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Thursday, January 2, 2014

January Layout Guest Designer

With another New Year, we have another great bunch of guest designers lined up at Sketch-N-Scrap. Starting us off this year is Ashley!

I'm Ashley and I'm so excited to be a guest designer at Sketch N Scrap! I'm a huge fan and play along as often as I can, although I tend to use the sketches as a starting point for my layouts. Sometimes I change the size to 8.5x11 and decrease the number of photos and sometimes I use the 12x12 size but turn the sketch on its side. My day job is a registered nurse. It's actually a night job and I've been doing it for six years. My boyfriend is an attorney and we rescued a black Lab, Bentley, who is a handful and always keeps us on our toes. Thanks for this opportunity!

And Ashley did crop our sketch to fit a 8.5x11" layout. Showing the versatility of the sketches. I absolutely love the vintage vibe to this layout, with the photos and papers chosen. How fun! Thanks Ashley!

Check back on the 6th for our first Card Guest Designer of the year!

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Sketch N Scrap #48

Happy New Year Scrappy friends! We are looking forward to another year of crafty inspiration here at Sketch N Scrap! Here is our very first layout sketch for 2014:

Sketch by Lisa:

And here is what our amazing design team came up with:

We have an amazing sponsor to kick off the New Year! January's sponsor is Skyline Paperie! Stephanie Ho is the owner and one of our very own Design Team members! Stephanie opened Skyline Paperie this past December and is offering up a wonderful prize full of crafty goodies to one randomly selected winner! Here is a little bit about Stephanie:

I am a quintessential city girl. I love the hustle and bustle of life among the skyscrapers. I don’t mind our tiny apartment because I believe love grows best in small places. I love the fact that no matter where I am, I'm never more than 5 minutes from a coffee shop. City life inspires me and has played a huge role in my shaping my creative philosophy. I'm living proof that you don't need a spacious studio to create meaningful works of art. In addition to being an avid scrapbooker, card maker and crafter, I am also a wannabe chef, a book hoarder, an aspiring world traveler, a nail polish collector, a latte drinker and a cupcake connoisseur. I'm constantly singing and I'm confident I could easily bring home the million dollar prize on Don't Forget the Lyrics. I have a deep faith in God and am continually amazed at His unfailing love and abounding grace. I believe everyone has a story worth telling and I’m excited to help you share yours! So go ahead and grab your photos, a pen, a glue stick and a handful of glitter and let’s get busy!

How amazing is this???? Stop by Skyline Paperie and grab a bunch of these wonderful goodies to use on your next project today! It's easy to play along with us:

Here are the details:

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.

2. Link your layout or card up by clicking on the Froggy link in the sidebar

NOTE: Don't forget to link to the direct post of this weeks challenge on your blog.

Have fun! We can't wait to see what you create! :)

Remember each submission will give you ONE entry into our monthly random draw for a chance to win the January prize!

So get those layouts and cards started! International players are welcome to participate but are only eligible to win our prize should our sponsor choose to absorb the cost of overseas shipping. Thank you for understanding.

Link up your layout by January 30th at midnight CST!

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Crop Winners Announced!

Wow! What a wonderful turnout we had for our very first Online Crop during the most busiest time of the year! We are so amazed by all the beautiful layouts that our members have created!!! So lets get on with our randomly drawn winners! Yes, there are TWO lucky ladies whose names were drawn this morning for the two individual prizes were are offering! And now for the drum roll please.....................................

1st Random Prize Winner is:

#11 - Cheryl E.!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Here was her gorgeous, lucky layout creation:

Cheryl, please send an email to us at sketchnscrap@gmail.com with your mailing address so we can get your prize sent out to you! :)

And now for our 2nd randomly drawn winner, with another drum roll please...............................

2nd Random Prize Winner is:

#4 - Stacia Brandt!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Here is her gorgeous, lucky layout creation:

Stacia, please send an email to us at sketchnscrap@gmail.com with your mailing address so we can get your prize sent out to you! :)

Thank you again to everyone that participated in our very first Online Crop and get ready for a fantastic reveal tomorrow with our very 1st sketch and new design team reveal for the new year!!! We have so many exciting scrappy times ahead for you!

Friday, December 20, 2013

Card sketch #16

Christmas is right around the corner and we at Sketch N Scrap want to wish you and your families a wonderful Christmas filled with joy, peace and lots of family time! It's time for our last sketch of the month and of the year! 2013 has been filled with such awesome inspiration by you our readers, we know that 2014 will be an even more inspiring year with new designers and new challenges. With that said we are sad to see some of our regular design team members leave us at the end of the year while at the same time excited to welcome in a few new faces as we start on another year's journey of creativity! Please make sure and wish our retiring design team members: Ria, Stephanie, and Debbie, a fond farewell! Now on to our last sketch for 2013!

Card sketch created by Lisa:

Great inspiration by our December Guest Designer Sandi:

Here are the wonderful examples by our design team:

I hope these festive cards put you in the holiday spirit! It's so easy to play along with us at Sketch N Scrap. This month our prize sponsor is Sketch N Scrap! One lucky randomly selected participant will win this awesome set of mini bags by Webster's Pages! I hope this gives you even more inspiration to play along with us during this busy month!

I know you can think of a lot of great use for these cute little bags! It's easy to play along with us:

Here are the details:

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.

