Monday, January 3, 2011

It's a *New Beginnings* Blog-Hop for Challenge 86

***HAPPY NEW YEAR House-Mouse Friends***
We sincerely hope that your 2011 will be filled with Happiness! We are so glad you are here to HOP along with us for this very special New Year's BLOG-HOP!!!

Before we continue, we want to first CONGRATULATE Jeannette from KraftyKows. You are our Aperture Challenge #85's randomly chosen winner!!! Woohoo!! Please contact our DT Member -America- to claim your "Mouse-E. Claus" House-Mouse stamp prize!


Now on to Our New Year's BLOG-HOP!! We're going to have fun with Challenge #86 and want you to create anything that reminds you of NEW Beginnings. You could be ringing in the NEW YEAR, celebrating a New baby, a New home, a New friend, a New car, (anything that is NEW, really!), just as long as you make sure to showcase a House-Mouse Designs®, Happy Hoppers® and Gruffies® image on your design!!


We are also initiating a NEW Guest Designer Program with today's HOP. Our very first Guest Designer is TRACY of Country Mouse. She is talented and makes a great first GD for the month of January. Please join us in welcoming her as you hop along today. Also note that we will be keeping our eyes wide open for potential, future monthly Guest Designers to join us at House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge. So show us your BEST work & join in on our Monday Challenges!!

We are very fortunate to be Sponsored by these GREAT companies who are offering fantastic prizes for this New Years HOP! Just take a look at our amazing line-up;

*************************************

House-Mouse Designs®
($20.00 Electronic Gift Certificate to the official site's store)

*********************************

Simon Says Stamp
($15 of products to Simon Says Stamp shop!)

**************************************

Di's Digi Downloads
( Offering one lucky YOU 3 free Digi Downloads )

**********************************

Joanna Sheen
(Unmounted House-Mouse Designs stamps - offering you any 2 full sheets of your choice)



**************************************
RK Stamps
(Has A $10 gift certificate to RK Stamps Shop waiting for you!)
****************************************
How lucky are we and how awesome are all those ???  Keep reading! There's more...
NOT only do we have these GREAT Companies generously SPONSORING us with fabby prizes, but there are more awesome*Hidden* PRIZES from our Design Team Members. We have generously donated these prizes and we're hiding these on our BLOGS!
Take a look at what else you can win.....

Hidden Prize #1
Hidden Prize #2
Hidden Prize #3
Hidden Prize #4
Hidden Prize #5
Hidden Prize #6
Hidden Prize #7
Hidden Prize #8

Hidden Prize #9
smal gift, animated Pictures, Images and Photos

Hidden Prize #10
Xmas Gift--animated Pictures, Images and Photos

Additional Hidden Prize #11
A DT Member's Designed Box Full of Goodies...
*********************************************
Are you getting EXCITED?????? Ready to HOP???

We wont tell you where, or, which DT Members have these FAB prizes hidden within their blogs! But all you need to do to win the hidden prizes is leave love everywhere (comments), on all of the BLOG-HOP links for DT, Guests & main HM&F MC post!  To be eligible to WIN our main Sponsored Prizes, you MUST ALSO create a project for this New Beginnings Challenge and link your creation to our blinkie here by Sunday, January 16th, 2011!

For now, just sit back, relax & enjoy looking through our fabulous Design Team's NEW samples to help get you inspired. Then, follow the LINKS for BLOG HOP (leaving comments at each stop), until you return back here. (don't forget to leave some love here too!)!   HAVE FUN! :)











And featuring our very first GUEST DESIGNER, Tracy

Fun, heh?? Now here's the complete order of LINKS for you to follow on our Hop:


 This challenge will run until 8:00pm EST, Sunday, January 16th, 2011. So get HOPPING, commenting and creating your New Beginnings projects before then! :) Good Luck!

