MDCSB24 - Getting to know our designers...

It's been a little while since we took some time to showcase our incredible team of designers, so we thought it was time for another casing challenge! It's pretty simple to play along - we invite you to click on the designer pictures at the right to check out their blogs and enjoy their work! Case a favorite layout and share your picture in the comment section - please let us know whose layout you cased!

So a funny thing happened as I was opening the emails with the design team submissions - I realized that all of our designers this week cased Mia! So, hurray for Mia for inspiring us, and a lesson for me on preplanning :) Hope you enjoy their fabulous creations!


Laurie Rodick - Lovin My Life
Laurie used papers and rub ons from Prima, flowers from Prima, and bling from Zva Creative.

Laurie cased this layout from Mia:

Robin Wade - Creating Memories One Moment At A Time

Robin used papers from Jenni Bowlin.

Robin cased this layout from Mia:

April Dycus
April used papers from Imaginisce.

April cased this layout from Mia:

Thanks so much to all our designers - we can't wait to see their work cased!! Happy Scrapping!

MDCC36 - Shades of Spring with a POP...

Hello and welcome to the Thursday card challenge at MDC! Last week we had a blast with out bookmark challenge - check out this awesome submission from Carla:

This week we challenges our designers to use shades of spring - yellow and blue - with a little twist of black thrown in for pop! A little or a lot, doesn't matter - we just like the contrast! Here's what our designers came up with:

Leah Cornelius - Paper Blossoms

Leah used paper from Imaginisce, a stamp from Scenic Route, and an image stamp from Serendipity.

Dawn Knight - Dawn's Rubber Room

Dawn used paper from Imaginisce and a stamp from Serenipity.

Giovana Smith - A Place to Praise and Craft

Giovana used paper from sei, ribbon from May Arts. and a stamp from Serendipity.

Cathy Wieder- Seaside Rose Cottage

Cathy used papers from Imaginisce. stamped images from Stampavie, and a stamped sentiment from Daisy Bucket.

We loved all of our designer cards this week - hope they give you some fresh inspiration! If you want to play along your card can be featured at the top of next week's post - just leave us a comment here with a link to your picture - if you upload to Splitcoast or Papercraft Planet, please use keyword MDCC36 - thanks so much for stopping in and have a fabulous week!!

MDCSB23 - Eggstra Special!

Hello and welcome to this weeks scrapbooking challenge with Mothers and Daughters Creations! This week we're taking it off the page to experiment with some altered items, but first we want to share a special entry from last week's sketch challenge:

Congratulations Adorable - love all the texture and detail on your page!!

This week we're celebrating spring with spring or Easter themed altered items! Our design team came up with some fun and unique projects for you to grab some inspiration from!

Mia Montalvan-Castrillo - Scrappin' Mama Mia

Mia made a door hanger and a fun altered clock! The door hanging uses paper from Best Creations, a flower from Imaginisce, and ribbon from May Arts. The clock uses paper from Daisy Bucket and flowers from Zva Creative.

Maria Levine - Ria Creations

Maria made an adorable Easter basket! Maria used flowers and stamps from Imaginisce and pink Stickles from Ranger.

Melita Chow - By His Grace

Melita made a fun gift bag with a matching card. She used papers from Daisy Bucket and bling from Kaiser.

Tamara McKlveen - Tam's MDC Creations

I made an Easter 'photo' hut by decorating a super cool chipboard house kit from Crafty Secrets. I deocrated the house with papers from Best Creations and Bo Bunny.

We hope you enjoyed our altered projects this week, and as always we'd love for you to play along! Post a comment with a link to your altered spring or Easter project so we can enjoy your work - one talented scrapper will be featured at the top of next week's post!

Thanks so much for stopping in today - Happy Spring and Happy Scrapping!!

MDCC35 - Mark it...

Hello and welcome to MDC! Last week due to some computer issues and late posting problems we actually had TWO challenges, so this week we get to have TWO winners!

Our first challenge was to create a card using a photo - check out this beautiful entry from Sarah:

The second challenge was to create a border and use it on a card.... our winner for that challenge is Ann:

Aren't they both incredible?? I love the black and white effect of the photo card, and the vintage feel to the teddy card! Ladies, pm me your address so we can get your prizes out!

This week we have a quick and easy challenge for you - creating a bookmark! Any type of bookmark will do - we just want you to have fun with it:) Our design team sure did - check out their samples:

Katheryn Heflin - My Children, My World

Katheryn used paper from Imaginisce, a stamped greeting from Scenic Route, and an image stamp from Imaginisce.

Maria Levine - Ria Creations

Maria used paper from Imaginisce and sei. ribbon from May Arts, and a stamped image from Serendipity.

Leah Cornelius - Paper Blossoms

Leah used paper from Imaginisce, lace cardstock from sei, chipboard flowers from Scenic Route, floweres from Zva Creative, and a stamped greeting from Daisy Bucket.

Tamara McKlveen - Tam's MDC Creations

I used paper and embellishment stickers from Basic Grey's 12x12 Marrakech Collection pack.

Playing along is easy - all you need to do is leave us a comment with a link to your picture or blog post! If you upload to Splitcoast Stampers or Papercraft Planet, use keyword MDCC35.

Thanks so much for stopping in today - happy crafting!

MDCSB22 - Sketch!

