P. Kelly Smith
Welcome to Magazine Monday and day one of our exciting Card Creations: Favorite Occasions Week!
So glad you could join us as we celebrate our latest and greatest special issue, Card Creations: Favorite Occasions, Vol. 2! With over 150 ideas for the top five favorite card making occasions, we’ll spend the next five days learning why you love making Birthday, Thank You, Congratulations, Love and All Occasion cards more than any other kind. Sound like fun?
We’re also partnering with the Moxie Fab World
blog for a whole week of promotion. Between the two sites, we’ll be spotlighting projects, hosting fun challenges and giving away some spectacular prizes.
Click on the cover image to buy your copy today!
Today we’re spotlighting the talented Maile Belles, who has 10 cards in Card Creations: Favorite Occasions, Vol. 2! With her signature style always present, her Celebrate With a Rose Card even made the cover. Wouldn’t you love to know how she keeps coming up with one amazing design after another?
Well, here’s your chance…Without further ado, let’s get to know Miss Maile!
Maile Belles
1. What is your favorite occasion to paper craft and why?
All Occasion because it allows you the most creative freedom.
2. What is your most difficult paper crafting challenge?
Creating a shabby/vintage design. I love the look…how textured and detailed these amazing designs can be, but I could never pull it off myself.
3. What is your favorite paper crafting supply?
My stamps! I am a true stamper at heart, and I love it.
Maile's You You You Card can be found on p. 34.
4. How would you describe your style?
Clean and simple.
Maile's Many Thanks Card can be found on p. 77.
5. What is one thing people would be surprised to know about you?
My first name is Hawaiian and pronounced “My-Lee”. My mother was born and raised in Hawaii, but I have never been there myself (not yet anyways).
6. How do you keep yourself organized when it comes to submission deadlines?
I mark the deadline on my calendar and print out the submission call, which I keep posted at my desk. This way, whenever I sit down to create, I can glance over the list and quickly squeeze in a card or two. Then into a safe place they go until the call has ended.
7. Name three Paper Crafts designers whose styles you like, and tell me why they appeal to you.
It wasn’t easy to pick only three, but here you go:
- Jessica Witty – Love her fresh, clean and hip style. Her cards are always so fashion forward.
- Dawn McVey – She always manages to pull off a clean look with the perfect vintage touches.
- Lisa Johnson - I seem to relate to her designs the most, and I love her stamping style.
8. Do you have any advice for someone who’s never been published or who wants to try submitting for the first time?
- Don’t be afraid to display your own unique personality through your designs.
- Try new ideas that will help your creations stand out from the rest of the submissions.
- The more projects you submit, the greater your chances are of having one or more picked up.
9. Out of your 10 cards in Card Creations: Favorite Occasions, which is your favorite and why?
My Butterfly Thoughts Card. It’s a super simple yet effective design that uses only a few basic supplies.
Maile's Butterfly Thoughts Card can be found on p. 19.
10. Do you have a blog or online gallery? If so, please provide the URL.
You can find me at Simply Stamped. Please stop by for a visit!
Thanks, Maile! Since Maile is on the Papertrey Ink Design Team, she scored some fun prizes for today’s giveaway. Leave a comment and I’ll pick one random winner to take home Papertrey’s All About You stamp set, their Fillable Frames #4 Die AND a copy of Card Creations: Favorite Occasions, Vol. 2. All comments must be received by midnight (MST) on Tuesday, Nov. 30.
One lucky winner will take home this All About You stamp set!
Happy Monday!
Kelly
P.S. You have until midnight (MST) TONIGHT to upload your entries for our November Gallery Challenge. We’re looking for your most festive holiday cards. Click HERE
to upload your merry submissions!
P.P.S. It’s time to announce the three winners from my Countdown to Card Creations: Favorite Occasions Week post!
1. Anna D. (Nov. 26, 6:04 p.m.)
2. Julie (Nov. 27, 6:24 a.m.)
3. Sandra M. (Nov. 28, 8:51 p.m.)
Congrats, winners! I’ll be e-mailing you shortly to discuss your prizes and get your mailing addresses. Thanks to all who left comments!
Maile use of the CAS technique is very expressive
What a super collection of bright, clean, and simple cards!! Maile’s style ROCKS!!
I’ve admired her style for a while. Lovely.
I love Maile’s cards…I’m a big fan!!!
Maile’s cards are always special. Love those shown here today!!!
Love her name and style!
I always find inspiration when I look at Maile’s blog! She has a great sense of style…..
I’m amazed at how creative your designers are and how they continuously come up with new concepts and ideas. Always, always inspiring!
great cards Maile…love them.
I was wondering who she was… I saw her name a lot in the last couple of mags I’ve purchased. Nice clean and neat style, I make a mess out of all my cards!
Maile’s sense of style is so clean and yet whimsical. It was so great learning more about her and seeing some of her lovely work :O)
I am a big fan of the clean and simple style and I admire the way Maile executes CAS cards with an innovative twist that makes you look twice.
I love Maile’s style. And I love that stamp set! Thanks for the chance to win!!
Beautiful cards! Way to go, Maile!
Fun to get to know such a talented designer! Love her clean and simple style and use of fun colors!
Maile’s cards are super. I especially love the Many Thanks card you showcased here. The clean & simple lines of the style make it easy to use it for other occasions. I would so love to win the wonderful prize.
I love the cards and enjoyed learning about Maile. I thought her response to the submission questions was very insiteful. Thank you for the chance to win these great prizes.
Love everything about Maile’s cards! Great inspiration!!
Love Maile’s clean style and designs – always so fresh!
I also love PTI’s designs! Great giveaway – thanks for the chance!
Love PTI! Congrats on having so many cards in one issue, awesome!
I love Maile and I love Papertrey Ink!
I love “borrowing” ideas from great designers like this. Thanks for sharing.
Love Maile’s style. Thanks for sharing her interview.
Janet
I Love Maile’s work- very pretty! Also love the pretty stamp set- fingers are crossed!
Love these cards. I love the buttons on them. Great stamp set!!
I love Maile’s style.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Such pretty simple cards, but very beautiful and straight to the point, lovely! TFS
I just love your style, Maile! Thanks for sharing a little about yourself for us today. Great little giveaway, too.
I always love Maile’s cards and I look forward to seeing what she does next. Thanks for letting us get to know a little more about her. It’s always fun to know a little more about the people you admire and read about all the time. Thanks also for the chance to win such a great prize, like always!
OMG, Maile’s cards are so inspring. I always have to fill up every space on my cards and Maile’s cards are perfect! PTI is on my fave list of sites to shop and get ideas. Would just love to win all this good, good stuff. What a perfect Xmas present. Thanks a MILLION!!
Love the cards. Thanks for sharing!
I just love the simplicity of Maile’s cards. I need to challenge myself to try this style more often. I have a tendacy to go crazy with putting so much stuff on the front of my card. I love today’s stamp giveaway. This stamp set could be used very often. Thanks for the chance to win.
Love Love Love Maile’s cards – my kind of style!!! would love to win the PTI stamp set!!!
Wow, 10 cards?! I can see why, too!!! I love, love, love the You, You, You card!!!! Looooove it!!! I really like the simplicity of her designs. All the cards showcased are totally faboo!!!
thanks, too, for the chance to win!
Maile is a fabulous designer…the You You You card is great.
I’m a longtime Maile fan!
Beautiful cards and a fab giveaway!!
Maile’s blog is one of my daily stops. Her cards are always clean, simple and most importantly beautiful!
Maile is one of my Favorite designers! I LOVE her clean style!
Love Maile’s style!!!
Thanks for the chance at some fab PTI!!
So much fun to get to know Maile a little more! She has such a great, identifiable style!
Such a fun giveaway. Thanks for the chance to win!
That was fun learning a little more about Maile. Awesome give-away….thanks for the opportunity.
Love flipping thru Paper Crafts and seeing her beautiful work! So inspiring!
Very cool. I have a couple of those cards bookmarked in the magazine. The YOU YOU YOU one is one of my faves!
I have been seeing Maile’s creations for quite some time and am glad to know how to pronounce her name now!!
Love her use of the buttons on that kraft card!
Oh I LOVE these cards! Thanks for a chance to win such a nice prize =)
Those cards are adorable! The You You You card is great!
Thanks for featuring Maile, I have been a fan of her cards forever! It’ s nice to know a little bit more about her and her stamping style.
Another fan here. I really like the you, you, you card as well as the butterfly card. I struggle with CAS cards, so Maile is an inspiration to step out of my comfort zone.
Maile’s cards are always some of my favorites during Papertrey Ink’s releases. And I think she’s wrong – if she wanted to create shabby chic, I KNOW she could! Thanks for featuring her!