Challenge #11 WINNER

Wow you guys just blew us away with  how many entries we got for our Anything Goes challenge. 128 entries is not to shabby for a up and coming blog. Thank you all so much for your support. Now I am sure you are all eagerly awaiting the name of the winner of the Totally Stampalicious set and issue of Paper Crafts Magazine so I promise I wont keep you waiting any longer.

Random.org has picked the winner and it is Cheryl of She Stamps by Cheryl. Congratulations to you. Please email me us with your address so I can get your prize out to you.

Here is Cheryl's beautiful winning card.

Now there is definately time to get in on Challenge #12 - Girls Just Want to Have Fun, which just started on Friday and runs through the 20th. I hope you will all come play along. I may even feature one of your entries as inspiration this Friday.

Have a Crafty Day.

Meet the Design Team - Cassandra

Hey everyone today I want to introduce you to the first of our four member Design Team.

The first design team member to introduce is the woman who started this whole thing, Cassandra Sloan. I am so very lucky to have met Cass though an online card group that she will tell you about below. She has quickly become one of my closest crafty friends. I am so thankful that we are taking this journey together because without her none of this would be possible.

This is what Cass had to say:

April 2, 2007. This is the day my craft life changed forever.
I have loved crafts my entire life. I received my first stamp set as a child in grade school and have been fascinated ever since with scrapbooking and card making. I can remember making my own stationary as a child and trying to sell it for a quarter to my mother.

I had been officially card making for 3 years when I discovered Cafemom.com and the possibilities for creating a group of people who loved to create together and talk crafts!

On April 2, 2007, I launched card Makin Mamas. It was a place for people who loved to make cards and share them. It was a place to be inspired and talk paper, ink and rubber and share new ideas.
We became a tight knit group of moms and crafters. It is safe to say that each and every one of us has made lifelong friends and paper crafting buddies. Some of us have even been lucky enough to meet! A few ladies have gone on to do truly wonderful, creative things and have really advanced, and I am so proud to say they were a part of the original Card Makin Mamas!

I can honestly say that the group would not have gotten as far as it did without the constant support of my admins and friends, and now, my new partner in crime, Jessica. She has worked very hard and done a lot of networking to get us to this point and she is amazing!

Card Makin Mamas has come a very long way from the days when there were just a few of us doing challenges every week and learning all kinds of new amazing things. I sincerely hope that this new blog and group will be as inspirational to you as it was for me.

Challenge #12 sponsored by Some Odd Girl

Hey ladies, I want to thank all of you for stopping by. Today is a very special day. It is the "Official Launch" of the Card Makin Mamas Challenge Blog.

The winner of our last Anything Goes challenge will be announced on Monday, the 10th. Good luck to all the wonderful ladies who entered.

For our First Official Challenge we have a wonderful sponsor to share with you. Some of you may be familiar with them, and if your not, you should be. LOL.

Some Odd Girl is the place to find fun and quirky digis that I know you will love! Some Odd Girl was inspired by two great friends who are such dolls! They took one of my pencil drawings and made it into red rubber and that act of generosity spiraled into what you see today. I am a married momma of 2 who has a hubby who not only loves me but supports my crafting and my site as my IT guy. What more could a girl want? I am an artist born who started out with pencils then acrylics and now also scrapbook and am a cardmaker. I design things that I love and hope you have as much fun with our stamps as we do! We'd love to supply the winner with 3 freebies of their choice from our shop so I hope you'll take a look around and pick your favs!

The Challenge if you are up to it is:

Girls Just Want to Have Fun!!!!

Lets see those girly cards. Make them frilly, vintage, or sparkly, I dont care, as long as it's girly.

The random winner will get 3 images of their choice from Some Odd Girl. We will also pick our top 3 to get a special badge for their blog.

Let's see what the new Design Team has up their sleeve.

                                                    From Cassandra

                                                    From Dee

                                                  From Lizzie

                                                    From Jessica (Me)

Alright ladies, you have the next 2 weeks to dazzle us. Good luck and be sure to snag our badge from the side bar to help support our fledgling challenge blog. Its your help and support that will make this blog into something great.

Also be sure to check back tomorrow as I showcase one of our wonderful DT members and let you all know about the origin of Card Makin Mamas.

Challenge #11 and some changes

Ok ladies, if you haven't already noticed, the blog is going through some major changes and I really hope that you will like them. Let me go over the changes first then I will get to Challenge #10 winner and the new Challenge #11.

As of January 7th, ALL challenges will be held every other Friday. Challenge rules are posted on the sidebar for your convenience. We will have some great sponsors and challenges lined up for the new year too. I really hope that you check it out.

We will also have a small group of  fabulous women joining us as the Card Makin Mamas Design Team. I can't wait for you to meet them.

Now onto the winner for the Challenge #10, the HOLIDAY challenge. I put all the entry names in a hat and let my son pick the winner. Drum roll please.......................................... LISA. Congrats to you. You win 4 Meljen's Designs images of your choice. Please go HERE and pick out the 4 that you want and then email me your selection to cardmakinmamaschallenge@hotmail.com


Now onto CHALLENGE 11. Today's challenge will run the entire month of December and until January 6th. This allows tons of time to play and for us to get ready for the big things ahead in the new year.

The prize I have donated for this challenge is this great stamp set from Totally Stampalicious and the newest issue of Paper Crafts Magazine.

                                   ANYTHING GOES

Alright ladies, that should make it easy peasy. I want to see any and everything you are working on at this moment. You have the next 4 weeks to dazzle us. Good luck and enjoy the holiday season.

Be sure to snag our badge from the side bar to help support our fledgling challenge blog. Its your help and support that will make this blog into something great.

Challenge # 10 (with a sponsor)

Hey ladies. I am so sorry this is a few days late, as some of you know my son AJ has been battling the flu and I dont have computer access when I am home with him. But better late then never right?

I can't beleive that this is our 10th challenge. I am so excited about this challenge because we have a SPONSOR, which means and AWESOME PRIZE.

Our sponsor for this challenge is someone that I am sure you are all familiar with.

Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical digital images inspired by her kids and family. The Meljen's Designs store officially launched on April 1 and is steadily growing! Meljen's Designs has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Monday and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at the WHIMSY STAMPS STORE to browse and enjoy Melissa's wonderful images!

Meljen's Designs will be offering the winner of this challenge a choice of 4 images from these incredible images found HERE.

Now what is the challenge you might ask? Well considering what time of year it is, the challenge is.................

                                                  HOLIDAYS

I want to see holiday cards, any type of holiday. It could be Thanksgiving, Christmas, heck even some   random Happy Ice Cream Day or something. Any holiday will do.

Here  is a little card I made using a Meljen's image that was released yesterday. I hope you like it.

Now get crackin. What's there to lose? Nothing. What's there to gain? 4 amazing images from Meljen's Designs.

and we have a WINNER

Hey ladies sorry this is late but I am here to announce the winner of the last challenge,
Keep it Simple.

Now drum roll....................................................(drawing name out of bowl).....................

JENN

Please email or FB me your address so that I can get your prize out to you.

Please check back tomorrow for the new challenge, and we have a SPONSOR and the prize is great.

Challenge #9

OK ladies it is time for our 9th challenge. Apparently you ladies don't like sketches so there will be no winner from Challenge #8.

The new challenge is  KEEP IT SIMPLE

So nothing too fancy or fussy this week . . . simple lines, images and embellishments for your projects. Let the image or sentiment be the main focus.

Here is a sample from me.

Alright ladies, you have until 11:59 on the 15th to get your Keep it Simple card in. I look forward to seeing what you ladies create.