I'm Inspired

Hey everyone I hope your Friday is going well.

Since we are midway through the challenge I thought I would take this time to share with you what the Design Team has for us for inspiration.
                                               
                                                     From Cass

                                                 From Miss Dee

                                                      From Lizzie

                                                From me (Jess)

Alright ladies, now that you have seen some inspiration, let's hope that gets your mojo working so that you can join in our SKETCH challenge this week. You have till the end of the day Thursday, February 3rd to enter. What are you waiting for? I know you all want to win that Gift Certificate to Totally Stampalicious.

Challenge #12 Winner

Here's our TOP THREE FAVES

and our

Lucky Random Winner for this week!

First off though I would like to say that we were very happy with the amount of entries we received and the support we are getting from all of you. I hope you all participate as much in our SKETCH challenge! 

See details of that HERE!

Here's our lucky Random Winner

this week....

The Random winner of the 3 images of their choice from Some Odd Girl is...........................#14 Angela Wood. Congratulations. Please e-mail your 3 image choices to Kristy@someoddgirl.com also make sure you note that you won these from our challenge.

                                        Here is Angela's winning card

  Here's your badge! Be sure to display it proudly on your blog!

            AND NOW OUR TOP THREE..............

                                                    Adina Medina

                                                                   Carisa

                                                                 Denimo

 

Here is your Top 3 badge!

Congratulations, Ladies!

Be sure to check out this week's 
 SKETCH Challenge!

Challenge #13 - Sponsored by Totally Stampalicious

Hey ladies, I want to thank all of you for stopping by on this fabulous Friday. We have a fun challenge lined up for you today but first I want to thank all of you who came by over the last couple weeks and showed your support for our new challenge blog. I am amazed by the amount of new followers and wonderful comments we received. THANK YOU.

The Winner and Top 3 of our "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" challenge will be announced on Monday, the 10th. Good luck to all the wonderful ladies who entered. Also did you ladies check out to see if you were featured as inspiration last week, if you were e-mail us at the link on the sidebar and I will get you your badge.

Well here we are, all ready for another fun challenge. We are being sponsored today by Totally Stampalicious.

Here is a little about Totally Stampalicious:

Becky and I have lived in the same town for over ten years but didn’t really get to know each other until one magic day when Becky said to me, “You do that stampin’ stuff don’t you?” The conversation exploded into a flurry of colors, techniques, rubber, and ink, and the rest, as they say, is history! After a few years of play-dates and working/teaching together at craft shows and classes, Becky decided it would be fun to start a company of our own, and even though it was her idea , she thought we’d have much more fun if we paired up and worked together! Since then, we have been enjoying the process of bringing Totally Stampalicious and its characters to life. We sincerely hope that we will have the opportunity to watch these characters grow and even introduce new ones into the family!

SO, what does the WINNER of this challenge receive, you may ask?  Well how does a $10 Gift Certificate sound? Pretty awesome right. You can use that on anything you find in their store. Does that sound like it's worth playing for?

Well here is your challenge should you choose to accept it. Our lovely DT member, Cass, created this great sketch for you all to work with.

Here is what our wonderful DT has created using the sketch.

                                             From Miss Dee
                                             using Coffee Brawd

                                             From Cass
                                             using Old Brawd

                                        From Lizzie
                                        using Glam Kitty

                                         From me (Jess)
                                         using Road Hawg

Alright ladies, you have the next 2 weeks to dazzle us. Good luck and be sure to snag our badge from the side bar to help support our fledgling challenge blog. Its your help and support that will make this blog into something great.

Also be sure to check back tomorrow as I showcase one of our wonderful DT members.

Need Inspiration?

Hey everyone I hope your Friday is going well.

Since we are midway through the challenge I thought I would take this time to share with you a few cards that you have entered into the challenge to feature for inspiration. Hmmm I wonder who will be featured this week.

                                    Here is a lovely gift card holder from 
                                                     Chris Olsen

                                Check out the scrumptious card from
                                                   Katie Tate

                                 And this stunning creation from
                                                     Leanne

Congrats on being featured ladies. We are currently working on a badge for you to display on your blogs. Please shoot us an email saying you have been featured and as soon as the badges are done I will send it to you.

Now let's see what the Design Team has for us for inspiration.

                                                From Cass

                                            From Miss Dee

                                               From Lizzie

                                          From me (Jess)

Alright ladies, now that you have seen  some inspiration, let's hope that gets your mojo working so that you can join in our "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" challenge this week. You have till the end of the day Thursday, January 20th to enter. What are you waiting for?

Challenge #11 WINNER

Wow you guys just blew us away with  how many entries we got for our Anything Goes challenge. 128 entries is not to shabby for a up and coming blog. Thank you all so much for your support. Now I am sure you are all eagerly awaiting the name of the winner of the Totally Stampalicious set and issue of Paper Crafts Magazine so I promise I wont keep you waiting any longer.

Random.org has picked the winner and it is Cheryl of She Stamps by Cheryl. Congratulations to you. Please email me us with your address so I can get your prize out to you.

Here is Cheryl's beautiful winning card.

Now there is definately time to get in on Challenge #12 - Girls Just Want to Have Fun, which just started on Friday and runs through the 20th. I hope you will all come play along. I may even feature one of your entries as inspiration this Friday.

Have a Crafty Day.

Meet the Design Team - Cassandra

Hey everyone today I want to introduce you to the first of our four member Design Team.

The first design team member to introduce is the woman who started this whole thing, Cassandra Sloan. I am so very lucky to have met Cass though an online card group that she will tell you about below. She has quickly become one of my closest crafty friends. I am so thankful that we are taking this journey together because without her none of this would be possible.

This is what Cass had to say:

April 2, 2007. This is the day my craft life changed forever.
I have loved crafts my entire life. I received my first stamp set as a child in grade school and have been fascinated ever since with scrapbooking and card making. I can remember making my own stationary as a child and trying to sell it for a quarter to my mother.

I had been officially card making for 3 years when I discovered Cafemom.com and the possibilities for creating a group of people who loved to create together and talk crafts!

On April 2, 2007, I launched card Makin Mamas. It was a place for people who loved to make cards and share them. It was a place to be inspired and talk paper, ink and rubber and share new ideas.
We became a tight knit group of moms and crafters. It is safe to say that each and every one of us has made lifelong friends and paper crafting buddies. Some of us have even been lucky enough to meet! A few ladies have gone on to do truly wonderful, creative things and have really advanced, and I am so proud to say they were a part of the original Card Makin Mamas!

I can honestly say that the group would not have gotten as far as it did without the constant support of my admins and friends, and now, my new partner in crime, Jessica. She has worked very hard and done a lot of networking to get us to this point and she is amazing!

Card Makin Mamas has come a very long way from the days when there were just a few of us doing challenges every week and learning all kinds of new amazing things. I sincerely hope that this new blog and group will be as inspirational to you as it was for me.

Challenge #12 sponsored by Some Odd Girl

Hey ladies, I want to thank all of you for stopping by. Today is a very special day. It is the "Official Launch" of the Card Makin Mamas Challenge Blog.

The winner of our last Anything Goes challenge will be announced on Monday, the 10th. Good luck to all the wonderful ladies who entered.

For our First Official Challenge we have a wonderful sponsor to share with you. Some of you may be familiar with them, and if your not, you should be. LOL.

Some Odd Girl is the place to find fun and quirky digis that I know you will love! Some Odd Girl was inspired by two great friends who are such dolls! They took one of my pencil drawings and made it into red rubber and that act of generosity spiraled into what you see today. I am a married momma of 2 who has a hubby who not only loves me but supports my crafting and my site as my IT guy. What more could a girl want? I am an artist born who started out with pencils then acrylics and now also scrapbook and am a cardmaker. I design things that I love and hope you have as much fun with our stamps as we do! We'd love to supply the winner with 3 freebies of their choice from our shop so I hope you'll take a look around and pick your favs!

The Challenge if you are up to it is:

Girls Just Want to Have Fun!!!!

Lets see those girly cards. Make them frilly, vintage, or sparkly, I dont care, as long as it's girly.

The random winner will get 3 images of their choice from Some Odd Girl. We will also pick our top 3 to get a special badge for their blog.

Let's see what the new Design Team has up their sleeve.

                                                    From Cassandra

                                                    From Dee

                                                  From Lizzie

                                                    From Jessica (Me)

Alright ladies, you have the next 2 weeks to dazzle us. Good luck and be sure to snag our badge from the side bar to help support our fledgling challenge blog. Its your help and support that will make this blog into something great.

Also be sure to check back tomorrow as I showcase one of our wonderful DT members and let you all know about the origin of Card Makin Mamas.