Friday, May 5, 2017

May 1st Challenge Feature | The ScrapRoom

Hello friends, we have a special feature for you today!  You know how we always love to share the layouts created by our sponsor's design team,  well today we are doing just that! The ScrapRoom's Design Team is here with us sharing some beautiful pages inspired by our May 1st sketch!!

You can read a bit more about The ScrapRoom below:

"The ScrapRoom is the online “Coffee House” that specializes in monthly Scrapbooking Layout Kits! Treat yourself to a steaming hot helping of fresh scrapbooking supplies, delivered straight to your door every month." The ScrapRoom's goal is to help you “get more pages done,” and the “Flavors of the Month” Kit is designed with that goal in mind. Each month you will receive a box containing four individually packaged and unique layout kits, giving you a sampling of the latest and greatest in scrapbooking products. Your monthly kit contains enough paper and embellishments to complete at least eight 12x12 scrapbook pages.
Need ideas? Each month TSR customers receive exclusive access to four Recipe Cards, complete with a full-color photo and step-by-step instructions for completing two 12x12 scrapbook pages with each of the four layout kits. With The ScrapRoom’s “Flavors of the Month” Kit, you’ll enjoy the scrapbooking products that you crave, along with ideas and instructions to help you “get more pages done…” And, in order to make your scrapbooking experience with us truly special, we’re packaging a Gourmet Flavored Coffee Sampler packet with each month’s kit,the perfect companion to a box of scrapbooking treats!
To purchase the monthly kits and/or other papercrafting items visit theTSR Website
For daily inspiration and TSR happenings and highlights visit the TSR Blog and/or the TSR Facebook Product Page
For challenges and a place to share your TSR projects visit the TSR Fan and Subscribers Group:on Facebook

Be sure to follow them on Facebook to stay up to date on all of their happenings and to see their gorgeous kits! And now let us share those layouts!


 Rochelle Spears : www.rochellespears.blogspot.com
 

 Stephanie Seiler: www.steffanies.blogspot.com


 Aren't they fabulous! Here is a reminder of our sketch....


We are looking forward to seeing your layouts, too!  Please remember to link up your layouts over in the sidebar by May 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
xo

Thursday, May 4, 2017

Desgin Team News

Hello friends!  If you recall, back in March when we announced our new DT, I mentioned that we would be adding one more member once her current commitment is over.  Well, today I would like to introduce you to our newest and final member! Please join me in welcoming Suzanna Lee to our team!


I am Suzanna Lee; mother, wife, Physical Therapist, cat nap partner and a whole host of other titles! I have long had a hand in the crafting world but my love for patterned paper and fussy cutting began when we moved here to Glen Allen, Virginia and my paper collecting hobby became a paper cutting and album creating hobby! My first gig as a Design Team member for our (now out of business) local scrapbook store led to another team and another and I have been going ever since.

My style is rather eclectic. I tend to be more graphic and linear with a preference for straight lines and a clean look. I have been known however to meddle with watercolor and messy things that add a very different look to a page. I scrapbook in all shapes and sizes; 12x12, letter, pocket, double page, you name it, I do it.

Over the years, I have had the honor and pleasure of working with several sketch/challenge, manufacturer and kit design teams, and have had my layouts published in magazines and books. When not in my scrappy nook, I can be found chauffeuring or cheering for my swimmers, at work as a Physical Therapist or chilling at home with a book or the cat. You can find me on social media in the following places;
Blog http://www.lifestrivialities.typepad.com/
Instagram http://instagram.com/suzlee72
Facebook – crafty https://www.facebook.com/SuzannaScraps
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/c/SuzannaLee


You may be familiar with Suzanna as she was a guest for us back in mid March, we are happy to have her join us and know you with love the addition her design style brings to our team!

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!

Laura
xo

Monday, May 1, 2017

May 1 2017 Reveal

Hello there!

It's time for a new sketch challenge! But first let's chat about the sponsors for this challenge.

A big thank you goes out to The ScrapRoom, for sponsoring this challenge, they are offering a $20.00 gift certificate to one lucky participant!

"The ScrapRoom is the online “Coffee House” that specializes in monthly Scrapbooking Layout Kits! Treat yourself to a steaming hot helping of fresh scrapbooking supplies, delivered straight to your door every month." The ScrapRoom's goal is to help you “get more pages done,” and the “Flavors of the Month” Kit is designed with that goal in mind. Each month you will receive a box containing four individually packaged and unique layout kits, giving you a sampling of the latest and greatest in scrapbooking products. Your monthly kit contains enough paper and embellishments to complete at least eight 12x12 scrapbook pages.
Need ideas? Each month TSR customers receive exclusive access to four Recipe Cards, complete with a full-color photo and step-by-step instructions for completing two 12x12 scrapbook pages with each of the four layout kits. With The ScrapRoom’s “Flavors of the Month” Kit, you’ll enjoy the scrapbooking products that you crave, along with ideas and instructions to help you “get more pages done…” And, in order to make your scrapbooking experience with us truly special, we’re packaging a Gourmet Flavored Coffee Sampler packet with each month’s kit,the perfect companion to a box of scrapbooking treats!
To purchase the monthly kits and/or other papercrafting items visit theTSR Website
For daily inspiration and TSR happenings and highlights visit the TSR Blog and/or the TSR Facebook Product Page
For challenges and a place to share your TSR projects visit the TSR Fan and Subscribers Group:on Facebook

AND thank you to Accent Scrapbooking, who are also sponsoring this challenge, offering a $25.00 gift certificate to a second lucky participant!



Accent Scrapbooking by kjkareen is a small business in Quebec, Canada. We offer flairs for all projects. Visit our site : www.etsy.com/shop/kjkareen to see all our products!

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 at a later date!  For example, our chosen scrapbooker from our May 1st challenge will guest for our July 1st challenge!


Now let's get started with the challenge, here is your sketch....



Now lets have a look at our gorgeous DT reveals (in alphabetical order!)....













Please link up your layouts over in the sidebar by May 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, we cannot wait to see what you create!
Laura
xoxo

Sunday, April 30, 2017

April 2017 Winners

Hello!

Wow, was it ever so fun to see all of the entries this month using our two sketches!  You have all created such amazing designs and we love to see how everyone interprets our sketches! Today we get to give away some prizes and as always we have used Random.org to choose our winners, we are drawing for 4 winners today!

For our April 1st challenge:

A big thank you goes out to Creative Embellishments, for sponsoring this challenge, they are offering a $25.00 gift certificate to their online shop to one lucky participant!

 
Our randomly drawn winner is...


... which means 41. Deanna Deaton  is our winner!

...and...

Thank you to Lindy's Stamp Gang, who are also sponsoring this challenge, they are also offering a $25.00 gift certificate to their online shop to a second lucky participant!


Our randomly drawn winner is...


... which means 36. Reina is our winner!

For our April 15th challenge:

A big thank you goes out to ScrapMatts they have been so super supportive of us here at Stuck?! Sketches and they are offering two large pieces of chipboard to one lucky participant, in this challenge!


Our randomly drawn winner is...


... which means 40. Helen Mazengarb is our winner!


...and...

Thank you to Flutterby Designs, who are new to us and also sponsoring this challenge, offering a lovely themed prize pack to a second lucky participant!


Our randomly drawn winner is...


... which means  24. Wendy Bennett 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 April 1st challenge, who will be guesting for our June 1st challenge is  46. Guylaine...! This is her layout.



Our chosen scrapbooker from our April 15th challenge, who will be guesting for our June 15th challenge is 33. Heather Bensley!  This is her layout...


Please contact me 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 posted on the 1st of the month.  We hope you play along with us again this month.

Laura
xoxo

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

April 15 2017 Challenge Featured Layout #2

Today we're sharing a second featured layout based on our April 15th sketch. But before we show you today's inspiration, we want to recognize our sponsors for this challenge.

A big thank you goes out to ScrapMatts. They are offering two large pieces of chipboard to one lucky participant for this challenge.
 ScrapMatts is a place to learn, share ideas and view some great design concepts, while offering Australian Made, Laser Cut Chipboard, original shapes and designs, made to compliment your scrapbooking pages or your card making projects

AND thank you to Flutterby Designs, who is offering a lovely themed prize pack to a second lucky participant.
Flutterby Designs is an independent Australian scrapbooking embellishment business.Our products cover a wide variety of scrapbooking styles, & are always bright, fun with a splash of cheeky.Designer & owner, Anita Rodway likes to keep it honest & real when expressing her style - which comes across in her designs. She loves a good 'sentence enhancer' & wants to capture moments exactly as they were & that life is not always rainbows & smiles. There is plenty of manufacturers producing 'Best Day Ever' & 'Cherish' themed lines - but we all know sometimes that it's just not LOL. So we love that our designs can be different to the 'normal' & let your scrapbooking be as unique as you are.
In our online store you will find item such as:
Flair Buttons
Pocket Page style cards
Enamel Dots
Die Cuts
Cut Aparts
Stickers
Paint
Stencils
Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FlutterbyDesignsAus/
Join our 'Inspiration HQ' Group for lots of inspiration, sneak peeks & chatter:
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/FlutterbyInspirationHQ/
Visit our shop: http://www.flutterbydesigns.com.au/

CAgirl327 is our featured artist today. What an absolutely amazing sunset she captured! And then she chose just the right colors and patterns to show off its beauty.


We are so glad you joined us, CAgirl327. 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 April 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 :-)

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

April 15 2017 Challenge Featured Layout #1

Today we're featuring a layout based on our April 15th sketch. But before we show you today's inspiration, we want to recognize our sponsors for this challenge.

A big thank you goes out to ScrapMatts. They are offering two large pieces of chipboard to one lucky participant for this challenge.
 ScrapMatts is a place to learn, share ideas and view some great design concepts, while offering Australian Made, Laser Cut Chipboard, original shapes and designs, made to compliment your scrapbooking pages or your card making projects

AND thank you to Flutterby Designs, who is offering a lovely themed prize pack to a second lucky participant.
Flutterby Designs is an independent Australian scrapbooking embellishment business.Our products cover a wide variety of scrapbooking styles, & are always bright, fun with a splash of cheeky.Designer & owner, Anita Rodway likes to keep it honest & real when expressing her style - which comes across in her designs. She loves a good 'sentence enhancer' & wants to capture moments exactly as they were & that life is not always rainbows & smiles. There is plenty of manufacturers producing 'Best Day Ever' & 'Cherish' themed lines - but we all know sometimes that it's just not LOL. So we love that our designs can be different to the 'normal' & let your scrapbooking be as unique as you are.
In our online store you will find item such as:
Flair Buttons
Pocket Page style cards
Enamel Dots
Die Cuts
Cut Aparts
Stickers
Paint
Stencils
Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FlutterbyDesignsAus/
Join our 'Inspiration HQ' Group for lots of inspiration, sneak peeks & chatter:
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/FlutterbyInspirationHQ/
Visit our shop: http://www.flutterbydesigns.com.au/

AllisonLP is our featured artist today. What a colorful, fun page! We love how the sprinkling of stars, arrows, and other embellishments lead the eye back to that cute photo of her focused gamer.


We are so glad you joined us, AllisonLP. 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 April 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 :-)

Saturday, April 15, 2017

April 15th Challenge

Hello there!

It's time for our mid month sketch challenge! As always we have two amazing sponsors for this challenge!

A big thank you goes out to ScrapMatts they have been so super supportive of us here at Stuck?! Sketches and they are offering two large pieces of chipboard to one lucky participant, in this challenge!

 ScrapMatts is a place to learn, share ideas and view some great design concepts, while offering Australian Made, Laser Cut Chipboard, original shapes and designs, made to compliment your scrapbooking pages or your card making projects

AND thank you to Flutterby Designs, who are new to us and also sponsoring this challenge, offering a lovely themed prize pack to a second lucky participant!

Flutterby Designs is an independent Australian scrapbooking embellishment business.Our products cover a wide variety of scrapbooking styles, & are always bright, fun with a splash of cheeky.Designer & owner, Anita Rodway likes to keep it honest & real when expressing her style - which comes across in her designs. She loves a good 'sentence enhancer' & wants to capture moments exactly as they were & that life is not always rainbows & smiles. There is plenty of manufacturers producing 'Best Day Ever' & 'Cherish' themed lines - but we all know sometimes that it's just not LOL. So we love that our designs can be different to the 'normal' & let your scrapbooking be as unique as you are.
In our online store you will find item such as:
Flair Buttons
Pocket Page style cards
Enamel Dots
Die Cuts
Cut Aparts
Stickers
Paint
Stencils
Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FlutterbyDesignsAus/
Join our 'Inspiration HQ' Group for lots of inspiration, sneak peeks & chatter:
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/FlutterbyInspirationHQ/
Visit our shop: http://www.flutterbydesigns.com.au/

ALSO, don't forget that we will be choosing one scrapbooker from each challenge to guest with us at a later date!  For example, our chosen scrapbooker from our April 15th challenge will guest for our June 15th challenge!


Now let's get started with the challenge, here is your sketch....


As always we have a guest designer joining us. Please help us welcome Barb Prendergast to our April 15th challenge!!


I will let Barb tell you a bit about herself....

"Hello from sunny southern Colorado! My name is Barb Prendergast, and I'm really excited to be a guest designer this month here on Stuck?! Sketches. I'm a former journalist and public relations manager. My husband Mike and I both grew up in central Illinois, but we retired to Pueblo, Colorado in 2015. We have four grown children and nine grandchildren. Our family, pets and new surroundings give me plenty of scrapworthy subjects.

I started scrapbooking in 2005 when I bought my first digital camera and found the scrapbook section at Joann's at about the same time. My “style” varies, but my favorite layouts are those with lots of layers, bright colors and details. Almost every layout begins with a sketch because it gives me a starting point and allows me to get right to the creative process.
I have been on several sketch design teams. as well as a design team member for a local scrapbook store in Illinois. Other interests including cooking, sightseeing and spending time with my family.

I'm on social media here: blog: http://supermamascraps.blogspot.com/

Here is Barb's layout based on our sketch.


Thank you for joining us Barb we just love your page!

Now lets have a look at our gorgeous DT reveals (in alphabetical order!)....












Please link up your layouts over in the sidebar by April 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