Christmas Blog Hop & Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #31 (MMSC31)

12-9-09 Our MMSC30 Weekly Bonus Winner is......
23. Nancy Brown

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Our last Blog Hop Logo Sighting goes to .....
Maxine aka Kiwime


Congratulations ladies, and thank you to everyone who is sporting our Logos :)
Nancy and Maxine if you would both be so kind to email me at heatonup@verizon.net to claim your prizes.
Now go play Blog Hop and be sure to Enter the Scrapbox giveaway (it ends on Dec 11th)
Who will be the lucky winner from my blog?


Midnight Madness
Christmas Blog Hop

Welcome to our Midnight Madness Christmas Blog Hop. We know this is a busy time of year for everyone so we are including our blog hop with our regular weekly Challenge MMSC #31. We invite you to participate in our challenge by making a card from our fabulous sketch and to be inspired by the projects on our blogs and make a matching ornament or small project. You are not required to do the project, but it would be a treat for us to see what you come up with and we would love it !!! You also do not have to do the sketch to participate in the blog hop. As an added bonus, we are going to do something a little different this time around. Each of our Design Team is offering up their card and project as a prize. WOW, a chance to own a Midnight Madness Card and Design!!!

1 Blog Hop GRAND Prize Drawing
12 Design Team Featured Card with Ornament or Small Project Random Drawing
(That is one prize package from each of our 12 blogs)
1 PRETTY PAPER Christmas Card drawing from the 12 Highlighted on Each DT Blog from the MMSC #28

The blog hop will start today at 8am EST and you have until Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 12 p.m. Midnight EST to enter your MMSC#31 in Mr. Linky at Priscilla's Midnight Madness Blog as always to be eligible.

If you would like your name entered in for the MIDNIGHT MADNESS BLOG HOP PRIZES, you will have to follow the directions below.....

1. To be eligible for the Blog Hop Grand Prize, 12 Design Team Card/Project Drawing, and Pretty Paper drawing; you must leave a comment on each of the Designer's Blogs during your journey through the Hop. once your name has been chosen, we will check to make sure you have commented on each blog before you are notified.

2. Enter your name and the words BLOG HOP in Mr. Linky, to be eligible for the Blog Hop prizes. As an added bonus, if you do the sketch you can enter your link to your card/project and have two entry chances for the prizes.

3. 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 WITHIN 48 HOURS to claim your prize. If there is no response within the 48 hours time frame, another winner will be chosen until all prizes are awarded. To start off, you need to be here right at the beginning Priscilla's Midnight Madness Blog! If at any time you were to get lost on the way you can come back here and start over. At the end of the hop you will find yourself back here to enter you name into Mr. Linky. If you want a chance to win you will have to follow the instructions listed above. Thank you and have fun on the Hop.

If you would like to be considered for the Christmas 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, last name initial, the words BLOG HOP and in the URL space enter this address http://priscillastyles.blogspot.com/

My Pretty Paper Christmas Card Pick
Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbon of Blue,
Wrap your presents to your darling from you,
Pretty pencils to write I love you,
Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons of Blue.

Brenda Kluge-Vintage Santa

We as paper crafters and card makers go crazy over pretty paper, pretty pencils, and pretty ribbons, don't we? Probably most of you are wishing for a special paper crafting tool or treat to be under the Christmas Tree with your name on it this year!! This song fits the mood and tempo of all us out there crafting away for the Christmas Holiday. For something Festive for the Season we want to feature our favorite cards from MMSC#28 to honor our Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge Players who played along with us that week. My choice for the "Pretty Paper" Christmas Picks is Brenda Kluge :) Brenda has played with us for awhile and has even won our Remarkable Award. Her work always has such richness to it. I really enjoy a good vintage style card and this one is no excecption...Thank you for the inspiration Brenda, your vintage flair is fantastic :) Our Pretty Paper card choices will need to do the blog hop, leave a comment at each of the Design Team Blogs, and collect a word from each of the blogs visited for the winning phrase and place their name in Mr. Linky with "BLOG HOP" after their name at Priscilla's Midnight Madness Blog! We will enter your name in a drawing for one winner form our 12 entries. We will email you when we verify that you have entered your name in Mr. Linky and have left a comment on each of the Design Team Blogs, you will need to email back the phrase in order to qualify for your prize. Even if your card has been chosen for the "Pretty Paper" you are still eligible for the other prizes.

