Baby Girl Card Teddy Bear on the Moon MMSC3 Challenge

Well, Here we are at Sketch 3 already for the Midnight Madness Challenges. Time is really flying by. I don't know about all of you, but I get so anxious to see all the new cards each week, so after I am done with my own card, all I can think of is seeing everyone else's cards that they create. It is so much fun to see the differences in everyone's take of the sketch. There are so many creative artists out there!! I am really looking forward to this week's submissions, as I had so much fun doing mine. This cute card goes to a really sweet lady who asked me if I could make a card for her brand new little niece, so I jumped on the chance to use the challenge to make this one. I LOVE pink and couldn't wait to do a pink and frilly card for a little girl!

If you have been playing along with us, you know that we decided to recognize one participant's entry each week that we feel was really outstanding by awarding them the Midnight Masterpiece Badge. It's our way of showing our appreciation to you for joining us in the fun and sort of encourage you to do your best work. It was really close this week, but this week's winner of the Midnight Masterpiece Badge is Selma Stevenson!! Congratulations Selma and we have to say that ALL of the entries were incredible. Thank you everyone for sharing your wonderful creations with us, and we really look forward to this week's entries. In addition to recognizing one of the participants, one of the team members also recieves an award. This weeks "Seasoned Socialite award goes to our very own social butterfuly who is a wonderful inspiration to many including us: Phyllis .. Congratulations, and it is such a pleasure working alongside you. Enjoy your award! : )

If you would like to join in the fun with us and make your own card for the challenge, hop on over to Priscilla's blog: http://priscillastyles.blogspot.com/ You can find out everything you need to know to submit your own entry and get in on the prizes or even get your own award. I hope you enjoy mine, and have lots of fun making your own. Let me know what you think, and see ya next time.

Have a Safe and Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

Wishing that the sacrafices made would bring peace to all countries!

ARE YOU READY For MMSC2 ? Put your creative thinking cap on and join in the fun.

Here we are at the 2nd MMSC challenge already. Didn't that come by quickly? Last weeks first challenge was a huge success with some amazing entires. I was really excited to do this one, because I have been so anxious to use this image that a very sweet lady sent to me, and it seemed to be perfect for this sketch. I hope that you enjoy it and that it inspires you to create something beautiful yourself for the challenge. I will post the initial information from the first challenge in case someone new is coming to play. Please feel free to become a follower on my blog and get all the latest challenge updates and my submissions as well. I greatly appreciate all of my followers and when I offer my own blog candy, it will be exclusive to followers of my blog. I may find a spot on my sidebar for MMSC rules and info in the future to make it easy for anyone interested in participating.

The Midnight Madness DT was so impressed with the submissions, we all decided that each week we will be awarding a special Badge Award to one person for their outstanding sketch submission. It is called the "MIDNIGHT MADNESS MASTERPIECE" Gold Star Sketch Challenge Award (aka MMM). If you would like to be considered for this award, please make sure your card link is posted to Mr. Linky by Sunday of each week. This is our way to let you know how wonderfully talented you are and how much we appreciate you sharing your craft with us. Now, this was NO easy task! After we all viewed the wonderful cards entered for the week, we FINALLY came to a decision.
The FIRST EVER MIDNIGHT MADNESS MASTERPIECE SKETCH CHALLENGE AWARD GOES TO ..........
SASSY #8 MMSC1
Please take a moment to check out her Entry

Priscilla also awarded a fellow DT member for having such a cute sense of humor, she keeps us all in stitches....
Our first FUN DT AWARD is called the "WITTY AWARD" and it GOES TO...
SONYA

Thanks for dropping by, and I can't wait to see what you come up with. Enjoy!!

Here is what you will need to know for the sketch challenges: 1. Anyone can play the weekly Tuesday, Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge. 2. Anything goes!!....Stamped, Digital, Collage, Vintage Prints, hand drawn, Mixed Multi Media, scrap it, 3-D it, you name it!! I am sure it will be wonderful!! I know you will be proud of your creation and eager to link it to Mr. Linky here. Any form of style/brand is accepted since we do not endorse any one product line. 3. Make it your Own and feel free to take artistic liberties with the sketch provided, as long as you can still tell it was based upon the sketch. ie: rotate the sketch, add embellishments, change the shape of and individual piece, create a square card from a rectangle sketch, etc. 4. To be entered in the $100 SHOPPING SPREE drawing, a minimum of one (1) card/project submission is required, but more than one project is welcome. (3 max per week) 5. To be entered in this drawing, you will have one week for each sketch. Enter your direct link to Mr. Linky here and post a comment. Please feel free to continue to post your projects to Mr. Linky for any of our challenges, but only entries posted during the time frame will be entered in the drawing. Enter one week, or all three!!! 6. When uploading to SCS, please remember to use the keyword MMSC1 for this challenge. 7. Entry submission will close on June 2nd and via video, names will be combined and one of Priscilla'a children will draw the luchy winner from a hat. Priscilla will post the video showing who the lucky winner is on June 3rd. You could potentially have 9 entries (3 per week) for the $100 SHOPPING SPREE. 8. The shopping spree will be going for 3 weeks, enter one or the total of 3 for each wek and then at the end of the three week period based on your number of entries the winner will be drawn on June 2nd. 9. Last but not least.....have FUN! SPECIAL NOTE: If you are a follower of Priscilla's blog and the Midnight Madness Logo is displayed on your blog and or a link back to her site from you SCS card post, then an additional $25 shopping spree will apply. That's $125 FREE Stampin Up SHOPPING SPREE for the WINNER! So stay up late or get up early.....come play with us!

