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Sketch 177

Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to Prima Marketing Inc. Prima have generously sponsored the deisgn team and this months RAK for our readers gallery.

This week we have been joined by Sharon Laakkonen from Prima. Sharon provided this weeks sketch.

Here is what Sharon had to say:

Sharon has been involved in the scrapping world for about 6 years. Her designs have been showcased in most of the scrapbook and craft magazines (almost 200 items now) and she has had the wonderful opportunity to contribute artwork to several books. Teaching classes all over the world is one of the most fulfilling aspects of scrapbooking as Sharon loves to share her passion for scrapbooking with Prima products!

Sharon is currently the Design Team Coordinator and Media Relations contact for Prima, while also being a wife to Bill and mom to seven children (Bethany, Brittany, Breanna, Billy, Brayden, Jonathan & Josiah.) She has a wonderful son-in-law, Jon, and a beautiful new granddaughter, Amariah. Homeschooling, Bible Quiz, and escorting the kids all over Kentucky take the rest of her free time!

Layout:
Highlighting some newborn photos of my new granddaughter was so easy with Prima's new Strawberry Kisses paper (which is filled with bold colors and lots of flowers.) Adding a few textured flowers really adds dimension to the page while a strip of lace and a punched paper edge draw a fun line across the top of the layout.

Here are this weeks design team layouts;

Sharon

Ania

Carina

Iris

Jules

Julie

Katja

Larissa

Tracie

Wendela

Yuko

This weeks didital template can be dowloaded here.

This months sponsor is Prima Marketing Inc. To be in for a chance to win this beautiful prize package , you must email your layouts to the readers gallery, pencillinesketches@googlemail.com

We look forward to seeing your layouts.

Happy Scrapping

Pencil Lines and the Team xx

Sketch 176

Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to the other half of the design team from The Scrapbook Nook. This weeks sketch has been provided by Anna.

Here are this weeks design team layouts:

Lisa Day

Brittny Lejeune

Lynn Ghahary

Stacey Michaud

Zarah

Anna

Carina

Jen

Jules

Katja

Larissa

Wendela

This weeks digital template can be found here.

This weeks sketch is the last for Febuary and your chance to win a kit from The Scrapbook Nook. Please email your layouts to the readers gallery to qualify for Febuarys RAK

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

Sketch 175

Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to the design team from Scrapbook Nook kits. Anna provided this weeks sketch.

A little about Scrapbook Nook :

The Scrapbook Nook Kit Club began in 2003, serving a small number of local San Francisco Bay Area customers.  Today we have grown into an international community serving scrapbookers around the world!  Our kits are loaded with the latest and greatest products in the scrapping industry, always balanced and creatively designed to help you in your creative journey!  We draw from a variety of manufacturers, favoring textures, patterns and concepts that compliment and enhance the paper line of the month. 

Our kits are one of the best deals in the industry as we load them up with as much scrappy goodness as we can find, and always charge only $28.  Our kit club members always save 10%-25% per month on the total cost of the items in the kit!  Our kits usually contain 10-15 sheets of patterned paper, cardstock, an alphabet, small and large embellishments including items like: ribbons and lace, flowers, pearls, buttons, rub ons, journaling aids, chipboard accents & more!

Each month our team of talented designers create over forty examples of what you could do with your kit to help inspire you!  They also put together free step by step tutorials each month on layouts, cards & altered items.  This helps even the shyest of scrappers create beautiful projects and drives the more experienced artists to new levels of creativity with a constant stream of techniques and ideas.

Visit Scrapbook Nook to see their monthly kits.

Here are this weeks design team layouts:

Becky Williams

Camilla Ekman

Lady Grace Belarmino

Daniela Dobson

 

Susan Lui

Ania

Jules

Julie

Karola

 
 See how Karola has used this sketch to design a card

 

Larissa

Iris

Tracie

Yuko

 

This weeks digital template can be found here to download.

Scrapbook Nook have provided this months RAK, so don't forget to email us your layouts for heh readers gallery.

Join us next week for more inspiring layouts from the Scrapbook Nook Design and Pencil Lines Design Team.

We are pleased to announce that Pencil Lines the Sketch Book is now shipping. Order your copy today.

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

December Gallery Winner

CONGRATULATIONS to our December Reader Gallery Winner

TANYA

We all loved the way Tanya used paint on this layout and her shabby chic design.

