Challenge #134 -- Layout Sketch

This is the 5th Tuesday of the month, which means it is Surprise Tuesday here at Sketches! {by tamara}. What that means, is you never know what kind of Challenge we will be uploading. And it just so happens, that today is my sons 4th Birthday. That also pretty much marks the amount of time I have lived in Germany, since he was 3 weeks old when we moved here.

Being it is his birthday, I asked a few people from the Sketches! {by tamara} facebook page to help out with this challenge. I supplied a sketch and asked them all to do a birthday layout.

Make sure you leave them all some praise on their great pages.

Hope you have a great week!

{tamara}

Amber Korn

Christina Skinner

Jessica Lester

Sara Perlberg

Sue Loughmiller

Challenge #133 -- Journaling Challenge

We are on our last week of Summer Vacation here in Germany. School starts again on Monday. The weather has been everything except Summer weather these last 6 weeks. This week is no different. Rain. Cold. I guess fall is coming.

This week is our Journaling Challenge. It comes from Karen, one of the Design Team Members here at Sketches! {by tamara}.

• Journal about your vacation: More than who, what, where and when. But your thought about the vacation or a funny event during the vacation.
  
Check out the amazing layouts from the Design Team below.

Hope everyone has a great week!

{tamara}






Donna








Joan







Julia







Karen







Lan







Robin






Wendi







Yvonne -- Page 1





Yvonne -- Page 2

Challenge #132 -- Card Sketch

The weather here in Germany feels like we are moving into Fall already. The kids have 2 weeks left of Summer Vacation before they go back to school. And I have 3 weeks until I fly out to America. I have been making some Scrappy Surprises for those that are attending the Weekend Crop with me in Wisconsin while I am there. So I have been real busy, and will continue to be until I leave.

This week is a Card Sketch. I am very excited to share this Sketch and to share what the Design Team made with this sketch. It is such a fun sketch.

Try it out. Share your creations with us. We'd love to see. Just post a link in the comment section for us to take a peek.

Hope you all have a great week!

{tamara}

Donna

Joan

Julia

Karen

Lan

Robin

Wendi

Yvonne

Challenge #131 -- Recipe Challenge

Coming home from Vacation, I almost forgot to upload this weeks Challenge. Whoops.

We have a Recipe Challenge this week. And our recipe comes from Joan, one of the Design Team Members here at Sketches! {by tamara} . Use at least these three items on a card or layout:

• Banner or Pennant
  
• Green
• Bling
  

You just have to see how fabulous the creations are that the Design Team Made. Make sure you check them out below.

Hope you all have a great week!

{tamara}

Donna

Joan

Julia

Karen

Lan

Robin

Wendi

Yvonne

Challenge #130 -- Layout Sketch

It has been an adventure of a week at our house. As I look back, all our Summers here in Germany have been eventful for one reason or another.

I'm looking forward to traveling to Luxemburg on Wednesday. I hear it is beautiful there and I can not wait to get away for a few days.

This week, I am sharing a Layout Sketch. I actually really love this Sketch and would love to see what you do with it.

Check out what the design team Members did with it. I love them all!

Have a great week!

{tamara}

Donna

Joan

Julia

Karen

Lan

Robin

Wendi

Yvonne

Challenge #129 -- Journaling Challenge

I am now back from vacation but am gearing up to leave again next week. We are going with friends to the Eifle here in Germany. It is a very pretty part of Germany. I will actually have the opportunity to stand in three different countries at one time while I am there. I am excited for this picture opportunity. I plan on using one foot in one country, another foot in another country and a hand in the third country. I also have plans to have all 5 of my kids standing in the three different countries for a picture. I am so excited to take these pictures and scrap them.

Also on another note. I am starting to have computer problems again. It looks like a new lap top is in my future. I will go lap top shopping while I am in America in September. But if I go missing between now and then, you all know why.

This week is our Journaling Challenge. It comes from Julia, one of the Design Team Members here at Sketches! {by tamara}.

• Journal on a Tag
  

Check out the amazing layouts from the Design Team as well as our Guest Designer this week. Our Guest Designer is Maureen Esquillo-Kao. You can get to know Maureen and see her FABULOUS layout below.

Hope everyone has a great week!

{tamara}

Alecia

Asun

Donna

Joan

Julia

Karen

Lan

Robin

Wendi

Yvonne

Guest Designer: Maureen Esquillo-Kao

My name is Maureen, or Mo for short. I'm a wife, a mom of 2, a Registered Nurse, the eldest of 3 girls, and a daughter to two amazing parents! It all started with the love of writing as a child which in turn lead to a translation of what was in my head to art you can touch, feel and interpret as your own. My love for writing has helped me as a blogger, sharing my stories and art in an entertaining way. I also love creating things with my hands and I especially love scrapbooking. I feel life is a feast for the senses and live my life by really living in the moment, paying attention to the sight, sound, touch, taste and translate that to emotion. Scrapping is my therapy and ever since I started, the artist in me has fully awakened. Scapbooking and the blogging world has enriched my life AND helped me expand my talents! I can't believe how much I have learned from other scrappers. I also enjoy making cards, creating jewelry, and stamping on my projects.

blog url:

http://momostamper.blogspot.com/

online gallery:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/momostamper/