New Challenge and New DT

HAPPY FRIDAY AND ROYAL WEDDING DAY TO YOU ALL. I want to  thank you all for stopping by our blog today for the new challenge and we also have our wonderful new Design Team members to announce.

First off I want to say thanks to all that applied to be on the Design Team. I wish we had room for all of you, however  for those of you that did not make it, please be on the lookout for a special invitation next week.

I want to say HOORAY to Dee and Lizzie for staying on for another term here at Card Makin Mamas, and now for the announcement of our NEW Design Team members.

            PLEASE WELCOME

                                            CISKA 

                                                  DEB

                                              KITTY

                  and our current Guest Designer,
                                        MARISKA

               Now onto the challenge. Today we are being sponsored by

Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical digital images inspired by her kids and family. The Meljen's Designs store officially launched on April 1 and is steadily growing! Meljen's Designs has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Monday and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at the WHIMSY STAMPS STORE to browse and enjoy Melissa's wonderful images!

The Challenge if you are up to it is: FOR A LOVED ONE. In honor of today's Royal Wedding and the USA Mother's Day next weekend, I felt it very appropriate that we should showcase love and those we love. So please create a CARD for someone you love, it can be a parent, a sibling, a child, a spouse, a friend. So basically anyone that you care for. Should be easy peasy right?

Meljen's Designs will be offering the winner of this challenge their choice of 4 images from these incredible images found HERE.


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

                                                  From Ciska

                                     From Deb

                                                     From Miss Dee 

                                                         From Kitty

                                                           From Lizzie

                                                  From Mariska

                                                 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 challenge blog. Its your help and support that will make this blog into something great.

Also we will be making a decision in the next week as to who will join us as our May Guest Designer.

Now we will have something new for our June Guest Designer. We are looking for a child to showcase. If any of you craft with your children and they enjoy making cards as much as you do, please have them enter our challenge and put GDT after their entry.

Who Needs 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.

                                           From Teresa 

                                           From Lori A

                                           From Mary D

Congrats on being featured ladies. Here is your badge to display on your blog.

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

                                        From Miss Dee using Chelsea digi

                                    From Lizzie

                        From me (Jess) using a PMS Freebie Sentiment
                                         and I used Sailor colors

Alright ladies, now that you have seen some inspiration, let's hope that gets your mojo working so that you can join in our SPRING COLORS challenge this week by going HERE. You have till the end of the day Thursday, April 28th to enter. What are you waiting for? I know you all want to win that $15 Gift Certificate to the  Paper Makeup Stamps store.

We've got a WINNER and our Top 3!

Here's our TOP THREE FAVES

and our

Lucky Random Winner for this week!

First off though I would like thank you for the support we are getting from all of you. I hope you all participate as much in our SPRING COLORS challenge!  
See details of that HERE!

Here's our lucky Random Winner

this week....

The Random winner of the $15 shopping spree from Wink Wink Ink is........................... Katja! Congratulations. Please e-mail us at your earliest convenience with your contact information. 

Here is Katja's winning card.

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

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

Samantha Bell

Suzie McFloozy

Jill

Here is your Top 3 badge!

Congratulations, Ladies! 

 

Challenge #19 and DT CALL

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 need to address some issues that we are having with some challenge entries. If you haven't already read the challenge rules then let me make it clear we are a CARD challenge blog so we will only accept card entries unless the challenge states otherwise. Also we only allow 2 entries per person to make it  fair to everyone. I will start deleting entries if they do not follow the challenge guidelines. I hope I dont come off sounding cranky but we want this to be a fun and FAIR blog.

Now onto the  challenge. Today we are being sponsored by Paper Makeup Stamps.

Paper Makeup Stamps is a little company started by professional make-up artist Katie Cotton. An endeavor to bring her love of beauty, paper and card making together resulted in a company that prides itself on offering un-mounted deeply etched red rubber stamps that can be ordered the way you like! Paper Makeup Stamps offers various styles of stamps from numerous artists to suit your taste. They also offer a wide array of unique quotes and sentiments in various sizes. Not a rubber girl? Almost all of their images can be purchased in digital format. And just like any great beauty bag, Paper Makeup Stamps carries lots of essentials and accessories to simplify and beautify your card-making! So browse around and do a one stop shop!

The Challenge if you are up to it is: SPRING COLORS. Now your card doesnt have to be a Spring or Easter card, but I want it to have the colors of one. Sounds like a fun challenge doesn't  it. The winner will receive a $15 Gift Certificate to the PMS store, which can be used on digis OR rubber. YAY.

Let's see what the Design Team has up their sleeve.
                                    From Lizzie using Natalie (Digi)

                            From Miss Dee  using Emma (rubber)

                               From Jessica (Me) using Aurora (Digi)

                        From our AWESOME April Guest Designer,
                                       Mariska using Aurora (Digi)

Also don't forget that we are looking for TWO new DT members to join us here at Card Makin Mamas. So if you are interested in joining us as a Design Team Member please e-mail me HERE. In the email please tell me a little about yourself and your card making journey, why you want to be on our team, and attach the 3 cards that you feel best show off your talents.

We will be accepting DT submissions through the end of the day April 17th. That gives you just a few more days to get your applications in. The 2 chosen DT members will begin on April 29th.


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 challenge blog. Its your help and support that will make this blog into something great.

Also, if you want to be considered for our MAY GUEST DESIGNER please put GDT after your name in the linky.

Time for Inspiration

Hey everyone I hope you had a great weekend. I spent most of mine taking care of my soon to be 6 year  old. I did get out of the house yesterday though to do a little birthday shopping for my soon to be 4 year old. Anyhow, enough about that.

We are a little over midway through the challenge  and it is 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.

                                                From LaDiva

                                            From Amelia

                                                 From Maria Matter

Congrats on being featured ladies. Here is your badge to display on your blog.

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

                                                   From Miss Dee

                                           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 EMBELLISH IT challenge this week by going HERE. You have till the end of the day Thursday, April 14th to enter. What are you waiting for? I know you all want to win $15 to spend at the Wink Wink Ink store.


DONT FORGET ABOUT OUR ONGOING DT CALL. Details can be found HERE. We will be accepting DT submissions through the end of the day April 17th.

Inspiration Post Delayed

Hey everyone, normally I would be showing you some amazing inpiration by our DT and our challengers, however this morning my son woke with a super high fever and not feeling well. I will be back on Monday with the Inspiration post. I hope you don't mind but I am taking the weekend off to take care of him.

Thanks so much for your support. Jessica

Challenge #17 Winner & Top 3

Here's our TOP THREE FAVES

and our

Lucky Random Winner for this week!

First off though I would like thank you for the support we are getting from all of you. I hope you all participate as much in our EMBELLISH IT 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 Karen's Doodles is........................... Crafty Emma. Congratulations. Please e-mail me at your earliest convenience with your contact  imformation.

                                     Here is Emma's winning card.

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

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

                                              Denimo

                                              Iulia

                                                Susan

Here is your Top 3 badge!

 

Congratulations, Ladies! 

 

Challenge #18 and DT CALL

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 let you know that the Winner and Top 3 of our "ANIMAL" challenge will be announced on Monday, the 4th. Good luck to the wonderful ladies who entered.

Well here we are, all ready for another fun challenge. We are being sponsored today by Wink Wink Ink, a great little digi company.

*Wink *Wink Ink is a digital stamp company that specializes in cute images of children, animals, and other fun creatures. In addition to the well drawn detailed style of our images, the thing that really sets *Wink *Wink Ink apart is the pre-colored images that are included with every stamp you buy!  These are great for doing quick projects when you don't have time to color or for use as a guide for coloring your own.  You get a colored jpg, a black and white jpg, and a transparent png file of each image for one low price. You can also get free sentiments to go with some of our images at our brand new store!


The Challenge if you are up to it is: EMBELLISH IT!
That's right get out those buttons, ribbon, bling, flowers and charms. We want to see all kinds of embellies on your cards. The random winner will get $15 to spend at the Wink Wink Ink store, what a great prize. We will also pick our top 3 to get a special badge for their blog.

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

                        From Cassandra using "Wooly Bear Caterpillar"

                                      From Lizzie using "Mini Messages"

                             From Miss Dee  using "Chickadee Border"

                               From Jessica (Me) using "In a Jam" 
                                and coordinating freebie sentiment

And now we are pleased to announce the April Guest Designer, Mariska. We are so pleased to have her joining us this month. We think her creativity is amazing and I hope that you agree. Please visit her blog and let her know how awesomely talented she is.

                         Here is Mariska's card using "Farm Friends"

**OK So here is the sad news for us but potentially good news for some of you. Today is founding Card Makin Mama, Cassandra's LAST day with us here. Sniffle Sniffle.  I can't tell you how very sad this makes me. I have been through quite the creative journey with her and I can honestly say that I wouldnt be where I am without her.

Now we are left with the daunting task of trying to fill the DT void left by Miss Cass. We have decided that  we are wanting not one, but TWO new DT members to join us here at Card Makin Mamas. So if you are interested in joining us as a Design Team Member please e-mail me HERE. In the email please tell me a little about yourself and your card making journey, why you want to be on our team, and attach the 3 cards that you feel best show off your talents.

We will be accepting DT submissions through the end of the day April 17th. That gives you just over 2 weeks to get your applications in. The 2 chosen DT members will begin on April 29th. **


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 challenge blog. Its your help and support that will make this blog into something great.

Also, if you want to be considered for our MAY GUEST DESIGNER please put GDT after your name in the linky.