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Design Team announcement

Hi all, Thank you for all your wonderful entries, it has been such a hard decision for us to make. Those that have made the new design team have been contacted and we are just waiting for confirmation before we make the announcement of our 2011 - 2012 design team. Thank you again to all those who entered, and we are sorry we can't choose you all. Anna and the Pencil Lines Team xx

Sketch 257

Hi Pencil Line readers, I hope you are enjoyng learning more about the design team.
This week we meet Jennnifer Chapin. Jennifer also provided this weeks sketch.

Name: Jennifer Chapin  
Birthday: August 22
Birth place: Muscatine, Iowa, USA
Current Location: the same! I moved away for college then came back after my husband got a job here.
Eye colour: Blue
Hair colour: Blonde
Height: 5' 8"
Right or Left handed: Right
Your Heritage: Originally my family is from Germany
Shoes you wore today: Black flats
Your weakness: buying new scrapping supplies, any sort of cheese :)
Your Fear: bats! yuck.
Your Perfect Pizza: BLT Pizza from a local place
Pepsi or Coke?: Doesn't matter, but it has to be diet!
Chocolate or Vanilla: chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: coffee, with half and half - no sugar
Do you sing: yes, in school I was in show choir! :)
Do you like Thunderstorms: Yes
Do you play an instrument: Nope
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Ha! Not a whole box, but I shared a few with my husband
What do you want to be when you grow up: I guess I consider myself a grownup already! I work in a hospital as a registered nurse. Administrative work instead of patient care these days.
What country would you like most to visit: France
Number of CD's I own: I'm not sure since the advent of iTunes doesn't require me to have many CDs anymore!
Number of piercings: none, but at one time I had my tongue pierced as a teenager ;)
Number of tattoos: 2 that I regret! ;)

 

Here are this weeks design team layouts:

Jen

Anna B

Evgenia

Gudrun

Leah

Karen

Natasha

We love seeing your layouts inspired by our sketches. Just leave a link to your sketch below and your name so we can pop by and leave some love.

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

Design Team Call update!

Thanks to everyone who submitted to Pencil Lines DT call. We have had so many amazing entries, which just makes it so difficult to choose. This weekend I am going to get down to finalising some winners!

Check back Wednesday for an announcement!!! Exciting!!!

Happy Scrapping

Anna and the Team xx

Sketch 256

Hi Pencil Lines Readers. This week our design team spotlight is Evgenia Petzer from Russia. Evgenia provided this weeks sketch.

Lets learn more about Evgenia;

Name Evgenia Petzer
Birthday 02 september 1984
Birth place Russia
Current Location South Africa
Eye colour green
Hair colour brown
Height 168cm
Right or Left handed right
Shoes you wore today with heels)
Your weakness shabby style and sushi
Cappuccino or Coffee green tea- lol
Do you like Thunderstorms yes
Do you play an instrument no
What country would you like most to visit now i will stick with Brazil
Number of CD's I own none, everything is on my MAC
Number of tattoos 1

Here are this weeks design team layouts:

Evgenia

Karen

Jen M

Morag

Natasha

Ria

 

We love seeing your layouts, just leave us a link to your layout and your name below!

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

Sketch 255

Hi Pencil Lines readers, this week our spotlight on the deisgn team is with Cathy Brancieq. Cathy provided this weeks sketch.

Time to learn a little more about Cat :

Name

Catherine Brancieq

Birthday

16^th April

Birth place

Saint Pierre, Reunion Island

Current Location

Le Tampon, Reunion Island

Eye colour

Green

Hair colour

Dark fair-haired

Height

1.68 m

Right or Left handed

Right handed

Shoes you wore today

Brown Converse

Your weakness

Scrap !!

Your Fear

Spiders

Your Perfect Pizza

Potatoes,  bacon, cheese

Pepsi or Coke?

Coke

Chocolate or Vanilla

Chocolate

Cappuccino or Coffee

Coffee

Do you sing

Often

Do you like Thunderstorms

I love them !!!

Do you play an instrument

No

In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos

What’s that ???

What do you want to be when you grow up

A perfect mother …

What country would you like most to visit

USA

Number of CD's I own

10

Number of piercings

None

Number of tattoos

None

 

 

Here are this weeks design team layouts:

Cat

Anna B

Evgenia

Leah

Morag

Natasha

Tracie

 

We loving seeing your layouts, please pop a link to your layout and your name below so we can pop by and leave some love.

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

Sketch 254

This week we are doing our design team spotlight on Anna Bjorklund. Anna is one of our newer members to the design team and her clean and simple designs are loved by you all. This weeks sketch is by Anna B

Time to learn a little about Anna B :

Name    Anna Björklund
Birthday    7 February
Birth place    Paris, France
Current Location    Strängnäs, Sweden
Eye colour    Blue
Hair colour    Brown
Height    1.62 m
Right or Left handed    Left
Shoes you wore today    Comfy sneakers
Your weakness    Yummy food
Your Fear    I’m scared of way too many things…. fires, death, accidents…
Pepsi or Coke?    Coke, but not very often
Cappuccino or Coffee    Coffee – black and lots of it!
Do you sing    Only at home and luckily baby Tuva appreciates it...
What do you want to be when you grow up   When I grow up I want to be an artist. :)
Number of CD's I own    I don't know for sure, but LOTS!
Number of piercings    It's supposed to be 6, all in my ears, but since one of my earrings fell out (several years ago, by now) I only have 5. Since it's one of the ones in the middle that is missing, it's looking pretty weird and I really should do something about it.

