Laura's Sketch 41

Laura used the Snow Bunny Image from the Sassy Holiday Collection

It's crunch time, less than 2 weeks till the big day and I am totally feeling the holiday pressure. I just need to remind myself to take deep breaths, it will all get done, right!?! I am enjoying myself though, I love this time of year. The festivities, parties, lots of baking, the neighborhoods all lit up. This is such magical time, you've got to love it!

This week we decided to spice things up with our amazing sponsor Sassy Studio Designs! Check out what our Sassy DT came up with...

Ashley

Ashley used the Hanging the Wreath image from the Sassy Holiday Collection

Cheryl

Cheryl used the Baby It's Cold Outside image from the Sassy Holiday Collection

Kathy

Kathy used the Hanging The Wreath image from the Sassy Holiday Collection

Sankari

Sankari used the Hanging The Wreath image from the Sassy Holiday Collection

Sarah

Sarah used the Baby It's Cold Outside image from the Sassy Holiday Collection

Bonus Sketch & Card

Shanna

This week Shanna brings us an outstanding bonus sketch! My goodness is this girl talented. Every single one of her creations is just stunning. Shanna's style is fun, bubbly and always bursting with color! I might just have to make a card with this awesome sketch! You can see more Shanna's talent on her blog:

My Next Thirty Years

•Sponsor's of the Week•

Sassy Studio Designs

&

Sakura of America

Sassy Design Studio's is sassy alright. This printable stamp company is run and stamps are designed by the very talented Lindsay Dryer. The digital images are just adorable and all themed around beautiful, sassy women. Perfect for any scrapbookers needs and so much fun to work with. Sassy Design Studio's has new releases on the 1st and 15th of every month! Sassy Studio's also has a fun blog, check it out here. This weeks winner of Card of the Week will win four images of their choice from Sassy Studio Designs!!

Also this week Sakura of America will be giving away a pack of neon pens and a glue pen.

•This weeks prizes•

• 4 free images of your choice from Sassy Studio's

• A pack of Neon pens from Sakura

• A glue pen from Sakura

Here's how to enter:
• Please provide a link to your card by posting it on this thread using Mr. Linky

• Deadline for all entries: Saturday December 19th at Midnight (US Mountain time)

• Your card should be based off the sketch provided and can be of any theme. You may enter as many times as you like. To be eligible for this weeks prize you are only required to make a card off of Kazan's sketch.

• The winning card will be announced as the Card of the Week on Sunday,December 20th here at 2 Sketches 4 You.

• International Cardmakers are welcome to enter

Let the creativity begin! I am so excited to see what you all create. :)

Hugs,

Laura & your Sassy DT

Card of the Week & Fab 5!

We have had a fantastic week touring Utah and the surrounding area's but we are glad to be home. I don't know how we did it but we managed to avoid the major storm that has gripped half the country - if you were not so lucky I hope that you are safe and warm and spending the day getting crafty!

Thank you g.c.d Studio's for sponsoring this weeks Card of the Week. We cannot even begin to stop raving about this gorgeous Collection - and we certainly cannot wait to see what you have in store for all of us really soon. The lucky winner of of their very own g.c.d Studio Christmas Sleigh Collection is:

Card of the Week

Tina

How fabulous is this card! I love the ribbon, the colors and the bling. That turquoise button is just my best! Congrats Tina you did a great job with this week's sketch. If you would like to see more of Tina's work visit her blog: Sow.Sprout.Bloom - she has great cards, video's and everything else fun too. Tina please email me your addy so that I can get you your fab g.c.d Studio's collection.

Fab 5!

Tomi Ann

Luzma

Jennifer

Arielle

Ellen

Tomorrow Laura has a great sketch, awesome sponsor and wait until you see what our DT have done - oh my they are amazing! We also have a brand new blogger that we {heart} and of course a gallery waiting to be filled by all of you. I just love Monday's don't you?

See you in a few

Hugs

K & your Merry DT

Kazan's Sketch 41

Kazan's second card using this Collection can be found on her blog: Nunu Toolies

Ho-Ho-Ho we here in 2S4Y land are all in the Christmas spirit! Everywhere around us lights are twinkling, trees are shimmering & the merriment abounds. I have done a great deal of my Holiday shopping which is wonderful since we are enjoying some family time touring Utah. We have seen both Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon - both spectacular parts of this glorious nation of ours and look forward to exploring the area's around St. George during the next couple of days.

