World Card Making Day 2019 & announcing our Guest Designers!

Good morning!  The month is drawing to a close & as October draws near we wanted to remind you of our yearly tradition here at Sketch N Scrap of celebrating World Card Making Day all month long!  The party kicks off on Saturday October 5th at 9 am CST with our first EXCLUSIVE card sketch and then every Saturday thereafter in October we will be announcing another EXCLUSIVE card sketch to celebrate World Card Making Day!! 

This year we are excited to be bringing on FOUR Guest Designers to help inspire us all with their talented card making skills!!  Please join us in welcoming the following ladies as Guest Designers for the month of October!!

Barbara Greenburg:

Hi everyone, my name is Barbara and I live in Sunrise Beach, MO, which is on the Lake of the Ozarks.  We moved to our lake front home just over 2 years ago from Kansas City and I have to say we love the slow pace of lake life.   I have my scrap room set up in a spare bedroom with a full view of the lake and I love being in here.   Which is good because it is a rare day that I'm not in here scrapping.  I do mostly layouts for all my family members but also like to do card making.   It's been years since I bought a store bought card.   I started scrapping about 12 years ago when my daughter gave me a tote full of scrapbooking supplies and I haven't stopped since.   I was addicted immediately with my first layout.    I also like to do Project Life and this is my 6th full year of doing that.  I'm married to Arthur and between us we have 4 kids and 8 grandkids.    So that gives me plenty of subject matter to work with.    Plus I also love making albums of any trips I have ever been on.  But I would have to say I love best all my Christmas albums I have made.   I am keeping them in chronological order and I started back in 1951, the year I was born and to date I have seven 3D ring

albums full.    As I said I'm addicted to this awesome hobby.

Joyce Ann Ireland:

It started with coloring books and paper dolls. I developed my photo taking fondness in elementary school. All these years since I have been making albums. Playing with paper changed for me in 2006 when I discovered rubber stamps and card making. My current loves are pretty papers, especially flowers and birds, trying to get better at watercolor technique. Most of my time is spent between scrapbook pages and greeting cards, with the occasional disappearing into my sewing room.

Lu Loy:

Hello from Northwest North Carolina! I'm Lu and I've been married to my husband Mike for 40 years. We have a daughter who lives right outside of Chicago.  I can't really remember when I started using sketches...best guess would be 5-6 years ago. I can tell you, however, that my scrapping style totally changed and it continues to evolve. Almost every single layout I do begins with a sketch. When I discovered Sketch N Scrap I really got into card making. The card sketches I find here are simple, not fussy, and that complements my scrapping style. When I'm not scrapping, I like to sew, cross stitch and read. I'm happy to be one of the Guest Designers for World Card Making Day!

Sandi Pressley:

Hi, I am Sandi Pressley from Palm Coast, Florida which is on the east coast of the state between St. Augustine and Daytona Beach. I am recently retired from selling roofing and building materials and am enjoying my retirement so far more than I even imagined. I have been a paper crafter for nearly 13 years now. I love all size canvases from cards and travelers notebooks to 12x12 traditional layouts. I was born and raised in Chicago. When Dave and I were married in 2003 we moved to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina where we lived for 4 years until moving to Florida. I have two sons that still live in the Chicago area and they have given me 4 grandchildren ranging in age from 18 to 8...... Jake, Cole, Abby and Izzy. Their pictures and activities fill the scrapbooks on my shelves.  Besides crafting, I like to read, go out to lunch with friends, go to the gym and research future home improvements to keep my husband busy on the weekends. We are soon to become dog parents to a French Bulldog puppy. We are really excited!

I know these lovely, talented and creative ladies will inspire you with all of their amazing cards using our FOUR exclusive card sketches!  Make sure and follow us here on the blog or on Facebook or Instagram to be notified when our sketches go live! We hope you enjoy celebrate our month long celebration of World Card Making Day!! 

Card sketch #154

TGIF!!  It's the weekend AND time for our last sketch of the month! Wow, this month has flown by hasn't it?  Today's sketch is by sketch artist and blog owner Lisa.  Here the fun sketch:

Inspiration from our creative and talented DT:

Stacy:

Amy: 

Chris: 

Heather: 

Sharon: 

Lori: 

We hope these amazing cards have inspired you to play along with us this month!  As an added incentive DT member Sharon is giving one lucky randomly selected winner an amazing prize package that includes 2 Artistic Impressions stamp sets with a wobble! 
 This prize is perfect for making some fun cards or embellishments!!!

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 September 30th at 9:55 pm CST

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Sketch N Scrap #185

Can you believe that it is already the middle of September?!  The middle of the month means a new layout sketch for us to share with you. 

Our mid-month sketch was created by sketch artist Heather:

Inspiration from our creative DT:

Deanna

Stacy

Heather

Tina

Lori

We hope these amazing layouts have inspired you to play along with us this month!  As an added incentive DT member Sharon is giving one lucky randomly selected winner an amazing prize package that includes 2 Artistic Impressions stamp sets with a wobble!  This prize is perfect for making some fun cards or embellishments!!!

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://sktetchnscrap.blogspot.com)

2. Link your layout or card 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, and we can't wait to see what you create!

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

Card sketch #153

It's time for our first card sketch of the month!!  Today our card sketch is brought to you by sketch artist Heather.  Here is her super versatile sketch:

Creative inspiration from our amazing DT:

Deanna:

Tina:

Lori:

Heather:

We hope these amazing cards have inspired you to play along with us this month!  As an added incentive DT member Sharon is giving one lucky randomly selected winner an amazing prize package that includes 2 Artistic Impressions stamp sets with a wobble!  This prize is perfect for making some fun cards or embellishments!!!

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 September 30th at 9:55 pm CST

August winner & featured artists!

Happy September!! I hope your month is off to a good start!  Today we are announcing the winner of our embossing folders & 6 x 6 paper assortment!  Here is a reminder of this fun prize:

So without further ado..........................drum roll please....................the  randomly selected winner is............#31!!!

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

31

Timestamp: 2019-09-02 18:01:43 UTC

Congratulations to Jessica!!!  Jessica you are the winner of our prize package for August!!  Here is Jessica's lovely layout using Sketch #182:

I just love these fun pictures and the trees in the lower right corner are just perfect with the theme of the layout!!  Congrats Jessica!! Email Lisa @sketchnscrap@gmail.com to claim your prize! 

Now on to our Featured Artists for August!  Once again it was a super hard choice to just pick one scrapper and one card maker!   This month the DT chose this amazing card using card sketch #151 by Rainny: 

The DT loved the pretty doilies Rainny used in place of the circles, and who doesn't love this adorable elephant and the lovely papers Rainny used on this sweet baby card??!!!!  Congrats Rainny!!!  Next up we have our Featured card scrapper for August!! The DT has selected this beautiful Summer layout using Sketch # 182 by Barbara:

The DT loved the lovely papers choices and great colors of this layout! The simplicity of this layout and the striking photos were also a big hit with the DT!!  Congratulations Barbara!!!

Ladies make sure and grab your badge on the right sidebar and display it proudly on your blogs! Thanks to all our readers for sharing your lovely work with us and inspiring us and others with your creativity!!  Keep crafting and we hope you find lots of time to play along again this month!!!!

Sketch N Scrap #184

Happy September! It's time for a brand new month and that means that I have a brand new sketch to share with you today! Today's sketch is by sketch artist and SNS owner Lisa.  Here is the sketch:

 Inspiration from our creative DT:

Chris: 

Deanna:

Sharon:

Lori:

Amy:

We hope these amazing layouts have inspired you to play along with us this month!  As an added incentive DT member Sharon is giving one lucky randomly selected winner an amazing prize package that includes 2 Artistic Impressions stamp sets with a wobble!  This prize is perfect for making some fun cards or embellishments!!!

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 September 30th at 9:55 pm CST