September 15 2015 Reveal and Guest Designer!

Hello there!

It's time for our second sketch challenge of the month!  But first let me tell you about the sponsors for this challenge.

A big thank you goes out to  Lindy's Stamp Gang, for sponsoring this challenge, they are offering a $25.00 gift certificate to one lucky participant!

Lindy's luscious luster is all uniquely two-toned! With vibrant shimmery sprays, flat sprays, vintage sprays, embossing powder and lots more! Lindy’s Stamp Gang is the creative” baby” of Lindy Plakinger. She passed away in 2008 after bravely battling illness. She was a self-made cartoonist, loved drawing, crafting, designing new products, and creating her funny cartoon characters! One of her greatest joys was traveling to stamping and scrapbooking conventions across the US, demo-ing to her heart’s content with her sister, and giggle partner, Vicki! Lindy’s Stamp Gang will continue, as was her hope, and dream. Her husband and daughter have taken over the company keeping her creativity alive. Tracey, (her daughter), has always been a “jar filler” in the background of Lindy’s Stamp Gang, but is now trying to fill some incredible shoes! 

For more Lindy’s Stamp Gang please visit: 

Website: http://www.lindystampgang.com 

Blog: http://blog.lindystampgang.com 

 YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/lindysgang 

Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/lindysgang 

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/lindysgang 

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/lindystampgang 

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lindystampgang

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

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

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 September 1st challenge will guest for our November 1st challenge! 

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

This week we have another guest designer joining us. Please join me in welcoming Åsa Johansson!!

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

"Hi! My name is Åsa Johansson and I´m from Sweden. I live in the middle of Sweden with my partner and our three kids and a dog. I work as a teacher and I´m 39 years old. I´ve loved scrapbooking and cardmaking since 2007. It´s an addiction, a lovely one. It´s my way to relax. I do layouts or cards most of the time but I even try to do some project life now and then. My style is to have much white space, layering, mists and I just love the colour pink. I like to have a sketch to follow and I sometimes draw my own. I visit a lot of blogs to get inspiration. I started my own blog back in 2012. At first I always wrote in Swedish but now I´m trying my best to write in english. It isn´t always the correct spelling or the right words but I hope you can understand it at least. The world of blogging is wonderful I think, you get to know so many new friends out there in different countries. I hope you will visit my blog to say hi! http://scrapatheltenkelt.blogspot.se/ I´m so proud that Laura asked me if I wanted to be a guest designer here at Stuck?! I use to interpret the lovely sketches here each month and this sketch is just stunning! I hope you´ll get inspired of my work."

Here is Åsa's layout based on our sketch.

Thank you for joining us Åsa!  Now lets have a look at our gorgeous DT reveals (in alphabetical order!)....

Aurélie 

Carmen

 Janice

 Jinny

Joefil

Kerryn

Mandy

Sandy

Tomomi

 Vasso

Laura

Please link up your layouts over in the sidebar by September 29that 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 are looking forward to seeing your creations!!
Laura
xoxo

September 1 2015 Challenge Featured Layout #2

Today we're sharing another awesome layout inspired by both our September 1st sketch and the Scrap Our Stash LAYERS challenge!

First, thank you to our challenge sponsors:

Wycinanka is sponsoring this challenge with a gorgeous prize pack for one lucky participant.

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!

AND Lawn Fawn is offering a 6x6 paper pad and stamp set of the winner's choice:

We’re a small company from Southern California that specializes in crafting products that are fun and lively. Since beginning in March 2010 with four stamp sets, we have grown our collection to more than 130 sets! We have also introduced lots of new products along the way... paper, twine, and dies, just to name a few. Our products feature original designs that range from versatile basics (we love alphabets and polka dots) to fun and quirky (yay for yetis!) and everything in between. And of course, we use the highest quality photo-polymer for our stamps, FSC certified paper, and 100% steel for our dies.Visit us anytime to browse our latest products or simply find inspiration! And don't forget to check out our Flickr and Facebook pages, follow us on Twitter and read our blog. We love to feature our customers and give away free stuff! We hope our products make you smile! 

Cynthia is our featured artist today with a summer band camp page featuring a great variety of photos, vibrant colors and embellishments that are just right for her theme.

We are so glad that you joined us, Cynthia. Please grab our "featured button" below and wear it on your blog.

Here's another look at the sketch:

Remember that for this challenge we're partnering with the DT from Scrap Our Stash, who are using an item from their stash for each of the letters in the word L-A-Y-E-R-S. Feel free to play along with one or both components of the challenge. If you use both components you can link up at both challenge sites!

Please link up your layouts over in the sidebar by September 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.

Thanks for joining us today! We look forward to seeing your creations.
Janice :-)

September 1 2015 Challenge Featured Layout

It's time to feature one of your beautiful entries based on our September 1st sketch. Our featured page is sweet and full of lush color.

First, thank you to our challenge sponsors:

Wycinanka is sponsoring this challenge with a gorgeous prize pack for one lucky participant.

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!

AND Lawn Fawn is offering a 6x6 paper pad and stamp set of the winner's choice:

We’re a small company from Southern California that specializes in crafting products that are fun and lively. Since beginning in March 2010 with four stamp sets, we have grown our collection to more than 130 sets! We have also introduced lots of new products along the way... paper, twine, and dies, just to name a few. Our products feature original designs that range from versatile basics (we love alphabets and polka dots) to fun and quirky (yay for yetis!) and everything in between. And of course, we use the highest quality photo-polymer for our stamps, FSC certified paper, and 100% steel for our dies.Visit us anytime to browse our latest products or simply find inspiration! And don't forget to check out our Flickr and Facebook pages, follow us on Twitter and read our blog. We love to feature our customers and give away free stuff! We hope our products make you smile! 

Barbara is our featured artist today with a page that is bursting with flowers and colorful mist and sweet photos and lovely details.

We are so glad that you joined us, Barbara. Please grab our "featured button" below and wear it on your blog.

Here's a second look at our sketch....

Remember that for this challenge we're partnering with the DT from Scrap Our Stash, who are using an item from their stash for each of the letters in the word L-A-Y-E-R-S. Feel free to play along with one or both components of the challenge. If you use both components you can link up at both challenge sites!

Please link up your layouts over in the sidebar by September 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.

Thanks for joining us today! We look forward to seeing your creations.
Janice :-)

Scrap Our Stash Inspiration | Featured Team

Hi there!

We have a real treat for you today, in the form of more inspiration for our September 1st challenge!  If you recall we are teaming up with Scrap Our Stash for this challenge and today a few of their designers are joining us here!

Here is a reminder of our sketch:

And this is the challenge from Scrap Our Stash:

And here is what the Scrap Our Stash DT  created using our sketch and their challenge:

Steffanie Seiler:  

L - lined paper

A - airplane
Y - yellow (probably in the yellow mustard category, but yellow nontheless!)
E - eyelets (yes, I still use them!)
R - rik-rak, red
S - scallops, stripes, stickers (numbers, alphas, speech bubble, "explore")

Elena Bianconi

L - Leaves
A - Ampersand (it's mini in the middle of center quote)
Y - Yarn, yellow
E - Enamel dots
R - Rub on
S - Stamp (the yellow flower)

Tanti K

L – Liquid Pearls.
A – Arrow and Alphabet Tiles.
Y – Yellow.
E – Eyelets.
R – Rhinestone.
S – Stars and Striped Print.

 Sherri De Knight Caramico

L - Lace, Lock, Lined Paper
A - Acrylic Embellishments, Arrows, Ampersand
Y - Yarn (paper,) Year, Yellow chipboard flower
E - Enamel Dots, EK Success Long Stapler
R - Ranger Distress Stains and Marker, EP "Reflections" chipboard, Queen and        Co "ROX" self adhesive stones
S - Staples, Royal "Sparkles" by Kaiser

Rochelle Spears

L - Letters

A - Arrow (black pointing to Magic)

Y - Yellow Stars 

E - Embroidery thread

R - Rhinestones 

S - Sticker (film reel).

Just to remind you, our two sponsors offering prizes for this challenge are:

 and

If you play along with both challenges be sure to link up at both sites, by September 29, 2015 at midnight to be in the running for one of our prizes!   All our 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.)

Thank you for visiting!
Laura
xoxo

Design Team Call Reminder

Hi there!

Just popping in quick today to remind you that time is almost up to apply for our DT call.  You have just about one week left to apply so be sure you get your applications in on time.

DESIGN TEAM  CALL

I am super excited to announce that Stuck?! Sketches is a design team call!  We are looking for approximately 10 team members. If you are a loyal and committed scrapper that loves using sketches as a jumping off point for your layouts, read on.....

Design Team Requirements:

• create 2 layouts per month, using the sketches provided
• post our badge on your blog
• become a member of our private Facebook group (this is how we communicate as a team)
• post the Stuck?!  sketch and your layout, along with a link to the Stuck?! blog on your blog  on the day of our reveal (the 1st and 15th of each month)
• share your blog posts on your Facebook and any other social media forums you would like to
  
• comment on entries according to our team schedule
• you do not need to be exclusive to Stuck?!, you can belong to one other sketch DT or unlimited other DT's, however you must be loyal and committed to promoting Stuck?! and our sponsors

This call is open to scrappers around the world, you do not need to have Design Team experience to apply, all applications will be considered.  The term will run for 6 months, from October 1st, 2015 - March 30, 2016 - with a possibility of continuing on. No compensation is provided.

To apply, create a layout using any of our sketches (current or archived), send a high quality photo of your layout along with the following information to Laura via email at stucksketches@gmail.com, before September 12, 2015.  Please put Stuck?! Sketches DT Call in the subject line.

Also include:

• 2 of your favourite layouts, we would love to see what you think best represents your style!!
• past or present DT experience (although none is necessary)
• a link to your blog
• your full name and address

Selected entrants will be notified via email, by September 15, 2015 and will be announced on September 25th on our blog.  New team members will be expected to participate in the October 1st  reveal.

Good Luck!
Laura
xo

September 1 2015 Challenge and Reveal

Hello there!

It's time for a new sketch challenge, plus we have a bit of a surprise! But first let's chat about the sponsors for this challenge.

A big thank you goes out to Wycinanka for sponsoring our this challenge, they are offering a gorgeous prize pack to one lucky participant!

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!

AND thank you to Lawn Fawn, who are also sponsoring this challenge, offering a 6x6 pad and stamp set of the winners choice to a second lucky participant!

We’re a small company from Southern California that specializes in crafting products that are fun and lively. Since beginning in March 2010 with four stamp sets, we have grown our collection to more than 130 sets! We have also introduced lots of new products along the way... paper, twine, and dies, just to name a few. 
Our products feature original designs that range from versatile basics (we love alphabets and polka dots) to fun and quirky (yay for yetis!) and everything in between. And of course, we use the highest quality photo-polymer for our stamps, FSC certified paper, and 100% steel for our dies.
Visit us anytime to browse our latest products or simply find inspiration! And don't forget to check out our Flickr and Facebook pages, follow us on Twitter and read our blog. We love to feature our customers and give away free stuff!  We hope our products make you smile! 

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

For this challenge we are partnering with the DT from Scrap Our Stash, who are using the letters in the word L-A-Y-E-R-S, to de-stash! Our DT had fun with this one!

Feel free to play along with one or both components of the challenge. If you use both components you can link up at both challenge sites!

We are also starting something new! We will be choosing one scrapbooker from each challenge to guest with us at a later date! For example, our chosen scrapbooker from our September 1st challenge will guest for our November 1st challenge!

This week I invited a guest designer to join  us. Please join me in welcoming Shelby Marks!!

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

"Hi, my name is Shelby. I live in Northern California with my husband and 2 kids, a 12 year old son and 2 year old daughter. I started scrapbooking about 12 years ago after my son was born, but I was not able to make it a full time hobby until 2 years ago when I left my full time job and became a stay-at-home mom. My layouts are mostly based around my family and our everyday moments. I get most of my style inspiration from scrapbooking sites I follow and love to use sketches. My favorite elements to use on my layouts are enamel dots, doilies, spray ink and wood veneers.  I love American Crafts, Crate Paper and Simple Stories. I am very grateful for being invited to be the feature here at Stuck?! Sketches this month!"

Here is Shelby's layout based on our sketch.

Thank you for joining us Shelby and sharing your talent with us!

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

Carmen

L - love word
A - acrylic paint
Y - yarn, "YES" die cut
E - epoxy sticker
R - ribbon
S - sticker, stitches

 Janice

L - label
A - arrows
Y - yellow cardstock and crochet thread
E - enamel dots
R - rubber charms
S - Silhouette, stamp, staples, stickers, stitches

Jinny

L - lace & "LOVE THIS" puffy sticker

A - arrows, "ADVENTURE" word bubble, & stamped airplane

Y - yellow throughout

E - enamel dots

R - ribbon & clear rhinestones

S - stamping, stitching, stars, string, & silver throughout

Joefil

 L - Leaves
A - Arrows
Y -Yellow colors
E - Enamel dots
R - Rub-ons
S - Stitching

Kerryn

L - leaves, letters
A - Arrows
Y - Yellow
E - Epoxy stickers
R - Rhinestones, ribbon banner
S - Stars, stitching, stickers, spots

Mandy

L - Leaves, Lime Green
A - American Crafts Patterned paper
Y - Yellow
E - Enamel Dots
R - 'Recorded' (title)
S - Splatters

Sandy

L-leaves, lace 
A-arrow 
Y-yarn 
E-enamel dots 
R-rhinestones 
S-stitching, stickers, stick pin

Tomomi

L - Love word
A - Acetate die cuts
Y - Yellow color
E - Eyelets
R - Ribbon felt embellishment
S - Summer word

 Vasso

Laura

 

L – life preserver

A - arrows

Y – yellow embellishments

E – epoxy brads

R – “riding”

S – stencil, sun, Silhouette, stars, stickers

Please link up your layouts over in the sidebar by September 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