Challenge #110–August 11, 2012

Welcome to the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge.  We are beyond thrilled that you stopped by and hope that you will join us for our challenge.  Each week we are blessed to see so many amazing creative crafters showcasing their creativity using Waltzingmouse Stamps images.  Our Mischief Makers have the difficult task choosing only three players to honor with the title of Top Mouse award winners.  Today we bring you another fabulous “mojo starter” and are excited to see what you do with the sketch this week!

Let’s get right to the Top Mouse Award winners from last week’s sketch challenge. The winners are…

Michelle Bala

Kim Heggins

Suezie Howard

AMAZING, ladies! Congratulations to our Top Mouse winners this week. If you ladies don’t have a Top Mouse Blog Badge, or would like to update your current Top Mouse Badge to our new and improved Top Mouse Blog Badge, just send me an e-mail at lmercurio at sbcglobal dot net and I will provide you with the HTML code for the updated badge. We hope you will display it proudly.  Thank you for your participation and support of the challenge.

And now for the lucky winner, chosen from all the participants, to receive a complimentary Waltzingmouse Stamps set of choice:

Kate Lesh

Congratulations, Kate.  Please send Claire an e-mail at Claire.brennan1@ntlworld.com. Provide her with your contact information and set choice, and she will pack up your selection and send it on its way to you.

As usual, we have another great inspirational sketch  for you today. This week we have a sketch, created by our Design Team member, Laurie Schmidlin. We hope that you will follow your creative mojo and interpret the sketch as you see fit. Feel free to flip or rotate the sketch.  As you can see from the Mischief Makers’ and Design Team samples, there are many interpretations of the sketch. 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

Jeanne Jachna

Jen Cuthbertson

Karin Åkesdotter

Kim Duran

Lenet Mos

Renee Lynch

Savitri Wilder 

Teresa Kline

And here is a bit of inspiration from our Design Team member:

Kelly Schirmer

Remember to post your projects using the Inlinkz link tool below, no later than 12:00 noon Central time on Friday, August 17, 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, August 18th.  Please use a direct link to your project and feel free to enter as many times as you like!

Motivated yet? We sure hope so. Grab your supplies and let’s see that Waltzingmouse creativity shine. 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. It’s 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. Want to play along, but don’t have any Waltzingmouse Stamps? No problem – Claire has some freebie images you may download, print out and use for this or any WMS Sketch Challenge.

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 WMSC110. As always you are welcome and encouraged to upload your project to your album in the Waltzingmouse Stamps Gallery!

Are you ready to get started with the sketch challenge? Ready…set…CREATE! We hope that you will tell your friends about our challenge. Have a wonderfully creative week!