Sketch Girl SG18: Soft Pencil

The sponsor for the current Sketch Girl sketch challenge is Softpencil.  I was not familiar with Softpencil until this challenge and must say that the images are darling!

A bit about Softpencil...
"Hello everyone! my name is Elizabeth Pujalka and I´m the illustrator and designer behind Softpencil - Digital Stamps, home of Michu and his lovely friends, where you can find cute illustrations for your crafting needs. My illustrations are a homage to the Nature and their creatures, where a sweet child, a simple flower or a fragile animal become protagonists.I invite you to know my whimsical world plenty of gorgeous characters and to enjoy creating with them!"

 I'm a sucker for nice, clean art and Elizabeth  was generous and provided the DT with an image to use.  I used Molly in Spring for my card. I gave Molly leggings because my youngest daughter wears matching leggings with her dresses.

I'm going to be honest and tell you that I had a horrible time designing a card for this sketch even though I drew the darn thing! I told Julie that it's a sad, shameful day when a person can't make a card with their own sketch! LOL My Mojo ran off and I'm hoping she tracked down Gerard Butler and they are vacationing somewhere sunny and warm!

I think my card turned out cute and the DT turned out some great stuff with this sketch...check it out:

Guest Designer, Piali Biswas

Alyssa

Harriet

Julie

Sara

Tiffany

Jennie

Amber

Randee

Bonnie

Jess

Katie

Want some free stuff ?  Link up your SG18 creation on the Sketch Girl blog for the chance to win a $10 shopping spree in the Softpencil shop!

Sketch Girl and Embellish Color challenge

In making my Sketch Girl card using one of Morgaine's Frenzified images, my printer decided to stop working.  Miraculously, it printed my image when I tried again this morning and I assembled my card.  Now, blogger won't upload the picture!  What's up with that!? LOL  If I don't laugh about it I will scream.  I'll try again later to upload the card. 

For now, here's a card I made loosely based on today's sketch for the Embellish color challenge to use pink, green, blue,yellow and embossing.  I embossed with a little white, glittery embossing powder and added some stitching with yellow thread.  I used some felt I grabbed at Joann's and cut it out with pinking shears.

Please check out the other members of the Sketch Girl team, including our Guest Designer, Teresa Kline.

Sara

Jess

Alyssa

Harriet

Bonnie

Julie

Jennie

Amber

(Eve, Tiffany, Katie and Randee are taking a break)

**Added my card made with the Frenzified image and the adorable sentiment that goes with it.

Supplies:  Stamp sets--Sentiment from You're Dandy from Practicing Creativity, Dot Spot from Paptertrey Ink.  Cardstock:  PTI: raspberry fizz, summer sunrise, enchanted evening and gable green(?? from SU).  White tinsel embossing powder, enchanted evening ink and versamark ink. twine.

Sketch Girl 16: The Character Cafe

It's that time of the month again ladies! Sorry, I could not resist the pun and yes, I know I'm a dork. 

SG16 is sponsored by The Character Cafe and they are offering a $10 shopping spree in the store to the lucky winner of this challenge. 

I've been wanting to pull out this set again from Wplus9 Design Studio and decided to use it with this sketch.  I stamped the notes in PTI Fresh Snow on to Orange Zest cardstock, matted on with Hawaiian Shores and added black felt circles and did some zig zag stitching with pink thread.  The sentiment was stamped on a Nestie tag and sponged with Versamagic in Wheat.

 Let me say something about felt...I didn't get the big fuss over felt.  I liked it but didn't think it was all that until I cut a piece with a nestabilitie die and almost fainted at how awesome it was! LOL  Must.have.more.felt.

Please check out the design team, everyone does such a good job with these sketches!

 Guest Designer, Teresa Kline

Sara

Jennie

Julie

Jess

Randee

Amber

Harriet

Tiffany

Bonnie

(Eve, Alyssa and Katie are sitting this sketch out)

Thanks for stopping by! 

Sketch Girl challenge: Phindy's Place!!

