The Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge: April 2010

Monday, April 26, 2010

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #51 (MMSC51)

Welcome to another week of our Midnight Madness sketch challenge. Can you believe it's already the last week of April! How time flies! It's the last week of the month and that means you have one more week to get in on April’s Monthly sketch challenge Prize and My Cruise Blog Candy Giveaway. Next week we will announce all our winners along with some very exciting news. It will be our anniversary week/month and boy oh boy do we have some fun and prizes in store for you. Now, if you are a Penny Black Stamp fan, if you love Blog Candy, and if you are a sucker for a good challenge, be sure to check back and see what we have in store for the month of May. We appreciate our players and followers so much and we will be in full swing with all the festivities, celebrations and giveaways. Now to this weeks challenge, I have to say, that all the samples this week just blew me away. Be sure to check them out and swing by our DT blogs for a closer look. Please stop by Carolyn’s blog, as this will be her last week as a MMDT. Carolyn, your charm and talent have made this last year such a pleasure and we will miss you...I will miss you!!! Life takes us down paths and I am so glad our paths crossed. May your next path lead you to through joy and laughter that is filled with all the happiness you can handle :)

Once again, it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.

"YOUR CHOICE"

Enter one style or both this week.

Just have fun and come play with us :)

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Our MMSC50 Gold Star Award goes to...
18. Sue Drees
Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...
2. Valarie Florer
25. Leigh
35. charlene
37. Risa
39. Holly Miller
43. America
Please grab your award logos from the side bar and display them proudly :)

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Our MMSC50 Weekly Bonus Winner is...
22. Angela
Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:
22 Timestamp: 2010-04-27 03:21:07 UTC
Please contact me with your info to claim your prize :)

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Our MMSC51 weekly Bonus sponsor is.....

*D' Amour Allure

Prize Details:

Vintage Vanities – Arabella Stamp

Vintage Vanities – Let the Trumpets Sound Stamp

Zva Creative – Fountain Crystals

D' Amour Allure stamps include vintage styles to character art. Please browse the collections at our exclusive retailer, http://www.mcmahonfivedesign.com/

Thank you again Jeni for your wonderful prize :)
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**Our April Monthly Sponsor is....

Sunflowers & Dragonflies

Click HERE to see this fabulous prize worth

well OVER $100 (this week is your last chance for this prize)

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Here is this weeks Sketch and our Design Team Creations:

Entering our challenge is as easy as 1-2-3 :)

1. Please become a “FOLLOWER”

2. Tag with MMSC51 when uploading to galleries.

3. Enter your project to " inlinkz" below & leave a comment

MMSC51 ENTRY DEADLINE Monday May 3rd at 5pm PST

Midnight Madness by Priscilla MMSC51

(CLICK TO ENLARGE)

Thank you so much for stopping by. Today my card was made for the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #51. As you can see, I turned it on its side to work for my image. I love vintage prints and have kind of gotten away from using them. I was so excited to be able to work with these images and vintage brooch I found in my stash. This brooch is removable and useable. I found this image at one of the side bar links on my Art Blog. I am so sorry I am so bad at tracking where I find my images. You see, when I see images I like, I just save them to my vintage print file. I apologize for not giving credit to the proper people for these images. I wanted to do something a little different with this card, so I made it a pop up card. If you look close, you can see that I fashioned the inside to pop up when the card is opened. (Click the pictures to enlarge for a closer look) I created the pattern for this card and it is really quite simple. You can see that if you just inlay another piece of cardstock on the inside of your card, do a little blade cutting and scoring, you can create a foldable flap to attach your inside image to. Pearls are from Sue's store. If you are interested, I will try and create a tutorial for this pop up. I have just been so limited with my time these days. I wish I could find the time to share even more than we already do here at this blog. I finished off my project with one of my “priscillastyles” 6x6 envelope kits. The envelope kit has a form block that make is so easy to embellish and create thick style envelopes like this one. I hope you have enjoyed your visit today and I would love to know that you stopped in. As always, your comments are so appreciated and really help keep me going each week, so please leave me your thoughts, comments and or concerns today. Last week to get in on this awesome BLOG CANDY!

Challenges entering...

Flourishes Timeless - vintage

Penny's Challenge - anything goes

OCC Challenge - blossoms

The Secret Crafter - Distressing

Creative Card Crew - May Flowers

S2G Challenge - Flowers

Stamp, Scrap & Doodle - Girlie

Other Lovelies - Use a Punch

Crafty Creations Challenge - Distressing

A Spoon Full of Sugar - 3D something

One Stitch at a Time - Flowers

Crafty Catz - Stitching

Kraftin Kimmie - Flowers

Caardvarks - Monochromatic

Papertake weekly - Something different

Polka Doodles - Monochromatic

Raise the Bar-color (embossed colors of metallic)

Stamptacular sundays-sewing and for someone special

Pile It On - sweet (nothing sweeter than a ballerina right?)

