MDCSB15 - Scrapbook Mondays - Try A Sketch!

Happy Monday scrapbookers!! This is such an exciting week! We are collaborating this week with Julie Bonner over at the 52 sketches...52 weeks blog!! We just love Julie's blog and her beautiful sketches - we use them all the time!!

So, this week if you head over to the 52 sketches blog and upload a project based on this week's sketch, you might win a 12x12 collection pack of Basic Gray Urban Prarie patterned paper and stickers. Then, if you complete our challenge here you have another opportunity to win - the Basic Gray Urban Prarie Wildflowers stamp set to match the paper pack!! Exciting stuff, right?? Here's a look at the stamp set:

Be sure not to miss the beautiful page Julie completed as her sample this week using the Urban Prarie paper... just gorgeous!!

Our challenge this week is pretty simple - we want to see your page based on any of Julie's sketches, past or present! Two rules apply - it needs to be a NEW page, one you have created this week for this challenge. Rule two is that it can't be the same layout you submit at the 52 sketches blog... it can be based on the same sketch if you want, but it has to be a different layout. That's pretty much it! We hope you'll find time to complete both fun challenges this week and maybe win some goodies!!

Check out the awesome layouts our design team created for this week's challenge:

Maria Levine - Ria Creations

Maria used sketch 33 for her layout. The polka dot paper is from Bo Bunny and the other paper and embellishments are from the Melissa Frances Hush A Bye Boy page kit.

Robin Wade - Creating Memories One Moment at a Time
Robin used sketch #2 from the 2009 sketches. She used papers from Imaginisce's Snowy Jo line.

April Dycus
April also used sketch #2 from the 2009 sketches. April used papers and embellishments from Daisy Bucket's Perfect Harmony collection.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!! Make sure you head over to the store to check out the new Twitterpated line from Imaginisce - SUPER cute!!! Have a great week and Happy Creating!!

MDCSB14 - Scrapbook Mondays - Getting to Know You

Good day to you and thanks for stopping by! We thought we'd take this week to let you get to know some of our designers a little better - and we want to know you too, so the challenge this week is getting to know you! The idea was to do a layout about yourself incorporating your name or the letters from your name... check out the fun and unique ways our designers handled the challenge!

Laurie Rodick - Lovin My Life

Laurie used decorative papers from Jenni Bowlin.

Mia Montalvan-Castrillo - Scrappin Mama Mia

Mia used patterned paper from Daisy Bucket's Playful Petals collection, brads and flowers from Imaginisce, rhinestones from Kaiser, and a clear frame from My Little Yellow Bicycle.

Maria Levine - Ria Creations

Maria used papers and embellishments from Imaginisce, and crystal bling from Kaiser.

Melita Chow - By His Grace
Melita used papers, brads, and flowers from Imaginisce, ribbon from May Arts, and bling from Kaiser. Melita also based her layout on a Pencillines sketch found here.

We had so much fun ourselves, reading and learning a little more about our designers - we hope you do too! We'd love for you to play along with us this week, so we can get to know you a little better too!

We have a fun prize to award one lucky player this week - a great pack of buttons from Basic Gray! To play. leave us a comment here with a link to your picture. If you upload to Papercraft Planet or Splitcoast Stampers, please use key words MDCSB14 - we can't wait to see what you come up with!

Before we sign off, we have a couple of extra special layouts from our design team members for previous challenges to share with you! Here is Mia's layout for our MDCSB12 challenge to take out the trash:

And here is Renee's layout for our MDCSB13 challenge to create a page about something new and improved:

Thanks to our fab design team for turning out awesome layouts every week, and thanks to our readers for continuing to support us! Hope you all have a happy and creative week!

MDCSB12 - Scrapbook Mondays - Takin Out the Trash

Here it is the last week of 2008! We hope you have some good memories to take with you to 2009 - we sure do. We have enjoyed our first year in business and have met some wonderful and talented people along the way. For this weeks challenge we are going to 'Take out the trash' and make room for new and exciting things to come. To complete the challenge, create a page using leftover scraps, odds and ends, and embellishments. Be sure to leave us a comment with a link to your creation and use the Label MDCSB12 if you upload to Split Coast or Paper Craft Planet. Below are the pages our design team created for you!

Maria Levine - Ria Creations
Maria used Daisy Bucket, Imaginisce, and Hanko scraps to create her page

Have a Happy New Year!

MDCSB8 - Happy December!

Today is the first day of December and Scrapbook Challenge Day!!

Today's challenge was based on sketch #12 from Julie Bonner's sketch blog 52 Weeks/52 Sketches. If you haven't been by her blog you should check it out - her sketches are really great! Here's the sketch we used:

Our designers were very creative this week and came up with the fabulous samples below for everyone to enjoy. If you have a chance to play along please be sure to leave a link to your design in the comment section and if you have a SCS gallery please use the Label MDCSB8.


Maria Levine - Ria Creations!




Maria used Christmas papers from My Little Yellow Bicycle and Daisy Bucket.


Melita Chow - By His Grace


















Melita used papers from Daisy Bucket.


Mia Montalvan-Castrillo - Scrappin' Mama Mia!

Mia used papers from Imaginisce's Fairest of Them All collection.

Tamara McKlveen - MDC - Tamara's Page

Tamara used papers and embellishments from My Little Yellow Bicycles Christmas Magic Collection.

Linda Boucher - MDC Linda's Page

Linda used papers from Daisy Bucket's Merry Wishes collection and flowers from Zva Creative.

Thank you for coming by our challenge blog - be sure to take a moment and check out the Cyber Monday sales at MDC!

MDCSB6 - Scrapbook Monday - Happy Fall Y'all!!

Good morning! Thanks so much for stopping by MDC - we have some really fun projects to share with you today! Since we've moved our store base (and me!) from Virginia to Florida I have to admit - I am really missing fall! So, for today's challenge you just need to create anything for fall! We hope these beautiful samples will inspire you to create!

Maria Levine - Ria Creations

Maria uses papers from Best Creations.

Linda Boucher - MDC Linda's Page

Linda used papers from Basic Grey's Granola line.

Tamara McKlveen - MDC Tamara's Page












Tamara used papers from Best Creations and stamps from Paper Salon.

One of our lucky players this week will win these chipboard birds from Scenic Route:


Paint them, ink them, cover them, glitter them.... you'll find lots of beautiful uses for these fun shapes! We have a SPECIAL give away this week as well - anyone who plays our challenge and joins our little group over at Paper Craft planet will get a FREE snag'em stamp from Imaginisce - it's just that easy! (Well, you will have to send me your addy, but other than that, it's just that easy!!) Thanks so much for stopping in today - hope you have a happy and creative week :)

MDCSB5 - Scrapbook Challenge - Buttons Buttons!!

Good morning and thanks for visiting MDC Challenges!

I wanted to take a quick minute this morning to let you know that we just got in two great new product lines at the store. We just started carrying May Arts ribbon, sold by the yard, and we have some beautiful selections in stock. We also have a Sharon Ann's Christmas Magic line from My Little Yellow Bicycle. Both of these lines will be on sale for 10% off through tomorrow, Tuesday the 11th!

Now on to a fun challenge.... homemade buttons! I've seen a lot of beautiful pages where people created a 'faux' button, either from chipboard, felt, or layers or cardstock. It's such a fun look, a cheap way of dressing up a page, and a great way to get uniquely shaped buttons! Here are the awesome pages the team came up with:

Laurie Rodick - Lovin My Life


















Laurie used paper from sei.


Maria Levine - Ria Creations

Maria used papers from the Imaginisce Fairest of them All collection.

April Dycus

















April also used papers from the Fairest of Them All Collection.

Mia Montalvan-Castrillo - Scrappin Mama Mia

Mia used papers from the Basic Grey Sugared collection.

Isn't it wonderful, the different buttons created? We'd like to see the buttons YOU create! If you'd like to play along this week be sure to use keyword MDCSB5 to upload your creation to Splitcoast stampers, and leave a comment and link here! This week one lucky player will win this super cute package of lilac flower gems from Kaiser Craft:
















By the way, have you seen our new forum at Paper Craft Planet? It's a great place to visit, chat with our designers and customers, and see all that's happening with MDC! Hope we see you there!



Thanks again for stopping by - can't wait to see your creations!

Scrapbooking Week 3 - Peek-a-boo - DT Call Final Week!!

OK, we're coming in to the home stretch for out scrapbooking design team call! We want to thank everyone who has played along with our challenges so far. We had a lot more participation than we imagined and still have a lot of email applications to go throug!. We're going to announce our new team members next Monday, November 3rd, but please tune in tomorrow for a special post recognizing some of our players and winners from the challenge projects over the past couple of weeks!

Now, we are still accepting applications through October 31st, so if you would like to apply check out the details in this post and email Tamara at MDCreations.tlm@gmail.com on or before the 31st!

Now, last week we had a very fun challenge to create an altered Halloween item which included some pictures. Out of the entries we received, one really stood out - check out Jenni's before picture:

And look what she created:

All we could say was -- Wow! How creative to start off with one Halloween shape and turn it into a whole complete other shape!! Great job, Jenni, and thanks so much for playing along with us! But we also loved a lot of the other entries - check in tomorrow to see some of those!

This week, our challenge is to create a page which incorporates some sort of peek-a-boo element; either hidden journaling, or a door or flap of some kind. Our design team had a lot of fun ideas - see what they created:

April Dycus

April used papers from the Basic Grey Urban Prairie line.

Laurie Rodick - Lovin' My Life

Laurie used papers from Imaginisce's Fairest of Them All line.

Maria Levine - Ria Creations

Maria used papers and flowers from Imaginisce's Baby Powder line.

Tamara McKlveen - MDC Tamara's Page

Tamara used papers and embellishments from Basic Grey's Granola line.

Thanks so much for stopping by our challenge blog today - we can't wait to see what you can create!

Scrapbooking Week 2 - Altered Halloween Project

Good afternoon everyone! I'm so sorry for the late post - especially when we've got such great projects to share!

