Thursday, December 10, 2015

Last Minute Holiday Christmas Card Ideas!


The holidays have certainly crept up on us, but it's not too late to create your own personalized holiday and Christmas cards!  Here are some great ideas from the Echo Park Paper and Carta Bella Designers that are sure to inspire ~


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'Let It Snow Card' featuring Echo Park's 'The Story Of Christmas' collection

 




'Believe Card' featuring Echo Park's 'The Story Of Christmas' collection



For even more holiday crafting ideas - including paper crafting projects you can do with your kids or give as teacher gifts, be sure to CLICK HERE!

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Thursday, December 3, 2015

Join Us For This Week's Paper Crafting Sketch Challenge!

Can you believe December is already here?  Soon the parties and family gatherings will fill our days - bringing smiles and hugs and warm fuzzies!  Be sure to take tons of pictures to scrapbook.

We have a terrific paper crafting sketch this week!  This sketch features a larger, multiple picture layout.  We hope you have a lot of fun with it.

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Remember, you can alter this sketch to fit your project.  We're awarding 1,000 A Cherry On Top POINTS to one random participant.  Points are good for serious discounts off your order.  All participants will receive at least 100 Points just for having a little creative fun with us!

You have until Wednesday, December 9, 2015 to post craft into our Becky Fleck Sketch Challenge #108 Gallery.  Be sure to show off your talents by also posting it on our Message Board Challenge Forum!

Click here for more details - happy creating!


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Monday, November 30, 2015

Congrats To Our Latest Paper Crafting Sketch Winner!

What a busy week and weekend!  Somehow a lot of you found time to fit in our latest scrapbooking sketch challenge.

We gave you this sketch:


And we received submissions like these:


 once upon a time by jan509   merry christmas love by heather1974
'Once upon a time' by jan509(l) - 'Merry Christmas Love' by Heather1974(r)

 gosh 10 by allisonlp

'Gosh 10' by AllisonLP

If you'd like to view the other fantastic creations, be sure to visit our Becky Fleck Sketch Challenge #107 Gallery.

Without further ado, we'd like to CONGRATULATE Retiree3 for being randomly selected as this week's WINNER! Her paper crafting layout is called 'Boys Will Be Boys' and it features some action packed pics!

 boys will be boys by retiree3


Enjoy spending your 1000 A Cherry On Top Points, Retiree3!  We're giving 100 points to everyone else who played along with us.  



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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

It's The Day Before Thanksgiving!

Here in the US, we're preparing for our Thanksgiving Holiday!  It's a time of family, friends, food, laughs - and of course - FOOTBALL!

We wanted to take just a minute to say THANK YOU to all of you who make what we do so special.


Happy Thanksgiving!





From our Gallery:

Thanksgiving Gift Tags by purpleblurple




'Selfie Time' layout by blbabe1234




'Apples Have So Much Ap-peel' layout by Lisa S.




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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Join Us For This Week's Crafty Sketch Challenge



We took a sketch challenge mini-break, but we're back this week with a great one!

Let us know how you would interpret this sketch by uploading your finished project into our Sketch Challenge #107 Gallery!  Everyone who does has a chance at 1000 A Cherry On Top Points.


Hurry!  Be sure to upload your project by 11:59pm Wednesday - November 25th.  We can't wait to see your creations!

Happy (almost) Thanksgiving!

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Thursday, November 12, 2015

November 2015 Guest Designer Challenges




Anne-Marie is our November Guest Designer and she's been busy creating new challenges to inspire you!

Read a little more about Anne-Marie and be sure to check out at least one of her challenges below!












Layout: Bella Bambina - Challenge #1 - COLOR


Option #1: Use black & white photo(s) and use any color scheme you like! Go nuts and make that black & white photo pop!! ?

Option #2: Use color photo(s) and use ONLY white/cream, black/gray, gold, silver, bronze, copper and ONE color of your choice (as many shades of that ONE color you like). You don’t have to use all of these colors but you cannot use more than those listed. No brown/tan/kraft unless that is the ONE color you are choosing.

BONUS entry: Use a word or phrase in a language other than English. If you chose this bonus, please point out where you’ve used the foreign word/phrase and what it means, because I love to learn new things! Bella Bambina means “Beautiful Girl” in Italian. My daughter’s name is Gaelic – Aisling is an Irish language feminine given name meaning "dream" or "vision" and referring to an aisling, a poetic genre that developed during the late 17th and 18th century in Irish language genre poetry. Aisling was not used as a given name before the 20th century.

Rules:
• New creations only – LAYOUTS ONLY for this challenge
• MAY be combined with ONE other challenge that allows it and the Becky Fleck sketch
• Please post in Challenge #1 Gallery by 11/30/15 11:59 PM EST.
• You may enter twice – once for each option



Layout: Squanto's home - Challenge #2 - SKETCH


Your challenge is to use the above sketch.
Bonus entry: Create a little scene (with stickers, rub-ons, die cuts, whatever you have) to support the theme of your layout. I did a Thanksgiving theme but it could be any theme you like!

Example:



  • New creations only – LAYOUTS ONLY for this challenge
  • MAY be combined with ONE other challenge that allows it and the Becky Fleck sketch
  • May not be combined with other November Guest Designer challenges
  • Please post in Challenge #2 Gallery by 11/30/15 11:59 PM EST.
  • Double page layout = 2 entries.  Single page layout (either side) = 1 entry. May enter no more than 4 entries (so any combination of double page, single page up to 4 entries, not including whatever bonuses you might include. So you could do 2 double pages, 2 single pages, no double pages, all single pages etc).  


Layout: Documented - Challenge #3 - SCRAP YOURSELF



  • New creations only – LAYOUTS ONLY for this challenge
  • MAY be combined with ONE other challenge that allows it and the Becky Fleck sketch
  • May not be combined with other November Guest Designer challenges
  • Maximum of 3 entries.
  • Please post in Guest Designer #3 Gallery by 11/30/15 11:59 PM EST.  






  • We hope you're able to get in on one or ALL of this month's Guest Designer Challenges.  Anne-Marie will be randomly selecting one participant from each challenge to win an A Cherry On Top Gift Certificate!  

    Happy Creating!



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    Friday, November 6, 2015

    Where's Charlie and How Do You Play?

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    Have you seen Charlie?

    He's been busy hiding some AMAZING give-aways throughout our site!

    Help us catch Charlie for a chance to win.

    Every day Charlie hides a $10 Gift Certificate somewhere on our website. We only have 90,000+ products to view, so start clicking! If you see him, click on him to grab the GC code. 

    To start us off with a bang, Charlie has ALSO hidden four $50 Gift Certificates especially for this weekend. 

    You'll have to click through the products to find Charlie. He will be hiding under the product description. But don't click too fast! You might miss him.


    If you're one of the lucky winners be sure to leave us a comment. Please review the fine print below.




    THE FINE PRINT: You will need to create an account and be logged in to play. You may only win once every thirty days. If you win a Gift Certificate, you will be emailed the GC code. Gift Certificates do not expire and may not be redeemed for cash. No purchase necessary to play or win; void where prohibited by law. 


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    Wednesday, November 4, 2015

    Help Us Welcome Anne-Marie - Our November 2015 Guest Designer!


    Screenname: scrappinmom99

    First name: Anne-Marie

    Favorite Color: Green. While looking through my gallery I noticed that I seem to like pairing green with pink! J


    My craft supply 'must have': Patterned paper – I just can’t keep away from it! Oh my goodness, I have tons of it! I also love small shiny bling and stickers.

    Guilty pleasure: I consider all of scrapbooking my guilty pleasure lol. I work at home so when I need a break from the computer/sitting at the desk, I go scrap for 5 minutes, 15 minutes, however much time I can get. You know, instead of doing housework! ;) I like to combine my love of needlework with my love of scrapping so sometimes I plan layouts that I can stitch on while watching TV. Aside from scrapping, my guilty pleasures would be all things geeky. I love sci-fi, fantasy, and historical fiction genres in books and TV/movies. I also love when I have time to curl up with a hot cup of tea and a book.



    Layout: Bella Bambina - Challenge #1 - COLOR

     color challenge 1

    some products used:

     


    Layout: Squanto's home - Challenge #2 - SKETCH

     sketch challenge 2

    Sketch to use:




    Congratulations Anne-Marie! Thanks so much for sharing your talents with us this month and we look forward to all of your inspirational paper crafting challenges!  To read Anne-Marie's complete interview and to see more of her projects, click here


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    Wednesday, October 28, 2015

    Congrats To This Week's Crafty Sketch Challenge Winner!

    Here's our randomly selected Sketch 106 Winner!



    Congrats to Mgehrke!  Thanks for submitting this great layout.  It's definitely a dog thing!  We hope you enjoy spending your 1000 ACherryOnTop.com Points!

    Everyone else who participated will receive 100 Points.  Want to see the other fabulous submissions?  Click HERE!



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    Thursday, October 22, 2015

    Join Us For This Week's Paper Craft Sketch Challenge -


    Find crafty inspiration with our Becky Fleck Sketch #106 Challenge!  Show us your take of this design by submitting it to our Sketch #106 Gallery.  You have until Tuesday - October 27, 2015 to post your project.

    Remember, one random participant will receive 1000 A Cherry On Top Points!

    Congrats to Redsonic - our Sketch #105 Winner!


    We hope you enjoy spending those points!  Thanks for sharing your creativity with us - to view other projects from this challenge, click here.


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