*Chall #104 BIRTHDAY BLOG-HOP WINNERS*

HELLO & WELCOME BACK!!

If you're looking for the new Christmas Sparkle Challenge #105, CLICK HERE to go directly there!

As we promised you, today we are announcing Challenge #104's BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION BLOG-HOP WINNERS!!!  
WOW!!!  WHAT A PARTY that was!! Hope you enjoyed hopping as much as we enjoyed browsing though your beautiful work! Thank you for being a part of this celebration! :)  You've made our 3rd year designing with HM&;F that much better!!! And now, you are about to find out if your blog-hop participation paid off. :)
Sooo, without further delays,

.......THE PRIZES go to these VERY LUCKY WINNERS .......

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***First Sponsored Prize***

The Official House-Mouse Designs site;

HMD is offering ONE VERY LUCKY WINNER (A $25.00 Electronic Gift Certificate to the official site's store) AND... get this special prize... Ellen Jareckie, the artist behind the House-Mouse Designs characters, will, space permitting, autograph these rubber stamps for the winner of this electronic gift certificate orders!!!  
WOW!!  If that isnt exciting news!!! 

NOW THAT'S quite the MARVELOUS prize that'll go to

LUCKY winner is Penni, Entry#18

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 ***Second Sponsored Prize***

In business since 2002, Simon Says Stamp is striving to offer you the best selection of Rubber Stamps, Altered Art, Scrapbooking, Artist Trading Cards and Paper Crafting Supplies in the world. They stock over 100,000+ items, offer quick service and 1 stop shopping at a great price!  Offering a $25 Gift Card PRIZE to the Simon Says Stamp store.

LUCKY winner is; Dorte, Entry#59

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 ***Third Sponsored Prize***

Pizzazz Aplenty

$10 package of embellishments from Pizzazz Aplenty

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A redraw was done today due to non-response from previous winner
The NEW LUCKY winner of this FAB Prize is...

 Kate, Entry #2

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Thank you Sponsors for your great sponsorships and generosity!

If you are a winner of a sponsored prize, please contact us within 7 days to claim your Prize!

CONGRATULATIONS EVERYONE!!!!!! 

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THERE WAS also a  fantastic COLLECTION of prizes from our Wonderful TEAM of GENEROUS Designers who donated these GOODIES JUST FOR YOU!

Here are the individual PRIZES and OUR LUCKY WINNERS

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Prize by SUE KMENT

***LUCKY winner is MARYANNE***

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 Prize by SUE DREES

***LUCKY winner is CARMEN O.*** 

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  Prize by VICKI PARSON

***LUCKY winner is BRENDA B.***

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    Prize by MARY GIEMZA

An additional $20 Dollar Gift Certificate to the official HMD Store!

***LUCKY winner is PETRA***

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Prize by HEATHER GILFOY-BOND

***LUCKY winner is BARBARA***

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First Prize by AMERICA KUHN

LUCKY winner is Heather D, Entry#15

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Second Prize by AMERICA KUHN 

LUCKY winner is Crafty Amy, Entry#23

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 Prize by LORI BARNETT

***LUCKY winner is APRIL***

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Prize by CHRISTINE CRAIG

***LUCKY winner is JACKY***

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  Prize by JANNEKE

*LUCKY winner is DAWN***

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Prize by CAROLYN BOUNDS

*LUCKY winner is BERNIE***

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 Prize by; LORRAINE AQUILINA

LUCKY winner is ERIN

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  + ONE more PRIZE that was a total surprise by: NATASCHA BANNING

***LUCKY winner is LARISA***

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CONGRATULATIONS 
TO EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU MOUSIES!!!

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If you are a DT Blog winner;

Please contact the Blog's DT Member directly (within 7 days), to claim your Prize!

The winners were chosen based on meeting the following BLOG-HOP criteria. 

1. #Winner Left a comment on main HM&F Blog
2. #Winner Entered and linked a HM&F card into our Challenge
3. #Winner also mentioned our HM&F BLOG on their post
4. #Winner left some love (comments), for each of the HM&F DT & Guest Members

5. Extra bonus points go out to those players who Follow our BLOG!

If you didnt win anything this time, dont worry! We will continue to OFFER great prizes with every new challenge!!  So come join us with your adorable HOUSE-MOUSE & FRIENDS projects!! :)

THANKS so much AGAIN for coming to the PARTY !!!

The House-Mouse & Friends MC Design Team

BLOG-HOP WINNERS & Christmas Sparkle for Challenge #105

Eeek!! HAPPY MONDAY!!!
Welcome back to our House-Mouse & Friends Challenge Blog!!!!

Did you join us at the AWESOME BIRTHDAY PARTY BLOG-HOP these past 2 weeks???

 Sure hope you found the time because it was very special and soooo much FUN!!!

We want to thank all who helped us celebrate, those who joined us and all of YOU FANS out there for the LOVE you've poured on us!! WOW!!!  YOU are the ICING on the CAKE!!!  You motivate our TEAM to keep doing what we do and we want to THANK YOU ALL from the bottom of our hearts for your incredible support! 

       

We are absolutely thrilled with your beautiful entries that are full of amazing creativity! WOW!! Its going to be super tough to choose our lucky winners for all of those YUMMY PRIZES offered by our Great Sponsors,  Design Team & Guests! 


***BLOG-HOP WINNERS***
With so many FAB Prizes up for grabs,  we will need extra time to sort out all the winning details.  Winners will be chosen using Random.org and prizes will go to those who followed all BLOG-HOP rules. 

Some of the Design Team Members will announce their winners with their new challenge post today, but an official announcement with a complete WINNERS list will also follow (with a new post), right HERE on Wednesday, September 28th.  
So, please remember to come back to check if you've won! ***************************

***Sparkly NEW CHALLENGE***

For now, let's move on to CHALLENGE #105. The theme was chosen by our awesome TALENT, Sue Cooper, from ScoopyStuff. aka: Scoopy!  She wants to see lots of ***Sparkle on your Christmas Creations***  That should be very easy to do!  :)
Just remember to use a House-Mouse, Happy Hoppers or Gruffies image.



***SPONSORS***
For this new challenge, we are proudly welcoming back two TERRIFIC SPONSORS; ! :-)

Di's Digi Downloads

Will offer One winner (3)Digi Downloads

Di's Digi Downloads is a great little company offering lots of super adorable digi stamps. Diane will again be Offering 3 free Digis to ONE LUCKY player - for this challenge. So make sure to play along for your chance to win!!!!

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Pizzazz Aplenty

Offering the Winner a $10 package of embellishments from Pizzazz Aplenty

Pizzazz Aplenty began with only a bit of bling and some ribbon, but in the last few months, we've added so much more... from cardstock to cello bags, as well as charms, stick pins, brads, buttons, cords, twines, laces, and over 20 colors in flatback pearls and rhinestones. The newest additions are teardrop pearls, button stick pins, leaf pins, heart pins, resin cameos and flowers! Please stop by for a look at our store: Pizzazz Aplenty



To get you inspired, check these
***Amazing samples from our FABULOUS TEAM***
With a special thanks to our Sept GDTs Tracy & Sally for their lovely creations & contributions!

America Kuhn

Christine Craig 

 Heather Gilfoy-Bond

   Lori Barnett

 Lorraine Aquilina

Mary Giemza 

Natascha Banning 

Sally Bowness - (September Guest Designer)

Stacy Morgan

Sue C. "Scoopy"

 Sue Drees

Sue Kment

Tracy Thompson - (September's returning Guest Designer)

 

Vicki Parson

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****So  much FABULOUS HOLIDAY SPARKLE****

  We hope to have inspired you to get started on your HOLIDAY cards! Christmas is just around the corner! :)   So come play along with us and show us your sparkly takes. 
We cant wait to see your beautiful creations!

***Here are the Challenge RULES***

1. Project must follow theme of the current Challenge.

2. MUST use a House-Mouse, Gruffies or, Happy Hoppers image.

3. Must enter your project with Mr. Linky (below)

4. Must Post project and LINK back to HM&F Monday Challenge BLOG.

5. Please mention our BLOG & Challenge on your post.

And as a BONUS, we'd really love it if you also *Followed* Our BLOG

That's It!!! Easy, right? So have fun and come play along with us!!
This challenge will end at 8:00pm EST, on October 9th, 2011

Happy Crafting from the House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge Team

It's our 3rd Birthday Challenge and Hop reminder :-)

Hi all :-) We are having a lovely time at our FABULOUS 3rd Birthday Party ,, lots of cake and candy to share and more people joining us every day !! Woo Hoo !!! :-)
If you haven't joined us already then you still have a week left to get yourselves over here !! We are all having a GREAT time and hope you can all join us !

