Red, White & Blue Crop! Save the Dates!

We had so much fun at our June Summer Daze Crop we are going to do it again this month!! Save the dates for our July Red, White & Blue Crop!! Hope to see you there!

Sketch N Scrap's Back to School Crop!

We have an exciting weekend in store at Sketch N Scrap!  We will have our second layout sketch reveal on Friday the 15th and then we will begin our Back to School Crop on Saturday morning!  

We hope you will find to time to come crop with us!  Since Facebook only lets us host an event for two weeks you will see that we will only be posting our challenges during that time but we will be giving you until October 2nd at midnight CST to submit your entries to all 4 of our challenges!  Plenty of time to get creative and play along!  Make sure and "join" the event HERE and don't forget to invite your friends!!

Who loves a party?

Who doesn't love a party?  Do you love them as much as I do?  We here at Sketch N Scrap are getting ready to party all month long in May as we celebrate not only National Scrapbook Day (NSD) but also our birthday!!!! That's right, it seems like just yesterday we were unveiling our first ever sketch, but it's really been almost FIVE years!!!!  So to celebrate we will be having a BIG party, one of our biggest yet!!!  In addition to our usual four sketches, we will also be unveiling FIVE exclusive birthday sketches and ONE exclusive sketch for NSD!  But that's not all!!! There will be more prizes, TONS of inspiration, and an ONLINE CROP!!!!  So make sure and mark your calendars, it's going to be tons of scrappy fun!!!

We look forward to seeing you at the party!!! 

Crop Winners Announced!

Wow! What a wonderful turnout we had for our very first Online Crop during the most busiest time of the year! We are so amazed by all the beautiful layouts that our members have created!!! So lets get on with our randomly drawn winners! Yes, there are TWO lucky ladies whose names were drawn this morning for the two individual prizes were are offering! And now for the drum roll please.....................................

1st Random Prize Winner is:

#11 - Cheryl E.!!!!  CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Here was her gorgeous, lucky layout creation:

 

Cheryl, please send an email to us at sketchnscrap@gmail.com with your mailing address so we can get your prize sent out to you! :)

And now for our 2nd randomly drawn winner, with another drum roll please...............................

2nd Random Prize Winner is:

#4 - Stacia Brandt!!!!  CONGRATULATIONS!!! 

Here is her gorgeous, lucky layout creation:

 

Stacia, please send an email to us at sketchnscrap@gmail.com with your mailing address so we can get your prize sent out to you! :)

Thank you again to everyone that participated in our very first Online Crop and get ready for a fantastic reveal tomorrow with our very 1st sketch and new design team reveal for the new year!!! We have so many exciting scrappy times ahead for you!

Ending the Crop Challenges with some Color!

Can you believe we have already hit our last day of challenges for the first ever online crop? Time really does fly by quickly when we are having so much fun! Speaking of which, did you see the creative challenge by Lisa yesterday? If not, be sure to check it out HERE. Today we are going to give you a festive color challenge to wrap up our online crop and leave you in the mood for the holidays! Remember you will have until midnight, December 21st to link up any or all of your projects inspired by our challenges so there is still time to play along!

Color Challenge

Pick 3+ of the colors shown in the photo below (black, white and kraft colors are allowed)

Here is my example using 3 of the colors and black and white:

And now for those Color Challenge rules:

 1) Be sure to use at least 3 of the colors shown in the Color Challenge photo above. You are welcome to use them all if you choose. Black, white and kraft colors can be included as well.

2) All projects must be newly created as of today for this challenge (no back linking)

3) No combining with other SNS challenges (i.e. our regular sketch challenges)

4) You must link back to SNS in your blog entry

5) only one entry per challenge

 

Here are the prizes up for grabs:

Indie Chic chipboard stickers:

AND

Indie Chic Citron layered stickers:

You will get one entry per challenge into our prize draw, a random winner will be drawn on December 22nd.  To be eligible follow all the rules listed above AND make sure and link up your project on the sidebar under the  ONLINE CROP link (not the regular sketches link).  We hope you are getting a chance to join us and are enjoying the challenges. Happy cropping!

Would You Rather?????

I hope you are enjoying our crop so far! What a fun recipe challenge by Kelly yesterday!  If you missed it you can find it HERE.  It might be pretty apparent that I like playing games, from Bingo (find the Scrapbook Bingo Challenge HERE) to card games, to board games I love them all, so for my second challenge I thought we'd adapt another of my favorite games to put a scrappy spin on it!  The game is called Would You Rather. For today's challenge create a layout, card or project using ONE of each from the following seven prompts:

WOULD YOU RATHER:

1) use a sketch on your creative project OR go it on your own with your own design?

2) use card stock as your background OR use a patterned background?

3) use stamps OR stickers on your project?

4) use squares/rectangles OR circles on your project?

5) use your own handwriting OR a typed sentiment or journaling on your project?

6) Used a punched border OR a washi tape border on your project?

7) Use enamel dots OR rhinestones on your project?

Here is my layout: 

Here is the list of rathers I chose to use:

1) sketch- I used a Page Maps sketch by Becky Fleck from her PageMaps 2 book

2) cardstock background

3) Stickers- by Jillibean Soup

4) rectangles- patterned paper by Jillibean Soup

5) Typed journaling

6) Punched border

7) enamel dots

HERE ARE THE RULES FOR THE WOULD YOU RATHER CHALLENGE:

1) Feel free to use other items on your project in addition to the prompted items.  

2) Link back to your blog post, make sure you mention the list of items you chose to use.

3) all projects must be newly created as of today for this challenge (no back linking)

4) no combining with other SNS challenges (i.e. our regular sketch challenges)

5) You must link back to SNS in your blog entry

6) only one entry per challenge

Here are the prizes up for grabs:

You will get one entry per challenge into our prize draw, a random winner will be drawn on December 22nd.  To be eligible follow all the rules listed above AND make sure and link up your project on the sidebar under the  ONLINE CROP link (not the regular sketches link).  We can't wait for you to join us! Happy cropping!

Our first ever Online Crop is in full swing!

As we promised a few days ago, we have another great challenge for you today to continue with our first ever Online Crop! If you missed our first challenge by Lisa, please click HERE to take you to play a great game of Bingo. Today's crop challenge is based on one of the oldest holiday baking traditions, fruit cake! Whether you have a love or hate relationship with fruitcake, we are sure to help you love it a little more with your crafting! Please create a brand new layout, card or altered item based on the Holiday Fruitcake Recipe Challenge below.

Photo courtesy of claxtonfruitcake.com

Holiday Fruitcake Recipe Challenge 
(Pick 4 ingredients for your layout):

Red and green candied cherries – choose the color red or green 

Candied pineapple – choose the color yellow or gold

Walnuts – use wood veneers or woodgrain papers, etc.

Raisins – use something sweet (the word Sweet, food related items or photos, etc.)

Sugar – use sprinkles of round embellishments in any color (brads, buttons, confetti, etc)

Eggs – use some form of ribbon as a binding agent

Vanilla – use any type of liquid medium (can be ice or snow related photos, spritz, paints, etc)

Flour - Use any white embellishment (clouds, flowers, doilies, snowflakes, etc.) 

And here is my example:

 

I went simple and still used 5 of the ingredients! I used red cherries (color red), candied pineapple (color yellow), walnuts (wood venners), sugar (round confetti), and eggs (ribbon trim).  I can't wait to see what you create! :)

 Rules of the Holiday Fruitcake Recipe Challenge:

1) Feel free to use other items on your layout as well. For instance, if you choose green as a color choice, other colors are welcome but please be sure to showcase the green as much as possible. 

2) Also, in your link back to your blog post, make sure you mention the 4 ingredients you chose to use.

3) all projects must be newly created as of today for this challenge (no back linking)

4) no combining with other SNS challenges (i.e. our regular sketch challenges)

5) You must link back to SNS in your blog entry

6) only one entry per challenge

Here are the prizes up for grabs:

Indie Chic chipboard stickers:

AND

Indie Chic Citron layered stickers:

You will get one entry per challenge into our prize draw, a random winner will be drawn on December 22nd.  To be eligible follow all the rules listed above AND make sure and link up your project on the sidebar under the  ONLINE CROP link (not the regular sketches link).  We can't wait for you to join us! Happy cropping!

Let's Crop!

Welcome to our first ever online crop!  We hope you will join us as we gather together during this busy holiday season and inspire each other!  We will be offering four challenges starting today. The challenges will run through December 18th (with a one day break for our regular December 15th sketch).  Our crop ends on December 21st at midnight CST and you will have until then to link up your layouts or cards created during the crop time to be eligible to win some great prizes.  So without further ado here is our first crop challenge: Let's play Scrapbook Bingo!

Create a layout, card or mixed media project using the items listed either top to bottom, across or diagonally (just like if you are playing standard bingo) 

 Here is my example:

For my layout I used the diagonal row from top right to bottom left : flowers, three patterned papers, celebration (birthday photos) and punches (scallop, circle and flower).  For my free space item I used enamel dots.  Easy peasy right?  I can't wait to see what you create with your bingo!  Now for the rules:

1) all projects must be newly created as of today for this challenge ( no back linking)

2) no combining with other SNS challenges (i.e. our regular sketch challenges)

3) You must link back to SNS in your blog entry

4) only one entry per challenge

Here are the prizes up for grabs:

Indie Chic chipboard stickers:

AND

Indie Chic Citron layered stickers:

You will get one entry per challenge into our prize draw, a random winner will be drawn on December 22nd.  To be eligible follow all the rules listed above AND make sure and link up your project on the sidebar under the  ONLINE CROP link (not the regular sketches link).  We can't wait for you to join us! Happy cropping!

The weather outside is Frightful but.....

The weather outside here in Texas is definitely frightful but nothing is more delightful then a super fun ONLINE CROP!   Sketch N Scrap is please to announce their first ever online crop!  The crop will start on December 14th at 6 am CST and run through December 18th.  Croppers will have until December 21st at midnight CST to complete the challenges and submit them via Inlinkz under the blog post for that specific challenge.  We will also be giving away extra prizes for those who participate in our online crop!  You won't  want to miss our super fun four days of challenges and prize,we hope you will consider cropping with us!

In even more exciting news Sketch N Scrap is also pleased to announce that beginning January 1st, 2014 we will be offer not FOUR but FIVE monthly sketch challenges.  Starting on January 10th, 2014 we will debut our monthly "INSPIRED BY" challenge.  This challenge will be sketch based but the kicker is that each sketch will be "inspired by" an actual layout created by one of our favorite designers!  We look forward to seeing all your monthly inspiration and are very glad and pleased to be sharing even more inspiration with our readers via this fun and exciting new challenge!  I hope you will join us !