Card Sketch #85

Happy Thursday!

This is the last week for Jackie, Bree, Deborah and Stacy on the Design Team. I am very sad to see each of these Talented ladies leave the team. Good Luck to each of you!

Check out their last creations for the Sketches! {by tamara} blog. And you can also see the rest of the Design Teams fabulous cards.

If you decide to use this sketch, we would love to see it. Just leave a link in the comment section of where to find your card. Your card could be featured here next week for our Friday Inspiration.

{tamara}

Becky

Bree

Carol

Deborah

Jackie

Krista

Olena

Riley

Stacy

Sketches! Design Team Spotlight: Kristin Tweedale

This week's Design Team Spotlight is:

Kristin Tweedale


hihi everyone! I'm Kristin, I'm a 23 year old Jersey girl; going to school at Rutgers University--finishing up my degree in political science and women's & gender studies. I live with my boyfriend of seven years in a little apartment in Somerset, NJ. I love taking pictures; I'm a photography fiend, I have a Sony A-300 and I try to take it everywhere I go. It can be a little difficult finding pictures to scrap when you don't have kids; so this helps me to keep a good stack of photos at all times. If you'd like to know more about me, I keep a blog over at http://www.rukristin.blogspot.com and I love meeting new friends; so feel free to drop me a line over there!! Thank you so so much to Miss Tamara for spotlighting me on her wonderful blog!

Kristin's Favorite Recipe is #30, which was to use Kraft cardstock, brads and lace... here's what Kristin I made.

Recipe Challenge #38

These challenges can be used on cards or layouts.

I will give a list of three items that must be used on a card or layout. You are not limited to only the three items listed. You can use as many items on your layout or cards as you wish. But the minimum on it must be what is listed in the recipe.

This weeks Recipe came from Dolores, one of the Recipe Design Team Members.

Create a card or layout using the following items:

• use a calendar or numbers
• use 3 ribbons
• use staples
  

Check out what the Design Team did with this recipe.

As usual, if you would like to share your take on this challenge, link it up in the comment section. Your layout or card could be featured here on the Sketches! Blog for our Friday Inspiration next week.

Have a great day Everyone!

{tamara}

Carol

Dolores

Edleen

Kathleen

Kristin

Lori





Maria

Tracy

Trudi

Layout Sketch #85

Happy Monday!

I am very excited to be sharing with you another 6 x 12 sketch. And I am more excited to share with you the amazing job the Design Team did with this sketch.

If you decide to use the sketch, we would love to see your layout. Just leave a link in the comment section of where we can find your layout. Your layout could be featured here on the Sketches! Blog next week for our Friday Inspiration.

Have a great week!

{tamara}

Abbie

Alecia

Bethany

Carolyn

Jennie

Jennifer

(I can't make it go landscape like it should be. Blogger flipped it.)

Joan

Julia

Sandie

Wendi

Announcing: New Sketches! Card Design Team Members

I am very excited to finally reveal Six New Faces here at the Sketches! {by tamara} Blog, for our Card Design Team.

Here they are:

• Marley
• Sylvia Blum
• Jo Willis
• Suzanne Elliott
• Barbara Anders
• Tricia Gorden

Congratulations to these ladies. I am very excited to be working with you.

We had a little more than 60 applicants for the Design Team. That was huge for a one week Design Team Call and it only being posted here on the Sketches! {by tamara} blog. So for those of you who applied and was not chosen this time around, I encourage you to apply again in 4 months.

Have a great week!

{tamara}

Sketches! Guest Designer Sarah Jane Dowsett

I am so excited to announce this weeks Sketches! Guest Designer is:-

SARAH JANE DOWSETT

SJ has been crafting since she can remember. As a child, whilst her other friends were out causing mayhem, she would often sit in her room drawing. Her love of art and design followed her into her teens, going to Art College where she studied Art and Photography and then going on to open a tiny craft store with her mum when she was 18.

She has always said, she doesn't know her times tables, but she knows the harmonising colours on a colour wheel by heart! SJ started scrapping in 2004, but first discovered the craft when she briefly lived in New York in 2001. Sarah has been on various DT's over the years and currently scraps for the UK number 1 selling kit, Scrapagogo, and she has also designed a range of rubber stamps. SJ was frequently published in Creative Scrapbooking (no longer in publication) and has been published in Scrapbook Inspirations on many occasions.

She describes her style as slightly cartoony, and bold. Her favourite tools are alphabet stickers and her white and black pens, without which she wouldn't be able to scrap!Never seen without a camera in her hand, she feels her love of photography goes neatly hand in hand with her love of scrapping.

SJ is Married to Ben, and a mother of one, Finlay Curtis, she lives in the seaside town of Bexhill in Sussex.

I asked SJ to choose a Layout Sketch to work with and she chose Sketch #78.

And here is her layout using the Sketch.

Friday Inspiration!

Happy Friday!

Today I am featuring cards and layouts that were uploaded using Card and Layout Sketches #83 and also Recipe Challenge #36.

Next Friday I will be featuring cards and layouts using Card & Layout Sketches #84 and Recipe Challenge #37.

Jo

Terry

Marcia

Amber


Jessica

Claire

Joanie

Jess

Neva

Michelle