Prowling at the 1st Midnight Madness Blog Hop

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Welcome to Prowling at the 1st Midnight Madness Blog Hop. Here at Midnight Madness we are celebrating “you” our players with a fun and exciting blog hop. We have TWENTY FIVE exciting prizes to give away. As a matter of fact, here is the list of how we are giving away these prizes:

One Grand prize random drawing valued at $100

350th BRAND NEW Sketch Player SPECIAL Prize valued at $50

11 “Cards from the Crypt” (picked by our DT members from MMSC archives)

12 random Package winners drawn

You have until Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12 p.m. Midnight EST to leave your name in Mr. Linky at Priscilla’s Midnight Madness Blog to be eligible for the prizes. Prize winners will be notified at the end of the week.

If you would like to be entered in Prowling at the 1st Midnight Madness Blog Hop prizes and you DO NOT have a blog, you still can participate. You will have to follow the directions below……..

1. Leave a comment on the Midnight Madness Blog Hop comment section with your email address, first name and last name initial.

2. Link up to Mr. Linky with first name and last name initial and in the URL space enter this address http://priscillastyles.blogspot.com/

In order to have a chance at winning any of the prizes, you must gather a secret phrase along the Blog Hop. Each Design Team Member will have a particular word or words listed on their blog and as long as you visit them in order, you will have the secret phrase at the end. If you are picked as a Prize winner you will be contacted by email and you must email back the secret phrase WITH IN 48 HOURS to claim your prize. If by any chance the 350th BRAND NEW player or any of the “Cards from the Crypt” winners are not claimed, then those prizes will be added to the random winners drawn. To start off, you must begin at Pricilla’s Midnight Madness Blog! If you have not started there, I suggest you go back and begin again . . . you don’t want to miss out on the Prizes! If you have arrived from Michelle's Blog then you are on the correct course. If you want a chance to win you will have to follow the instruction listed above. Thank you and have fun on the Hop.

Meet the Midnight Madness Design Team

We thought it would be fun to feature in this section of our blog hop something to help you get to know the design team members and for us to get to know you. We have all chosen some questions with answers we wanted to share with you, our valued challenge players, about ourselves. You are welcomed to leave a comment here at my blog and tell us something about you. So here are some interesting things about me!

18 months old

* Where do you get most of your inspiration from? I am a very visual person and I just love to TOUCH - texture inspires me along with my My DH, who is a constant source of inspiration with his live for life and every detail - he is one of those people who 'feels the rain' - doesn't just 'get wet' and is teaching us all along the way!!

* Is there a specific time of day when your best creations are made and is there a particular food/drink item you just have to have with you? I usually get my card organised during the day, maybe having a little 'hands on' time, but most of my work is done in the evening and on into the small hours of the morning - time just gets away on me!  I am helped along by a DIET COKE or two....

* What tool could you not live without? Definitely my CHALKS and Blender Pens...followed closely by my Cuttlebug!

* If your house was on fire and you could run in and save ONE CRAFT ITEM, what would it be?  My Cuttlebug - it is known among my friends that when we get to Heaven, they will recognise me as I will be the one holding the Cuttlebug

* What money saving techniques do you have?  Now you have made me laugh!!!  If I did have one it would be 'don't leave the house! LOL!'

* What would you love to find at a yard sale? Are you crazy!?!? LOL!  Stamps and more stamps!!

* What makes you laugh the hardest - well, apart from the thought of savings... my DH and children, they are so funny,  everyone that know us know that we always find the funny things in life.  Some of our friends can be heard laughing as they drive down the street after leaving our house!

* Would you be likely to survive alone in the wilderness?  With no-one to talk too - I think NOT!!!

* Would you rather meet your great great grandparenjts or your great, great grandchildren?  My great great grandchildren!!

Cards from the Crypt

For something a little fun to honor our Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge Players we thought we would go back into the Crypt of archived challenges and pick some of our players cards to feature along our blog hop. Our Crypt pick winners will need to do the blog hop and collect a word from each of the blogs to collect the winning phrase and place their name in Mr. Linky at Priscilla's Midnight Madness Blog! We will email you when we verify that you have entered your name in Mr. Linky, you will need to email back the phrase in order to qualify for your prize. Even if your card has been chosen from the Crypt you are still eligible for the Grand Prize and Random Drawings. Below is my pick.....

I have chosen a card from MMSC #12 by pam124 from her SplitCoast Gallery.  I met Pam on SCS and have loved getting to know her as a friend and fellow crafter.  I have been inspired by her incredible gift with her cards and was so thrilled when Pam became a Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge player, her talent with cards is amazing and I am just so thrilled to be able to bring Pam's beautiful card here for you all to see!  Thank you Pam for being such an inspiring artist and sharing your creations on the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge  - we love to see them each week!  God bless you my friend!!


To help celebrate the Midnight Madness Blog Hop I have been busy creating a few fun items.  As we don't celebrate Halloween in Australia I have used the fall (or autumn as we say here) theme.  Don't you just love these Basic Grey DP's from the Indian Summer Range - the perfect colours for autumn!! 

I have made a set which includes a card, a Milk Carton Gift Box and a set of Notelets/Gift Tags.  They all match and would be a lovely gift for someone, complete with matching card!

I used a classic Stampin' Up set 'Lovely as a Tree' for the image on the card, stamping the image it four times and cutting each one at out different levels of leaves.  These were coloured with chalks and each layer adhered with dimensionals!

 A fiddly job but well worth the effort!!

 I added gold highlights on the branches.  The DP has been embossed for extra depth and dimension, all edges on the card has been sponged!

The Milk carton was made with a template and had the embossed BG DP added to the front

.  The embellishments for the Milk Carton and the mini cards are made with Stampin' Up punches with the gold Christmas ornament top added, after being flattened, with a brad!

So what do you think?!?  Thank you for playing in our weekly challenges and for all your support each week. We love showing off our creations to you and visiting your blogs each week to see what you have created We hope you are enjoying this special Blog Hop and that you are finding something new along the way. Thanks for joining us today!