See you Sunday for a brand new sketch

Happy Scrapping

Pencil Lines Team xx

Sketch 174

Happy Valentines Day and Kung Hei Fat Choi to our Chinese readers.

Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to this weeks guest designer Sue Mylde. Anna Provided this weeks sketch.

Here is what Sue had to say;   

Hi there! When I got the message asking me to be a guest designer here on the Pencil Lines blog, I was truly over the moon! I've enjoyed the inspirational sketches and gallery for a long time, so it's a real honor to be asked. I'm currently a full-time expat mum, living in Aberdeen, Scotland. Our family have lived in many different countries over the last few years, including Canada and Norway, and we're enjoying all the fun experiences we're having. As a scrapbooker, it really gives me material to work on! I currently design for Cocoa Daisy and am looking forward to guest designing for Pink Paislee in the fall of this year. I love playing with paper, and new embellishments and right now I'm really enjoying misting and masks! I don't have a fixed style but I love girly touches on my layout, so flowers, bling and ribbons are all good for me!

Thanks so much to Pencil Lines for asking me to be a guest designer! Please come by my blog, and say 'Hi!'. Til we meet again! :)

Here are this weeks design team layouts:

Sue

  
  
 
Anna

Carina

Jen

 
 

Jules

 

 Katja

Larissa

Morag

Wendela

This weeks digital template can be found here.

Keep sending in your layouts to the readers gallery, we love seeing them!

Check back Wednesday for Decembers Reader gallery winner.

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx
 

Sketch 173

Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to this weeks guest designer, Lisa Day. Lisa also provided this weeks sketch.

Here is what Lisa had to say;

Hello! I am Lisa Day from Michigan, which is currently snow covered and way too cold for me! I am beyond thrilled to be a guest designer here at Pencil Lines. I've been a huge fan for a long time, but just recently started using sketches and let me just tell you - I was hooked instantly! I work full time as an Executive Assistant, teach at Big Picture Scrapbooking, design for Imaginisce and My Scrapbook Nook as well as raise two beautiful kids and am married to the love of my life! I started scrapbooking to preserve my memories after watching my Grandma suffer from Dementia. It quickly turned into an addiction. I love playing with new products, experimenting with new techniques and making new scrapbooking buddies! Thank you Pencil Lines for asking me to be a guest designer! Please stop by my blog (http://www.lisaday.typepad.com) and say Hi!

Here are this weeks design team layouts;

Lisa

Ania

Iris

Julie Fei Fan Belzer

Jules

Karola

Katja

Larissa

 

 Tracie

Wendela

Yuko

This weeks digital template can be found here.

This months sponsor is My Scrapbook Nook Kits. One lucky reader will receive a My Scrapbook Nook kit!

All you have to do is email your layout from any of this months sketches by the first sunday in March.

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team

Ps: Have you seen this?

Sketch 172

Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to this weeks guest designer, Emeline Seet. Anna provided this weeks sketch.

Here's what Emiline had to say:

I am from singapore. a tiny red dot on the world map.
A full time mommy to 2 kids (a girl and a boy) and a part time scrapbooker.

I got hooked on this craft almost 4 years ago after the birth of our first born.
I had tonnes of pictures of her and our new family. Looking at them in albums just wasn't enough for me. I chanced upon a local supply store and became addicted to this craft.

2006 has to be my turning point. That was the very lucky first time i got selected to be part of a manufacturer. Being surrounded with such talents from around the world, it pushed me to improve my craft and i am happy to be where i am today. Being in print in US scrapbooking/ papercraft magazines and French/Australian's scrapbooking magazines are also blessed bonus. 2009 was another milestone for that was when i received honourable mention in the Memory Makers Masters Contest. I am thankful for this craft and for the people i meet through this amazing journey.
Emeline's Blog : www.scrapvilla.blogspot.com

Here is this weeks design team layouts:

Emeline

Carina

Jennifer

Jules

Larissa

Katja

Sasha

Wendela

 

This weeks digital layout can be found here

We love seeing your layouts in the gallery; please email to pencillinesketches@googlemail.com

At last we will be sending out Pencil Lines newsletter tomorrow, so do sign up if you havn't already. In this months issue meet the new design team!

