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Sketch 266 and Farewell

It is with much sadness that tonights sketch will be our last.

I have spent the past few months thinking long and hard about the future of Pencil Lines. As some of you may remember I started Pencil Lines with a group of scrapping friends back in October 2006 just for fun. Six years later Pencil Lines receives over 15,000 visits a week, I have published a book and had six wonderful years working with the most amazing and talented deisgn team I could imagine!

My heart is not in scrapbooking and I am neglecting Pencil Lines. My career has taken a different path and I am now a full time photographer. It is unfair of me to try and continue with Pencil Lines when I cannot give you the readers and my design team 110%.

Tonight is our last sketch, the website will remain active, and I will PDF all our sketches for you to purchase at a small cost with a percentage going to a chosen charity.

This weeks sketch is by myself ironically, and I was to be your design team spotlight. I havnt done a layout though, my heart wasnt in it :(

Name: Anna Bowkis  

Birthday: 14th December 1969

Birth place: Brighton, East Sussex

Current Location: Cambridgehsire, UK

Eye colour: Blue

Hair colour: Dark Blonde

Height: 5'5"

Right or Left handed: Right

Your Heritage: Plain and simply British

Shoes you wore today: Black UGG slippers

Your weakness: Cheese, the smellier the better!

Your Fear: Heights

Your Perfect Pizza: Dont like Pizza

Pepsi or Coke?: Diet Coke

Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate

Cappuccino or Coffee: Coffee

Do you sing: No but it doesnt stop me belting out a few tunes on Rock Band!

Do you like Thunderstorms: Yes

Do you play an instrument: Yes, I play the Flute

In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Hate them, I'm a shortbread gal!

What do you want to be when you grow up:  Chilled

What country would you like most to visit: Japan

Number of CD's I own: Too many to count

Number of piercings: none, I'm scared of needles!

Number of tattoos: None

 

 

Here are this weeks deisgn team layouts :

Camilla

Carole

Jen

Ria

Solange

 

Don't be a stranger, we will still be here just not providing a new sketch each week.

Thank you for all your support over the years its been so appreciated by myself and the design teams.

Happy Scrapping!

Anna and the Pencil Lines Team xx

Sketch 265

Hello Pencil Lines fans. This weeks guest design spotlight is UK designer Morag Cutts. Morag also provided this weeks sketch.

Lets learn alittle more about Morag :

• Name – Morag Cutts (aka Cropkat)
• Birthday - 10^th March
• Birth place – Bromsgrove, England
• Current Location – Solihull, England
• Eye colour - Hazel
• Hair colour – Dark Brown
• Height – 5’5”
• Right or Left handed - Right
• Shoes you wore today – slippers, walking boots, pumps
• Your weakness – chocolate!
• Your Fear – Spiders L
• Your Perfect Pizza – Pepperoni
• Pepsi or Coke? – Pepsi Max
• Chocolate or Vanilla - Vanilla
• Cappuccino or Coffee - Cappuccino
• Do you sing – Only badly
• Do you like Thunderstorms – Love them
• Do you play an instrument – Not any more
• In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos – Don’t Like them
• What do you want to be when you grow up - Photographer
• What country would you like most to visit - Russia
• Number of CD's I own - Hundreds
• Number of piercings – Only ears
• Number of tattoos – None – don’t like them

Here are this weeks design team layouts :

Morag 

AnnaB

Evgenia

Jen

Kerryn

Leah

Sam

Ria

We love seeing what you do with our sketches. Just leave your name below and a link to your layout so we can pop by and leave some Pencil Lines love!

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

Sketch 264

Firstly a Happy New Year to you all. Here at Pencil Lines we took a little break from things and had some down time with the family, we trust you all did the same too.

We are now back with a new sketch to inspire you to scrap those Christmas photos. This week our design team spotlight is Ria Mojica. Riaalso provided this weeks sketch.

Lets learn some more about Ria :

Name Ria Mojica

Birthday 10/17

Birth place: Manila, Philippines

Current Location Manila, Philippines

Eye color: dark brown

Hair color: originally almost black, now a nice dark reddish brown

Height: 5' 2"

Right or Left handed: right

Your Heritage: Filipino - a bit of Chinese and Spanish from waaaaaay back

Shoes you wore today: it's 5AM and I'm barefoot as I type this

Your weakness: chips, chocolate and carbs! I also love a good sale!

Your Fear: Getting fat!

Your Perfect Pizza: thin crust with everything on it!

