Kazan's Sketch 62

Kazan used the sweet little water can & sentiment from Flowers A bunch Stickerz set

This week I challenged the 2S4Y Design Team to get a little creative with their cardmaking skills and work in some sort of decorative edge on their sample card.  The tools we have available to us to jazz up our cards are so varied and I bet many of you have a variety within arms reach on your craft table.  Idea's that come to mind to create a schmancy edge are decorative scissors, border punches, die templates, pre-cut templates etc and if all else fails - trace your own design and trim by hand.  I think the team did an outstanding job using the most adorable images from this week's sponsor: E.A.D. Designs

Angie Tieman

Angie used the adorable Asian Flair Stickerz on her card

Courtney Baker

Courtney's card has the darling little Wolf & sentiment from the Little Red Stickerz set

Kelly Marie Alvarez

Whoot whoot!  Kelly used the cute owl from the Out on a Limb Stickerz set

Regina Mangum

Regina created this mini work of art using the Wizard of Oz Stickerz set

Rosemarie Diehl

Rosemarie makes these adorable robots, from Robot Buddies Stickerz, even cuter on her card

Stacey Schafer

Stacey created pure elegance with the Wedding Bliss Stickerz on her card

Sponsor of the Week

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In May of this year they launched their most innovative paper crafting product yet, VINYL STICKERZ. These stickers are in the most current designs, and are, get ready for this, REPOSITIONABLE!!  With their clear background, these Stickerz have the look of a stamp and at a fraction of the cost!! Stickerz are available in a large variety of designs, with more being added all the time. They can be ordered in color or black and white (to be colored in with markers of choice), on a clear background or white. The choices are endless!

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Card of the Week Winner
E.A.D Designs is offering this week's COTW winner a $20 Gift Certificate to their store

Contest Entry Details:

• Please provide a link to your card by posting it on this thread using Mr. Linky
• Deadline for all entries: Saturday October 2nd 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, October 3rd here at 2 Sketches 4 You.
• International Card makers are welcome to enter

Okay now that we have you all fired up with inspiration and ideas, lets see those cards.

Hugs Kazan & your edgy DT Team

Card of the Week & Fab 5!

The gallery was eye popping this week! I have so much fun visiting each and every one of your fabulous blogs. Thank you to all when entered and thank you to out sponsor Robin's Fetish. Remember Kazan and I are looking for new designers through out the month of October!! We are taking note of those who "pop" out in the gallery.

Card of the Week

Christina

What a clean and fun card! I am in LOVE with craft colored paper at the moment. This card is in my mind perfection, the stamping and paper piecing is awesome! Darling work Christina.

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

Sea Glass & Sentiments

Congrats Christina! I wil get your goodies off to you. :)

Fab 5

Carisa

Lisa

Muffin

Nerina

Cristina

Happy Sunday to everyone!

Tomorrow brings a brand new sketch and a fab sponsor.

Hugs,

Laura & your Fetish Loving Design Team

Laura's Sketch 61

I can't believe it is almost October. The stores are already starting to fill up with Christmas decorations... Eaaaakkkk this always gives me major heart palpitations. Deep breaths, deep breaths! All the galleries and blogs are bursting with holiday spirit. Don't get me wrong, I do love Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas and all the preparation in between.

This week we are fortunate to have sponsor Robyn's Fetish an fun digital stamp company. Here is what our Fetish Loving Design Team designed with their digi stamps.

Angie Tieman

Angie used the Christmas Ordainments from Robyn's Fetish

Courtney Baker

Courtney used Puppy Paws from Robyn's Fetish

Regina Mangum

Regina used Waking up Ms. Birdie from Robyn's Fetish

Rosemarie Diehl

Rosemarie used Christmas Ordainments from Robyn's Fetish

Stacey Schafer

Stacey used Miss. Piggy from Robyn's Fetish

Bonus Sketch & Card

Kelly Marie Alvarez

Kelly Marie is one of our beloved design team members. Not only is she super talented with her cardmaking she also owns her own stamping company Lawn Fawn Stamps . You can see Kelly Marie's latest set "Cozy Christmas" in her adorable card she made for her bonus sketch. Soooooo much talent. You can check out Kelly Marie's blog here! Thank you Kelly Marie for your awesome Bonus Sketch & Card. :)

Sponsor of the Week

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is proud to sponsor this challenge.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is

owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers,

designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

COTW Prize

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is happy to offer the winner of this challenge 5

digital stamps or 4 digital stamps and 1 paper set of their choice.

Contest Entry Details:

• Please provide a link to your card by posting it on this thread using Mr. Linky
• Deadline for all entries: Saturday September 25th 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, September 26th here at 2 Sketches 4 You.
• International Card makers are welcome to enter

Let the creating begin!

Laura & your Fetish Loving Design Team!

Card of the Week & Fab 5!

Sunday's are alway fun in 2S4Y land as we announce the winner of Card of the Week and the Fab 5!  Keeping that in mind I have a major secret to share with you today.  Over the next few weeks Laura and I will pay special attention to these winners and the gallery in general.  Sometime late October we will host a challenge selecting our newest Design Team members from the Card of the Week winner (note: you read right - we will be looking for more than one designer so we may just have more than one COTW winner!!!!)  We encourage you to play along each week so that we get an idea of your style and of course so we know how much you love our sketches!!!!  LOL.  We will keep you posted on the exact dates but for now I can share that this will all happen before the end of October.

I know you will all agree that the 6 cards we chose this week are all stunners.  I love their interpretations of the sketch and the beautiful manner in which they executed their designs.  We certainly had a fun time with our Starving Artistamps and we know this winner will LOVE her sets....

