Sketch #17

Please give a HUGE Pencil Lines welcome to this week's Artist - the colourful Elsie Flannigan. Elsie did this fantastic sketch and layout for us to share with everyone. As a special treat, we are also going to include Elsie's original handdrawn sketch becuase it rocks!

(don't forget if you click an image, it will open up the image in a larger screen)

here is a little bit about Elsie: 

Fun and full of ideas, Elsie Flannigan naturally fell in love with scrapbooking after noticing fresh scrapbooking magazines surface several years ago. As a frequent contributor for Creating Keepsakes,  and a  teacher for Creating Keepsakes University, Elsie is the author of the wonderful "52 Scrapbook Challenges" book as well as contributing to the Book ScrapCity as well as to Autumn Leaves The Me book.She is part of the Art Group Red Velvet and a Garden Girl for the Two Peas in a Bucket Creating Garden team. Elsie has designed Stamps for Fontwerks and Fonts for Creating Keepsakes and this weekend at CHA, Elsie has just launched her own range of papers and products through KI Memories called *Love, Elsie* with 3 collections; Roxie, Toby and Betty. You can see tons of Elsie's work and beautiful photographs at Elsie's blog. 

When she isn’t scrapbooking, she loves to make up new recipes, peruse flea markets and thrift stores, and create original clothing and jewelry. She is inspired by reading magazines, listening to music and shopping. She lives in Springfield, MO with her husband T.J. and her pug, Cocoa.

and here is this week's gorgeous artwork:

Elsie


















Annie




















Cath




















Kimmy




















Trish




















Sue




















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Anam

Comments

[anam_kihaku]

girls you all did amazing work! loving all the little details :)

[Jennie]

Great sketch, but all those little photos! Will have to try my best to print off lots of little ones, mind you, I could certainly find enough scraps of patterned paper to fill those squares x 100, so that will probably be my direction. Love all the team's LOs, always such different ideas with the one sketch, fab!

[Nicole]

ooo...I love this one...I am going to do this for sure!!

[louise]

Oh wow!! Must have a go with this one

[Sherry]

Just found your site and I love this. Will definitely add you to my favorites. Sherry

[K]

Gah .. soo great .. I am off to take out my paper!

[Fiona]

That really is a corker of a sketch. Love all the LO's the Dt has produced from it too. FAb stuff.

[anna from lala]

wow girls love everyones work, been to see elsie, who is looking mighty cute! and she is hoping to get on and take a look at everyones awsome work :)

[ArtsyMama]

You girls have done it again!!! ALL of your layouts totally blew me away:)

[Paula]

Elsie is one of my all time favourites for Inspiration. Great sketch & you have done fantastic interpretations of it.

[Madds]

WOW cant beleive it is so long since i last did a lo from the sketches , i love them so much , this was a corker :)
its here http://bitzame.typepad.com/bitzame/
thanks again girls

[Anna Sigga]

That is one fab sketch - and the layouts totally rock girls!!!

[Jennie]

Well I had a bash today, and this is my attempt http://jensworld.typepad.com/jens_world/2007/01/on_a_roll_today.html I really enjoyed it, and am thankful I had a 2" square punch!

[PamMc]

This one was perfect for my Christmas Card layout.

http://pammc.typepad.com/my_christmas_journal/2007/01/pencil_lines_sk.html#more

[willowthewysp]

When i heard whos sketch it was this week, i just had to fly over!!!
I adore elsie's style and am eager to have a go at this one!
Thankyou!!!

[louise]

My attempt is here:
http://www.ukscrappers.co.uk/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=105833&cat=500&ppuser=3039

[Victoria Couldwell]

That was so much fun! I really enjoyed it.

What a fabulous sketch - I will certainly be using it again in the future. My take on the sketch is here: http://www.thirteenpinkladybirds.blogspot.com - I used a bit of a photographic 'bloopers' theme for mine. Thanks again...

[Kathy]

This was an awesome layout. Had lots of pictures to use.

http://kmmiller.typepad.com/photos/2007_creative_life_challe/1st.html

[Suzie]

Fab sketch! For some reason it just screamed CHRISTMAS to me, so that was the theme for my layout - here http://suziesscrapblog.blogspot.com/. Thanks for the inspiration Elsie, and huge thanks to the fabby Pencil Sketches team who never fail to inspire!

[Telah]

I SO enjoyed doing this LO! I emailed it to you but it is also on my blog under My Scrapbook pages. http://www.bamabuttercup.blogspot.com

[Trish]

Thanks girls - I enjoyed doing the sketch!
http://doodlesandswirls.blogspot.com/ here is my LO!

[Christi]

Awesome sketch! My version is up on my blog... http://alteredambitions.blogspot.com/
smiles,
Christi

[Scrapdolly]

Thanks so much for always inspiring me so much
I rarely get to do the sketch in the week set but this week I did, even though it is only a digital version (But I will do a paper version too)
Thank you

Mine is here http://dollysdreamings.typepad.com/dollys_dreamings/

[Tracie H]

Awesome inspiration....this is my first bash at the Pencil Lines sketch and deffo wont be my last!
My LO is here http://lifeandtimesofa12x12addict.blogspot.com/
Tx

[Pauline Flint]

WOW little pictures, lots of them everywhere and scraps all around this is what I managed to produce.

http://scrappinauntie.blogspot.com/2007/01/layout-35-shes-4.html