Registration open for {#3UP} end of Semester 1, 2014 AND ... NEW {HOT PICKS}

Hi everyone, Leandra here

What a great week we have had yet again, this semester is rolling along beautifully. We have worked hard to bring you a wide variety of talent this year, and I'm sure you'll agree, Pam, Ellen, Julie-Ann and Clare have each got such different strengths that there really is something for everyone to enjoy. Combined with the wonderful guest posts in the latter part of each week, the blog has been such a wealth of valuable crafty ideas to learn and try out many new things.

It is now time to get organised for 3UP at the end of this semester. What is #3UP?  If you are a new follower to the PA blog, you can ready about our first 3UP here, but in short, as the semester comes to a conclusion at the end of the 4 month period, we end up with a spare week before the new semester commences in May. 

This is the perfect opportunity for us to feature the work of you, our blog, twitter and face-book followers, and for you to show us how you prefer to work with our newest releases of 2014.

Each time the 3UP format changes a little depending on my latest brainwave. We have had stamp themes, colour combos, surprise envelopes, and in August 2013, to celebrate our 10th year in business we featured all the PA stamps collections of the last 10 years.

This time you can apply to work with ONE of the brand new product collections released in February 2014 from the list below. To register for 3UP, please read and follow the instructions below carefully. From those who apply, for each 3UP night we will draw 3 names from the hat to contribute that evening on the PA blog at 7pm London time.

You can register for ONE of the following themes...

Sunday April 27: Eclectica {Lin Brown} Stamps & Products 

Featuring ELB05/06/07/08/09, ELB stencils, Limited Edition ELB Paints, ELB dies

Monday April 28: Eclectica {Darcy} Stamps

Featuring EDY05/06/07/08, EM01-EM08

Tuesday April 29: Chatsworth Paper Collection

Featuring Chatsworth Papers primarily and any other PA products of your choice to compliment as appropriate eg, Older Hot Picks, Vintage Ink/Dog, Minis, Frescos, stencils etc to create any paper style project, eg Scrapbook Layout, mini book, 3D construction etc

Wednesday 30: JOFY Stamps & Products

Featuring JOFY21/22/23/24, JM33-JM40, Limited Edition JOFY Paints , JOFY Stencils

Thursday May 1: Lynne Perrella Stamps

Featuring LPC026/027/028/029/030

Friday May 2: Eclectica {Ellen Vargo} Stamp Collection

Featuring EEV01/02/03/04 

Saturday May 3: New Hot Picks (revealed below)

Featuring HP1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306

To help you complete the 3UP task, we will send you free...

Either an A5 stamp of your choice from the codes listed above, or 3 minis from the codes listed above. We expect the focus of your post to be using those new products, but of course you are not limited to using just the stamp we send you, you are welcome to use any of the other codes listed above in your post.

For the post itself we will require...

1. A sentence of introduction about yourself to possibly include such things as: how long you have been crafting, your day job, your twitter, blog, pinterest etc contacts, something about yourself (past or current) that we probably might not know.

2. A picture of the finished project (sharp, taken in good light, in focus)

3. A picture of the project mid-construction to show a technique that you incorporated into the piece. (sharp, taken in good light, in focus)

4. 2 paragraphs explaining generally and succinctly how you created your piece, and in particular explaining the technique shown in the point 3 picture.

The deadline for 3UP applications is... 

5 pm Saturday March 22, 2014 (London time)

If your name is drawn out of the hat, you will be advised directly by email, and your choice confirmed. Your identity will be kept top secret until the night your post goes live. You are encouraged to post on your own blog that night at 7:15 pm a snippet picture of your project and link back to the actual PA blog post where your item is fully featured so people can see the rest of the 3Ups for that evening.

For those 21 people selected, the deadline to send actual project submissions is...

9pm, Sunday 13th April  (London time) 

Send your projects via email to 3up@paperartsy.co.uk

How to apply to go in the 3UP draw...

Please email the following info to 3up@paperartsy.co.uk

1. The night/ collection you wish to apply for.

2. Your full name (please advise of any privacy issues if you have an alternative 'handle' you prefer us to identify you with, if selected, in the public post).

3. Your blog, twitter, pinterest (if applicable) contact details.

3. Your postal address and contact phone numbers.

4. The code of the stamp set or 3 minis you prefer we send you free.

So don't be shy, just jump right in and make your mind up to get involved, and go in the draw to have your crafty skills featured on the PA blog in the next #3UP celebration. We love to see what you do with our stamps, you guys are wonderful! We shall be waiting for your emails with great excitement! Good luck!

New {Hot Picks} available late April 2014

Lastly, I guess you might like to see the newest Hot Picks that will be coming soon to a shop near you. These stamps are not yet in production here at HQ, but we expect to commence shipping them to our stockists  mid to late April. 

Enjoy the rest of your weekend, and don't forget, you still have until tomorrow night to join in with this week's challenge. 

Take care, Leandra xx