Muse Challenge #1 Voting

Voting is now open!

Don't forget to vote for your favorite submissions. Voting is open to everyone, is anonymous and private. Please click HERE or scroll down to the post below. Then click on the word "vote" next to the star below the thumbnail of your selection. You're allowed 3 votes. Once you've voted the stars and option to vote will not be visible. Don't worry, your vote has gone through, just privately.

Voting will close on Sunday, January 27 at 12 noon EST. The voting results will be announced at 8:59 a.m. EST and our new challenge will begin at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, January 28.

Thank you for participating! 

Muse Challenge #1

Welcome to our very first Muse member challenge! We're kicking it off with the very sweet and talented Amy Kolling. She generously agreed to create a special card for today. I don't know about you but I could use a bright and sunny card like this to motivate me. The weather where I live has been very dreary and cold lately!

Here are the 3 simple rules:

• Use the Muse card as inspiration, explain your interpretation and link back to Muse.
• Provide supportive comments to at least 3 of your fellow member’s submissions. 
• Vote for one of your fellow member's submissions that you find inspiring.

You're free to draw your inspiration from any of the elements of Amy's card. For example, design/layout, color combination, pattern, texture, image, style, embellishment and technique.

Now here's your Monday Muse, Amy Kolling!

We can't wait to see your unique take on this week's card!

Other considerations: This challenge is open to anyone. The only thing you need to do to become a member is make a card and submit it to one of our challenges.You're free to participate as much or as little as you want. We'll be pulling some of our future designers and guest designers from our club members. So the only way to show your interest in becoming a designer is to play along. It's not mandatory to become a designer or guest designer if you were to be invited in the future. One of our design team members will offer a card for you to interpret each Monday at 9:00 a.m. EST. You can combine with other challenges. We're also encouraging players to use what they have in their stash to make their Muse cards. No need to purchase anything new or use a specific supply. We ask that everyone honor the 3 simple rules. If you don't follow the rules you may be disqualified from a Featured Member win or have your submission removed from the InLinkz. Last but not least, please consider turning off your word verification. Thank you.

We have a new Muse Facebook page so you can get important updates or special announcements in between challenges. Please stop by, say hi and LIKE us while you're there!

The InLinkz will close and voting will begin at 12 noon EST on Saturday, January 26. Please don't forget to come back and vote for one of your fellow member's submissions. The results of voting will be announced at 8:59 a.m. EST and our new challenge will begin at 9:00 a.m. EST on Monday, January 28. We'll have one more surprise Guest Designer join us before our Design Team will begin sharing their cards.

If you don't have a blog feel free to use a Flickr Gallery or other online gallery for your Muse cards. Just copy the URL location of your card in your gallery and add it to the Inlinkz. 

To play along add your cards to the InLinkz below.

Welcome to Muse!

We're all at some time or another a Muse for each other. Whether that be inspiring others with our creative work or through our words or actions. As long as our efforts come from the heart it's a worthwhile pursuit.

This is a club not just a typical challenge that only depends on a player's passive participation. You'll be an active member of a group of passionate card makers that are focused on creativity, personal expression and excellence. You're encouraged to stretch yourself creatively and support other members along the their path as well. Our designers are only providing you with a catalyst to spark your Mojo into action. As a member you'll be expected to participate in the following 3 simple rules:

  

• Use the Muse card as inspiration, explain your interpretation and link back to Muse.
• Provide supportive comments to at least 3 of your fellow member’s submissions. 
• Vote for 3 of your fellow member's submissions that you find inspiring.

Other considerations: This challenge is open to anyone. The only thing you need to do to become a member is make a card and submit it to one of our challenges.You're free to participate as much or as little as you want. We'll be pulling some of our future designers and guest designers from our club members. So the only way to show your interest in becoming a designer is to play along. It's not mandatory to become a designer or guest designer if you were to be invited in the future. One of our design team members will offer a card for you to interpret each Monday at 9:00 a.m. EST. You can combine with other challenges. We're also encouraging players to use what they have in their stash to make their Muse cards. No need to purchase anything new or use a specific supply. We ask that everyone honor the 3 simple rules. If you don't follow the rules you may be disqualified from a Featured Member win or have your submission removed from the InLinkz. Last but not least, please consider turning off your word verification. Thank you.

If you don't have a blog feel free to use a Flickr Gallery or other online gallery for your Muse cards. Just copy the URL location of your card in your gallery and add it to the Inlinkz.

It would be great if you would consider placing a Muse member badge in the sidebar of your blog but this is not mandatory.

For Blogger users copy and paste the code below into your HTML/JAVASCRIPT gadget and for WordPress users copy and paste the code into a text widget.

<a href="http://musecardclub.blogspot.com/" target="_self"><img src="http://i1255.photobucket.com/albums/hh633/rockwelldesigns/muse_member_zps0c6a1653.png" alt="Muse" width="200" height="200" /></a>

. . . and without further ado here are our Muse Designers

Laurie Willison

Marion Vagg

Therese Calvird

Jackie Rockwell

Please feel free to visit their blogs and get to know them a little better!

We'll be having surprise Guest Designers as well, in fact one of our guests will be debuting our first challenge on Monday, January 21 at 9:00 a.m. EST.

We hope you'll join our heartfelt invitation to join our 

friendly little club!!!