It's time for the latest Sketch Girl sketch challenge.  This one is sponsored by Phindy's Place.  Phindy was generous and supplied the design team with one of her new images called Easter Joy and it was a joy to work with! (sorry, I couldn't resist) 

 I decided to embrace the blank space and keep my card design simple like the sketch.  I added some stitching around the card to add a bit more detail and added some ink around the edges.  I found some Versamagic chalk ink in Wheat at my LSS and it's excellent for sponging on kraft cardstock. 

Here's the sketch and it's a good one to use up scraps you have hanging around.  There are 2 orientations of the sketch this time.

 

Phindy is offering a $10 shopping spree in her store to the winner of this challenge. 

The winner is randomly chosen, so get to work and link up your card here by April 14th!

Don't forget to see what the other Sketch Girls made:

Guest Designer, Deanne Kuntz

Harriet

Julie

Alyssa

Randee

Tiffany

Katie

Bonnie

Jess

Amber

Jennie

Sara

Thanks for stopping by!

Sketch Girl SG13: Wild Flower Kids

Good Sunday morning to you!  Today starts a new sketch challenge at Sketch Girl.  Our sponsor for this challenge is Wild Flower Kids.  Jen (the owner/artist behind WFK) gave us some images from her latest release Royal Court to play with and I chose to use Fairy Princess.  I adore the font used on the sentiment! 

I had some gorgeous pattern paper that had some melon berry, green, pink, etc. on it and colored my fairy princess to coordinate.  I colored most of my princess in PSE but colored the skin and hair with copics.  My thumb still isn't normal since my Wii injury late last year and my hand still bothers me when I color.  Some days are better than others though.  I also changed the color of the sentiment in PSE.  The background behind the fairy princess was stamped with PTI's new background set Tin Type.

I hope you'll check out the rest of the design team's creations:

Guest Designer, Amy Tsuruta

Bonnie

Alyssa

Harriet

Tiffany

Amber

Randee

Katie

Jennie

Jess

Sara

Julie

Eve (on hiatus)

Have a good one!

SG12--Sassy Studio Designs

It's time for another Sketch Girl sketch challenge and this sketch is sponsored by Sassy Studio Designs.  One random participant who links up their creation using Sketch #12 by 9 pm EST February 27th will win 4 digi images of their choice from Sassy Studio Designs.

Sassy Studio was kind enough to give the design team some images to play with and I used Cocoa Carol.  I wanted the chair to have the look of upholstery so I added some patterns to it in Photoshop Elements which you could also achieve by paper piecing.  I also colored her pants in PSE too.  I printed it out and finished coloring the image with Copics--which I now pronounce as COP-like the police-- ICS.  Thanks for that Alyssa.

Instead of the circle element, I went with the ransom note looking sentiment that I love so much. 

Please check out what the talented design team has made with this sketch.

  Guest Designer this month, Amy Tsuruta.

Julie

Jess

Alyssa

Harriet

Sara

Tiffany

Katie

Randee

Bonnie

Jennie

Amber

Eve

I woke up to a winter wonderland this morning and it's beautiful!  I don't watch much TV and I rarely watch the news, so the snow was a bit of a surprise. LOL  I usually hop online and check the weather forecast here and there so I make sure my kids are dressed appropriately, but since they had a long weekend off from school I didn't check the weather at all.

Have a wonderful Monday!

Sketch Girl SG11

Today gives us the latest sketch challenge from Sketch Girl.  Sponsor this sketch is Perfect Presentation and you could win a free template by playing along.  Go to the Sketch Girl blog and link your creation for your chance to win. 

Here's my take on the sketch.  I stamped the circle elements on some already rustic/distressed looking October Afternoon text pattern paper and popped the main panel up so it would stand out.  I couldn't make a rustic card without twine so I wrapped it around the main panel.

Don't forget to see what the other Sketch Girls have done with this sketch along with our Guest Designer, Laurel.

Alyssa

Harriet

Julie

Jess

Amber

Randee

Katie

Tiffany

Bonnie

Sara

Jennie

Eve (on vacation)

and

Guest Designer, Laurel

Have a wonderful day!

