***HAPPY NEW YEAR***, Challenge #110

Bye-Bye 2011 and Hello 2012!!! 

Welcome back to House-Mouse & Friends MC!  It is our sincerest of hopes that you enjoyed your beautiful Holidays alongside your loved ones and that the *NEW YEAR* will bring you good health, great happiness, prosperity & lots of fun creativity as you look forward to 2012.

Thank you so much for all your Beautiful Entries with the Fuzzy & Warm Challenge #109. We were blown away by your gorgeous work. Many players entered multiple times and we couldn't be happier. The more, the merrier. THANKS AGAIN for your support and awesome dedication! :)

***WINNERS***
Due to the time differences between Coasts and the Team's Holiday Break, we will need a couple more days to sort through the number of Entries received for Challenge #109. A WINNERS announcement post will follow this Wednesday, January 4th, 2012.  So be sure to check back-in to see if you have WON any of these three FAB Prizes; Di's Digi Downloads, Pizzazz Aplenty Pkg & Team's Special Lot!! :)

***Brand NEW Challenge***
Our Team has chosen to go with a *NEW* theme for Challenge #110. So create something to celebrate anything that is NEW to you. Like; New Beginnings, a New Job, a NEW House, a NEW Baby, NEW Goodies, New Hobby or Project. Really anything that is NEW to celebrate ringing in the NEW Year! :)

***SPONSORS***

We are proud to announce that we are being Sponsored by our most Generous returning Sponsors

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!

PRIZE ; A $25 Gift Card PRIZE to the Simon Says Stamp Shop!

(Please note that the shipping/handling & tax fees of prizes are the responsibility of the winners.)

~ AND ~

http://www.pizzazzaplenty.blogspot.com/

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 card-stock to cello bags, as well as charms, stick pins, brads, buttons, cords, twines, laces, and over 20 colors in flat-back pearls and rhinestones. The newest additions are teardrop pearls, button stick pins, leaf pins, heart pins, resin cameos and flowers!

PRIZE ; a $10 of embellishments from Pizzazz Aplenty
 

So that's 2 prizes, and that means, 2 winners again!! :)

***GUEST DESIGNERS***

Thank you to everyone who expressed interest in joining out TEAM as a Guest Designer! We were thrilled with your Mousie work and are still in the process of contacting 2 of you wonderful talents to join us in January as our fabulous Guests. 

***DESIGN TEAM CHANGES & ADDITIONS***
Due to sudden personal life changes, our Fab Team Mate, Vicki Parson, has sadly decided to step down from the Team. We want to wish her the best of Luck with everything.  We have also said farewell to our awesome DT Floater Member, Curt O'Brien, who is not able to participate at this time.  With these sudden changes to our wonderful Mousie family, our TEAM has collectively decided to add new family members in 2012.  We will be inviting not 1, not 2, but 3 New Design Team Members to join us! Yeap, that's right! (Three)!!! That will make our grand family total of 14 Designers to provide you with endless, adorable HM&F inspiration!  :) 
Isn't that super exciting?!!

So how are we choosing these NEW Family Members??  
We are currently in the process of reviewing all your fab entries and HM&F work. We are looking for talented Designers who have played along over the past few months and, or, have expressed interest in joining our Fabulous Team. We will vote unanimously and hope to have a decision finalized by the end of this week.  Personal invitations to join our Team will be extended to three Finalists.  So stay tuned for follow-up announcements next week!


***DESIGN TEAM SAMPLES***

*Take a look at these *NEW* designs from our Fabulous Team*

January 2012 GUEST DESIGNERS' samples coming soon...

America Kuhn 
(New Year Celebration)  

Christine Craig

(New Year, New Diet, New Me)  

Lori Barnett

(New Baby) 

Lorraine Aquilina

(New Baby)

Stacy Morgan

(New Stamps)  

Sue Drees

(New Friends) 

Sue Kment

(New Baby)  

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For all the specific Card Making Details, please visit the Design Team Member's Individual Blog. 

Dont forget to share some love by leaving these FAB Mousie Designers a comment.

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 Now it's your turn to create something *NEW* to enter for your chance to win some Fab prizes!

*Here is a friendly reminder of the Challenge RULES*

1. Your project should follow the current Challenge Theme.

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

3. You must enter your project here using Mr. Linky below.

4. LINK your project back to this Challenge when posting to your site or online galleries.

5. Become a *Follower* of our Mousie BLOG.   
You may enter as many times as you'd like, as long as your projects are all NEW creations. 

That's it!  Easy, right?  :)

We hope to have inspired you and that you will be playing along with us this YEAR!
We just can't wait to see your lovely NEW creations!

*****From the TEAM at HM & Friends MC*****