It's time to party!! Day 1:Get smART y'all................

Woo hoo, happy birthday to me! Hope you're ready to help me celebrate. :) For the next 5 days (why 5? I don't know!) I'll be issuing you a challenge or 2. Play the challenge using any stamps you want, post a link, and be entered for a chance to win fabulous prizes from some of my favorite companies! Huge THANKS to each company for having such awesome stamps, and for helping me have a fun blog birthday!

Each challenge will be due one week after it is posted. For the main challenge, a 'best of show' winner will be chosen each day - so make 'em purty...! If there is a secondary prize, we'll select a random winner.

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Today’s prize package comes from smARTworks! When you’re limited in what you have to stamp with, you have to be smART, right? To challenge you today, a limited supply challenge.

If you’re like me (I hope someone is!) not everything got put away from your last project. You still have paper scraps, an embellishment or two, a scrap of ribbon, a stamp or 3, etc. out on your desk.

Challenge: create a card from the supplies you have left out on your desk right now. If your desk is immaculate…go make a card, make a mess, and create your entry from scraps and bits of what you have left after your first card is done. If you need to grab a stamp or two out - that's ok.

Come back to this post and leave a link to your card creation in the comment section below. Your card and link must be posted by January 8th at midnight EST.

Prize: Our favorite entry will win 4 unmounted stamp sets (pictured) -- Bold Floral Quartet - Floating, Daisy Hope, Iris Bloom, and Salutations plus 1 handcrafted, The Clear Thing block sized to accommodate these sets.

Bonus prize!!! For a chance to win 2 spring-themed stamp sets, check out any of the smART galleries -- Cookie galleries, customer gallery, contest archive gallery, etc. (links found at http://www.smartrubber.com/), and choose a favorite sample. Then leave a comment telling that card's title, its designer, and the smART image(s) used.

Here's my card to get you started - I'm a little embarrassed to say that I had LOTS to choose from still sitting on my desk...but these paper scraps were still hanging around from some samples I sent off for CHA. This little bear is from a cutie little set called Warming Up - he is so fun to paper piece! The saying comes from one of my Trio sets, Daisy Trio #2.

Alrighty - go get creative!