December's Featured artists!

  Happy January! Thank you to everyone who joined us last month!  I think we can say it was an awesome month!!!  The DT was inspired by all the amazing entries shared both on the blog and in our Facebook group in December!!  What creative projects everyone shared!

It's time to announce our featured artists for December!  First up is our featured scrapper!  It was a hard choice again this month but the DT selected this amazing layout created by Esther using the December 1st sketch!

The DT loved how Esther included the trip ephemera on her layout! How creative!

Congratulations Esther!!! 

Next up is our featured card maker. Congratulations goes to Alicia!  Alicia used the December 5th card sketch to create her card. 

The DT loved this amazing shaker card with an adorable snowman that Alicia created!

Congratulations Alicia!!! 

Ladies make sure and grab your badge on the right sidebar and display it proudly on your blogs or social media profiles! Thanks to all our readers for sharing your lovely work with us and inspiring us and others with your creativity!!   Make sure and check out our Facebook challenge group for much more inspiration and to join in our monthly virtual crop!! We hope you will play along again this month!!!!    

Sketch N Scrap #312

 Happy New Year! A new year is a great time to make new creative goals, we hope that Sketch N Scrap can be part of inspiring your creativity in 2025!!  This year we are changing things up a bit, starting in 2025 we will be offering a new sketch twice a month on the 1st and 5th, then on the 15th and 20th we will be challenging you to create a layout or card using a throwback sketch!  We are also adding a "TWIST" challenge to our sketches this year!  Each month we will have a "THEME" and each sketch will feature a "TWIST" based on that theme.

 This month's theme is: OUT WITH THE OLD AND IN WITH THE NEW 

Since it's a new month and a new year that means it's time for another fun sketch!  We are kicking January off with a fun 3-photo sketch for you to try.  Today's sketch was created by sketch artist Lisa.

Here is the sketch:

TWIST: MIX IT UP- using the sketch create a layout with a mix of old and new by using one ore more papers that are over 3 years old on your layout with an embellishment that is new (a year old or less) OR use an embellishment over 3 years old and at least one or more papers that are new (a year old or less)

Now for inspiration from our amazing DT:

Deanna:

For the twist Deanna used new papers with an old embellishment (paper flowers)

Chris:

For the twist Chris used new papers from 49th & Market and older puffy embellishments from Pebbles & PinkFresh Studios.

We hope these layouts have inspired you to play along with us this month! 

We can't wait to see what you create! To play along:

1. Make sure and link back to Sketch N Scrap in your blog post when sharing our sketch or a layout or card based on our sketch.

  (DO NOT USE THE DIRECT LINK, use http://sketchnscrap.blogspot.com)

2. Link your layout or card up by clicking on the Froggy link in the sidebar.  Make sure and link up a DIRECT link to your blog post to allow us to easily locate your entry on your blog.

  Have fun, we can't wait to see what you create!

Deadline to link up is January 30th at 9:55 pm CST