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Mommy Moments Photo Challenge Has Begun

On your mark, get set, CLICK!
Let’s get this Challenge started!

Photo A Day Mommy Moments Challenge

12 days of Capturing Motherhood through your lens. Whether it makes you laugh, cry, dance, thankful or it makes you go hmmmm…. capture these moments with your camera.  It’s those little things that make you fall in love, more and more with life, your family, your children…. The challenge ends on Friday, May 11th the weekend of Mothers day. What better way to enter into Mothers day then by capturing all those precious moments. 

Inspired by Family Magazine and The Hollie Rogue are so excited to have you join us in the fun!

We will start with the fun stuff, the Prizes! There are 9 possible winners see categories below!  All pictures submitted will be judged on Composition, Originality and Creativity. 
1st Place Winner:
Shabby Apple Dress: The great part is you get to choose from one of these collections: Cider, Kanani,
North Shore, Bali ha “i”, Happy Talk or Maternity: Green with Envy/Finding Out,
Better Than Sweets or Kids: Creamsicle. 
Just click on each collection above to drool and dream of what you will pick when you win from Shabby Apples shop .
2nd Place Winner:
Pendants by Steph is giving away a $25 gift certificate to use on one of her fine jewelry and gifts. Treat yourself to one of her pendants, bracelets, baby pendants, wedding anniversary cake forks…..
3rd Place Winner:
We Choose Joy is giving away one of her lovely baby items. You get to choose from one of her cute Tie Onesies nb-18mos. There are lots of colors to choose from so stop on by.
Best Funny/Silly Picture:

Any Occasion Photography is giving away one of her fabulous pieces of artwork (see picture above)

Best Mommy Moments Picture:
The Life of the Not so Ordinary Wife is giving away a $10 Amazon Gift
Card
Most Creative View Point/Subject Picture:
Printable Scripture is giving away one of her lovely and inspiring  printables with customization for size and
color. Stop by her shop and be inspired!
Best Messy Moments Picture:

Mitzi Knitz- has a lovely shop full of beautiful baby items, knitted hats, photo props, blankets.She is giving away an adorable cupcake hat.

Best Thankful Moment Picture :
Covered In Grace is giving away these fabulous and versatile hair clips
and bag accessories (see picture above) and 1 year of FREE Ad space on her blog.
Best Depth of Field Picture :
Gathered and Sown –  has some fabulous items with adorable prints that she is giving away. You get to choose one of these items:  wristlets, biblecovers or crayon doodle bags.
Our Lovely Judges
Now time to link up!
  1. Link up to your post not your blog. The picture you are submitting should be the one showing up on this linky as the icon image. (remember you can only link up 12 pictures total between now and May 11 but you can take as many as you would like to post on your blog.
  2. Yup, there are more than 12 days from now and May 11th and the reason is because we know how hard it is to squeeze something else into your day so we are giving you 26 days to pick your 12 Mommy Moment days from. Enjoy!
  3. If you are submitting/linking your picture JUST FOR FUN not for the prize please place at the beginning of your link up title –NOT.
  4. Moms only should link up family friendly pictures of your own legal children that YOU have taken for this challenge between Aprill 11th-May 11th.
    (no nudity, genitals, obscene, profanity…. in pictures- they will be deleted)
  5. Please make sure your post with your Challenge picture includes our button (below) this will help our judges identify the post. Only pictures with button on post will be considered in challenge.
  6. For official rules go here (prize info, International and U.S residents)….. Link up ends May 11 at 10a.m. The email you submit with your picture is the one we will use to contact you if you are a winner.
  7. Follow us here at, Inspired by Family & The Hollie Rogue, through RSS feed, Facebook, Twitter, or by email (all of these options are on sidebar).
  8. Please remember to let us know in the Title of the day you are submitting a picture for when you link up it will say NAME: that is where you put the day that you are submitting a picture for.. For example, Day #6. Days/Prompts are listed below.
  9. Feel free to post your pictures in separate post or all in one post. Do whatever works best for you as long as you link up EACH picture your submitting in the challenge SEPARATELY and stating the day/prompt it’s for.
  10. NEW!! You can also submit via FB just copy and paste the URL of that picture and link it up also add to the picture that this is for the challenge and copy and paste  this: https://inspiredbyfamilymag.com/2012/04/15/mommy-moments-photo-challenge-has-begun/ or the Challenge button below to that picture.  Picture #36 in the link up is the Facebook example click if you need more info.

Submit/ Link up your picture by clicking on link below with the blue frog. ENJOY!!!

The first picture is an example click on it if you are visual learner and need to see an example for submitting for a prize. The second example is linking up just for fun. Yes, I am sure there are people out there who like to do things just for fun without the competitive component. :).

To get Button- Copy and paste code below into your post!

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