2 Sketches 4 You: September 2008

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Kazan's Sketch 10

Celebrate World Card Making Day
When: Tomorrow (Oct 4)
Where: 2S4Y
Prizes, Giveaways and Awesome Inspiration

Sentiment Stamp by DeNami Design

Welcome to a brand new week filled with fun and creativity. Your sketch this week is brought to you by DeNami Design. Our Luscious Design Team has created the most amazing cards and you will get to see more of their work as we celebrate World Card Making Day at the end of the week too.

Ashild

Carla

Christine

Ingrid

Joke

Lisette

We have a gorgeous Sponsor for you this week. DeNami Design is a fabulous Rubber Stamp and accessories company. Here you will find the most beautiful elegant stamps with coordinating paper and related products. DeNami Design also features fabulous pre-marked Pop Up Cards to make creative pop-up cards easy.

DeNami Design rubber stamps are known for their simply elegant style and appeal both to beginners and advanced rubber stampers alike. You will fall in love with Collections like Espresso, Golden Vines, The Sweet Shoppe and Tropical Dreams. They have just released their Fall/Winter 2008 collection and with over 50 stamps to choose from there will be something for everyone to enjoy.

They are on tour too. If they are in your city stop by and say hello, they have the cutest booths and are so friendly. Tell them Laura and Kazan at 2 Sketches 4 You sent you! Now for the good news: One lucky card maker will get to win DeNami Design Products this week.

How to Enter:

• Please provide a link to your card by posting it on this thread
• Deadline for all entries: Saturday October 5th at Midnight (US Mountain time)
• Your card should be based off the sketch provided and can be of any theme
• The winning card will be announced as the Card of the Week on Sunday, October 6th here at 2 Sketches 4 You.
• International Cardmakers are welcome to enter

"This week we celebrate World Card Making Day on October 4. This Holiday is especially for us, card makers, and is celebrated around the world on the first Saturday of October. We here at 2s4y are teaming up with Scrapbook News & Review to celebrate the creativity of handmade cards and how they bring people and communities, like ours, together. Please join us and Scrapbook News and Review for an exciting day filled with activities, sketches and prizes. Mark your calenders for WCMD at 2S4Y on October 4!"

Have a Wonderful Week
Hugs Kazan & your Luscious Design Team

Gallery
Your cards for Kazan's Sketch 10

Petra
Sherry
Kristin e
Dallas
Kristen
Ayah
Diana
Jozza
Paper Boutique Rleen
Heidi
Kristie
Tammy
Dawne
Shelly
Kerry
Monique
Wilma
Hanneke
Jenn
Regan
Kath
Danni
Terria
Glee
Tenia
Sanna
Pam
Toni
Mauna Dawn
Terrie (Card 1)
Terrie (Card 2)
Rosanne
Chloe Mailen
Donna
Melanie
Angie
Eveline
Berdien
Anja
Pascale
Becky
Smita
Katy
Peet
Barb
Krista
Lisa
Ching *Happy Birthday*
Jenny
Ineke Ann
Linda
Lisa
Sue
Ria
Wendy
Kimmie Camilla
Mrs. Wonka
Maria
Shell
Leah
Rae *Happy Anniversary*
Sandra
Enfys
Stine
Anne Kim
Camillae
Tina
Daniela
Carol Debb
Lorraine
Suvina
Diana
Allison
Mrs. J
Steph
Lisa
Joey
Christine *2S4Y Designer*
Sarah
Marielle

Shaz
Kathryn
Unleashed
Lynda
Fi

Card of the Week & The Fab 5!!

I was so excited to pick the winners this week, because all of you walk away with some fabulous products! Thank you to our wonderful sponsor Short Cuts! Your generosity was much appreciated. The gallery this week was bursting with talent and creativity! Thank you to all who participated. And without further ado lets announce the winners...

Card of the Week

Carina

I love the light, whimsical feeling of this card.

Carina's imagination and creativity really shines in this card!

Thank you for making such a beautiful card with my sketch.

You can see more of Carina's talent here at

Fab 5!

Thank you ladies for your beautiful submissions! Remember we need the Fab5 to email us your addresses too because you also win this week!

Tomorrow promises another fabulous sketch and sponsor by Kazan!

{Hugs}

Laura & The Pachyderm Loving Design Team

Monday, September 22, 2008

Laura's Sketch 9

Did you know that today is National Elephant Appreciation Day! A whole day dedicated to appreciate this beautiful and enchanting beast. After working in Kindergarten for 6 years my ideas are just spilling over with "Elephant" related projects, from poems to songs to elephant cupcakes. Even a few famous elephants come to mind, the lovable Dumbo from Disney, and one of my favorite childhood books, Barbar the Elephant.

So in honor of one of my favorite animals, the pachyderm, I made this little card using a clear card supplied by this weeks sponsor, Short Cuts.

Short Cuts also supplied our Pachyderm Loving Design Team with their amazing clear and frosted cards to work with and the team created the most amazing projects this week! Thank you DT & Short Cuts!

Carla

Ashild

Christine
You can view a tutorial on how to make this bag
on Christines' blog: Creative Journey

Joke

Lisette

Ingrid

2S4Y is also featuring a Guest Designer this week!

Please Welcome

Hanneke

{A fun random fact about Hanneke}

We found out that Hanneke is a famous for her Monchou cakes in the Netherlands. She loves to combine baking and scrapping and often takes her goodies to share at crops. According to Hanneke: "All Shared things are the best things and that applies to scrapping and baking!" We could not agree more with you on that Hanneke because we love that you share your amazing talent with us every week!

You can see all of Hanneke's talent here at her blog: Scraps-N-Stuff

Hanneke's Card

This week is a special week sponsored by ShortCuts. Launched in June of 2008, the sister site to SheetLoad of Cards is dedicated to making your papercrafting quicker and easier. This is the same company that brought us the fabulous Gift Card Holder Folders that we featured here for Laura's Sketch 3.

The latest ShortCuts product, Clear & Frosted Card Blanks, are ready-to-assemble-and-decorate card blanks that will help you create fingerprint resistant cards. Each of the stocks is made of a thick vinyl material (think clear/frosted cardstock). Unlike other flimsy products out there these cards can hold your embellishments without collapsing, as seen in these gorgeous artists samples created by one of our very own DT members: Carla Peicheff .

Card of the Week and the FaB 5 Win!

The main prize for Card of the Week is: Card Blanks - Mixed – Large Pack. You will receive 20 card blanks in each of the two styles shown in the picture above (clear & frosted) – to decorate.

ShortCuts is also offering up a Card Blanks – Sampler Pack (2 blanks in each style) to each of the Fab Five this week!!

10% off

If you place an order through ShortCuts Online Shopping Cart before September 30, 2008, make sure to use the discount code “2 Sketches” during your PayPal check out, to receive 10% off your order*! *10% will be taken off package price(s) only, not S/H charges

How to Enter:

• Please provide a link to your card by posting it on this thread
• Deadline for all entries: Saturday September 26th at Midnight (US Mountain time)
• Your card should be based off the sketch provided and can be of any theme
• The winning card will be announced as the Card of the Week on Sunday, September 27st here at 2 Sketches 4 You.
• International Cardmakers are welcome to enter

This a big week at 2S4Y! We cant wait to see your creations.

{Hugs}

Laura & The Pachyderm Loving Design Team!

Gallery

Your cards for Laura's Sketch 9

Kazan *My 2S4Y partner*

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Card of the Week & The Fab5!

Thank you for presenting your work to us so that we can display it in our rocking Gallery. One thing we all know for sure is that we can gather here each week and peruse the Gallery for some serious inspiration - Wow! A huge Thank You too to our sponsor Scor-it. The Scor-it board is a wonderful product and I hope you all enjoy yours as much as I enjoy mine. The lucky person that gets to own their own Scor-it Mini and Tote is:

Card of the Week

Eva

I love the unusual shape to this card and the browns and pinks are beautiful. You did a wonderful job on the sketch Eva. You can see more of her beautiful work on her blog:
For the Love of Life
Eva please email me your address so we can get your Scor-it Mini and tote bag off to you :)

Fab 5!

Carrie
Sherry
Heidi
Monique
Denise

Don't forget to tune in tomorrow, Laura has an awesome sponsor to reveal with a product that I personally LOVE! We also have a special surprise for more than one of you *wink*!

:) Kazan & your scintillating Design Team

Monday, September 15, 2008

Kazan's Sketch 9

This fun Note Card holder with matching envelopes was created using my fabulous Scor-it. Please visit my blog: Nunu Toolies for a detailed tutorial on how to make this project.

The week of September 15 is filled with national days to be inspired for creating cards. This week we celebrate the Anniversary of American Girl Dolls, National Cinnamon Raisin Bread and Apple Dumpling Day. On the 18th it is National Play-doh Day. We also have Butterscotch Pudding Day, National Student Day and finally we end the week with World Gratitude Day/International Day of Peace. Our scintillating Design Team has come up with these wonderful creations using the sketch and for some the Scor-it too:

Ashild

Carla

Christine

Ingrid
Please visit Ingrid's blog: Scapbook Mania & More for a tutorial on how to make this gift bag using the Scor-it

Joke

Lisette

DeeDee Campbell

We would like to welcome DeeDee as our 2S4Y Guest Designer. You can visit
Scrappin' with DeeDee to see her other fabulous creations. When we asked DeeDee to tell us a little unknown interesting fact about herself she had this to reveal:

"When I craft I put on my Ipod, turn up the volume and sing LOUDLY.....when my kids enter the room...they laugh and tell me to stop, but I can't....it helps me think!!! Evidently...I can't sing very well!!! LOL!!!"

We think your singing must be fabulous DeeDee because your work is gorgeous :)

Now that you are loaded with all these wonderful inspirational ideas let me introduce this weeks sponsor so that the creativity can begin...

Scor-it

I would like to welcome back Scor-it as the sponsor for this weeks sketch. With Scor-it you can create professional quality scores and embossed lines by hand. This nifty crafter's tool will score with, and against, the paper grain up to 24pt chipboard. You can score and emboss any paper stock, thin metals, plastics, synthetic and hand-made paper, metallic coated paper and much more.

You can learn more about this fabulous product on their informative website: www.scorit.com. Here you can also view videos and webisodes on step-by-step projects and you can see their product line including new die-cut cards and envelops from the fabulously talented Teresa Collins. The best news is that Scor-it is giving a Scor-it Mini and a Scor-it Mini Tote Bag to the winner of Card of the Week!

How to Enter:

• Please provide a link to your card by posting it on this thread
• Deadline for all entries: Saturday September 20th at Midnight (US Mountain time)
• Your card should be based off the sketch provided and can be of any theme
• The winning card will be announced as the Card of the Week on Sunday, September 21st here at 2 Sketches 4 You.
• International Cardmakers are welcome to enter

We can't wait to see what you come up with this week
{Hugs} Kazan & your Scintillating Design Team

Gallery
Your Cards for Kazan's Sketch 9