2. Link your layout or card up by clicking on the Froggy link in the sidebar

NOTE: Don't forget to link to the direct post of this weeks challenge on your blog.

Have fun! We can't wait to see what you create! :)

Remember each submission will give you ONE entry into our monthly random draw for a chance to win the December prize!

So get those layouts and cards started! International players are welcome, but they will be asked to pay shipping on their prize should they win.

Link up your layout by December 31st at midnight CST!

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Ending the Crop Challenges with some Color!

Can you believe we have already hit our last day of challenges for the first ever online crop? Time really does fly by quickly when we are having so much fun! Speaking of which, did you see the creative challenge by Lisa yesterday? If not, be sure to check it out HERE. Today we are going to give you a festive color challenge to wrap up our online crop and leave you in the mood for the holidays! Remember you will have until midnight, December 21st to link up any or all of your projects inspired by our challenges so there is still time to play along!

Color Challenge

Pick 3+ of the colors shown in the photo below (black, white and kraft colors are allowed)

Here is my example using 3 of the colors and black and white:

And now for those Color Challenge rules:

1) Be sure to use at least 3 of the colors shown in the Color Challenge photo above. You are welcome to use them all if you choose. Black, white and kraft colors can be included as well.

2) All projects must be newly created as of today for this challenge (no back linking)

3) No combining with other SNS challenges (i.e. our regular sketch challenges)

4) You must link back to SNS in your blog entry

5) only one entry per challenge

Here are the prizes up for grabs:

Indie Chic chipboard stickers:

AND

Indie Chic Citron layered stickers:

You will get one entry per challenge into our prize draw, a random winner will be drawn on December 22nd. To be eligible follow all the rules listed above AND make sure and link up your project on the sidebar under the ONLINE CROP link (not the regular sketches link). We hope you are getting a chance to join us and are enjoying the challenges. Happy cropping!

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Would You Rather?????

I hope you are enjoying our crop so far! What a fun recipe challenge by Kelly yesterday! If you missed it you can find it HERE. It might be pretty apparent that I like playing games, from Bingo (find the Scrapbook Bingo Challenge HERE) to card games, to board games I love them all, so for my second challenge I thought we'd adapt another of my favorite games to put a scrappy spin on it! The game is called Would You Rather. For today's challenge create a layout, card or project using ONE of each from the following seven prompts:

WOULD YOU RATHER:

1) use a sketch on your creative project OR go it on your own with your own design?

2) use card stock as your background OR use a patterned background?

3) use stamps OR stickers on your project?

4) use squares/rectangles OR circles on your project?

5) use your own handwriting OR a typed sentiment or journaling on your project?

6) Used a punched border OR a washi tape border on your project?

7) Use enamel dots OR rhinestones on your project?

Here is my layout:

Here is the list of rathers I chose to use:

1) sketch- I used a Page Maps sketch by Becky Fleck from her PageMaps 2 book

2) cardstock background

3) Stickers- by Jillibean Soup

4) rectangles- patterned paper by Jillibean Soup

5) Typed journaling

6) Punched border

7) enamel dots

HERE ARE THE RULES FOR THE WOULD YOU RATHER CHALLENGE:

1) Feel free to use other items on your project in addition to the prompted items.

2) Link back to your blog post, make sure you mention the list of items you chose to use.

3) all projects must be newly created as of today for this challenge (no back linking)

4) no combining with other SNS challenges (i.e. our regular sketch challenges)

5) You must link back to SNS in your blog entry

6) only one entry per challenge

Here are the prizes up for grabs:

Monday, December 16, 2013

Our first ever Online Crop is in full swing!

As we promised a few days ago, we have another great challenge for you today to continue with our first ever Online Crop! If you missed our first challenge by Lisa, please click HERE to take you to play a great game of Bingo. Today's crop challenge is based on one of the oldest holiday baking traditions, fruit cake! Whether you have a love or hate relationship with fruitcake, we are sure to help you love it a little more with your crafting! Please create a brand new layout, card or altered item based on the Holiday Fruitcake Recipe Challenge below.

Photo courtesy of claxtonfruitcake.com

Holiday Fruitcake Recipe Challenge
(Pick 4 ingredients for your layout):

Red and green candied cherries – choose the color red or green

Candied pineapple – choose the color yellow or gold

Walnuts – use wood veneers or woodgrain papers, etc.

Raisins – use something sweet (the word Sweet, food related items or photos, etc.)

Sugar – use sprinkles of round embellishments in any color (brads, buttons, confetti, etc)

Eggs – use some form of ribbon as a binding agent

Vanilla – use any type of liquid medium (can be ice or snow related photos, spritz, paints, etc)

Flour - Use any white embellishment (clouds, flowers, doilies, snowflakes, etc.)

And here is my example:

I went simple and still used 5 of the ingredients! I used red cherries (color red), candied pineapple (color yellow), walnuts (wood venners), sugar (round confetti), and eggs (ribbon trim). I can't wait to see what you create! :)

Rules of the Holiday Fruitcake Recipe Challenge:

1) Feel free to use other items on your layout as well. For instance, if you choose green as a color choice, other colors are welcome but please be sure to showcase the green as much as possible.

2) Also, in your link back to your blog post, make sure you mention the 4 ingredients you chose to use.