

Today we are welcoming Jill Lebbin!  If you have been with us the last week or so make sure you check out the winner list HERE. You might see your name there and don’t want to miss out on your Core Prize pack.

Here is a little bit about Jill:

Hello! My name is Jill and I share my crafts on my blog Every Day is an Occasion. I am so ecstatic to be on Core’dination’s Design Team! I absolutely LOVE designing and creating projects! Within the last five years I have learned that I am happiest if I am able to carve out a little bit of time to live creatively every day, whether it is by decorating my house, making a card, or working on a scrapbook. I guess I could say, it is in blood…I attribute all my craftiness to my mother.

Most of my time is spent with my loving family. I have a wonderful husband who is very supportive of my endeavors and two sweet and spunky kids whom I get to spend my days with. I am so blessed!! We enjoy traveling together, whether it is to zoos, museums, or lakes…but our very favorite spot to travel to is The Cayman Islands.

When I’m not spending time with the fam or crafting I am working on my fundraiser that I created and direct called Craft for a Cause. We raise money to help buy Automated External Defibrillators (AED’s they help restart a heart).

Here is the inside scoop in Jill’s layout:

I chose a picture of my family as the focal point in my layout because they are my main focus. They are my life. Everything revolves around them and I wouldn’t have it any other way. This is a picture of the four of us at a zoo. My son absolutely LOVES zoos, so we have been to 7 different zoos around the country within the last year.

When crafting, I like to make things fun and interactive. So, I hid the Core Tag behind the photo. If you pull the ribbon, the tag will come out and I wrote where we were and the kids’ ages on the tag.

I love sanding Core’dinations paper! It’s become a serious love! I mean really isn’t it fun?!

Supply List

Main turquoise cardstock piece: Core Impressions: Fancy Pants

White Core’dinations Cardstock: David Tutera -Lace Doily Assortment

Purple Tag: Core’dinations Tags-Brights Assortment

Ribbon: May Arts

Photo Corners: Martha Stewart Crafts

Thickers: American Crafts

Flowers: Paper Studio-Spare Parts

Thanks for stopping by and learning a bit about me!

To find out all the latest with me, we can stay in touch by Blog Facebook Twitter Pinterest Instagram

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Anyone up for a WINNER from yesterday’s Brights collection pack??????????

The Brights collection have such bright & cheery colors! I’d love to try them!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

And today we have a pack of the gorgeous Neutrals Cardstock! Every single crafter MUST HAVE this in their stash! Same great Core but in a neutral color palette.

Please note we will only be posting Monday through Friday. We will pick a random winner the following morning (or Monday if it is the weekend) to win a pack of Core’dinations Cardstock. The cardstock pack may vary due to availability. Winners must email ellen_sosnoski@coredinations.com by June 7  to claim their prizes with the cardstock they won in the subject line.  Please include address and phone number in the email.

Introducing Heather Kaesgen

Happy Monday!  Did you have a great weekend? We sure did!

Make sure you check out the full list of winners HERE. We are back for another fun week of intros and giveaways!

First up we have our winner from Friday of the Tim Holtz Kraft Core….

Very cute L/O. I love the added layers and the feather. Thanks for the chance to win. tfs Tami

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Today we are introducing Heather Kaesgen!

My name is Heather Kaesgen; I am a proud stay at home mom of 2 boys Parker (13) & Hayden (8). They keep me very busy with all of their activities. You can find us at a baseball field 6 nights a week from April – August. Thank God I love baseball! I have been married almost 15 years to the greatest husband and father I could have ever of wished for. I am very blessed to be able to stay at home and play in my craft room daily.  I am always making something. Whether it is for a party, a card, for the house or scrapbooking, I always have a project in the works. My passion is scrapbooking; there is nothing more precious than to see your family on a beautifully decorated page. We LOVE to travel as a family.  We spent 3 weeks in Europe last summer – can you imagine those pictures!? My favorite place in the world is Paris (and the Outer Banks and Disney and Out West, get it LOVE to travel). We are starting a lofty goal of visiting every Major League Ballpark, all 32 of them, in the next 5 years! Did I mention we LOVE baseball. I can’t wait to start that scrapbook!

And about Heather’s layout…she is passionate about traveling so that is what she created for you today! A layout about her travels:

Today we are giving away some Pastel Cardstock! The colors in this pack are gorgeous, don’t you think?

Introducing Suzanna Lee

Happy Thursday! Are you having fun yet?

We sure are!

This  we began a TWO THREE WEEK event introducing our BRAND NEW Design Team!    Each member created a layout just for their day on the blog so from today, May 13th -May 31st we will  introduce a team member to you. Isn’t that fun??!?!?!

AND TO CELEBRATE THIS EVENT WE ARE GIVING AWAY A PACK OF CARDSTOCK EVERY DAY! Tomorrow morning I will announce today’s random winner…just leave a comment on THIS POST. And then come back and comment the next day. We will be doing this  every week day until the end of May so don’t go far!!!

Today’s winner will receive a pack of……

GLITTER SILK!

Please note we will only be posting Monday through Friday. We will pick a random winner the following morning (or Monday if it is the weekend) to win a pack of Core’dinations Cardstock. The cardstock pack may vary due to availability. Winners must email ellen_sosnoski@coredinations.com by June 7  to claim their prizes with the cardstock they won in the subject line.  Please include address and phone number in the email.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

So curious to see who is our winner from yesterday??????????

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Today we have new Design Team Member…… Suzanna Lee!