Hello and thanks so much for stopping by the MDC challenge blog! Last week we challenged you to use one word as your inspiration - check out these two winners!

Texas Cattlewoman

Arianne





Beautiful pages ladies - thanks so much for playing along with MDC!! Be sure to pm me your address for your prizes!!

This week we're having another fun sketch challenge - we love sketches!! We also LOVE Julie Bonner's sketch site, 52 Sketches, 52 Weeks - so the challenge this week is to use one of the following sketches:

You can use this week's sketch, #11:






Or, because our design team has to work in advance and we're always using the previous week's sketch, you can also use last week's sketch, #10:







Here are the design team takes on Sketch 10:



Renee Griffith - Lasting Memories
Renee used papers and embellishments from Prima's Space Boy line.








April Dycus
April used paper and embellishments from Jenni Bowlin.





Robin Wade - Creating Memories One Moment at a Time

Robin used papers from Best Creations.

Tamara McKlveen - Tam's MDC Creations
I used paper, rub-ons, and chipboard stickers from Basic Grey's Marrakech line, a stamp from Daisy Bucket, and letter stickers and journaling paper from Scenic Route.







Thanks so much for stopping by today - we hope you have some time to play along with us! Can't wait to see what you create :)

MDCC34 - Thursday Card Challenge - A Two-fer!!

Hello and welcome to MDC's Thursday card challenge! We had a little computer drama last week and weren't able to post, so we still need to pick a winner from our Paintables challenge - here is Carla's painted card:




Beautiful job Carla - we'll get your paintables out this week!!

Now, even though we couldn't post last week, our design team still came up with some fabulous creations to share - so, this week there's a two in one challenge! We're going to post last week's challenge and this week's challenge, and you can choose to play one or both challenges AND two prizes will be awarded - one for each category!!

Last week's challenge was make a card that included a photo - check out the design team's beautiful examples:

Maria Levine - Ria Creations
Maria used paper from Scenic Route and a stamp and silk flower from Imaginisce.




Katheryn Heflin - My Children My World
Katheryn used paper from Bo Bunny and stamps from Daisy Bucket.




Dawn Schulte - Dawn's Special Creations
Dawn used paper and a seniment stamp from Daisy Bucket, bling from Kaiser, ribbon from May Arts, and an image stamp from Imaginisce.

Now, for this week's challenge all you need to do is create a border and include it on your card! And here are more beautiful samples from our design team:

Melissa Earnest - MME Designs

Melissa used paper from Imaginisce and an image stamp from Serendipity.






Leah Cornelius - Paper Blossoms

Leah used paper from SEI and an image stamp from Serendipity.







Cathy Weider - The Seaside Rose Cottage
Cathy made edged ATC cards and a folio using papers from Bo Bunny and sei.

As always we want to thank all the talented ladies on our team - without them these challenges wouldn't be possible, and they do such a wonderful job showcasing our product!!


Playing along is simple - just leave a comment on this post with a link to your photo. In your photo description please include a little statement that says you're playing along with us - that's it! Next week we'll have TWO winners that will each win sample packs from one of the brand new 6x6 paper packs from Memory Box, Sugardrop - woo hoo!! Thanks so much for stopping by today - hope you can find some time to play along!

MDCSB21 - One Word + An Announcement!

OK, again SO sorry for the delay - we've finally got enough service and everything together so we can get our challenges back on track!

This week our challenge is 'One Word Inspiration' - use one word as the inspiration for your page and scrap it! Check out the beautiful samples from our design team:

Melita Chow - By His Grace

Melita's page was created using papers from Jenni Bowlin.

(Hurray Melita!!!)

Mia Montalvan-Castrillo - Scrappin Mama Mia
Mia used paper from Best Creations, ribbon from May Arts, and flowers from Prima.

This week we got in TONS of beautiful new product at the store - Check out the new Printemps Passion line from Magenta, the Marrakech line from Basic Grey, all new glittered cardstock and patterned papers from Best Creations, or the FIVE new collections from Kaiser Craft! We had so many computer problems last week that we're still working on getting up even more NEW product from Bo Bunny (three new lines plus more dot to dot cardstock), Memory Box (all new 6x6 pads), and sei's new Bridgeport collection. You've GOT to come check it out - you won't be disappointed!

To celebrate all our new lines, 3 randomly selected winners from this week's challenge will win one of the new lines from Kaiser Craft, so if you've been stalking for a while, this is your week to play!! All you need to do is post a comment here with a link to your newly created page, and make sure your description mentions that you're playing along with the MDC challenge - that's it! Can't wait to see your one word inspiration page - happy scrapping!!

P.S. - Don't forget to come back and visit us for Thursday's card challenge - we'll be featuring TWO challenges to catch up with TWO fabulous prizes!!

The Traveling DSL . . .

My apologies to everyone who is used to seeing our blogs regularly!

It would seem that our neighborhood is about to get NEW fiberoptic phone, tv and internet. Unfortunately, in the process the contractors have destroyed our services. We have been without phone and internet for almost two weeks! On occasion we would get something (never everything) for a few minutes here and there, and they did send me 6 or 7 technicians that were all very nice . . . Finally on Friday evening the last of the techs phoned to tell me he had found the trouble and fixed it! After much rejoicing, we woke up Saturday morning with - no DSL!!!

Today seems to be starting off well, and I am going to try to get all the challenge photos rolling - cross your fingers - I hope to be back soon!