Celebrating World Card Making Day With a Special Sale!!!

Happy World Card Making Day, my friends! The Craft's Meow is celebrating with you this weekend by offering a coupon code for a 15% discount in the store!!! That's right!!! And this includes an additional 15% off of already discounted sale items. Yay!!! I don't do this very often, so now's your chance!!! All you have to do is enter WCMD2012 at checkout to receive your discount. The coupon will expire at 11:59 pm Pacific on Sunday, October 7th, so you must act quickly!

To inspire you, many of our design team members and stamp illustrators have created cards for this event, which I'm sharing with you today. Feast your eyes on these beauties!

Iwona Palamountain

featuring Lovely Ovals and Telegram

Jean Martin

featuring Life is a Carnival, Telegram and Vintage Rides

Jessica Fick

featuring Baggin' Some Rays

Karen Baker

featuring Butterfly Kisses

Lin Brandyberry

featuring Simply Delightful and Fly Free

Lindsay Amrhein

featuring Love Dwells Here and Vintage Clocks

Lindsay Amrhein

featuring Stitched Sentiments and Inspired by Audrey

Nina Brackett

featuring It's a Banner Day

Nina Brackett

featuring Beautiful Spring and Sew Happy

Sharri Seffens

featuring Happy Fall and Love Dwells Here

What have you created for World Card Making Day? Link your WCMD cards below and I'll draw for one of you to win a very special prize! The contest ends at 9:00 pm Pacific on Sunday October 7th.

Thanks for stopping by and sharing with us today! We love hearing from you and seeing what you create!!!

Welcome Jen, Sharri and Veronica to Team TCM!!!

Hello again! Today I'm introducing you to three more of our newest Design Team members... the fabulous Jen del Muro, Sharri Seffens and Veronica Zalis!!! Please join me in giving these ladies a warm TCM welcome!!!

Jen del Muro

Howdy!  I'm Jen del Muro.  I live in North Texas (Flower Mound to be exact) with my hubby, 2 kiddos, 2 dogs, and a sly black cat.  I have a passion for all things paper crafting, especially stamping...of course!  I'm not sure when my love for paper crafting began, but once I was introduced to stamping, I was hooked.  I try to create something almost everyday (yes, really).  My favorite part of crafting, besides the awesome and ever changing product selections/choices, is the people.  I have become connected with so many wonderful people through this craft and am thankful for their friendship and talent they share.  I am so happy to be a part of The Craft's Meow team and look forward to sharing my creations with you!

Sharri Seffens

Hi everyone! My name is Sharri Seffens and I am thrilled to be a part of The Crafts Meow Team! Thank you Lisa!

I live in Stoughton, Wisconsin and work full time as an IT Project Manager. I am married to a wonderful man who is also my best friend. We have two 2 beautiful daughters ages 26 and 10. Ashley will be blessing us with our first grandchild in the spring, 2013! I started paper crafting shortly after the birth of Abbi and fell in love instantly. I love all styles and let my mood decide which one I go with for each card I make. I love this hobby and am grateful to be a part of this amazing community of crafters, the people I have met, and the friends I have made.  I am really looking forward to inspiring everyone with TCM stamps! 

Veronica Zalis

Hello! My name is Veronica Zalis and I live in Southeast Oklahoma. I am a stay-at-home mom of two beautiful little boys. I have been married to my best friend and biggest cheerleader for 9 years.  I was invited to a neighborhood card swap in Texas in 2003, and I have been a cardmaker ever since. I have made many wonderful crafty  friends along the way and look forward to making many more!

I know these ladies, along with Gayatri Murali and Lin Brandyberry (announced yesterday), will be a great addition to our TCM family! I am beyond thrilled to welcome them to our team!!! Am I lucky or what? :)

Thanks so much for stopping by. We'll be back on Saturday to celebrate World Card Making Day with all of you so please stay tuned!

Welcome Gayatri and Lin to Team TCM!!!

Hello friends! I'm popping in today to introduce you to two of the five newest members of our Design Team, Gayatri Murali and Lin Brandyberry! Please join me in extending a warm TCM welcome to these amazing artists!

Gayatri Murali

My name is Gayatri Murali. I live in Australia with my husband, two children heading into their teens, and a one-year-old cocker spaniel named Charlie. I am a therapist by profession working with children with Autism. I started out as a scrapbooker six years ago, but now I've turned into a full time cardmaker. My style is stamps, inks and cardstock, clean and simple. I also love bright colors and modern graphic design. I enjoy the process of designing. I find crafting very therapeutic. A lot of my free time is spent at my craft desk either planning or designing. I am super thrilled to design for The Craft's Meow and also be working with an amazing team! 

Lin Brandyberry

Hi!  I'm Lin and I live in Canton, Ohio with my husband of 41 years.  We have been blessed with 2 sons and 3 grandchildren.  A former quilter, I was introduced to stamping in 2005, and now I love making cards, playing with paper just like I did with my fabrics.  I love flowers and hearts, paper-piecing, fussy-cutting, and just playing with color.  I started my blog devoted to card making in 2009 and the years have flown by since; almost every day you'll find me in my craft room working on a card.  A huge part of my love of this craft is the friends I've made on- and off-line; card makers  are wonderful people!   I've been a big fan of The Craft's Meow stamps, and I'm thrilled to be a part of this amazing team!   I'm looking forward to working with my fellow team members to inspire you.

I'll be back tomorrow to introduce you to the other three newest design team members! See you then!

Hope You Can Cling To

Hello friends!!! Happy October!!! We have a LOT planned for you this month, including lots of ways to win TCM stamp sets, so hang onto your hats!!! We're starting out with a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

The Craft's Meow is a proud Pink Ribbon sponsor of Splitcoaststampers 3rd Annual Hope You Can Cling To campaign for breast cancer awareness and support!!!

The fun kicks off today in the HYCCT Forum. There will be 31 days of challenges and lots of prizes to be won! I encourage you to click over to the forum and join us!

And how about this for a bonus? If you participate in any of the challenges using predominantly The Craft's Meow stamps, please link your card(s) below and I'll draw a name (perhaps more than one!) to win a TCM in-stock stamp set of choice! Please link from the HYCCT Gallery.

Enjoy! And thank you for joining us in supporting this very important and worthy cause!

October Sketch Challenge!

Can it really be October already?!

Thank you for all of the wonderful cards you entered for the September Challenge!  The winner, randomly drawn from all entries, is...

Kelly Bertram

 Congratulations, Kelly!  Please email Lisa at thecraftsmeow@gmail.com with your choice of in-stock stamp set and she'll mail your prize right out to you! 

Jennifer here to reveal The Craft's Meow October Sketch!  I wanted to give a huge shout out to Amy (who has been the fabulous Sketch Coordinator and is a wonderful person) for helping get me started with this fun post!  I hope I can do it justice!

Now for some inspiration from the wonderful The Craft's Meow Design Team:

First up is the lovely Nina - 

Nina used Love Dwells Here for this beauty!

Next up is Elizabeta -  

Elizabeta used Lovely Ovals and Ladies and Gents on this stunner!

And finally one from me - 

I used Stitched Flowers, Stitched Sentiments, and Thanks Bee to Thee for this fun card!

Now for the details...you may enter as often as you like, but we must be able to see the sketch in there somewhere. You are free to flip it or turn it as you like!

You do NOT have to use TCM stamps to enter the challenge. However, if you are the winner and you have used TCM stamps on your entry, you will not only receive a TCM stamp set of choice as your prize, but also a coupon for 15% off one additional stamp set of choice which can be used one time within 30 days!!! 

You have until October 31 @ 9:00 pm pacific to link up!