Midnight Madness Sketch #52: Sweet Blogaversary!

**Click HERE to view today's Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge**

Stamps: Magnolia Tilda, Papertrey sentiment. Cardstock: Real Red, black, Papertrey white, DPs unknown source. Ink: Memento, copics, Real Red. Accessories: Nestabilities long rectangles and tag, black dotted organdy ribbon, red grosgrain ribbon, photo corner.

Happy One Year Anniversary Everyone!

Welcome to our One Year Celebration…It's all about our Players and Followers this month. If you have not entered our Blogaversay Jackpot Candy, be sure to click over for a chance to win a Candy Prize worth over $300.We will be celebrating all month!

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.

Fancy

CAS
"YOUR CHOICE"
Enter one style or both this week.

Just have fun and come play with us :)

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Our MMSC51 Gold Star Award goes to...
5. Karen Wallace

Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...
15. Grace N
29. MrsBoz
53. Holly Miller

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Our MMSC51 Weekly Bonus Winner is...
Leigh

Our April Month End Winner is.....
Lori G

The Cruise Blog Candy Winner is....
Art Girl

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Our MMSC52 weekly Bonus sponsor is.....



**Our May Monthly Sponsor is....


PB Stamps

Great news PB Stamps stock most of the old retired stamps that are available nowhere but PB Stamps (an exclusive arrangement between them & Penny Black). You can even view old catalogs on his site: http://www.pbstamps.com/ Are you ready for this Months Sponsorship prize? Well, Dick over at PB Stamps has very generously offered up a 15% life time discount to 5 of our players….

YES, you heard me right, 5 (five) winners will

be randomly drawn at the end of the month!! WOW!.

So come play with us. Break out your Penny Black stamps or stop by PB Stamps and get yourselves some. (Any stamps are welcome to play our challenges, but let’s have some fun with Penny Black this month)

Thank you Dick we love Penny Black stamps and will be showing them off all Month. Thanks for the awesome Giveaway.. You are going to make a few Penny Black Lovers VERY Happy :)

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For my card I went with the CAS sketch and used a Magnolia card kit created by the Jacki (). Doesn't this combination of papers and colors remind you of a Mary Engelbreit theme? I also altered a mini comp book to create a coordinated gift set:

Be sure to stop by the other Midnight Madness Design Team's blogs to admire their take on the sketch:
Carol
Carolyn
Charlotte
Chris
Darsie
Denise
Jeni
Linda
Michelle
Phyllis
Priscilla
Tracy

Tuesday Sketch Challenge #44: Magical Day

Stamps: Glitterbabe's Art digi 'Unicorn' , Stamping bella sentiment. Cardstock: My Mind's Eye 'Party Time' glitter DP, Melon Mambo, Kiwi Kiss, GP 110 white. Ink: Copics, Kiwi Kiss. Accessories: Prima, Bella gem and dots, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, Stardust glitter pen.

This week's Tuesday Morning Sketch #44 is sponsored by Glitterbabe's Art Shop:

The unicorn was a big hit with our nine year old DD -- I actually had to search out my card in order to post it because it had 'wandered off'! I'm not sure if it was the uncorn image, the abundance of pink, or the sparkle; maybe all of the above?

Be sure to admire the TMS Design Team's versions of this recipe:

Melissa
Theresa
Gabby

Angela

Hollyanne

Janice

Then link up your creations HERE so we can admire your take on the sketch!

Midnight Madness Blogaversary!

The Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge blog will be celebrating its first blogaversary this week with a Blogaversary Jackpot Candy with an estimated retail value of over $300! Be sure to visit the blog and throw your name into the hat for these amazing goodies!!

Order of the Opus Gluei Celebrates Full Year of Challenges!

Stamp: Stampendous sentiment. Cardstock: Paper Studio DP, GP 110 white. Ink: Melon Mambo, Lovely Lilac. Accessories: Oval Nestabilities, SU scallop border punch, Stardust glitter pen, Melon Mambo dotted grosgrain ribbon.

Have you visited with the fun gals Jana and Rosemary (otherwise known as the Poobahs) over at the Order of the Opus Gluei yet? Every week they host a new challenge, often unusual and usually slightly off-the-wall, but always guaranteed to be a blast! How could they not be with the first line of the Opus Gluei oath stating, 'I hereby promise to avoid conventional thinking regarding the processes for the creative processes'?

This week's anniversary challenge #52 is to 'Make Something'. Take that challenge as you will; I went literally and finally posted this Braces Survival Kit I created from a Cutting Cafe Pencil Box template. I've been brainstorming the conversion ever since I won this fun template from Charlene (Paper and Ink Playground)'s blog months ago, actually completed it a few weeks ago, and finally posted it here!

Contents include tootbrush and mini tootpaste, chapstick, brush flossers, and a treat to ease the pain -- pixie stix!

Join in the fun by 'making something', admire other Opus Gluei groupies' creations, and be prepared to giggle your way through the Order of the Opus Gluei!

Midnight Madness Sketch #51: Dreams Take Flight

Once again, Midnight Madness Sketch #51 is "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"
Fancy:

CAS:

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 Award this week goes to...
2. Valarie Florer
25. Leigh
35. charlene
37. Risa
39. Holly Miller
43. America

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Our MMSC50 Weekly Bonus Winner is...
22. Angela

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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.

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Thank you again Jeni for your wonderful prize :)

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For this week's sketch, I went with the CAS version, but added a few extra touches like the popped up doves and Flowersoft accents. There's no punches, though -- the lace border is part of the DP!

Stamps: D'amour Allure 'Arabella', Papertrey 'Pond Life Sentiments'. Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Soft Sky, My Mind's Eye 'Garden Party' DP, GP 110 white. Ink: Copics. Accessories: Flowersoft, Stardust glitter pen.

Be sure to stop by the other Midnight Madness Design Team's blogs to admire their take on the sketch:
Carol
Carolyn
Charlotte
Chris
Darsie
Denise
Jeni
Linda
Michelle
Phyllis
Priscilla
Tracy

Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge# 43: Make a Wish!

Stamps: Digi image Lia Stampz 'Twink', Heidi Grace sentiment. Cardstock: Bashful Blue, black, My Mind's Eye 'party time' SP, GP 110 white. Accessories: Long rectangle Nestablilites, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, white flocking.

Tuesday Morning Sketch Challege #43 is sponsored by a brand new digi image company, Lia Stampz. Here's this week's sketch:

I had fun dressing up 'Twink' in flocked PJs and adding sparkle to coordinate with the glitter DP:

Be sure to admire the TMS Design Team's versions of this recipe:

Melissa
Theresa
Gabby

Angela

Hollyanne

Genetta

Then link up your creations HERE so we can admire your take on the sketch!

Thanks, Mother Earth!

Cardstock: DCWV 'Eco Stack'. Accessories: coffee cup sleeve, scrap twill, SU sizzlit die 'Many Thanks'.

Happy Earth Day!

We've made several 'green' adjustments in our household over the past few years -- window film, replacing bulbs with CFLs, paying for recycling services, as well as the trying follow the eco mantra 'reduce, reuse, recycle'. This card covers a few of those recommendations:

Reduce: I decreased the layers and embellishments; who needs a lot extras with this gorgeous DP?

The twill is also a scrap I scavenged from another project. Here's a photo of my scrap bin; it's messy, but functional:



Reuse: the textured brown strip actually started out life as a coffee cup sleeve (made with recycled content). I know it would be even more green to bring my own mug, but there's a limit to how many items I can remember to bring while running errands!

Recycle: can you believe this DP is made with 70% recycled paper? I also keep a tub under my crafting desk to capture those paper bits too small to use; this gets emptied into the recycling bin when full.

Today also marks my last contribution to the Divine Influence blog. In honor of Earth Day, I've chosen to showcase one of my favorite eco-minded crafting blogs, Going Green Crafters & Artists. Be sure to stop by the Divine Influence to get a sample of the potential of the 3R's in the crafting world!