I’m so glad to be able to bring you another day of amazing creations from our collaboration with Artful INKables!

This first card is designed by one of our Guest Design Team members, Alison. Alison used the 4 book tribute stamp from the Into the Moonlight set as well as fantastic swirl stamp from Fictionally Inspired. I love the unique design of this card and all the wonderful distressing.

Our next project is from Dani. Dani has created a super cute card with Greeting from Isle Esme. This card has lots of fun sparkle!

This weeks third project is from Jacquie, she is also a Guest Design Team member. Jacquie has made a beautiful and richly colored card featuring the the “Forever” stamp and the swirl stamp.

Our next project has been designed by Margie. Margie has gone a little out of her Team Edward comfort zone and designed an amazing Team Jacob card featuring the gorgeous wolf stamp from the Into the Moonlight set.  Doesn’t it look awesome with all the rich layering and edge distressing?

This next card nearly left me speechless. What an amazing design by Eve!!! I’m just going to let this WOW design speak for itself.

And our last project of the day was made by another Guest Design Team member, Donna. This card features Donna’s unbelievable layering skills, beautiful and richly distressed paper, the wonderful ‘dazzled’ stamp and a gorgeous drawing by Canehda.

If you haven’t done so please head over to Artful INKables and check out these fantastic stamps and remember every comment left this week as we feature our designs using these stamps earns you an entry into the drawing for an Into the Moonlight stamp set!

Are you ready for THIS?  We have some BIG  news for you today!

We are so excited to announce that we have a partner for today’s challenge — Artful INKables!   To celebrate the release of their two new stamp sets called Into the Moonlight and Fictionally Inspired, we’re working with the Artful INKables team on today’s challenge!

Artful INKables was founded by Kristin Soboloski to express her love of rubber stamps, art, and all things crafty. After crafting for many years, Kristin began to design her own rubber stamps and her company was born.

And about these new stamps…you have got to see them for yourself!   They’re the buzz of the online crafty community!  Our Design Team loves them and we’re sure you will too.  And you will definitely recognize the inspiration behind them.

Visit Artful INKables‘ store to check them out and get your own sets!  You’ll also want to check out their new Vampire Romance-Themed Pewter Charms Set; they’re beautiful and would be a great addition to any vampy project!

Now…brace yourself for more good news…AMAZING BLOG CANDY!!

Kristin from Artful INKables has generously provided us with three sets of her new stamps, along with a set of the Vampire Romance charms, to use as giveaways!

We will be giving one set a week, in conjunction with our next four Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenges.  This week, the giveaway is the eight-piece Into the Moonlight set!   To enter into this random drawing, please leave a comment on any of our challenge project posts this week, today through next Monday. Yes! That’s right, we’ll be featuring projects all week long! See below for details. Comments can be left until Monday, June 29th, at 11:59 p.m. CST. Only entry per person will be in the drawing, but feel free to comment as many times as you like!

And for the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge theme this week —

The theme for this week’s challenge (TTIC36) is What Says Twilight To You?

So many things say “Twilight” to the multitudes of Twilight fans.  What images do you think of when you think about the Twilight books and movies?

For some, Twilight means an apple, for some, the chess piece on the cover of Breaking Dawn, and for others, Bella’s truck conjures up the Twilight mood.  Many fans love to express their Twilight love by choosing a “team” to root for, and others have favorite quotes from the book that are near and dear to them.

For the craft portion of the challenge:  create a piece that expresses what comes to mind when YOU think of the Twilight saga.

For the comment portion of the challenge:  Many people often say that reading the Twilight saga has been life-changing.  Please share how the saga has changed your own life or made you view life in a different way.

And of course, this week the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge Design Team has used Artful INKables’ new stamp sets for their projects. Check out today’s projects:

Beth ~ Dani ~ Eve ~ Jen ~ Julie ~ Margie ~ Rebecca ~ Tonya

And Our Guest Designers:

Alison ~ Donna ~ Jacquie

And we’ve been SO inspired by these new stamp sets that our Design Team has created lots of additional projects with them this week!   For this special occasion, we will be featuring these projects here (and on the Design Team members’ personal blogs) for the next week!  Can you tell we’re excited about all of this?

Don’t forget that today’s challenge is a team effort, with members of the Artful INKables Design Team playing along with these new stamps as well!  Get ready to start your blog hopping!   Please stop by and show ‘em some Twilighter love!

Kristin, owner of Artful INKables ~Joy ~Elena ~ Holly ~ Joanne ~Velta

You might also like to see the galleries of beautiful projects the Artful INKables Design Team has made with these sets:

Gallery for the Into the Moonlight Stamp Set

Gallery for the Fictionally Inspired Stamp Set

Please join in and play along with us! If you do, here are a few guidelines to follow:

For posting to a blog: Please indicate that you are playing along with the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge on Twilighttuesday.com and please provide a link back to our site.

For posting on another gallery, such as Splitcoast Stampers or Flickr: Please indicate that you are playing along with the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge on Twilighttuesday.com and please provide a link back to our site. Please use the appropriate keywords for our challenges; an example is TTIC36 for challenge 36. No number signs (#) or spaces are needed in the keyword. You can also add in more general keywords for Splitcoast/Flickr (such as Twilight, Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge, etc.). Thank you for your help with this!

Comments/Posting your link: Please leave a comment with the link to your challenge piece to tell us that you played along with us! Then we can all visit you and leave lovely comments for you.  We are big fans of comments around here!  And don’t forget — leaving a comment on this post will get you entered into this month’s blog candy giveaway!  (We are no longer using Mr. Linky as we were having trouble with spam and frequent downtime.)

We were so pleased with the response we received for our Design Team call!   We had so many great, Twilight-inspired entries and we truly thank each and every designer who submitted their work to us.  We genuinely appreciate the time and work that was put in to each submitted project.  Having so many impressive entries did make this decision a difficult one…but, we did reach a decision.

The three guest designers are:

Alison of Alison’s Random Thoughts

Jacquie of Family and Crafting

Donna of Donna’s Diary

Congratulations, Alison, Jacquie, and Donna!  All three of these talented women will bring something new and unique to our TTIC challenges.  We can’t wait to see what new ideas and creativity they will add to the mix!  You can see their winning entries below (rest your mouse on each thumbnail to see the designer’s name, and click the thumbnail to see a larger version of the photo on Flickr.)

Again, we extend our sincere thanks to all who participated in this design team call.  Stay with us!  Please keep participating in our challenges, commenting on the blog, & chatting in the forums – we really like having you around!  Creating a sense of community is what we’re all about here, so we will continue to find ways to make this a friendly place to share your work, your ideas, and your love of crafting and Twilight.

And…there will be another call for guest design team members to look forward to, coming in September!

We are so excited to announce this awesome opportunity!!! Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge is EXPANDING. We are looking to add 3  creative, inspired, unique, cutting edge crafters  to be Guest Design Team Members.

To apply please submit TWO Twilight themed crafts. One of the submissions should be based on the current Challenge or a previous Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge.  The other submission should be Twilight-based but the theme is up to you.

Crafts can be, but are not limited to, card designs, stamping, scrapbooking, jewelry, photography, drawing, painting, digital media, and digital scrap.

Submissions should be emailed to opencall@twilighttuesday.com by June 1, 2009. Winners will be announced June 3, 2009.

Applicants must have their own blog and be willing to commit to a 3 month run as well as participate in weekly challenges.

When submitting your entries please include the following:

• Your name
• Your blog url
• Your TWO craft entries following the guidelines above
• A short statement detailing why you would like to join the TTIC design team

Please spread the news! Grab the digi-poster above and post on your blog to help spread the word. If you Tweet help spread the word through Twitter!

It’s time to announce the winners of our  Twilight Tuesday Scavenger Hunt!

The winners, done by random drawing (with the help of Random.org*) are:

Edward Action Figure: Erica J.

Twilight Movie Soundtrack: Jenna L.

Congratulations, Erica and Jenna!  Please e-mail me at julie@twilighttuesday.com with your mailing address so we can get your prizes out to you!

In case we stumped anyone, here are the locations for the scavenger hunt items:

1. Fairy swinging beneath a rainbow – Margie’s blog
2. Lost badge – Eve’s blog
3. A green tree with a brown bird – Jen’s blog (Tonya’s blog was also acceptable)
4. Twilight quote widget – Dani’s blog
5. Team Edward license plate – Rebecca’s blog
6. Pink Elephant – Margie’s blog
7. U2’s Bono – Julie’s blog
8. My Blog is Saucy badge – Jen’s blog
9. Avatar wearing a Bruins hockey team jersey – Beth’s blog
10. Good Reads montage – Eve’s blog, Beth’s blog, Dani’s blog
11. A Spanish Stampin’ Up! catalog – Rebecca’s blog
12. Butterfly wings with scripting – Tonya’s blog
13. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog widget- Julie’s blog
14. Harry Potter countdown widget – Dani’s blog, Margie’s blog

We hope that you had fun with this contest!  Thanks so much for all who participated.  There will be more fun stuff like this coming up in the future, so stay tuned!

*For your reference, here are the screen shots of the Random.org drawing results.

There is so much Twilight excitement this month that we can’t contain ourselves! New Moon starts filming on Monday, according to Jackson Rathbone; Catherine Hardwicke’s book will be released March 17th; and the Twilight DVD releases on the 21st. WOW!! March is one exciting month for Twihards! We want to celebrate. And celebrate BIG!

 We will be giving away two super fabulous Twilight must-haves:

 This ultra fab Edward Cullen action figure.

 And the Twilight soundtrack CD.

So how do you win one? Easy! Let’s go on a scavenger hunt!!

Find the following items on our design team members’ blogs. The items can be found in the static content, that is, in the banner and sidebars. Once you find the items, send an email to tonya@twilighttuesday.com. Include the item and the blog where you found it. All correct entries will be included in a drawing. The first winner will receive the Edward Cullen figure and the second winner will receive the soundtrack. You must find all the items and your entry must be correct. One entry per person, please. Include your first and last name in your email. Entries are due Monday, March 30, 2009 at midnight. The winners will be announced during our Twilight Tuesday Challenge on March 31st!

1. Fairy swinging beneath a rainbow
2. Lost badge
3. a green tree with a brown bird
4. Twilight quote widget
5. Team Edward license plate
6. Pink Elephant
7. U2’s Bono
8. My Blog is Saucy badge
9. Avatar wearing a Bruins hockey team jersey
10. Good Reads montage
11. A Spanish SU! catalog
12. butterfly wings with scripting
13. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog
14. Harry Potter countdown widget

The design team blogs:

Beth ? Dani ? Eve ? Jen ? Julie ? Margie ? Rebecca ? Tonya

So about Book Talk Thursday’s…. I forgot. Because I had stuff like work accredidation stuff to work on today so I’m a tad late. But better late than never.

So I’m going with something a little fluffier than the last two.

How would you have reacted to the realization that Edward was a vampire if it happened to you in real life?

A little Contest Love…

The amazingly hilarious girls at Letters to Rob are having a Valentine’s contest. (If you don’t read Letters to Rob YOU SHOULD! It is the most hilarious thing I have read in AGES.)

For their contest you may either write a poem such as this imfamous little diddy mentioned by Julie earlier in the week:

Ed’s eyes are gold
Emmett is strong
Write a cute poem
and win Kristen’s bong

~themoonisdown

Or you can craft a Valentine for our dearest Rob.

You can find all the details here. There will be prizes – VERY COOL prizes.