This weeks design team layouts :

Anna B

Cat

Morag

Jen

Karen

Natasha

Sue

Ria

We love seeing your layouts, do leave a link to your layout and your name below:

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

Design Team Call

With Pencil Lines taking a new direction at the end of the year, I am looking for 2 new design team members.

Here's how to apply:

Send an email with "design team" in the subject line to pencillinesketches@googlemail.com

along with :

Layout based on the sketch below (digital/hybrid or paper accepted)

Short bio about yourself

Link to your online gallery and blog if you have one.

Deadline is October 16th 2011 12pm GMT

What we expect from you :

You are expected to submit 1 layout every 2 weeks.

Take part in any blog hop/celebrations we may have throughout the 12 month term, which may incur extra projects to be submitted.

Upload your layouts and projects to galleries and forums, 2peas, Scrapbook.com.

Display the Pencil Lines DT blinkie on your blog and on forums where permitted.

What we will give you :

Sponsorship when available, from major manufacturers and kit companies

Opportunuties to be published in magazines worldwide

Link to your blog on our website

With over 14,000 visitors a week visiting our blog, it is a great opportunity to be recognized in this industry

Design Team Search Sketch

I look forward to receiving your submissions

Anna x

Sketch 253

Hello Pencil Lines fans. Looks like I have another apology to make as I did not make the announcement I had planned for Wednesday, this will be announced at the end of this post!

We have some big changes planned ahead and they start with us doing a spotlight on our design team. Each member of our design team will be designing the sketch and giving you the readers a little insight into what makes them tick!

Our first spotlight starts with Carina Lindholm. 

Carina has been with Pencil Lines for 4 years now and is a big part of our team. Carina was a designer/contributor in the book Pencil Lines the Sketch book. 

Name

Carina Lindholm

Birthday

12th April

Birthplace

Vasteras Sweden

Current Location

Koping Sweden

Eye colour

Blue

Hair colour

Brown

Height

1.67m

Right/Left handed

Right

The Shoes you were today?

Black Reebok Sneakers

Your Weakness

Candy

Your Fears

Spiders

Pizza topping

Just cheese

Pepsi or Coke?

Coke

Chocolate or Vanilla?

Chocolate

Cappuccino or coffee?

Coffee

Do you sing?

all the time

Do you play an instrument?

No

Do you like thunderstorms?

No

Country you would most like to visit?

USA

Number of Tattoos?

None

Number of Piercings?

None

 

Thank you Carina for answering our quiz. Here is Carina's sketch 

And this weeks design team layouts:

Carina

Anna B

Gudrun

Jen

Jen M

Natasha

Karen

Morag

Tracey

 

With big changes ahead we are looking for 2 new members to join our design team.

Please design a layout using this sketch from the book Pencil Lines the Sketch Book. Email your entries to pencillines@googlemail.com.

Deadline midnight GMT 16th October 2011

Flip, rotate be as creative as you wish!

 

We love seeing your layouts so please leave as a link below

 

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xxx

Apologies

Dear Pencil Lines readers, I am sorry but there will not be a sketch this week. Life sometimes just gets in teh way and this is one of those occasions.

Please pop back on Wednesday for a very importnat announcement

 

Happy Scrapping

Anna and the Pencil Lines Team xx

Sketch 252

Please give a big Pencil Lines welcome to this weeks guest designer, Maisa Mendonca. Maisa also provided this weeks sketch.

Here is what Maisa had to say:

My name is Maísa Mendonça, I was born in 12 of February of 1981, I live in São Paulo, Brazil. I'm single, live alone and have a cute boyfriend. 

I'm designer, photograph and working in a animation studio Vetor Zero (www.vetorzero.com.br). My life, my family and friends are my inspirations. I love travel, and would like know many places of the wolrd!

I’ve been scrapbooking since 2006. . Today, I’m a DT in a forum/store (http://www.yummysforum.com.br) and in an inspirations and challenges blog in Brazil.

 

Here are this weeks design team layouts:

Maisa

Carina

Cathy

Jen M

Karen

Larissa

Ria

This weeks readers gallery RAK has been sponsored by My Creative Classroom.

My Creative Classroom is an online arts and crafts learning center. Our interactive and in-depth courses are instructor led and filled with wonderful projects and techniques to help you get the most out of your supplies. This fall MCC will be offering over 100 courses. From the Cricut to Primas to mixed media to rubber stamping to scrapbooking we have something for everyone. Don't miss out on some wonderful classes starting in September, including:

• Cricut, Imagine 101
• Die Cutting with Spellbinders
• Art Journal, Handbound!
• Fabric: What, How & WoW!
• Christmas Card Boot Camp
• Focus on Photos
• Scenic Stamping
• Bind it All 101

We are excited to be sponsoring Pencil Lines Challenge. You can view our entire class list on our website at My Creative Classroom. You can also view classes on our Facebook Page too! One lucky winner will receive a free seat to a class of their choice.....Good Luck!

Just leave a link to your layout below and your name by September 30th to be in for a chance to win this awesome prize!

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx