1.28 sketchy thursdays challenge

Hello everyone! Hope you are all having a great week so far! Thanks again to everyone who played last week! Here's your next sketch, and we can't wait to see what you do with it.

And for the DT inspiration pages... Check out the DT's blogs for more about their pages—and we love visitors!!

Diana

Heidi

Tessa

Jennifer

Amanda

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Wanna see what you are playing for this week? It's a good one!! Kenner Road, baby!! One luck random winner will get the Seven Gables kit from Kenner Road. I am so jealous!! Can I quit for one week and just play along?!

More than a scrapbook kit club, Kenner Road is a vintage inspired marketplace. Their hope is that their creative monthly scrapbook kits, digital elements and vintage provisions help inspire you to document the life you live, in a way you like to create.

Kenner Road offers a coordinated monthly subscription based main scrapbooking kit as well as a subscription-based embellishment kit that is designed to expand the main kit. Kenner Road also features one time kit purchases and coordinating add-on kits available on the 14th of each month at 9 p.m. Pacific.

Whether it's paper or pixels, Kenner Road is inspiration found.

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Well, I hope that's enough inspiration to get your creative juices flowing!! get ti it! You have until Wed., 2/3 at 10 p.m. (EST) to submit your entry to Mr. Linky in the left sidebar. Thanks in advance for playing along with us!!

a winner for the week and the DT faves

Thank you to everyone who played along this week. Again... so shocked each week to see the growth in the number of players!! We love to meet those of you who are new to Sketchy Thursdays!! ...HELLO!! Welcome!! Keep playing, we'd love to see your style! For those that have been playing here for awhile, they can testify that you make great friendships just by blog hopping each week through the entries.

And, here is the winner this week. By random draw.... Congrats to Abby!

E-mail me your shipping address to dianadesigns@rochester.rr.com so I can send you the fabulous package Nikki Sivils sent me for the prize. And it is yummy! Chock full of great papers and embellies. Thanks again to Nikki for sponsoring!!!

Abby

And here are this week's faves. Once again, I had a long list of my own favorites before even getting the lists from the other girls. Each week it gets harder to choose just a few of you! The random draw winner as well as the faves, please feel free to pick up the DT Faves banner in the sidebar for your blog, and congrats!!!

Johanna

Yankee Girl

Jenneke

Stop back by later today to see the next sketch and the latest sponsor—oh, it's a good one!!!

February Guest Design Team Winner

If you were keeping up with the voting poll, with the new way we're choosing the GDT member this month, it will come as no surprise who the winner is.  But, just in case you weren't, I'm excited to announce that

SANDRA

was voted the February Guest Design Team Member!!

Sandra, email me at heidi (at) heidimyers (dot) net so we can get you all set up for February!

Not only will Sandra get all the February sketches in advance and will have her projects posted with the rest of our Design Team on reveal days, but she has also won this fabulous goody pack from Your Memories Here:

Lucky girl! 

Speaking of lucky, our current sponsor, Sweet Scrap Deal wants to make ALL our Sketchy Thursdays followers feel lucky!!  They're offering $3 off shipping on any order through February 28!!!!!!  Just use the coupon code ST3OFF in the comment box on your order and you'll be refunded $3 after your order is placed! 

I can't believe we're almost at the end of January 2010.  Time flies waaaaay too fast.  (Just ask my hubby - today's a ~ahem~ milestone birthday for him! LOL!)

- Heidi

February Guest Design Team Voting Begins

Wow!  We had a great turnout for the February Guest Design Team Challenge!  So many GREAT vintage-y layouts. 

We're going to try doing the voting a little bit differently this time around.  Our Design Team voted on their top 5 entries and those are the 5 on which YOU all will vote.

This month's challenge was to go vintage using this sketch:

Here are the Design Team Top 5:

Amarylis

Angie

Irit

Jessi

Sandra

The voting poll can be found in the sidebar and will be open until 11:59pm EST Tuesday 1/26. 

The winner will be announced on Wednesday 1/27.

Thank you to all who entered!  We love what everyone made!!!  We hope to see you all back again and again!

- Heidi

1.21 sketchy thursdays challenge

It's time for the next Sketchy Thursdays challenge! And boy, is this week awesome! Not only do we have a cool new sketch for you to try out, but we also have Nikki Sivils sponsoring this week's challenge! Wahoo!!! And the DT had a fabulous time playing with her U R My Favorite line.

Let's see what the DT did with the sketch and the U R My Favorite goodies!

Diana

Heidi

Amanda

Tessa

Jennifer

Jan. GDT Sarah

Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker is a new manufacturing company dedicated to creating premium paper and embellishments. Nikki's designs mix elements from different sources, including styles, colors, and materials, which means she is authentically eclectic. Her distinctive designs are driven by imagination and heart with the goal to inspire you to express yourself in meaningful and fun ways. Nikki dreamed of designing paper for years and when her husband retired from the law firm he co-founded they both intensely devoted themselves to making the dream into a reality.

