Sketch #53

Please give a huge Pencil Line's welcome to the talented and very lovely Ali Edwards who is joining us this week as our Guest Design Team member and provided this sketch for this week's Challenge. Ali was our very first Guest and so we are delighted to have her back on Pencil Lines on the first anniversary of the very day that Pencil Lines started.

Here's a few words about Ali: "For designer and author Ali Edwards, it is all about capturing life & creating art.

Lifestyle Editor for Creating Keepsakes scrapbooking magazine and author of A Designer's Eye for Scrapbooking series of books, Ali's unique creative approach focuses on celebrating the everyday joys and challenges we all face in our lives.

"I started scrapbooking in 2002 as a way to organize all the stuff I collected after the birth of my son. It has become so much more than an organizational process for me - it has let me find my own personal passion and voice." An advocate for not making things more complicated than they need to be & embracing imperfection, Ali shares cool concepts, design, and project ideas in her monthly Creating Keepsakes column: Studio A.

Ali enjoys conducting workshops around the county and internationally, encouraging scrapbookers to tell their stories and enjoy the process. She maintains a blog about life and art (and the concept of "life artists") - check it out *here*.

Here's what Ali had to say about Pencil Lines: "One of my favorite things to do to get myself out of a creative rut is to begin with a sketch. Sketches have the power to make you see things differently, to open your mind to different possibilities. Participating in challenges such as this is a great way to teach yourself that there are a million different solutions to any one sketch. So very cool."

The Pencil Lines Design Team want to take this time congratulate Ali on the release of her new book "Life Artist" and to celebrate Pencil Line's birthday, Ali has kindly given us a signed copy of this brand new book as the prize for our Favourite Layout done to this sketch!! so get your layouts in to us BY EMAIL by next Sunday for a chance to be chosen.

and here is this week's gorgeous artwork:

Ali

Tracie

Kimmy

Annie

Sue

Trish

Anna

Ania

Jolene

Anam

Also don't forget to check back on Wednesday to see another fabby sketch. Remember we have a ton of Prizes and Raks going on so make sure you email us your layout as soon as you have it finished :)

Also if you are new to Pencil Lines, we have all the previous sketches available as PDFs. Email us to request them and we will send them out to you :) but we still suggest you browse through the links on the left hand side of the blog to see all the previous sketches with the Design Team's layouts.

Comments

[anna]

fantatsic work ladies, really enjoyed this weeks sketch! huge thanks to Ali as well xx

[Cristina]

Oh, beautiful sketch!
My Lo: http://scrapidee.blogspot.com/
Bye bye

[Mary B]

Wow this is a great sketch will certainly try this one. I love it and I love the LO Ali has done of it.

[Cindy Collins]

Awesome ali sketch--loved this one

Here is mine

http://my-daily-whatever.blogspot.com/2007/10/pencillines-53.html

[gigi kennedy]

AWESOME!!!!!!!

all of your layouts this week are AMAZING!! you may have just gotten my mojo back :)

thanks so much for always inspiring!!!

xoxoxoxoxox!!!

[Kel_eh]

Happy Birthday team! Thank you for keeping us scrapping when the mojo leaves us!

[Louise]

I had a lot of fun with this sketch, mine can be seen here
http://mylifemostordinary.blogspot.com/2007/10/pencil-lines-53.html

thanks girls
X

[Rhiain]

Happy Birthday pencil lines!

[Judith Lahaye]

Happy birthday and here is my take in this beautiful sketch! Love all the work and inspiration I find here!! Thanks for sharing! http://www.scrapinstyletv.com/portfolio/view_layout.php?layout_id=40188&user_id=1514

[nessa]

wwoooowwwwwwww all the lo are so so fab!!!!!!

[Anna D]

Happy birthday again you can never say too often happy birthday right :-)

here is mine thanks for the inspiritation
http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/103538/view/1075769/-1/0/1.html

[erin yamabe]

always love coming here, such beauty, such inspiration!

[Angie]

Here is my take on the sketch!
http://3littlescraps.blogspot.com/2007/10/camera-problems-and-pencile-lines.html

[lisanna]

Oh your sketch are wonderful!
For this sketch I did a layout.
here: http://lisannascrapcorner.blogspot.com

[ToneF]

This is such a lovely sketch :D
I just sent you my take on it!

Thank you so much for all the wonderful inspiration :D

[Lisette]

How fab is that to have Ali do this week's sketch. Here's my LO:

http://lisettegibbons.blogspot.com/2007/10/seasons.html

[Jennie Yeo]

here's my take.. lovin the sketch by Ali...
and all of your layouts are just AMAZING!!

Thank you.

http://glimpsesjenn.blogspot.com/

[JuneBug]

Thanks for the inspiration and Happy Birthday!

http://www.scrapbook.com/gallery/source/202267/TwilightDelightJPG.jpg

[Carla]

Here is mine. thanks for the inspiration. this is my first time trying out a pencil lines sketch:
http://creativeworkingmom.blogspot.com/2007/10/pencil-lines.html

[ellen]

Totally liked this one. It really helped get me started on this page i wanted to for a while now. Thanks!
Wanna see it: have a look at my blog www.artsyellen.blogspot.com.
TFL
Ellen

[jenniferharbal]

I love this sketch. It's so versatile. It was interesting to see that most of the ladies flipped it horizontally instead of vertically. Isn't that awesome that you can do it either way.

I chose the vertical way but used smaller pictures (2x3).

Here's a link to my blog.

http://jennifermartinovici.typepad.com/crazyjen/2007/10/pencil-lines-sk.html

[lynne]

I have done my layout for this challenge. You can see it on my blog. Link Below http://enjoythewait.blogspot.com/2007/10/time-for-change.html

[Sasha Farina]

And here's mine... fab sketch I must say!

http://shopaholicscrapper.blogspot.com/2007/10/so-glad.html

[Angie]

This was such a fun, Fun, FUN sketch to play with! Thank you so much for the mojo!
I just sent my lo in!

[caroline]

This is a lovely sketch.. its taken me a while to do this Lo but got there in the end and its on my blog
Caroline x