Challenge 3 Reminder

You still have time to play along wtih our first theme challenge here at Waltzmingmouse Fanatics - the deadline is 5pm (GMT) on Thursday 17th October.

As the witching hour is nearly upon us, then our theme is Halloween so time to get your spooky stamps inky ;-)

You'll find the linky tool here - http://waltzingmousefanaticschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/challenge-3-halloween-theme.html

Challenge 3 - Halloween Theme

If you're looking for the winners of challenge 2 - then read on down to the bottom of the post - we wanted to get straight into the challenge this time around.  There is no sketch or colour combo to follow this fortnight - just a theme - and as it's getting close to Halloween we thought we'd give you the chance to pull out all your spooky sets.

 

There are some Waltzingmouse Sets which are totally Halloween themed including all the lovely new release from last month All Hallows Eve, Vintage Witch, The Count and Spooky Tree  as well as the older sets Halloween Party; Cicely or Gracie at Halloween; Wanda's Pantry; Midnight Feast and Hocus Pocus  but if you don't have the full-on Halloween sets then you can get creative and look at other sets which include Halloween sentiments such as Say it Loud Winter Holiday  or even use this cute little bat poop poem Clare has in the freebies section of the store if you're really stuck.

You don't have to make a card - gifts and treat bags are particularly apt for this time of year so this could be your opportunity to get a head start on the Halloween candy preparations ;-)

Here's a little inspiration from the two of us to get you in the witching mood.....

Deborah

Tara

Now it's over to you - you have until 5pm GMT on Thursday 17th October to play along so hopefully plenty of time to bring out your ghoolish side!   We'll reveal the winners along with the new challenge at 8am on Saturday 19th October.

Cards without Waltzingmouse products are not eligible for this challenge

And now back to the matter of our winners from our first ever Colour Challenge - it seems you found the colours a little harder than the sketch as we didn't have quite as many entrants but we still got some stunning cards and our favourite was No 10 (it seems going last is quite lucky around here!)  Congrats Claire - head on over to the winners tab to collect your No 1 Fan badge ;-)

No 1 Fan - Claire A

Fanatics Top 3

No 1 - Lori - we loved the bold use of the colours and strong graphic design.

No 2 - Charmaine - we loved the unusal take on the colours and the fun theme

No 8 - Grá - we loved the fun use of the circles and the on-trend gold highlights.

Congratualtions ladies - thanks for making judging so difficult!   Hop on over to the winners tabs to collect your Top 3 badges.  We hope you'll all be getting spooky with us again this time around ;-)

Last Chance!

Challenge No 2 closes in around 18 hours so I thought I'd pop by with a final bit of inspiration for anyone still thinking of playing.  Here are a couple of cards Deborah and I made using our inspiration colours.

Deborah used all the colours in this fabulous autumnal card with some great ghost stamping to her focal piece.

I found using all the colours a bit hard, so if you are having the same issue then remember you only need to use 3 of them - I chose the kraft, the dark brown (which some people see as purple so that's fine too) and the dark red.

Hope that sparks all the fanatics into last minute crafting action - we'd love to see some more cards in the gallery.  It closes at noon tomorrow to give Deborah and I time to choose our favourites ahead of our new "timely" challenge on Saturday ;-)

Challenge 2 Reminder

You've still got time to play along in our first colour challenge - use a minimum of 3 of the colours above with your Waltzingmouse stamps and link up by 5pm (GMT) on Thursday 3rd October........

You'll find the linky tool here - http://waltzingmousefanaticschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-2-colour-combo.html

Challenge 2 - Colour Combo

Firstly THANK YOU SO, SO MUCH for all the positive comments we've had since we started the challenge and for all your entries - 20 is not at all a bad number for the first challenge - let's see if we can beat it this time shall we?   But before we give you the deets on that one, we need to award badges (and this time out prizes) to our first ever winners......

The overall winner and No1 Fan this time was Miriam Pranter with this interactive rocket card - we loved how the shape in the sketch was echoed by the route the rocket takes and the inked background is superb!  Congrats on being our first ever winner Miriam.

Please take your winners badge for your blog and drop me an email at "craftilicious at rocketmail dot com"  and I'll send you the code you need to access your £20 voucher at Waltzingmouse Stamps

 

It was very tough to choose our runners up - you all made some fabulous cards based on our sketch - but after much deliberation our top 3 for this challenge (in numerical order of entry) are :

Pauline - we really loved the creative use of feathers on this CAS design to form the shape in the sketch.

 Kim - well who doesn't love a jar of eyeballs?  Really creative use of the stamps here and it really caught our eye lol ;-)

 Ang - we really loved the layered texture and subtle background colours with the bold pop of the gorgeous focal flowers.

Again - please take your badge for your blog - as well as showing off how great you are it helps spread the word about the challenge (particuarly if you link it up to the challenge site for which we'd be very grateful)

Challenge No 2

We're feeling hot, hot, hot today at Waltzingmouse Fanatics and have this super colour combo as our challenge this fortnight which we think is perfect as the seasons change and Autumn closes in.  You don't have to use all 6 colours in your project but we do ask that you choose at least 3 so we can see that the challenge inspired your project.

You can take these colours forward into any kind of project you like as long as you use a Waltzingmouse stamp or digi-file somewhere so let's see how creative you can be!

Here's a little inspiration from the two of us to get the creative juices flowing.....

Deborah

Tara

Now it's over to you - you have until 5pm GMT on Thursday 3rd October to play along so hopefully plenty of time to get your mojo pumping!   We'll reveal the winners along with the new challenge at 8am on Saturday 5th October.

Challenge 1 Reminder

You still have time to play along wtih our first ever challenge here at Waltzmingmouse Fanatics - the deadline is 5pm (GMT) on Thursday and don't forget there is a £20 store voucher up for grabs for our winner!

Here's the sketch to follow - just add Waltzingmouse stamps ;-)

You'll find the linky tool at the bottom of this post - http://waltzingmousefanaticschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-1-sketch.html

Challenge 1 - Sketch

For our first challenge we thought we start easily and have a friendly little sketch for you all to play along with.  We were both regular players of the weekly Waltzingmouse Sketch challenges as I'm sure many of you were too so this is our little nod to the past as we start our new challenge.

You can interpret the sketch in any way you like - a card, a scrapbook or journal page or whatever takes your fancy - you can go CAS, shabby-chic, cute and fun or whatever style suits your crafting.  If you want to rotate the sketch that's fine too - as long as we can see the basis of the sketch in the final projects anything goes!   All you have to do is include at least one image or sentiment from Waltzingmouse Stamps - that's our only rule - we're fans of Waltzingmouse and our challenge is all about their stamps.

And, if the fact that it's our first ever challenge wasn't reason enough for you to play along - Claire (owner of Waltzingmouse Stamps) has kindly offered us a prize code for our winner - we told you she was lovely ;-)   So if you play along in this challenge you get the chance to add to your stash for free as we have a code that will get you £20 worth of goodies from the store!

Here's our DT inspiration to get you started:

Deborah:

For my first project I went with a floral theme using the new Simple Sprig mini stamp set and a sentiment from Big Day Today

For my second I went for a more masculine theme with my favourite set - Free Spirit Boy to create a background along with elements from  North Shore, Sewing Box Hugs and the new Tying the Knot set

Tara:

For my first DT project there was only one way to go - Way Out West!  The focal element is from Sheriff and all done in kraft to keep it masculine.

For my second card I went more feminine and used the new Funky Flowers set as my focal element and a couple of sentiments from Say It Loud to create my background panels.

For more details of what we did - pop on over to our personal blogs and say hello :-)


Now it's over to you - you have until 5pm GMT on Thursday 19th September to play along so hopefully plenty of time to get your stash out and get creative.  We'll reveal the winners along with the new challenge at 8am on Saturday 21st September.