Have a great day!

A Look Back........Hawaiian Hibiscus Card

(A look back to one of my early card creations from the summer of 2008. This was one of the first larger cards that I had ever made) I was very much a newbie to crafting when this card was made : )

This month marks my one-year anniversary of hand-crafting cards. My journey began after leaving my job of 16 years to finally become a stay-at-home Mom. After a couple of months of not working, I had a craving to do something productive AND creative. I sort of fell into the world of card making via ebay. I have sold on ebay for quite some time and a friend encouraged me to give selling my cards a try on ebay. I justified this by hoping that it would become a part-time job for me and that I could earn some extra money selling my cards. With this dream on my horizon, I wondered how I would get someone to want to pay for one of my cards. Being someone who had never made a card before, what were my chances? I have always loved art and creating, so I figured at first that I had nothing to lose by giving it a try. Of course, I became addicted to this craft almost immediately. Even though I was not very good at all in the beginning, I had such a craving to learn about this art and become better. I have had so much positive encouragement from my friends, buyers and other sellers, that I had come to really enjoy and look forward to sharing my creations with you. I can't believe that a year has come and gone already and how far I have come from those first cards that I attempted. I continue to learn every day and find much inspiration and encouragment from looking at the work of many others and talking with so many fellow crafters out there with tons of talent. Thank you to all of you that made my first year fun, creative, enjoyable and exciting. I really look forward to another great year with you all.

I may share a few of my first cards that I made over the next few weeks, just so that you can see the difference in my work from then to now.

Thanks for dropping by to share a look back with me!!

Lorelie's Blog Candy

Lorelie has some great blog candy up for grabs to celebrate her blogaversary!! She will be drawing a winner's name on May 19th, so don't miss out. She makes some beautiful cards, so you won't be sorry if you have never seen her work before.

http://mypaperadventures.blogspot.com/

Blog Awards!!

I want to say a special thank you to my new friend Charlotte for giving me these blog awards! I am proud to display them for you all to see. Charlotte is a very talented crafter in her own right. Take a look at some of her work: http://designsfromwithin.blogspot.com/

Many other bloggers out there deserve some of these awards as well, and I will have to get to awarding some of you soon.

Have a great weekend everyone, and thanks for stopping by and for all of your support.

Wedding Card MIDNIGHT MADNESS Sketch Challenge Debut MMSC1

Hi Everyone! Well, it's finally here. I could not be more excited. Today we are introducing the MMDT Sketch challenges to the world. My first entry to this challenge was so fun to do, and I really wanted to make this into a wedding card. You know that June is the most popular wedding month of the year, and I wanted to make this available for auction on ebay in case someone would like to give this lovely card as a gift to a special couple that they know. The colors are absolutely gorgeous. You cannot appreciate this card fully until you see it in person. It is decorated front to back!!

This is going to be some of the greatest challenges ever, and you will be so glad that you chose to be a part of it. Tell your friends to come along as well. Become a follower on my blog and see all of my challenge entries as a DT member of the MMDT and see if I can't inspire you. There are prizes to be had and fun for everyone. You can get your MMDT badge by clicking onto my logo on the right sidebar, copy the html code and adding it to your blog. Are you ready? Put on your creative thinking cap, and start having some fun. Can't wait to see what you all come up with!!!

Here is what you will need to know: 1. Anyone can play the weekly Tuesday, Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge. 2. Anything goes!!....Stamped, Digital, Collage, Vintage Prints, hand drawn, Mixed Multi Media, scrap it, 3-D it, you name it!! I am sure it will be wonderful!! I know you will be proud of your creation and eager to link it to Mr. Linky here. Any form of style/brand is accepted since we do not endorse any one product line. 3. Make it your Own and feel free to take artistic liberties with the sketch provided, as long as you can still tell it was based upon the sketch. ie: rotate the sketch, add embellishments, change the shape of and individual piece, create a square card from a rectangle sketch, etc. 4. To be entered in the $100 SHOPPING SPREE drawing, a minimum of one (1) card/project submission is required, but more than one project is welcome. (3 max per week) 5. To be entered in this drawing, you will have one week for each sketch. Enter your direct link to Mr. Linky here and post a comment. Please feel free to continue to post your projects to Mr. Linky for any of our challenges, but only entries posted during the time frame will be entered in the drawing. Enter one week, or all three!!! 6. When uploading to SCS, please remember to use the keyword MMSC1 for this challenge. 7. Entry submission will close on June 2nd and via video, names will be combined and one of Priscilla'a children will draw the luchy winner from a hat. Priscilla will post the video showing who the lucky winner is on June 3rd. You could potentially have 9 entries (3 per week) for the $100 SHOPPING SPREE. 8. The shopping spree will be going for 3 weeks, enter one or the total of 3 for each wek and then at the end of the three week period based on your number of entries the winner will be drawn on June 2nd. 9. Last but not least.....have FUN! SPECIAL NOTE: If you are a follower of Priscilla's blog and the Midnight Madness Logo is displayed on your blog and or a link back to her site from you SCS card post, then an additional $25 shopping spree will apply. That's $125 FREE Stampin Up SHOPPING SPREE for the WINNER! So stay up late or get up early.....come play with us! and NOW for the SKETCH

Thanks for having a look at my first challenge card! Have a great day.

For All the Special Moms Out There!!!

A Mother's Day Remembrance for My Very Special Mom! The Best Mom in the World! 1930-2004

Modes Couture Femme Card ~ Very Classy! All Occasion..even Mother's Day!

Well, here it is...my latest creation. I really love this. The color combination is my absolute favorite. The background paper is white with black velvet printed paper. It's just a very, very classy card!!

Thanks for taking the time to look, and please do leave a comment and let me know what you think. Have a great weekend, and Happy Mother's Day!!

6 Days And Counting...........

Get your MMDT Badge for your blog here. Don't wait! On the right sidebar, click onto the MMDT logo, copy and paste html code to your blog. Only a few more days are left to the big kick off.


Curiouser and curiouser..... Are you wondering or excited to find out more about the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenges that are coming up in just 6 days. The big DEBUT is on Tuesday, May 12. You are not going to want to miss it!! We encourage you to display our logo and help spread the word. If you haven't already done so, please click onto the badge on the right sidebar, copy and paste the html code to your blog and tell your friends to do the same. You'll be glad you did!! There are many surprises to come, but that is all I can tell you for now.

If you enjoy sketch challenges, need inspiration or crave variety in your creations, MMDT challenges are just the place for you. You would not believe the incredible talent that this group of women possess.

One of the best things about this is that anyone and everyone can participate and we encourage you to do so!! I predict that this will be the most fun and inspiring challenges to be found.

Stay tuned for more updates, more hints and more info to come in the final days of the countdown......

Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to get your badge!!! ; )

Patriotic Card for a Special Mom For Mother's Day

I had to put a rush on this one! A very good friend of my husband wanted to have a special card for his Mom for Mother's Day this year, and the only request that he had was to make it something patriotic and for a Mom. This is what I came up with. It's very patriotic, but also has a ribbon with a heart charm on it and a lovely quote from Abraham Lincoln that is perfect for Mother's Day. I have to admit that I was a little worried about doing a card like this for Mother's Day, but I really kind of like it after seeing it done. I hope she likes it too.

Leave me a comment and let me know what you think. Do you suppose that there are some other Moms out there that would like a card like this too?

Have a great night!

April Showers Bring May Flowers! Cute Duck Card Enjoying a Splash in a Rain Puddle

Hi, We are having a rainy day here today, and I guess it is to continue all week. So, with that, I give you my latest creation. "April Showers Bring May Flowers." I have been looking forward to Spring for quite some time now. It has been a long, cold winter, and if it takes some rainy days to bring on the beauty of spring, then I welcome it. This card celebrates the fun and rewards of spring. I just love this cute duck splashing in a rain puddle and just having a ball. A great card to put a smile on someone's face and to show that Spring has sprung!

This card will be available for auction on ebay, and you can view it by clicking on the link at the left sidebar. Thank you for stopping by to have a look, and please leave me a comment to let me know what you think.

Have a beautiful Spring day! : )

INTRODUCING THE MIDNIGHT MADNESS DESIGN TEAM

Hot Glitters


Please take a look at my sidebar to the right, and you will see a newly established design team that has some fabulous and fun things coming up, and you can be a part of them. Stop back soon for more details. There will be fun for everyone and lots of creative inspiration. Tell your friends to come along for the fun too.

See ya soon :)