Let Your Dreams Soar...and Possibly Win $100 in Stamps! Plus Icebergs Have Arrived!

Update: Anne Yeh is the winner of the challenge! Thank you to all who entered. The grand prize winners will be announced on the OBP blog so keep an eye there - anyone who entered before the deadline has been entered into that drawing too :)

Hello and happy Earth Day!
To celebrate Earth Day, Odd Bird Planet is having a full day of challenges from 6am PDT - Midnight (Pacific Daylight Time, to see what that is in your part of the world click *here*). I am kicking off the challenges with a Brown Paper Bag Challenge!

To Participate: make a card or other paper crafts project that uses some brown paper bags you have laying around (i.e. grocery store bags, lunch bags, anything that re-uses some household brown paper).

My Card Details:  I cut up an old brown paper lunch bag, crinkled it up by rolling it into a ball, unfolded it, and ran my Creamy Caramel Ink (by Stampin' Up!) and Chocolate Ink (by Ancient Page) over the wrinkles to create textured, rolling hills.

I sanded up some Core'dinations cardstock (a very green company, as can be seen in my Craft Critique article here) to create a frame for my little nature scene, as well as the Kelly's Tree and the ocean waves (created with Michelle's Scroll stamp). The  Hot Air Balloon is also stamped onto sanded Core'dinations. I used Copics right onto the colored textured cardstocks to color the Let Your Dreams Soar sentiment and the tree bark - you can still see the waffle pattern through the color, which I like. The only non textured cardstock is the Cloud stamp, which I edged up with a bit of blue ink on a foam wedge after cutting out. All stamps are by Odd Bird Planet.

Now let's see your brown paper bagged work of art! Here's what you could win:

* Challenge Winners Will Receive a Limited Edition Wood Mounted Al on Earth Stamp *or* an Earth Stamp

Each of the blog challenge participants (including challenge winners) will be entered into a Grand Prize drawing:
o One winner will receive $100 in Odd Bird Planet stamps
o One winner will receive $50 in Odd Bird Planet stamps
o Five winners will receive a 25% discount coupon when they place a Odd Bird Planet order

To Enter the Brown Paper Bag Challenge:

1. Create a NEW card or other project that uses brown paper bags. While we would love you to showcase your Odd Bird Planet stamps, this is not a requirement. If you do not have any, that's okay! Play anyway!

2. Upload a photo of your work to your blog. If you do not have a blog you can upload your card to the new Odd Bird Planet Forum located at PaperCraftPlanet. For extra fun, upload to both :)

3. Post a link to your card on THIS post on my blog. For the other challenges, you will need to post on the appropriate DT member's blog. This is important, as winners will be chosen from DT blog posts.

4. Spread the word about the Earth Day Extravaganza! Okay this is not a requirement, but it would be awfully nice of you.

You have only 24 hours after the last challenge is posted to finish and post a link to your card on my blog (this post); the challenge ends at midnight on Thursday, April 23rd PDT (please note my blog's time stamp is set to Newfoundland Standard Time).

A challenge winner will randomly be selected from posts on my blog who have successfully completed the challenge; all challenge participants will be entered into the Grand Prize drawings.

You may enter each challenge as many times as you wish, but each entry must be a new card and new post made for each challenge alone. Please do not combine challenges.

I will post the winner here on Friday the 24th. Winners need to provide name, email address and phone to have their goodies shipped (all this info is required by the shipping company).

I am online watching this post from 6:00am PST - 10:30 PDT - if you have any questions, or just want to chat, go ahead and post here too! I will respond with an answer back in the post. I will also be hanging out at the OBP Forum. Let's have some fun!

Here's the schedule (all times are PDT), challenge hostesses, and their blog urls:

6:00 am – 9:00 am
Rina, Sparkle, Suzy, Godelieve

9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Nicole, Tracy, Dianne       

12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Kim, Kathi, Tanis

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Beth, Marnie, Teresa

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Laura

9:00 pm – 12:00 am
Debbie

 

I will leave you with a couple of photos taken yesterday as we scouted out a cottage for our Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Retreat in May. So beautiful. Here is a view from the cottage, which is located in the Irish Loop. The local accent is extra Irish here, I could barely keep up lol.

This is a view from the porthole window inside the chalet.

Here is the first iceberg (well, the first seen by me) of the season. It takes about 3 years for these guys to break off from Greenland and float here. Each April they begin to arrive, get trapped in our harbors, and slowly melt. What is amazing is that it is 90% BIGGER underneath the water. Yep, that is just the tip of the iceberg. It was really massive, my photo was taken several miles away.

What do Newfoundlanders do with icebergs? Why, make Vodka! And water...two big industries here.

Thanks for stoppin' by! Good luck, and good inkin'!

Comments

[Catherine]

Here is a link to my card :

www.mystampinggrounds.blogspot.com

Hugs,
catherine
catlevy@eastlink.ca

[Conniecrafter]

Fun and such a creative use for your brown paper bag :)
The scenery outside the cottage is just Beautiful, breath taking for sure, neat to hear the story of the icebergs too, never knew that.

[Godelieve]

Your card is fabulous Suzy!!
Here's a little card in a bag I made:
http://stampingmathilda.blogspot.com/2009/04/suzys-brown-paper-bag-challenge.html

[Heather]

This was so much fun thanks for the challange. Here is my card...
http://heatherraborn.blogspot.com/2009/04/happy-earth-day.html

[Rina Koibuchi]

Hi, Suzy:)
Your card is great!! Love it!
and photo of iceberg....wow, wow, WOW!! so FUN!

here is my trial:
http://rinastampa53.blogspot.com/2009/04/suzys-brown-paper-bag-challenge.html

thanks!

[Tifany D.]

Here's a link to my card...
http://inkblotsbytrd.blogspot.com/2009/04/hello.html

[Norma Kennedy]

Beautiful card and Pictures Suzy !

[Anne Yeh]

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!wmUYETCTGx5c0X4DKByP/article?mid=250&prev=252&next=240

[Dana]

Hey Suzy! Found your site through Karrie Baker aka Stamp girl. I'm putting you in my favs:) Sure wish I had time to participate in the challenge but payroll is calling.

[Christine]

Your card is awesome. I love the sentiment and the way it looks 3D. Great use of the paper bag. What a fun card. I love your pictures of the icebergs. What a cool thing to see. I would love to see one up close and personal sometime.
xoxo, Christine

[Nicole Maki]

I just love your card! It's gorgeous!

I hope you don't mind, I snagged your contest details and added them to my blog post. You explained things with such excellence :-)

[Alexandra Hobson]

WOW! Suzy, that retreat looks and sounds fabulous - those pics are gorgeous!!! And, your card is AMAZING, I love this!! I hope I can find time to play, I love creating with paperbags! *STAMPIN HUGS* Alex

[Tracy Durcan]

Suzy, your card is wonderful!! :)

[Carisa]

Wow, those pictures are gorgeous!!! I wish I felt better to participate today - sounds like a ton of fun!