CHALLENGE 3 - A SKETCH

Many thanks for all your great entries for our 2nd challenge complimentary colours! It was easier than it looked wasn't it lol! I hope you might have learnt a little bit from looking at colours and will stride forward with added confidence and know why things might not look quite right and know how to fix them, a dot of another colour can instantly balance a card!

Firstly the winners of challenge 2 (complimentary colours)
Many many thanks to La Pashe and Cardmaking with Imag-e-nation for their Flippin' fabulous prize, we have 25 entries (Vicky, Janet, Tracy, fabric butterfly, Kathleen, Phantos02, Alison Mc, Caro, Heather, Weejenhen, Aimee, Critchley creations, Crazycraftshed, Kat, Josephine, Looby, Tracey, Aunty Sue, Val, Sophie, Carol, Mandy, Snooptigger, Jemma and Janice)

Random.org says the winner is......

Well Done to Snooptigger (Catherine) Please email me with your details so I can post your prize!

Our TOP 3 picks this week and winners of the highly prized blinkie go to in no particular order....

Kathleen - A perfect creation

Rachel - Critchley Creations

Mandy - A sprinkling of glitter

Well Done ladies and here is your blinkie!

Onto our 3rd challenge which is again sponsored by the delightful Joanna Sheen who is offering a £10 voucher to her online store which is FREE P&P worldwide on most items! Joanna has quite a few new bits and bobs such as the new promarker colours and is currently offering a mega deal on all of the new colours, 56 pens for £69.99 making it £1.25 per pen!

Also check out her new favourite flowers range of stamps including wild roses and dancing poppies!

Thanks once again Joanna!

Our next challenge is an easy peesy sketch. Follow it quite literally or put your own spin on it! If you've never come across a sketch before here is a link to a sketch tutorial.
If you've never done one before just remember a sketch is simply a pattern. If you're a more established crafter combine it with one of the many challenges on offer for example Stamp Something blog want to see your favourite stamp this week. Stampin' for the weekend want to see you use Orange, teal and pink and they DO look fabulous together (Entries by 10th Sept)

Here's our sketch, remember the "flower" embellishment can be anything such as stars etc. Post your entries below or email them by 12 noon GMT 21st September. Have fun!

And our Design Team examples (Thanks ladies again for your hard work & commitment!)

Jack

The card is all from my stash, the background paper is from Joanna Sheen which I ran through the Cuttlebug using the Curls and Swirls folder. The boat stamp is from Stamps Away and the Sentiment stamp from DoCrafts. The die cuts were sent to me ages ago by a friend.

Jenny

Stamp - Aspects of Design 52 - Japanese Plum Blossom, White card for base. Orange, Green and Purple card. Whisper pens, Waterbrush, Spotty ribbon sticker, Silver peel off - sentiment (coloured with peels off pens)Rub on Gems from stash.

Joy (N/A yet)

(Well Done Joy on your 1st sketch!)

Judie

I made this card following the sketch provided, I used a blue card and used orange paper which I ripped along the edges using my ruler with a jaggered edge - I only had one blue flower so i coloured the other one in !!! I didnt have a blue and orange sentiment either so i printed one on publisher - the image is a Sarah Kay one. I added the little stars as i thought the card did not look finished. I am very happy with this card, and i feel that doing this blog is actualy helping me with my cards big time. Thanks for looking everyone.

Julie

I started with a coloured deckled edge card, not normally my thing I always use white or cream cards. I chose the paper I wanted from a forever friends stack and then cut to size, I stamped the image, which is from a set of paper nation stamps I bought and have hardly used. I coloured in the stamped image with metallic pencils. Finished the card of with a Happy Birthday stamp and jewels. I find a sketch gives a great starting point for any card.

Lisa

Sugar Nellie gorjuss girl stamp, coloured with promarkers, glamour dust added to the wings and distress inks used around the image. Used both sides of a double sided paper by My Mind's Eye - starburst 'little blossom' dots/ brown, with coredinations cardstock, all edged with distress inks. Flowers and roses sprinkled with glamour dust and a little charm on a chain added to the back of one of the flowers. Circular sentiment stamped in clear ink and embossed in white, cut out with nestabilities circles. Finished off with some tiny flower beads, including one in her hair.

Mandy

The papers are from Basic Grey Lemonade and Lime Rickey collections. The owl is a Cuttlebug embossing folder. I embossed it on Core'dinations cardstock and sanded some of the design away to reveal the lighter green colour beneath. I highlighted the swirl with a Clear Sakura Glitterpen from Joanna Sheen.The spotty flowers are Flora Doodles also from Joanna Sheen and the daisies are Primas. Craftwork Cards card candy in the centre finishes them off nicely. The sentiment is a rubber stamp from a little owl set by Hero Arts

Rose - Resident Scrapper

Here is my Challenge Layout #3 from the Sketch. I loved working with this sketch. It was simple but so effective for a beautiful page. I used Websters Pages paper, so I couldn't go wrong with that. I used a 5X7 photo. My layout is 12X12. I used lace and some Prima flowers, punched some butterflies and layered them with pearls in the center. Very easy! I love how this layout turned out.

Vix

I turned the sketch 90 degrees as I wanted to use this image which is a digital stamp by Mo Manning called "End of Summertime" I coloured it with promarkers using vanilla and pastel pink for the skin and vanilla, cocoa, cinnamon and shale for the hair. The top is apple and emerald and the jeans are pastel blue and sky blue, I added a grey to areas I wanted a bit darker and blended in. Papers are MME and the blue is a freebie printable. Flowers are flora doodles (Cape gold, peach, green and blue box)

Now over to our special guest designer, Rowena (Crafty Pagan)

Rowena's name might be familiar if you hop around blogland - She is on the design team for Sugar Nellie, Quixotic Paperie & Stamp Something and has been past/guest designer on Pile it on and the Delicious Divas.

Her work is very distinctive, you will notice how awesome it looks but look closer and you'll see she uses mainly little scraps of paper and general bits and bobs and a lot of imagination!

SPECIAL GUEST DESIGNER - ROWENA (CRAFTY PAGAN)