Sketch and Stash Challenge 13

Hello and welcome to challenge 13 at Sketch and Stash. Thanks to everyone who took part in our last challenge, the winner of the downloads from The Character Cafe is... Pascale! Congratulations!! Please contact Becky with your choice of 3 downloads and I'll pass on your order!

We are excited to be joined by the fabulous Di for our next 2 challenges, but it's also time for Lisa to start looking for our next Guest Designer! If your email address isn't visible on your blog or profile page then please add it to your comment or we won't be able to contact you!

Here is the sketch we would like you to follow... we also have a new feature to the challenge starting from this Challenge. We now offer an Optional Challenge which you can choose to take up or not, as always use you new or neglected stash, but you may wish to use your new or neglected 'Animal' themed stash for our Optional Challenge... will you take up the challenge??

Here are the cards from the Design Team, we all decided to take up the optional challenge this time!! We hope you like our take on the sketch!!

Becky

Becky has used an image from her neglected Joanna Sheen Cardmaker's Year CD.

Cathy

Cathy has used her neglected Penny Black stamp which hasn't been inked up since she got it for Christmas!!

Chrissie

Chrissie has used a Daisy and Dandelion stamped image which she received in an image swap and her neglected border strips from The English Paper Company.


Di


Di has used her new downloaded image from Digital Stamp Oasis.


Jill

Jill has used a High Hopes image which she received in a swap, her new Doodlebug papers and her basic grey buttons which were very neglected!


Lisa

And Lisa has used her new Penny Black Stamped image.

We look forward to seeing what you create with the new sketch!

Love the Sketch and Stash Team xx

Sketch and Stash Challenge 12

Hello and welcome to challenge 12 at Sketch and Stash. We had another fabulous response to our last sketch, we would like to thank you all for entering our challenge, your cards are amazing!

We also had a Guest Designer call and Becky chose Di, if you haven't checked out Di's work before you are in for a real treat, we can't wait for Di to join us for the next 2 challenges.

We also welcome Jill as a permanent member of the Design Team, we were so impressed by Jill's cards and dedication that we couldn't let her go!

This challenge we are so excited to have been sponsored by The Character Cafe and each of the Design Team has kindly been given a Character Cafe download to play with! The Character Cafe is a new stamp company specialising in digital stamps. They are an angel company offering a variety of designs with the cardmaker in mind. The owners, Kendra and Kelly provide a wide variety of unique characters with the intent of branching into rubber in the near future.

One lucky person who enters our challenge will be chosen at random and will win 3 downloads of their choice from The Character Cafe!

And here is the sketch we would like you to play with! As always please use your new, never used or neglected stash and let us know what it is! (The flowers are for sketch decorative purposes only, feel free to replace these with other embellishments if you wish!!)

We hope you'll be inspired by the Design Team cards and we hope you'll like the cards we've made with the Character Cafe downloads too!

Becky

Becky chose 'Rainy Day Sophie' as her download. She has also used her new Basic Gray Boxer papers and neglected script paper and swirl stamp.

Becky also made a card using her new Sugar Nellie stamp.

Cathy

Cathy chose 'Brady and Stacey "Swingin" ' as her download. She also used her new Papermania large brads and flowers.

Cathy also made a card using her new Sugar Nellie stamp and her neglected Making Memories papers.

Chrissie

Chrissie chose 'Precious Emmy' as her download. She also used her new large and medium retro flowers punches from Hobby House.


Chrissie also made a card using her new card candy from Craftwork Cards which she got in a RAK.

Jill

Jill chose 'Syd Nutty' as her download. She also used her new Nitwit download papers and Prima leaves which have been in her stash for ages.



Jill also made a card using her neglected stash including her Bildmalarna stamp called 'Mimisa', Dream Street papers, and brad and crochet flowers from Poppicrafts.

Lisa


Lisa also chose 'Syd Nutty' as her download. And used Daisy and Dandelion papers, Prima flowers and card candy from her stash.



Thanks so much for joining us again this fortnight, we can't wait to see what you all create!

Love the Sketch and Stash Team!!