Saturday, March 26, 2011

Challenge #40–March 26, 2011

Greetings!  It’s a pleasure to have you stop by the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge blog. If you are looking for a starting point for a project, then you have come to the right place – inspiration awaits you.

Before we begin, the Mischief Makers say goodbye this week to Alice Wertz.  Alice was an inaugural member of the Mischief Makers and week after week she has provided beautiful samples.  Thank you Alice for your creativity and we wish you much happiness and success in your future endeavors.

Week after week you, the participants, submit truly amazing and creative projects.  This week is no exception…total yumminess with such an array of banner cards.  WOW!

If you are ready, let’s begin with the Top Mouse awards from Sketch Challenge #40.

This week’s Top Mouse awards go to:

Heather Jensen

Karen Haman

Clare

Congratulations, ladies. Please shoot me an e-mail at lynn.mercurio@gmail.com and I will provide you with the HTML code for your Top Mouse Blinkie that will show all of your blog readers how much we love your projects. Thank you for sharing your creativity with us!

Each week we randomly select a winner from all the participants to receive a  complimentary Waltzingmouse Stamps set of choice. Are you ready to know who the lucky winner is?

The randomly chosen winner from last week’s challenge is:

#49 Rachael Burdick

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

And now – here is the sketch for this week?

#40 Sketch

Hold on because we have some awesome giant banners to share with you, compliments of the amazingly creative Mischief Makers:

Alice Wertz

Beate Johns

#40 Beate

Clare Buswell

#40 Clare

Edna Morrisedie

#40 Edna

Jean Martin

#40 Jean

Jen Cuthbertson

#40 Jen

Lenet Mos

#40 Lente

Savitri Wilder

#40 Savitri

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

Anya Schrier

#40 Anya

Mona Pendleton

#40 Mona

Sarah Parker

#40 Sarah

We look forward each week to your submissions as you let your mojo run wild and create a card, a scrapbook layout or any paper project - just remember to include the basic sketch in your design. Note: While we love to see you use Waltzingmouse Stamps images when you create for our challenges, they are not required to play.

Remember to post your projects using Inlinkz no later than 11:59 p.m. EASTERN time on Thursday, March 31, 2011. We will announce the winner of the challenge and the new Top Mouse Award winners when the new sketch challenge is posted on Saturday, April 2nd. Please use a direct link to your project. 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 WMSC40.

Do you want to share the fun of the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenges with your friends and blog readers?  It would tickle us pink if you would display our blinkie on your blog to help spread the word. The HTML code for the blinkie can be found on the side bar.

Have a wonderfully creative week!

Lynn-Signature

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Challenge #39–March 19, 2011

Hello and welcome once again to the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge. The uber creative Mischief Makers are at it again with their motivating and inspirational samples using the “sketch of the week”. 

I’m always in total awe at the wonderfully creative projects posted each week in response to the weekly sketch.  This week is no exception…total yumminess with such an array of circular cards.  WOW!

Are you ready?  Let’s start with the Top Mouse awards from Sketch Challenge #38.

This week’s Top Mouse awards go to:

Stella

Kirsty Vittetoe

Dana Gustafson

 

Congratulations, ladies. Please shoot me an e-mail at lynn.mercurio@gmail.com and I will provide you with the HTML code for your Top Mouse Blinkie that will show all of your blog readers how much we love your projects.. Thank you for sharing your creativity with us!

We all love to be motivated and inspired, but winning prizes is a strong motivator and it’s always nice to discover that our efforts have garnered a prize.  Each week we randomly select a winner from all the participants to receive a Waltzingmouse Stamps set of choice. Are you ready?

The randomly chosen winner from last week’s challenge is:

#5 Annie

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

And now – here is the sketch for this week?

#39 Sketch

Just wait until you get a look at the inspiration from the Mischief Makers:

Alice Wertz

Beate Johns

#39 Beate

Clare Buswell

#39 Clare

Edna Morrisedie

#39 Edna

Jean Martin

#39 Jean

Jen Cuthbertson

#39 Jen

Lenet Mos

#39 Lenet

Savitri Wilder

#39 Sivitri

....and projects from some of the WMS Design Team members

Anya Schrier

#39 Anya

Bonnie Sharp

#39 Bonnie

Mona Pendleton

#39 Mona

Julia Aston

#39 Julia

We look forward to seeing your entries week after week. Let your mojo run wild and create a card, a scrapbook layout or any paper project - just remember to include the basic sketch in your design. Note: While we love to see you use Waltzingmouse Stamps images when you create for our challenges, they are not required to play.

Remember to post your projects using Inlinkz no later than 11:59 p.m. EASTERN time on Thursday, March 24, 2011. We will announce the winner of the challenge and the new Top Mouse Award winners when the new sketch challenge is posted on Saturday, March 26th. Please use a direct link to your project. 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 WMSC39.

If you enjoy the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenges, we would be pleased to have you display our blinkie on your blog to help spread the word. The HTML code for the blinkie can be found on the side bar.

Have a wonderfully creative week!

