ADORE: challenge winners

Hello ladies!  Are we all busy preparing for the holidays?  I have been in bed for the past week and a half with the flu.  I woke up today relieved to find that my fever has finally broken.  Woo hoo!  So, naturally, I'm back on the computer again.  I haven't been this sick in a really long time...I didn't even have the energy to make all of my usual internet rounds...hahaha.  It was such a sad 10 days!  Fortunately hubby and son were a SUPER big help and their humor kept a smile on my face.  Well, enough blabbing.  Here are the winners of the last challenge:

 
Congratulations to ENI, GEMMA, and BARBARA!!!  Email me at threepaperpeonies @ gmail.com and I will send you the download links to my Toy Train mini paper pack.  And, as usual, thanks again to all of the participants.  Your layouts continue to amaze me and inspire me to create!  Happy Scrapping and Happy Holidays!!!

ADORE: new paper collection & challenge

With the holidays just around the corner, I have an early Christmas gift for all of you! (By the way, is it just me, or have stores everywhere just totally skipped over Thanksgiving?)  Anyways, I have been working hard to get this new paper collection together and I'm so excited to post it in here today.  It is called "ADORE" and it was inspired by my upcoming wedding anniversary in December. (I'm a TOTAL fan of winter weddings.) I hope you adore it as much as I enjoyed creating it!   

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And now for the challenge:

Please create a layout focused on a loved one.  It can be a spouse, a parent, a child, etc.  Anyone that has meaning in your life and has helped to shape the person you've become. It can be wedding inspired, or not.  All I ask is that it is love inspired. =) Three winners will be selected at random to receive a mini paper pack that I have put together called "TOY TRAIN".  It's a vintage mini pack inspired by wrapping papers of holidays past.

Guidelines:

-Your layout MUST use papers from my new ADORE paper pack exclusively...once again, NO other papers allowed.

-Elements can be from ANY KIT and ANY DESIGNER.

-You must create a new layout for this challenge.

-Each participant may only post 1 layout for this challenge.

-A link to your layout must be posted in the comments section no later than midnight on Saturday, December 19th, 2009 (PST).

-THREE winners will be SELECTED AT RANDOM and given a download link for my "TOY TRAIN" mini paper pack. 

Have fun, and may your heart be warmed with thoughts of love!

HARVEST: the winners!

I'm genuinely sorry to have kept you waiting for so long, but here are the winners of my latest challenge:

Congratulations to amber, zibr1, and creative chaos!  Please email me and let me know which kit you would like the download links to. (You may choose from my California, School, Whimsy, and Change (paper pack only) kits.)

Thanks to everyone for participating.  I apologize if I didn't get a chance to comment on everyone's layouts...they were definitely AMAZING though.  I was also so excited that there were a few of you joining your very first challenge!  I do hope you will continue to join others- it's a great way to try something new and stretch your creative boundaries. 

I hope you are all doing well and have much to be thankful for this holiday season.  Let's not let the hustle and bustle of it all get in the way of remembering what is truly important.  I am already feeling the stress, but I know that if I'm not intentional about focusing on what really matters, it will all come and go without much meaning.  With that being said, here are some of my recent layouts using some fabulous products from Fei Fei's Stuff and TaylorMade Designs that are perfect for documenting all of your priceless holiday moments.  Thanks for looking!
 

Products:

Fei Fei's Stuff "Victorian Dividers"

Fei Fei's Stuff + Joyce Paul Collab "Family Ties"

Products:

TaylorMade Designs "Reaching Out" word art,

TaylorMade Designs + Ashalee Wall Collab "Outside the Lines"

Products:

TaylorMade Designs "Reaching Out" word art,

TaylorMade Designs + Fei Fei's Stuff Collab "Small Talk"

HARVEST: new paper pack, new challenge

Good morning ladies!  I hope that everything is well with you.  Well, since I just announced the winners of the last challenge, I suspect that you knew this post would be coming =).  Things in my life have finally started to settle down, and once again life seems somewhat under control.  My class is moving along like a well-oiled machine, back-to-school night has come and gone, and this weekend we cleared out all the "junk" in our home that we haven't used in over a year.  (How do we accumulate so much stuff?!?)  I finally feel like I can breath...and think...and design =).

I have LOVED having all of you along on my journey as a newbie designer.  All of your feedback, your wonderful layouts, your participation in my challenges, has really been so encouraging and helpful as I develop my skills.  I have decided to focus in on one aspect of designing at a time and "master" that one area as much as I can before moving on.  I feel like I excitedly rushed into designing everything at once and the quality that I'm looking for is just not there yet.  (I am definitely my harshest critic) So I want to take a step back and take everything more slowly and carefully.  As a total paper freak, it was natural for me to start there.  So here it is:  HARVEST, a modern paper pack with colors that hint of Thanksgivings past.  It comes with 12 textured papers (5 plain, and 7 patterned).  Enjoy!

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And with the arrival of my paper pack, comes another Three Paper Peonies challenge of course.

Design a layout that expresses something that you've been focused on recently.  What is driving your life right now?  What seems to take up most of your time (besides scrapping =)?  What do you enjoy spending time on right now?  Is there anything that you are trying to really develop and do well in your life?  There are an infinite number of ways to express this theme, and I know you ladies will definitely do it justice!  Three winners of this challenge will be selected at random and will receive the kit of their choice! (You may choose from my California, School, Whimsy, and Change (paper pack only) kits.)  

Guidelines:

-Your layout MUST use papers from my new HARVEST paper pack exclusively...NO other papers allowed (gotta throw in a new twist every now and then...).

-Elements can be from ANY kit and ANY designer.

-You must create a new layout for this challenge.

-Each participant may only post 1 layout for this challenge.

-A link to your layout must be posted in the comments section no later than midnight on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 (PST).

-THREE winners will be SELECTED AT RANDOM and a download link for the kit of their choice will be sent by email.

CHANGE: the winners!

Good morning everyone! Soooooo sorry that it has taken me so long to post this.  I finally got some quiet time to myself (woo hoo!  AND on a Saturday morning!  Double woo hoo!!!).  First of all, thanks to everyone who participated in our "CHANGE" challenge.  As usual, you were all SO creative with the theme.  I really loved learning about all of the changes in your lives, and hope that things continue to change for all of you in a positive direction.

We had a total of 16 entries for this challenge, and FIVE winners have been selected at random.

Congratulations to laure, iNg, chupi, krisztaanyu, and tanalicious!  (Shoot me an email and I will send you a link to the paper pack.)  Thanks again to all of you for participating!  Here is a look at everyone's AMAZING work!