PaperGrace is Givin' STUFF away!

It's her birthday and we ALL get to party!!

She went to CHA, she brought back goodies...and she's giving them away!

Go NOW!

GO see the PRETTY!

You can't win if you don't visit and enter....

While you're there...go see the beautimous things she makes.

Go here: PaperGrace Designs

Colour Challenge - Curry Chicken

Colour Challenge 2 now being served! May I entice you with a little Curry Chicken?

Let me tell you how this challenge came to be...I was folding laundry and my eyeballs were drawn to this tea towel. The designs are crisp and clean and interesting. The details are excellent. The contrast of the colours is delicious. I like contrast (I miss those nautical themed clothes from the late 80's) white, blue...but this my friends...has a kick of red and Crushed Curry. BAM! <---ha!


Your colours for the Curry Chicken challenge are: Real Red, Night of Navy, Crushed Curry and Whisper White.

You MUST use these colours...and from there...there are no rules. Pick your own theme or use the collage I designed with My Digital Studio as inspiration. You can go country kitchen like the tea towel, go nautical...you decide! Edited to add: If you do not have the Stampin' Up! colours of cardstock, please feel free to substitute any colour of cardstock or papers that you have that come CLOSEST to the colours listed!

I'll leave the challenge open until February 10th, that gives us 2 weeks to create, inspire one another and above all...to have FUN! Don't forget...I'll also do a roundup photo when the challenge is closed, to show-off all of your creative works!

Use the Mr. Linky widget below and submit the link that takes us DIRECTLY to your project (not your blog in general, or your photostream in general, but copy and paste the exact link to your submission). That way we don't have to hunt around and 'guess' which one is your submission...we just get to oooh and ahh over the pretty that you created! Thanky!

1. leslie (crook) 2. Allison 3. leslie (crook) 4. leslie (crook)

5. Sharon 6. paperbatty 7. Stanza 8. Stanza

9. FieryCanuck 10. nicolebstampin 11. Kerri

Powered by... Mister Linky's Magical Widgets.

This is a papercrafting blog, but if you've used the colour challenge to create...say...cupcakes, jewelry, fabric or other art...please leave us a comment and share! We love to celebrate creativity at PrairiePaperie!

Now, go make something...don't be a Chicken!

Cupcakes and Inspiration

Wow, the Chocolate Orange challenge REALLY went off with a bang!

I love when my visitors link back to my blog and leave me comments, and I love trying to visit each and every one of you and reading about your creative process.

I love chocolate. I love orange.

Check out this bad boy... CHOCOLATE ORANGE CUPPY CAKE! YES! SQUEEE!!!

THIS, is WHAT I'm talking 'bout folks...look at all that fluffy whippy icing. *glarrrgle drool*


So I just had to do this little featurette because I'm pleased as punch that someone took my colour challenge and translated it into cooking.

Just feeling a little self-love and a little (okay a lot) of love for the cupcake.

Please go visit Yellow Pineapple HERE and enjoy, like I did. Thank YOU.

Chocolate Orange Challenge Roundup

Here is the gorgeous display of beauty that is the Chocolate Orange Colour Challenge roundup!

Drumroll and applause please....You all created this!

Together you pushed your creative limits, used colours you weren't fond of together (I heard this one alot), you took a risk and posted for your very first time, or you did a challenge for your very first time, you thought outside of the box, you did something different, and all together you made a beautiful collection of art.

I celebrate all of your talents. I enjoyed each and every creation. Thank you for sharing yourselves and your talents with me.

You all helped me with my theme word of the year. BEGIN. Guess what: I learned how to use mr.linky and I learned to do a little funky collage with My Digital Studio to showcase your art, and I enjoyed this so much that I'd like to do 1-2 challenges per month.

Many of you have said that the 10 days (even 2 weeks) was a pleasurable deadline, no pressure and very rewarding to get to bring out your new/old or repurposed supplies. This is great feedback and I will keep the same timeframes for future challenges. My eyeballs have been all over a few things in the house for another challenge....so please stay tuned and check back in the next few days! Invite your friends to come and play as well!

Thank you for leaving comments and supporting each other. (If I knew how to put a hotspot or link over each picture so you could all click on each picture to get to one another's blogs...you know I would do it.) In the meantime, I will have to ask you visit each other by clicking on the links below.

PS. I was only going to pick 10, but 11 of you submitted, and we have 12 cards. That would be like making me pick only two of my 3 children. IMPOSSIBLE. So I picked all of you. Nicole B. who had posted two cards for the challenge, I pick them both! I loved it all. So go visit each other, tell each other how amazing you are and keep posting!

Just a quick summary by name (and as appearing left to right in the above collage):

1. PaperGrace (Lisa)


2. Sue F


3. Kerri R


4. Nicole B


5. Jillville


6. Kabluey (Ee)


7. Nicole B


8. CrookedStamper (Leslie)


9. LoriAnne.


10. Mary Dawn


11. Allison


12. Sharon W