Challenge #65–September 17, 2011

Hi – happy weekend! Welcome to the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge blog, bringing you inspiration and enthusiasm for Waltzingmouse Stamps each week.  We hope that you will find our samples so inspiring that you will play along with us.

The Mouse House has been hopping this week.  We have the Design Team previewing the 4 new sets to be released on Monday – we introduced 3 new Design Team members to the team, 2 of who were on the Mischief Makers team, and we also have the Friends of Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Waltz today.  Yes – the place is a buzz with activity!

Let’s begin this week by announcing the Top Mouse awards from last week’s Sketch Challenge.

This week’s Top Mouse awards go to:

JJ Bolton

Laurie Jones

Jeane

The entire team was impressed with the projects that were submitted last week. Congratulations to our Top Mouse winners for capturing the attention of the Mischief Makers and Design Team members. 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.  Thank you for your participation in the challenge.

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

Bee

Congratulations, Bee. Thanks for playing along in this week’s challenge.  Please send  Claire an e-mail 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.

If you are ready, we have another fun sketch to share with you this week, created by our Design Team member, Anya Schrier.  Feel free to turn or flip the sketch, create a card , a scrapbook page or 3-D project.  Just use the basic principals of this sketch in your design.  Let your mojo be your guide.

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

Edna Morrisedie

Iwona Palamountain

Jean Martin

Jen Cuthbertson

Karin Åkesdotter

Kim Duran

Lenet Mos

Renee Lynch

Savitri Wilder

Teresa Kline

…and a little inspiration from our Design Team members…

Clare Buswell

Kelly Schirmer

Tosha Leyendekker

Are you ready to get started on your own creation?  Gather your card stock, stamps and ink and create a card, tag, scrapbook layout or any paper project - just remember to include the basic sketch in your design.  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, September 23, 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, September 24. 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 WMSC65. Better yet, why not upload it to your album in the Waltzingmouse Stamps Gallery?

Sketch Archives:  You can now find all of the past Waltzingmouse Stamp sketches all in one place for those times when you want to jump-start your creativity anytime you are stumped. Take a peek right HERE.  It’s a wonderful source of inspiration.

Are you a BIG CHEESE? We have dedicated a special thread in the Waltzingmouse Forum (under ‘The Gallery’ topic) where you can let us know when you have uploaded a project to the WMS Gallery. One lucky BIG CHEESE selected from those gallery uploads will receive a promotional code giving them $10 off their next purchase from Waltzingmouse Stamps.  In addition they will have their BIG CHEESE project posted in a special BIG CHEESE album in the WMS gallery for all to see and adore.

Thanks for stopping by, and for playing along with our sketch challenge.  Have a wonderfully creative week!