April 1 2016 Challenge Reveal

Hello there!

It's time for a new sketch challenge, with our brand new Design Team!!

As usual we have two amazing sponsors giving away prizes to two lucky entrants of this challenge! A big thank you to ScrapMuch, for offering a $20.00 gift certificate towards project kits (shipping not inclusive) to our first lucky winner!

ScrapMuch? is an online and mobile store, that specializes in event sales, retreats, crops and classes.  We offer great products at competitive prices, including a very economical kit club that is an exciting and affordable way to add to your scrapbook stash and inspire you to create.

AND thank you to Die Cuts with a View, who are also sponsoring this challenge, offering a free paper stack to a second lucky participant!

DCWV is an industry leader in the scrapbooking and paper crafting market.  They continually strive to create fabulous and fun trend-forward products for all your paper crafting needs.  Whether you are creating a banner for a party, scrapbooking summer adventures, sewing a keepsake bag, or putting together a teacher appreciation gift, they've got you covered!

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 April 1st challenge will guest for our June 1st 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 Wendy Bennett to our April 1st challenge!!

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

"Hi to all my scrapbooking friends! I am very honoured to join Stuck?! Sketches this month. I am a Mum to 3 teenagers!!! The boys 19 and 17 and my daughter is almost 15. Of course my hubby is tolerant of my obsession and he knows it keeps me happy. We live in country NSW Australia in a small town where the cherries are grown.

My scrapbooking started 12 years ago and over those years I have had many layouts in magazines here in Australia. Also I have featured in the Scrapbooking Memories Masters magazine for about 6 years as an honourable mention.

At my local scrapbooking shop I have been teaching classes for 10 years. I have the privilege of teaching sewing lessons to adults and children in the same business which I thoroughly enjoy!

I find scrapbooking is an ever growing journey for me. I learn so much all the time and keep altering my style. Most of my pages have sewing, fibres haberdashery or the like. I love sketch challenges they seem to be the plan I need to kick start me! I want to document and keep memories alive. However it just makes me feel so good when I scrapbook, I am convinced it’s essential for the mind.

I am also on the DT at Color Stories Inspiration , I thrive on challenges and love to share the results."

Here is Wendy's layout based on our sketch.

Thank you for joining us Wendy!

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

 Aurélie

Cassie 

Danie

 Devra 

 Jenessa

Kerryn

Mandy

Monique

 Nicole

Vivian

Laura

Please link up your layouts over in the sidebar by April 29th 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

March 2016 Challenge Winners

Hello!

Wow, we are so lucky to have many many great layouts entered this month using our March 1st and 15th sketches, as always we have used Random.org to choose our winners.

So let's give away some prizes, we are drawing for 4 winners today!

For our March 1st challenge, our first sponsor was Wycinanka who is offering our first winner a beautiful prize pack.

In a small factory at the foot of the Izera Mounains,
with passion and involvement, we create unusual products to handicraft.
In Wycinanka's offer you will find chipboards, stencils, stamps and ... just look at www.wycinanka.net

 

sample prize pack!

Our randomly drawn winner is...

... which means 10. Me-Ma Kim's: So Sweet is our winner!

And thank you to Evalicious, who is also sponsoring this challenge offering a $20.00 gift certificate to the Evalicious online store, to our second lucky winner!

Evalicious is a small home based company in Canada that offers scrapbooking paper tags, puffy stickers, wood veneer, clear/rubber stamps and more.

                        
Our randomly drawn winner is...

... which means 13. Barbara Greenberg: Sweet is our winner!

For our  March 15th challenge:

A big thank you goes out to  Creative Embellishments for sponsoring this challenge with a $25.00 store gift certificate for one lucky participant.

 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.

Our randomly drawn winner is...

... which means 24. Grace Tolman is our winner!

And thank you to ScrapMatts, who is sponsoring this challenge with 2 large pieces of chipboard for a second lucky participant.

 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

Our randomly drawn winner is...

... which means 4. Amanda Baldwin - Australia 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 are choosing one scrapbooker from each challenge to guest with us!  

Our chosen scrapbooker from our  March 1st challenge, who will be guesting for our May 1st challenge is 50. Carolyn Johnson! This is her entered layout.

Our chosen scrapbooker from our March 15th challenge, who will be guesting for our May 15th challenge is 28. Yvonne Yam!  This is her entered layout...

Please contact me and 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 tomorrow!.  We hope you play along with us again this month.

Laura
xoxo

March 15 2016 Challenge Featured Layout #2

Today's featured page, which is based on our March 15th sketch, is girly, fun, and sweet. But before we show you today's inspiration, let's shout out to our sponsors for this challenge.

A big thank you goes out to  Creative Embellishments for sponsoring this challenge with a $25.00 store gift certificate for one lucky participant.

 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.

And thank you to ScrapMatts, who is sponsoring this challenge with 2 large pieces of chipboard for a second lucky participant.

 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

Joefil is our featured artist today. Her page has such a pretty mix of flowers, understated patterns and gold foil. And those birthday girl photos are so sweet!

We are so glad you joined us, Joefil. 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 March 29th 2016 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. 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. (Although 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.

Thank you for visiting us today. If you haven't yet tried your hand at creating with this sketch, please do and then let us see what you've made. We really love to see your work.

Janice :-)

March 15 2016 Challenge Featured Layout #1

Today's featured page, which is based on our March 15th sketch, is nerdy, fun, and sweet. But before we show you today's inspiration, let's shout out to our sponsors for this challenge.

A big thank you goes out to  Creative Embellishments for sponsoring this challenge with a $25.00 store gift certificate for one lucky participant.

 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.

And thank you to ScrapMatts, who is sponsoring this challenge with 2 large pieces of chipboard for a second lucky participant.

 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

Scrappin Hard is our featured artist today. Her fun page is so full of color and texture. It looks like she sprinkled a whole box of Nerds on her page!

We are so glad you joined us, Scrappin Hard. 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 March 29th 2016 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. 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. (Although 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.

Thank you for visiting us today. If you haven't yet tried your hand at creating with this sketch, please do and then let us see what you've made. We really love to see your work.

Janice :-)

Meet our New Creative Team!!

Hello there!

Today we are introducing our new Creative Team, please join me in welcoming these talented scrappers to Stuck?! Sketches!

Aurélie  Cormier

I originally hail from Cheticamp, a beautiful Acadian village right on the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (Canada).  I now reside in Dieppe, New Brunswick with my husband, Mathieu, our seven-year old son, Louis-Olivier, our two-year old daughter, Éloïse, and our cat, Caillou. Since 2007, I am a public servant by day and a full-fledged scrapper by night. Scrapbooking has become an integral part of my life. I try doing something scrapbook-related every day, may it be working on a layout, browsing through online galleries and/or reading scrapbook magazines. Published in a few editions of Canadian Scrapbooker, as well as in France's own Histoires de Pages and most recently Scrapbook & Cards Today, my style has been known to be called "rustic", which is fine by me as it enables me to relish in fattening things up with layers, dimension, tearing and texture. Other than scrapbooking, I have rekindled a romance with reading through a monthly book club I joined at work in February 2012. I also tutor, teach voice classes and sing most weekends at a few church services around the area.

Danielle Ramirez-Diakun

Hello there from Huntsville, Ontario.  Hi, my name is Danielle Ramirez-Diakun, my friends all call me Danie.    I am married to my best friend and husband.  Our 7 year old Little is my primary focus to scrap.   I have been a memory keeper since birth but started scrapbooking in 2011.  I am beyond thrilled to be joining Laura and her uber talented Design Team. You can checkout more details at my BLOG http://scrappydanie.blogspot.ca

Jenessa Franco

Hi! My name is Jenessa, and I'm a misplaced Californian currently living in Dallas, Texas with my husband Noé, our 7-year old son Santiago and our 5-year old daughter Paolina. I discovered scrapbooking in 1995, and I made my first album using construction paper and rubber cement...an absolute archival disaster! Fast forward to the present, and I've become quite passionate about this constantly evolving art form.Having always endeavored in arts & crafts such as drawing, painting and cross-stitching, scrapbooking (as well as other paper crafts) has been such a natural progression for me. My husband has been incredibly supportive of my hobby obsession by allowing me to utilize most of our family room as my own personal crafting area, as well as hanging out with the kids when I need some creative therapy.

Monique Liedtke

Hi everyone, I’m Monique Liedtke and I live in Europe, in The Netherlands, with my husband of 19 years and our 3 kids (a daughter 19, and two sons: 16 and 11). I started scrapbooking about 12 years ago and am totally addicted; there’s nothing I’d rather do! I don’t have my own scrap room, but I more or less claimed just about the whole house! I’m lucky enough to be on the design teams of a few of my favorite manufacturers (Doodlebug, Imaginisce and Pretty Little Studio) and wish I would be able to spend every day scrapping from morning till night, but as that’s not possible I also work part-time in a small HR office in town.

My scrapbooking style can be described as colorful and detailed with lots of straight lines. My favorite techniques are layering, sewing (both with the sewing machine and by hand) and using lots of Silhouette cuts. If you want to see my projects, please visit my blog: www.moniquesscrapbook.blogspot.com. I’m thrilled to be part of the new Stuck?! Sketches team!

 Nicole Doiron

I'm Nicole from Canada's beautiful East coast! I share my home with my fiance Yves and our fur baby Sugar the cat. I love reading, music (yes! I do sing in the shower sometimes!), social game nights with friends, road trips and spending as much time in my scrap room as I can! I have a shabby chic romantic style and I love to dabble with mixed media techniques. I started scrapbooking in 2004, started blogging about it in 2011 and it has been a marvelous adventure ever since! I have had many wonderful designing opportunities throughout the years and I am now thrilled to join the fabulous world of Stuck?!Sketches!  I really hope that you will enjoy my creations! If so, you are welcome to visit my blog Scrap-Utopia to see more.

Vivian Lake

Hello. My name is Vivian Lake. I've been creating since 1998. My husband knew what he was getting into when he married me in 2001. Since that time I've gone from "large" photos with the whole page covered to smaller photos and lots of negative space. My other favorite is die cuts and handmade flowers. My style is generally clean and orderly with layers of embellishments. Some of you may even call it "simple" since I don't use mixed media (although I greatly admire those who do). Lastly, my favorite subject is my son. I love the challenge of "boy" layouts but I'm sure I'm biased.  I look forward to getting to know you!!

We also have some returning CT members, the following members will be staying on to inspire for another term! Welcome back ladies!

Cassie

Devra

Janice - Blog Coordinator

Kerryn

Mandy

And of course, me!

Laura Whitaker - owner

Look forward to this new team sharing inspiration with you beginning April 1st!

Thank you for visiting today!!