Welcome

to Pencil Lines a new challenge website set up to get your creative juices flowing with the help of our talented design team.

Pencil Lines will be full of great links to all our favorite sketch sites and challenge sketches will be set every Sunday for you, from 12" x 12" single layouts to card sketches, there will be a sketch to suit every taste and crafter.

We are lucky to have some very cool sketch designers behind us, Becky Fleck and Queen Geek are just 2 names that will be bringing their talents to this site.

From November we will be introducing a guest designer each week to our already talented design team. As well as galleries full of inspiration for you to browse at your leisure, we also have some great links for you to check out.

What is a sketch?

Sketches are rough blueprints of a page layout, giving scrappers new ideas  to use for  layouts and cards. Sketches are suggestions about how to divide and use space. They are not hard and fast rules, only suggestions to get your creative mind working. Becky Higgins is the pioneer for sketches and has written 2 books full of inspiring sketches and is a regular contributor to Creating Keepsakes.

Introducing the Design Team

Anna Lousie Bowkis - A regular contributor to our favourite UK magazines and a winner for Best of British 2006. Originally an Interior Designer, sketching, floorplans, blue prints, what ever you wish to call them , have been part of Anna's day to day routine. Anna is the name behind the ever popular range of Angel Kiss flowers and runs Scrapping Angels a new company to be launched in 2007.

Ann(i)e Hafermann - .  Papercraft junkie, lover of running and yoga, student of photography, happy momma of two year old Dean (and expecting baby girl end of December), former teacher of biology, wife of (the lucky) Spike, current teacher of anything involving paper and cutting and folding and inking and glueing and preserving memories.Designer and writer for top UK scrapbooking, cardmaking, and papercrafting magazines.

Anam Stubbington -  Me and Paper go way back - besides from spending 4 years in University studying it,  I trained to be a typesetter when it was all metal type - before the advent of easy to use Quark and Photoshop so I have a huge love for fonts, any fonts and all fonts. I try to be open and honest in my work and fill my layouts with colour and meaning. I have been published in UK and US magazines since 2004 as well as being one of the winners of Best of British 2006. I have recently moved from the UK to Canada and loving every minute of our new life.

Cath Davidson - I've crafted since I was old enough to hold a tub of glue and a crayon, and have both "O" Grade and Higher Art. I tried most crafts and have been an avid cardmaker for over 15 years, but really found my "niche" just over three years ago when I started Scrapbooking. I am also into Altered Art, ATC's and generally anything crafty at all!

Kimmy Sonksen - I started scrapping in December 2004 and can't imagine my life without it anymore. Somehow it became a form of life, my artistic outlet. These days I am enjoying breaking all those scrapping "rules" and have become more adventurous, learning something new every day. Pencil lines will let me do just that , being adventurous, while learning something new!

Sue Deacon - I started scrabooking 18 months ago after doing a layout cyber class on a scrapbook forum. My main subjects are my two gorgeous children!I love patterened paper, brads and ribbons, oh, and flowers! I have had several layouts published in UK magazines. Scrapbooking is my passion and I can't wait to start creating for Pencil Lines.

We look forward to seeing your Pencil Lines creations.

Your first challenge sketch will be posted at 9pm GMT Sunday 8th of October, see you then!

love

The Pencil Line DT

Comments

[Ann(i)e]

I just wanted to be the first to leave a comment.....so looking forward to working with all you fab gals!! Can't wait to see the great work that will certainly be inspired right here!!

[Jake]

Looks great girls - nice to see Nic's work on here - she a good mate of mine and an absolute doll.

Best of luck to you

jk x

[pmk]

Ooh, this is very exciting! I love sketches so this is going immediately into my favourites! Hope this takes off in a BIG way xx

[Donna]

Ooh how exciting - I'll definitely give it a go.

[Sue]

Love sketches so looking forward to having a go at your challenges.

One small thing - I love bloglines but your site doesn't seem to have a RSS feed, is it possible?

[Fiona]

Oooh! How exciting! Great blog idea - I will check in regularly :D

[Anna Sigga]

Lots of fab talent here so I can't wait to stalk this blog! ;o)

[weezie]

Looking forward to seeing your fab work.

[TraceyT]

cool - roll on 9pm for the first sketches xxx

[beth]

This sounds fab, challenges are fun, hope it all goes really well.

[Sallyjh]

Oh this is soooo exciting! Well done on such a fabby idea. I'll definitely be joining in and have already bookmarked you!

[Caro Staton]

Great idea girls and I am looking forward to the challenges. Caro x

[Robin]

Awesome! I found you guys by accident and I am so glad to have done so! this looks like fun! Hope I can find time to participate!

Robin

[Donna Coughlin]

I love this - what a great idea. I already did my first layout using this layout and will uploading it soon. I can't wait until next month!