We had a blast working with the U R My Favorite line and know you will, too. One lucky random winner will receive a generous sampling package of the U R My Favorite line! It includes plenty of Nikki's embellishments, too!

So, link up your entry by 10 p.m. (EST), Wed. 1/27 in the Mr. Linky that can be found in the left sidebar. Thanks in advance for playing, and we can't wait to see what you create this week!!

this week's winner and faves

Happy Thursday! So I suppose you want to know who won the prize from Sweet Scrap Deal?

Thanks again to Charlene for being such a wonderful sponsor! I hope you bookmarked her store and will stop back regularly to see the wonderful deals on scrapbooking supplies.

And for the winner of the Unity Stamp set.... KRISTINA! Congrats!!!

Send your shipping address to me at dianadesigns@rochester.rr.com and I'll make sure you get your Sweet Scrap Deal prize.

Kristina

Here are the DT's faves for this week. There were a lot of really great pages! I love how this sketch worked out so well for many of you.

Antonia

Pearl

Audrey

Monique

Thanks again to everyone who played! Stop back in a few hours to see what we have for you!! It's big!! It's a huge sponsor!! You know her and her products!! Just sayin'!!

New {ippity} Second Chance Challenge

We had such a great response to our last 2 card challenges that we're at it again!  This newest one is being sponsored once again by {ippity} by Unity. 

You were all so kind about my sketch debut earlier this month that I'm giving this sketch business another go -  another Sketchy Thursdays by Heidi!  !!! 

As we always say, our sketches are for your inspiration.  First off, although this sketch is made in card form, I would LOVE to see layouts spring forth, also.  I fully intend to do a layout using this very soon! 

You are also welcome to flip, rotate, interpret the suggested position, size, shape or number of embellishments, and/or in this case grunge- or tidy-up this sketch to suit your creative whim.  You'll notice that our Design Team has taken this credo to heart, rotating, flipping, interpreting, and cleaning up the sketch as necessary to fit their vision.  You'll also notice that independent of each other, several of us used the same {ippity} stamps from the Because of You set because they're just that darn cool!!! 

Heidi 

Diana

Amanda

Tessa

This {ippity} Second Chance Challenge will run through 11:59pm EST 1/31.  Please post a direct link to your creation in the comments on this post for your chance to win a fabulous {ippity} stamp set.  I'm going to let the winner choose which of these two gorgeous sets they'd like:

Life's Little Moments - GREAT for scrapbooking or cardmaking.  LARGE images!

-OR-

Because of You

We can't wait to see what you come up with!! 

- Heidi

p.s.  Just loving these {ippity} sets but can't wait to see if you win one?  Here's a little bonus for all Sketchy Thursdays followers through 1/31/10:

{ippity} by heidi is offering a 15% discount (off product price) on all orders placed by Sketchy Thursdays followers through 1/31/10!!!  Please mention coupon code "sketchy" when placing your order. 

1.14 sketchy thursdays challenge

Are you ready for another sketch? Last week was such a great turnout... let's try and top it, shall we?!

Here's what the DT has come up with to inspire us!

Diana

Heidi

Tessa

Jennifer

Amanda

Sarah, our fabulous GDT for January

And I suppose you wanna know what you are playing for, eh?! This week's sponsor is Sweet Scrap Deal, and Charlene has offered up the October Store Kit from Unity Stamp Co, {wonderful...you}. There are some great images in this set!

Let's get to know Charlene and Sweet Scrap Deal a little better!

After getting laid off last summer I decided to follow a passion of mine, scrapbooking. I try to find the best deals on quality scrapbook items and pass those on to others. My store site is http://www.sweetscrapdeal.com/. You'll find that everything is on sale all of the time! There is also a clearance section with items that are priced so low, you can't afford not to scrap!

One thing that sets me apart from other online stores, is that I offer scrapbook classes. I hold meet-ups in the local Roseville/Rocklin, CA area where we get together and work on 12 x 12 layouts, mini albums/books, original scrap/stamp projects and cards. I will soon be posting these layouts and projects for sale in my store as well. The kits will be adorable and easy to put together!

For more information on my store and all the classes I offer, please visit my website at http://www.sweetscrapdeal.com/ or my blog http://sweetpiecesbyme.blogspot.com/. I look forward to serving you and your scrapbook needs!

Thanks again to Sweet Scrap Deal for sponsoring! Visit the store...


Please link up your entry for this week's challenge to the Mr. Linky is the left sidebar by Wed., Jan. 20th, 10 p.m. (EST) to be eligible to win. One lucky person will be randomly chosen to win this week's prize. Good luck to everyone!!