Twinkles Glow with Stamps

Happy Friday everyone!! It is not only the beginning of the weekend but the Midnight Madness' First Fall Blog Hop with lots of eye candy and prizes along the way!!!!!!

Welcome to prowling at the 1st Midnight Madness Blog Hop. The design team of Midnight is celebrating you, our players, with a fun and exciting blog hop. We have TWENTY FIVE exciting prizes to give away. As a matter of fact, here is a list of how you can win:

One Grand Prize random Drawing worth $100
350th Brand New Sketch Player Special Prize worth $50
11 "Cards from the Crypt" (picked by our Dt members from MMSC archives)
and 12 random Package winners drawn

You have until Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12 p.m. Midnight EST to leave your name in Mr. Linky at the Midnight Madness Blog to be eligible for the prizes. Prize winners will be notified at the end of the week.

You don't have a blog.... that's o.k., read here.....

If you would like to be entered in the Prowling at the 1st Midnight Madness Blog Prizes and you DO NOT have a blog you still can participate. You will have to follow these directions:

1. Leave a comment on the Midnight Madness Blog Hop Comment Section with your email address, first name and last name initial.
2. Link up to Mr. Linky with first name and last name initial and in the URL space enter this address http://priscillastyles.blogspot.com

In order to have a chance at winning any of the prizes, you must gather a secret phrase along the blog hop. Each Design Team member will have a particular word listed on their blog and as long as you visit them in order, you have the secret phrase at the end. If you are picked as a prize winner you will be contacted by email and you must email back the secret phrase within 48 hours to claim your prize. If by any chance any of the 350th Brand New Player or any of the "Cards of the Crypt" winners are not claimed, then those prizes will be added to the random winners drawn.

To start off, you must begin at the Midnight Madness Blog!! If you have not started there, I suggest you go back and begin again....you don't want to miss out on the Prizes! If you have arrived from Denise's Blog- KC242 Designs by Denise then you are on the correct course. If you want a chance to win you will have to follow the instructions above. Have fun on the hop!!!

Meet the Midnight Madness Team
We thought it would be fun to feature in this section of our blog hop something to help you get to know the design team members and for us to get to know you. We have all chosen some questions with answers we wanted to share with you about ourselves. You are welcome to leave a comment here at my blog and tell me something about you as well. So here are some things about me.

1. What was your reason to get into paper crafting/paper crafting?

I have always enjoyed anything crafty. When I had my first daughter, my sister, Jeanne, introduced me to stamping. She is a Stampin up Demonstrator. (My sister is smiling now since I just gave her all the credit. LOL!) At first I did it when I had a chance. My time was limited since I had a newborn and was working full time. When my second daughter was born, 7 years ago, I resigned my job. I began stamping for me as an escape or to do something just for me. Since Meghan had colic and needed a lot of my attention for the first few years, I had limited time to stamp. Now as they are growing up I have more time.

2. Where do you get most of your inspiration from?

Most of my inspiration comes from the surroundings around me in nature, stores, etc. or from viewing others creations.

3. Is there a time when your best creations are made and is there a specific food or drink you just have to have with you?

Many of my better ideas come in the middle of the night when I should be sleeping although I am a very early riser and not a night person at all. Sometimes I begin creating at 3 a.m. when the kids are sleeping and all is quiet.

4. What tool could you not live without?

This is a very difficult question for me since there are so many things I enjoy using. I would have to say the cuttlebug would be my most used craft item. I enjoy using my dies and embossing folders to add texture. My second tool that I enjoy is my sewing machine.

5. What is your favorite medium for coloring?

I love to color with copics but since I still have a limited supply, I love using prisma color pencils and gamsol or even watercolors or chalks. The medium I use, depends on the effect I want. Chalks work well for backgrounds and skies.

6. What is your favorite crafting technique?

I really don't have a favorite. I love trying new things.

7. Tell us something about yourself that would surprise us.

Well I hate to admit it...but I was a movie star in my former life. No just kidding....I live a pretty normal life or so I think. I am happily married to my hubby, Scott for the past 11 almost 12 years. I was a special education teacher, first, second and third grade teacher, as well as assistant principal of an elementary school before staying home with my two precious daughters. I now home school my two girls.

In addition to crafting, I play piano and sing. I sing in a special women's group for our church.

8. And finally my last question...(PHEW! Can you tell this is my fave thing to do...)
If you could do something dangerous just once, with no risk- what would you do?

I love to hike and view the nature around me. If I did not get motion sickness or if I wasn't a chicken!!! I would love to sky dive to see the views from the sky or mountain climb.

Cards from the Crypt

For something a little fun to honor our Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge Players, we thought we would go back into the crypt of archived challenges and pick some of our favorites to feature here. Our winners will need to do the blog hop and collect a word from each of the blogs to collect the winning phrase and place their name in Mr. Linky at the Midnight Madness Blog! We will then email you when we verify that you have entered you name in Mr. Linky, you will need to email the phrase back to us in order to qualify for your prize. Even if your card has been chosen from the crypt you are still eligible for the Grand Prize and Random Drawings.

My card from the crypt is featuring MMSC17. My choice is a very loyal MMSC player with a lot of talent: Valerie Florer. I just love the texture she added, colors, the flower and her unique take on the sketch.


Here is her creation:



Congratulation Valerie!!!

Now on to my fall creations!!

My project is with Harvest and Thanksgiving in mind. These also meet the Crazy4 Challenges challenge this week to create a Thank you card or project or one with a Thanksgiving Theme (Of course these pictures were taken before we had snow on the ground today). I am not only showing you stampin or paper projects but some of my other crafts including flower arranging and tole painting as well.


Being the expert photographer that I am....I cut off some of my pieces or blocked
them with other pieces so I will show them here individually.


First is my Tole Painted Scarecrow. Scott and I enjoy creating these type of project together. It is a light box. You will also the top half of the flower arrangement that I cut off in my first picture. LOL!



Here is a pumpkin I created with a roll of toilet paper, material, a paper bag, a cinnamin stick, and raffia. This is not my original idea but something I saw on my dear friend and Spotlight Diva Dt Sister Dawn's (My Stamping Thyme) blog. The image is from Mo's Digital Pencil. This little boy is abundantly blessed as I am.



The next picture shows a candle I created. I used an Inkadinkado Autumn stamp set with leaves and flourishes.


The same stamp used for the candle is also used on this napkin ring holder I created. The punch is I used Moraccan Lace from EK Success.


This last photo is a matchbox favor box I created to serve as place setting markers. The opposite side of the pumpkin has the person's name. The inside has chocolate nougats. The pumpkin is from the Fall Whimsy set from SU and the sentiment is from Inkadinkado. I used the SU Sizzix matchbox die to create the inside of the box holding the nougats.


I hope you enjoyed my creations!! And now it is time for the revealing of the SECRET WORD!

Thank you for playing in our weekly challenges and for all your support each week. We love sharing our creations with you and visiting your blogs each week to see what you have created. We hope you are enjoying this special Blog Hop and that you are finding something new along the way. Thanks for joining us today!

Happy Thursday Everyone!! I hope you are all having a good week. Boy is winter on its way here this week. The temperature is in the 30's and they are predicting snow here today and on Saturday. I am so not ready for winter. My favorite part is sitting by the fire with the family. Scott is planning on stacking up wood for the fireplace so at least I have that to look forward to. Right now, all I want to do is crawl back in bed which I will do after finishing this post.

Today is the Divine Diva Inspiration Challenge. Lori sent us each a picture of a discontinued piece of fabric for our inspiration. When I saw it, it reminded me of Basic Grey's Lemonade paper so I went with it. To duplicate the many flowers in the pattern and the circles, I used my bloom dots embossing folder. I made a matchbox with Nougats to coordinate with the card using my Sizzix die from SU. The squares are created using my Lattice Spellbinders dies. The flower that is stamped is created with the True Friend Stamp set.





I hope this creation inspires you to create something for today's Divine Diva Inspiration Challenge. If you do create using the above swatch of fabric, please leave a direct link here. If you upload your creation to SC, Please use the keyword DDIC. For more inspiration, please visit my dt sisters:
Anne

• Donna
• 
  
• Julie

Lori

• Keri
• 
  
  Kerri

I have noticed that several of my regular followers have not signed up for my birthday blog candy, please know that I do have some birthday blog candy up until October 30. I decided this is one of the best ways to say thanks to all those who inspire me. You can click on the link on my top sidebar or scroll down to the next post.

Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving such sweet comments. It may seem like a small thing to you but it truly inspires me! Do not forget that tomorrow is the Midnight Madness Blog Hop with lots of fun and prizes at 8 a.m. EST. Hope to see you there!

Happy Hump Day Everyone!! I hope everyone has been enjoying their week so far!!

After coming back from camping I have not been to well at all. I am so sorry if I have not able to visit you at your blogs recently. I am trying to but I can only be away from my bed for so long. I sure hope this miserable head cold goes away soon. My girls are quite miserable also. I was suppose to go visit my Dad for his birthday this weekend. The odds are not looking to good to go there. I don't want to give him the gift of illness. We shall see. I know it would make his day to have us there but I just don't want to go there like this....

Anywho....this post was not meant to be a place of complaining or rambling. I just wanted to apologize if I have not been by.

Today is both Flutter By Wednesday and Inky Impressions Challenge. Since today's challenge over at Flutter By Wednesday was open and just asks that you use a fairy or butterfly, I thought it the perfect opportunity to combine the two. I will share my creation and the II challenge after I give you some more FBW details. This week FBW has a guest.

This week's guest designer is someone very talented in blog world. Her cards are so classy and fun! She is the very talented Christi Thorsen! Please visit her blog and leave her some love.

This creation was already sent to my dear friend and dt sister, Lelia as blog candy a week ago. Hope you are enjoying all the Lindt chocolate, Lelia!! I colored the image in prisma color pencils and gamsol and added glitter to the wings. The dp is SU Urban Garden. The cs is Baja Breeze, one of my fave colors!! When sending some scrumptious treats, I always love to have windows in my bags or boxes. The punched layer at the bottom is using the Moroccan Lace punch available in my blog candy. If you have not had the opportunity to sign up for it, there is still time, just click on the link on my top sidebar and it will take you there.

I hope you enjoyed today's post and that you are inspired to create with either the Inky Impressions challenge or Flutter By Wednesday.

For more inspiration for the Inky Impressions Challenge, Please visit my dt sisters:

• Jenn
• Kristine
  
• Michele
  
• Naoual
  

Should you create using the recipe above and an Inky Impressions image, please leave a direct link to your creation here. Should you upload your creation to SC, please use the keyword inkyimpressions.

Inky Impressions will be having a Blog hop and a New Release of some adorable images soon. here are some sneak peeks.







For more inspiration for the Flutter By Wednesday challenge, please visit my dt sisters:

• Ann
• Cassie
• Danni
  
• Christine
• Harriet
• Heather
• Jodi
• Kristie
• Lelia
• Michelle
  
• Nancy
• Nicola
• Stef
• Taylor

Should you create a card or project with a butterfly or fairy, please leave a direct link on Mr. Linky here. Should you upload your creation to PCP or SC, please use the keyword FBW.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope to be able to stop by your blogs today!! Tomorrow I will be back with another creation for the Divine Diva Inspiration Challenge. And then....Friday is the MIDNIGHT MANESS' FIRST BLOG HOP! Hope to see you here!!

blessings,
Chris

Happy Tuesday to you all!! I hope everyone had a great weekend!!
I am back from camping! We had an excellent time, however, it was an
extremely cold weekend and we now are all sick with horrid head colds.
Unfortunately my girls and I feel achy from head to toe. The highlight of the
weekend was our 3 hour hike at Watkins Glen, NY. The sites were incredible.
I hope at some point to be able to share the pictures with you.

My next highlight was our return home to find out I was the FEATURED
STAMPER AT SC this weekend. I am so excited and thrilled. I felt horrid
last night and did not get around to leaving comments and looking at all the
Cased creations, but I will today!!! Thank for all the compliments and
congratulations.
The count down Is on!!! Just a few more days till the Prowling at the 1st Midnight Madness Blog Hop!! We are going to skip the Mid Week with Midnight Madness this week as we prepare for our FUN-TAS-TIC event. We hope you are getting excited about our blog hop. As a special way to thank our players and welcome new ones, we will be hosting our very 1st Halloween/Fall themed Midnight Madness Blog Hop.....Beginning October 16th at 8 a.m. EST and ending October 20th at 12 a.m. Midnight. AND OH WILL THERE BE PRIZES.....