All you need to do is make a Birthday card/creation using a House Mouse, Gruffie or Happy Hopper stamp/decoupage and hop around the blogs,,, :-) There are lots of fabulous prizes on offer and lots of candy on some of the DT blogs too :-)

Please scroll down to the challenge post for more information x

Our lovely teamie Christine has made another gorgeous card for your inspiration !

sooo CUTE !! :-)

So what are you waiting for ??
Happy Crafting ! :-)

BIRTHDAY Celebration Blog-Hop!

Eeeek! Welcome Back FRIENDS!!! So glad you are here today!
Guess what??? We just turned 3 years old!! Can ya believe it??
For us Mousies that's a big milestone, so we are celebrating with an EXCITING
***Blog-Hop Birthday Party***

Before we tell you about the PARTY details, the great prizes & show you challenge samples, we have some VERY exciting ANNOUNCEMENTS...

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First, LAST WEEK's WINNERS

We want to thank all of you who joined us for the last challenge. YOU wowed us with your creativity on your RECIPE takes!!! There were so many fabulous designs, but there could only be (3) three winners.... so without further delays, the randomly chosen winners for the (3) Sponsored prizes are;
Prize #1 - Winner of HMD's $25 Gift Certificate goes to Entry #17, which belongs to CRAFTY LOU!
Prize #2  -Winner of KnK Designs (3) Digi Stamp Sets goes to Entry #22, which belongs to NATALIE!
Prize #3 -Winner of Pizzazz Aplenty Embellishment Pkg goes to Entry #23, which belongs to MICKAELA!

CONGRATULATIONS to all of you and THANK YOU so much FOR PLAYING ALONG!!

Please contact *America* to claim your prize.

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*WE HAVE A NEW FAMILY MEMBER*
We are thrilled to tell you that we have a brand NEW MEMBER joining our Design Team!!! It's the one and only VICKI PARSON, of Stamped Smiles and she is now part our Happy Mousie Family!! Her work is fantastic and Vicki is such a sweetheart! We're very lucky to have her.
Wont you please help us give her a warm welcome!?

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AUGUST GUEST DESIGNERS
With August behind us now, so we must say goodbye to our FABULOUS August Guest Designers;
Gemma Louise.... and.... Red Squirrel
Thank you so much for your amazing mousie contributions Ladies! We've so enjoyed having you on board. :)


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SEPTEMBER GUEST DESIGNERS
Joining us for the month of September are 2 super talented DESIGNERS; 
Sally Bowness & Tracy Thompson--> (who is returning for a second round)!
Welcome Ladies! We are very excited to have you on board!!!

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REARLY DT MEMBERS REVISITING us for Birthday Celebration
Surprise!!!!   This Birthday party wouldnt be as special without these PAST Designers!  We went all the way back to the very beginning of our HM&F MC BLOG days (AUG 2008), and reached out to some of our very first Designers. Fortunately, we reached a few of these great talents and somehow managed to bring them to our PARTY!!! Isnt that super??? We thought so!!

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SPONSORS

We want to welcome back three great sponsors who will help us celebrate with terrific prizes:

Thank you SPONSORS!! We appreciate your support and we're thrilled to have you on board!! :)

Sponsor #1

The Official House-Mouse Designs site;

HMD is offering ONE VERY LUCKY WINNER (A $25.00 Electronic Gift Certificate to the official site's store) AND... get this special prize... Ellen Jareckie, the artist behind the House-Mouse Designs characters, will, space permitting, autograph the rubber stamps that the winner of this electronic gift certificate orders!!!  
WOW!!  If that isnt exciting news!!! 

NOW THAT'S quite the MARVELOUS prize that'll go to ONE very LUCKY winner!!!

