April Winner and Our Featured Scrappers

It's a party going on right here, a celebration that is going on all month! It is our birthday month and there are non stop days of challenges, fun and prizes so we hope you join us all month long! We here at Sketch_n_Scrap are so excited to have you join us each month and hope that you are enjoying the sketches and inspiration from our awesome Design Team. Each new month is even more exciting than the last and the energy on the blog is amazing! The card and layout entries are beyond amazing and the level of participation keeps growing! We would like to give a big round of applause of appreciation to all of our followers and participants - you are the true source of our inspiration month after month! ! Let's kick things off with the winner of our April prize and announcing our Featured Scrappers. 

Now on to the announcements for this month, drum roll please...............first our prize winner.

This month's winner by random integer is: #13......................................Congrats to Hiro Nyan! Here is her fabulous entry:

Hiro make sure and contact us at sketchnscrap@gmail.com for details on how to claim your prize! Congrats and thanks for playing along with us!

Now let's keep the celebration going by announcing our Featured Layout and Card designers for the month of March. First, the April Featured Layout designer! This month our DT picked Tiffany! Here is the layout she submitted -

We love Tiffany's use of the sketch, she was able to make such an fun contrast with her pattern papers and the playful photos just tole our hearts. Her take on the sketch was spot on and was accented nicely with the embellishments.  Great work Tiffany! Congrats and thanks a bunch for joining us!

Next we have our April Featured card designer and our design team picked Lesli!

Awesome use of the sketch and what a fun and festive card! Great use of the pattern papers and we just love the colors. Perfect birthday card as we kick off our own celebration! Congratulations Lesli thanks so much for joining us!

Keep playing along each month for your chance to be picked as our featured layout designer or card designer and don't forget to visit their blogs to see more of our featured designers Tiffany and Lesli awesome work! Thanks again to all who participated! Happy Scrapping!

May Layout Guest Designer

Let me introduce you to our May Layout Guest Designer Brandy!

Hi! I'm Brandy and I am so excited to be Sketch-N-Scrap's May Guest Designer.

I’m a software developer who works from home majority of the time. I’m married with no children, but my husband has a 20 yr old son from a previous marriage. We have five dogs – 2 beautiful black labs named Ruby Mae & Lady Bear, 1 very athletic corgi/bull terrier mix named Jeffrey James, 1 Japanese Spitz named Lady Lou, and a 2 year old german shepherd mix named Penny Lane.

I've been scrapbooking since 2009. My mom had been hinting that she wanted a scrapbook of baby pictures of both my husband and I. My sister-in-law showed me the scrapbooking section at our local Hobby Lobby and I was hooked immediately! The papers, the stickers, the tools. I practically hit the ground running and haven't stopped. I enjoy scrapping alot of different subjects – from my dogs to my friends, from my wedding to heritage photos. 

Here is Brandy's layout, I love the grey background paper, it really sets the colored papers off wonderfully. Also the little wooden stars are such a nice touch!

 Thanks so much Brandy!

Sketch N Scrap #56

Happy May Day!  May is a super fun month for us each year at Sketch N Scrap because it is our birthday month!  We are excited to be turning 2 years old this May!  We have lots of fun things planned. This year our birthday bash is birthday themed, so join us each day for a new batch of inspiration!  Besides our usual 5 sketches we are featuring 23 other challenges each hosted by one of our DT members!  But let's kick off this party with our first sketch for the month by Lisa:

And here is what our DT did with the sketch:

Heather:

 Monique:

Kerry:

Darcy: 

Lissa:

Evie:

Surama:

Jennifer:

Tamika:

Lisa:

 We hope you will find time to play along with one or all of our challenges this month, because TWO lucky participants will be winning a prize this month....that's right we have TWO prizes instead of one this month to celebrate Sketch N Scrap turning TWO!!!  Our first prize sponsor is The Robin's Nest:

The Robin's Nest is a manufacturing company specializing in scrapbook paper, stickers, and our most favorite embellishment: Dew Drops.  We are a family owned business and have been creating fabulously elegant products since 1998.  We try to support the mom and pops stores, so you cannot find our products in any Big Box stores.  Buy Local.  If you do not have a local craft store, you can buy our products on our online shop: www.robinsnest-scrap.com.  We create to Inspire.  The Robin's Nest is offering a $15 gift certificate to one lucky participant!!!

Our next awesome sponsor is The Paper Bakery:

Paper Bakery is your one-stop kit shop for all of your paper crafting needs. Whether you are looking to finish some layouts, complete an album, fit scrapbooking into your busy life, or get messy with paints we are your answer.  We offer 4 different kit options at this time: Scrapbook Kit, Mixed Media Kit, Capture 365 Kit, and Project Kit. Even though all 4 of these kits are planned separately, all 4 of these kits coordinate with each other. Paper Bakery does this on purpose so you can mix and match kits!  Paper Bakery Kits will be fun for any type of crafter too! From beginner to advanced, a Paper Bakery kit will work for you!  Paper Bakery is offering up a $15 gift certificate to one lucky participant!!!

