It’s much simpler than it seems! Just craft something, find a prompt that it fits under, and use the project header to post with your info and pic of your project. It’s that easy! We’d love for you to join us 
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I’m sure it’s a lot of fun! I always have my projects planned way ahead, so meeting a challenge topic or prompt is usually not something I can do.
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I am definitely inspired by many of the prompts. But sometimes I find ways to make a project fit (we love to stretch prompts around here 
) if you want an example of prompt stretching, my rubber duck blanket I posted at the end of the spring season is a good example 
Sometimes you just can’t make something fit, which is why we have free range, zaps, research, and big time projects available. Also, you don’t have to craft everything. You can participate as much as you’d like. So if you ever do decide to join, please jump on in! 
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I stretch prompts to the breaking point at least once a season and haven’t been thrown out yet 
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Hahahaha! I would never kick anyone out. I may ask “how on earth did you go from point A to point J, but only because I find it interesting how others think
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Prompt: July - Hiking vacation
Team: Knotty by Nature
Project Name: Altered Applin card
Project Link: Gotta catch 'em all! Pokémon ATCs - #20 by roler
Brief Description: Here’s my second ever altered Pokémon card, made with paint pens. This looks like a scene you might see during a hiking vacation in Galar!
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Prompt: July Battle - Hotel
Team: Knotty by Nature
Project Name: Nessie Hoop
Project Link: Cryptozoological Swap Gallery - #138 by EriChanHime
Brief Description: I made this Nessie hoop for EriChanHime in the cryptid swap. I chose this view because my family and I actually went to Loch Ness, and when we traveled around Scotland, we stayed in several hotels.
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(How’s that for stretching a prompt, @TheMistressT?) 
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omg. This. 
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Seriously, some of the best projects are posted here and never seen “out there”…love this and the HP Games as well for inspiration and eye-popping projects!
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Can I post my summer site challenge post as prompts this month here similar to swap exceptions? I made lots of sets of notecards last month, but had to hold off sharing until July to be eligible for the sitewide challenge.
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Absolutely! Share away! I think that’s close enough to swap exceptions.
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I’m going to stick with team Running With Scissors!
Prompt: July: Hiking Vacation
Team: Running With Scissors
Prompt: Fish Notecards
Brief Description: The masterboard backgrounds are green! Also, you can find fish on a hike if you are also fishing!
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Prompt: July: City Vacation
Team: Running With Scissors
Project: Hummingbird Notecards
Brief Description: I was going to go with “because it’s colorful,” but a google search for “hummingbird museum” takes me to this hummingbird exhibit in Arizona, so the more you know!
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Prompt: July: Ski Vacation
Team: Running With Scissors
Project: Puffin Notecards
Brief Description: They are also on white notecards, but better yet…puffins can be found in cold weather atmosphere, ta da!
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Project: July: Beach Vacation
Team Running With Scissors
Project: Cactus Notecards
Brief Description: Cacti live in hot climates, and I stamped them on white paper!
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Prompt: July: Staycation
Team: Running With Scissors
Project: Bon Voyage Notecards
Brief Description: I have a whole boxful of embossing folders, and many of them I have not used because I am still trying to find a creative way to use them. So, I got them out and played around and settled on this fun globe one that I actually cut out. I also used the “Bon Voyage” stamp for the first time.
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Thanks @storerboughtcreation for letting me use my craft challenge entry for my prompts this month! It was so hard holding off on sharing these cards! Now that the Happy Mail group is starting to receive their surprise gifts, I can make the rest I need to make and create my Battle post, too! Wooo!
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Prompt: July - Ski Vacation
Team: 
Project Name: Blanket for Jess
Project Link: Foxy/herringbone baby blanket
Brief Description: I made this for my first cousin once removed. She’s having her first baby this fall. A blanket is used to stave away the cold.
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@roler, your altered Pokemon cards are fantastic! I love them. And the Nessie Hoop is perfect!
@Lynx, those are great cards! That hummingbird stamp is one of the things that first got me back into art, honestly. And I’d award bonus points if I could for the knowledge… but then I’d have to dock you for making me want to go on a vacation to Arizona… in July… 
@storerboughtcreation, you crochet like nobody’s business, I will never not be in awe of all of your projects!
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hahahaha! I just saw a memory in my Facebook posts from this day 4 years ago. I was happy that our temps had dropped from 117 to 105, and were supposed to stay at 105 for the next two weeks. I was just commenting how messed up that is
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Prompt: July: Battle: RV
Team: Running With Scissors
Project: The "Happy Mail Gang" is charmed!
Brief Description: Really stretching the prompt with this one, but going with RV because there are letters on the charms. I started these in June and am finishing one for each Happy Mail participant in July. These were a surprise until they started arriving early this month.
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Prompt: July - Beach Vacation
Team: Knotty by Nature
Project Name: Toothy the Walrus
Project Link: Toothy the Walrus
Brief Description: Toothy here definitely looks ready for a beach vacation!
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Prompt: July - City Vacation
Team: Knotty by Nature
Project Name: Charles Woodpecker
Project Link: Charles Woodpecker
Brief Description: Charles here is colorful and bright, and can be found in cities, too!
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@Lynx I really want to learn how to make pretty masterboards like the ones you’re using. So vibrant! I LOVE those fish stamps!! Every one of those cards is so colorful and fun, and I particularly like the cactus one you sent me! Watch out; it may get cut up and used for more ATCs in the future, giving more craftiness forward! XD And you ARE tempting me with that happy mail stuff, but as I said, I’m a wee bit too busy right now. Hopefully later this year! 
@storerboughtcreation That blanket is SO well done! I don’t know how you keep your tension so perfectly even like that. The colors look great and it’s just all around classy looking!
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Prompt: July - City Vacation
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Project Name: Ginormous Plesiosaurus
Project Link: Ginormous Plesiosaurus
Brief Description: A plesioursaur fossil can be found in any natural history museum
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Prompt: July - Battle - RV
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Project Name: camper ornament
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Brief Description: This little RV was too cute not to make for the battle. I added a loop to the top so it can be an ornament.
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Cute!
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