Challenge No. 79 ~ School Time!

Happy House Mouse Monday!!

I apologize for the delay in getting this post up ... I've been having some major Internet problems - VERY frustrating!!

We've got a new challenge for you this week ... It looks like it's School Time for our little friends!

Any school themed card or project will work, as long as you use a House Mouse, Happy Hopper and Gruffies image.

AND, our prize this week will be a

$20.00 Gift Certificate to 7 Kids College Fund!!

***Please be sure to upload your creation for this week's challenge to your blog or public photo gallery, and then leave a link that goes directly to your project in the Inlinkz form at the bottom of this post by Sunday, October 10th to be eligible for a chance at our prize this week.***

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Special thanks to everyone for helping us celebrate our TWO-YEAR anniversary! We were blown away by the awesome cards/projects and comments on our blogs - House Mouse fans truly are the nicest people around!!

We've used Random.org to choose our VERY lucky winner from the amazing prize package for our anniversary celebration. We also verified that the winner had guessed the correct total number of cheese pieces being offered by the team - 71! (now that's ALOT of cheese!)

Drum roll please . . .

No. 11 - Ann Cutts of Just For Fun

Here's Ann's lovely comment:

yeah finished my card - counted the cheeses twice cause I was worried I'd missed some and am back to join in properly. There are 71 cheeses (I hope) - thanks for the fun. I haven't got many House Mouse so don't join in as much as I would like but I always look at the amazing DT work. Ann xxx

By Ann on Challenge No. 78 ~ A Special Sketch & Blog Hop! on 9/15/10

Big congrats Ann ~ You'll DEFINITELY have LOTS of House Mouse stamps now! Please contact us so we can get your prizes to you!!

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And, here are the adorable School projects from the wonderful Design Team for your inspiration . . .

CHRISTINE

HEATHER

LISA

LORI

LORRAINE

MARY

NATASCHA

SCOOPY SUE G.

SUE D.

SUE K.

AMERICA

Thanks so much for stopping by! Don't forget to join us for your chance to win and be sure to stop back on Monday, October 11th to find out who our winner is!!!

Please bear with us :-)

Mary has computer problems so the winner of the anniversary hop and the next challenge will be posted asap :-)

Sorry for the delay and hope normal service will be resumed in the near future :-)

the HM DT x x x

Challenge No. 78 ~ A Special Sketch & Blog Hop!

Happy House Mouse Monday!!

And a VERY SPECIAL Monday it is! Today marks the TWO-YEAR anniversary of the House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge blog!! Wooo hooo!

This week's challenge has been brought to us by the lovely Lorraine of the Design Team. Here's Lorraine's fun Sketch for our anniversary celebration!

We're starting the celebration with a special Blog Hop put together by the Design Team. And since we all know mice love cheese, each Design Team member is offering a certain number of cheese pieces for our party!! Hors d'oeuvres anyone?!

We need you to find the TOTAL number of cheese pieces being offered for our celebration! When you visit each Design Team members' blog, you'll want to look for this cutie showing the number of pieces of cheese that member has available . . .

When there's a mouse in the house and there is no cat

He'll find the cheese and that is that!

by Barbara Thrall Hamback

And of course, it wouldn't be a real party without prizes, right?! We've contacted our past sponsors and put together a HUGE prize package for one lucky winner!

$25.00 Gift Certificate from the Official House-Mouse Designs!

and

Your choice of TWO new UNMOUNTED House Mouse stamp sets from Joanna Sheen!

and

THREE House Mouse stamps (Quiet Evening with Friends, Trick or Cheese and Indulgence sentiment) from Scrapbook Store at Your Door!

and


$21.00 Gift Certificate from Sew Many Cards!

and

FIVE House Mouse stamps of your choice from Simon Says Stamp!

How cool is that?? VERY special thanks to these very generous sponsors for helping us celebrate today!!

TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CHANGE AT WINNING THESE AWESOME PRIZES...

1. Please be sure to upload your creation for this week's SKETCH challenge to your blog or public photo gallery, leave a link that goes directly to your project in the Inlinkz form at the bottom of this post, and

2. Visit each Design Team member's blog and leave them some love! Then submit a comment at the end of this post telling us the TOTAL number of cheese pieces being offered by Sunday, September 26th

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We were amazed at the awesome projects submitted for our last challenge ~ Thanks to everyone for joining us. We've used Random.org to choose a winner ...

No. 4 ~ Debbie of Pardon My Passion

Congratulations Debbie!! Please be sure to send us your choice of TWO digi images from Paper Cupcakes!

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Here are this week's Sketch Challenge cards from the Super talented Design Team . . .

CHRISTINE

CURT

HEATHER

LISA

LORI

LORRAINE

MARY

NATASCHA

SCOOPY SUE G.

SUE D.

SUE K.

Thanks so much for stopping by this week for our celebration party!!!

Don't forget to join us for your chance to win these amazing prizes and be sure to stop back on Monday, September 27th to find out who our VERY lucky winner is!!!

Here's the complete list of blogs to visit to find the grand total of cheese pieces being offered:

Christine

Curt

Heather

Lisa

Lori

Lorraine

Mary

Natascha

Scoopy Sue
Sue D.
Sue K.