sketches

Sketch 92

Please welcome this weeks guest designer to Pencil Lines, Kelly Purkey. The wonderful Jolene Pienaar provided this weeks sketch.

Here's what Kelly had to say:

I remember the day I discovered my Grandmother's scrapbooks and was so delighted to have this glimpse into her life. It all became clear exactly why I take so many photos, save each piece of paper, and try to record every aspect of my life as a young single girl. I live in Chicago, IL where there is inspiration (and delicious pizza) around every corner. I am honored to be part of the Creating Keepsakes 2008 Dream Team and design for Fiskars Brands & American Crafts. Thanks so much for inviting me to guest for Pencil Lines!!!

You can see more of Kelly work on her blog

Here is this weeks artwork:

Kelly's

Ania

Anna

Sasha

Sue

As always we love seeing your layouts using our sketches. This months readers gallery sponsor is Riff Raff chipboard, who are also sponsoring the team later this month! Check back later this week for the winners of our May and June readers gallery.

Happy Scrapping

Pencil Lines Team

Welcome....

We at Pencil Lines, are overjoyed to welcome our newest DT member, Sasha Farina from Singapore. Sasha has been a fan of Pencil Lines from the start and we all enjoy seeing her layouts come into the readers gallery in box every week. It was only a matter of time before Sasha become a permanent resident!

Heres what Sasha had to say:

Hi everyone, I'm Sasha and I am super excited to be part of the Pencil
Lines Team!!! As you know, I am a fan of this site. . . so to be
invited to join the team is an honor. Really and truly.

Thank you for this opportunity, I am so thrilled to be part of Pencil Lines.

Please visit Sasha's blog and her Flickr gallery for more of her amazing work.

See you Sunday for a new sketch and Guest Designer

Happy Scrapping

Pencil Lines Team xx

Sketch 91

Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to Janine Boyd. Our very own Anna provided this weeks sketch.

Here's what Janine had to say:

Hi I am Janine, 36, married to Michael and mum to Patrick and Conor and residing in the seaside town of Bangor in Northern Ireland. In the real world I teach English 3 days a week, but in my parallel universe I am also a photographer of babies, kids and families! You can see some of my photography on my website.

I have been scrapbooking since 2004 after getting sucked in on holiday in the States. I tend to scrap my boys most of the time, but have a penchant for documenting silly things that make me happy too. Scrapbooking for me combines my love of photography with my possible addiction to all things paper and pretty, and I only wish I had the time to do it more. I am an occasional contributor to the design team of the Scrapbook Magazine.

I am thrilled to be a guest designer for Pencil Lines. This website is such a treasure trove of inspiration, not only from the designers and design team, but from the gallery too.

Love Janine xx

You can see more of Janines lovely work on her blog

Here is this weeks artwork :

Janine

Anna

Ania

Sue

Annie

Yuko

Tracie

Jolene

This week we say a farewell to the amazing talent of Jolene Pienaar. Jolene has been a part of the Pencil Lines DT for a year and has been a valued member. Her layouts have bought inspiration and joy to all our readers. We wish Jolene all the very best for the future.

Come back Wednesday when we introduce to you, our newest member of the Pencil Lines team.

Happy Scrapping

Pencil Lines xx

Sketch 90

Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to this weeks Guest Designer, Debee Campos. Debee also provided this weeks sketch

Here's what Debee had to say:

Hello! My name is Debee Campos. I am so happy to be here with all you lovely Pencil Liners :) There are so many firsts for me today:
- My First Guest Design (I'm very honored and thankful)
- My First Sketch (Yikes! It's so true!)
- First Drummer Layout (Been playing for over 11 years)

I am a Graphic Designer by day and love coming home to create with paper and paint. I enjoy mixing spray paint, rub ons, glitter and sewing into my layouts. I pretty much HAVE to make a mess to have fun.  I have the honor of being a fashionista at Scrap In Style.com. Creating art has been a life passion of mine and I was inspired by Typography in creating this sketch. I hope you have fun rockin' your layouts as much as I did. Thank you again for this opportunity I'm excited to see what you amazing girls come up with!

You can see more of Debee's funky style on her blog

 

Here are this weeks layout

Debee

Anna

Ania

Sue

Jolene

Yuko

Here at Pencil Lines, we would like to wish Tracie a very happy 40th Birthday!

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

Sketch 89

This weeks guest designer is the last in our sketch winners competition, so please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to Yukari Takanashi.

Here's what Yukari had to say:

I'm Yukari Takanashi. I live in Japan. I am completely thrilled at this opportunity to guest design here at Pencil Lines.

I am 37 years old and I married dear husband Tomoo and I am mother to a son named Ryo(3 years old)and a daughter named Rena(8month). I started Scrapbooking in the year of 2005, and now
addicted. This blog has been one of my favourite sites for inspiration and it's an honour and pleasure to be the guest for Pencil Lines. I can't wait to see all the wonderful work you create from the sketch!
Thanks again for having me!
You can see more of Yukari's lovely work on her blog

Here are this weeks layouts:

Yukari

Annie

Anna

Ania

Tracie

Jolene

Yuko

Just to let you know, Janine is taking a break at the moment and will be back with us next month.

Don't forget to send us your gorgeous layouts for the readers gallery

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team

Sketch 88

Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to this weeks Guest designer, Regiane Santos, who also supplied this weeks sketch.

Here is what Regiane had to say:

My name is Regiane Santos, I have 28 years old and I live on the beautiful city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I live with my husband and my little cat Mel. I’m very happy and glad for opportunity to be guest design here on Pencil Lines. Since I found PencilLines I always look here for inspiration and I’m always amazed with the wonderful LOs and creative ideas.

Since I found Scrapbooking, I found a new way full of joy, challenges and learning.

I’m fascinated with colors, papers, photos and I love to draw. Nowadays scrap is part of my life, been much more than a therapy, is more like I way to express myself, my creativity and share my histories. I still have a lot more of projects and dreams to fulfil on the near future.

I am on the Dream Team of ScrapDiary here in Brazil and I love to be part of this great team.

I love to create “movement” on the LO and I tried to that on this sketch. I hope you liked!

You can see more of Regiane's work on her blog

Here is this weeks artwork:

Regiane

Anna

Ania

Sue

Tracie

Jolene

Yuko

Annie

Please keep sending us your wonderful layouts to the readers gallery, we love receiving them.

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team

Amazing Prize

Wendy Rago of Bad Girls Kits is giving away a 3 month subscription to one lucky reader who uses sketch 87 with the Bad Girl June kit.

Rules and Regs

Create a LO with your JUNE kit, "Malibu Pop Shop" that will be coming to you very soon, using the WONDERFUL sketch 87 .

Upload it to the appropriate labeled gallery at Bad Girls with Sketch Challenge in your title.

You will have until June 30th to upload. We will be judging the LO's on the first and we will announce our winner then.

You will be judged on creativity, interpreation of sketch, photography, and attention to detail. 
Everyone is able to particiapate...US and International. If the winner is International they will be responsible for thier shipping charges, as will the US winner also.
You may also use June Add Ons with your sketch. Have fun and I can't wait to see what you come up with.   

You can purchase the June kit here

Good Luck!

Sketch 87

We really excited to have UK scrapper Jane Dean as our guest designer this week. This weeks sketch was provided by our own Anna Bowkis.

Here's what Jane had to say:

I live in a small village surrounded by fruit orchards and overlooking the sea near Canterbury in Kent with Steve and my two beautiful children, Alexander & Georgina, our other four children live nearby and visit regularly. After a career in banking and then as a police officer I now help out in our family company as well as working part time in the village primary school.
I discovered scrapbooking in 1999 and I work as a design team member for Future Publishing on their ScrapBook Inspirations and Papercraft Inspirations magazines. I teach occasionally but try to limit my time spent away from home in favour of a quality family life. I escape to the outdoors and the beach at every available opportunity. My other hobbies include geocaching, reading, genealogy and photography although I am very much a point and shoot photographer.

You can see more of Jane's work here on her blog.

Here is this weeks artwork:

Jane

Anna

Ania

Sue

Annie

Tracie

Yuko

Jolene

We look forward to receiving your layouts for the Readers Gallery

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team

xxx

Aprils Winner

At last we have a winner for the Readers Gallery. Aprils lucky reader is :

Janet Perafan-Babar

Here's what Janet had to say:

"WOW!!!!  That is so exciting, I can't believe it! YAY!!!!!!! I absolutely love doing these sketches and the inspiration all the girls on the team give every week is mind blowing!!!! I am thrilled that my layout was chosen as April's favorite! Thank you so much!!!!! WooHoo!!!!!"

April's sponsor is Uk kit company Scrummy Stash Cafe.

Keep sending us your lovely layouts for the Readers Gallery, and you too could be next months winner!

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team

xx

Sketch 86

Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to this weeks guest designer, the  fabulous Michele Beck, who also provided this weeks sketch.

Here's what Michele had to say:

I am sooo excited to have this opportunity to guest design here at Pencil Lines - Thank you so much !! wowwww !!!My name is Michele, better know as Michou in the scrapping world ! I am 29 years old and I live in France with my wonderful husband Cedric and our two little girls, Camille and Melany, who are 4 and 2 years old. I am a stay at home mum, so I have a lot of time for my passion. I have been scrapbooking for 2 years now. Thanks to scrapbooking, I have met lots of talented people, along with my best friend Saby !
I love scrapping because it offers the opportunity to use many crafts, such as painting and sewing.

I design for scrapbooking manufacturers; Onirie, Memento, Tada Creative Studio, a French kit company La Scrapinerie, anEnglish distributor Scrapgenie and I contribute to two French blogs Scrapidees and Scrapnotes .

You can see more of Michele's work on her blog.

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Here is this weeks artwork

Michelle

Anna

Ania

Sue

Jolene

Tracie

Yuko

We look forward to receiving your layouts for the readers gallery.

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Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team