Crafty Pad- Recycle it (ribbon trim)

One Stop Craft- Metallic

Fairy Fun Friday-distressing (most of my edges)

Pollycraft - make your own flowers

Sisterhood of scrap- flowers

The Crazy Challenge -buttons, brads or eyelets (brads)

Simple Doodle - anything old

Sew Many Challenges- anything goes

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Midnight Madness "Blog Candy Giveaway" (help spread the word)

***This Candy Is Now Closed***
Winner will be revealed the week of May 3rd
Please keep your Cruise ship logos on your blogs. Cruise in not till Sept and I am sure we will be doing more spread the word giveaways as the date gets closer. Thank you for helping spread the word :) it is much appreciated!!!
OUR BLOGIVERSARY CANDY IS NOW UP FOR GRABS..CLICK HERE TO GET IN ON THIS AMAZING MAY GIVEAWAY!!!
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Midnight Madness Blog Candy

Blog Candy will run from now till 4-30-10.

Entering is easy & Winner will be announced first week of May.

This candy is to help spread the news about the "Midnight Madness on the High Seas" Craft Cruise in Sept. Everyone is welcome to join in the fun, So, Come with us!! For a chance at this candy, please help us spread the word about this very special event!! Now for the Candy prize..This tool is the perfect page cutter - now in PINK! The Dreamkuts has two slots that allow you to cut over 100 different page sizes. The back slot is adjustable (depending on the size of your paper) and will make one center cut. The front slot (fixed at 12") will cut your paper into thirds! This Blog candy is for ONE NEW Pink DreamKuts Zutter Cutter. A paper lovers dream prize!! I am adding some extra goodies too, plus, for every 50 entries I will throw in more craft candy.

This Candy is worth well over $100 !!

Here are 3 ways to enter...it's easy!!!

(post numbered comments for each thing you do and earn extra entries!!)

1. Follow this blog (post one comment)

2. Put the Midnight Madness Cruise Logo near the top of your side bar and link it back to the Midnight Madness on the High Seas post. (earn two extra comment entries)

3. Blog about the Midnight Madness Cruise.. and in your post, link the "priscillastyles" blog , display the Cruise logo below linking it to the Midnight Madness Curise post and last, link this blog candy with a picture of the Zutter Blog Candy (pictured above). ( complete #3 blog post and earn 5 extra comment entires)

By doing 1,2 & 3 above, you earn a total of eight entry chances at this Candy...Anything to help spread the word is appreciated :) GOOD LUCK :)

Monday, April 19, 2010

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #50 (MMSC50)

What an exciting announcement I have for you! I would like to introduce two fabulous ladies joining our Design Team this week. They are both extremely talented and will bring a new and fresh approach to the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge. If you have never visited their blogs before or seen their work, I encourage you to do so. You will be amazed by their creative talents! Before we get into our weekly details,
PLEASE HELP ME IN WELCOMING.....

JESSICA GEORGE

"My obsession with cardmaking began innocently enough about 3 1/2 years ago when my dear husband suggested I find a hobby; little did he know how this 'hobby' would grow! I'm blessed to have a wonderful family -- including three beautiful daughters -- who are (usually) tolerant of the space and time my hobby occupies. I'm very excited to work with these amazingly talented ladies on the Midnight Madness Sketch challenge Design Team because I have admired their fabulous creations since the very beginning post. My own creations tend towards a more Clean and Simple style, so it won't be difficult to spot my cards for the next couple of months!" Jessica

GUNN THELIN KNUTSEN

"I started making cards about 9 months ago, so I am still thinking of myself as a newbie in this card making and blogging world. I love to try out new techniques and look for new ways to use my stamps and embellishments.

I live in Kristiansand, Norway together with Marcus, his two kids, Helene and Sebastian, and our three cats. I have a bachelor degree in literature and work part time at a library. I am very excited about this DT membership and am looking forward to seeing what you all will make during this time. I know you will give me a lot of inspiration, and I hope that I can give you some too." Gunn

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Now to our challenge...

Once again, it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between.
Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.

"YOUR CHOICE"

Enter one style or both this this week.

Just have fun and come play with us :)

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Our MMSC49 Gold Star Award goes to...
28. America
Our Remarkables Award this week goes to...
1. Loz
26. pam124
29. Jorunn
36. Holly Miller

Please grab your awards logos from the side bar and display them proudly :)

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Our MMSC49 Weekly Bonus Winner is...

20. Peggy Elms
Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:
20 Timestamp: 2010-04-20 03:22:44 UTC
Please contact me with your info to claim your prize :)

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*Our MMSC50 weekly Bonus sponsor is.....

Gurlee Girl Craft Store has expanded to include the latest Magnolia Stamps, Prima Flowers, and of course my Gurlee Girl Stamps for your crafting need. Chelsea is looking forward to adding more wonderful craft products we all love to use on our projects. She only stocks a limited number of inventories for each item, and they will not be re-stocked, so please make sure to stop by and check out the latest items available now in her store now. Chelsea is giving our MMSC50 weekly bonus winner a $20 voucher for her store. Thank you Chelsea..we love your products and images.