Challenge #66–September 24, 2011

Greetings – Happy Saturday and welcome to the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge blog.  We work hard to bring you inspiration and enthusiasm for Waltzingmouse Stamps each week, and we hope that you will find our samples so inspiring that you will play along with us.

We know you are busy, so 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:

Julie Lacey

Carola

Jeanne J.

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:

Vanessa

Congratulations, Vanessa. 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.  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…

Julia Aston

Kelly Schirmer

Lynn Mercurio 

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 30, 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, October 1st. 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 WMSC66. 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!

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!

Challenge #64–September 10, 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.

I’m happy to share some great news with you today. The Mischief Makers welcome two well-known players from the WMS Sketch Challenge onto their Mischief Makers’ team; Renee Lynch and Teresa Kline!

Hi, my name is Renee Lynch, and I’m a 41 year old SITCM (stay in the car Mom) to 4 incredible kids that are the reason I breathe. I have 2, 14 year twin girls, and two boys, 9 and 5 years old.  I’ve been married for 19 years to love-of-my-life, and we live in a country home in Tennessee, just outside of Nashville. I’m an avid book reader, and will read almost any genre. I’ve been creating cards for about a year and half, but have always been crafty; painting, sewing, and cross stitching.  I’ve been blogging since January, and have met some of the greatest people imaginable since I began blogging. My blog is where I talk about whatever...kids, cards, food, books, my obsession with the ID channel where I get to help the FBI solve crimes.
Hi, I am Teresa Kline and I could not be happier to join the Waltzingmouse Mischief Makers.  I am happily married and, my husband Gary is so very supportive of my creating and my dreams. I have always had a creative spirit; I’ve dabbled with scrapbooking, but get the most pleasure from making a handmade card and sending it to others. What better way to show an expression of love to others than with a handmade card? I send cards to family, friends, people in our church, and others that I may find out about through forums and blogging.
I have had the honor of being on numerous design teams and have met the most amazing people, that is such a blessing! I luv a good challenge, especially a sketch challenge to get me thinking and inspired.  I am thrilled to be here as a Mischief Maker and super excited about the future!  I hope that I can inspire you as much as I have been inspired!
Please stop by their blogs and congratulate them.  We are thrilled to have Renee and Teresa join us.
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:

Andrea Ewen

Jodi R.

Jeanne J.

Wow…truly fabulous projects and amazing creativity, ladies. Congratulations 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 participated 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:

Erin T.

Congratulations, Erin. We appreciate your participation 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 create a tag, a tag-shaped card, or a tag ON a card.  Let your mojo be your guide.

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

Clare Buswell

Edna Morrisedie

Iwona Palamountain

Jean Martin

Jen Cuthbertson

Karin Åkesdotter

Kelly Schirmer

Kim Duran

*******OUT FOR PUBLICATION******* 

Lenet Mos

Renee Lynch

Savitri Wilder

Teresa Kline

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 16, 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 17. 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 WMSC64. 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!