Check out more about Suzanna and her projects on her blog HERE. Here is a little bit about her:

What can I say? I’m just a woman who is obsessed with her husband, her 2 kids, her camera (a Nikon!), living life to the fullest and preserving our memories as we go! Michael and I have been happily married for 14 years. Together we are raising two amazing children—Nikolas, 10, and Mia,almost 7.

I am very diverse when it comes to styles and techniques. I can’t claim any one as a main stay in my projects. I range from clean and simple to layered and packed with little details. The paper and photographs speak to me and I do what feels right. New styles, techniques, products, etc. are some of the major things that offer me inspiration. I am always excited to try new things and new opportunities, in life and with paper crafting.

When I’m not hiding behind my camera or cutting and creating both mess and beauty, I’m a physical therapist. I love what I do and love that it helps fund my hobby and collection! Who needs purses and shoes when you can have paper and embellishments?!

And how much do you loooooove the color combo of this layout??? I just love learning all these random bits about Suzanna.

And some close ups:

Ohhhhhh…embossing! Our 6×6 pads are a great way to add small deatils to layouts….they aren’t just for cards!

Now a little bit about Suzanna’s layout:

Every now and again, I try to do a page about myself. My kids love pouring through the albums and love seeing themselves but I know there will come a time when they will wish there was more of Mum and Dad. I know I love learning the little details of my parents’ lives. This layout served that purpose as well as sharing a little bit about myself with you. Random bits about Suzanna Lee. I literally wrote the first 5 thoughts that came to mind. I did say random! I also wanted to showcase how amazing core is! There is one piece of patterned paper on this page, the majority of the paper is Core of one type or another. All those different lines come together as a cohesive whole! Amazing!

GORGEOUS Mother’s Day Cardstock Bouquet

Hoooooo loves Core’dinations Spotted Cardstock?

December Guest Designer….

Scor a GREAT Fall Layout in HERE!

We are having so much fun with Guest Designer Rebecca Keppel we thought we would give you ONE MORE layout of hers to show of how she works that Core’dinations ColorCore Cardstock. How does that sound???

We all know it’s that time of year for some Fall layouts and scoring is a GREAT way to add texture and interesting details to your projects.

Don’t forget to check out more of Rebecca’s amazing work on her personal blog, My Cluttered Corner,  and you can follow her on Pinterest as well.

Scoring is so much fun when you have Core’dinations! Just keep checking out what Rebecca created with her Core in the next few photos. You can make easy and gorgeous fall layouts with just a few simple lines and your Sand It Gadgets!

Stampendous Day Three!!!

Welcome to our Third Day of our week with Stampendous! We couldn’t be more excited than to share gorgeous projects with you featuring Core’dinations and Stamendous products all week long!

We love Stampendous and their products so make sure you do a few things for us while you are here this week.

1.) Like them on Facebook. AND  2.)  Follow them on Pinterest. Oh and if you tweat, 3.) Follow them on Twitter here.

And we have a blog hop for you, too!

Oh..we promised some winners…RIGHT?  Well……………

Miriam Prantner

come on down!

Winners email ellen_sosnoski@coredinations.com with the subject line reading the contest you won, For Example: March Color Challenge Winner. Also include in the body of the email your name, address, and phone number (only if international). We will send you a confirmation back that we received your email so you know your prize will be on it’s way soon! We ship prizes to our lucky winners twice a month once we receive all prize winner’s information.

Here is a list to hop along…make sure you do as we are giving away prizes ALL WEEK LONG for those that are commenting and having fun.

Stampendous Blog

Andrea Amu

April Derrick

Cyndi Bundy

Janelle Stollfus

Krissy Fossmeyer

Wendy Price

And of course…our blog! And for inspiration here today, we have a project from Design Team Member Shaunte Wadley. She created the most beautiful card for us today!

Where do we start?  Shaunte started with a Tim Holtz Kraft-Core cardbase that she embossed and sanded.  And Core Tags? Yes, Please!!! (keep reading for more details on those )

Did you know that with our Core Tags you can pop out the silver grommet?  So..if you want to emboss it…PERFECT! Or if you want to flip your tag over and use the smooth side to stamp…YOU CAN! And if you are working with some FAB-u-Lous embossing powders like we are from Stampendous then you are in luck. OH! And don’t forget the beautiful Stampendous sentiment stamp using the Cling Flower Path stamp:

And another gorgeous detail….

Happy Monday Morning!

Hope you had a fantabulous weekend!

We sure did! We are gearing up for some fun summer events here on the Core Blog and Facebook so we hope you will be around for some awesome inspiration this summer!

Speaking of awesome inspo….did you have fun last week with Peachy Keen????  WOW! Is all I can say…stamping and Core = perfection!  Whether it is our Core Foundations smooth cardstock or the Core Essentials textured…you can stamp your heart out.

It was our first time using Rafflecopter and it was cool! We did have a glitch for a bit and got it fixed so thank you for your patience with that.  You are able to manually add entries so I will do that for those of you who posted in the comments section so I need to do that today and we will  post a winner tomorrow. I want to make sure we get everyone!

Today we have a layout featuring some gorgeous Whitewash from Design Team Member Kim Jeffress. Kim took her Sand It Gadget and sanded the entire sheet of Whitewash. Look closely so you can see the beautiful yellow core coming through the white surface.

Here is a close-up…see all that awesome texture? {sigh} LOVE IT! That is no ordinary cardstock…just so unique and can accent any of your paper crafting projects perfectly!

Next Page »