Taking a Christmas break and Winners

Good morning Fanatics - if you're here looking for our next challenge, then I'm afraid you'll have to wait a couple of weeks.  As I'm sure it is in your house, the run up to Christmas is always really busy for us so rather than posting a challenge and not having the time to visit all our entrants, we've decided to take a little break over the festive period.

So - here's a little Christmas wish to you all from each of us for a very Merry Christmas!

Deborah

Tara

We do also need to give a little salute to the winner of our last sketch challenge - we only had 6 players so we decided to just pick a single winner and no runners up so our No 1 Fan for this challenge was Lori!

We loved how you interpreted the sketch into a perfect little scene Lori and the embossed details on the moon is an extra special touch.   Do grab your No 1 Fan badge for your blog.

We'll be back with a new challenge and a little surprise in the post Christmas slump on the 28th December - see you then!

Sketch Challenge Reminder

You've only got a couple of days left to join in with our current challenge - we have a nice simple sketch for you to play with.

You'll find the linky on this post http://waltzingmousefanaticschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/challenge-7-sketch.html

Alternative Christmas Winners

Sorry to have kept you all in suspense for so long about the winners of our last challenge but we're finally ready to reveal our winners.......

We had some fantastically creative ideas for using stamps in different ways - do check out the gallery on the challenge post for some inspiration - feathers for trees, flowers for wreaths and flowers turning into other flowers - I'll certainly be looking at my stamps with fresh eyes!

The No1 Fanatic's award this time around goes to Marybeth for her stunning 3D poinsettia created using folk art florals - wowser!  Congratulations on getting it published too Marybeth :-)

Our 3 runners up this time around, in order of entry were:

Julia - we loved the clever use of patterns paired up with gorgeous sentiment accented with the tiny pearls.

Sabrina - a genius idea to go nautical for Christmas - Deck the Halls Sailor Boy had me in stitches!

Lai-Yoke took a more traditional approach with her red and green colours but using the doilies to create the pattern really made her card pop!

Thanks so much for joining our challenge - you can claim your No1 Fan and Top 3 Fanatics badges from our winners page (see the tabs at the top)

I do hope you'll all be back to play in our current sketch challenge - much less taxing on the creative juices than this one we hope you'll agree - you have a little over a week left to play.

Challenge 7 - Sketch

Good morning Fanatics - we thought after the last tricky challenge, we'd better make it nice and easy this time so we have a really simple sketch for you to play with - hope that brings a few sighs of relief ;-)

As ususal, all you need to do is use Waltzingmouse products somewhere and then anything else goes - CAS or Shabby, Card or  Scrapbook Layout - let your imagination run wild.  Combine us with other challenges too if they fit.

Are you ready for a little inspiration:

Deborah

Tara

You have until 5pm GMT on Thursday 12th December to link up your entries below:

By the way - if you're wondering who won the last challenge - we're still deciding - Thanksgiving set us back a little this week so we'll announce the winners in a day or two when we've caught up.  We thought it might stump you but it seems to have inspired a lot of brilliantly creative ways to get more from your stamps!

Challenge 6 - Christmas

Good morning folks - it's that time again - can you believe we've done 6 challenges already?  I hope you're all enjoying it as much as we are!

This time we're back on a theme challenge, and as we're rapidly approaching December, we thought we'd better set a Christmas challenge - only we thought we'd give it a bit of a twist.....

We'd like you to make a Christmas card, but other than the sentiment you use, we'd like you to use stamps that are NOT Christmas themed stamps - so no baubles, or snowflakes, or Santa's.......   It may seem like a difficult challenge, but it was one that was set by Paper Crafts magazine, and Tara had a card accepted using entirely Waltzingmouse stamps so we know it's entirely possible!

Still sound tricky?  Well here's what we made of the challenge ourselves to inspire you:

Deborah

Tara

You have until 5pm GMT on Thursday 28 November to play along - just don't forget to use Waltzingmouse products on your projects somewhere.....

Challenge 5 Winners

We hope you all enjoyed our colour theme - we certainly got some excellent entries this time around and it was very hard to choose our winners as we like different things on all the cards!

So after much deliberation we finally agreed on the following winners

Our No 1 Fan for this challenge is Ang
We loved her literal translation of the colour blocks with the embossing on top - it gave a really strong clean design and really caught our eye.

do take your No 1 Fan badge from our winners page.

As numbers were a little low again we decided to pick just two runners up so "2" Top 3 Fanatics this time were, in order of entry:

Sarah

We actually loved both of Sarah's entries but settled on the strong clean design of this entry - the layered doilies look so pretty in these soft hues.

Pauline

We loved this fabulous shaped easel card with the cute blue trees!

Again - please do take your Top 3 badge from our winners page (see the tabs at the top of the blog)


We hope you'll all be back to join us in the morning for our new challenge which may just have a festive twist........

Challenge 5 - Reminder

You still have time to play along wtih our current sketch challenge here at Waltzmingmouse Fanatics - the deadline is 5pm (GMT) on Thursday 14th November

Here's the colours you need to use - just add Waltzingmouse stamps ;-)

You'll find the linky tool on this post http://waltzingmousefanaticschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/challenge-5-storm-colours.html