October Card Guest Designer

Today we have our October Card Guest Designer Elena

Hello all!! I am Elena, I am 38 years old. Live in the city of Kamensk-Uralsky, I am a happy wife and mother of two adorable kids) Obajau all that is called manual work, sew, knit, embroider, cook....One of the last of my Hobbies is scrapbooking. Happy new interesting acquaintances!

 Elena has put together this beautiful card for us! The muted colors are gorgeous together and the small circle doilies are perfect. Thanks for sharing with us Elena!

Card Sketch #35

Happy Sunday everyone!!! Are you ready for our first card sketch of the month? Wow! We are really going to be giving you lots of opportunity to create cards this month with it being World Card Making Month! The beautiful examples by the design team yesterday really help to get the creativity flowing and today our card sketch is from Kelly to keep up the productivity:

And here are the fantastic cards by the design team:

Mandy

 Hillary

Rachelle


Susan

Heather

Kelly

We have a brand new sponsor this month!  We are so excited to welcome Scraptures kit club as our sponsor this month.  Here is a little about this awesome kit club:

Scraptures Kit Club specializes in putting together the latest and greatest of scrapbook and card making supplies to help you create beautiful, well coordinated projects with ease.

Whether you are a seasoned scrapper or just starting out our kits are exactly what you are looking for! Let us provide you with well coordinated paper craft kits so you can focus your precious scrapbooking time doing what is important...scrapping your pictures and preserving your memories.

Scraptures is generously offering this lovely kit to one lucky randomly selected winner this month!!!!

 I hope you will take time to visit our generous sponsor and let them know how much we appreciate them. Then don't walk, run to your scrappy space and get creative! 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  Remember each submission will give you ONE entry into our monthly random draw for a chance to win our October prize!  Have fun, we can't wait to see what you create!  

 Link up your projects by October 31st at 7 pm CST 

World Card Making Month Kick off!!!!

Happy World Card Making Day!  Here at Sketch N Scrap we take crafting seriously so much so that we couldn't imagine just ONE day to celebrate the joy of card making so we decided to extend it into a month long event, full of inspiration and 4 extra challenges guaranteed to get your creative juices flowing!  So let's kick off this awesome month long event by sharing our first "extra" challenge for this month brought to you compliments of Senior Design Team member Kerry!!!  Kerry's challenge is for us to create a masculine card of any theme:  Here is what our awesome team called the "Glitter Girls" came up with:

Kerry:

 

 Hillary:

 

Susan:

 

Marie-Christine:

 

Wendy:

 

Darcy:

 

Lydia:

 

Rachelle:

 

Lisa:

 

We hope we have inspired you to play along with our fun card making month challenge!  Each Saturday for the month of October we will announce another card challenge. Please enter CARDS ONLY for these challenges (we will have our layout extra challenges in May for NSD!)  Each challenge gets you another entry into our drawing for a fabulous kit offered by our wonderful sponsor this month Scraptures Kit Club!!!   Just link up with all our other challenges in the side bar (don't forget to provide a link back to our blog when playing along!) to gain extra entries to win this wonderful prize:

 

All total you will have a chance to enter NINE times this month if you complete all the challenges! So what are you waiting for? Go make a fun card and replenish that card supply, you know you always need a card, why wait til the last minute!!!!  Enjoy! We can't wait to see what you create!

 



September WINNER & Featured Scrappers!

Hello to all our scrappers!! It's Friday and announcement day here at Sketch N Scrap! We always LOVE this day because it means we get to have the pleasure of recognizing someone special out there in blog land for their creative efforts while thanking all of our amazing scrappers for taking their time to upload and share to our blog with such beautiful entries!

And now it's time to announce our September WINNER by random draw...........................................

CONGRATULATIONS TO #6 Donna Broussard!!!

  

You are the winner of the $15 gift certificate to The Robin's Nest  !!!

 

Here is the beautiful card entry by Donna:

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


And now it is time to announce the September Featured Scrapper chosen by our very own design team.............................. Mayoori!!!

Here is her beautiful take on Sketch #64:

 

 

We loved the beautiful color scheme and dramatic use of the black title and pen work! Gorgeous work Mayoori and be sure to take a "Featured at Sketch N Scrap" button from our sidebar (lower right corner) to represent on your blog!

 

 

And our September Featured Card winner picked by our design team is.......................................... 

Heather Robertson!!! 

Here is her amazing entry based on card sketch #33:

 

 

We just adored the creative use of bats in place of the banners as well as the dry embossing and inking! Congratulations Heather & thanks for playing along with us this month! Be sure to grab our "Featured at Sketch N Scrap" button on the bottom right side bar to display on your blog!!!

 

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 Mayoori & Heather for more of their amazing work!

Thank you again for another fantastic month of inspiration and we look forward to another exciting time this month! 

October Layout Guest Designer

Join me in welcoming our October layout Guest Designer Danie!

Hello there!!  - from Huntsville, Ontario.  My name is Danie (Scrap-a-holic) Ramirez-Diakun.  I am thrilled  to be Guest Designer with Sketch-N-Scrap, for the month of October.  I am happily married to the love of my life and Mummy to the apple-of-my-eye, my (now) 6 year old son.  My boys are very supportive of my paper crafting addiction!!   I started my scrapbooking journey, almost four years ago, at a fall weekend retreat - and have never looked back. 

-I am ADDICTED!!   I love pretty papers, stitching, the DIY embellies and all things crafting /creating.  Scrapbooking has brought my /our memories to life but the greatest gift is the friendship I have embraced.

I have had these photos waiting for this fabulous Sketch. These are my little guys very first pair of Converse - High Tops.   He loved them because they had flames on them...we couldn't get over how BIG his feet were /are!?  (we'll have to start saving NOW LOL)   I love how this Sketch ties all my photos together.  I can't wait to see what you do with this sketch.

Please visit my Blog for more details and close ups.  I would love for you to let me know you were there and become a follower...

http://scrappydanie.blogspot.ca/

Thank you 

Danie

xo

Seriously how awesome is Danie's layout? I love the color choices and the flames. Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful layout with us!

 

Supplies used in layout:

Bazzil cardstock, FP; MEology + stickers, BoBunny Dots, Silhouette cut files, Alphabet metal ribbon charms, Studio Calico wooden stars (natural + altered), film strip washi tape, Bistro chalk marker (white and black), twine, metal star clip (altered)

Sketch N Scrap #66

Happy October! Fall is my favorite time of the year and there are so many fun things we do as a family every October so I always look forward to it each and every year! I hope you are inspired to play along with us this month using our first sketch by Lisa:

Here is what our lovely and talented DT did with the sketch:

Marie-Christine:

Michelle:

Kerry:

Lissa:

Heather:

Tammi:

Cathy:

 

 Darcy:



Wendy:

Lisa:

We have a brand new sponsor this month!  We are so excited to welcome Scraptures kit club as our sponsor this month.  Here is a little about this awesome kit club:

Scraptures Kit Club specializes in putting together the latest and greatest of scrapbook and card making supplies to help you create beautiful, well coordinated projects with ease.
Whether you are a seasoned scrapper or just starting out our kits are exactly what you are looking for! Let us provide you with well coordinated paper craft kits so you can focus your precious scrapbooking time doing what is important...scrapping your pictures and preserving your memories.

Scraptures is generously offering this lovely kit to one lucky randomly selected winner this month!!!!

  

I hope you will take time to visit our generous sponsor and let them know how much we appreciate them. Then don't walk, run to your scrappy space and get creative! 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  Remember each submission will give you ONE entry into our monthly random draw for a chance to win our October prize!  Have fun, we can't wait to see what you create!  

 Link up your projects by October 31st at 7 pm CST 

Card sketch #34

Time flies, another month is almost in the books, but there is still plenty of time to play along with us! 

Here is our last sketch of the month by Lisa

Guest Designer Alicia:

 

And here is some inspiration from our awesome DT:

Hillary

Mandy 

Heather

Lydia

Rachelle

Lisa:

Susan

 

Brandi

 

We are so lucky to have a returning sponsor this month, The Robin's Nest is back and offering a $15 gift certificate to their store to one randomly drawn winner!!!  Here is a little bit about our awesome sponsor:

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.

I hope you will take time to visit our generous sponsor and let them know how much we appreciate them and then find some much needed "me" time in your crafty space playing along with our sketches!  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  Remember each submission will give you ONE entry into our monthly random draw for a chance to win our September prize!  Have fun, we can't wait to see what you create!  Get  those layouts and cards started!

 Link up your projects by September 30th at 7 pm CST