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Sketch 258

This week the Pencil Lines design team spotlight is on Jennifer Mattot. Jen also provided this weeks sketch.

Lets learn some more about Jen : 

I'm thrilled to be on Pencillines DT!  I am an art teacher in a public school that has about 450 students K-6.  I have taught Primary grades all the way up to High School Art in the 14 years that I've been a teacher.  I also teach classes at my LSS that focus on mixed media and alternative techniques.  I have been scrapbooking and making art since I was a young child with my Mom and Nana both being artists.  I learned a lot from them and after having kids of my own, of which I have 2 boys (almost 3 and almost 7 years old, decided to move to artwork that could be made quickly or left for periods of time easily.  Visual Journaling is my newfound love and mixed media altered art.  I love working with sketches to jumpstart my ideas and let me focus on new materials!

My blog is: http://arttalk-sigmagirl.blogspot.com/

On my off time, I love to hang out with my boys and hubby, travel, attend workshops/ classes (I'm a life long learner), and shop! I love hanging with my favorite girlfriends to scrap, laugh, drink or attend a Twilight movie!  LOL!  I also Design for Faber-Castell and Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker.

Name:  Jennifer Matott
Birthday: August 4th
Birth place: Syracuse, NY
Current Location:  Liverpool, NY
Eye colour: Brown
Hair colour: Brown with highlights (gotta love going to the salon for some "me" time and to get all girlie)
Right or Left handed:  I'm a righty... but a definite Right brainer too!
Your Heritage: I'm a mutt... mix of German, Native American/ Cherokee, English, and Slavic, but ALL American!!!
Shoes you wore today: Brand new ALDO sandals that I wiped out once in... they were wicked slippery!  So embarrassing but at least I looked cute.  Oh well...
Your weakness: Pretty shoes and Coach handbags.
Your Fear: Anything bad happening to my kids!  Oh and SPIDERS!  Ewww...
Your Perfect Pizza: Double cheese and mushrooms
Pepsi or Coke?  DIET Coke ONLY!  Pepsi is ICK!
Chocolate or Vanilla:  I like a twist of both with chocolate sprinkles please!
Cappuccino or Coffee: Venti Skinny Vanilla Latte with 2 Splendas (Starbucks)... YUM!
Do you sing:  Only in the car by myself!
Do you like Thunderstorms:  I have a weird love of Thunderstorms... love them for the drama, but they make me nervous ever since I saw a tornado when I was about 14 in Texas.
Do you play an instrument: Not really but my kids think I can play a mean Rock Guitar!
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: No, but I could eat a whole bag of Starburst Jellybeans in ONE day if you left them open!
What do you want to be when you grow up: I LOVE being an art teacher and can't imagine being ANYTHING else.  If I had to choose another profession, I'd love to work as a wedding planner.
What country would you like most to visit:  I've been to Italy and Ireland (and would go back in a second), but I would love to see France one day.  Going to the Louvre is on my bucketlist.
Number of CD's I own: Hundreds (a collection from college when I was a radio DJ) but more downloads now.
Number of piercings: Double ear piercings (one set is closed up now).
Number of tattoos: None... I wanted one in the worst way when I was a college student, but my Dad reasoned me out of one... I'm still considering it now that I'm done having babies. Maybe a paintbrush or gorgeous design with meaningful symbols woven in.

Here are this weeks design team layouts:

Jen

Jen C

Morag

Natasha

Ria

We love seeing your craetions with our sketches, so do leave a link to your layout and name below so we can leave you some love.

We will be making the annoucement for the 2012 Pencil Lines design team on Wednesday. Do check your emails and trash box to see if we have contacted you!

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

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