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Congratulations to our Award Winners this Week
Our Gold Star Winner Winner is :
#34 Sue Drees

Our Remarkables this week are:
#13 Christina C.
#44 Kreativemonster

Thank you for playing this week everyone and we would be honored if our award winners would pick up their badges on the side bar and please display them proudly.
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Our Monthly Sponsor for December is:

Fran from the Frantic Stamper Inc. is the sponsor of our Monthly Bonus Prize Winner. You can visit Fran at her store at the Frantic Stamper Inc, your #1 source for rubberstamping and scrapbooking supplies. Friendly one-on-one service since 1996!! You can read about their store upgrading to a 6000 square feet warehouse with many new products at Frantic Stamper Happenings. Fran is offering a MEGA package worth $250 to one of you lucky players this month! Frantic Stamper is also an official vendor for Martha Stewart products and has the Largest Selection of punches online. Please browse the tremendous selection of scrapbooking and card making supplies at her shop. Wow, here is the picture of the MEGA prize package!!! Some lucky winner will receive this. Thank you so much Fran!

Note..You have till Midnight EST tonight 12-8-09 to get last weeks MMSC30 entries in to qualify for last weeks Bonus Prize. One winner will be drawn for our Bonus giveaway on Wednesday, so be sure to check back for that. If you miss the deadline, you are still welcome to link up to Mr Linky, but any entries after the "LAST CALL" will not be in the drawing.



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Revealing the Word for the Secret Phrase for our Christmas Blog Hop....

My word for the secret phrase is "?(blog hop now closed)?" and your next word can be found at Denise-KC242 Designs by Denise blog. Thank you for playing in our weekly challenges and for all your support each week. Everyone at Midnight Madness would like to wish you and yours a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New year. We thank you for joining us in our special Christmas Blog Hop and invite you to participate in the sketch challenge this week with a small project of your own. Here at Midnight madness we are looking forward to 2010 with more exciting fun and prizes and meeting and making friends with all of our participants past, present, and future. Thank you and good luck winning the prizes!!!

Here is this week's sketch. Again, we are having another theme this week. Our theme is "Winter Wonderland". Show us your wintry scenes. To entice you to visit our blogs for the Blog Hop we are teasing you by only giving you a sneak peek of what we did this week here at the main Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge Blog. So come and join us, we can't wait to see what you have created!

(Sneak Peek)- Jeni - Jeni's Custom Cards

(Sneak Peek)-Sue-McMahon Five Designs

(Sneak Peek)-Carol-Chocolate Crafts and Bears

(Sneak Peek)-Cabio's Craft Corner

(Sneak Peek)~Carolyn's Creative Card Corner

(Sneak Peek)~Chris -Twinkles Glow With Stamps

(Sneak Peek)-Daydreams by Michelle



(Sneak Peek)- KC242 Designs by Denise

(Sneak Peek) - Lovely Linda's Craft Central

(Sneak Peek) Priscilla - "priscillastyles"

(Sneak Peak)-Thepaperaffair

(Sneak Peak) Charlotte~Designs From Within

(Sneak Peek) Phyllis-SparklePlenty1000

Be Sure to stop by all of the above blogs to view their complete projects and join in our Christmas Blog Hop for a chance to win them....enjoy the journey and lets see what you make now :)

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 MMSC31 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**

MMSC31 ENTRY DEADLINE Dec 15th 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.

Here is "My" Midnight Madness
Card & Christmas Ornament Project

Who will be the lucky winner of my project? If you do not win, no worries, you can always make your own...stay tuned for a tutorial on how to make this ornament :) I would like to thank the whole Midnight Madness DT for helping make this event happen and of course for making such beautiful projects to give away to our winners for this very special Christmas Blog Hop.
Lastly, be sure to get in on our Huge Scrapbox giveaway...you do not want to miss out on that...click the top side bar link to find out more about our 12 blogs of Christmas giveaways.

Good Luck everyone !!!!
Priscilla :)