sketches

Sketch 60

Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to the original Bad Girl herself , Wendy Rago, from Bad Girls Kits. Thanks to Wendy for providing us with this weeks sketch, our monthly RAK and for providing the Design Team with Novembers awesome kit to play with this week!

Heres what Wendy had to say:

Hi everyone! My name is Wendy Rago and first of all I just have to thank Anna for having me at her amazing site! What a fabulous opportunity!

A little about me…I live in gorgeous sunny Southern California with my husband Peter of 15 years and my two amazingly wonderful children Peter and Angelena. My oldest daughter, Ariana has flown the coop, but I made sure she moved right down the block.

My path along the artistic road began when I was just a tiny one…I can remember always asking for art supplies instead of dolls…it was a passion then, and it has grown now into quite the obsession.

I started scrapping in 2001, when I decided to take a break from the Interior Design firm that I owned. I have now turned all of my creative energies toward my kit club…Bad Girls, and I am thoroughly enjoying the process. My belief in all art forms, is that we must allow ourselves growth, and that is my goal for all of my BAD GIRLS. So many times I hear artists talk of so many fears…they say they are afraid of color, afraid to try a different style, afraid of certain papers, embellishments, etc.

Girls and guys…it shouldn’t be like that and that is where I hope to make a difference. We are here to teach you how to let go of that nasty little inner critic for good. One way will be through my BAD GIRLS KITS…although you may see a set style, I will always throw in a curve ball…something that gets you thinking out of the box. Hopefully something unique, that you wouldn’t normally think of using. I will always challenge you to use all different mediums and textures…this is what keeps it fresh and interesting. I also don’t want you to be stagnant, hence why you will also see different types of kits…so one month might be romantic and vintage and the next month could be funky, graphic, and colorful. With these changes, you will grow as an artist…you will jump over that hurdle! And what could be more important than having fun???

Life is too serious already…we all have our daily commitments to work, our families, and taking care of our homes…so what happened to taking care of you??? It is high time you learned the true meaning of being BAD…it really is all about giving yourself permission to have some good clean FUN…come on… you know you wanna be BAD!!!

Here is this weeks artwork by the Design team:

Wendy

Ania

Tracie

Anna

Annie

 

Janine

Sue

Jolene

Yuko

Remember, if you want to be in for a chance to win a kit from Bad Girls Kits, you must email us your layouts from any of this months sketches by December 2nd.

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

Reader Gallery Winners

Wow October was a busy month, and the readers gallery has been jam packed with lovely layouts from all the sketches we bought you in October.

Here are the final winners from October. CONGRATULATIONS!!! and a huge thank you, our readers, for sending in such inspiring work!

Sketch 55a - Anja Waegele

Heres what Anja had to say :

I'm speechless! I am so happy that you picked my card. Thank you so much :)
Our very own Pencil Lines Dt member Janine has donated this sketch's RAK.

Sketch 56 Frauke Nozlen

Heres What Frauke had to say:

OMG, I´m really surprised and proud and soooo happy !!!
Frauke has won a RAK of goodies from Fiskars

Sketch 56a - Karen Brierley

Thank you so much!  I love the Pencil Lines sketches and check the website each week.  I don’t make many cards, and Sketch 56a came along at the perfect time, just as I was thinking about making a birthday card for a special friend.  I’m so excited to win a RAK

Thank you to Treasured Memories for their sponsorship for sketch 56a

We love receiving your layouts and projects to the readers gallery, remember to email us your work to be in for a chance to win our monthly RAK's

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

Sketch 59

lease give a huge Pencil Lines welcome to Carole Pasietchnikow, who also providing this weeks sketch.

Heres what Carole had to say;

Hi I am Carole, I am 37 and married to my husband for 15 years, we have 2 sons (Steeve 14 years and Rémi 6 years)and 1 daughter (Johanna 11 years).They are my inspiration.
I' m a loving wife and adoring mother who started scrapbooking  4 years ago, I animate a scrap workshop in my village.
I scrap for my pleasure, I do not have really style or then I have as much style than there are papers!  lol !I try to do something creative every day…
I have a true predilection for the mini albums, I adore to make some for me or to offer.

I am very honoured to be asked by anam to be a guest designer for Pencil Lines. You can see more of Carole's lovely work on her blog.

Here is this weeks artwork by the Design Team and our Guest artist.

Carole

Ania

Jolene

Janine

Tracie

Sue

Annie

Yuko

I hope you have enjoyed all the amazing inspiration from the Pencil Lines DT, and we all look foward to receiveing your lovely layouts for our readers gallery. All you have to do is email us your work

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team

Sketch 58

Every week we bring you amazing guests and great sketches, and this week is no exception!. Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to Ronee Parsons, who also provided this weeks great sketch.

Here is what Ronee has to say ;

Hi! My name is Ronee Parsons. I’m a 2007 Memory Makers Master, and the Owner of Incredible Mess, a  funky and eclectic kit club that I run with my husband. I’ve traveled in the US, and recently Canada, to teach, I just finished my first book with Memory Makers called Modern Memory Keeper and also I design for Lazar Werx, and Scrapbook-Adhesives.  Scrapbooking keeps me super busy most of the time, and I love it. It’s been wonderful to have the opportunity to meet so many creative and talented women like you have here at Pencillines. Thanks so much for asking me, I’m honored to contribute.  I can’t wait to see all of the art based on this sketch!

You can see more of Ronne's artwork in her book "Modern Memory Keeper" available from Amazon.
Ronnee has kindly offered a kit from Incredible Mess for this weeks favourite Readers Gallery entry. Please email your entries to us no later than Sunday 18th November.

Here is this weeks artwork:

Ronee

Annie

Sue

Ania

Jolene

Janine

 

Anna

 

Yuko

Tracie

This months Readers Gallery RAK has been sponsored by Bad Girl Kits. Send your entries to us by email and you could be the lucky reader who will win this stunning kit!

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

Sketch 57

Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to this weeks guest designer Ingunn Markiewicz, who also provided the team with this weeks sketch.

This is what Ingunn has to say:

I am so honoured to be a guest DT - I have Pencil Lines in my RSS feed so I can check it out as soon as it is updated! I love sketches because they let you ground your layouts in good designs but then allow you to go crazy and do your own thing once the important elements are down - Pencil Lines is such a good example of this; the design team members are so good at putting their own spin on the sketches!

I've been scrapbooking for a year and a half now and, this might sound a little obsessive and mushy, I love this hobby so much. Almost every day I'll look at a layout in a magazine or online and just have this intense feeling of joy for this much-more-than-paper-and-glue thing we do. I started out in Norway, but when I moved to Washington State last year, it really took off for me...a combination of a lot of spare time and an abundance of cheap (well, cheap compared to Norway!) supplies have left me absolutely obsessed.

My most-scrapped subjects are my husband and our dog, our various travels, and I just got a big batch of heritage photos from my grandmother that I am very excited to get started on.

Can't wait to see what you guys make! :D

This week we are so honoured to be introducing two new members to the Pencil Lines team.

Janine Langer

I am 30 years old and live in Solingen, between Düsseldorf and Cologne in Germany, with my husband René and our cute little 4-year-old monster Gabriel. I started digiscrapping in 2005, but only from time to time. I missed using my hands, so I always knew that I will 'paper scrap' in the future and in January 2007 I finally started to scrap with paper. I still try to integrate some digital elements now and then (e.g. printing elements on transparency), but scrapping with paper is the thing I love. My favorite subject to scrapbook is definitively my family. I love to capture memories - especially our everyday life - trusting that our son will love it when he is old enough to appreciate it.

I've met so much beautiful and talented ladies since I started scrapping and I love to be part of such a great community and now also be a part of this wonderful Design Team. Thank you! :)

Yuko Motoyama

Hi everyone!  My name is Yuko Motoyama from Japan and am wife to Hisashi (was a rugby player and is a
workaholic businessman) and mom to Seita (4 years old) and Saki (1 and 8 month now) currently living
in Chiba with my mom and two cuties (I mean Dogs) Shizu Mu-chan and Pekingese Pekin.
I have been in love of everything related to crafts since I was so little and been scrapbooking almost 2
years. I was a film buyer before kids and now I am truly in love with photography (my baby is SONY alpha),reading, writing, knitting, cooking, sewing and....shopping! I just started my blog called Scrappin' Yuko in May and am working on it right now;) I am so grateful and excited to join in Pencil Lines Design Team and unbelievably happy to share our works with you!

We would also like to take this opportunity to say au revoir to Kimmy who will be staying on as a Honurable Member of Pencil Lines, and a fond farewell to Trish who is leaving us to concentrate on other avenues. All these ladies have given us a year of amazing layouts and artwork and we are all proud to have worked with each of them. We wish you all the success in your future creative journeys

Here is this weeks artwork:

Ingunn

Anna

Sue

Ania

Jolene

Annie

Tracie

Yuko

Janine

We love seeing all your layouts based on our sketches, so don't forget to email us your beautiful artwork and share with all our readers!

Happy Scrapping!

The Pencil Lines Team

Readers Gallery Winners

Sketch 54 - Morag Cutts

Heres what Morag had to say :

Oh my goodness me!!! You've completely shocked me, thank you very much!! Keep up the good stuff on the blog.

Thank you to 3 Bugs in a Rug for their generous sponsorship

Sketch 54a - Julia Overby

Here's what Julia had to say:

Oh WOW!!! I am so excited. How fun, I love Maya Road. Thank you so much for your nice compliment on my pages

Lucky Julia recieves some wonderful goodies from Maya Road

Sketch 55 - Krista O'Neill

Here's what Krista had to say:

OMG! How exciting! I feel so honoured to have my layout chosen as the favourite. i just recently found this site and I LOVE it. the sketches are awesome. Thanks again.

Thanks to Lucy who is sending Krista a RAK of her new paper range!!

Everyone at Pencil Lines would like to say a BIG congratulations to all our winners.

Love

The Pencil Lines Team