Our Design team was very fortunate to work with the latest and greatest Holiday collection called Christmas Sleigh from g.c.d. Studios. Everything is so scrumptiously divine from the paper to the embellies! The Design team had so much to choose from that each one of us made TWO cards for your viewing pleasure so without further adeu we present g.c.d Studio's Christmas Sleigh:

Ashley

Cheryl

Cheryl's second card using this Collection can be found on her blog: Cheryl June Girl

Kathy

Kathy's second card from this Collection can be found on her blog: Card-Blanc

Sankari

Sankari's second card using this Collection can be seen on her blog: Sankari's Sunshine Corner

Sarah

Sarah's second card using this Collection can be found on her blog: Designs by Sarah Martina

Shanna

Shanna's second card using this Collection can be found on her blog: My Next Thirty Years

Bonus Sketch and Card

This week Ashley brings us a really FABULOUS bonus sketch and card. She used paper and embellies from the gorgeous g.c.d Studio's Christmas Sleigh Collection on this card. If you love Ashley's style you are going to love her blog - which inspires on every level. We love paging through all her entries for uber greatness. Take a peek here: A New Design

Sponsor of the Week

g.c.d Studio's

When you visit the g.c.d Studio's website you are greeted by the words: "We make luxury afforable" which is a good thing since everything on their website is something we want to add to our shopping cart! On their list of goodies that they offer you will find: Designer Paper, Die-cut Chipboard, Glitter letter stickers, designer ribbon, rub-on-art and expoxy stickers - all perfectly coordinated and perfectly affordable.

g.c.d Studio's offers an impressive Scrapbook, Altered Item and Card Design Team who in turn provide beautiful work using the vast collections from g.c.d Studios. We are also enjoying Ideas - an interesting & fun newsletter put out by g.c.d Studios about the latest and greatest in the industry. So now I bet you are all eager to get you hands on some g.c.d too - well here is teh good news: The lucky winner of Card of the Week will win their very own Christmas Sleigh Collection from g.c.d Studios!

Here's how to enter:
• Please provide a link to your card by posting it on this thread using Mr. Linky

• Deadline for all entries: Saturday December 12th at Midnight (US Mountain time)

• Your card should be based off the sketch provided and can be of any theme. You may enter as many times as you like. To be eligible for this weeks prize you are only required to make a card off of Kazan's sketch.

• The winning card will be announced as the Card of the Week on Sunday,December 13th here at 2 Sketches 4 You.

• International Cardmakers are welcome to enter

Sketches by 2S4Y

Laura has been working super hard updating Sketches by 2S4Y and it is now ready for viewing! Be sure to bookmark this space so that you can easily access our sketches any time in one easy place. Thanks L.D - it looks fabulous!

I hope you find the time during this busy season to do some creating - we would love you to come by and say hello and share what you have for us this week :)

Hugs Kazan & your Busy Little Elf DT

Card of the Week & Fab 5!

It's beginning to look like a lot like Christmas at my home! Yesterday we went and got our fresh tree, and I spent the whole day decorating it and our house. From the wreaths on our front door down to the advent calendar, my home is all festive. This morning we woke up to lots of white fluffy snow and it's still coming down. :)

Thank you who everyone who played this week, it's fun to take a little break from the hustle and bustle of the crazy holiday madness and create a little bit. Also thank you to our awesome sponsors Starving Artistamps and Sakura of America.

Card of the Week

Daniela Dobson

What a gorgeous card! I LOVE the all white monochromatic look. Your imagination can get magically lost in this white wintery card. Thank you Daniela for sharing your talent with us!

You can see more of Daniela's work on her blog:

For The First Time

please send me your deets Daniela and I will get your goodies off to you!

Fab 5

Allison

Romy

Lisa

Angie

Tiffany

I hope you all have a cozy Sunday! Tune in tomorrow for the outstanding Kazan!

Hugs,

Laura & your Fabulous Design Team!

Laura's Sketch 40

Laura used the Doodle Factory O Holy Night stamps from DoodleFactory

Last night my daughter and I returned home from spending the weekend at a golf tournament she played in beautiful North Carolina. While I was there I had the privilege of meeting one of 2S4Y's awesome designers, the very sweet and talented Kathy Martin and the ever so talented and a new comer to our sketch blog, Audrey Pettit! Thank you ladies I had so much fun meeting you :) I have posted a picture on my blog, A Day in the Life of The Paper Poppy.

This week is going to be a fun one, we have an awesome sponsors Starving Artistamps & Sakura of America! Our fabulous design team really outdid themselves this week, have a look at these beauties...

Ashley

Ashley used the O Holy Night stamps from DoodleFactory

Cheryl

Cheryl used the Nativity stamps from Starving Artistamps

Kathy

Kathy used the O Holy Night stamps from DoodleFactory

Sankari

Sankari used the O Holy Night stamps from DoodleFactory

&

Nativity Sentiment stamps from Starving Artistamps

Sarah

Sarah used the O Holy Night stamps from DoodleFactory

Shanna

Shanna used the Nativity stamps from Starving Artistamps

•Guest Designer•

Please help me welcome

Alice Wertz

Alice used the Nativity stamps from Starving Artistamps

I just adore Alice's work. It's almost like flipping through a children's picture book with the most beautiful illustrations. Her work is full of color and imagination. I could flip through the pages of her blog for hours! Thank you Alice for sharing your talent with us.

You can see more of her work at...

Alice's Little Wonderland

Starving Artistamps

We are excited to be sponsoring the 2 sketches 4 you challenge blog this week and would like to offer all the participants and readers a

20% discount

on all new stamp orders of Starving Artistamps, Starving Artistamps DoodleFactory brand and Sun Spirit studio brand rubber stamps.

To take advantage of our offer add your Starving Artistamps, Starving Artistamps DoodleFactory brand and/or Sun Spirit studio brand rubber stamps to your shopping cart and enter this discount code: nativity20

in the discount code box in your shopping cart. Click recalculate. You should see the discount applied immediately.

If the discount does not apply immediately please contact us before you finalize your order: strvingartistmp@aol.com

the fine print:

This offer is good for all new web orders placed now, November 30th thru December 7th 2009. This offer expires at Midnight PST on 12/07/10 This offer is not valid for previously placed orders, items already discounted, million stamps project images, or other special offers. Discounts can not be combined. If the discount code does not work contact us prior to finalizing your order.

This weeks winner of Card of the Week will win these adorable DoodleFactory stamps

Nativity

&

Sentiments Nativity

also the winner will win these fun Sakura of America pens

Here's how to enter:
• Please provide a link to your card by posting it on this thread using Mr. Linky

• Deadline for all entries: Saturday December 5th at Midnight (US Mountain time)

• Your card should be based off the sketch provided and can be of any theme. You may enter as many times as you like.

• The winning card will be announced as the Card of the Week on Sunday,December 6th here at 2 Sketches 4 You.

• International Cardmakers are welcome to enter

Let the creativity begin!

Laura & Our Fabulous Design Team!

Card of the Week & Fab 5!

I hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving weekend and did not overindulge too much in the food and shopping department. I was good with the shopping but the food - well lets just say it was good - very good!

Another area of pure goodness was our very own gallery this week! Oh-my-goodness Ladies, you sure know how to make cards! You all left me with a ton of fabulous ideas and inspiration this week and I thank you for that :) Speaking of fabulous - can we just give a huge shout out of thanks to JustRite for their sponsorship this week. We are huge JustRite stamp fans as I am sure you all are too. This week the lucky cardmaker that will win their own set of JustRite goodies is..

Card of the Week

Maria

The simplicity of this card is so beautiful without losing any of the yummy details like bling, stamping, color, embossing and dimension. Did you all notice the turned down corner that reveals the embossed page underneath - LOVE that. Maria's style is unmistakable in her other work and her pictures of her family are darling. You can see more of Maria's work on her blog

Colors of My Life

Congrats Maria - please email me your addy so I can get your JustRite goodies out to you :)

Fab 5!

Tiff

Barb

Kathy

Joan

Lori

This has been a fabulous week in more ways than one. Thanks for spending part of your busy life with us - we appreciate it. Tomorrow Laura has a very nice sketch to share, a super sponsor & tons of inspiration from the DT...soooo get some rest, put your feet up and relax. Monday is the start of another fun week!

Hugs

Kazan & a Design Team we are all Thankful for :)

Kazan's Sketch 40

Kazan used JustRite's Merry Little Christmas Borders & Centers

If you are not one of the 34 million people traveling this week we hope you will join us in making cards for your loved ones right from the comfort of your home! Our family will be celebrating Thanksgiving at home this year but we will be with friends on Thursday enjoying all the traditions this holiday has to offer. I am really deciding weather I want to be one of the hundreds lining up outside Target for their big sale on Friday...I think that depends on just how much we enjoy all the offerings on Thursday!

This week our Design Team got into the Holiday spirit with JustRite Stamps. Here for your enjoyment are the 2 Sketches 4 You Design Team's interpretation of the sketch using JustRite Christmas stamps:

Ashley

Ashley used JustRites a Merry Little Christmas Borders & Centers

Cheryl

Cheryl used JustRite's Christmas Borders & Centers Oval

Kathy

Kathy used JustRite's Christmas Joy Borders and Centers Oval

Sankari

Sankari used JustRite's Something Sweet Borders & Centers

Sarah

Sarah used JustRite's Christmas Joy Borders & Centers Oval

Shanna

Shanna used JustRites Something Sweet Borders & Centers

Sponsor of the Week

JustRite Stampers

This week 2 Sketches 4 You welcomes back the fabulous JustRite Stampers as our sponsor for Card of the Week. November is an exciting month for stampers because JustRite has released a brand new range of Stampers and they are SQUARE! Looove that. You can see the entire collection here: JustRite New Releases

More Good News!

JustRite is offering 20% off on all Christmas sets and you can get them in time for your Holiday Card making projects because they are 48 hour shipping..Whooo HOOOOO!

and

The winner of Card of the Week will win this...

Here's how to enter:
• Please provide a link to your card by posting it on this thread using Mr. Linky

• Deadline for all entries: Saturday November 28 th at Midnight (US Mountain time)

• Your card should be based off the sketch provided and can be of any theme. You may enter as many times as you like.

• The winning card will be announced as the Card of the Week on Sunday, November 29 th here at 2 Sketches 4 You.

• International Cardmakers are welcome to enter

Happy Thanksgiving

from All of us here at 2 Sketches 4 You

Hugs

Kazan & Your Awesome Design Team