The MM REMARKABLES AWARD!!
Thank you all for playing and please help me in congratulating our “Midnight Madness Remarkables!

OUR WEEKLY BONUS SPONSOR THIS WEEK IS.....

$50 worth of Stamp sheets of your choice…WOW!!!

Want an extra entry to win this

$50 voucher ???

For an extra entry to win this $50 voucher here is what you have to do....For our MMSC23 "PLAYERS"- along with having the blog hop logo posted to your side bar, Make a special post using the "BLOG HOP LOGO" (seen above and on the top of my side bar) inviting everyone to join us on Friday!!!! Post must be made by midnight Thursday EST to qualify for MMSC23 double entry. Just add your name to Mr Linky....ONE with a direct link to your card and the OTHER ONE to your Special Post about our upcoming Blog Hop. Card post and Blog hop post may be combined, BUT in order to qualify with the second entry on Mr. Linky this week, the logo HAS to be on the SIDE BAR with a link back to the MM blog along with being posted by the deadline. Card post is not due till Oct 20th, but if you enter Mr. Linky with your "Blog Hop" post and your name is pulled and you did not submit a MMSC23 card, another name will be randomly generated. Reminder....(a "direct" link normally starts with http and ends with html) If you have any questions about this just shoot me an email at heatonup@verizon.net We are hoping you will help us spread the word about our blog hop and in return you will get an extra entry for this weeks Bonus prize....another Sweeeeet Deal!!!!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .
NOW FOR OUR WEEK #23
SKETCH CHALLENGE

We had a really good response to last weeks sketch. This Weeks sketch

has some different added elements to it so we hope you will enjoy this one

just as much.

Here is my take on this weeks #23 sketch

(MMSC23) using a Gurlee Girl Image.

I colored the Little witch from Gurlee Girl
with Prisma color pencils and gamsol. The actual project is an open treat box
that I filled with candy corns.
The dp is from SU's Haiku. The spider web is created using felt that I cut
from a spider web applique.

This was a very fun sketch to use. I hope you are inspired to create with it as well.
For Further inspiration, please see the blogs of my dt sisters for their
amazing creations!!

Carol-Chocolate, Crafts, & Bears!
Carolyn - Creative Card Corner
Charlotte - Designs From Within
Denise - kc242 Designs by Denise
Jane - The Paper Affair
Jeni - Jeni's Custom Cards
Kimmie - kimmie kaye's designs
Michelle - Daydreams by Michelle
Phyllis - SparklePlenty1000
Priscilla - "priscillastyles"
Shawne - Paper Art from Studio 313
Sue - McMahon Five Designs
Lovely Linda's - Craft Central!!

If you should create using this sketch, please leave a direct link on Mr. Linky here.
If you upload your creation to SC, please use the keyword MMSC23.
I look forward to seeing all your creations.

I will be back tomorrow with the Flutterby Wednesday and Inky
Impressions Challenge. Thanks for all your comments. I look forward to being
inspired by all your creations.

Good morning!! I hope you are all enjoying your weekend!!

Today I have a creation that is out of the box for me. It is always a challenge for me to create masculine cards. I just love to add details and embellies to my cards! LOL! This card I actually created last Sunday for the Featured Stamper Challenge at SC.

Congratulations Lois (Clownmom) on being this week's featured stamper. You have a beautiful gallery. For today's creation I cased Lois' card http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1225449 I kept her layout and changed the colors and stamps and added a ribbon. I wanted to keep it with a masculine feel to it. Stamps: With Deepest Sympathy from Our Daily Bread Designs Paper: Choc. Chip, Old Olive, White, SU Ski Slope Accessories: Leaves embossing folder, sewing machine, green crystal, choc chip grossgrain What do you think? Does this make a good masculine card? Tomorrow I will be back with a card using one of my fave stamps and designer papers. Thanks for stopping by!! I want you all to know how much your comments and visits mean!! Today I should be on my way home.