Pepsi or Coke? Coke Zero

Chocolate or Vanilla: usually Chocolate

Cappuccino or Coffee: would love to say Cappuccino but it's too fattening so just coffee for me, please

Do you sing: I wish!

Do you like Thunderstorms: yes

Do you play an instrument: would love to say piano but my teacher would be appalled, so, no,not really 

In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: no

What do you want to be when you grow up: rich

What country would you like most to visit: Spain

Number of CD's I own: don't know but none of them are recent; haven't let go of my old CDs even if I don't listen to them anymore

Number of piercings: just my ears, so that's 2?

Number of tattoos: none

 

 

Here are this weeks design team layouts :

Ria

Camilla

Carole

Jen

Morag

Solange

 

Natasha

 

We love seeing your layouts and leaving some love, pelase add your name below with a link to your layout:

 

 

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

Happy New Year

We apologize for the lack of sketches and posts recently. Anna has been poorly and with the holidays life has just got a bit hectic!

We would love to take this opportuntiy to use you all a Happy New Year and to let you know we will be back to normal with a new sketch this Sunday.

Happy Scrapping

Anna and the Pencil Lines Team xx

Sketch 263

Hi Pencil Lines fans, this week's design team spotlight is the wonderful Sue Mylde. Sue also provided this weeks sketch.

Lets learn a little more about Sue : 

Sue

Anna

Evgenia

Karen

Kerryn

Jen

Sam

Tracie

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

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

Sketch 262

Hello Pencil Lines fans! This week I have great pleasure introducing this weeks design team spotlight guest, Leah Farquharson.

Married to my soulmate, raising our two fabulous boys together. City lover. Vegetarian. Sewist. Recently a new business owner. Runner. Homeschool mom. Fantasy fiction lover. Photography and photoshop geek. Lover of all things creative. The Beach. Ice Cream. And a good haircut.

Name Leah Farquharson {pronounced fark-eh-son :) I get asked about that a LOT!}

Birthday 12/22 - I'm a Christmas baby!

Birth place: Iowa, US

Current Location Ft. Lauderdale, FL, US

Eye colour: blue

Hair colour: brunette

Height: 5' 8"

Right or Left handed: right

Your Heritage: German/Jewish That's an oxymoron, eh?

Shoes you wore today: black flip flops with black fake gems on them...

Your weakness: over committing to junk

Your Fear: Gaining the weight back that I lost! It was a LOT.

Your Perfect Pizza: broccoli and parm or ricotta on whole wheat crust

Pepsi or Coke? Coke

Chocolate or Vanilla: depends

Cappuccino or Coffee: both, please

Do you sing: some. Not often anymore, but I was in choir through college

Do you like Thunderstorms: yes.

Do you play an instrument: piano. Took lesson through college as well. 

In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: no

What do you want to be when you grow up: small biz/craftsy shop owner

What country would you like most to visit: Great Britain. My love of all things British started when i was 9 and read the Chronicles of Narnia at least 5 times apiece.

Number of CD's I own: very few! I've had some form of ipod for almost 10 years...

Number of piercings: at one point, 7 - but I've let most of them go.

Number of tattoos: none - yet! I have one in the works that I'm sketching and planning!

 

 

 

Here are this weeks design team layouts:

 

Leah

 

 

Camilla

 

 

Carole

 

 

Morag

 

 

Natasha

Jen

Solange

 

 

Ria

 

Do send us a link to your layouts, we love to pop by and leave some love

 

 

 

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

Sketch 261

Please give a big Pencil Lines to this weeks deisgn team spotlight member, Karen Shady. Karen also provided this weeks gorgeous sketch.

Lets learn a little more about Karen :

    Hi, my name is Karen. I live with my husband Chris and 5 children, in Victoria, Australia, where we own and run a large cropping farm. In a former life, I was a nurse, but I am very fortunate now to be a stay at home Mum. I am completely obsessed with scrapbooking, and spend any spare time I have in my little scrap room.

 I started scrapbooking about 10 years ago. My Grandmother had recently passed away, and had left us with a huge box of old photos, we didn’t know who half the people were in the photos, and I found it very sad that these people were my family, and I would never know them, or their stories. I didn’t want that to happen to my family photos and stories after I was gone. Not long after that, I stumbled on a scrapbook magazine in a newsagency, and the rest is history. My only regret is I didn’t start scrapping earlier, when my eldest child was a baby, it certainly would have changed the way I took photos.

    My scrapping style has evolved and changed a lot, and is still changing. I suppose if I had to give it a name, I would say “shabby chic vintage” I love all things shabby, and am mad about making my own embellishments at the moment, especially flowers.

    I love the world of online scrapbook galleries, blogs and forums, and have met some amazing women online, who I now consider to be very dear friends.

 Along with Pencillines, I am also very fortunate to be on 2 magazine design teams, “Scrapbook magazine UK” and “Australian Scrapbook Ideas ‘here in Australia. Also my local scrapbook store ‘The Imagination Factory’. My work is published regularly in Scrapbooking Memories, Scrapbook Creations and Creating Keepsakes magazines.

 

Name: Karen Shady
Birthday: 3^rd of August 1967
Birth place: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Current Location: amongst the gumtrees, on a farm in Victoria, Australia
Eye colour: brown
Hair colour: red/brown
Height: 175 cm (5 foot 9 inches)
Right or Left handed: right
Your Heritage: Dad Australian, Mum English.
Shoes you wore today: sandals and gumboots
Your weakness: chocolate unfortunately.
Your Fear: (don’t laugh) worms !!
Your Perfect Pizza: hmm, homemade BBQ chicken.
Pepsi or Coke?: Coke zero for sure
Chocolate or Vanilla: chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: strong coffee
Do you sing: do nursery rhymes count ?
Do you like Thunderstorms: love them, as long as we don’t lose electricity
Do you play an instrument; my kids are brilliant, Im hopeless
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos; no, Im being very good and watching what Im eating J
What do you want to be when you grow up: It’s a bit sad, but Im living the life I always wanted to already. As a kid, my dream was to become a nurse, live on a big farm, with lots of land, and have 6 kids. We stopped the kids at 5, but everything else is pretty spot on.
What country would you like most to visit: America
Number of CD's I own: not a lot, with 5 kids, who has time to listen to music.
Number of piercings: earrings, that’s it
Number of tattoos: sorry, none

Here are this weeks design team layouts

Karen

Anna B

Evgenia

Leah

Kerryn

Jen

Tracie

Sam

We love seeing your creations with our sketches, so do leave a link and your name below so we can pop by and leave some Pencil Lines love

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines team xx

Sketch 260

This week we welcome design team member Natasha Akers to our design team spotlight. Natasha is one of our newest members and has been a great inspiration to our readers. Natasha also provided this weeks sketch.

Lets learn a little more about Natasha :

Beginning in early 2007, I discovered the world of digital scrapbooking and quickly became totally addicted.  Yet, I'm greatly inspired by traditional paper scrapped pages. With my love of pattern papers and flowers my pages often have a paper inspired heritage feel that make them seem to jump off the page at you. I'm a published layout artist who is always looking for creative ways to grow, including branching out into the world of hybrid creations. When I'm not at my computer, I'm a proud wife of a Navy Sailor for over 16 years and mother two darling daughters.

Name - Natasha
Birthday - June 7
Birth place - Indiana
Current Location - Virginia Beach
Eye colour - Brown
Hair colour - Black
Height - 5 feet 3 inches-ish
Right or Left handed - Right
Shoes you wore today - Tennis shes
Your weakness - Gummy Bears
Pepsi or Coke? - Cherry Coke
Chocolate or Vanilla - Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee - both... :)
Do you sing - very off key
Do you like Thunderstorms - no... they scare me
Do you play an instrument - used too... clarinet
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos - no... don't really like them
What country would you like most to visit - England
Number of CD's I own - too many to count
Number of piercings - Just the ears
Number of tattoos - nope - too scared of needles for this.

Here are this weeks design team layouts and joining us are some of the new design team!

Natasha

Camilla

Carole

Morag

Jen M

Ria

Solange

Sue

 

As always, we love seeing your work. Just post a link to your layout and leave your nam ebelow, so we can leave you some love.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by

The Pencil Lines Team xx

Sketch 259

Hi Pencil Lines fans, I have great pleasure in introducing this weeks design team spotlight, Tracie Hudson. Tracie has been with Pencil Lines since 2007 and is a valued member of the team.

Tracie provided this weeks sketch.

Lets learn some more about Tracie :

Name - Tracie Hudson
Birthday - 18th June 

Birth place - Sutton Colfield UK
Current Location - Devon
Eye colour - blue
Hair colour - not sure - its been so long since I saw my natural colour!
Height - 5ft 8"
Right or Left handed - Im ambidextrous!!
Shoes you wore today - Rocket Dogs
Your weakness - Olives and Feta Cheese
Your Fear - Im scared stiff of sharks!!!!
Pepsi or Coke? - neither, I prefer sparkling water
Chocolate or Vanilla - Vanilla
Do you sing - yes, but really badly!
Do you play an instrument - the guitar
What country would you like most to visit - South Africa
Number of CD's I own - far too many to count!
Number of piercings - two
Number of tattoos - two

Here are this weeks design team layouts:

Tracie

Anna B

Evgenia

Gudrun

Karen

Jen

Leah

We love seeing your layouts inspired by our sketches. Please leave your name and a link to your layout so we can leave some love.

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team x

Announcing the 2012 Design Team

Really excited to announce the 2012 Pencil Lines Design Team. Thank you to everyone who submitted, all the entries were stunning making its so hard for us to select.

Due to a few of our current design team members leaving we have decided to add 5 new members to the design team for 2012.

So here are our new members! Congratulation girls...

 

Camilla Ekman 

I'm Camilla Ekman from southern Sweden. I work as a Montessori teacher and when I'm off work I do what I love most - that is of course scrapbooking. My favourite scrapping subjects are my two children, Julia and Filip, but also my sweet nieces and nephews. I have scrapped since early 2007 and enjoyed every minute of my hobby. Through scrapbooking I keep my memories alive but above all I get to be creative. I get to use my hands! I would say that I tend to scrap romantic and shabby. I love using flowers, bling and lace. When I don't scrap I enjoy books, travelling and spending lots of time with friends. I am so proud and honoured to be a part of the Pencillines design team. I also design for Glitz Design and Swirlydoos kit club.

My blog is: http://camillaslillasida.blogspot.com

 

 

Carole Maurin 

My name is Carole Maurin and i live in south of France, just near Spain. I am
married to Jeff and we've got two boys: Lucien, 6 years old and Charly, 2 years
old. I've started scrapbooking 7 years ago and it's became part of my everyday
life: there is no day without scrap! I already belong to severals design teams
like Jillibean Soup, Zva Creative, Histoires de Pages (french paper magazine),
Toga (french manufacturer) and more... I also give classes all around France and
sometimes in Europe.
I am so happy to join the Pencillines dream team! Let's have fun!

My blog is http://scrapalolette.canalblog.com

 

 

 

 

Kerryn Lawson 

Hi, I’m Kerryn.

I live in sunny (most of the time) South Australia with my husband and two children (well three if you count the dog ).

I have been scrapbooking for about 4 1/2 years now. It is a hobby that I love with a passion that has been good to me in so many ways. I have made many wonderful friends through this hobby too.

I don’t have a particular style as such but I love layers, I love distressing and I love concentrating on the details. I switch between 12x12 and 8.5x11 depending on which way the wind is blowing. Having both a son and a daughter means I get to indulge in pretty, girly layouts as well as grungy, fun boy layouts.

I am thrilled to be here and look forward to working alongside the fabulous team here at Pencil Lines.

 

My Blog : www.kerrynlawson.blogspot.com

 

 

Sam Ball  

I'm 38, and live in sunny Shropshire, UK with my husband Harvey and Cuthbert, Grub, Lulu, Toulouse, Toupee and Teddy Edwards, the cats! I'm a step-mum to three gorgeous girlies, who are consistently the focus of my layouts.

I work as a stylist in Marketing, having studied Textile design at university. After dabbling with many crafty hobbies, including pottery and stained glass, nothing has 'grabbed' me like Scrapbooking, which I discovered in March 2007. 

I am currently on the DT team for ScrapaGoGo, a kit company in the UK, and have been on the Scrapbook Inspirations magazine DT team as well. I am thrilled to have been asked to be on the Pencillines DT team and can't wait to get creating in this new and challenging position!

My blog  : http://scrappysam.blogspot.com/

 

 

Solange Marques

My name is Solange Marques, I live in Curitiba, Brazil, and I'm in love with a scrapbooking  since 2004. I am married to João for over 27 years and have five children: Camila (26), Alexandre(25), Bruno (22), Gabriela (16) and Miguel (10). We also have a granddaughter: Clara (3) and one grandson, Samuel (06 months). I graduated in Architecture and Fine Arts (perhaps that explains my huge passion for paint and their constant presence in my LOs. Working in a bank as a jewelry appraiser for 22 years, which consumes most of my time and prevents me from having an increased production of pages of scrapbooking. In a scrap I prefer 30x30 layouts and I love mixing techniques, mainly involving paints and textures (watercolor, acrylic paint, plaster, modeling and texture folder can never be lacking creative). I also love the photo merge with the background, I think is one of my characteristics.

My Blog : http://solangescrap.blogspot.com

Please give a BIG Pencil Lines welcome to all our new design team girls, leave them some love.

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx