MDCC33 - Card Thursdays - Paintables!

Hello and welcome to our Thursday card makers challenge! Last week we challenged you to use lace cardstock on your cards in a creative way - look at this winning submission from Agnes:


Agnes, be sure to email me your address so I can send you your prize!

Today we have another fun product challenge -- Paintables cardstock paper by Prima! This is beautiful 12x12 white cardstock paper in a weight similar to watercolor paper that has preprinted designs. You can use markers, pencil, watercolors, inks - it's pretty much whatever you'd like! You've got to check it out at the store - and, this week it's on sale! We were dying to know what our designers would come up with, s0 we thought a challenge was definitely in order! One of our lucky players will win a 12x12 sheet of Paintables cardstock this week:

Now, as always. we want everyone to be able to play, so if you don't have any paintables but you're interested in maybe winning some, show us a great watercolor card! Check out our designer takes on this challenge:

Giovana Smith - A Place to Praise and Craft

Melissa Earnest - MME Designs

Leah Cornelius - Paper Blossoms

Cathy Weider - The Seaside Rose Cottage

Incredible, as always - we are so proud of our designers! I'm sure they've inspired you, so be sure to play along with our Paintables/watercolor card challenge - we can't wait to see what your creation inspires in us!

MDCC31 - Card Thursdays - Beautiful Things Come in Small Packages...

Last week we challenged our players to create the ultimate paper pierced card. Paper piercing is a favorite and very versatile technique - it can be used a little or a lot, as an accent or as a focal point. Everyone submitted fabulous examples and we so enjoyed everyone's creativity! We were especially awed by the beautiful card submitted by our winner, Irene:



Great job on the challenge, Irene! Please be sure to PM us with your address so we can send your prize out!

This week one of our designers, Cathy Wieder, came up with a very exciting little challenge to share with everyone (hint! hint!) This week we're going to do ATC's!! Here's what Cathy had to say about them:

Beautiful Things Come in Small Packages! Artist Trading Cards, or ATC's, are miniature works of art made in the same way that "regular" greeting cards and scrapbook pages are made. We love making ATC's because they need not have a purpose, a greeting, or sentiment; they are art for art's sake. They are also a great way to use up small scraps of paper that are just to pretty to throw out.



Three rules apply to ATC's: First, dimensions of an ATC are always 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches, which is the standard size for all trading cards, from baseball to YuGiOh. It doesn't matter whether the card is oriented in the portrait or landscape position, but the actual dimensions are not negotiable and you must adhere strictly to that size. Embellishments need to be relatively thin as these cards are often slid into plastic card sleeves to protect and store them.

Secondly, no matter what techniques or media are used to make them, ATC's are considered true works of art and are signed, dated and numbered by the artist just like any other valuable collectible.

Lastly, by definition, Artist Trading Cards are never sold. Unlike other trading cards, where the lines have blurred and they are commonly bought and sold by collectors, Artist Trading Cards may only be traded or given away. This makes them even more coveted because you simply can't buy one created by your favorite card artist. And since they are not mass-produced, acquiring one from an artist you admire is exciting.

ATC's have many uses as a collectible treasure. They can be stored or displayed in card albums or other decorative holders, mounted in a frame or shadow box and framed as an art display, or used to embellish cards and scrap book pages. They can be given as a gift of art to become a treasured place marker in a book, bible, or cookbook, or as miniature cards or gift tags for any holiday or occasion.

The small size of the Imaginisce and Daisy Bucket stamps are perfect for making ATC's, but even larger stamps can be used in creative ways to embellish an ATC. This week, we challenge you to make a Valentine card to share with your significant other, child, relative, or friend. As always, post a picture of it on your blog or in a gallery and then leave us a comment with a link to your creation.

To celebrate this special challenge we'll be choosing TWO winners this week! We will pick one humorous Valentine and one traditional Valentine from the submissions... the winners will each receive an ATC prize pack!

A special thanks to Cathy this week for coming up with the idea for our challenge and doing the ATC history and instructions - if you need any other tips or tricks be sure to check out Cathy's blog, The Seaside Rose Cottage.


Our design team had a lot of fun this week coming up with their own ATC's:

Leah Cornelius - Paper Blossoms

Melissa used paper from Melissa Frances and stamps from Basic Grey.

Giovana Smith - A Place to Praise and Craft

Giovana used paper from Daisy Bucket and a stamp from Stampavie, and Stickles from Ranger.

Melissa Earnest - MME Designs

Melissa used papers and an image stamp from Imaginisce, ribbon from May Arts, and a sentiment stamp from Serendipity.

Dawn Knight - Dawn's Rubber Room

Dawn used papers from Daisy Bucket.



span style="font-size:130%;">Dawn Schulte - Dawn's Special Creations

Dawn used paper, a sentiment stamp and rub-ons from Imaginisce, ribbon from May Arts, and bling from Zva Creative.

Cathy Wieder - The Seaside Rose Cottage

Cathy used paper from Imaginisce, stamps from Daisy Bucket, ribbon from May Arts, and bling from Kaiser Craft.










Linda Boucher - MDC Linda's Page
Linda used cardstock from Core'dinations, paper from sei, and a stamp from Daisy Bucket.




Tamara McKlveen - Tam's MDC Creations
Tamara usd paper from Prima, a stamp from Daisy Bucket, and flower and bling from Zva Creative.



It was such fun making these mini creations - we can't wait to see what you can come up with! And don't forget - we're giving away TWO prizes next week, so make sure to leave us a comment here with a link to your Valentine ATC - Happy Creating!!!

MDCC20 - Thanksgiving Challenge

Welcome to our Thursday Card Challenge!

Before we begin, let me take a minute to congratulate Leah, who created this way cute GingerGirl! We just couldn't resist how adoreable she is! (Leah, remember to send us your address so we can get your prize to you.)

Today's challenge was to make a gift or money holder card.

Below are some of the designs created by our design team. If you have a chance to play please make sure to leave us a comment with a link to your creation, and use keyword MDCC21 if you upload to Splitcoast!

Maria Levine - Ria Creations

Linda Boucher MDC Linda's Page

Tamara McKlveen - MDC Tamara's Page

We wish everyone a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving and be sure to check out our web store beginning Friday for super hoilday specials!

MDCC19 - Card Team - Holiday Table Decor

Good morning everyone! We're in week two of our card design team search, and boy have we had some great responses! I want to thank everyone who has played so far, and encourage everyone to try out... you'll never make it if you don't apply! Check out all the details in this post.

Last week we had an awesome sketch challenge by Maria - and so many beautiful cards resulted! Our winner is this super cute penguin card by Melissa:

















Melissa, thank you so much for playing along with us... be sure to email me your address so I can send you your holiday rub-on pack!! And thank you all for playing along - it is so fun seeing the variety and creativity that results from a simple sketch challenge!

This week we have another fun challenge for you - a table decor item. I so love browsing around and finding all the cute things people come up with to decorate for the holidays, and I thought it would be really fun to incorporate the idea into a challenge that was kind of open, so we can see lots of different ideas all in one place! Get some ideas from our design team entries below, or wow us with your own unique idea!

Maria - Ria Creations




















Maria used papers from Best Creations and a Serendipity stamp for her centerpiece.


Giovana - A Place to Praise and Craft















Giovana used paper from sei's Alpine Frost collection along with a cute glitter chipboard shape from Melissa Frances.

We hope you'll play along. If you upload to Splitcoast stampers, be sure to use keyword MDCC19. Make sure you leave us a comment with a link here as well! This week one player will win the pack of Melissa Frances glitter chipboard shapes that Giovana used! Have a great weekend and happy creating!!

Cards Week 17 - When God Closes a Door....

He opens a window! And that's exactly what our challenge is this week - to create a window card or a card using acetate! I've got some yummy window cards to share from our design team in just a moment, but first I wanted to share just two of the amazing cards submitted to us last week for our 'Puttin On the Glitz' challenge!

First, here is Dawn's card:

And here is Carla's:

Thanks to everyone who played - we loved them all!!

Now on to our window card challenge - here are the awesome creations from the oh-so-talented ladies on our design team:

Maria Levine - Ria Creations

Giovana Smith - A Place to Praise and Craft

Tamara McKlveen - MDC, Tamara's Page

By the way, a little birdie told us Giovana is having a birthday so be sure to give her a shout out! Happy Birthday, Giovana!!!

Don't forget - tomorrow is the last day to submit an application for our scrapbooking design team call - check out the details here. We hope you'll have some time to create your own window card this week, and be sure to check back with us next week for all the details of our Card Design Team call!

Cards Week 16 - Puttin on the glitz!!

Good evening everyone! We apologize for the late posting of today's challenge - we had major computer problems today and both computers we have were down! Luckily we finally got one up so we can get on to today's challenge!

Today we decided to make fall cards and incorporate some glitz; either stickles or pearl-ex or glittered cardstock; basically anything goes as long as there's some glitz somewhere on the card! Check out the beautiful samples from our design team:


Maria Levine - Ria Creations















Giovana Smith - A Place to Praise and Craft


































Linda Boucher - MDC Linda's Page



















Tamara McKlveen - MDC Tamara's Page



















Thanks so much for stopping by the MDC Challenge Blog - enjoy your day!

Cards Week 15 - Inspiration

Welcome back to Mothers and Daughters Creations! We have a really fun inspiration challenge for you this week, but before we get to that I want to congratulate last week's winner, melita! Look at this cute treat box she created:















Thanks so much to everyone who played - melita, be sure to email me (MDCreations.tlm@gmail.com) with your address so I can get you your new stamp set!!

This week, Linda chose this beautiful cup as an inspiration piece:

Can I just say, I really LOVE inspiration challenges! There are so many ways you can go - you can pick from the colors, or the shapes, or the images on the inspiration piece... so many possibilities! I love that everyone sees the same image and is able to pull something different out of it - what a way to showcase the creativity and talent of each person! Look at the awesome cards our design team came up with today... can you see where they got their ideas?

Giovanna Smith - A Place to Praise and Craft

Maria Levine - riacreations

Tamara McKlveen - MDC, Tamara's Page

Of course, we have another fun give away this week - this awesome table top trash bin from Croppin Companion:

This has got to be one of my favorite organization tools!! They fold down flat, so they're great to take with you if you're stamping at an event, but I use mine at home too because they're so convenient!

So, a little reminder, we have TWO design team posts going on!! One is happening RIGHT NOW and it is for our scrapbooking team. Look here if you want to see all the details. We are also having a post for our card design team in November, but start playing as many challenges as you can because we really want to see how quick and consistent your work is!

We hope you're INSPIRED by this week's challenge - we can't wait to see what you create! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Week 14 - Treat Boxes!

Welcome and thanks for stopping by Mothers and Daughters Creations!

As always, we'd like to acknowledge one special card from our players from last week - look at this super cute free standing pop-up card from Dawn:

Congratulations, Dawn, and thanks for playing along!!

This week Linda challenged us to make a Halloween Treat Box or Bag - our design team really came up with some fun and diverse projects! Check them out:

Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner

by Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs

Maria Levine - Ria Creations

Giovana Smith - A Place to Praise and Craft

Tamara McKlveen - MDCreations, Tam's Page

Everyone did a great job! Thanks for stopping by and hope you come up with a yummy project to share! How about another prize give away? Participants in this weeks challenge to make a Halloween treat basket will have the chance to win this new Urban Prairie Bitsy Bug stamp set from Basic Grey:

We just got these stamps in TODAY, so they're not even on the website yet, but you can have a chance to win one by playing along this week!

And don't forget about our Design Team Calls - check back on Monday for full details on our Scrapbook team call, and look forward to our Card team post in November....

Thanks so much for stopping by the Mothers and Daughters Challenge blog - can't wait to see your yummy creations!