Friday Sketchers

Friday, July 3, 2009

Friday Sketchers 59 Sponsored by Character Cafe

Hello and a warm welcome to the Friday Sketcher Challenge blog! Thanks to all who participated in last weeks sketch. I am Claudia it is my turn this week to challenge you :-) Please take a look at my sketch for this week and hopefully you will find it inspiring for your own creativity. Remember, you can combine with us other challenge blogs. Just make to to link the Friday Sketcher challenge blog in your posting on your blog and you will be able to be entered in this weeks fabulous prize sponsored by:

The Character Cafe is a new stamp company specializing in digital stamps, some of which come with svg/pdf cutting files for easy paper piecing. They offer a variety of designs with card making in mind, but images could be used for much more given the versatility of digital stamps. The Cafe is an angel company geared towards crafters of all kinds, allowing use for small business as well as personal. The owners, Kendra and Kelly hope to provide a wide variety of unique characters with the intent of branching into rubber in the near future. Being crafters/consumers themselves, they strive to have customer service second to none and look forward to serving you for years to come. From The Café, Happy crafting!

Kendra and Kelly are sponsoring 3 lovely images from the Character Cafe web site, you may pick the ones you like the best!

The winner from last weeks fabulous prize is : Larissa from the Netherlands - Thank you Larissa for your fabulous card and linking the Friday Sketcher blog! Please contact Carole with your mailing address.

Thank you all! To all US visitors i would like to wish a Happy 4. of July weekend! Claudia Rosa
Please use for your cards this # 59 sketch:

Sample card by Claudia

Sample Card by Jeanette

Sample card by Carole

Sample card by Jacque

Sample card by Tanja

Sample card by Bea

Sample card by Jacqueline

Friday, June 26, 2009

Friday Sketchers 58 - Sponsored by Simon Says Stamp

Hello, I'm Carole from England...thanks for checking out our new sketch today. We had some fabulous entries, as always, to sketch 57, it's always fun to see so many variations of one layout. Hope you get time to join us again this week, I can't wait to see what you come up with. Just leave your comment/link and I'll pop over to your blog to see what you've been up to! If you haven't got a blog, please email me your card and I'll add it here on the FS blog.

Our Sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp

Heidi is very kindly sponsoring us this week with a shopping voucher from Simon Says Stamp for $50.00...thanks Heidi!

Simon Says Stamp is a rubber stamp, scrapbook and paper art superstore that's been in business since 2002. They have over 100,000 items in stock and currently offer free shipping to USA for all orders over $60 and free International shipping for all orders over $120. Check them out for lots of popular brands including, Magnolia, Stampavie, Penny Black, Whiff of Joy, House Mouse, Hero Arts, Tim Holtz and so much more! Pop in sometime and have a look around. It's a great place to enjoy a cup o' Jo.

The winner of last weeks challenge, sponsored by The Angel Company is

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Here are your random numbers:159
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Penni - Lazy Cats Cards

Penni said...
Fab cards from the DT as usual.Here's my entry.HugsPenniX

Congratulations Penni! Please contact me, via my blog, with your details, thank you :-)

Sketch 58

Carole's sample card

Heidi`s sample card

Claudia's sample card:

Jacque's sample card:

Jeanette's Sample Card:
Jacqueline's Sample Card:

Tanja's sample:

Beatrix's sample:

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Card from Linda Cummings

Card from Etsdas

Friday, June 19, 2009

Friday Sketchers 57 Sponsored by The Angel Company

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hello,

can you believe it - today starts the 57th challenge at Friday Sketchers. Thank you so much for your interesting on our sketches and your lovely entries. I´m Beatrix and the german part of this international design team. I love to design sketches and give inspirations to make card afterthese.

Every week we have a generous sponsor and sure also in this week:

Chris is an Independent Demonstrator with The Angel Company (TAC). In 1999, we led the way when TAC introduced our first unmounted stamping system. Now, with our new and improved Creative Cling™ stamping system, our deeply etched vulcanized stamps are definitely the most affordable and versatile rubber stamps available on the market today. We offer rubber stamps in a variety of styles, unique papers, fantastic tools and accessories. Chris is happy to ship anywhere around the world so browse her online catalog and then send her an email if you would like to place an order. Be sure to check back each month because there are surprise sales and specials stamp offering.

And this wonderful prize you can win in this week:

But before i will present the new sketch i want to tell you who has won the 7 KIDS COLLEGE FUND prize from last week - and the winner is:

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Here are your random numbers:148
Timestamp: 2009-06-19 04:51:55 UTC

And number 148 ist ...

Magda said...
Lovely sketch!Here`s my cardThanks for looking.Magda x
June 18, 2009 11:45 AM

Congratulations, Magda, to the fantastic prize. Please email me and let me know where 7 Kids College Fund have to send the present.

OK here comes the new sketch - have a lot of fun and a nice weekend!!!

Sample card by Beatrix

Sample card by Heidi

Sample card by Claudia Rosa

Sample card by Jeanette

Sample card by Jacque

Sample card by Carole

Sample card by Tanja

Sample card by Jacqueline

Friday, June 12, 2009

Friday Sketchers 56 Sponsored by 7 Kids College Fund

This card was submitted via email by Crissy Carstensen. Her SCS gallery can be found here.

Hello and Happy Friday! Thanks for stopping by Friday Sketchers for Week # 56! Thanks to all who participated last week. It was a pleasure to visit your blogs and see your gorgeous creations! I am Jeanette and I represent Canada on the team. This week it is my turn to host the challenge and as I am a new member, this is a first for me!
First, I'd like to announce that the winner of last weeks prize sponsored by Sir Stampalot was Lacey who said... Lovely sketch!! I had a fun time with it. Here’s my card~Lacey Congratulations and please contact Jacque so that she can get your lovely stamps from the Craft Lounge mailed off to you.

