sketches

Sketch 142

Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to Gudrun and 3ndypapir, this weeks design team sponsors. Gudrun also supplied us with this funky sketch! Thank you very much to Lene and Gudrun for sponsoring the design team this week. We all had such fun with 3ndypapir papers!.

Here is what Gudrun had to say:

My name is Gudrun.

Busy mom to 4 wonderful kids. Married to the most lovely husband. Live in Oslo, the capital of Norway. Full time scrapbooker, designer and scrapbooking-teacher.

Lene Solhaugand I run the norwegian paper-design company www.3ndypapir.no. And needless to say we are so happy to be this weeks sponsor at Pencil Lines.

Ever since I was a child I have been in love with beautiful papers, patterns and colors.  I love to make stuff, to create and play.

I’m so honored and totally delighted to be a guest here at Pencil Lines this week.

Thank you! 

You can see more of Gudruns wonderful work on her blog.

 

Here are this weeks design teams layouts:

Gudrun

Anna

Ania

Annie

Carina

Michelle

Sue

Tracie

Yuko

This weeks digital template can be found here.

This months sponsor is 3ndypapir. Email us your entries for the readers gallery to be in for a chance to win a collection of papers designed by Lene.

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

Sketch 141

Please welcome back to Pencil Lines, this weeks guest designer, Christiane Muller. Anna provided this weeks sketch.

Here's what Christiane had to say:

My name is Christiane Müller and I'm living in Northern Germany near the Danish border not far away from the Baltic Sea.
In real life I'm working part time in a handicraft-store.
I spent half of my life doing all sorts of crafts. Then in 2003 I started scrapbooking as a CM-Consultant, but was not satisfied with this. After some research I found several links on the Internet that opened me up for other scrapbooking styles. A year later I learned even more about scrapbooking during my vacation in the USA and I was hooked. For four years now it is my passion.
My style is striking, bright and colorful. I love all kinds of colors and lots of embellishments. My layouts are mostly bilingual and I'm scrapping in 12x12. 
As a matter of nature I am focused to scrap about my two sons and my husband. They are my most scrapped subjects. I also love to scrap every-day-pictures and funny situations. Sometimes my black humor shines through!! ;)
I'm feeling very lucky that I have the opportunity to create for Prima Marketing and the German version of Scrapping The Music.
Since last year I'm teaching workshops in Germany, Denmark and Austria.

You can see more of Christiane's gorgeous work on her blog

 

Christiane

Anna

Annie

Ania

Carina

Michelle

Sue

Tracie

 

This digital template can be found here.

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Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

May Winner

Congratulations to :

SCREPPA

Please can you contact us so we can ship your RAK from Scrapbook from the Inside Out.

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

Sketch 140

Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to Elodie Touze. Elodie also provided this weeks inspiring sketch.

Here is what Elodie had to say:

Elodie, is better known as "iggydodie", a nickname given to her by her nephews. She lives in

Toulouse France, with her husband and Stitch, her Yorkshire Terrier. She used to be a notary before she started scrapbooking in 2003. Since then, her life turned into scrapbooking!

She has been published several times in Quebecer and French scrapbooking magazines, has been part of French and American design teams. Scrapbooking became such a special part of her life she decided to make it her job.

Starting in 2006, she is sharing and living her passion by teaching classes all over France and Europe, writing for the number one scrapbooking magazine in France, “Histoires de pages”, and selling her classes and kits on her website. She wrote a book more than a year ago, about altered scapbooking “Scrapbooking – Objets Altérés”. She’s now a part of the Hero Arts French team.

Here is this weeks design team layouts:

Elodie

Anna

 

Ania

Annie

Carina

Michelle

Sue

Tracie

Yuko

This weeks digital template can be found here.

Drop by Wednesday when we announce the winner of Mays Readers gallery. Please read our QandA's on the left hand side bar when submitting your layouts to the readers gallery

We would like to wish Dad's everywhere, a Happy Fathers Day. Hope you enjoyed our little tribute to the Dad's in our lifes.

Happy Scrapping,

The Pencil Lines Team xx

 

Sketch 139

Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to this weeks guest designer, Marla Kress, who also supplied us with this weeks great sketch!

Here is what Marla had to say:

Hi there and thanks to Pencil Lines for the fun opportunity to play!  I am Marla, chief meal cooker, laundry folder, dishwasher, boo boo kisser, diaper changer, book reader, block builder,pretend player, bear hugger and laugh getter to one crazy husband and three small kiddos.    When I'm not on duty I like to spend time in my studio creating pages and albums that my family can enjoy.  I also love photography and dream of being a fabulous seamstress (oh the wardrobe my daughter could have).  My life as a stay-at-home mom is nothing short of interesting and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

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

 

Here are the deisgn team layouts:

Marla

Anna

Ania

Annie

Carina

Michelle

Sue

Tracie

Yuko

This weeks digital template can be found here.

We love receiving your layouts for the readers gallery, please keep sending them in. We now have a QandA for you on the LHS bar, when submitting your layouts.

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

April Readers Gallery Winners

April was a busy month for RAKs at Pencil Lines, and we have not 1, but 3 winners!

Our first winner is:

Kathleen Glossop

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Congratulations Kathleen, we just loved your use of white space on this layout. You will be receiving a RAK from Shabby Chic Crafts.

Our 2nd winner is:

Heather Landry

 

Congratulations Heather, great use of the template provided by Liz at Paislee Press. YOu will be receiving a RAK from Liz.

And our 3rd winner is : Mzgrvr

 

Congratulations, we all adored your colour and interpretation of the sketch. You will be receiving a RAK from Liz also.

A HUGE congratulations to all our winners! To be in for a chance to win a RAK from Buzz and Bloom for June, you must send us your layouts to pencillinesketches@googlemail.com.

See you Sunday

The Pencil Lines Team xx

Sketch 138

Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to Hilde Janbroers from the Netherlands. Anna provided this weeks sketch.

Here is what Hilde had to say:

Hi, I'm Hilde Janbroers from the Netherlands. I'm almost 30 years old, married to Andries and mother of 2 wonderful girls aged 4 and 3.I work part time at an office.
I discovered scrapbooking in 2007. I thoroughly embraced this hobby, which by now has become a way of life for me, as it allows me to be creative in my everyday life.
I'm grateful to be on several amazing Design Teams; Graphic 45, Websters Pages, Clear Scraps, Purple Onion Designs, Creative Memories, A Million Memories, Magistical Memories and a dutch magazine.
I'm really honored to be a guest designer for Pencil Lines. Thanks for the opportunity!

 

Here are this weeks design team layouts:

Hilde

Anna

Ania

Annie

Carina

Michelle

Sue

Tracie

Yuko

This months sponsor is the Australian chipboard company Buzz and Bloom. Visit their site for an amazing range of 3D chipboard and the most gorgeous chipboard books.

 

You can find this weeks digital template here.

Check back Wednesday for the winner of April's Readers Gallery!
We are currently making changes to the webiste so you may see a few new and exciting additions over the next few weeks!

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx
 
 
 

Sketch 137

Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to this weeks guest designer, Dena Coe. This weeks sketch is by Anna.

Here's what Dena had to say:

Hi! My name is Dena. I am a 30 yr. old SAHM to my daughter Zoë who is seven. I have been scrapbooking for the past 4 years in the traditional sense but after literally digging through my hope trunk at home, I unearthed several scrapbooks that I had completely forgotten about! So I guess I was bitten by the bug by the time I was 8.

Currently I am on the design team for Paper Trunk and am the Community Coordinator for Webster’s Pages.

I love scrapbooking and everything it encompasses. It is such a great outlet both emotionally and artistically. I am so excited to have the chance join the wonderful team here at Pencil Lines. I have been so inspired by this site and was thrilled to get to be a part of it!

 

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

 

 

This weeks design team layouts:

 

Dena

 

Anna

Ania

 

Carina

 

Michelle

 

Sue

Tracie

 

Yuko

 

This weeks digital template can be found here.

 

We look forwrad to receiving your layouts for the readers gallery. Email pencillinesketches@googlemail.com

 

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team x

 

 

Sketch 136

Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to this weeks guest artist, Maria McPherson. Anna provided this weeks sketch.

Here is what Maria had to say:

I'm Maria McPherson and I'm very lucky to live in the beautiful county of Northumberland in northern England. I live here with my gorgeous, but very naughty, two cats after being widowed very suddenly 3 years ago. Life, I'm happy to say, is now on the up again and I'm starting to enjoy living again. For my "proper" job (you know, the one that pays all the bills!) I am a staff nurse working in elderly care which I absolutely love! Weekends are when I get to play with paper, photos and glue.
I have been addicted to crafts in one shape or form since I was a small child. For Christmas and Birthdays, my mother always used to buy my sister and I some kind of craft kit, wholeheartedly encouraging us to create. So I guess have her to blame for my ongoing addiction!!! I've been scrapping for just over 3 years and love the clean and simple approach with lots of white space on layouts. I find my inspiration in every day life wherever or whatever and I just love bright colour, it makes me smile! I'm delighted to have just secured a place on the Bellaboo Design Team and am looking forward to being kept very busy creating!
I'd like to say a HUGE thank you to the Pencil Lines team for asking me to play along this week.

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

 

Here are this weeks design team layouts:

Maria

Anna

Ania

Annie

Carina

Michelle

Sue

Tracie

Yuko

This weeks digital template can be found here

Please send your layouts to pencillinesketches@googlemail.com

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

March Winner

Our March Readers Gallery Winner is

Kimmi Achord

Kimmi's attention to detailed wow'ed us all!

Congratulations Kimmi.

See you Sunday for sketch 136

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx