Merry Monday Winners for Sketch #40

Wow! What a terrific week of entries at Merry Monday! Thank you to everyone who joined in and who made another Christmas card for their stash! This week, our winner for Top Pick, congratulations to Karen Day! We hope you will join us as our Guest Designer for Monday, November 19th. I will email you with the information soon!

This week's winner is:

Karen Day

And our Honourable Mentions were voted on as well, if you received a vote from a design team member, your card and link is below. Congratulations! We hope you will display your badge with pride! If you are viewing this in Google Reader, you may have to visit the blog to see the actual cards that are linked below. Please be sure to join us tomorrow for a brand new sketch and some wonderful inspiration from the design team.

Merry Monday Reminder....

There is still time to join us this week at Merry Monday! Less than 50 days before Christmas and less time than that to get your cards mailed out! But no pressure! To join us and complete another Christmas card for your stash, please CLICK HERE.

MOJO Monday

{Supplies Used}

Stamps: Winter Girl (Digi by Torico), AMUSE sentiment

Papers: Be of Good Cheer, Crumb Cake, Gumball Green Whisper White and Cherry Cobbler

Inks: Copics

Extras: Corner Rounder, Nesties, Snowflake Punch, Gem

I am short on crafty time this week, work has been busy as it is report card season and I have lots of assessment to do! But I did managed a quick card tonight, for a few different challenges! The sketch comes from MOJO Monday! I also entered a couple of other challenges...

• ABC Christmas Challenge - 2W, Christmas - Vibrant Colors (2nd week)
• Crafts and Me - #108 Reds
• Crafty Creations - #195 no flowers

Merry Monday #40-{Merry and Bright} and welcome to Featured Designer Margaret Moody!

If you are looking for the winners of last week's sketch, please CLICK HERE.

Welcome to another week at Merry Monday!  The idea behind this challenge is to get a head start on your Christmas cards!  Each week, I choose one Merry Monday Winner who will then be a Guest Designer for a future challenge!  So get out your Christmas supplies and let's get to work! Our sketch this week is open to interpretation...what shape will you use on your card?

I am excited to welcome Sherry Eckblad to our Merry Monday design team! Sherry has been an avid participant of our challenge and I was so happy when she agreed to join us! Welcome Sherry!

November is here and we have a brand new Featured Designer to inspire you! Welcome to the lovely Margaret Moody! I am happy to have Margaret designing with us this month, I admire her work so much! I asked her to share a bit about herself!

Margaret Moody  Hello, Merry Monday followers!  I'm Margaret Moody and I'm thrilled that Lesley has asked me to be the Featured Designer for November at Merry Monday!  I'm a native Texan and the mother of two beautiful daughters who are students at The University of Texas at Austin (Hook 'Em Horns)!  I've taught in public schools for 24 years and currently work as a reading specialist for a local school district.  In addition, I've done graphic design work for 29 years, designing t-shirts, logos, signs, menus and brochures for individual clients, churches, schools and clubs.  I've been smitten with anything paper from an early age when a very special aunt would take me to stationery and card shops during our many shopping trips together.  The fascination continued into adulthood and I started scrapbooking when my girls were younger, eventually moving into card marking.  I currently serve on the design team for Pals Paper Arts and create the sketches for the PPA Sketch Challenge each month.  I am so honored to share my cards with you this month and hope you find them inspiring!

Thank you so much Margaret! We are looking forward to an awesome month with you! The design team has been busy and they have some gorgeous samples to share with you!

For my card I decided to ink up a new stamp set for me called "Poinsettia and Pine" by Flourishes. I inked the stamp in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured with Copics. I stamped the sentiment right on the designer paper. I am also playing along with Flourishes Timeless Tuesday, where the image is partly cut off...my poinsettia doesn't quite fit the circle...

{Supplies Used}

Stamps: Poinsettia and Pine (Flourishes)

Ink: Memento Black Tuxedo, Copics

Paper: Be of Good Cheer and Soft Subtles Designer Pack (SU!), Flourishes White CS

Extras: White Satin Ribbon (SU!)

LeAnne Pugliese	Bonnie Klass	Nina Forsyth
Wendy Aungst	Narelle Farrugia	Allisa Chilton
Sue Joyce	Sherry Eckblad	Margaret Moody

Merry Monday Winners for Sketch #39

Wow! What a great week of submissions! The design team all placed their votes for the Top Pick and they each chose one Honourable Mention. 

This week's winner is:

 #4 -Arielle Gordon

Congrats Arielle! We hope you will join us this on Monday, November 12th as our Guest Designer! I will be in touch with you soon!

And our Honourable Mentions were voted on as well, if you received a vote from a design team member, your card and link is below. Congratulations! We hope you will display your badge with pride! If you are viewing this in Google Reader, you may have to visit the blog to see the actual cards that are linked below.

By the Seashore and French Foliage

Another quick post today! I inked up a new set that I absolutely love called "By the Seashore". I inked it up using Soft Suede and Pool Party. I actually made this card a couple of weeks ago for the Dynamic Duos Challenge but never got the chance to post it. I also used the "French Foliage" set for some background effects.

Supplies Used

Stamps: By the Seashore and French Foliage

Inks: Pool Party, Crumb Cake and Soft Suede

Papers: Crumb Cake and Early Espresso CS

Extras: Twine, Scallop Edge Punch, Pearls

There are still 3 hours to play along with the current Merry Monday Sketch, we will be announcing the winners later tonight. Tomorrow we are excited to welcome our November Featured Designer...

CAS(E) this Sketch {Just BEE Happy}

Just a quick card today as I am heading out to the dentist to get the final 2 hours done on a root canal! I cracked a tooth, probably from grinding my teeth. The first part of the root canal was not too uncomfortable last week, so I am hoping this week will be the same!

{Supplies Used}

Stamps: There She Goes Stamp called "Bee Happy"

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black Ink , Copic

Papers: White & Yellow CS

Supplies: Corner Rounder Punch

I inked up the There She Goes Stamp called "Bee Happy"! Love it, those little bees seemed perfect for the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch. I inked them in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and coloured the them with my yellow Copic. The top right hand corner of my card is rounded...

Laughter and Cheer with Torico

{Supplies Used}

Stamps: Sentiment (AMUSE), Digital Santa Stamp by Torico

Ink: Printer, Copics

Paper: White CS from Flourishes, Poppy Parade

Extras: Button from stash

I wanted to sit back and so some colouring this week. I love colouring because I can sit back in my lazy boy and colour on my lap pad. Yes, I know, pretty fancy stuff! Torico has these SWEET new digi stamps and I had to have them! I love the dancing Santa. I used my photo editing program and placed Santa slightly behind Rudolph...so it looked like Santa was leaping in the air! I know that I love Christmas, so this digi was a must for me!

Here is the challenge I am entering:

ABC Christmas Challenge - 2W, Christmas - Vibrant Colors

On a personal note, I just cannot believe I am at 499 followers! Wowza! Thank you to everyone who stops by my blog, and leaves comments or just stops by for a visit. I love blogging and have made so many wonderful friends from it!!