Saturday, September 30, 2017

September 2017 Winners

Hello scrappers! We are so thrilled with how many of you played along with us this month, we hit near record numbers of link ups for our September challenges! Yay!  We are drawing for 5 winners today and as always we have used Random.org to choose our winners. So let's give away some prizes!

For our September 1st challenge:


Our first sponsor was Altenew, who are offering our winner a beautiful Reflections Scrapbook Kit to one lucky participant! 

Our randomly drawn winner is...


... which means 71. Cindy Alvarez is our winner!

...and...


Our second sponsor was Lea Rhea of "Scrap and Plan with Lea", who is offering a spot in her "6 sketches 6 ways class" to a second lucky participant!

Our randomly drawn winner is...


... which means 66. mariko is our winner!


Our third sponsor was Accent Scrapbooking, who are offering a $25.00 gift certificate to their online shop to our third winner!

Our randomly drawn winner is...


... which means 27. My scrapbooking Creations - Karen Clayton is our winner!


For our September 15th challenge, we had a bit of fun with a blog hop!  We were offering a two part opportunity to win our first sponsored prize, you could win one ballot by hopping along with us and one ballot for entering the challenge, for a total of two chances to win!


This first sponsor was My Creative Scrapbook's who are offering one of their gorgeous September main kits to our winner.

And our winner is 28. Annelies scrapbooking!

...and...


Our second sponsor was Creative Embellishments  who are offering a $25.00 gift certificate to their online shop for our second randomly chosen winner!

 Our randomly drawn winner is...


... which means 33. Hokiecoyote  is our winner!


Congratulations to all of our winners!  Grab your winner badge and display it proudly on your blog!

  

ALSO, we want to show you how much we appreciate that you play along with us and share your designs and talent with us so we will be choosing one scrapbooker from each challenge to guest with us!  


Our chosen scrapbooker from our September 1st challenge, who will be guesting for our November 1st challenge is 39. Simply Tya! This is her fun layout.


Our chosen scrapbooker from our September 15th challenge, who will be guesting for our November 15th challenge is 2. Tausend schöne Sachen...(Barbara) !  This is her lovely layout...


Please contact me at laurawhitaker50@gmail.com , put STUCK?! WINNER or Stuck?! GDT in the subject line, to claim your prize.  You have 7 days to claim your prize or it will be forfeited.

Thanks for visiting, our new challenge will be revealed tomorrow with gorgeous inspiration from our brand new team!  We hope you play along with us again!

Laura
xo

Monday, September 25, 2017

September 15 2017 Challenge Featured Layout #2

Hey there! Today we're featuring a beautiful layout that was submitted to our September 15th sketch challenge. Before we show you today's inspiration, though, we want to recognize our sponsors for this challenge.
My Creative Scrapbook kit club is all about you and helping you preserve your memories in a fun and creative way.
Each month we will send you a fabulous kit full of the newest products, an exclusive sketch design and plenty of ideas from our talented and creative design team. Our designers create tutorials and videos each month just for you. Come join the fun! 
Website: http://mycreativescrapbook.com/
Blog: http://mycreativescrapbook.blogspot.ca/ 

My Creative Scrapbook is offering one of their gorgeous September main kits (shown below) to one of our lucky participants or hoppers! Be sure to check our original reveal post to read about earning an extra chance to win the My Creative Scrapbook prize.


And thank you also to the amazing, supportive and long-time friend to Stuck?! Sketches, Creative Embellishments, who is sponsoring this challenge with a $25.00 gift certificate to their online shop for our second randomly chosen winner.


Creative Embellishments is a new family owned company that was created by Michael and Nicolle Kramer. We are a husband and wife team who design and manufacture unique, high quality chipboard, wood and rubber stamp products. It is our mission is to offer fun and inspiring products to bring out your inner creativity that you can add to any project. In the near future we will be expanding into other mediums such as rubber/acrylic stamps and acrylic embellishments.

Valerie is our featured artist today. Isn't her color scheme beautiful with that photo? And the lollipop flower clusters are so fun and full of pretty patterns.


We are so glad you joined us, Valerie. Please grab our "featured" button below and wear it on your blog.
Here's another look at the sketch:



Please link up your layouts over in the sidebar by September 29th 2017 at midnight EST to be in the running for one of our prizes. All prizes will be drawn randomly using Random.org to pick a number.

When linking your layouts, please make sure it is linked to the specific post your layout is in, not your blog as a whole as it can be hard for our team to find your layout, especially if you blog often. You can also link from any gallery including Facebook and Flickr (though we may not be able to comment in all forums).

Feel free to combine this sketch challenge with other non-sketch challenges, such as colour challenges.

Please post a link back to Stuck?! Sketches on your blog entry for our challenge. We would also love for you to share the sketch, too!

Thank you for visiting us today. We hope our sketch inspires you. Be sure to show us what you've made because we love to see your work and hand out prizes.

Janice :-)

Meet Our New Design Team!


Hello! Janice and I are so thrilled to share our brand new design team with you! This talented group of creatives will begin sharing their art with you with the launch of our  October 1st challenge!

So without further ado, let me introduce our new members to you (in alphabetical order.)

Hello, my name is Anne Keller. I'm a nearly 29-year-old student and mum of 2 girls and I live in a beautiful town in Germany with my family. I'm a scrapper since 2011. I started with recipes but after the birth of my first daughter I mostly document our family life. I love the creative process, the flow of creating and that I can calm down and refresh my soul while I'm scrapping. Sketches are my favorite way to start a new page. So I'm happy and really excited to be on the Stuck?! Sketches DT for the next 6 months.

My blog: www.bunterpinguin.blogspot.de 
My Instagram account: www.instagram.com/bunterpinguin.

Hi, my name is Fiona Johnstone, I live in Sydney with my two children Zane and Lily and one slightly crazy dog named Harry. I have been scrapbooking since Zane was born, almost 12 years. My style has been described as modern, I am photo focused and I love to use patterned papers but also mix it up with mixed media based layouts. It’s all about enjoying being creative for me! I am fortunate to be able to teach a monthly scrapbooking class for All About Scrapbooks (Australia) at their crop days and am a member of the Design Team. I love sketches and am very excited to be a part of the Stuck?! Sketches team!

My Blog: http://fionajohnstone.blogspot.com.au/
My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fionaj72/


Hi, I'm Libeeti from Israel. I'm a mother of two teenagers boys and a craft addicted (say, 'we love you Libeeti', as most of you are craft addicted too LOL). I make layouts, mini albums, altered art, mixed media art, notebooks and journaling books, etc. I also love to make vidoes about my creative process and share my tips and hows with others. After a timeoff period from crafting, I'm more than happy to return to this love of mine, and I'm really very exited to join (again) to the Stuck?! Sketches DT.

My Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/.../UCtAP831W-47peBb3U.../videos...
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/libeeti/
 
 
Hi! I am LIzzy Crust and I have been scrapbooking since 2006. I am Mum of 4 with only 1 at home now with my Husband and I. I enjoy the creative process of making a layout and I love using layers, flowers, mixed media and sketches. I have been on several Design Teams and this has been a great learning curve in trying things I may not have done otherwise, as well as making lovely friends in the online scrapping world. I am really looking forward to creating with the fabulous Stuck?! Sketches and making more new friends!

My blog: http://crumbsofcreativity.blogspot.com.au/

Hello everyone! My name is Maria and I am so excited to be part of this amazing team! I am originally from Spain, but I've been living in the UK for a bit longer than I want to remember. I do love it here, though. So much so that I became a citizen in 2016! I started scrapbooking in 2013, just a couple of months after my twins were born, and my style has been evolving and changing ever since. I like focusing in the photo(s), title and journalling. I am not a massive embellisher, although sometimes (rarely) I use tons of them in one layout! I started scrapbooking in 8x8 books, and just at the beginning of 2017 I moved to full 12x12 pages. And I am loving the big space! Sketches are great starting points for me and use them as inspiration all the time!

My blog: http://www.craftsbymarialachica.com
Instagram: http://instagram.com/crafts_by_marialachica/
Pinterest: http://uk.pinterest.com/marialachica/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/craftsbymarialachica/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpoYr5ZAEfBUoJJFHG3qEEw


Hi! My name is Megan, or Crafty Meggy in the Scrappy world. I am a mom to 3 wild, wonderful boys and wife to an amazing husband. I am a SAHM and a part time professional photographer, as well as a scrapbooker. I have been scrapbooking for almost 20 years now. I found the YouTube/Online community a few years ago and have blossomed and made so many wonderful friends in the process. I am so excited to be on the Stuck?! Sketches team!

I live in sunny Perth in Western Australia.  I have been married for 16 years and have four children, 3 boys and 1 girl! I am a Registered Nurse and work in a prison as a Mental Health and Addiction Consultant. I am a lover of all things paper but my crafting started with Folk Art painting and quilting.  Photography is also a great passion of mine and there would not be a day that passes where I do not snap a photo! I have been scrapbooking for 10 years now and I would classify my style as contemporary/classic. I am a lover of clean lines, negative space, embellishment clustering, sewing on my layouts and using cut files! 

