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Tuesday 18 February 2014

...You're Invited





Good evening!Just popping on to invite you to our next Pajama Party! We're having it on the 10th March and we hope you can make it!

Grab the Pajama party badge above, by either right clicking (PC),  or dragging it to your desktop (Mac) and keep it for your pajama party posts.
 
The Pajama party links will open at 15 minutes to midnight on the 10th March. We know that not everyone will be able to link up at that time, and so we hope to give everyone a chance to play by keeping links open for a 24 hour period.  Please don't be put off by the start time if it's awkward where you live, it's pretty impossible to pick a start time that is easy for everyone and we hope the 24 hour window will allow everyone to play along. The Bedtime Story sketch challenge that we will post on the night will remain open for a full week.


Here are the Challenges - you can get yourself a head-start now and begin your creations. You may enter as many times as you like, but we do ask for a separate link for each entry - or we might miss it!

It is not always necessary to use WMS products to play along, but we encourage you to look at each challenge to see if using WMS would boost your chances of winning!



Challenge 1 - To Die For
We recently got our own custom die program under way and we are keen to see what folks are getting up to so this first challenge is all about WMS Cutting edge dies! Entries for this challenge should feature projects that use one or more WMS cutting edge dies. We're really keen to showcase our own dies for this challenge so you will forgive us for limiting entries for this challenge to our own dies.
  
When to make: Make your project now so that you can be ready to post it to your blog/gallery on the night of the party.
How do I link it up?: On the night of the party, post your project to your blog/gallery and post a direct link to it into the inlinkz tool that will be available on the blog post here on the WMS blog. Grab the Pajama party badge now from the beginning of this post to add to your challenge blog posts when you are ready, this will kelp us to find you in the event of a wobbly link. Links for this challenge will remain open for 24 hours.
What will happen? : After the links close we will choose a random project to win a spot prize of £20GBP ($33USD) store credit! 

Challenge 2 - St Patrick's Day Charm
Make a Vintage style project, something charming, with a nod to St Patrick himself. I'm seeing lace, fabric, stitching, all that old world ditzy detailing that screams vintage. It doesn't have to be a card, I'd be delighted to see altered items, scrapbook pages, whatever you wish to show me! We are opening this challenge to everyone and it is not necessary to use WMS for this challenge, but if your stash is St Patrically challenged, we have some St Pat's day Freebies HERE, HERE and HERE.

When to make: Make your project now so that you can be ready to post it to your blog/gallery on the night of the party.
How do I link it up?: On the night of the party, post your project to your blog/gallery and post a direct link to it into the inlinkz tool that will be available on the blog post here on the WMS blog. Grab the Pajama party badge now from the beginning of this post to add to your challenge blog posts when you are ready, this will kelp us to find you in the event of a wobbly link. Links for this challenge will remain open for 24 hours.
What will happen? : After the links close we will choose a random project to win a spot prize of £10GBP ($16.60USA) store credit! If your card does use WMS product your prize will be doubled to £20GBP.


Challenge 3 - What would Mother do?
 I want you to make a card/project in the style of something that your mother would have made! It doesn't have to be stamped! My own mother didn't make cards but she was an artist, she decorated eggs and painted in oils and she was a great baker, so I could see myself either making a card on the theme of decorated eggs, or perhaps I might bake some cookies and make a nice gift wrap for them. 
 
Now it was brought home to me that there just might be a few folks who, for one reason or another, find this challenge a little challenging, so for anyone who is in need of inspiration form a mother, I have this picture for you. You might get a little something from it. This is a real duck egg that my mum cleaned out and decorated for me a very long time ago. It was not one of the eggs that she was pleased to call her best work and she will be rolling her eyes at me for putting it up here, but it is still my favourite, even though she made more for me as the years went on. It's a little frosty house scene and I absolutely love it. I might just take my inspration from this picture and I  invite you to do the same if you have no other ideas that you prefer to use - I see scope for glitter and lots of it folks! :)


When to make: Make your project now so that you can be ready to post it to your blog/gallery on the night of the party.
How do I link it up?: On the night of the party, post your project to your blog/gallery and post a direct link to it into the inlinkz tool that will be available on the blog post here on the WMS blog. Grab the Pajama party badge now from the beginning of this post to add to your challenge blog posts when you are ready, this will kelp us to find you in the event of a wobbly link. Links for this challenge will remain open for 24 hours.
What will happen? : After the links close we will choose a random project to win a spot prize of £10GBP ($16.60USA) store credit! If your card does use WMS product your prize will be doubled to £20GBP.

Bedtime Story 
As ever there will be a Bedtime Story sketch challenge posted on the night!

So hope you can come and play!

11 comments:

  1. Your Mother's decorated egg is beautiful! It reminds me of a precious Faberge egg and I'm sure it's very precious to you.

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  2. Oh, I'll be there!! Thanks for the heads up- I seem to be quite busy these days and little time for stamping!! Oh, and can't wait for the new release!!

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  3. Your mum made that? Wow. Now I see where you get your amazing talent

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  4. Ah Claire, now we see who you got your creative skills from....your Mom. What a gorgeous scene she created from that huge duck egg. My sister is raising ducks, must show her this picture and tell her to get cracking, pardon the pun and create something for me!!! If you have more, will you show them to us later pretty please???

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  5. We can see where you get your creative gene from Claire! Mum was a pretty talented lady. Hugs

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  6. Oh, my! Claire! I can see where you get your talent from! The egg is just beautiful! My mother would have loved all the goodies available for card making. She was an art history major and very talented herself. As years went on, she opened her own pottery workshop where the ladies would gather to create and have tea, so I know she would encourage my daughter and myself to get together and be creative!
    XO,
    Melinda

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  7. Oh my that egg your Mum made is the most amazing thing! I can't even believe it's a real egg, and it's held up so beautifully! What a fun pajama party this will be :)

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  8. Oh Claire ,the egg your mother made is a treasure......love the glitter house and the tall grassy trees in the background....TFS a bit of your mom with us. I can only imagine what her best eggs looked like.

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  9. Wow is that egg ever gorgeous Claire! I can see why you love it so much - it's like looking into a little world made just for you. I can even see the stars in the sky!

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  10. Claire, now I see where you got your artistic talent: your Mom was quite an artist herself!! That egg is just amazing!!! It would be wonderful to see her other creations: I'm sure all of us would love to see them. They could be inspiration for the WMS challenges this year. And since my mom didn't make things except healthy food (gag-the green smoothie video on you-tube is pretty close to the truth! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh0NLQJfAYU ), I'll be using your mom's creation as inspriation!!! I'll try and play along this month: I just got back from visiting my niece and we made quite a few cards together and am back in the "paper" mood again! :-) (I've been trying to finish up baby quilts that I've started, so sewing has taken my time lately.) Have a wonderful weekend! Hugs, H

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  11. I have to agree with Helen - that egg is amazing...could we see some of the others please Claire?!

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