Hey everyone!
I’m joining today in the PC&S Magazine Swan Song bloghop to celebrate the magazine and wish the PC&S family a fond farewell. We all have so many beautiful memories of the magazine that this is a sad moment indeed. Personally for me a very sad one 😦
First a quick hop check. You should have come here from Jocelyn’s blog. You can find the full hop list linked below.
I’m going to take a few minutes to talk about my experience with the magazine. After having other craft achievements under my belt (DTs, some stamp illustrating), I wanted to get published. I didn’t know then that you got compensated for it. I just wanted to be published for the prestige!
First few tries – no luck. Then for the upcoming Simple Scrapbooks issue I submitted one of my pocket scrapbooking layouts and IT GOT ACCEPTED!!! Getting the email from Susan is the best thrill ever! After that I had another card published in the November issue this year. I blogged about that here.
The magazine always inspired me with great new ideas. It challenged my creativity and encouraged me to think outside the box. Overall, I think it was a big motivation for the crafting community. Sad to see them close their doors!
For my post today I am showing a card I created with Yainea for the Creative Remix challenge in the Card Creations 13 call of PC&S. Our cards weren’t selected but we didn’t blog about them before because they didn’t fit any other occasion. For this post they really fell in place I feel because this is one of the things I loved about the magazine – the chance to connect with crafters all over the world.
Here is my card…
And here is a composite photo of mine and Yainea’s cards. We used the same 2 stamp sets, Avery Elle Storybook and Lawn Fawn Woodgrain Backdrops. Yainea used the LF set as the foreground and the AE set as the background. I used them the other way round.
Thats my wish to the PC&S family – make a wish because wishes do come true! Especially when you made so many crafters’ wishes come true!
Next on the hop list is Hero Arts! Enjoy the hop and don’t forget to leave sweet comment notes for the PC&S family as you hop!
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adorable card and sweet post..
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Great cards for such a sad time, I will miss this magazine!!
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Love your post Chaitali…awesome card…love seeing it next to Yainea’s♡
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Your card and post are so sweet! Love!
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Your cards are so cute and lovely.
All these magazines have provided a lot of inspiration to me and it is sad that they are stopping publication. I know that this hobby of ours will never go away and we all as crafters should do our best in supporting this craft.
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What sweet and lovely post, Chaitali! Love your precious card too!
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Lovely projects!
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Such a beautiful card….love to see how you both used the same stamps & created something so different! Lovely tribute to PC&S!!
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Thank you for a sharing a beautiful card.
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Such fabulous cards, and heartfelt post, Chiatali!
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Both cards are absolutely fabulous!!
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Cute card
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That Remix was such a great idea! I love your card- (& Yainea’s too)- you’re right- it’s brilliant connecting with other crafters x
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So sweet. Thank you for sharing this.
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so cute! love em!
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Cute cards.. it is so amazing that you can use the same stamps and come up with such different cards. It is sad to see them close…I feel like I am losing a friend.
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Adorable!!!
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Very sweet post and lovely card!
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Your remix cards were fabulous !
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Wow, what a lovely card and sweet post!
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This is beautiful! I love the flowers and hearts!
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Your cards are sooo lovely!! I am so happy that we go to work together designing illustrations and that your dream came true!! Hugs friend!
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Your card is absolutely adorable! I love the woodgrain.
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Very sweet card!!
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Awe. Love that sweet deer against the woodgrain and embellished with gold hearts and blue flowers! So precious!!
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Such pretty cards!!
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The deer is so dang cute Chaitali! Yes it is the prestge of being published, what an awesome feeling. Have a wonderful weekend.
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Love your re-mix card with Yainea! It is perfect to share it for the hop! You are so right about PC &S! I am missing it terribly already! HUGS!
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What an adorable card, Chaitali!
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Love your card!! Thanks for being a part of this hop.
StacyC
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Such cute cards…So sorry about PC&S.
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