Lynn-Signature

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Challenge #38–March 12, 2011

Greetings and welcome to your opportunity to be motivated and to motivate others by participating in the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge.Week after week the Mischief Makers pour their creativity into the projects they provide for inspiration. I want to offer a tremendously BIG and heartfelt apology to Savitri Wilder – one of our amazingly talented Mischief Makers. She provided a project for last week’s challenge and I totally left it out!OUCH! I didn’t want you to miss her project so with my head hung in shame, here is her beautiful card.

#37 Savitri

I hope that Savitri will forgive me for my massive GOOF!

Onward…

We had so many awesome submissions to last week’s sketch. Waltzingmouse fans are truly a creative and imaginative group.

So let’s get right down to business with the Top Mouse awards from Sketch Challenge #37.

After reviewing all the entries, the Mischief Makers and Design Team have cast their votes. What a tough decision but we have three that stood out. This week’s Top Mouse awards go to:

Laurie J.



Pauline P


Congratulations, ladies. Please shoot an e-mail to claire.brennan1@ntlworld.com and Claire will provide you with the HTML code for your Top Mouse Blinkie. We appreciate your participation and for sharing your creativity.

Another perk for playing along with the weekly sketch challenges is that we randomly select a winner to receive a Waltzingmouse Stamps set of choice. AWESOME!

The randomly chosen winner from last week’s challenge is:

#15 Laura

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

And now – here is the sketch for this week?

#38 Sketch

Just wait until you get a look at the inspiration from the Mischief Makers:

Alice Wertz

Beate Johns

#38 Beate

Clare Buswell

#38 Clare

Edna Morrisedie

#38 Edna

Jean Martin

#38 Jean

Jen Cuthbertson

#38 Jen

Lenet Mos

#38 Lenet

Savitri Wilder

#38 Savitri

....and a couple of projects from the WMS Design Team members

Anya Schrier

#38 Anya

Mona Pendleton

#38 Mona

Julia Aston

We look forward to seeing your entries week after week. Let your mojo run wild and create a card, a scrapbook layout or any paper project - just remember to include the basic sketch in your design. Note: While we love to see you use Waltzingmouse Stamps images when you create for our challenges, they are not required to play.

Remember to post your projects using Inlinkz no later than 11:59 p.m. EASTERN time on Thursday, March 17, 2011. We will announce the winner of the challenge and the new Top Mouse Award winners when the new sketch challenge is posted on Saturday, March 19th. Please use a direct link to your project. 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 WMSC38.

If you enjoy the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenges, we would be pleased to have you display our blinkie on your blog to help spread the word. The HTML code for the blinkie can be found on the side bar.

One last thing – just a quick reminder that this Thursday is our Friends of Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Waltz. Click the link to get all the details! Won’t you join us?

Have a great week!

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Challenge #37–March 5, 2011

Welcome to the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge Blog.  It’s time to be inspired and get your creativity on!

Before we share the sketch this week, we have some exciting news to share – we have a new Mischief Maker.  Claire has a formal announcement on her blog, so hop on over to read all about it right HERE!

And now for the Top Mouse awards from last week’s sketch (#36).  The Waltzingmouse Stamps Mischief Makers and Design Team have reviewed the entries and have cast our votes for our three most favorites from all the players.  The Top Mouse awards are highlighted here and are given a special blog “blinkie” to post so that everyone will know how special we think they are.  It was really a tough week to select winners because there were SO many awesome project submitted.

This week’s Top Mouse awards go to:

#32 Anna Wolleben

#28 Teresa Kline

#26 Eli

 

Fabulous creations, right?  Congratulations to you ladies.  Please shoot me an e-mail at lynn.mercurio@gmail.com and I will provide you with the HTML code for your Top Mouse Blinkie.  Thanks so much for sharing your talent with us.

Another perk for playing along with the weekly sketch challenges is that we randomly select a winner to receive a Waltzingmouse Stamps set of choice.  AWESOME!

The randomly chosen winner from last week’s challenge is:

#34 Christina M

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

And now – here is the sketch for this week?

WMS37 sketch

Just wait until you get a look at the inspiration from the Mischief Makers:

Alice Wertz

Clare Buswell

#37 Clare

Edna Morrisedie

#37 Edna

Jean Martin

#37 Jean

Jen Cuthbertson

#37 Jen

Lenet Mos

#37 Lenet

Beate Johns – Our Newest Mischief Maker!

#37 Beate

....and a couple of projects from the WMS Design Team members

Julia Aston 

#37 Julia

Anya Schrier 

#37 Anya

Lynn Mercurio 

#37-Lynn

We look forward to seeing your entries week after week.  Let your mojo run wild and create a card, a scrapbook layout or any paper project - just remember to include the basic sketch in your design.  Note:  While we love to see you use Waltzingmouse Stamps images when you create for our challenges, they are not required to play.

Remember to post your projects using Inlinkz no later than 11:59 p.m. EASTERN time on Thursday, March 10, 2011.  We will announce the winner of the challenge and the new Top Mouse Award winners when the new sketch challenge is posted on Saturday, March 12th. Please use a direct link to your project. 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 WMSC37.

If you enjoy the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenges, we would be pleased to have you display our blinkie on your blog to help spread the word.  The HTML code for the blinkie can be found on the side bar.

Thanks for joining us!