Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to this weeks guest artist, Maria McPherson. Anna provided this weeks sketch.
Here is what Maria had to say:
I'm Maria McPherson and I'm very lucky to live in the beautiful county of Northumberland in northern England. I live here with my gorgeous, but very naughty, two cats after being widowed very suddenly 3 years ago. Life, I'm happy to say, is now on the up again and I'm starting to enjoy living again. For my "proper" job (you know, the one that pays all the bills!) I am a staff nurse working in elderly care which I absolutely love! Weekends are when I get to play with paper, photos and glue.
I have been addicted to crafts in one shape or form since I was a small child. For Christmas and Birthdays, my mother always used to buy my sister and I some kind of craft kit, wholeheartedly encouraging us to create. So I guess have her to blame for my ongoing addiction!!! I've been scrapping for just over 3 years and love the clean and simple approach with lots of white space on layouts. I find my inspiration in every day life wherever or whatever and I just love bright colour, it makes me smile! I'm delighted to have just secured a place on the Bellaboo Design Team and am looking forward to being kept very busy creating!
I'd like to say a HUGE thank you to the Pencil Lines team for asking me to play along this week.
You can see more of Maria's work on her blog.
Here are this weeks design team layouts:
Maria
Anna
Ania
Annie
Carina
Michelle
Sue
Tracie
Yuko
This weeks digital template can be found here
Please send your layouts to pencillinesketches@googlemail.com
Happy Scrapping
The Pencil Lines Team xx










Great great template again, I really enjoyed working with it :o)
http://upload.acherryontop.com/gallery_viewer/,18450492,cid,,0,,105170
Posted by: Sus | Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 09:07 PM
Great sketch, definitely going to try this one. Loved the Toilet Training one - just got my little one into undies only (except for night) so I totally relate. Very cute.
Posted by: Andrea | Monday, May 25, 2009 at 02:59 AM
I went right to work on it, here is my version...
http://andrea-learn-something-new.blogspot.com/2009/05/pencil-lines-sketch-136.html
Posted by: Andrea | Monday, May 25, 2009 at 04:11 AM
Maria that LO is just soooo gorgeous! Definitely gonna have a go at this sketch!
Lou xx
Posted by: Looby | Monday, May 25, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Loved working with this sketch - came together so easy! Here it is
http://scraphappylou.blogspot.com/2009/05/sassafras-bungle-jungle.html
Lou x
Posted by: Looby | Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 04:04 PM
Gotta say that despite it's beauty, Michelle's LO will definetly NOT be one of her son's favorite when he hits "teenagerhood"!!!!!lol
Posted by: Mariana Perri | Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 02:07 AM
Thanks for the template! Here's my take :
http://is.gd/IXUt
Posted by: Zakirah | Friday, May 29, 2009 at 12:36 PM
Such a fun sketch. Great lo's from the dt too.
Here's mine:
http://www.scrapinstyletv.com/portfolio/view_layout.php?layout_id=174102&user_id=14284
Posted by: ScrappyJess | Saturday, May 30, 2009 at 02:57 AM
Gorgeous sketch and LOs from the team.
My LO is here:http://stillcrafting.blogspot.com/2009/05/pencillines-136-and-ukscrappers-weekkly.html
Posted by: Sarah C | Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 12:29 AM
Fun sketch - thanks so much!
http://aimeewrites.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/back-to-scrappin/
Posted by: Aimee | Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 05:31 AM
Here's my take, keeping it simple for a teenage boy.
http://kathyisshopping.blogspot.com/2009/05/at-last-ive-caught-up.html
Posted by: kathyisshopping | Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Wow.. Awesome.. These are great sketches. Loved the Toilet Training one – it’s cute. I gonna try this one and give it to my little cousins.
Posted by: Maria | Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 01:58 PM
Here is mine
http://mimeten-blogi.blogspot.com/2009/05/pencil-lines-136.html
Posted by: Mimete | Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 04:35 PM
Thanks, Maria, for the gorgeous sketch.
Congrats to the team!
Here is my participation:
http://nossoatelie.blogspot.com/2009/06/pencillines-sketch-136.html
Posted by: Marilene | Sunday, June 07, 2009 at 03:24 AM
Hello
heres my attempt at sketch
http://craftyangelsblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/pencil-line-sketch-136.html
Posted by: craftyangel | Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 09:06 AM
Nice sketches, especially one from Tracie
Posted by: Mr. Pencil | Wednesday, January 06, 2010 at 12:50 AM