...winner winner chicken dinner!!

LOL!! last week we had a little 3 day Spellbinders blast and I said we'd have a random draw at the store - someone who ordered during the 3 day period would win their shopping basket!! Well!! we got a little sidetracked what with my birthday and all...

So, here is the winner!! I can't tell you how many stamps she won!! That would be indelicate, but I sure hope she's pleased!!!

Congratulations Cassandra Jones of Australia !!!!

I've popped you an email!!!

More Fun and Games!!!

Hello everyone! Lisa the Mousekeeper squeaking in to let you know of a couple of Waltzingmouse Stamps events you won't want to miss!

The first is that we've finally settled on a theme for the February Friends of Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Waltz, which will begin on February 17th. We'll be celebrating Buttons!!! Yep, show us your Waltzingmouse creations featuring buttons... one, two, three or more! Whatever moves you!

If you've never waltzed with us, you can find all the information right here on the Waltz With Us page. Last month we had 13 new waltzers. Let's top that number in February, shall we? It's loads of fun!

For those of you who uploaded the HTML for the blinkie, I'm afraid you'll have to do it one more time... and I swear this will be the last time! lol I have finally figured out how to switch out the graphic without touching the HTML. You can always find it on our Waltz With Us page, but here it is for you to copy and paste into an HTML Gadget (or similar in Wordpress or Typepad) on your blog:

<a href="http://waltzingmouse.blogspot.com/p/friends-blog-waltz.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Please join us for our Friends of Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Waltz" src="https://sites.google.com/site/thecraftsmeow/images/attachment.jpeg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" ></a>

Note: if you need to shrink the size of the graphic, go into the blinkie gadget to edit, click on Rich Text, and there you will see the graphic, which you can click on and pull the corner in to make it smaller.

We'll open the forum for links for those who will be participating on February 1st (or as soon as I get back home and at the computer after CHA! lol) And remember, you can still waltz and play the game for a chance to win a prize even if you don't have time to make a card/project.


The SECOND big news is that we've started a new monthly Christmas Card Challenge in our forum!!! Generally, here's the scoop (see Lynn's fabby card above):

• A new challenge will be issued on the 10th of each month in the Playroom Forum (although January's was posted late, you still have plenty of time to play).
• Once you have created your project, upload it to the special WMSCCC gallery
• Each card must contain some Waltzingmouse Stamps’ images, but does not have to be exclusively WMS products to be eligible for prizes
• All projects will be Christmas themed
• You may make as many projects as you like for each challenge, but only ONE is necessary to enter the challenge. We encourage you to make batches of cards since our end goal is to have enough hand-made Christmas cards for each person on our “list”.
• You can play along when and if you want – make it suit your schedule. For example, challenge cards for January may be uploaded anytime before June to be eligible for the “halfway point prize”. The same goes to be eligible for the GRAND PRIZE – projects for all twelve months much be uploaded to their appropriate gallery prior to the end of December.

And, yes, there are prizes to be won... big prizes! Not to mention that everyone who participates is a winner because they'll have most...all?...of their Christmas cards done well before the holidays!

So nip on over to the Christmas Card Challenges forum for all the deets and to find out what the first challenge is. If you're not yet a member of our forum, it's easy peasy... just a few clicks, no embarrassing questions, and you're in!

Have a fabby day!

Celebrating Claire!

ED - Ladies!!! Thank you all so much!!! I am THE worlds worst person at remembering birthdays, and so it makes it even more special that you all remembered mine!!!! Thank you so much!! And my eyes just about popped out of my head when I saw who the special guest is!!! lol, how on earth...???

Hello everyone! We've heard through the mouse-vine that today is someone very special's birthday. Yep, it's THE Head Mousetress herself, our Claire! We can't possibly let the day go by without a celebration, so please join us as members of the Waltzingmouse Stamps and Mischief Makers design teams, plus a very special guest, send our good wishes to Claire.

To make things easier, we're blog hopping waltzing, so each blog will link to the next. However, just in case there's a break along the way, the links are provided below.

Enjoy! And Claire, just know this... we LOVE YOU!!! Happy Birthday!!!!!!!

Lisa
Sandie
Mona
Lynn
Carly
Bonnie
Lenet
Laurie
Belinda
Jennifer
Julia
Edna
Clare
Joan
Sarah
Alice
Julee
Anya

...CASE Competition - play with us!

ED - you don't need a GC to enter Jan!!!! use whatever you have to hand!! it's more important to join in and have fun!!!!

Edited to add: CASE means Copy and Share with Everyone... in other words, be inspired by someone's card/project and make your own in similar style... put your own twist on it... and acknowledge from whom the inspiration came.

Please link your CASE competition entries here in this post! Sorry, I fluffed the inlinkz and the wee mini pics of your projects won't show up - it'll just be a link to names for this one!!

We are holding a special challenge after the party. We invite all you folks to CASE a card/project from the 3 days of Spellbinder fun that we had from Friday to Sunday just passed! Scroll back though my posts to see links to the fabulousness that the DT produced!! I stand in AWE!

Start Here.

You will have one week to link your entries to the WMS blog post and then we'll pick a random winner for a prize. You may enter as many times as you like. One random winner will receive a set of Grand Nestabilities Dies - Grand Labels 4 and a set of stamps of their choice!

Have fun!

More Winners!

Lisa the Mousekeeper dropping back in to announce the winners of a stamp set of choice randomly drawn from all the comments left on the design team posts... one for each of the three days of the event! Yowser!!!

From Day 1, the winner was drawn from Carly's blog and is LaurieJ!!!

From Day 2, the winner was drawn from my blog (Lisa) and is Rosemary!!!

From Day 3, the winner was drawn from Sandie's blog and is Polly Pierce!!!

Congratulations ladies! Please email Claire at claire.brennan1@ntlworld.com with your choice of stamp set and mailing address, and she will get your prize right out to you!

Thanks to each of you who visited each blog and left comments! So very much appreciated! From the feedback we've received, the event was a huge hit!

Claire will be back soon with the winner of their shopping basket and to set up the CASE competition. Enjoy!