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

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.  

Remember each submission will give you ONE entry into our monthly random draw for a chance to win one of our TWO May prizes!  Have fun, we can't wait to see what you create :o)

 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 May 31st at midnight CST!

Card Sketch #24

Happy Easter everyone! This month has flown by and we are ready for our last sketch of the month by Lisa:

Here is some wonderful inspiration by our Guest Designer Maria:

And here is what our DT did with the sketch:

Ro:

 Hillary:

Rachelle:

Brandi:

 Stephanie:

Solange:

Lisa:

What awesome cards! Now it's your turn to upload one of yours for a chance at our great prize this month! This month we have Creative Embellishments as our sponsor! Here is a little about Creative Embellishments:

Creative Embellishments is a new family owned company that was created by Michael and Nicolle Kramer. We are a husband and wife team who design and manufacture unique, high quality chipboard and wood products. It is our mission is to offer fun and inspiring products to bring out your inner creativity that you can add to any project. In the near future we will be expanding into other mediums such as rubber/acrylic stamps and acrylic embellishments. Please stop over to the Creative Embellishments store and have a look around.

Creative Embellishments is offering one lucky participant a $20 gift certificate to their store!!! 

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

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.  

Remember each submission will give you ONE entry into our monthly random draw for a chance to win the April prize!  Have fun, we can't wait to see what you create :o)

 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 April 30th at midnight CST!

An InLinkz Link-up

Guest Designer Call!

Are you a fan of Sketch-N-Scrap? Would you like to be a guest designer?

We are looking for Guest Designers for both Layout & Card Sketches. Your requirements will be to send a photo and short biography of yourself. Complete two layouts or cards using provided sketches within a time frame.  And post your completed cards or layouts on your blog on the dates provided to you.

Sound like fun? 

To apply for the job of being a Guest Designer with Sketch-N-Scrap, please send the following to snsguestdesigners@yahoo.com :

1. 3 Examples of your work either cards or layout

2. Your name & email address

3. Your Blog address

Deadline for this Guest Designer call is May 30th

Thanks in advance for your entries! ~Heather

Sketch N Scrap #55

Welcome to our mid month layout sketch for April! We would never know this is mid April in Texas with a freeze warning tonight! In fact, we may be setting records in our state tonight. Hopefully this spring-like sketch by Kelly will jump start your mojo and warm your heart while you take some time to scrap the ones you love.

Here is what our guest designer did with the sketch:

Guest Designer Altina:

And here is what our design team did with the sketch:

Heather

Monique

Lissa

Darcy

Jennifer

Surama

Evie

Kerry

Kelly

Tamika

Now there is a fantastic variety of layouts! And it's your turn to upload one of yours for a chance at our great prize this month!

This month we have Creative Embellishments as our sponsor! Here is a little about Creative Embellishments:

 

Creative Embellishments is a new family owned company that was created by Michael and Nicolle Kramer. We are a husband and wife team who design and manufacture unique, high quality chipboard and wood products. It is our mission is to offer fun and inspiring products to bring out your inner creativity that you can add to any project. In the near future we will be expanding into other mediums such as rubber/acrylic stamps and acrylic embellishments. Please stop over to the Creative Embellishments store and have a look around.

Creative Embellishments is offering one lucky participant a $20 gift certificate to their store!!! 

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

 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.  

Remember each submission will give you ONE entry into our monthly random draw for a chance to win the April prize!  Have fun, we can't wait to see what you create :o)

 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 April 30th at midnight CST!

Inspired By Challenge #4

It's time again for another Inspired By Challenge! In case you haven't heard what this challenge is about, Lisa or I (Kelly) are always in search of a layout that we can feature and we will create a sketch based on that layout. This sketch was created by Kelly:

And here is the amazing layout the sketch was based on by Surama:

And now for the fantastic creations by the design team of the sketch (remember they have not seen the original layout):

Lissa

Heather

Kerry

Surama

Isbaha

Jennifer

Kelly

 

Loving all these amazing creations using the sketch INSPIRED BY Surama's layout! We can't wait to see what you create! :)

This month we have Creative Embellishments as our prize sponsor! The Inspired By challenge gives you another chance at the great prize this month!

Here is a little about Creative Embellishments:

 

Creative Embellishments is a new family owned company that was created by Michael and Nicolle Kramer. We are a husband and wife team who design and manufacture unique, high quality chipboard and wood products. It is our mission is to offer fun and inspiring products to bring out your inner creativity that you can add to any project. In the near future we will be expanding into other mediums such as rubber/acrylic stamps and acrylic embellishments. Please stop over to the Creative Embellishments store and have a look around.

Creative Embellishments is offering one lucky participant a $20 gift certificate to their store!!! 

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

 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.  

Remember each submission will give you ONE entry into our monthly random draw for a chance to win the April prize!  Have fun, we can't wait to see what you create :o) 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 April 30th at midnight CST!