First of all, we want to say how much we've enjoyed going through everyone's DT entries so far, and all the challenge pieces! I'm going to share some of those with you a little later, they're just too good to keep to ourselves! And, of course, we need to announce last week's winner - she will be posted a little later as well!

Our scrapbooking challenge for this week is to make an altered Halloween project that incorporates pictures! Altered items are so fun - I love the way they bring our scrapbooking off the page and into our homes for everyone to see! Check out the awesome samples the design team came up with this week:

Maria Levine - Riacreations


Maria decorated a frame using papers from My Little Yellow Bicycle and a Serendipity stamp.











Laurie Rodick - Lovin My Life














Laurie decorated a mini album using papers from the Imaginisce Hallowhimsy line, along with the toe tags and rub-ons.















April Dycus



April decorated a Sara binder with papers from Best Creations and the littie haunted house from the Imaginisce Hallowhimsy line.











Tamara McKlveen - MDC, Tamara's Page


Tamara decorated a photo cube with papers from My Little Yellow Bicycle, and decorated the box with their flocked stickers and borders.











Wow, everyone did such a beautiful job! And, as always, you can play too! Just post a link here in the comment section to your blog or gallery - we can't wait to see your creative ideas! Don't forget - we're still accepting applications for our scrapbook design team! Check out all the details in this post. Thanks so much for stopping by MDC today - happy creating!

Wahoo! Our Scrapbooking Challenge Begins!

It's here, it's here Time to begin with our ALL NEW scrapbooking challenges and Design Team search - Woo Hoo!!

It seems that sketches are easy for a lot of people to work with, and since we definitely want to encourage anyone to play, we wanted to start with something fun! So, we're using a sketch along with the stipulation that the page be Halloween themed!

I was coasting through Splitcoast Stampers a few weeks ago and found a link to a really cool blog with some awesome scrapbooking sketches... so I contacted Julie Bonner of 52 Weeks.... 52 Sketches and she gave us permission to use one of her sketches for our very first challenge! You should definitely check out her challenge blog, particularly if you are interested in sketch mojo!! And, Mothers and Daughters store will be sponsoring a prize there soon, so keep checking back! Here is the awesome sketch we used:

Now, of course, a sketch is just a starting point - feel free to get creative with it! The rules to play are simple - use this sketch to make a layout and then post a comment here so we can go see your creation! If you upload to Splitcoast Stampers, use keyword "MDCSB1".

Here's what our design team came up with:

Maria Levine - Ria Creations

Maria Used:

My Little Yellow Bicycle:

Purple Fog/Black Harlequin

Glitter Stickers

Best Creations:
Halloween Bats and Dots

April Dycus

April Used:
My Little Yellow Bicycle:

Skull Ledger

Foil Bat Stripe

Orange Dot/Jack-O-Lantern

Spider Web

Halloween Words

Purple/Black Harlequin

Glitter Stickers

Core'dinations Black Magic

Laurie Rodick - Lovin My Life

Laurie used:

Core'dinations Black Magic

My Little Yellow Bicycle:

Skull Ledger

Purple Fog/Black Harlequin

Flocked Spider Web

Flocked Favorite Pieces

Tamara McKlveen - MDC, Tamara's Page

Tamara Used:

Imaginisce:

Lollipop and Lizzy

My Little Yellow Bicycle:

Black Swirl

Purple Bat/Diecut Edge

Pumpkin Motif

Skull Ledger

Stickers: Flocked Borders

Stickers: Fav. Pieces

Of course, we couldn't let our first scrapbooking week go by without a prize! Players this week will have a chance to win all the scrapbooking papers in the My Little Yellow Bicycle Line, along with a coordinating pack of stickers!!

Now, we've made it no secret that we're on a search for a few more Design Team members! If you're interested in our design team tryouts, here's what you need to do:

1. Start playing the weekly challenges

2. Submit three other layouts and one altered project to us at MDCreations.tlm@gmail.com . These do not have to be made special for this call - we just want to see what you think your best work is. Please make sure to reduce your picture size to below 600x600 pixels!

3. In your email, include your name, contact information, your blog or gallery link, and answers to the following questions:

-How long have you been scrapbooking?

-Do you design for any other webstores or sites; if so, please provide links.

-Why are you trying out for the MDC Design Team?

-How did you hear about the MDC DT search?

4. All entries are due by October 31st. Winners will be announced November 3rd!

The following tips might be helpful:

1. Photography counts! We'd like the work you upload to be easy to see and professional looking.

2. We're looking for someone who can upload the weekly challenge, along with additional random layouts on a fairly regular basis.

3. We're looking for designers who are fairly flexible with their creations; of course, we'll probably be picking you based on your unique 'style', but if a challenge calls for a break away from that, a good designer should be capable of adapting. In addition, you should be comfortable working on altered items and/or home decor items.

4. If you do design for another store, the product lines they carry should be different from what MDC carries.

5. DT term will be for six months. During that time, you will be offered discounts and special promotions not available to other customers. In addition, we'll link your blog and promote your work as much as possible!

OK, I guess that about covers it! Please feel free to contact Tamara at the email dress above if you have ANY questions! Thanks SO much for playing along with our new scrapbooking challenge - can't wait to see what you create!