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I knew it would be a matter of time before we have another winner!!!

Congrats to “Lady Scrabble” for emailing us the correct answer.

We can’t tell you who won and what the answer is, guess you just have to find out on Friday!!!!

Thank you for everyone’s participation, it was fun watching you ladies think up all these cool names (i might need to use them for future collections).

the game is now officially closed.. BE BACK to check out who the winners are, the name of the collection, and the images on Friday, Sept 4th, at 6pm.. MST!!!!

I can’t believe it’s almost LAUNCH day… 4 more days to go!!!

it seems alot of you are feeling defeated…

but have no fear.. this letter I PROMISE is a good one

today’s letter is:

  You have to get it now…

I will be at my office waiting for your emails…

the letters up to date is:

E – N – E – S – R – E – L – S - T – G

So it’s the end of the month…

which means, it’s the end of another kit…  We hope you enjoyed the cool and hot(?) summer cards the girls made this month.  If we had a choice, we would be making summer fun cards all year round.. but sadly, there’s no such thing… (unless we move to Hawaii)…

So as we end this month, we would like to showcase the cards that weren’t posted this month…  Again, they are equally awesome, but we don’t have enough days in the month to show all of them off lol

So from:

Tinla:

Sheena:

AND just for fun.. I asked Tinla and Sheena to take a pic of the supplies left over from this month’s kits after they completed their projects.

After 8 cards, Tinla had this much left:

After 10 cards, Sheena still has this much left over:

See.. we weren’t kidding that you get your bang for the buck with these kits!  So for those who have the kits, no need to go stingy, keep slapping those layers on till you turn blue!!! lol.

Again, thanks for joining us this month… Make sure you come back tomorrow to see what our new Sept Kits look like… it will definitely bring out  a different side (and style) from the blog team

My girls love the Aqua Amigos.  They love to stamp them, colour them (they come up with crazy colour combos, but thanks to Peggy, I just refered to her colour chart of Tommy for this card…thanks Peg…it was made so easy for me!) and then tell stories about them.  This leads to a lot of questions about the specific animal.  As I don’t have a great knowledge about animals, the web and the library have become wonderful resources to getting their questions answered.  The girls and I though you might like to know alittle bit about Tommy the Turtle;

 Sea turtles are born with the ability to swim

Sea turtles can live anywhere, but the Florida beaches produces the most sea turtles

An adult sea turtle can weigh from 150 to 1000 pounds and can live to 80 years.

Sea turtles have excellent sense of hearing and sense of smell and are colour blind.

Most sea turtles are nomads and travel about 1,300 miles a day

All seven types of sea turtles are “threatened” or “endangered”

 My girls and I have really enjoyed learning more about the Aqua Amigos in their natural habitat.  So there you go…an educational aspect to rubber stamps!  Maybe on that note, I can persuade my husband that I should buy more stamps;)

~stamps; Tommy from Aqua Amigos PWCO, Rubber Soul Love Mother Earth sentiment

~paper; ; August PaperCard Kit (Bazzill and Cosmo Cricket Snorkel collection)

~ink; Brilliance Graphite Black, Versafine Pearlescent Ivy (sentiment), Copics; (body) YG03, G21 and Rangers Inkssentials white gel pen, (shell) E31, E33, Y32, and C1 for shadowing

~accessories; brads from August PaperCard Kit, Nesties scallop rectangle, circle and Labels One, Fiskars Apron Lace edger punch, dimensionals.

P/S; remember there is a special shipping rate for the PWCO stamps; only $3.50 instead of the usual $7.00…yippee!!!

So yesterday, we received the winning answer.. however, because I feel SOOOOOO bad about teasing, and taunting, I decided to keep the contest open.  So if you arent Scrabble Queen, you can still have more chances to win..

Today’s letter is:

Now, this should be pretty easy…

My blackberry and I will be waiting for you…..

the letters up to date is:

E – N – E – S – R – E – L – S - T

So I received an email today and one lucky winner unscrabbled the challenge!!!!

Congrats to Ms. Scrabble Queen!

We aren’t revealing the winner nor the answer  because we want you to keep guessing!

because we got a winner today, we will no longer update the guesses that were emailed to us.. just to make it harder hahahah

And for that, we will continue to post letters up until we find another winner!  So keep going… and remember, email me at peggy@paperworksco.com for your guess, and who knows.. you might be the next winner!!!!!!!

ooooh.. it’s getting near the end!

Can you ladies guess what the name is yet?

Yesterday, I thought I will start of Friday with a bang! and gave you a letter that would probably help you out…

ANd just when you thought there was hope, I decided to take it away again! MUHAHAHHAHAH

today’s letter is brought to you Mikey – (he feels bad for doing the RSTLNE – well, not really lol)

The letter for today is:

the letters up to date is:

E – N – E – S – R – E – L – S

An here are some guesses I received… (red are the new ones since yesterday)

keep guessing!  Amanda and I are off to the Copic Certfication class,… so much to learn, so little time! 

That’s right! You don’t need to check your calendar. It is still August. You did not magically lose September and October! I was simply inspired by the golden yellow and orange washboard papers in the August PaperCard Kit to get a jump-start on my Hallowe’en cards! I was ALSO inspired by the “Haunted Tree Card” on page 46 of Sept/Oct 2009 issue of PaperCrafts magazine.

I love the texture of the Bazzill Washboard paper that was included in the kit – so much that I had to use it as a base for this card. The image panel uses the Golden Smoothies paper. To create the black border around the image panel, I simply held a piece of scrap paper 1/4 inch from the edge and sponged black ink quite heavily all around. I then stamped the Weeping Willow tree on the image panel before I masked out a circle for the moon and lightly sponged with black ink. To give a little “texture” to the lunar surface, I then sponged some Autumn Terracotta over the moon, giving it a eerie, harvest moon glow. I also popped up the image panel on dimensional foam tape (my must have on pretty much EVERY card).

To highlight the golden ribbon I wanted to incorporate in this card, I cut a strip of the same Golden Smoothies paper 1/2 inch wide and sponged black ink before attaching the ribbon.

So, overall this was an easy peasy card I just had to do to show the versatility of the papers included in the August PaperCard Kit! I’m looking forward to checking out more of YOUR creations in the gallery using this gorgeous kit!

Card Details:

Finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches (tent-fold)

Papers and Ribbon from the August PaperCard Kit: Bazzill Orange Washboard and Golden Yellow Smoothies, Golden Grosgrain, brad used to anchor the bow.

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, CTMH Autumn Terracotta

Stamps: Cornish Heritage Farms Weeping Willow, CTMH October Word Puzzle (Trick-or-Treat Sentiment)

Tools: Cuttlebug, Spellbinders Nestabilities Circles

Extras: Dimensional Foam Tape

Sorry for the delay! 

This challenge is really getting to all of you eh?  I received 3 emails this morning asking me why I haven’t post yet. lol

Since you ladies have all been so anxious, I thought I would stop the teasing for today, and actually give you a letter that you haven’t seen yet.. (yes, no more E’s) lol.

today’s letter is brought to you by Lucas the Lion, from the Safari Collection… check him out here: http://paperworksco.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1759

Today’s letter is:

the letters up to date is:

E – N – E – S – R – E – L

And it’s great to see more people participating!  Here are some guesses I received… (red are the new ones since yesterday)