Sponsor #2

In business since 2002, Simon Says Stamp is striving to offer you the best selection of Rubber Stamps, Altered Art, Scrapbooking, Artist Trading Cards and Paper Crafting Supplies in the world. They stock over 100,000+ items, offer quick service and 1 stop shopping at a great price! Offering a $25 Gift Card PRIZE to the Simon Says Stamp store!

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Pizzazz Aplenty

Offering the Winner a $10 package of embellishments from Pizzazz Aplenty.
 
Pizzazz Aplenty began with only a bit of bling and some ribbon, but in the last few months, we've added so much more... from cardstock to cello bags, as well as charms, stick pins, brads, buttons, cords, twines, laces, and over 20 colors in flatback pearls and rhinestones. The newest additions are teardrop pearls, button stick pins, leaf pins, heart pins, resin cameos and flowers! Please stop by for a look at our store: Pizzazz Aplenty

EXCELLENT PRIZES, right???
BUT WAIT!!!!! THAT'S NOT ALL.....

OUR LOVELY DT Members generously want to offer you additional Prizes!!!  Yeap, that's right!  There is MORE!!!  This means that you'll have more chances to win!!   Below is a sampling of some of the incredible prizes that await you along the HOP... take a peek!

An additional $20 Dollar Gift Certificate to the official HMD Store!

 

+ ONE more that is a total surprise

FANTASTIC collection of  YUMMY CANDY, heh??
Any of these great prizes could be yours if you play along with the challenge! So dont delay!

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CHALLENGE # 104

Wanna know what the NEW CHALLENGE is?? It's being hosted by our talented Teamie, NATASCHA, and she has chosen; BIRTHDAY theme with a Bunch of Flowers.
(though the Flowers are completely optional)

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***BLOG-HOP RULES***
To be eligible for prizes.... these rules must be followed...

1. Visit DT,, Guest DTs & special Guests Blogs to leave each a comment.
2. Return to this main BLOG post and again leave a comment.
3. Create a project for the BIRTHDAY challenge theme and use any House-Mouse, Happy Hoppers or Gruffies Stamps.
4. Post your project to your blog, (or any online gallery), then enter it here using the Linkitz (below).
5. Mention our Challenge and Link your project back to our BLOG.
6. Become a Follower of our HM&F MC BLOG!

That's it!!!!

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DESIGNER's  Samples

To help inspire your creativity, below are some amazing samples from the Design TEAM, September Guest DTs, and PAST DT's returning to help us celebrate! :)

Vicki Parson (our New DT Member)

Tracy Thompson - (September's returning Guest Designer)

Sue Kment

Sue Drees

Stacy Morgan

Sally Bowness - (New September Guest Designer)

Natascha Banning

Mary Giemza

Lorraine Aquilina

Lori Barnett

Judith Rozema (Early DT Member Revisiting to help us Celebrate!)

Janneke de Jong (Early DT Member Revisiting to help us Celebrate!)

Heather Gilfoy-Bond

Christine Craig

Carolyn Bounds (Early DT Member Revisiting to help us Celebrate!)

America Kuhn

WHAT A WAY TO CELEBRATE A BIRTHDAY, heh?!! Sure hope we have inspired you to go HOP!!   BELOW is a Complete BLOG-HOP LIST of  the participating Members with direct LINKS to help you get started and help you just in case you get lost along the way. 
We are going in reverse alphabetical order;

Vicki Parson
Tracy Thompson
Sue Kment
Sue Drees
Stacy Morgan
Sally Bowness
Natascha Banning
Mary Giemza
Lorraine Aquilina
Lori Barnett
Judith Rozema
Janneke de Jong
Heather Gilfoy Bond
Christine Craig
Carolyn Bounds
America Kuhn

Now sit back, relax and enjoy !  Remember to leave some love along the way until you find yourself back HERE! Make sure to visit ALL Members & GUESTS!!!   If you are not able to leave a comment on one of these Blogs, please mention that here with your final comment.  

This Blog-Hop PARTY will run until 8:00 PM EST, Sunday, September 25th.
So don't waste any time and HAVE FUN!!!!  We cant wait to see all your lovely BIRTHDAY creations!

The House-Mouse &Friends Monday Challenge Team!