MMSC #69

Hello and welcome back to the Paper Craft place!

This weeks sketch...it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.

"YOUR CHOICE"

Enter one style or both this week.

Just have fun and come play with us :)

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Our MMSC69 Gold Star Award goes to...

Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...


Please grab your award logos from the side bar and display them proudly :)

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Our MMSC69Weekly Bonus Winner is...


Please contact me with your info to claim your Bonus Prizes!!! :)

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*Our MMSC70 weekly Bonus sponsor is.....

Stop by Sues shop for all your crafting needs. They sell wonderful wood papers too.

Thank you Sue for your Bonus Prize this week.

http://www.mcmahonfivedesign.com/
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**Our September Monthly Sponsor is....

Sunshine and Giggles

You can check out this AWESOME prize here worth $100
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Here is this weeks Sketch and our Design Team Creations:

Entering our challenge is as easy as 1-2-3 :)

1. Please become a “FOLLOWER”

2. Tag with MMSC70 when uploading to galleries.

3. Enter your project to " inlinkz" below & leave a comment

MMSC70 ENTRY DEADLINE Monday Sept 13th at 5pm PST
Special Note: as of 8-31-10 -  although the PDST are entering their cards they are not eligible for prizes or Awards in any form, it is purely for inspiration!

This weeks card was created with a cute digi from McMahon Five. Other items used to make this card include:

Brown Glitter paper
Copic markers
Viva Decor pearl pen in Cream
Recollections jewel swirls
Stardust Stickles


Thanks for stopping by and see you next week!


Holly

"Trick or Treat..............." MMSC #68

Hi and welcome back for another sketch challenge @ Midnight Madness!

Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.

"YOUR CHOICE"

Enter one style or both this week.

Just have fun and come play with us :)

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Our MMSC68 Gold Star Award goes to...

Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...



Please grab your award logos from the side bar and display them proudly :)

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Our MMSC68Weekly Bonus Winner is...



Please contact me with your info to claim your Bonus Prizes!!! :)

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The August month end winner is....

Please email me for details on your prize :)
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*Our MMSC69 weekly Bonus sponsor is.....

Hello! I am Roberta from Prairie Fairy Designs. I am a digital stamp company featuring artwork not only created by me but also my two kids, ages 9 and 12. They are featured on the site as the Fairy Princess and the Prairie Prince.

I have been an artist for as long as I can remember and have always loved to create. Two years ago my sister-in-law invited me to a rubber stamp party. I laughed and said "Maybe I will buy something if I can use it to stamp on canvases.". Needless to say, I was hooked! Two years later, a lot of learning about computers, and a few setbacks with web stuff (I am so not tech savvy!) I finally accomplished my goal. We have been around since the spring and still growing.

If you have any questions about going digital, check out the site and the blog (www.prairiefairy.blogspot.com) for more information, tips and tutorials. So head on over to http://www.prairiefairydesigns.com and check it out!

here is the weekly prize

Thank you so much Roberta!!

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**Our September Monthly Sponsor is....

Sunshine and Giggles

Janice Hopper specializes in multicultural children's images. Her stamps feature kids being kids. You have to check out the fun Halloween stamps that have just been added to the store. The "Mockingbird Lane" haunted house is simply amazing and the Family Portrait is just darling! Thank you for offering such an awesome Monthly Prize for the month of September :)

Above is the prize picture and here is the Prize list

$20 Gift Certificate to Sunshine & Giggles Stamps
An assortment of a few of my favorites from Wild Orchid Crafts
2 Kits from No Time to Stamp
1 8×8 Pad Graphic 45 - Halloween In Wonderland
2 Kaisercraft Self Adhesive Rhinestones - Black and Purple
6 yards 1.25″ Silk Ribbon - 2 yds each Rust, Moss, Violet
15 yards 1/2″ Wrinkled Ribbon - 5 yds each Olive, Orange, Black
4 yards 2″ Webbing - 2 yds each Olive, Black
2 yards 2″ Orange Sheer with Black Flocked Spiders and Webs
2 yards 1.5″ Black Sheer with Checked Satin Edging in Orange/Black
1 6×6″ Pad Basic Grey Capella - 36 Sheets
1 Pack Basic Grey Cappella Chenille Flowers
2 Packs Kaiser Pearls - Chocolate and Bliss
21 yards 1/2″ Wrinkled Ribbon - 3 yds each White, Black, Ivory, Brown, Olive, Pink, Blue
3 yards 1.25″ Silk Ribbon - Champagne
2 yards Velvet Zig Zag Ribbon - Pink
2 yards 5/8″ Crochet Lace (open center to run ribbon through) - Ivory
6 yards 1/8″ Silk Ribbon (to run through lace) - 3 yds each Black and Blue
2 yards String Pearls - Sage
Wow..thank you Janice :)

Entering our challenge is as easy as 1-2-3 :)

1. Please become a “FOLLOWER”

2. Tag with MMSC69 when uploading to galleries.

3. Enter your project to " inlinkz" below & leave a comment

MMSC69 ENTRY DEADLINE Monday Sept 6th at 5pm PST

Here is my DT card for this weeks challenge. I used the "Trick or Treat" image from Sunshine and Giggles. I really enjoyed creating another Halloween card!

The items used to create this card are as follows:

Spellbinders Nestabilities

Krylon spay webbing in black

Cuttlebug web embossing folder

Cuttlebug corner dies

Glitter for the shirt and hat

Fabric for the treat bag (printed image on)

Perfect pearls in purple (applied to embossed web)

"Spooky Alley" jeweled spider brads

Copic markers

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

Till next Tuesday.........

Holly

MMSC #67........

Hello everyone, we have some wonderful announcements for you today. First, we are just thrilled to have three new additions to the MM Design team for the next few months. Below you will find out a little bit about each of them. They are each so talented and will add their own special flair to the MMSC each week.

Next, I am so excited and proud to reveal the first ever “priscillastyles” Design Team.
Click HERE to see who these fabulous and talented ladies are.

Connie M.
 I was born and raised in hot and sunny southern Arizona, where I still currently reside. In June, 1994, I married my high school sweetheart and best friend, and we have two wonderful children together. Paper crafting has been a passion of mine for many years. I have been stamping on and off since shortly after I got married in 1994. However, in 2004, one of my dear friends got me majorly hooked on stamping again. A few years later, I was introduced to SplitCoastStampers (SCS) where you may know me as cmc2stamp. I have learned so much from the other wonderfully talented stampers on SCS, and my own stamping style has grown by leaps an bounds over the last few year! I have an ever growing gallery on SCS, and a blog McStampin Dusk Til' Dawn which I started in September 2008. In addition to stamping, I really enjoy the outdoors - camping and hiking, and spending time with my loving family!
I have been a fan of Priscilla's Midnight Madness Sketch Challenges since week one!! I am so excited to be joining such a wonderfully talented design teem for the next three months!!


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Holly Moore
Darn, this is so exciting! Thank you Priscilla for the honor of being a Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge Guest Designer. I'm sure this will be a wonderful AND FUN journey; you and the gals have already made me feel so welcome. That and the inspiration keep me coming back for more. Plus, I am a born encourager, so I'm thrilled to get in there and give lots of Kudos to y'all too!Anyway, "Hi!" I'm a Holly who was born in the summer (not Christmas) in Wyoming. (Probably why I say "Darn!") Yes, I love cowboys and camping and cross country skiing. Something about the Arizona desert where I have lived for a long time gets my heart right there too.
Eleven years ago I married my hero and we moved from sunny AZ to Washington State. I was home alone a lot, and as bored work-widow I started scrapbooking. And I couldn't stop. You know, the wedding, the honeymoon. . . then later the house, the new puppy, and now, my two beautiful daughters, my muses Tessa (3) and Izzy (21 mo.)During the last 3 years, with the help of inspiring blogs like this one, I started to really branch out. Now I dabble in (okay, I am downright addicted to) all sorts of delicious paper projects. Oh, yeah and I like to sing, "Let's get this party started right. . ." is going through my head right now. Probably because I am so excited.


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Marsha Sanderlin
 I live in Camden, NC (close to the Outer Banks). I am blessed with a wonderful husband, four children and oodles of grandchildren.I have always had a passion for art. I remember drawing pictures for my grandmother when I was just a toddler. I took a few classes over the years but did not get serious again until I started scrapbooking with a group at my church. This led to stamping and I found my niche! I started sending cards to my "secret pal" in my ladies Bible study group and the next thing I knew, I'd volunteered to start a card ministry in our church! I retired a little over three years ago and my craft room has been growing ever since! I love all kinds of techniques and stamp styles, but found my true passion when I was introduced to “vintage” art. My first Midnight Madness challenge was a real eye opener. I have never seen so many sensational creations! The sketches that Priscilla creates week after week are phenomenal and so challenging. I am in awe and admire everyone on the design team, I have never seen so many talented ladies in one group at one time! I feel like I have stretched and grown so much as a designer as I have participated in the challenges week after week. I am just so honored to have been selected as a guest designer and hope I can also be an inspiration to others.
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Now to the sketch...it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.
"YOUR CHOICE"

Enter one style or both this week.

Just have fun and come play with us :)

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Our MMSC67 Gold Star Award goes to...

Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...




Please grab your award logos from the side bar and display them proudly :)

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Our MMSC66 Weekly Bonus Winner is...




Please contact me with your info to claim your Bonus Prize!!! :)

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*Our MMSC68 weekly Bonus sponsor is.....

Wags n' Whiskers

The weekly Bonus prize is four of the new Fairy Stamps from Wags n' Whiskers. (pictured below)

Wow, they are gorgeous!! Thank you Lacey for your continued sponsorship with us. We adore your images and love working with them. If you have not stopped by Wags n' Whiskers, you are missing out.

What a GREAT prize!!! Four Stamps from Wags n' Whiskers :)
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**Our Aug Monthly Sponsor is....

Michelle Perkett Studio
Michelle has offered our Aug monthly winner
this wonderful prize worth $100
Thank you Michelle :)

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Here is this weeks Sketch and our Design Team Creations:

Entering our challenge is as easy as 1-2-3 :)

1. Please become a “FOLLOWER”

2. Tag with MMSC68 when uploading to galleries.

3. Enter your project to " inlinkz" below & leave a comment

MMSC68 ENTRY DEADLINE Monday Aug 30th at 5pm PST

Now here is my "Wags n' Whiskers" creation for this week.

This card was created using papers from DCWV and SU. A spellbinders frame and a new EK Success punch added focal interest. The lattic is covered with MS glitter but didn't photograph well. The flowers are Prima and the image was colored with copic markers. I guess this was my rendition of "clean and simple". Hope to see you next week. I will have my usual  elaborate card to show you. Have a great week all!

Holly

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #67

Hello! Welcome back to the Paper Craft Place.

"YOUR CHOICE"

Enter one style or both this week.

Just have fun and come play with us :)

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Our MMSC66 Gold Star Award goes to...

#8  Pat

Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...
#4  Darlene
#23  Suzi
#35  Sharon
Please grab your award logos from the side bar and display them proudly :)

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Our MMSC66 Weekly Bonus Winner is...


Please contact me with your info to claim your Bonus Prize!!! :)

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*Our MMSC67 weekly Bonus sponsor is.....

Sugar Creek Hollow

Sugar Creek Hollow is an exclusive online business located in the heart of Central Virginia, tight on the James River. They specialize in Vintage, Shabby, & Primitive Digi Stamps,  digital watermarks, as well as carry a full selection of colors in their exclusive “Country Crinkle Ribbon”. They offer seasonal vintage paper gifts and  unique Vintage Cell Phone holders. Stop by and sit a spell over on their front porch, or take a walk down memory lane with them. Tracy is offering one lucky winner a $25 Gift Certificate to her store.

Thank you so much Tracy what a great prize.
Anyone would love a shopping spree in your fabulous store :)
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**Our Aug Monthly Sponsor is....

Michelle Perkett Studio
Michelle has offered our Aug monthly winner 
this wonderful prize worth $100
Thank you Michelle :)

Entering our challenge is as easy as 1-2-3 :)

1. Please become a “FOLLOWER”

2. Tag with MMSC67 when uploading to galleries.

3. Enter your project to " inlinkz" below & leave a comment

MMSC67 ENTRY DEADLINE Monday Aug 23rd at 5pm PST

And here is my take on this weeks sketch

This image in this card is the wooden door digi from Tracy Vinson's "Behold, I stand at the door" I decided to give it a Halloween treatment. I printed the door twice, cut them out and layered the frame on with little foam pads. The vines around the door are pieces of a curly willow tree that I kept just for embellishments sake. They were pretty dried out so I soaked them in water an hour or so. I actually got them to "keep shape " by weaving them onto a frame made out of small finishing nails. I put a copy of the door onto a wood block and then placed the nails around where I thought they could hold the vines. Worked out pretty well. After 24 hrs of drying I was able to remove them and glue them onto the door. As if that wasn't enough work, I decided the door needed orange lights! ( of all things )..... The lights were made by stringing  tiny orange seed beads onto clear thread and then gluing them in intervals with a dab of crazy glue gel. They were then strung among the vines. And what self-respecting Halloween door wouldn't be complete without some cob webs. Now mind you I used to have a bag of this stuff (SOMEWHERE) from last years card crafting. Do you think I could find the daNG THING? (nah). So, after a trip to 3 stores ( now mind you this IS August) I finally snagged some at "Party City".

Other supplies pressed in to service were my Tim Holtz brick embossing folder, EK Success bat border punch, Prismacolor pencils/gamsol, ribbon, gem and pearls. The finishing touch was a pumpkin made from Fimo clay. Hope you like it!

Have a great week everyone and come back next week for a look at my first CAS (clean and simple) card.

Holly

"On the Boardwalk................" MMSC Sketch Challenge #66

Welcome to another week here at The PaperCraft Place!

 NOW we are on Facebook!! Yes, that is right..we are jumping on the bandwagon there too. So many people are have such different avenues for communications these days, we thought we would start a Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge page as well as a "priscillastyles" Store page.(thanks Gunn) If you are on facebook and would like to follow.. just search Midnight "Madness Sketch Challenge" and "priscillastyle Store" and click the "LIKE" button..We would love to have you as a friend :)

Now to this weeks sketch...it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.

"YOUR CHOICE"

Enter one style or both this week.

Just have fun and come play with us :)

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Our MMSC65 Gold Star Award goes to...

# 29  Sarah T


Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...

# 13 Zoe
#27 Sue Drees
#38 Judi Rose

Please grab your award logos from the side bar and display them proudly :)

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Our MMSC65Weekly Bonus Winner is...


Please contact me with your info to claim your Bonus Prizes!!! :)

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*Our MMSC66 weekly Bonus sponsor is.....

The Beary Scrap

The Beary Scrap is a small, family owned, independent scrapbook store located in Shavertown, Pennsylvania and originated as on online business. They have lots of hard to find scrapbook goodies to feed your paper crafting desires and continue to add our products to the website weekly, so there is lots more to come. Best of all, because they are such a small business... when the "big guy" or "gal" sells out, chances are they still have it in stock. You have to go take a look at their site, because they have such cute stuff!!

Kimberly has offered up a wonderful prize this week of a $20 shopping spree
How fun is that?? Thank you so much Kimberly :)
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**Our Aug Monthly Sponsor is....

Michelle Perkett Studio
Michelle has offered our Aug monthly winner this wonderful prize worth $100
Thank you Michelle :)

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Here is this weeks Sketch and our Design Team Creations:

Entering our challenge is as easy as 1-2-3 :)

1. Please become a “FOLLOWER”

2. Tag with MMSC66 when uploading to galleries.

3. Enter your project to " inlinkz" below & leave a comment

MMSC66 ENTRY DEADLINE Monday Aug 16th at 5pm PST

This week my card took on a nostalgic theme. When I was little, my Mom and Dad, Grandma Elma and I took the train from Buffalo, NY to Atlantic City, NJ. Just to give you an idea of how long ago this was, there was a lady with caged chickens traveling with us. One of the best things I remember was the Boardwalk! All the sites, smells, the ocean and the Amusement Park! I still can remember the rides and attractions. And yes, there was a "Fortune Teller" arcade game that you put in coins and a fortune came out! Grandma Elma passed away last week at the great age of 100. She was blind but managed to live unassisted in her childhood home till last year.  This card is a tribute to all the good times we shared.

 Elma Scrace
March 17, 1910   -  August 3, 2010


And here is my DT card for this week:
Double click on pic for a more detailed, larger view

The image I foundp on the web. I changed the hue to sepia in PSE and added some stardust stickles for hilights. The DP is Grapfic 45 "On the Boardwalk" The ticket die is a Tim Holtz and the admission stamp is Tim Holtz as well. The flowers ( Wild Orchid Crafts) were airbrushed and given the stickles treatment too. The saltwater taffies were fashioned out of layers of Fimo clay, rolled into shape and baked in the oven. I wrapped each one in waxed paper and twisted the ends. No trip to Atlantic City is complete without salt water taffy! I hope you enjoyed my tribute card to Grandma Elma and hope to see you again next week!


Holly

"........on a Moonbeam" MMSC Sketch Challenge # 65

This weeks sketch...it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.

"YOUR CHOICE"

Enter one style or both this week.

Just have fun and come play with us :)

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Our MMSC64 Gold Star Award goes to...

#35 Dreamtime
Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...
#17 Peggy
#26 Sue Drees
#64 Marsha Sanderlin
Please grab your award logos from the side bar and display them proudly :)

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Our MMSC64Weekly Bonus Winner is...

Please contact me with your info to claim your Bonus Prizes!!! :)

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July month end winner is....

Please email me for details on your prize :)
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*Our MMSC65 weekly Bonus sponsor is.....

"priscillastyles" Store

One winner will recieve my newest digital release set from my store,

Plus

 4 more digis/digi set of their choice.

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**Our Aug Monthly Sponsor is....

 Michelle Perkett Studio
Michelle has offered our Aug monthly winner this wonderful prize worth $100
Prize includes everything in the picture including a $25 shopping spree in her store.

Thank you Michelle for your awesome prize and for letting our DT use some of your wonderful images too. We love working with your magical images. Thank you again Michelle :)

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Here is this weeks Sketch and our Design Team Creations:

Entering our challenge is as easy as 1-2-3 :)

1. Please become a “FOLLOWER”

2. Tag with MMSC65 when uploading to galleries.

3. Enter your project to " inlinkz" below & leave a comment

MMSC65 ENTRY DEADLINE Monday Aug 9th at 5pm PST

This weeks card was created with a real cutie from Michelle Perkett. I really enjoyed coloring her and finding just the right embellishments to set her off. I look forward to creating again with Michelle's images.

The fram was cut out of a brushed silver metallic paper and them lightly sponged with black stazon. After a few failed attempts to find the right color flowers, I decided to make my own using the same silver paper. This way the flowers didn't distract from the focal image and blended into the frame. I have several pewter frames with decorations made out of the same pewter. This was an attempt to recreate that look.


Other details include a copic airbrushed background on Bazzill white textured paper. I then painted on Sparkle Mod Podge for a glittery sky effect. The moon was coated with crystal effects and liberally dusted with coarse MS Glitter. Yellow seed beads strung onto wire were threaded around the frame to give interest. Tulle and little star gems completed the card.


Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you back next week for another fun card!


Holly