Twinkles Glow with Stamps

Each week, the DT awards one participant in the weekly sketch with the Midnight Madness Masterpiece award. This award is to recognize one participant for their outstanding sketch submission. If you would like to be considered for the award you must link your creation to Mr. Linky here before midnight on Sunday. This weeks winner is Mimi Kitty!!! Congrats!! Be sure to check out her creation and leave her some love.

We can't let the participants have all the fun so each week a dt member is also awarded. This week the MMDT has nominated a very special person for the "Midnight Madness Sweetheart" Award. She was nominated for many reasons, but here are just a few. She is one of the sweetest, softes, and most hones hard working women we have met. Her devotion to her family and friends is undeniable. She is a true sweetheart and so very talented!!!! Congrats Carolyn!!! Make sure to check out her awesome blog and leave her some love as well!!!

The Next Big Challenge Give Away is here!!! Priscilla thought she would do something a little different. The next prize can be for any product off the market. The easiest way to make this happen is give away $$CASH$$! We know how bad this economy has hit some people and Priscilla thougth the cash my help too. If you win, you can use your $ money for bills or for anything you would like. The Midnight Madness Blog is hopefully a place for you to gather a little extra inspiration that will keep you coming back week after week. The prizes make it even more fun, don't you think? We will mix it up each month so stick around for a while and have some fun with us!!

Our DT would like to Thank all of you for inspiring us. Since we started, we are having so much fun visiting and commenting on everyone's cards. So let's spread the word, have some more fun and see what transpires. Here is the plan.... for every entry made to Mr. Linky here, Priscilla will add $.25 cents to the Midnight Madness Mad Money piggy bank (only one entry per per person per week please) This could add up really fast!!! Now follow the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge blog here...for example, if it averages 50 Mr. Linky entries per week...that totals to approximately 200 entires for the month, which is $50 cash!!! For the Big Bonus....Priscilla will double the cash amount if we double the followers of the blog by the end of the month. That would be a grandtotal cash prize of $100 (to paid through Paypal or money order in US Funds) Now this total could be a lot hight depending on how many peaople play this month!!! We are at 160 follower count now, so if we reach 320 or more by June 30 midnight EST Priscilla will double the mad money amount. If the grand total at the end of the month reaches $200, two names will be drawn...if it reaches $300, 3 names will be drawn and so on...and so on, up to a maximum of $500 total pay out! Wow! (ie. if the grand total is $375 then three names are drawn and each person will receive $125 cash). This challenge will run for the month of June, Starting with MMSC4 and lasting for a series of 4 sketch challenge weeks and ending with MMSC7. The grand prize will bea announced on July 1 here. The drawing will be done via video and one of Priscilla's kids will draw the the name/names. The more people that play , the more $ that goes in the mad money piggy bank! We must reach atleast 320 followers here on the Midnight Madness Challenge Blog, for the mad money to be doubled. So gather up all your friends, announce it on your blogs and come play with us. In addition to our Mad Money cash prize and our weekly Midnight Madness Masterpiece Badge award, Priscilla will draw one name from each week's sketch entries to win a special surprise bonus gift. It is just a litle something to keep the excitement going throughout the month.

In order to qualify for the cash, you must display a linked Midnight Madness logo (displayed on my sidebar) badge on your blog, be a follower here and have a direct link back to Priscilla's blog in your card comments. No worries if you do not have a blog...upload your card to a card gallery and in your card comments have a direct link back to the MM Challenge blog and you qualify as well. For more details, you can click here. AND NOW FOR THIS WEEK"S SKETCH!!!........

He is what I created with the sketch......

I decided this week to make an altered project rather than a card. I made a little picture journal that I plan to give my daughter, Nicki, for her birthday. She loves scrapbooking and taking pictures so I thought it would be fun to make this for her double digit birthday. She turns 10 this month. Where does the time go!!!

I used an image from Whiff of Joy Summer kit and a chipboard album kit from K& Co's Classic K collection. The image is colored with copics. The frame around the image is a label 4 nestability. I love texture and distressing so inked and distressed the edges, dry embossed the panel behind my image with the textile embossing folder and added lace, a strip of material and zig zag stiching. I hope you like this creation and it inspires you to play along with this weeks sketch. For more inspiration, visit the blogs of the rest of the MMDT: Carolyn, Charlotte, Denise, Jane, Jeni, Jessica, Kimmie, Michelle, Phyllis, Priscilla, Shawne, Sonya, and Sue. Their creations will amaze and dazzle you!!!

Happy Monday morning to all of you. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Mine was very very busy but very nice as well. My girls and I were away the entire day on Saturday at the zoo. We had a great time but were very exhausted! So many neat things to see!! Sunday was church and then my brother and sister in law were here from Virginia! We had such a terrific visit. I so wish we didn't live so far apart and we could see eachother more often. It is so hard when the family is so spread out! We will be camping together in eachother month so we do have a lot to look forward to. July will be here before you know it! Time flies! I can't believe today is June already!!!

Speaking of June.....Today is the new release of the Our Daily Bread Designs two new sets: Quiet Waters and Ask Seek Knock. I am so excited to share these two gorgeous sets with you! I LOVE Them!! I have made two samples, using one of each to share with you!!

These two cards were made for sheer fun and not for any particular challenge! It was fun to just be creative! The first card uses SU Bella Blue paper and Bordering Blue. The sentiment is framed using a Spellbinders Labels 4 die available at ODBD! This is one of my absolute favorite dies!! The fence was created using a Martha Stewart Punch. The image was stamped on watercolor paper and watercolored. When I saw this Making Memories Key embellishment, I knew it was perfect to go with this stampset! I created a sidewalk using my Cuttlebug Mosaic Embossing Folder. The border along the bottom uses my favorite border punch Fleur De Lis from EK Success available at ODBD.

The second card features several Our Daily Bread Designs products! The store is rapidly expanding their inventory and there are just so many neat things available in one place!! I used today's new release: Quiet Waters. The image was stamped with Stazon on Watercolor paper and watercolored with Stampin Up Markers. This is such a fun set to watercolor! The designer paper for this card is all available at Our Daily Bread Designs. The paper includes Basic Grey Porcelain Prints, Memory Box Brandywine and Sugar Drop. The bordering shapes around the image and sentiment are using Spellbinders Blossom, Labels 4 and Labels 3 die all available in the store. The flowers are Prima Daisy Dream Quartz. (If you enjoy prima flowers, the selection available at ODBD is so wonderful. You want to be sure and check it out!) I decided to use some of the leaves on one of my ornare templates to frame my verse. The Porcelain prints ribbon went perfectly with the Pink Pirouette, so I used the Pink Pirouette Grossgrain ribbon and cardstock with hodgepodge hardware. I love Pink Pirouette and I am so sad to see it leaving SU this month. Time to do some hoarding before it is gone!!!

I hope you have enjoyed today's post! For more inspiration and examples using these awesome sets, you should visit the blogs of the rest of the breadsticks in the bread basket: Dina, Kathy, Jane, Judy, Grace, Lorilee, Sandee, Amy, Angella, Angel, Laurie, Betty, Becca and Angie. Each of these blogs have featured these new releases today! Thanks for visiting today!! I will be back tomorrow with another sketch for the Midnight Madness Challenge!! Thank you for all your wonderful comments and your inspiration on your blogs!!