This week, we are fortunate to have 7 Kids College fund to sponsor us. Here is a little more about 7 KIDS COLLEGE FUND : "We have been selling the best cardmaking and scrapbooking supplies available since 2004. The goal of 7 KIDS is to spark and encourage creativity in our customers by bringing them the most innovative, as well as tried-and-true crafting products at the best possible price with fast shipping and excellent customer service. We hope you will find our store and products exciting and of exceptional value. Customer satisfaction is our #1 priority!Thank you! Your's sincerely, Tab"

7kids is now also carrying a wide selection of Magnolia stamps. You can now pre-order the NEW PET COLLECTION and get FREE SHIPPING!

Look at the sweet little Magnolia stamp that Tab is so generously offering to the winner this week!

Here is my sketch for this week. You may place your image and sentiment where you wish! I can't wait to see how everyone interprets this! Happy Stamping!

Here are the Design Teams Creations:
Jeanette's sample card:

Tanja's Sample Card:

Jacque's sample card:

Heidi's Sample card:

Carole's sample card:

Jacqueline's Sample Card:

Beatrix's Sample Card:

Claudia's sample card

Friday, June 5, 2009

Friday Sketchers 55 Sponsored by Sir Stampalot

This card was submitted by Crissy Carstensen. She does not have a blog but we traked her down lol.. check out her wonderful gallerie over on SCS!

A very happy Friday to Everyone!! And welcome to Friday Sketchers 55. It is such a joy to see you here and we will be looking forward to your joining us this week! I am Jacque from the US and I am hosting this week's challenge and we are all looking forward to your wonderful submissions. We are all appreciative that you drop by each week to see the challenging and fun sketches and that you participate along with us!! Thank YOU!!

We are delighted to have Sir Stampalot from the UK sponsoring us this week for a second time. If you love stamps, you'll love Sir Stampalot. They are well known for having a variety of stamp designs from a vast range of companies from Magnolia to Magenta, Art Impressions to American Artstamps, Stampavie to Sarah Kay and one of their latest rubber stamp lines is 'Our Craft Lounge'. As well as being a mail order company and web-based shop, they exhibit at shows around the UK and also have a shop. The shop is based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and has a workshop area for holding classes and demo days. Sir Stampalot will ship internationally.

The wonderful prize that Sir Stampalot is offering this week is by a brand new US company called Our Craft Lounge which has a combination of clear stamps and stamps on EZ mount.

The winner of last week's Friday Sketchers 54 prize, a lovely set of printable stamps provided by Crafts4Eternity, was drawn by random and is Krumel who said: "What a great and different sketch - was so much fun to work with it! And the DT cards are as beautiful as usual. Please have a look at my card here.Thank you! Kathrin aka Kruemel"
Congratulations to Kathrin!! Please email your address to Jacqueline so that she can get your prize to you right away!!
DRUMROLLLLLLL!! And now for this week's sketch...we hope you will have as much fun with it as we all did!!

Sample card by Jacque:

Sample card by Claudia Rosa:

Heidi's sample card

Tanja's sample card:

Jeanette's sample card:

Carole's sample card

Bea's sample card:

Jacqueline's sample card:

Friday, May 29, 2009

Friday Sketchers 54 sponsored by Crafts 4 Eternity

Hello everybody, a good friday!!! My name is Jacqueline and I am from the Netherlands! It is already week 47 and spring is already here!. For this week we are lucky to have a wonderful sponsor again! This lovely digital stampshop is called Crafts 4 Eternity, it is a webshop who has a digital stamps and monthly kits. Please take a look at their website to see what they all have, there is great inspiration for scrapbookpages also! It has a great service and quick delivery. Thanks Michele for your kind gift!!

And this is the price you can win this week, a set of printable stamps:

But before we start with the new sketch of this week I would love to tell you who the winner of the fabulous prize from last week is Glenda from Cards by Aardvark. Congratulations!!!! Please mail me to collect your price!

And than now to the sketch of this week!! Saw all those new shapes from the nestabilities and had to do something with it... But while making my card, I thought they were to small for a whole card, so love to see what you all come up with!! If you like to join in the challenge and submit your card, just leave us a comment on this post. Finally if you don't have a blog, you can mail your picture from the card to jacquelinevandersar@hotmail.com and than I will show it here on this blog. Have a nice weekend and happy stamping!!!

This is the sketch for this week:

Jacqueline's sample card:

Jacque's sample card:

Tanja’s sample card:

Jeanette's sample card:

Claudia's sample card:

Beatrix's sample card:

Heidi's sample card

Carole's sample card

Friday, May 22, 2009

Friday Sketchers 53 sponsored by Daisy May Designs

Card submitted by Crissy Carstens on: Friday, May 22, 2009 2:34:42 PM

Welcome to a new Friday with us at the Friday Sketchers team.
This week it is me, Heidi from Norway who is your host. I hope you like my simple sketch and want to play along. It is so fun to see all the wonderful cards you all make after our sketches every week. Thank you all so much. This is why we love doing this so much. This week we are sponsored by a wonderful company called
Daisy May Designs

Daisy May Design is a Digi Stamp company located in Yorkshire, England. Linnie, the owner, has made all the images by herself. She has been so kind and offered the lucky winner of this week a free choice of five sheets digi stamps from her wonderful collection.