Sketch Girl SG10

Sketch Girl is back from a nice, long vacation with a sketch #10 drawn by our very own Sketch Girl, Julie. Julie has taken on the task of being my partner in Sketch Girl and I am so thankful to have her!  Without further blabbering, here's my take on the sketch:

I used a SU set called Happiness Always that I got for Christmas from my stamping buddy, Allie.  I thought I'd use one of my new templates (Bag it Up) to make a little gift ensemble.  Pattern paper is Daisy D's and it's been hanging around for awhile and I figured I better use it.  The card and box base are SU's Basic Gray but it looks a little black in the pictures.

I hope you will play along with us on this sketch and make sure you link your creation on the Sketch Girl blog and you may be the winner of a template of your choice from Perfect Presentation!  We also have a new member to the design team, Amber Goble.  You may remember Amber from last fall when she won the guest designer spot.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the design team:

Alyssa

Harriet

Sara

Julie

Tiffany

Jess

Katie

Randee

Bonnie

Amber

Jennie

Eve (vacation)

Guest Designer for January is the wonderfully talented Laurel Seabrook!

Have a wonderful day!

SG8

SG8 is an interesting sketch and turned out to be easy to do.  I hope you will play along on the Sketch Girl blog and link your creation.  If you upload to an online gallery, like SCS, please use keyword SG8.

I used some SU pattern paper that Harriet gave me--Thanks Harriet!  I adore this pattern paper and it's so much prettier in person.  I was in the mood to use one of my old favorite color combos of orange, blue and brown.  I threw a bit of green in there too.  I used a digital image from Wild Flower Kids and cut out the middle pumpkin and popped it up on dimensionals.

The Sketch Girl design team has some gorgeous work to show you with this sketch, check it out:

Alyssa - Eve - Chris - Jessica - Bonnie

Sara - Jennie - Katie - Julie - Harriet - Randee

Thanks for dropping by and have a wonderful weekend!

Wild Flower Kids Rubber Stamps are available exclusively in the Stamp Happens Shop.

Cardstock is PTI Orange Zest and SU Old Olive.  Ribbon is PTI Orange Zest.

SG7

Hello everyone!  Today is the release of Sketch Girl's 7th sketch appropriately named SG7. See the sketch here.  I used a digi image from WildFlower Kids to make this Thanksgiving inspired card.  I used the new Vintage Label stamp set from Papertrey and it was loaned to me by my good friend, Harriet.  Harriet, you may have to pry this set from my cold, dead hands. LOL  Just kidding.  I do like this set and am adding it to my PTI wish list that is 10 miles long. *sigh*

My card is 3.5 x 5.5 and the large pattern paper panel measures 3.25 x 3.25.

Don't forget to check out the other Sketch Girls and our Guest Designer, Amber!

Eve - Alyssa - Harriet - Chris - Bonnie - Julie - Jessica - Sara

Katie - Randee - Tiffany - Jennie

and

Guest Designer, Amber

Supplies:
Tom the Turkey is a digi image from WildFlower Kids and is available exclusively in the Stamp Happens Shop.

From Papertrey Ink: Ripe Avocado and white cardstock.  Ripe Avocado and Orange Zest ribon.  Pattern paper is from PTI's First Fruits collection. Ink is PTI ripe avocado.
Text pattern paper is from October Afternoon. Label 1 nesties.

 

SG6 Halloween Style

It's time for another sketch from Sketch Girl.  This is an easy one and I'll give you the measurements I used on this card to make it even easier for you.

I pulled out my Ghoul Friends set  and got to work.  I wanted this to look like a picture in a frame so I cut out the middle of the scallop rectangle instead of layering the image on top.  You can see the effect better in person.  I also took my Versamark Dazzle pad in champagne and smushed it over the frame to give it some, well, dazzle.   I finished it off with some brown twine I got at my LSS and voila!  SG6 is done and it was really quick.  I forgot to take a picture of the inside, but it says Happy Halloween.

Here are the measurements:

Cardstock is 4.25 x 5.5
Pattern Paper is 3.25  x 5.5
Green strip is .5 x 4
Orange strip is 1 x 4

Check out what the other Sketch Girls made with this sketch and don't forgot to visit our Guest Designer, Amber. 

Eve * Alyssa * Harriet * Julie * Tiffany * Katie * Jennie * Chris * Randee * Jessica * Sara * Bonnie

Have a great day!

Stamp set:  Ghoul Friends by Wildflower Kids available at the Stamp Happens Shop.

Cardstock: True Black (PTI) Pumpkin Pie (SU) Green (?)

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Misc: Copics, twine, button

Sketch Girl SG5

It's time for the 5th Sketch Girl sketch. You can see the sketch here. This one was easy for me compared to SG4. I went with a color combo of PTI Enchanted Evening, Kraft, Spring Rain and SU's Groovy Guava. Button is PTI Melon Berry and , along with the sentiment, was part of an awesome stash of stuff Alyssa sent me.

Sentiment says: To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.


Check out what the other Sketch Girls have made with this sketch:

Eve * Alyssa * Harriet * Sara * Jennie * Randee * Katie * Jessica * Tiffany * Bonnie * Julie * Chris

Sketch Girl - SG4

For such a simple sketch, it sure was hard! LOL

Here's my take on SG4. I used a soon to be released Harvest Scene image from KLM Designs and some pattern paper from Papertrey Ink. I stamped a leaf background using Versamark and the leaf from PTI's First Fruits.

Sketch Girl is looking for a Guest Designer! The designer will be chosen from the SG4 participants, so get to stampin'! Check out the rest of the Sketch Girl design team -- links are on my left sidebar.

Thanks for stopping by!

The Tree Series

I'm not in the mood to stamp, so I thought I'd post a few cards I made recently that I'm calling the Tree Series. Harriet gave me some sheets of pattern paper from SU's Tall Tales pack and it's really pretty and vibrant. I thought I'd let the paper be the focal point since it has so much going on. Very simple cards, but those are the best sometimes. The first card is another version of SG3 sketch from Sketch Girl.This last card uses more October Afternoon Chery Hill paper. You have got to get this paper, it is fabulous! I used SU's Trendy Trees stamp set but decided to punch out the treetops instead of stamping them. I love SU's So Saffron ribbon and freaked out when I realized I couldn't buy it because it was a SAB gift with purchase. Luckily, I found an awesome deal and bought 2 more packs of it. Crisis averted! Another love of mine is SU's new Modern Label punch.

Thanks for stopping by! I'll be back in a few days with some cute stuff using KLM's digital images.

Supplies:

Card 1 - SU Tall Tales pattern paper, PTI Dark Chocolate & Kraft cardstock, SU Riveting stamp set, SU So saffron and Choc Chip classic ink. Twine, foam tape, oval punch, circle punch.

Card 2: SU Tall Tales pattern paper, PTI Ripe Avocado and Rustic White cardstock, SU So Saffron cardstock. PTI Ripe avocado double stitched ribbon. Ribbon ring from Spare Parts by the Paper studio (Hobby Lobby), Stamp is a sentiment single called You Hang On by Creative Clear Stamps.

Card 3: Kraft Cardstock from PTI. All Pattern paper from October Afternoon Cherry Hill collection. SU Modern Label Punch. EK Success large oval punch, circle punch. SU Trendy Trees stamp set. SU Old Olive cardstock. PTI Vintage Cream ink, SU Choc Chip ink. SU So Saffron ribbon.

SG3 - Simple sketch with lots of possibilities

Here's my take on Sketch Girl sketch 3. I used the small flower and leaves from PTI's Friends 'til the End stamp set and some coordinating pattern paper (Thanks, Angela). The finished size of my card is 4.25 x 4.25.

Check out what the Sketch Girl design team did with this sketch:

Harriet

Alyssa

Julie

Sara

Tiffany

Bonnie

Jessica

Chris

Katie

Jennie

Randee

Eve

You still have time to follow Sketch Girl to win one of 3 stamp sets. Check out the details here. Have a great day!