Laura's Sketch 45

I hope everyone had a fabulous, relaxing weekend! Yesterday was Super Bowl Sunday, a great day spent with friends and family, eating and watching a little football.

Congratulations to the SAINTS!!!!

This week is going to be a fun yet sobering one, as we say goodbye to three of our design team members, Ashley, Cheryl, and Sankari. Kazan and I were so lucky to have these very beautiful, and talented ladies on our team, thank you!

We want to take a minute and honor and thank our parting designers.

Ashley, Cheryl & Sankari

Ashley Cannon Newell is one classy lady. Her poise and confidence emanates throughout out her work and style. It was such a joy to work with you Ashley! Kazan and I look forward to the day when we can meet and talk shop... thats shopping, decorating, and cooking;) *Muah*

Cheryl Nelson is a genuine sweetheart, the kind of lady you feel like you have known your whole life. Her gentle nurturing-big sister like demeanor was so refreshing to work with, along with the amount of talent that just pours out of Cheryl like it's effortless. We ♥ you!

Sankari Wegman is a truly a beautiful person inside and out! Sankari is always bubbly and positive and her work is beyond outstanding, a real talent. Sankari you will go very far in this industry and Kazan and I are so proud we could be a part of it. {{BIG HUGS}}

Sakura of America is this weeks sponsor. Sakura supplies the perfect line of pens to dress up any card, and our design team demonstrates that here with little touches of doodling and coloring this weeks design team cards.

Ashley

Cheryl

Kathy

Sankari

Sarah

Shanna

Sponsor of the Week

Sakura of America

The winner of Card of the Week will win a variety of really cool pens from Sakura. These pens are fun and easy to work with. Every card maker should own some of these pens! Thank you Sakura of America.

Let the creativity begin!!

Hugs, Laura & your Super Design Team

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 February 13th 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, February 14th here at 2 Sketches 4 You.

• International Cardmakers are welcome to enter

Card of the Week & Fab 5!

We were all so impressed with the fantastic cards produced this week. For many of you this was your first attempt at a circular card and you rocked it. Sometimes working out of your comfort zone and with a sketch can be a real challenge but I hope you had fun with it and will be inspired to try something like this again.

We would like to extend a hearty thank you to our sponsor this week, KLM Designs for providing us with the beautiful images that the Design Team worked with and of course for sponsoring our Card of the Week. Without further delay here is our winner and the Fab 5!

Card of the Week

Sylvia

Sylvia I loved your card the instant I saw it - then I read your blog post (yes folks we do read your posts!) and I was impressed with the hard work and effort you put into this card - it paid off because this is a mini work of art. I do believe anyone would be honored to receive it and to proudly display it for all too see. Sylvia has a great blog too - check our her work here:

Sylvia's Stamp Corner

Please email me your details so that I can get your goodies off to you :)

Fab 5!

Shermaine

Renee

Debbie

Piali

Lynne

Tomorrow Laura has a returning sponsor who we love and of course gorgeous examples of her sketch from our Design Team. Have a fantastic Sunday - be safe and warm for those out East!

Hugs

Kazan & your oh so Charming Design Team

Kazan's Sketch 45

Today is the first day of February which also means a celebration of a whole month of Love. Valentines Day is only a few weeks away and we know many of you will be making cards for those special people in your lives. This year will be particularly interesting for me because my Kindergartner has a very clear idea of the Valentine favors she would like to give her class and she would like to make them herself of course; to complicate matters her pre-schooler sister would like to have the same! Luckily our next sponsor has perfect images to get us started on any of our projects no matter what the occasion. Working with a ROUND Sketch, KLM Designs provided our Design Team with these adorable images to work with:

Ashley

Cheryl

Kathy

Sankari

Sarah

Shanna

Sponsor of the Week

KLM Digi Stamps

KLM Digi Stamps (KLM Designs) was started by a Mother & Daughter team. Kathryn (owner of KLMDigi Stamps) and Sue (Company’s artist) started designing digital stamps for their own creations. After much response & excitement to their designs they formed KLM Digi Stamps. KLM carry's a large selection of designs from clowns, which are the company's signature design to digital sentiments. All images are delivered ZIP format. Each image file contains JPEG and PING formats files. Images can be resized, reversed and altered to your likings.

Discount Code

2 Sketches 4 You readers are eligible for a 10% Discount code on purchase at KLM Designs. Simply enter the following code at checkout

2sketches4u

(valid 2/9/10)

Card of the Week

Winner of the challenge can select 5 images of their choice from KLM Designs

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 February 6th 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, February 7th here at 2 Sketches 4 You.

• International Cardmakers are welcome to enter

I am really looking forward to your cards this week. If creating a round card is too much out of your comfort zone or simply not your thing please interpret the sketch any way you please.

See you soon

Hugs

Kazan & your sweetheart Design Team

Card of the Week & The Fab5!

Holy cow I think we had another record week! Thank you for everyone who played along our gallery was busting at the seams with all kinds of beauties! Thank you to our awesome sponsor JustRite Stamps your generosity is very much appreciated. Well lets get to it! The winner of Card of the Week is...

Regina

I am smitten over this simple yet very effective card! I love the soft subtle colors. This card is so sweet and that sentiment, awwww. This stunning card screams LOVE! Thank you Regina, you can see more of her talent at...

The Stamping Bean

Congrats Regina! Please email me and I will get your goodies off to you!

Fab 5

Chrissy

Jen

Rhonda

Nerin

Renee

Thank you all again what a fun week!

Tomorrow Miss Kazan brings another fab sketch with another fab prize you wont want to miss out! I hope you all have a great relaxing Sunday!

Hugs,

Laura & your Extraordinary Design Team!

Laura's Sketch 44

What an exciting week this is! With the festivities of CHA well under way, the NFL playoffs behind us. Best of luck and congrats to both the Saints and Colts! I can't wait for Super Bowl Sunday. Geaux Saints!! This year is just scooting right along and I am enjoying every minute of it.

JustRite Stamp is this weeks sponsor, they have a couple of new fabulous sets out for January, the Botanical Stamp Set, Romantic and Loving Thoughts Sets. Our Extraordinary Design Team got to play with the Romantic & Loving thought sets this week, thank you ladies for out doing yourself's another week!

Ashley

Cheryl

Kathy

Sankari

Sarah

Shanna

Sponsor of the Week

JustRight Stamps

The possibilities are endless with JustRite Stamps.

Interchangeable, and timeless these stamps are every crafters dream!

This weeks winner of Card of the Week

will win the WHOLE Botanicals stamp set with coordinating wood blocks!!

Now that is one awesome prize.

Thank You JustRite!

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 January 30th 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, January 31st here at 2 Sketches 4 You.

• International Cardmakers are welcome to enter

Let the creativity begin!

Hugs,

Laura & your Extraordinary Deign Team!

Card of the Week & Fab 5!

I am sure most of you are aware that I am in California attending CHA (The Craft and Hobby Association Convention). It is so overwhelmingly amazing and huge, that describing it here could never do it justice. The new products and lines being released by some of our favorite companies over the next few months are so gorgeous and the best part is that we get to see them on your cards very very soon.

I wish I had more time to comment on our own amazing gallery this week but things have been super crazy (in a good way) during this trip. I did manage to see each and every one of your cards even though I may not have commented on them all. Thank you so much to our wonderful sponsor: Starving Artistamps, for their generous sponsorship - we love working with their fantastic assortment of stamps. This week the Card of the Week will win their own set of Starving Artistamps

Card of the Week

Heather

I love this card and it's cheeky simplicity. The balance of color is perfect and so is the hint of texture in the grass. Heather's blog, Witty Title Here, is sooo cute and filled to the brim with tons of inspiration. Heather please email us your addy so that we can get your goodies off to you.

Fab 5!

Jennifer

Natalja

Sylvia

Tammy

Heather

Thank you for spending part of your week with us. I hope to see some of you right here in Anaheim. Laura will be taking care of you next week with one of the most amazing sponsors - eva!

Chat to you soon

Hugs

Kazan & your CHA-CHA DT

Kazan's Sketch 44

Kazan used the Small Topiary set from Starving Artistamps House and Garden

& Flower Soft to create the greenery and flowers on the topiary

This is the last week leading up to CHA and I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am to be attending this year. I cannot wait to see the new releases from some of my favorite companies and also to see the latest trends for the new year. Most of all I am looking forward to meeting many of you attending CHA. Please stop by the Spellbinders Booth to say a quick hello if you get a chance :)

This week the 2S4Y DT worked with the uber gorgeous stamps from Starving Artistamps. Most of the time all of the DT cards are very different however this week Sarah and I were on the same wave length and sending each other good karma vibes...see for yourself further down down this post. I hope you enjoy the inspiration we have for you this week and that it gets you in the mood to be super crafty!

Ashley

Ashley use the Victorian House stamp from Starving Artistamps House and Garden and the sentiment from Sentiments Classic Decor

Cheryl

Cheryl used the darling little bee from Starving Artistamps House and Garden

Kathy

Kathy used the large topiary tree from Starving Aristamps House and Garden and sentiment from Sentiments Classic Decor

Sankari

Sankari used the bee, topiary and clay pot from Starving Artistamps Home and Garden

Sarah

Sarah used the Small Topiary set from Starving Artistamps House and Garden and the sentiment from Sentiments Classic Decor

Shanna

Shanna use the sweet Suburbia stamp from Starving Artistamps Home and Garden and sentiment from Sentiments Classic Decor

Bonus Sketch and Card

Sarah Martina

Sarah used the Small Topiary set from Starving Artistamps House and Garden and the sentiment from Sentiments Classic Decor

This week the super fun Bonus Sketch and card has been brought to you by the very cute and adorable Sarah Martina. Sarah is a very talented card maker whose name you may be familiar with as she receives recognition and accolades throughout the industry! We love her simplistic style and how she can use just a few elements to make one fabulous card! Sarah's blog, Designs by Sarah Martina, is amazing - take a little time to read through it - you will be inspired!

Sponsor of the Week

Starving Artistamps

This week the lucky winner of Card of the Week will win a their own fabulous set of Home and Garden unmounted stamps

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 January 23rd 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, January 24th here at 2 Sketches 4 You.

• International Cardmakers are welcome to enter

Thanks for taking the time to join us this week - let me know if you will be attending CHA :)

Hugs

Kazan & your Gorgeous DT