Sketches! Guest Designer: Amber Korn

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

AMBER KORN

My name is Amber Korn. I am 28 years old, will be 29 in two weeks, and live in Carthage, MO with my husband of 10 years and our two children, Levi who is 6-years-old and Lilly who is 4-years old.

I am currently attending school, WTI, to become a Medical Assistant and am also an Independent Consultant for Close To My Heart.

For as long as I can remember I've also been into making things as early as age five, my great-grandmother helped to teach me about hand quilting, my mom got be hooked on cross-stitching, machine quilting and making my own cloths, I even have my grandmother's passion for cooking. All the women in my life have been a great influence on me and my crafting and creative abilities.

Scrapbooking is my major obsession, I started around July of 1999 right after the death of my father, it just blossomed from there after the birth and adoption of our children, I even have a little helper/scrapper in my daughter. I just recently got into card making it is especially easy with these beautiful sketches.

About two years ago, I also became addicted to blogging, and hope to some day see some of my artwork published in some publications. My blog address is http://www.kornyscrapping.blogspot.com/ and my Close To My Heart web page is http://www.lifetimeofmemories.myctmh.com/.

I am deeply honored that I was chosen as Guest Designer, and I hope to get to know each of you better. Thank you so much!

Amber

I asked Amber to choose a Card Sketch to work with and she chose Sketch #60.

And here is her her card using the Sketch.

Friday Inspiration!

Happy Friday!

Today I am featuring cards and layouts that were uploaded using Card and Layout Sketches #84 and also Recipe Challenge #37.

Next Friday I will be featuring cards and layouts using Card & Layout Sketches #85 and Recipe Challenge #38.

Marcia

Teresa

Louise

Kristie

Mrs. Boz

Rieca

Terry

Jo

Chicken Coop Stamper

Cathy

Barbara

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}