Challenge #45–April 30, 2011

Greetings!  Welcome to the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge blog. We’re here each Saturday to bring you inspiration and enthusiasm for Waltzingmouse Stamps…that’s why you are here too, right?

This note will remain for a few weeks until we know everyone has had a chance to review the changes: We have recently instituted a small change regarding the requirements for the weekly sketch challenge.  Previously, we had no restrictions about the images you could use for the weekly Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge.  But since we all love Waltzingmouse Stamps, going forward we ask that you use at lease one WMS image on your submission.  Including WMS images on your project adds to the creative inspiration we gain each week from your wonderful creations.

Onward to this week’s challenge, but first, we are happy to announce the Top Mouse awards from last week’s Sketch Challenge.

This week’s Top Mouse awards go to:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Doreen Robertson

Karen W

Outstandingly creative projects, ladies! Please send me an e-mail at lynn.mercurio@gmail.com and I will provide you with the HTML code (if you don’t already have one on your blog) for your Top Mouse Blinkie; proof to your blog readers how much we love your projects.

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

Genevieve Pinkerton

Whoo-hoo, Genevieve!  Congratulations.  Please e-mail Claire at Claire.brennan1@ntlworld.com. Provide her with your contact information and set choice, so she can get your selected set on its way to you.

And now, if you’re ready – get set - let’s go!  Here is the sketch for this week?

To get you sufficiently motivated, check out what the Mischief Makers have for you today:

Beate Johns

Clare Buswell

Edna Morrisedie

Jean Martin

Jen Cuthbertson

Kelly Schirmer

Lenet Mos

Savitri Wilder

....and projects from a couple of our WMS Design Team members:

Anya Schrier 

 

Julia Aston

Are you motivated and ready to get started on your own creation?  Just create a card, tag, scrapbook layout or any paper project - just remember to include the basic sketch in your design and don’t forget that Waltzingmouse Stamps image.

Remember to post your projects using Inlinkz no later than 12:00 noon Central time on Friday, May 6, 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, May 7th. 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 WMSC45.

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!

NEW RELEASE NEWS: Tomorrow Waltzingmouse Stamps will reveal 5 new sets as well as offer you A FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY TO WIN BIG. Be sure to check out THIS POST for details…scroll down and look for the word “competition”.

One last thing - we would love it if you wanted to grab the blinkie HTML code that may be found on the sidebar.  Displaying it on your blog helps us spread the Waltzingmouse Challenge word.

Have a wonderfully creative week!

Challenge #44–April 23, 2011

Greetings!  Welcome to the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge blog. We’re here each Saturday to bring you inspiration and enthusiasm for Waltzingmouse Stamps…that’s why you are here too, right?

This note will remain for a few weeks until we know everyone has had a chance to review the changes:  We have recently instituted a small change regarding the requirements for the weekly sketch challenge.  Previously, we had no restrictions about the images you could use for the weekly Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge.  But since we all love Waltzingmouse Stamps, going forward we ask that you use at lease one WMS image on your submission.  Including WMS images on your project adds to the creative inspiration we gain each week from your wonderful creations.

Onward to this week’s challenge, but first, we are happy to announce the Top Mouse awards from last week’s Sketch Challenge.

This week’s Top Mouse awards go to:

Maureen P

Laurie Jones

Jen Adcock

Outstanding projects, ladies – such wonderful creativity. Please send me an e-mail at lynn.mercurio@gmail.com and I will provide you with the HTML code (if you don’t already have one on your blog) for your Top Mouse Blinkie; proof to your blog readers how much we love your projects.

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

José

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

And now, if you’re ready – get set - let’s go!  Here is the sketch for this week?

To get you sufficiently motivated, check out what the Mischief Makers have for you today:

Beate Johns

Clare Buswell

Edna Morrisedie

Jean Martin

Jen Cuthbertson

Kelly Schirmer

Lenet Mos

Savitri Wilder

....and projects from a few of our WMS Design Team members:

Anya Schrier

Carly Robertson

Julia Aston

Lynn Mercurio 

Mona Pendleton

Are you motivated and ready to get started on your own creation?  Just create a card, tag, scrapbook layout or any paper project - just remember to include the basic sketch in your design and don’t forget that Waltzingmouse Stamps image.

Remember to post your projects using Inlinkz no later than 12:00 p.m. Central time on Friday, April 29, 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 30th. 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 WMSC44.

Want to chat about the sketch this week, or any week?  If you do, we have a chat thread set up just for conversations about the WMS Sketch Challenges, and you can visit that thread by CLICKING HERE.  Drop by and say hello!

We would love it if you wanted to grab the blinkie HTML code that may be found on the sidebar.  Displaying it on your blog helps us spread the Waltzingmouse Challenge word.