My blog: www.inmyworld-scrapbookingourjourney.blogspot.com.au 

My Instagram: rachellowe____

First off I’m so excited to be joining Laura and this team of amazing paper crafters at Stuck?! Sketches! I live in Yellowknife NWT, Canada… yes in Canada’s Arctic! I began scrapbooking about 15 years ago when my son Liam started school. I haven’t been on a Design Team before but I have had a layout (or more) published in every issue of Creative Scrapbooker Magazine for the past 7 years. I often include Memorabilia on my pages, love using sketches and I would say that most of my pages have a collage look to them… scrapbooking truly is therapeutic for me. I hope to share with you some wonderful experiences and photos of our life “North of 60”!


Online I’m known as seemownay but I’m actually spelled Simone. I am a mom to three boys and due to my husband’s job we moved from Germany to the San Francisco Bay Area two years ago. I have always been crafty in some way or another and rediscovered my love for paper in 2014 when I started Project Life. I then got sucked into the the whole scrapbooking thing in the beginning of 2015 when I created my very first 12 x 12 layout. Even though I love scrapbooking as an art form, I always have to have a story to tell. My style is fun and playful. While I am still learning new techniques, I am always trying to expand my horizon and don’t shy away from trying. Last year I also started planning and journaling in a traveler’s notebook and am currently on the Cocoa Daisy Planner Team.

When I’m not doing fun things with paper, I might be sewing, reading, climbing or cheering for my sons at their sporting events. I also love capturing those little happy moments throughout the day: I could take pictures of the blue sky, pretty flowers or an interesting floor pattern all day long and still find more. Here is where you can find me on social media: 

youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/seemownay
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seemownay/
blog: https://seemownay.blogspot.com
flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/seemownay/

Hi Scrapping friends! My name is Yvette Weber, I live in the United States with my amazing husband of thirty one years, one awesome son (11) and a dog name Titan! Born and grew up in Grenada in the Caribbean, move to the States when I was 15 with my family. I started scrapbooking in 2013 to document our family memories, after my Dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. When not scrapbooking you can find me cooking, baking, decorating my home and sometime reading a great book. I love incorporate layers of colorful patterned paper, clusters of embellishments and cut files on my pages! I'm super excited to be joining the Stuck?! Sketches design team and looking forward to sharing my work with you and hopefully inspiring you to create beautiful layouts!!! 

My Blog: http://scrappingwithyvette.blogspot.ca/

My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weber.yvette/

Along with the above new DT members, we are excited to welcome back the following ladies.  If you have been following us for a little while you are likely very familiar with their work






Janice  Daquila-Pardo (our blog coordinator)

Laura Whitaker (owner and sketch designer) 

We are all very excited to share our first designs with you as part of this new team!  So please remember to watch for that on October 1st.  In the meantime, I want to thank you for following along with us, entering our challenges and supporting our amazing sponsors; it means so much to all of us! And, don't forget to get your projects linked up by the 29th at midnight EST for your chance at one of our many September prizes, and hop along with our hop that we have going on right now.  We will be back on the 30th of September to share all of our winners!  Good luck!

Laura
xo

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Blog Hop Inspiration from the My Creative Scrapbook Team

Hello friends!  Today we are featuring a whole lot of gorgeous layouts from the My Creative Scrapbook design team using our September 15th sketch!  These creations are pages that you would have seen if you hopped along with us, but we wanted to put them all in one place so that you could truly appreciate the eye candy!!


Also, we want to remind you that our generous friends at My Creative Scrapbook are sponsoring this challenge and the hop, and are giving us one of their gorgeous September main kits to give away!


And now without further ado, here is the eye candy from the My Creative Scrapbook design team (in no particular order):







Here is a reminder of our sketch for the hop and this challenge:

We cannot wait to see more of your interpretations of the sketch! Please link up your layouts over in the sidebar by September 29th at midnight EST to be in the running for one of our prizes!   All prizes will be drawn randomly using Random.org to pick a number.

When linking your layouts, please make sure it is linked to the specific post your layout is in, not your blog as a whole as it can be hard for our team to find your layout, especially if you blog often. You can also link from any gallery including Facebook and Flickr. (Though we may not be able to comment in all forums.)

Feel free to combine this sketch challenge with other non-sketch challenges, such as colour challenges.

Please post a link back to Stuck?! Sketches on your blog entry for our challenge.  We would also love for you to share the sketch, too!

Thank you for visiting, we cannot wait to see what you create!
Laura
xoxo