Challenge #79–January 7, 2012

Happy New Year and welcome to the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge. We are so happy that you have stopped by to get some inspiration and and to share your enthusiasm for Waltzingmouse Stamps. We hope that you will find our samples so inspiring that you will play along with us. Even if you have never participated before, we invite you to play along.

It’s been a couple of weeks since we posted a challenge, but after the holidays and New Year festivities, we are ready to bring you more inspiration and great sketch designs for 2012.

Let’s get things started by announcing the Top Mouse awards from the December 17th sketch challenge.

This week’s Top Mouse awards go to:

Aimes

Jeanne J

Vicki Z

Congratulations to our Top Mouse winners. Such wonderful creativity, even amidst the hustle and bustle of the holidays.  If you don't already have a Top Mouse Award blinkie, please send me an e-mail at lmercurio@sbcglobal.net and I will provide you with the HTML code. We hope you will display it proudly.  Thank you for your participation and support of the challenge.

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

Jackie Smith

Congratulations, Jackie! 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.

Check out this fun sketch provided to us from our new sketch coordinator, Anya Schrier.  Feel free to turn or flip the sketch, make a shaped card, or just use this shape in or another similar shape in the center of your project - just use the basic principals of this sketch in your design.  Set your mojo free and go with the flow.

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

Teresa Kline

Savitri Wilder

And a little creativity from our Design Team members:

Kelly Schirmer

Lynn Mercurio 

Are you ready to get started on your own creation?  Gather your card stock, stamps and ink and get those projects ready.  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, January 13, 2012. 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, January 14th.  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 WMSC79. Better yet, why not upload it to your album in the Waltzingmouse Stamps Gallery?

Remember, we still have opportunities each week to win a $10 gift certificate on your next Waltzingmouse Stamps order. A lucky winner (we call them our BIG CHEESE) receives this gift and all they had to do to earn this credit was to upload their Waltzingmouse Stamps projects into the WMS Gallery.  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.  Since you are creating wonderful WMS projects anyway, why not increase your chance of winning an extra special treat.

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 place to start in you need a little inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by, and for playing along with our sketch challenge. We hope that you will tell your friends about our challenge.