If you love Christmas and want to get a head start on those holiday cards, then Waltzingmouse Stamps has a great monthly Christmas Card Challenge.  Check out all of the details right HERE.

Have a wonderfully creative week!

Challenge #43–April 16, 2011

Greetings!  Welcome to the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge blog. We’re here each Saturday to bring you inspiration and enthusiasm for Waltzingmouse Stamps.

We have a small change regarding the requirements for the weekly sketch challenge.  Previously, we had no restrictions about the images you could use for the weekly Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge.  But since we all love Waltzingmouse Stamps, going forward we ask that you use at lease one WMS image on your submission.  Including WMS images on your project adds to the creative inspiration we get each week from your wonderful creations.

Lets get to the fun stuff, shall we?  We are happy to announce the Top Mouse awards from last week’s Sketch Challenge.

This week’s Top Mouse awards go to:

Diane Jaquay

Dana Gustafson

Annabelle O’Malley

NICE job 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; proof to your blog readers how much we love your projects.

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

Rachel Izakowicz

Congratulations Rachel!  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, if you’re ready – let’s get to it.  Here is the sketch for this week?

To get you sufficiently motivated, check out what the Mischief Makers have for you today:

Beate Johns

Clare Buswell

Edna Morrisedie

Jean Martin

Jen Cuthbertson

Kelly Schirmer

Lenet Mos

Savitri Wilder

....and projects from a few of our WMS Design Team members:

Anya Schrier

Lynn Mercurio 

Mona Pendleton 

There you have it.  Are you motivated and ready to get started on your own creation?  Just create a card, tag, scrapbook layout or any paper project - just remember to include the basic sketch in your design.

Remember to post your projects using Inlinkz no later than 12:00 p.m. Central time on Friday, April 22, 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 23rd. 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 WMSC43.

Feel free to grab the blinkie HTML that may be found on the sidebar.  Displaying it on your blog helps us spread the Waltzingmouse word.

One last reminder:  This Sunday, the 17th is the Friends of Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Waltz.  Our theme is Easter, and with only a week away, I bet you could use one or more Easter cards…so why not play along.  You can get all the details right HERE and HERE.

Have a wonderfully creative week!

Challenge #42–April 9, 2011

Hello and welcome to the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge blog. We’re here each Saturday to bring you inspiration and enthusiasm for Waltzingmouse Stamps. 

Today, the Waltzingmouse Mischief Makers welcome a new mouse to the house– Kelly Schirmer.  Many of you know Kelly from the great submissions that she consistently posts to the weekly Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge.  Here’s a little about this creative lady.

“I have been married to my husband Jason for 10 years and we have 2 beautiful daughters Eva (7) and Claire (5). We live in a little town called Avon, which is about 25 minutes south of Rochester, NY. I am a Speech-Language Pathologist, working with children ages birth to five.

I started stamping in 2002, when a co-worker "tried" to talk me in to buying stamps. I eventually did and stamped on and off until I discovered the challenges at Splitcoaststampers in 2007. I have had the privilege of being a Featured Stamper at SCS, and working on the Pink Persimmon Creative Team and with the A Muse Studio Catalog contract team. I am anxiously awaiting my first publication in PaperCrafts Magazine this August!  I discovered Waltzingmouse Stamps right after the first release because I just HAD to have that Earth Angel set that I saw Lynn Mercurio using!  I am beyond excited to be invited to be the newest Mischief Maker!”

We are excited to have Kelly join the Mischief Makers team as well!  Please take a moment, show Kelly some love and let her know how happy you are for her.

If you are ready to get this week’s sketch challenge underway, let’s begin with the Top Mouse awards from last week’s Sketch Challenge.

This week’s Top Mouse awards go to:

#22 Pastila

#34 Cindy Holshouser

#41 Heather H 

NICE job 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 that will show all of your blog readers how much we love your projects. I have a feeling that some of you may have been selected as a Top Mouse Before.  Am I right?  Your projects are truly inspirational.

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:

Nina Brackett

Congratulations Nina!  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, if you’re ready – let’s get to it.  Here is the sketch for this week? 

To get you sufficiently motivated, check out what the Mischief Makers have for you today:

Beate Johns

Clare Buswell

Edna Morrisedie

Jean Martin

Jen Cuthbertson

Kelly Schirmer

Lenet Mos

Savitri Wilder

....and projects from a few of our WMS Design Team members:

Mona Pendleton

Bonnie Sharp

Tosha Leyendekker

 

Are you ready?  Are you motivated?  Just create a card, tag, 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 12:00 p.m. Central time on Friday, April 15, 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 16th. 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 WMSC42.

Feel free to grab the blinkie HTML that may be found on the sidebar.  Displaying it on your blog helps us spread the Waltzingmouse word.

Have a wonderfully creative week!