Happy Scrapping

Pencil Lines Team xx

Sketch 171

 Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to this weeks guest designer, Kiyomi Kumagai from Japan. Anna provided this weeks sketch.

Here is what Kiyomi had to say;   

Hi there everyone!  I am Kiyomi Kumagai (a.k.a
Mami913) here from Japan.  I believe I am one of the biggest fans of Pencil Lines that you can tell
because I have made so many layouts from every singlesketches so far!

I am a mom to a beautiful twin boys and a wife to my fabulous husband.  Scrapbooking came into my life when I visited my friend who lived in Houston and since then SB is surely a very important part of  my life.I just cannot thank you enough Pencil Lines and Anna for this sparkling opportunity to be as a guest DT.
Please come stop by at my blog

Here are this weeks design team layouts; notice that this 12" x 12" sketch has been interpretated by both Karola and Ania as a card and Wendela has scrapped 81/2" x 11" ! Don't you just love sketches!

Mami

Ania

Iris

Jules

Julie

Karola

Katja

Larissa

Wendela

Yuko

This weeks digital template can be found here

Email your layout for the readers gallery for a chance to win a kit from
Scrapbooking from the Inside Out.

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

Sketch 170

Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to this weeks guest designer, Wati Basri. Anna provided this weeks sketch.

Here is what Wati had to say;

Hi, I'm Wati Basri from the Singapore. I am so thrilled and honoured to be asked as the guest designer for Pencil Lines, thanks Anna for the opportunity!
I am full time working mom and wifey to Chris for nearly 8 years as well as mama to Adam for nearly 4 years.I had been scrapping for nearly 4 years, and Adam is the reason behind this and he had been my muse ever since.
I will always try to find any minutes between work and home to scrap and record those precious moments and memories.
My scrapping style?? Oh well, I don't really have any particular style but I love cluttering and LOVE to put the photo as the "centre stage" of the layout.

Do head over to my blog. Guess it's not too late to wish...Happy Scrappy 2010!!
Cheers!!

Here are this weeks design team layouts;

Wati

Anna

Carina

Jennifer

Jules

Katja

Larissa

Morag

Sasha

Wendela

This weeks digital template can be found here.

Pencil Lines the Book is due out at the end of the month, we apologies for the delay, we are as exciting as you too see the book. With this in mind I have put together a preview for you.

Now that you have seen all our new design team, check out their blogs on the right hand side bar.

We look forward to seeing your layouts for the readers gallery.

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

 

Sketch 169

This week we start to welcome our new design team. Each week our design team will rotate, with tonnes more inspiration to inspire you.

Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to this weeks guest designer, Susan Dupre. Susan also supplied this weeks sketch.

Here's what Susan had to say: 

Hi, I am Susan Dupre.  I am so honored to be asked as a guest designer for Pencil Lines amongst such talented artists.  I am a mom to a fabulous little boy who will be six in January and wife to a very "non" supportive husband.  He says I spend too much money on my "hobby".   Other than that, he's pretty fabulous as well.  We just recently moved  back to my home state of Texas.  As you can see by my lo, I have to make do with "no snow" pics now.  Massachusetts provided plenty, but I have some awesome pool photos now.
 
I started scrapping almost three years ago when my little guy was three.  I used to do interior design before he was born, but until he is in school full time that is on hold.   Scrapping has been such a wonderful artistic substitute.   I never dreamed I would get so hooked with this form of art, but I did. You will find my style to be almost anything, well, because I love it all!  Since I started scrapping, I have been so fortunate to have made a few design teams in the past and some current ones as well.  I am currently on the design team for Graphic 45, Pebbles, Inc. and Nikki Sivils.  I have also made so many wonderful on line friends.  Scrappy people are the best!

You can see more of Susan's lovely work on her blog.

Here are this weeks design team layouts :

Susan

Ania

Carina

Iris

 

Jennifer

Julie

Jules

Larissa

Morag

Sasha

Wendela

 

Yuko

Michelle is currently taking a short break from Pencil Lines.

This weeks digital template can be found here

This months sponsor is Scrapbooking from The Inside Out. Scrapbooking your emotional life - using color, design, and journaling to create pages and projects that explore your inner world. They are offering one lucky reader a Possibility Kit.

We love seeing your take on our weekly sketch. Each month we send a RAK to the winner of our Readers Gallery. Please email your layouts to pencillinesketches@googlemail.com

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx