Sketches 4 All St. Jude Childrens Christmas Card Blog Hop (Nikki Sivils sponsored): Nov. 12 - 15, '11

Welcome to the Sketches 4 All St. Jude Childrens Christmas Card Blog Hop with Sponsor Nikki Sivils! The bloghop starts now Nov. 12 and ends Nov. 15, 2011.

If you arrived from Margie's blog, you're in the right track.  If you got lost, please refer to the bloghop line-up below:

Fia - bloghop's 1st stop

Michelle

Stacy

Jessica

Cheryl

Margie

Kathleen  -  you are here

Rebecca

Jennifer

Nikki Sivils sponsored the products: The Gingerbread Land Collection for us DT to create the cards we will be donating to the: St. Jude Childrens Cancer Research Hospital!  These children are receiving treatment for various cancers!!  We are excited to add some Christmas joy and smiles to the St. Jude Cancer Children Hospital!  To learn more about SJCCH here is the link!( I will leave the link for us to share later!)

Please leave a comment on each DT blogs and your name will be entered in the drawing for the Nikki Sivils You're A Hoot 12 x12 paper kit!!

Become a follower of my blog: "Let's Get Scrappy!" and leave a comment on this post, you'll be eligible for a SMALL RAK.  The small RAK to be given is a MINI KIT put together by yours truly for this bloghop.  Winner of this RAK shall be randomly drawn.

Please come and enjoy the DT's inspiration cards we will be donating to SJCCH!! 

Please pardon me, since I reside in the Philippines, the sponsored materials by Nikki Sivils hasn't reached me yet.  I promise to create and donate (2) cards from the Gingerbread line of Nikki Sivils when these materials do arrive.

"Plain Yogart Day" LO for Sketches4All

It's my 3rd monthly challenge at Sketches4All.  And I would like to break the good news that my term with the said site has been renewed.  YAY!!  More opportunity for me to get myself occupied and have an escape from worrying to much about a number of things.  Of course,  I need things to be done at home with family but this will afford me a "ME" time, I hope, with the coming Christmas Season.

Anyway, back to my hosted challenge at Sketches4All: November 2011 Dessert, Coffee or Tea Inspired By Challenge --

Use the photo below as your inspiration.  Create any project you wish using the photo provided.  May you be inspired by the colors, the kind of dessert the photo is showing or any you might think of.

1.      Upload your LO in the Sketches4All's gallery with a tag: Kath’sInspiredBy1
2.      Challenge opens Nov. 1, 2011 and ends Nov. 30, 2011 (at Manila, Philippines timezone).  To view Manila time: http://localtimes.info/Asia/Philippines/Manila/

Here's my sample LO:

Here's the Inspiration Sketch I used from 

"For the Love of Sketches":

Winner will be drawn at the end of November 2011. 

A small RAK will be provided to the winner.

SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!  HEAD ON TO SKETCHES4ALL! 

CHALLENGES ENTERED:

1.      Dream Valley Challenge #19 – Anything Goes  

2.      My Partner in Crafting Crime Challenge #34 – Colour Challenge  

3.      Scrapmaster’s Paradise Color Combo #124  

4.      Bows n Berries Challenge #13 – Clean and Simple  

5.      Jens Digi Stamps Challenge – Polka Dots  

6.      Cooking It Up With Katie #82 – Anything But A Card  

Fall Tag and Cards for Sketches4All

Hello everyone!

It's the start of the FALL LO and CARD CONTEST at SKETCHES4All with Regina Easter's Cutting Cafe as Sponsor.  For Sketches4All's FALL LO and Card Contest rules, click here. To join in on the fun from Oct 10-17, 2011, drop by Sketches4All.  Below are my DT works for the said event:

HAPPY FALL LEAVES TAG

SUPPLIES: Cardstock: Star Paper Corp., Paper: Star Paper Corp., Brown Vine Leaves: All About Scrapbooking, Glittered Dark Brown Autumn Leaf: Robin’s Nest, Happy Fall Sentiment: Cutting Café, Leaves Digi Image with Words: Cutting Café, Other: Yarn.

FALL n HARVEST CARD

 SUPPLIES:  Cardstock: Star Paper Corp., Paper: Star Paper Corp., Bingo Cards: Cutting Café, Glittered Red Autumn Leaf: Robin’s Nest, Other: Glittered Gold Christmas Leaves, TOOLS: Decorative Scissors: Soft Canary.

HOT COCOA FALL CARD

SUPPLIES: Paper: Star Paper Corp., Ribbon: All About Scrapbooking, Red Inchies: All About Scrapbooking, Cup and Saucer Die Cut: All About Scrapbooking, Hot Cocoa Bingo Card: Cutting Café, Other: Art Paper, TOOLS: Decorative Scissors:  Soft Canary.

CHALLENGE ENTERED:

1.  ECP Challenge #48 – Autumn Project 

2.  Nettie G’s Digital Gems Challenge – Fall  

3.  Stamps R Us Challenge – Autumn / Fall  

 

"at the Farm" LO for Sketches4All

Hi, everyone! It's October 2011 at Manila, Philippines timezone - a day advance from US timezone.

It's time for my October Monthly Challenge at Sketches4All: Family Matters Challenge 1.  Challenge details are as follows:

Requirement:

1. Must follow the Family Matters theme ( which ranges from featuring family photos, family traditions, family milestones or depict any event/occasion you enjoy with the family), specifying which category your creation would fall.  Maybe a brief background of your page would help.
2. You may create any project you like (LO, card, ATC, altered project, green project, tag, . . . anything your heart desires) 
3. Must use inchies or at the least squares.  Another option: use blocking technique on your project.

Rules:

1. Must be a new creation as of the start date of this challenge.
2. You can submit as many creations as you so wish.  The more the merrier.  Remember this is to help you complete an album or get those scrappable photos up on a page.
3. This can be combined with any challenge you so choose here or outside of Sketches4All.
4. If your LO is inspired by a sketch, please upload the said sketch together with your creation here in the discussion thread.  We would also like to be inspired by your LO with the sketch used.  You may opt to use Fia’s sketch at the Get Sketchy’s group.  The Inspiration Sketch I used cannot be utilized for this challenge.
5. Upload your LO in the gallery with a tag: Kath’sFamilyMatters1
6. Challenge opens Oct. 1, 2011 and ends Oct. 31, 2011 (at US timezone EST) though I’m from a different or advanced timezone (Manila, Philippines) http://localtimes.info/Asia/Philippines/Manila/

 

Winner will be drawn at the end of October 2011.  A small RAK will be provided to the winner.

My SAMPLE LO: at the FARM

SUPPLIES:  Paper: Star Paper Corp., Alphabet: American Crafts, All About Scrapbooking, Pearls: Making Memories, Chipboard Border Strip: My Mind’s Eye ‘Laundry Line’, Journaling Pen: Parker, Sketch: Scrapbook Challenges, TOOLS: Butterfly Punch: Martha Stewart.

Scrapbook Challenges Inspiration Sketch

CHALLENGES ENTERED:

1.   Crafty Boots Challenge - Things with Wings 

2.   Creative Stamp Friends Challenge #34 – Anything but a Card  

3.   Penny’s Paper-Crafty Challenge #63 – Anything Goes  

4.   Scrapalicious USA Challenge – Anything Goes (max of 10 challenges & must be a follower) 

5.   Simon Says Stamp Challenge – Anything Goes  

6.   4CraftyChickes Challenge #57 – Anything Goes  

7.   Paper Crafting Journey Challenge #20 – Die Cuts and/or Punches  

8.   Crafts 4 Eternity R#39 – Random Recipe  

My Sketch Challenge for Sketches4All's Sketch-a-thon (Sketch #10)

Sketches4All End of Summer Sketch-a-thon has already started.  And it is my turn today to host a sketch challenge at the said site . . Mine is Sketch Challenge #10.

All interested participants just need to follow the sketch provided below.  Your LO must be of Summer, Fall or School theme.  (1) submitted entry is equivalent to (1) point. If you would be able to incorporate a masking technique as shown in my sample LO below (may it be by using paint or misting), you earn (2) points for the grand prize draw and also for the small RAK I'll be providing for this challenge.  Your layout must be new as of this challenge date and can't be combined with any sketch challenge within the Sketch-a-thon.  You may only submit (1) entry for this challenge.

To read the rules of the Sketch-a-thon, click here.  You need to post your entries  to my challenge discussion thread in the Special Events Area of Sketches4All and also at the Sketches4All gallery tagged Sketch#10.

Sketch by Donna Coughlin of For the Love of Sketches

My Sample LO for the Sketch Challenge

Submission deadline is September 25th at Sketches4All.

CHALLENGES ENTERED:

1.   Crafty Ann’s Challenge 49 – Outside Your Comfort Zone (Masking is outside my comfort zone)

2.   Fussy and Fancy Challenge – Back to School  

3.   A Gem of a Challenge #29 – Photo Inspiration  

4.   Quirky Crafts Challenge #19 – Anything but a Card (Max of 6 challenges only)  

5.   Bronte and Bella’s Challenge #100 – Let’s Celebrate  

"One Month Old" LO for Sketches4All (my 3rd DT stint . . woohoo!)

Hi, everyone!

Would like to share and invite you to my 1st hosted challenge at Sketches4All.  I've been recently been accepted as their Design Team Member together with15 other lady crafters.  My 3-mo. term started August 16, 2011.  This is my 3rd DT stint aside from Kaboodle Doodles & CropStop.  Sketches4All offers LO, tags, ATCs, card and sketch challenges.

For my 1st Challenge:  Sept 2011 Handle With Care Challenge 1, I'm hosting a thematic challenge that ranges from baby pages, love/romance pages, special loved ones pages, etc. 

Requirements:

1. Must follow the Handle with Care theme, specifying which category your creation would fall.  Maybe a brief background of your page would help.  
2.  Must have (1) predominant shape on your creation.
3. Must have any kind of stitching – faux or real

Rules:

1. Must be a new creation as of the start date of this challenge.
2. You can submit as many creations as you so wish at Sketches4All.
3. This can be combined with any challenge you so choose inside or outside of Sketches4All.
4. If your LO is inspired by a sketch, please upload the said sketch together with your creation at my group's challenge discussion thread.  We would also like to be inspired by your LO with the sketch used.  You may opt to use Fia’s sketch at the Get Sketchy Group Section or the inspiration sketch I utilized for my sample LO.
5. Upload your LO in Sketches4All gallery with a tag: Kath’sHandleWithCare1
6. Challenge opens Aug. 22, 2011 and ends Sept. 30, 2011 (at US timezone EST) though I’m from a different or advanced timezone (Manila, Philippines) 

Winner will be drawn at the end of September 2011.  A small RAK will be provided to the winner.

My sample LO:

TITLE: ONE MONTH OLD

SUPPLIES: Paper: Making Memories, Star Paper Corp., Baubble Alphabets: All About Scrapbooking, Cut-outs: Making Memories, Bauble Embellishments: All About Scrapbooking, Chipboard Embellishment: All About Scrapbooking, Pearls: Making Memories, Thread: DMC,  Sketch: Elin Ahsberg of Creative Scrappers, TOOLS: Paper Shapers: Provo Craft.

Inspiration Sketch

 Do drop by and join in on our fun challenges at Sketches4All!

CHALLENGES ENTERED:

1.   Fab n Funky Challenge #86 – Stitch In Time  

2.   For Fun Challenges –Scrap page  

3.   AiFactory – Anything Goes  

4.   Colour Create Challenge 77   

5.   Craft Us Crazy Challenge 15 – Anything Goes  

6.   Paper Crafting Journey Challenge 17 – Anything Goes  

7.   Shelly’s Images – Show Us What You Got  

8.   The Play Date Café Challenge PDCC95   

9.   Digi’s With Attitude Challenge 32 – Anything Goes   

10. Poodle’s Parlour – Anything Goes  

11. The Corrosive Challenge #130 – Girlie  

12. Die Cut Dreams #96 - Colour Challenge  

13. Incy Wincy Designs – Anything But A Card  

14. Paper Playtime Challenge #53 – Anything Goes   

15. Stamps R Us Challenge – Anything Goes  

16. Creative Crafts Challenges – Anything But A Card  

17.  The Stamping Boutique Challenge #13 – Stripes & Dots (stripes paper & peals as dots)