Introducing Mary Pat Siehl!

Welcome Back!

How much fun was this week???  We have had a bunch of winners so far so we thought putting all the winners in one place would make things easier for you.  So CLICK HERE to go to out Hot Topics section of our website and see if you are a winner.

This week was the beginning of a 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 until the end of May so don’t go far!!!

Today’s winner will receive a pack of……

Tim Holtz Kraft-Core!

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.

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And we have a winner from yesterday! I promise you this is random.  We use random.org and it was number 12!

I love this color combo. This would be a great birthday present to win, since today is my birthday 

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So today we have layers and layers from Mary Pat Siehl.

First here is a little bit about Mary Pat:

My name is Mary Pat Siehl.  I am an avid paper crafter,  stamper, and card maker. I have been paper crafting for over 12 years.  It truly is a passion of mine.  I would descirbe my style as clean and simple, but this is not to say my style is boring.  I love to layer my papers and add all types of embellishments.  I love adding different textures to my layouts.   I am married to a wonderful man who totally supports my addiction to paper crafting. I have 2 boys  who keep me totally on the run and having fun. I am a high school teacher by day,  and I am in  my 24th year of teaching.  I live in beautiful Springboro, Ohio.  If I am not scrapping I am either hanging out with my 3 favorite guys or on the tennis courts.

Now Mary Pat’s layout..for more design inspiration make sure you check out her blog HERE!

Monthly Colour Lover’s Inspiration

First up we have some Winners to announce from last week’s Blog Swap with Sweet Stamp Shop! Did you check out their blog? Save it in your faves?  Check out their Facebook page? You will not be disappointed!

Our Blog Winner is:

I do so love that little raccoon! Great “tough girl” card too!

And our Facebook Winner is:

Lisa Woodward Peeples

Love the Sugar and Spice layout on the blog!

April 18 at 9:05pm

Winners email ellen_sosnoski@coredinations.com with the subject line reading the contest you won, For Example: Sweet Stamp Shop giveaway 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.

So are you ready for some inspo????

Who LOVES Pinterest??? Well make sure you check out our Colour Lover’s Board and the other boards we have are FAB as well  We love spending time on there pinning all the Core we find and the color palettes that inspire our team.

This one from Anthropolgie caught our fancy this month:

And here is what Design Team Member Melissa Oliveira came up with….a gorgeous combination of Tim Holtz Kraft Core and Adirondack lines. Remember…when using Core most of our lines “core’dinate” with each other so we make it easy for you  to mix and match colors!

I also wanted to post about a prize for our Colour Lover’s Monthly Inspiration. For the past few months we have issued a challenge around our Pinterest board called Colour Lover’s. Sorry for the confusion but we are not offering a prize for this challenge at this time due to our GRAND PRIZE GIVEAWAY going on right now. It’s HUGE…a value of over $700!!!! So make sure you enter today AND tell your friends! {when you enter it will give you the chance to send emails to your friends and  share on Facebook) The MORE we get signed up, the bigger and more frequent we giveaway prizes!

And don’t forget to REFER Your FRIENDS! If they win so do you!

What’s Hot

How much to you love yellow and gray?  It’s hot hot hot right now!!! And it really is a gorgeous color palette for spring.

Design Team Member Melissa Oliveira and what is more perfect than using some Tim Holtz Core’dinations Cardstock!? Available in the Distress and Adirondack color, they are the perfect staple in any paper crafters collection!

Melissa also used cardstock from the Cut and Emboss Tim Holtz/Sizzix series for the smaller, embossed pieces. Get out those Sizzix folders!  Don’t they look awesome?

Make sure you check out the Cut and Emboss series here!

New Collections Shipping

We are so exciting to say that our NEW releases are shipping NOW!!!

Here are a a few projects from our Design Team using the new Tim Holtz/Sizzix Cut and Emboss series. No more cutting down that cardstock to fit your embossing machine. We have the size JUST for you! And the Tim Holtz Distress and Adirondack colors are in one convenient pack.

Card from Melissa Oliviera using some of the gorgeous Tim Holtz cardstocks:

And a layout from April Derrick using some of the Tim Holtz/Sizzix 4.24×5.5 sheets as well. They can be used for layouts AND cards!

Don’t you love how she embossed and debossed the same folder??? For more information on these techniques check out our videos here.

Book Club Ideas

I don’t know about you but I am an avid reader.

I love reading and I am always looking for friends that read so we can talk about books and share them, too!

Well, Design Team Member Char Dobson created these super fun projects for us today and they are all about your very own Book Club. Move over Oprah!  Char used a  mix of Core Essentials and Tim Holtz Adirondack and Distress collections and her Cricut, of course!

See that gorgeous tag?  That is one of our tags from our Core Tag Collection in the Dark colors. And check out how Char stamped over the Basic Grey Core Impressions! What a great idea…add some ink to the edges and you have a fabulous invite.

Day FOUR of our Design Team’s Favorite things!

We are having a blast….are you??? And we are only on DAY FOUR!

From now until Christmas Eve we are showcasing our Design Team’s Favorite cardstock. Each designer picked a few of their favorite lines and created some gorgeous projects for you showcasing why they love it so much.

Then, on that day, just by commenting on that post, you have the chance to win! AND some days we might be showcasing more than one line … like today!

Here is how it works:

1.) We post every day. The following day we pick a winner and then start over so keep coming back!

2.) You have all day and night to post. Yes, you heard me! You can win up until the next day when I pick a winner when I get up. We want our international fans to be able to win and they are normally sleeping now

3.) Want additional chances to win?  Comment on Facebook and share the excitement on your blogs! If you share on your blog, come back here and link us up. Remember, you can do it every day for more chances to win!

AND WE ARE GETTING CLOSE TO 5000 FANS ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE!

HEAD OVER THERE AND LIKE US FOR ADDITIONAL CHANCES TO WIN THROUGHOUT OUR FAVORITE THINGS!

4.) Please note: we will not be shipping to winners until the January due to the Holidays.

WHO WANTS A WINNER???

Yesterday’s winner of some JBS Black and Cream collection is…..

What a great project idea. I can handle that
one. Like the paper too.

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So….ready for some inspiration and give-a-ways????

Today is all about Tim Holtz Adirondack Cardstock!

Design Team Member Melissa Oliveira worked up some amazing layouts for us today.

And how fun is this?  Melissa added a few of her favorite things to this layout, too! If you are familiar with Melissa’s work you will see one of these techniques on almost every layout of hers.

1. ) Sand the area  where want to journal (in this case, using the date stamp) so it “pops” off the page.

2.) Loosely and unevenly sanding around the edges of the page to create a distressed/weathered border.

3.) Grey!!! We love grey! And Melissa is obsessed with it.

And Melissa created some double page layouts for us, too!

The great thing about Tim Holtz Adirondack collection is that you don’t have to do grunge and  major distressing.  It is full of bright colors that are perfect for any project!!!

Core and Cheery Lynn Day TWO!

Cheery Lynn and Core have teamed up for some great inspiration for you this week!

Make sure you check out the Cheery Lynn site for some awesome dies and videos (such an awesome resource to know what sandwich to use for different embossing machines) and some SUPER cool NEW releases!!!

AND, their blog of course!!!

You know the drill…leave a comment ALL WEEK long for a chance to win some Core goodies.

Today we have some layouts for you! Make sure you head over to each individual designer’s blog for more details on each of these projects.

Design Team Member Lydia Jackson made this cool layout using the Stitcher Plate. Such a great way to add texture to some white space.

And here is a close-up:

And Design Team Member April Derrick used FOUR plates on this layout!!!

They are Circle, Classic Silver Stacker Layers, Silver Oval Stitching Tool, & Butterfly Bundles

Core’dinations Cardstock is from the Tim Holtz Distressed and Adirondack collections.

Check out how April journaled on the stitched circle!

Father’s Day Inspiration

Did you see yesterday’s post?

Make sure you check out the journaling challenge! AND throw in an uber cool Core technique and you get TWO chances to win!!!

Today we have some inspirational cards from Kandis Smith. Kandis always makes the most beautiful cards.

For the first card, Kandis used the Provocraft Diamond Plate and her Cuttlebug to create the subtle but perfect background.  LOVE the gray.

And how about some Tim Holtz Inspiration? The rich, earthy tones from the Tim Holtz/Ranger collections are perfect for those Father’s Day projects. And don’t forget those awesome Tim Holtz/Ranger Sizzix dies for your embossing machines. They add the perfect touch to this amazing cardstock collection!

Gooooooood Friday Morning!

We have a few updates for you this beautiful Friday Morning.

First, the Design Team entries are being narrowed down as we speak. Let me tell you, the decision was not easy. We wish every single entry could be part of the Core team.

We will let you  know when the decision has been finalized. We will know more in the next week AND we have a fun week planned leading up to National Scrapbooking Day on Saturday May 7th including the Design Team announcement. So mark that on your calendar now.

Also…….

AND we are giving away FIFTEEN TIM HOLTZ Collection Packs over on our FACEBOOK PAGE!  We offered TEN packs at the beginning of the week for all of our fans to change over and like us on this page (we are consolidation pages to make things a bit more streamline for everyone) .

AND we are offering FIVE more TIM HOLTZ collection packs once we get to 3000+ fans! So invite your friends, share it on your Facebook page and let us know so we can get you some additional entries for those FIVE extra packs.

Did you get all of that? Pretty easy stuff, right?

We look forward to all of the exciting things we have planned for our fans over the next few months. It’s going to be GREAT!

In the spirit of our Tim Holtz Give-A-Way, we have a crazy cool layout from you from Design Team Member Char Dobson using loads of Tim Holtz goodies:

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

Tim Holtz Design Team Projects

Today we have some awesome Tim Holtz projects from the Design Team that were displayed at CHA!

Here are a few of them up close. Make sure you check out the amazing details!  All of these projects were created with the Tim Holtz Core’dination Collectin in addition to his other great inks, stamps and embellishments. YES! We said  stamping.  Our cardstock is great for stamping on the textured side or the smooth side.

Linda Beeson:

A layout from Debbie Standard:

And an altered Journal from Ellen Sosnoski: