Challenge #51–June 11, 2011

Hello and welcome to the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge blog. We are pleased to bring you inspiration and enthusiasm for Waltzingmouse Stamps each Saturday.  We hope that you will find our samples so inspiring that you will play along with us.

Before we begin the challenge for this week, we are happy to announce the Top Mouse awards from last week’s Sketch Challenge.

This week’s Top Mouse awards go to:

Heather Sparey

Jill G

Cassandra

These are amazing projects! Well done, ladies! Please send me an e-mail at lynn.mercurio@gmail.com and I will provide you with the HTML code for your Top Mouse Blinkie.  We hope you will display it proudly.

Each week we randomly select a lucky winner from all the participants to receive a complimentary Waltzingmouse Stamps set of choice. This week the randomly chosen winner is:

Laurie Marmon

Congratulations Laurie.  Please e-mail Claire at  Claire.brennan1@ntlworld.com. Provide her with your contact information and set choice, and she will get your selected set on its way to you.

And now, if you’re ready – get set – let’s party!  Here is another fun sketch created by our own Design Team Member, Belinda Chang Languer.

To help motivate you, take a peek at the wonderful projects the Mischief Makers have for you today:

Clare Buswell

Edna Morrisedie

Jean Martin

Jen Cuthbertson

Kelly Schirmer

Lenet Mos

Savitri Wilder

....and projects from some of our WMS Design Team members:

Anya Schrier

Belinda Chang Languer

Julia Aston

Are you ready to get started on your own creation?  Break out your card stock and stamps and create a card, tag, scrapbook layout or any paper project - just remember to include the basic sketch in your design and we ask that you use at lease one WMS image on your submission. We reserve the right to remove entries that do not comply with the guidelines as it is not fair to the players who do. Including WMS images on your project adds to the creative inspiration we gain each week from your wonderful creations.

Remember to post your projects using Inlinkz no later than 12:00 noon Central time on Friday, June 17, 2011. We will announce the winner of the stamp set and the new Top Mouse Award winners when the new sketch challenge is posted on Saturday, June 18th. Please use a direct link to your project and feel free to enter as many times as you like!

You don’t have to have a blog to play along with the sketch challenge. If you upload your project to any on-line galleries or forums, please use the keyword of WMSC51.

Get your chat on about the sketch challenge in this forum.   CLICKING HERE.  Have questions? Have comments?  Have suggestions?  We’d love to chat about it. Drop by and say hello!

Sketch Archives:  Have you ever wished you could see all the past Waltzingmouse Stamp sketches all in one place?  Well, now you can.  Anya Schrier organized the Sketch Challenge gallery and you can find it HERE.  It’s a wonderful source of inspiration.

Blog Waltz ALERT: We hope that you will join in the fun for our Friends of Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Waltz on Friday, June17th.  The theme this month is 4th July/Americana - we're celebrating Independence Day in the USA!!  You can find all the details on the Waltzingmouse Stamps forum thread RIGHT HERE.

One last thing – If you don’t already have our Sketch Challenge Blinkie posted on your blog, we would be honored if you would grab the blinkie HTML code that may be found on the sidebar and find a place for it in one of your sidebars.  Displaying it on your blog helps us spread the Waltzingmouse Challenge word.

Have a wonderfully creative week!