October Afternoon

Layout Inspiration

When design team member Vivian Masket sent in this cutie pie layout using our Ducks in a Row collection, we knew it would be a great feature for our blog!  Look at those stars!!  How sweet is this!?  Great job, Vivian!

Reader Spotlight: Charity Hassel

So, as we were surfing the 'net, looking for awesome projects using October Afternoon products, we spotted this super cute OA layout over on Charity Hassel's blog... and we thought you might like to see it as well.  Isn't it just adorable?!  It looks like she mixed up some of the Cherry Hill with the Ducks in a Row...even added some of the die-cuts.  Very cute, Charity!  Thanks for sharing it with us and our blog readers!

Want us to feature your work here?  Keep posting it and send us the links!  We love seeing the fab projects you all create!!  And, who knows...you may even be asked to guest design for us!  

Winners!!

Thanks to everyone who added a link to our blog on their blogs!!  We {heart} you!!!  The two winners of the road map paper packs are:

I put your blog link in my "where I hang out" list! it's on the right side of my blog under all the pics!
thanks for the chance :)
http://mysimplelittleblog.blogspot.com/
Posted by: CoreyW | June 22, 2009 at 09:23 AM

oooooh how I'd love to win that!!! I've had your blog link on my blog for quite a while now (does that count for extra??) lol  thanks for the giveaway!!
www.meandmyscraps.blogspot.com
Posted by: Michelle W. | June 19, 2009 at 07:09 PM

Congrats Corey and Michelle!!  Please send your mailing info to [email protected] and we'll get your paper pads right out to you!!!

Oh Baby!

Design team member Iris Babao Uy has been busy making some layouts of her youngest daughter.  She used a great mix of various OA collections.  Aren't they fun?!

Layout inspiration!

Happy Friday everyone!  Design team member Tara Pollard Pakosta loves to mix up patterns!  Check out this layout she recently made!

She used some Cherry Hill (cheries, striped, birds, apples & grey dots) with some DUcks in A Row (pink dot & flower).

She just cut the patterned papers and photos into uneven squares and laid them into a block pattern on her page. Then, she added a mixture of photos from the month of May. She also used Flower Stamps from the Cherry Hill collection!

Tara does such a great job of mixing things up!  Thanks, Tara!!

Father's Day

Father's day is Sunday...and, If you are anything like design team member Angie Hagist, you *still* need to make a father's day card for your dad or your kids' dad.  Well, actually, she made her's this morning (whew!)...and she wants to share it with any of you who still need to make one!

It's a simple design - so it only took her a few minutes to put it together!  She used the Road Map 8x8 paper pad, die cuts (which she colored with markers), label stickers, and schoolroom letter stickers.  So, consider this your official reminder that you need to make your Dad a card!!

And, I know it won't arrive in time to make your dad a card with it, but you can still win one of these Road Map paper pads!  Read about it here!

Looking for Road Map??

We've been getting lots of questions on this so... we thought it would be a good idea to let you all know that the Road Map collection started shipping a couple of weeks ago - and more boxes are still being packed and shipped every day (things go out in the order in which they were received)...so if you're waiting on it - or looking for it, you should see it very soon!

But, how would you like to win a Road Map 8x8 paper pad?  I have two of them to give away!!  Here is what you have to do - just add a link to our blog on your blog.  Then, give us a link to your blog in the comments section so we can see.  (We wanted to see your blog, anyway!)  We'll pick two winners next Friday, June 26th to receive a Road Map paper pad!  Easy peasy, right?

An Oldie...but goodie!

Have you checked out the DT galleries posted over there on the right hand side of our blog?  Well, if not, maybe you should take a look - there are some great projects featuring all of our paper collections.  Take this mini-book by design team member Natasja Verbeek.  She used papers, die cuts, stamps, and rubons from a mix of our collections.  It's just fantastc!  

Have you made a mini-book with our products?  Post a link in the comments section so we can see it!  We may even ask you if we can feature here it on our blog!

Wild Card Winners!!

Here are the three winners of the wild card sets! 

I love the Wild Cards! Fabulous!!
Posted by: Leslie Westermeier | June 05, 2009 at 09:35 AM

What great ideas! I cant wait to try them myself.
Posted by: Michelle (from KY) | June 08, 2009 at 10:49 AM

These cards are so very beautiful. So much inspiration for us.
Posted by: Cathy In Chicago | June 07, 2009 at 05:43 PM

Congrats, Ladies!!  Please send your mailing addresses to [email protected] and we will get your packages set out to you shortly!  Please note:  our design team coordinator (who checks the emails) is out of town until Monday, so she may not be able to respond until then.

OA Guest Designers...

Aren't those wild cards fun??  We love them - and it looks like you guys do too!  That's great!  You still have two more days to leave a comment on this post to be entered to win a set of them!  So, head over and do that before it's too late!!

Wouldn't it be fun to design pages and projects for October Afternoon?  Well, we think it would be fun to start having guest designers!  Our design team members will be on the lookout for awesome pages, projects, and cards featuring products by October Afternoon.  We'll look through online galleries, blogs, our own blog's challenge submissions (hint - this is the best way to be seen!!) ...anywhere!  Every month, we'll pick someone who we've spotted and send them some goodies.  Then, we'll feature them and their designs on our blog!!!  Isn't that fun?

So, keep posting your OA projects...and playing along with our challenges!  We may choose YOU to be our next guest designer!!!