Sketches4All Spring Blog Hop and Scrap-A-Thon

Welcome to the Sketches4All Spring Blog Hop and Scrap-A-Thon!

We're so happy that you could join us!! The Sketches4all Spring Blog Hop and Scrap-A-Thon starts today Monday, April 1, 2013 and ends on Sunday, April 7, 2013. Winners will be announced on Wednesday, April 10, 2013. You will have until April 17, 2013 to claim your prize. After that you will forfeit your prize.

Now on to the fun stuff!! There will be inspiration, there will be challenges and there will be PRIZES!! Our Grand winner will be crowned “Queen of The Hop” and will win this fabulous prize:

The Grand Prize will be a 24 pack of Spectrum Noir Markers in Pastel, Ultra Smooth Premium White Card stock for Alcohol Markers - 20 Sheets, a Spectrum Noir 36 Pen Zipper Bag and a Mulberry Wood –Gone Fishing stamp set. We will also have a 2^nd prize of a $25.00 {US} gift certificate! And each design team member will offer a challenge with a prize for the Scrap-a-Thon in the Forum of Sketches4all.

My challenge is a Number Challenge. I would love to see you join in and be in the running to win a special RAK from me. You can find all the details HERE.

Here is the project I have made to inspire you to participate!

 

You will need to be sure and visit all the blogs on the hop and comment along the way and then head over to Sketches4all and join in on as many of the Scrap-a-Thon challenges as you can. You are entered to win prizes based on how many challenges you complete.

Before you leave please help us welcome our newest Design Team member's Brenda and Libby. I just know they will be bringing so much creativity and inspiration to our site!

We are also so lucky to have Rachelle as our April Guest Designer . Rachelle will be offering a challenge for us this month that you are not going to want to miss out on!!

And speaking of Rachelle, if you came from Fia's Blog's blog, then you are in the right place on the hop. If not, you might want to start at the beginning on Becky's blog. To help guide you along the way, here is the

Design Team lineup for our blog hop:

Becky

Brandi

Brenda

Cheryl

Fia

Jessica - You are HERE

Libby

Lisa

Rachelle

Stacy

 

Have fun!!

S4A Blog Hop Is Coming Up

Tutorials

I know, I know I haven't blogged in forever.  It's been crazy around here but I'm back.  Some exciting new I made the Design Team for Scrapping Nook.  Everyone there is super nice and very supportive.  There is a store, message board, blog and even FB.  They have a little of it all. 

The first kit that I received is Bo Bunny - Snow Day.  For our March Crop it's all about tutorials.  I'm going to post mine here and on the Message Board.  Come on over and check out all of the super fun tutorials.

Tutorial #8:  Stamp as part of your background
I got out a snowflake stamp, ink and cardstock. Stamped away.

I used mine on a card but this will work great on a layout too.



















Tutorial #9:  Sunburst
First I created my card base 4"x6".
Then I cut a sheet of cardstock (any color) 4-3/4"x5-3/4".
Then drew a circle for my focus point. This can be anywhere on the card that you want. 














Then I cut wedge shapes of various paper and adhering them to my cardstock with the point of the wedge on the center of the circle.

You'll go all the way around. Then flip it over and cut off the access paper.














 

I used a Bo Bunny - Snow Day Noteworthy as my focus point which also covers the center point of the sunburst.
















Tutorial #15: Pocket
First I created a 4"x6" card.
Then cut a pattern paper at 3-3/4"x5-3/4" 

 

Cut a second pattern paper 4"x4-1/2" and decorate as you wish. Adhear with foam tape and slip your surprise inside the pocket.

















Thanks for stopping by my blog and hope to see you again real soon. 

A List Update

It's been a while since I posted an update about my 101 list.  Here are the things I've accomplished and I even added a few new things to my list. 

3. Go to a play/musical.
In order of the picture my Aunt, Meme (Grandmother), Myself and My Sister went and saw The Nutcracker.

34. Visit Catalina Island.
We took a trip with my side of the family, adults only and an overnighter. 

36. Fly a kite.
We did this awhile ago but it doesn't look like I ever posted it.  I even created a layout with some of the pictures.

74. Travel locally to a town I've never been.
The kiddos and I drove to Santa Monica and had lunch at a fish market.  Park meters are not something I deal with very often which made for an interesting 30 minutes of my kids in the car and me outside of the car standing and staring at that little machine.

26. Buy a new camera.
My DH bought me a camera for Christmas.  It's something that I've been needing/wanting for a while now. 

2. Take public transportation.
Each year we plan a little trip with my Dad, My Sisters Family and My Family.   This year we went down to San Diego and while we were there we took the train to lunch and then back to the hotel.  It was a fun experience. 

38. Buy something off etsy that I think is cute.
I bought a few really cool tags, burlap stars and canvas butterflies from Curtsey Boutique. Here is a card I made with one of the butterflies.  I inked it with a pink ink pad to match the colors on the card.

The Scrapping Nook DT Call

I've been apart of and still am on design teams for scrapbooking and card making.  I greatly enjoy creating design team challenges, projects and the over all chit chat.  We'll I went on-line yesterday in search of that is new out there in the scrapbooking land.  A lot of my go to places for scrappy conversation have been closing up and I wanted to see what else is out there.  I came across The Scrapping Nook.  Now I know my limits and I don't try out for every DT call I come across.  I have to say I really like the over all look of their site. They have a little but of everything; a message board, blog, store and more...  Looking forward to getting to know all the other members better and getting my creativity on. 

February Guest Designer

Sketches 4 All is having a February Guest Design Team Call.  Will it be you? 

We are also starting a Winder Wonderland challenge on January 7th and there is a fun Multi-Media prize for the winner from Creative Inspirations.  The sketch that you'll be using for the challenge is awesome.  Stop by  on Monday and check it out. 

January Challenge

A New Year has begun and what a wonderful way to start out is with a new challenge.  For this new year I thought it would be fitting to have a challenge of re-purposing/upcycling an item of items on your project.  Turning something old into something new.  Here are two cards I created.

The ribbon on the first card came off of a new shirt.  I don't ever hang my shirts by those strings and they are in the way when I wear the shirt so I just cut them off and save them.  It was the perfect color for this card. 

I received these amazing Prima flowers from Stacy Harper-Watson.  I used the packaging these two flowers came in for this card.