Update: May 17th Blog Party Postponed

With the news of Claire’s mum’s passing, and out of respect, I have made the executive decision to postpone the Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog party event a week.  Rather than hold the event on this Thursday, May 17th, we are postponing the Blog Party until next Thursday, May 24th.  My apologies for any inconvenience for this delay, but I know you all understand.

 

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Folks, my wee mum has passed away. She had a tough old time with several different conditions for many years and her heart came to rest yesterday morning. I will be taking a few days off.

Emails will be slow to answer this week, I would ask you to bear with me.

Orders will go out as normal. Thank you all for your understanding.

Hugs, C.

…and the winner is…

We hope that you enjoyed the Design Team Blog Waltz this past Tuesday and that you received plenty of inspiration.   As promised, we have selected a lucky winner of a free Waltzingmouse Stamps set of choice as our thank you for “waltzing” along to the team blogs.  Each member of the Design Team selected one comment from their group of comments, and from those, and using Random.org, the following comment from the blog of Tosha Leyendekker  is the big winner!

#19 - Lois Kennedy

Lois Kennedy said...

What a lovely card and for someone who doesn't sew, your bag turned out great. Love it!

May 8, 2012 1:43 PM

Congratulation Lois . To claim your prize, please e-mail Claire at Claire.brennan1@ntlworld.com. Provide her with your contact information and set choice, and she will get your selected set on its way to you.  A big thank you goes out to all who took the time to comment and for the wonderful outpouring of love for the new release.

The Big Cheese of the Week

Hi there.  I'm a little late sharing this week's Big Cheese, I was caught up in all the release happenings, and I hope you were too - it was a blast!

This week's Big Cheese is Cyndie... I bet you are going to love the cute card she made!

Isn't that little cozy scene adorable?  Cyndie's card is so inspiring with her creative use of the elements in the Sewing Box Hugs set - the 'branch' to define the hillside, and the flowers cut in half to be trees.  Plus, that is some serious paper piecing there!  Add the curved sentiment into the mix and I'm smitten!

Congratulations, Cyndie! Your project will be added to the Big Cheese highlight album in the WMS Gallery. Please send me an email and I will provide you with a discount code for $10 off your next Waltzingmouse Stamps purchase.

Liza Carruthers used one of my favorite techniques to put together this card:

Liza used a combination of images from the Musical Backgrounds set to create a stunning musical collage.  What a perfect birthday card for a musician or a music-lover.  The monochrome colors help to pull it all together, and the bit of edge-inking and stitching help to finish it off. 

Rounding us out for today is another elegant creation shared by Cathy Weber:

Isn't it pretty?  The pink shades go so well with the get well sentiment, and you can't go wrong with a paper bouquet of roses.  Layering the popped up bloom on the tag helps reinforce those lovely flowers.  The lace is an elegant touch, too!

Thanks for another great week of projects, ladies! Inspiring as always!

Would you like the opportunity to be chosen for the Big Cheese? Just upload a project to your Waltzingmouse Gallery. Then add a direct, clickable URL link of your newly uploaded Gallery entry here in the WMS Forum, a new thread starts every Monday! You can visit us on the forum if you have any questions.

Have a great day!
Anya

May Waltzingmouse Stamps Christmas Card Challenge

Just a quick reminder that we have another Christmas Card Challenge ready just for you.  We all know how hurried we are around the holidays, but there is a way to cross one thing off your to-do list for the Christmas season and that is to play along with our monthly Christmas Card Challenge.  Making card throughout the year is so much easier than trying to make them all at a time of the year when you have so many other things to do.

Here is a little snippet of the May Challenge.

To see more and to play along, check out the May Christmas Card Challenge thread in the WMS forum.