Happy Holidays Winners

T.G.I.F, right?!

Now that the busy holidays are behind us & we're into the second week of the new year, are you feeling refreshed? Is your creative mojo energized? I hope so! We have a bit of business to get to...I'm sure you have been wondering who our HAPPY HOLIDAYS * WINNERS are...

and check back tomorrow for inspiration peeks from our Design Team and to see if YOU were chosen as inspiration for our current challenge!

Thank you for participating! YOU are such an inspiration and we love stopping by to see what wonderful cards you've linked up & to leave some comment love. We all need a little more of that, right? ;)

Okay, on to the winners! This time around there are only peeks of the winners' cards. I'm sure they would love it if you were to click their links and congratulate them...just sayin'! :)

Congrats to Our Top 3!

#115 Fiona-Kate

lovely coloring, sweet image, cute design!

#127 Glenda Atkins

repeated elements, great color combo, fun texture!

#163 Sharon

vintage, gorgeous flowers, love that image!

Top 3 Winners - Don't forget to add the CMM Top 3 badge to your blog - it's located in the sidebar!

And our random winner of the $10 Gift Certificate to Tiddly Inks...

drum roll, please...

Congratulations, #141 Frea!

Send an email to cardmakinmamaschallenge@hotmail.com to claim your prize!

PLEASE PUT THE NAME OF THE CHALLENGE YOU WON IN THE EMAIL.

Don't forget to add the CMM Winner's Badge to your blog!

The badge is located on the sidebar to the right.

See you tomorrow with some great ANYTHING GOES projects from our current challenge!

A New Year and a New Challenge CMM60

Hello Hello to all of you. I am so excited to be posting the first challenge of 2013. I trust all of you had a wonderful holiday season, I know I did. I hope you all don't mind that I gave the girls some time off. 

Let's get to the NEW challenge. 

                      ANYTHING GOES

I wanted to this year off right and let you all create WHATEVER you want. Yes, I mean WHATEVER. For one challenge ONLY I am allowing any kind of  papercraft (not just cards). Shocking huh? LOL. This is my New  Year gift to  you all, express yourselves in whatever way your heart desires as long as it is a papercraft. 

The sponsor this challenge is ME. I have a mystery package of crafting goodies to give away. There is a little bit of everything in there. I have been filling it over the holidays. 

Now let's see what the DT has for us today. 

                                                      Penny 

                                                   Shary

                                                     Susan

Many of our  ladies are recovering from various ailments and will be back next week with Inspiration for you all.

Now one last bit of news for you all. We are currently looking for a FEW NEW CARD MAKERS to join our AWESOME DESIGN TEAM!!

The DT term for the new applicants will be from February through April. As you know our challenges run bi-weekly and you will be required to do a card for each challenge. We have lovely and generous sponsors and when we are supplied with items to work with I ask that you do so. Also, I ask that you post on your challenge creation on your blog and comment on your designated challenge entries.

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, a link to your blog,  and attach 3 cards that you feel best show off your talents.

We are a fun bunch and we look forward to having some of you join the party here at CMM.

We will be accepting DT submissions through the end of the day on January 18th. That gives you  two weeks to get your applications in. The newly chosen DT members will begin February 1st. 

If you have any other questions regarding the specifics of what we would require of you, please email me HERE. I look forward to reviewing your applications.

Silver/Gold Top 3 & DT CALL info

(Apologies for the late post...thought I had scheduled it, but apparently it didn't save! So, let's get to it!)

If you are looking for the random winner of the Silver and/or Gold challenge, see last week's post!

Hope your Christmas was as wonderful as you wanted it to be! Now we have a little 'gift' for you...as promised, I've got a Top 3 from our last challenge - Silver and/or Gold - to share with you today...

First, let's get to the eye candy...in no particular order, here are our TOP 3!

#30 Carla Suto

#45 Shelby

#6 Tracy MacDonald

Don't forget, Winners, to add the CMM Top 3 badge to your blog - it's located in the sidebar!

There were some wonderful cards featuring Silver and Gold. I know I found some inspiration for next year's Christmas card! Did you have a favorite?

The HAPPY HOLIDAYS Challenge is still open (until Jan 3rd.)! Stop by to see what everyone else is creating and link up your Christmas or New Year's card for a chance to win a 

$10 gift certificate to Tiddly Inks!

If you are looking for the DT CALL, you are in the right place...but we had a few last minute details to finish up, so stop by next Monday for the full post! (ETA: You can find the DT Call here!) We can't wait to see what else you've been creating!

Did you know you can also Follow Us via GFC (in the sidebar) or even join our Card Makin' Mamas Facebook Group? Great inspiration and information (tutorials, freebies, contests, etc.) to be shared!

Have a great weekend!

Silver/Gold Winner & Happy Holiday Inspiration

For those of us celebrating Christmas, we are down to 4 days! Are you ready for the big day or are you a last minute shopper? Whatever your winter activities, you creative card makers have found time to create some wonderful cards!

Well, let's get to it! The random winner of the Bugaboo Stamps Digis for our

Silver and/or Gold Challenge is:

#53 Berit Synnøve

CONGRATS, Berit!

Send an email to cardmakinmamaschallenge@hotmail.com to claim your prize!

PLEASE PUT THE NAME OF THE CHALLENGE YOU WON IN THE EMAIL.

