Challenge #121 -- Journaling Challenge

Hope you are all having a great Tuesday!

This week is a Journaling Challenge. It comes from Vanessa, our Challenge Coordinator here at Sketches! {by tamara}. Your challenge is to make a layout and Journal around the edge of your layout.

If you decide to do this Challenge, we would love to take a peek. Just leave a link in the comment section where we can find yours.

Below, you can see the fabulous Layouts from the Design Team Members, using this weeks Challenge.


Have a Super Week!

{tamara}

Alecia

Asun

Donna

Joan

Julia

Karen

Lan

Robin

Wendi

Yvonne

Challenge #120 -- Card Sketch

This week we have a Card Sketch to share with you.

If you decide to use this Sketch, we would love to take a peek. Just leave a link in the comment section where we can find yours.

Below, you can see the fabulous Cards from the Design Team Members, using this weeks Card Sketch, as well as our Guest Designer for this week.

This weeks Guest Designer is Cathy La Hay. And you can get to know Cathy and see her AMAZING Card she made below. Make sure you leave her some love and praise on her personal blog.

Have a fabulous week!

{tamara}

Alecia

Asun

Donna

Joan

Julia

Karen

Lan

Robin

Wendi

Yvonne

Guest Designer: Cathy La Hay

Hi,
My name is Cathy La Hay and I’m thrilled to have been
asked to be the guest designer for Sketches! {by tamara}
for the month of May.
A bit about my self and my style......
I have been Scrapbooking and creating since 2004. I have
a serious love for 12 x 12 but found myself running out of
stuff to scrap about. One day I decided to give cards a try
and low and behold, I loved it.
When creating a card, I view it as a mini layout. I pick an
embellishment that I want to be my center of focus and create
around it, just as I would if it were a layout.
I really enjoyed working with Tamara’s sketch. When she
sent it to me, I knew right away that I was in BIG LOVE with
it. It appears to be a simple sketch but I looked into it deeper
and came up with this card. I hope you like it and find inspiration
from the sketch as well as my take on it.

Have fun! Cathy

My Blog: http://behindthesceneswithcathy.blogspot.com/

Challenge #119 -- Recipe Challenge

This week, we are featuring a Recipe Challenge. This weeks Recipe Challenge came from Vanessa, our Challenge Coordinator here at Sketches! {by tamara}. Please use at least these three items on your layouts or cards:

• Masking
• Alphapbet
• Yellow
  

If you decide to do the challenge, we would love to take a peek. Just leave a link in the comment section where we can find yours.

Below, you can see the fabulous layouts and Cards from the Design Team Members, using this weeks Recipe Challenge, as well as our Guest Designer for this week.

This weeks Guest Designer is Lilith Eeckels. And you can get to know Lilith and see her great Layout below.

Hope you all have a great week!

{tamara}

Alecia

Asun

Donna

Joan

Julia

Karen

Lan

Robin

Wendi

Yvonne

Guest Designer: Lilith Eeckels

Hi. My name's Lilith and I am honoured to be a guest designer on the Sketches! {by tamara} blog. I live in a little village in the south of Belgium. I teach English and Dutch to French speaking students and I am a mother to four wonderful and inspiring boys. The youngest is 7 months old and the two eldest are 6. I have been scrapbooking for about 6 years and I don't have a particular style. I do lean to a more clean and simple look. I loved making this page with Elouan playing with the label of one of his toys. It's funny how the simplest of things keeps him busy. Have fun with this weeks recipe.

My Blog: http://lilithandscrap.blogspot.com

NSD Winner

Thanks to everyone who participated this past week in our National Scrapbook Day Challenges. We had a lot of fun and hope that you were able to be inspired and accomplish a few projects.

Joan, one of our Design Team Members, offered an Embellishment RAK. I want to take a moment and Thank Joan. This is something she did all on her own and I thought it was a fabulous idea. Again, thank you!

And the winner is:

Christina from Kansas and her blog is called : Been There, Done That, Have that Layout!

http://sameoldscrap.blogspot.com/2010/05/happy-national-scrapbooking-day.html


Congratulations Christina! Make sure you email Joan so she can mail that out to you. Her email address is: Jptomom@verizon.net


Here is the Layout Christina made for the Journaling Challenge.

Have a super week!

{tamara}

June Guest Designer Challenge

It is that time again. We are looking for Guest Designers for the month of June. There will be 4 winners drawn randomly.

Use the sketch below and make a Layout or a Card. Make sure you upload a link in the comment section or on the Sketches! {by tamara} Facebook Fan Page to be eligible.

Deadline is Thursday, May 13th.

I can't wait to see what you do with this sketch!

Have a great week!

{tamara}

Challenge #118 -- Layout Sketch

How many of you participated in our National Scrapbooking Day Fun? Did you know that you have until Friday, May 7th to play along and upload a link here on the blog? And did you know that you could win a prize? Check out this prize (RAK) from Joan, one of the Design Team Members here at Sketches! {by tamara}. She has put together a fabulous Embellishment RAK for one lucky winner. All you have to do to win it is make a layout using one of the challenges from NSD. For each layout you submit, your name will go in a drawing. And one lucky person will get this in the mailbox. Does not matter where you live, you can participate. And there is no limit on how many layouts you submit. So show us your layouts.




Today is the big day that many have been waiting for! Today is the day that the new design team here at Sketches! {by tamara} gets to show off their creativity and talent. I know they are excited. This is something they have been waiting over a month for.

Take a look at the new Design Teams Layouts this week. And go ahead and go to their blogs and leave them some praise. They deserve it.

And to shock everyone, I too have uploaded a layout this week. It does not happen often. And I am not going to promise it will happen every week, because I know it won't. But I am sure I will be surprising you a time or two with my own creations during this design team term. With my layout, I was dabbling a bit with Digi Scrapping. I am not a digi scrapper usually. But, every now and then, I want to give it a try.

This weeks Guest Designer is Cherrie Vrabel. And you can get to know Cherrie and see her Fabulous layout she made below.

If you decide to do the Sketch, we would love to take a peek. Just leave a link in the comment section where we can find yours.

Have a great week!

{tamara}

Alecia

Asun

Donna

Joan

Julia

Karen

Lan

Robin

Tamara

Wendi

Yvonne

Guest Designer: Cherrie Vrabel

I am a single mom with an empty nest for the 1st time in my life. I have 3 grown sons and a daughter about to go off to College. I also have 3 beautiful grandchildren - that are often the source of my scrapbooking pages. I have been scrapbooking for over 18 years now and I am hopelessly addicted. I have just recently been bitten by scrapbook fever again after a short hiatus, while I moved.

My Blog: http://www.floridagirlagain.blogspot.com/