Here’s a sketch for you this week…

If you use this sketch as the foundation for your next layout and email it to Tara at thynner5@yahoo.ca or provide a link to this post and you will be entered in this month’s Blog Prize Draw!!

Have fun!

There are so many things going on right now.

First of all there is still time to enter the weScrap Fresh Faces contest. Yep, weScrap is holding an open call for anyone who has never been on a design team to enter their contest. There will be weekly challenges and prizes. The contest last 6 weeks and people will eliminated weekly until the Grand Prize winner will be crowned weScrap’s  Next Top Designer. They will win a 6 month contract with weScrap as a designer and will receive all the benefits that come along with that!!

Ally is hosting a contest for a Guest Designer position on her So Sketchy Blog for the month of November. If you would like the honor of being her very first Guest Designer all you have to do is create a layout based on this sketch:

I am having a huge $50.00 valued RAK giveaway on my blog of all new CHA goodies!! I will be posting daily challenges with multiple chances to win all week long! Check out my blog Thynner… All Tangled Up for details.

Ally has a chance for everyone to win some cool and funky stamps on her blog: Your Memories

The very lovely and talented Vicki Boutinwill be teaching at The Scrapping Bug November 15th. I will be there with my official I love Vicki Boutin tshirt on!! She is so much fun to be around. If you are in the Kitchener area check it out here: The Scrapping Bug Blog

Here is a sneek peak at the classes:

Hope you have a great weekend.

~Tara~

Here are a few sites that have great card sketches for you to use….

CCAS Resources

So Sketchy!

Sketch Lover

Scrap Maps

Wittyliving.com

Little Scrapbook Shop

Caardvarks

Card Positioning Systems

Poetic Artistry

Sketch This Cards

2 Sketches for You

Hope one of these sites inspires you to make some great cards to share with someone special!

This week’s word is: Cute

1: attractive or pretty especially in a childish, youthful, or delicate way

2. : clever or shrewd often in an underhanded manner

3. :mentally keen; clever; shrewd.

This word can be used in so many ways. It is such a cute word to use in your title, as I did on this page of my cute nephew Cameron.

This layout was based on a sketch that Ally designed for the So Sketchy Blog. I used a wonderful collection of papers from Rose Moka which generously sponsored the Design Team at weScrap!

~Tara

I am excited to share a great way to combine our love of Scrapbooking and helping a great cause!!

Ally has an amazing contest posted on her So Sketchy Blog where you make cards for the “Bring a Smile to a Child” campaign that was started by Scrapbook and Cards Today magazine. She is offering up some prizes for everyone who participates.

Check out her blog for more details!!

~Tara~

This week’s word is: Nature

1. the natural world as it exists without human beings or civilization

2. the elements of the natural world, as mountains, trees, animaks, or rivers

3. natural scenery

4. characteristic disposition; temperament: a self-willed nature; an evil nature.

This word can be used in so many ways. It is such a peaceful word I used it in the following layout I did for Scrapdango’s Scrap Me UP Challenge. I was given these wonderful photos from Jackie and asked to make a page with them. I used the word in my title. I also left the chipboard in it’s natural state.  This layout was based on a sketch that Ally designed for the So Sketchy Blog. I used a wonderful collection of papers from Scrapdango’s Sugar kit.

It’s time to start the week off with a challenge.

On of my very favorite elements that I love to see on a layout is sewing. I love the texture it adds to a page or card. I am embarrassed to admit that I have a sewing machine that my Mother in Law bought me that I still don’t know how to use. At least I have taken it out of the box. Now…. I just need a few lessons on how to use it.

In the meantime, I am addicted to hand stitching on a layout. I love how it appears more rugged than when you use a machine. I like to free hand my stitches and I also have a few templates that I use as well.

Here is a layout I created a few days ago. I received a great paper collection from The Srapping Bug to play with. I love WRMK’s White Out lines. I am so fortunate to have had the Frenzy Line from Scrapdango and the Hoopla Line from The Scrapping Bug. Love… Love these lines!

For this layout I used a sketch from Ally’s So Sketchy Blog. It is sketch #12. It is an 8 1/2 x 11 sketch that I flipped and stretched for this layout of my darling neice, Chloe. I used a stitch template from Bazzil for my stitch design.

My challenge this week is to sew on your layout. You can do it either free hand, using a template or a sewing machine. Please send them to me at: thynner5@yahoo.ca and put “CCAS Blog Challenge” in the subject line. You will earn a ballot for this month’s Blog Prize Draw!

~Tara~