Happy National Scrapbooking Day!

Wow, are we having fun yet? May is shaping up to be the ultimate scrappy month here at Sketch N Scrap!  With our 5th birthday bash online crop and now National Scrapbooking Day there is tons of inspiration to be found on our blog and Facebook page as well as a lot of fun new challenges!  We hope you are having fun so far!  Now for our exclusive NSD sketch for 2017 by Lisa:

And here is the amazing inspiration by our DT:

 Brandy:

Heather:

Diana:

Karen:

Lori:

Tina;

Lisa:

To play along with our crop please see our event page on Facebook!! We will be cropping all month long in May in fact, all challenges FOR THE CROP are due on June 2nd, so there is plenty of time to play along with all SIX CROP CHALLENGES.  The regular blog challenges will be like they are every month and will cut off on May 31st!   We are offering an amazing crop prize to one lucky cropper- we will draw ONE name randomly from all entries!  To enter all you need to do is complete each challenge and then leave a photo of your completed layout or card for each challenge in the comments section under that challenge on our Facebook event page!  Super Simple!   But make sure and "join" our crop HERE so you will be notified each time a new challenge is posted!  We will be posting a new challenge EVERY Tuesday in May and of course our challenge for today -NSD!  Did I mention how amazing the prize is?  Thanks to Lori, Senior DT member for sponsoring this awesome Elle's Studio prize package for our crop!   

Remember to play along you must join our Facebook crop event!!! Looking forward to cropping with you!  Happy creating friends!

Card Sketch #97

Happy Cinco de Mayo! Today at Sketch-N-Scrap we have a fun card sketch for you from Heather. With our Birthday Celebration going on this month there are plenty of sketches and tons of inspiration going around. Check out the rules at the bottom of this post and link up your take on this sketch for a chance to win a great prize!

 The design team:

Brandy:

Karen:

Diana:

 Lisa:

 Lori:

Angela:

 Heather:

We have an amazing prize up for grabs for you this month!  In honor of our 5th birthday we are offering up this fun and festive birthday prize pack featuring a fun birthday stamp set by Jillibean Soup and bling by Queen & Company and Spellbinders!

But remember you can't win if you don't play!

Here are the details of how 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!

Link up your projects by May 31st at 9:55 pm CST

April's winner and Featured Artists

What a busy month April was!!!  We had 75 amazing entries for our prize drawing! WOW! It was so fun to see the creativity of each and every one!  I know May is going to be another amazing month as we celebrate turning FIVE YEARS OLD!!  Now onto our one lucky winner!!! This month's randomly selected winner is........................................................... #75!!!!

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75

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Congratulations to Lisa Moen you are the lucky winner of our Pinkfresh prize package!!!!  Here is Lisa's amazing card she submitted:

And here is the super fun prize Lisa will be receiving:

Lisa email us at sketchnscrap@gmail.com to claim your prize!

Now on to our Featured artists for April!  This month's featured card maker caught the eye of our DT with her creative take on the sketch, use of color and beautiful sentiment!

Congrats to Irina!  Here is her amazing card:

Our featured scrapper's layout was a DT fav! We all loved how Deanna used color to give a tropical feel to her layout as well her awesome scalloped border and fun embellishments!  Congrats Deanna!   Here is her amazing layout:

Ladies don't forget to grab your blog button from the right side bar!  Thanks to everyone who played along with us in April!  We hope you have checked in to our online crop event on our Facebook page as we celebrate our 5th birthday!  There will be plenty of sketchy fun for everyone! Our first sketch for May is up on the blog so join us at both places as we celebrate all month long, we have 2 awesome prizes to give away as well!  Happy creating!

Fifth Birthday Bash kick off sketch!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!!!  We are kicking off our FIFTH birthday celebration with a month long online crop starting today!  I am so excited to crop with everyone!  Now, let's get right to it!

Here is our first exclusive birthday bash sketch brought to us by Heather:

Amazing inspiration by our DT:

 Brandy:

 Angela:

 Heather:

Karen: 

Diana: 

Tina: 

Wendy: 

To play along with our crop please see our event page on Facebook!!  We will be cropping all month long in May in fact, all challenges FOR THE CROP are due on June 2nd, so there is plenty of time to play along with all SIX CROP CHALLENGES.  The regular blog challenges will be like they are every month and will cut off on May 31st!   We are offering an amazing crop prize to one lucky cropper- we will draw ONE name randomly from all entries!  To enter all you need to do is complete each challenge and then leave a photo of your completed layout or card for each challenge in the comments section under that challenge on our Facebook event page!  Super Simple!   But make sure and "join" our crop HERE so you will be notified each time a new challenge is posted!  We will be posting a new challenge EVERY Tuesday in May and of course a challenge for NSD this coming Saturday!  Did I mention how amazing the prize is?  Thanks to Lori, Senior DT member for sponsoring this awesome Elle's Studio prize package for our crop!  

Remember to play along you must join our Facebook crop event!!!  Looking forward to cropping with you!  Happy creating friends!

Sketch N Scrap #128

Happy May!  The Sketch N Scrap design team has been looking forward to May for a number of months now.  Why you might ask?  Well, not only is this the month we celebrate National Scrapbooking Day but we will also be celebrating our 5th birthday!!!  So let's get this month long party started with our first sketch of the month by Lisa:

Here are the amazing examples by our talented DT:
Brandy:

Heather:

Diana:

Lori:

Angela:

Surama:

Wendy:

Tina:

Lisa:

We have an amazing prize up for grabs for you this month!  In honor of our 5th birthday we are offering up this fun and festive birthday prize pack featuring a fun birthday stamp set by Jillibean Soup and bling by Queen & Company and Spellbinders!

But remember you can't win if you don't play!

Here are the details of how 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!

Link up your projects by May 31st at 9:55 pm CST

And don't forget our May online crop over at the Facebook page which kicks off tomorrow May 2nd!  We hope you will join us!

Card sketch #96

Another month is almost in the books, are you ready for NSD?  We are looking forward to cropping with you all month next month!  I hope you will find time to play along with our last sketch of the month.  This sketch is by Lisa:

Inspiration for you created by our amazing DT:
Brandy:

 Heather: (card closed)

 (card open)

Surama:

Karen:

Tina:

Lori:

Diana:

Lisa:

We have an amazing prize up for grab for you this month!  Our Senior DT member Lori has generously sponsored our prize this month!  One lucky randomly drawn winner will win this amazing Pinkfresh Prize package!

But remember you can't win if you don't play!

Here are the details of how 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!

Link up your projects by April 30th at 9:55 pm CST

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