Prowling at the 1st Midnight Madness Blog Hop!

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 Chris' 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!
1. Where do you get most of your inspiration from?
Anything in nature whether it's the formation and shading of the clouds or the reflections on the ocean, watching a sunset....what is naturally occuring in our world is always inspiring to me. I also get inspiration from other crafters and childrens books.
2. 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 like to use my creativity in the mornings because I function best at that time, and my brain is clearer during the morning hours....even after very little sleep!!! I usually have a cup of coffee alongside and once in a while Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate!!!!!
3. If your house was on fire and you could run in and save ONE CRAFT ITEM, what would that be?
That would be a toss up between my sewing machine and my Big Shot. (I've only had my big shot for a month, but I love it)....so it would probably be the Big Shot. OR if I could run fast enough maybe I'd be able to grab both!!!! LOL
4. Tell us something about you that would probably surprise us!
I'm a wall flower!!!! I'm extremely shy and fear speaking in groups or in public! Yet I was an elementary teacher until my son was born!!!
5. What would you love to find at a yard sale?
A box full of dies to use with my Big Shot, a box full of ribbons and charms, or handmade envelopes.......I'm always draging my feet when it comes to my envelopes!!!!
6. If you could do something dangerous just once, with no risk - what would you do?
Probably sky diving......but I have a fear of heights!!!
7. Whom do you aspire to be like?
This may sound strange but the late Princess Diana...she was another Mother Teresa....a person who reached out to people to lend a helping hand, to make people feel important no matter what their position in life. She had the most amazing aura about her that people just felt loved in her presence. Not to mention her taste for fashion!!
8. What makes you laugh the hardest?
My son and the things he comes up with. For a 5 year old he has an amazing imagination!
9. Would you be likely to survive alone in the wilderness?
I'd probably be alright until night time!!! Then my imagination would get the better of me!!!
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 favorites to feature here. Our 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.

I chose Lyn's card from Spyders Corner

http://spyder-spyderscorner.blogspot.com/2009/09/midnight-fright.html

Lyn is such a talented lady with a wicked sense of humor! She is always such a warm spirit with a true appreciation for her followers, each and every one of them! I chose Lyn's card because she found the sketch to be a real challenge to complete. I admire that she didn't give up on the sketch and produced such a cute Haunted House card.

Here is my Project

I decided to make a little Thanksgiving Thank you gift set for someone who had perhaps made something special for the Thanksgiving dinner, or helped with all the preparations. I chose my very first Magnolia stamp, Tilda from the Autumn 2008 series and colored her in prismacolor pencils. I made a pillow box and filled it with candles, a wooden purse filled with Hershey's kisses, a note card box and little wagon to carry the pumpkin! The pumpkin I painted and chalked, added some gems, leaves and ribbons. This gift set could also be used for a special teacher! Apart from looking in pictures, it's really difficult to remember what Fall/Autumn is like....living in Miami everything is green year round, so I decided to use softer Fall colors for my project. I hope you get a little inspiration from my creations.
Project recipe:Magnolia stamp - Tilda - Fall 2008, Beautiful Prima flowers from Sue McMahon's store on my side bar, papers by DCWV Rustic stack, notecard box tutorial is from SCS and the cute little wagon was from a tutorial on the Scor-Pal website (I tweaked it quite a bit and enlarged the measurements), pumpkin on the wagon is from Martha Stewart. Gems and ribbons are from Michael's.

Revealing the Word for the Secret Phrase
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!

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WOULD LIKE TO SEE A CLOSEUP OF MY PROJECT PLEASE SEE THE POST BELOW! I'M NOT SURE WHY THE PHOTOS WON'T ENLARGE ON THIS POST!