Thanks so much for joining us!! We love hearing from you!
The House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge Design Team

Monday, December 20, 2010

Challenge #85 - APERTURE

Sig - Merry Christmas w' Mouse Pictures, Images and Photos
Welcome back to House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge. So glad you're here!!
We sincerely hope that you are having a Wonderful Christmas Time!! :)

Our brand NEW challenge for this week is #85 and its being hosted by our wonderful and talented Design Team Member Christine, who has chosen for us to create an *Aperture* card.  Dont know what an Aperture is? An *Aperture* is an opening, such as a hole, a gap, or a slit. Sounds easy, right?? :)  SO go create a card and include a House Mouse, Happy Hopper or Gruffie image on your creation  for your chance to win this ADORABLE House-Mouse Designs Stamp from our Design TEAM!!! How cool is that?
 
It's called" Mouse E. Claus", #HMJR1079 from Dec 09 & measures 3" x 4" 

We have also chosen a WINER for our last Challenge (#84, "Charming Christmas Tree").  AND THAT WINNER IS.....drum roll please....... Silvia -of CraftySil !!!!  Wooohoo!!  CONGRATULATIONS Silvia!!  You do such beautiful work! Please contact us to claim your prize.

Now its YOUR turn to play along for your chance to win a prize!  So come on and join to show us what you can do with Apertures!  To get you inspired, take a look at the lovely designs by our fab Design Team;


Additional Aperture samples can be found in an older HM& MC challenge - found HERE!

THANK YOU all SOOOO much for joining us & making our Challenges so FUN!
Just wait and see what we have in store for YOU on our next challenge!  It'll be our very first BLOG-HOP of 2011.  It will be a very special one since we are featuring our first ever Guest Designer who will be joining us for a month!  We will also have big PRIZES!!!!! You wont want to miss it! :)

Hope we have inspired you enough to play along with us today!!

Thanks for stopping by our little BLOG!!  :)
The House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge Team

Sorry Katie :-/

Hi Katie ,, we are sorry that you couldn't link your card, the linky was in a different time zone :-) We have fixed it now so can you please pop back and link your card.

Apologies xx
Luv
Lols and the DT x x x

Monday, December 6, 2010

Oh Charming Christmas Tree, Challenge #84

Welcome Back!!! Sorry for that delay. Computers make life easier, but they sure are a major inconvenience when something technical goes wrong!!! Whatever did we do before computers existed anyways???

Now on to HAPPIER things...
We have a WINNER for our previous ENVELOPE ART challenge...... and that is..... drum roll please.....
Congratulations Cathy!!!!!! Please contact us to claim your PRIZE from our fabulous sponsor RK Stamps!!!


NOW on to this week's brand NEW Challenge #84! We are generously being sponsored by the fabulous SIMON SAYS STAMP Store and they will be offering you one stamp of your choice.
Simon Says Stamp started in 2002 and now has over 100,000 items in stock. They strive to bring you a wide range of rubber stamps, Altered Art, Scrapbooking, ATC and papercrafting.
Take a look at the wonderful variety of items they offer here.
It is America's turn to host this new challenge and she would love see what you can do with the adorable House Mouse & Friends characters and CHARMING CHRISTMAS TREES!!! Anything goes, as long as you use HM&F characters and follow a Christmas Theme. And as most of you know, America loves CHARMS!!! Sooo, extra bonus points go to those of you who use CHARMS on your Charming Christmas Tree creations for this challenge! :)

Take a look at our awesome Design Team's Creations...

America


Christine


Heather


Lori


Lorraine


Natascha


Sue (Scoopy)


Sue Drees


Sue Kment

Now that you've seen all of our Designers wonderful Christmas Samples, come join us for your chance to win. We are going to be looking forward to your creations as we are super excited to announce that we are looking for Monthly Guest Designers to join us at the start of the new year!!!!!!
So hurry and show us what ya' got!!!! :)

Thanks so much for stopping by & Happy Mousie Creating!!! :)
The House Mouse & Friends Design Team

Today's NEW POST COMING SOON...

Hello beloved House Mouse Friends,

Please forgive us, but today's post will be slightly delayed due to big-time Computer TROUBLES for the past 2 days!!!  The issues seem to be getting resolved and so today's post will be up very soon.  

Please come back and check in a little later this morning!

We thank you kindly for your great patience!!  :)

Your Mousie Friends, 
The HM& F Design Team!!!