Card of the Week

Julie

We are huge fans of Julie's work.  This card puts me in the Holiday spirit and fires up my HoHo Mojo.  I  love the way Julie interpreted the sketch and how beautifully well made her card is.  The Colors are fabulously traditional yet the card has a gorgeous contemporary twist with it's bold lines and simplified embellishments.  This is a great opportunity for you to be inspired by her fabulous work and add her blog to your reader

only two things in life are certain...

Stamps & Taxes

congrats Julie :) email me your addy and I will get your Starving Artistamps goodies off to you :)

Fab 5!

Carina

Dana

Jaclyn

Laurie

Tammy

We hope you all have a very relaxing Sunday spent with those you hold most dear but before you get too cozy or busy with family chores find time for yourself in the craft room :)  See you tomorrow with Laura's new sketch, a new sponsor and fabulous inspiration from our Design Team

Hugs

Kazan & Your Super Duper DT

Kazan's Sketch 61

Can you feel it?  The cooler nights, a crisper morning air and just an all round shift that comes with the Season's changing.  It is wonderful living in a State that does have defined Seasons - I grew up in South Africa and it seems in our part of the country we had Winter and Summer only.  Leaves have started to change which is always something to look forward to since one of the most favorite pastimes for our family is to visit the Rocky Mountains and see the changing Aspen.   Fall also makes me more adventurous in the kitchen and with my crafting - basically the change from Summer to Winter brings out the homebody in me :) So it was with great enthusiasm that I sat down and played with Starving Artistamps latest sets: Backlit Blooms.  These HUGE stamp sets (about 5.75" tall) can be used as is - to make super jumbo sized cards or like I did, a  framed home decor project.  You can use part of the stamp images to  create smaller or standard cards.  Our Design Team had fun playing with their samples.  Here are their interpretations of the sketch using Starving Artistamps

Angie Tieman

Angie used Backlit Bloom's Holly Set for this festive card

Courtney Baker

Courtney played with Backlit Bloom's Orchid to make this serene card

Kelly Marie Alvarez

Kelly Marie used Backlit Bloom's Holly Set for her Christmas card

Regina Mangum

Regina made this beautiful card using Backlit Bloom's Rose set

Rosemarie Diehl

This striking card from Rosemarie was made using Backlit Bloom's Daisy Set

Stacey Schafer 

Stacy angled the center panel of the sketch and used Backlit Bloom's Holly Set for her festive card

Guest Designer

Sherry Wright

This week we are very pleased to welcome Sherry Wright as our guest designer.  Sherry's stunning card from Laura's Sketch 59 won her Card of the Week and this coveted spot on our team.  For her beautiful card Sherry worked with Backlit Bloom's Dogwood set which comes with the flowers and two sentiments.  You can see more of Sherry's amazing talent on her fantastically inspiring blog:

Season's of Change

Sponsor of the Week

Starving Artistamps is so excited to be sponsoring 2 Sketches 4 You! This week the 2S4Y Team have been playing with their new collections Backlit Blooms

The Backlit Blooms series consists of six different stamp sets featuring jumbo silhouette flowers and simple sentiments for the biggest, boldest, fastest and easiest cards you will ever make.  These are the stamps you will reach for when you need to make a big statement in a hurry.

{Special Offer}

Starving Artistamps is offering all the 2S4Y readers a 20% discount on ALL the stamps on their website.

With so many new releases now is a great time to shop.  They have two awesome new DoodleFactory sets just in time for Halloween:

DoodleFactory Ghoulies

DoodleFactory Gourds and Pumpkins

and so much more. You can find all their newest offering under What's New! on their website.

{Win*Win}

Want some extra chances to win free stamps? Tracey (owner of Starving Artistamps) is celebrating her birthday this week and is sharing her festivities by giving away a free new release set every week all month long!  Stop by their blog www.starvingartistamps.blogspot.com  for all the details.  Right now they are giving away a set of their new DoodleFactory Gourds and Pumpkins so get your comment in before Thursday to be eligible to win.   

Card of the Week

You guys are gonna love this!!! The lucky winner of COTW will win not 1, not 2 but 3 Sets of Starving Artistamps Backlit Bloom stamps: Rose, Daisy and Orchid

Contest Entry Details:

• Please provide a link to your card by posting it on this thread using Mr. Linky
• Deadline for all entries: Saturday September 18th 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, September 19th here at 2 Sketches 4 You.
• International Card makers are welcome to enter

We are super excited to see your entries.  Have fun - see you in the Gallery!

Hugs Kazan & your Divine DT

Card of the Week & Fab 5!

Yesterday was a somber yet beautiful fall day of remembrance, let us never forget 9/11. Colorado is such a stunning place to live and this time of year is my all time favorite. The season has definitely shifted and I am more than ready for comfy jeans and snuggly sweaters. Thank you to everyone who played along with us this week. I am always in awe of the amount of talent out there when I browse the gallery. Also thank you to our fabulous sponsor, Craftbrulee, awesome, awesome crafting supplies to be had at Craftbrulee!

Card of the Week

Jean

This stunning card reminds me of when summer slowly turns to fall. I love the delicate feeling this card displays along with rich greens and burnt pinks, lovely. I'm sorry... this card is Absolutely Fabulous, just like it's title! Thank you Jean for making such a striking card and sharing your talent with us.

You can see more of Jeans work on her blog: Stampin Scrapper

Jean please email me your details so I can get your goodies off to you :)

Fab 5!

Fleer

Jinny

Laurie

Merideth

Mona

Happy, happy Sunday to all!

Tomorrow brings a SUPER COOL sponsor and a new sketch you won't want to miss.

Hugs,

Laura & your Darling Design Team!