Don't forget to add the CMM Winner's Badge to your blog!

The badge is located on the sidebar to the right.

Have you entered our last challenge of the year Happy Holidays?

This challenge is sponsored by the fabulous 

Tiddly Inks - Digital & Clear Stamps!

Here's a little holiday inspiration from our DT!


DT Angi

DT Sara

Nothing like a last minute holiday card, right?! Be sure to visit their blogs and leave them a little love for their efforts!

If you're a regular to CMM, you know we usually have a Top 3 to show you on Winner Day...but since this challenge is an extra week, we're saving those for next Friday. You'll want to check back to see the DT favorites, but also to see our announcement...

DT CALL next Friday!

If you've ever wanted to be a part of a creative team, helping to inspire others while sharing and receive a few perks along the way, come back next week for all the details!

It's the HOLIDAYS Challenge #59

Happy Holidays everyone. I hope this is finding you all well. I do want to start out by sending up a prayer to the victims, families, and survivors of the recent shooting events at Clackamas Town Center Mall in Oregon (half an hour from where I live) and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

This week I am here to share with you our final challenge of the year. It will last until January 3rd. The challenge will be:
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Show me Christmas or New Year related cards.

We have an AWESOME sponsor for our final  challenge. Tiddly Inks Digital & Clear Stamps

Tiddly Inks offers digital stamps and digital papers, created by Christy Croll. Christy is a self-trained illustrator who likes simple, cute and quirky drawings with a sense of humor. She draws what amuses her, which means some days it is quirky and cute and other days it is a bit of a twisted gothic feel. 

They are offering a $10 Gift Certificate to the random winner of this challenge. Now that is a prize worth playing for. 

Here are our amazing Design Team samples to get your mojo flowing! Sadly this will be the final challenge for a couple of them. LETS SAY GOODBYE TO SHANNON AND EVELINA

                                                                   Eva

                                                              Penny 

 

                                                                Shannon

                                                                 Shary

                                                               Susan

Super cute cards right?  Want to show us what you got?  Then link up below to be entered in our challenge! Also don't forget to come back next Friday when the inspiration girls will dazzle you with their  creations. 

ALSO COME BACK MONDAY FOR A DT CALL 

Thanksgiving/Thanks Winner & Silver/Gold Inspiration

Happy Friday, Mamas! THANK YOU for entering our previous challenge! There were so many different styles and designs, holiday cards & 'thank you's, traditional fall colors and interesting combos. That's what makes these challenges so much fun!

Did you know... At the end of every challenge, a random draw is done from all the qualifying participants. Beginners and seasoned cardmakers alike have an equal chance of winning the sponsored prize. How awesome is that?!

The TOP 3 are chosen by the Design Team. Want to be considered for the TOP 3 recognition? Be thoughtful in your CARD design - layout, colors, embellishments - and take good pictures! Consider lighting, the angle of the camera, etc. We want your creation to look good here, too!

Okay, it's (finally!) time to announce the winners of our THANKSGIVING/THANK YOU challenge! 

First up is our random draw for the Mystery $$ Prize from Digi My World!

#7 GEORGIANA

Send an email to cardmakinmamaschallenge@hotmail.com to claim your prize!
PLEASE PUT THE NAME OF THE CHALLENGE YOU WON IN THE EMAIL.

Don't forget to add the CMM Winner's Badge to your blog!
The badge is located on the sidebar to the right.

Our TOP 3 (in no particular order):

ATHINA

HELEN

PINKY

Have you entered our current challenge?

It's sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps!

SILVER and/or GOLD

How about a mix of DT and participant cards for you to see! All with a flash of silver and/or gold!

Be sure to click on the pictures to see more detail and, of course, click on the designer's name to see more of their creations!

DT Angi

(Bugaboo Stamps: Princess Charlie - Toad)

DT Eva

#2 Donna Ellis

#20 Cathy

#28 Gem

Whew! Are you feeling inspired? Did you know you are allowed 2 entries per challenge? We can't wait to see what else you create with the Silver and/or Gold theme!

Silver & Gold Challenge #58

I hope you all are getting in the mood for the holidays. I know I am. 

The challenge this week is a COLOR CHALLENGE. 

                  SILVER AND/OR GOLD

We want to see  sparkly, shimmery cards with silver and/or gold on it. Now you don't have to go with a holiday card if you don't want to. Just anything following the color theme. Also silver an/or gold MUST  be a main color. I don't want to just see a tiny bit. 

Our amazing sponsor this week is BUGABOO STAMPS

Everything That You Ever Wanted to Know About Bugaboo Stamps: A Short Essay:
As if raising five children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the world of papercrafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. That was two years ago. Today Bugaboo Stamps is one of the leading companies in digital images, and we're still growing!  From seriously snarky to sugary sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects.  Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week! 

 If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps   at Totally Stampalicious. And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT   for weekly challenges at Catch the Bug. 

They will be offering the winner of this challenge  FREE DIGIS

Here are our amazing Design Team samples to get your mojo flowing! While you are looking check out our amazing new Designers and leave them some love. 

                                                         Sara

                                                      Lisa 

Penny 

                                                      Shannon

 Shary

                                                         Susan

Super cute cards right?  Want to show us what you got?  Then link up below to be entered in our challenge! Also don't forget to come back next Friday when the inspiration girls will dazzle you with their  creations.