Midnight Madness Week #14 (MMSC14)

The weekly BONUS WINNER for MMSC13 is
47. Gini Cagle
The MMSC13 bonus gift is being donated by Scor Pal Gini please email me your address so I can ship your goodies :)
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My little helpers having fun with an eraser board :)

We have some really fun stuff going on this week, so first things first! You have till Midnight EST tonight (8-11-09) to get your MMSC13 in for last weeks sketch. One winner will be drawn for our weekly BONUS GIFT give away from Scor Pal on Wednesday. We will now be leaving Mr. Linky open for anyone who would like to enter their projects after the fact. We will have a “LAST CALL” posted to Mr. Linky at Midnight EST and any entries after that will not be eligible for our weekly or monthly drawings, so be sure to get your card added to Mr. Linky in plenty of time. If you miss the deadline please share your link with us, as we would still love to see your projects. Starting this week, the Midnight Madness blog is going to be featuring tutorials call “Mid Week Midnight Madness Tutorial”. This Wednesday, I will be showing how to make “Handmade Chiffon Flowers” just like the one featured on my card this week. Melissa our GDT member will be featuring one in a couple of weeks followed by Sue’s feature of her Wood Paper Tutorial here in September, so be sure to come back and see what you can do with all her Fun New Products as well! Don’t forget that August is “Refer your Friends for Freebies” month. If you are new to our blog, below are some links to some of what our blog features, so if you have time, be sure to check them out…….

Jeni's Sketch Candy!!

MIDNIGHT MADNESS MASTERPIECE AWARD
Each week we awarding a special Badge Award to one person for their outstanding sketch submission. If you would like to be considered for this award, please make sure your card link is posted to Mr. Linky by Sunday of each week. This is our way of let you know how wonderfully talented you are and how much we appreciate you sharing your craft with us. This week we are proud to say the“MIDNIGHT MADNESS MASTERPIECE” Gold Star Award goes to.....

40. Craftypagan
Enjoy your award and please display it proudly!
(if you would like the blinkie code, just email me ;)

MM DESIGN TEAM AWARD

The recipient of this Team award deserves it wholeheartedly. She continues to show us each week what a wonderful teammate she is. She is so dedicated to her friends, family and recently just gave birth to a baby girl. She told me she spends hours just staring into her new baby’s beautiful sweet face. You just keep on loving that little one and when you are ready to join in with the sketches again, we will be waiting for you. In the meantime, we would like to let you know how much we appreciate your friendship. She is being given the Midnight Madness Miss Congeniality Award.

This week we would like to honor.....

Shawne
Stop by and check out her Blog.
Thank you for being such a great friend to us!!

I have to give some attention to the very generous ladies over at Simon Says Stamp. They have graciously offered to be a sponsor of the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge and have donated a $50 voucher to their store to the lucky winner of our August sketch challenges. You don't want to miss out on a fabulous chance like that, so be sure to play along for your chance to win this amazing prize! Not only have they done that for the MMSC group, but now, they are offering an unbelieveable blog candy! $100.00 in CHA products to a lucky winner if you enter by August 14th! Make sure you make a stop over there to check out the details at the Simon Says Stamp blog for your chance at this very generous prize! While you are paying them a visit over there, drop by their store: Simon Says Stamp They always offer some of the best products and are very sweet to deal with. It will be worth your time to drop by, and you will see that you will want to keep going back for more.

Midnight Madness Month end Drawing #1

This weeks "Weekly Bonus" Sponsor is....

This week are sponsor is Sue McMahon from “McMahon Five Designs” She is also on our very own design team. Sue began making cards 11 years ago after attending her first Stampin’ Up! party. She was hooked and has never looked back! She became a demonstrator and held monthly Coffee and Cards Parties at her home for 9 years. A year ago, she began selling her cards on Ebay and that is how we met along with meeting many other wonderful card artists. A few months ago, she opened an online store called "McMahon Five Designs". She currently offers digi’s, "REAL" wood paper , embellishments & is adding new items every week! She even has a

Rewards Program

that rewards you in store cash for displaying the McMahon Five Designs Logo on your blog. All you have to do is go to her website, set up an account, agree to participate in the Rewards Program and you will receive html code specific to your logo. Paste that code on the sidebar of your blog and it will automatically start tracking and when someone clicks on the logo and buys something from the store, you earn a percentage of that sale!! Then, you can use the cash towards any products available on her website! How easy is that??
Sue is being very GENEROUS to our Bonus Winner this week!! Our MMSC14 Bonus Winner this week will be receiving all the goodies pictured below including the 4 digi’s shown from McMahon Five Designs. As an added Bonus, if the winner is displaying the McMahon Five Designs logo on their blog they will receive 4 more FREE DIGIS of their choice from her store, so be sure to sign up for the Rewards program and while you are there, start making up your wish list :)

MMSC14 BONUS GIFT THIS WEEK!!

Bonus Prize this week is:
1 sheet of Birch Wood Paper
1 sheet of Cedar Wood Paper
1 sheet of Stampin’ Up! Rub Ons
1 package Prima Gallery Roses (Violet color)
1 package Prima Gypsy Petals (Earth color)

PLUS...........

The above Digi’s from “McMahon Designs” are:
Petunia, Pumpkin, Cornucopia and Rosewall
PLUS.........
4 more FREE DIGIS of YOUR choice from her store!! WOW!!!

Below you will find this week’s Sketch that was designed by Sue!! (thank you Sue) Many of our Sample cards are featuring Sues *Digis, as well as her **Wood paper or ***both. Have fun checking them out and be sure to click on them to find out all the details about each one.

THIS WEEKS SKETCH

Midnight Madness Week #14 Sketch (MMSC14)
Sketch by Sue

** Sue - McMahon Five Designs

* Priscilla - "priscillastyles"

* Charlotte - Designs From Within

* Denise - kc242 Designs by Denise

* Phyllis - SparklePlenty1000

** Carolyn - Creative Card Corner

* Chris - Twinkles Glow with Stamps

* Melissa - Keepsakes by Melissa

Jessica - solocosmo

*** Jane - The Paper Affair

* Michelle - Daydreams by Michelle

*Jeni - Jeni's Custom Cards

YOUR REMINDERS!!!....

1. You need to be a “FOLLOWER”
2. The “Midnight Madness LOGO BADGE/LINK” should be displayed on your blog

3. Your card post needs to have a Hyperlink back to this blog.

4. Tag with MMSC14 when uploading to galleries.

5. Only ONE entry per person per week please (If you choose to enter more than one, ONLY your FIRST entry will be judged and entered in the drawings)
6. Enter your project to Mr. Linky below
7. Leave a Comment below.
8. ***Read the General Rules**

IT'S THAT EASY!!

Note: if for any reason, Mr. Linky is not displayed directly below, please just add your link address for your project when you comment. If Mr. Linky is not here when you are, you could also check back again in a little while.

MMCS14 ENTRY DEADLINE Aug 18th MIDNIGHT EST
When you add your name to Mr. Linky, some how add an initial or make your name distinguished..(ie Lisa A. or Lisa B.) this will be very helpful with the more frequently used names so we can differentiate the players for our Mad Money Drawings.