Card of the Week & Fab 5!

{Happy Halloween}

Today is the BIG day! I hope everyones day and night is filled with lots of tricks & treats and some good ol' frightful fun. My Halloween plans consist of handing out candy to all the trick or treaters along with all of my daughters friends coming over for hot apple cider and glazed donuts.

A HUGE thank you to Starving Artistamps for their generous sponsorship this week!

Here is the winner of COTW...

Card of the Week

Nerina

I am smitten over this card. I think it's classy and sophisticated with a charming color pallet. The gold sparkle of the snowflakes makes this card pop, giving it a WOW factor. Beautiful work Nerina! Thank you for playing with us at 2S4Y.

You can see more of Nerina's talent on her blog:

A Creative Inkling

Send me your info Nerina and I will get your goodies off to you! :)

Fab 5

Ingrid

Kerrilanne

Lea

Romy

Stephanie

Happy & safe hauntings to you all! Come back tomorrow for another fun week.

Hugs

Laura and your Spooktacular Design Team

Laura's Sketch 64

Laura used the Rose set from Backlit Blooms

I am back! Phewww after a week off I am ready to get back into the creative limelight again. My family and I are all moved, mostly unpacked and settled. I LOVE my new house and feel so lucky and fortunate to have a great friend like Kazan to substitute for me. Thanks Kazan!

We are sadly saying goodbye to 3 of our beloved designers today. We had so much fun with these ladies and their talent is outstanding and will be greatly missed.

Kelly Marie is such a sweet soul. I love this ladies warm, sweet, and calm personality. Kelly is so talented on so many levels. We know she will go so far in this industry we have so much admiration for her! You are our HERO Kelly, thank you! Muah!!

♥ Laura & Kazan

Stacey is such a lovely person. She is so bubbly and super easy to work with and her work always top notch. I love getting cards from Stacey, when I open up her email it's like opening up a present. Thank you Stacey you're a doll!

♥ Laura & Kazan

Rosemarie's easy going personality and superb talent speaks for itself. Her style is charming and loaded with detail. I was fortunate enough to receive a birthday card in the mail from Rosemarie and I was blown away with the she quality puts into her work. Thank you Rosemarie, you will truly be missed.

♥ Laura & Kazan

This week we are proud and very excited to have Starving Artistamps as our sponsor. Our Spooktacular Design Team has made the most beautiful cards from Starving Artistamps, DoodleFactory Backlit Blooms set.

Angie

Angie used the Rose image from the Backlit Blooms set on her card

Courtney

Courtney used the Poinsettia from Backlit Blooms set on her card

Stacey

Stacey used the Orchid image from Backlit Blooms set on her card

Kellie Marie
Kelly Marie used the Rose image from the Backlit Blooms set on her card

Regina

Regina used the Poinsettia image from the Backlit Blooms set on her card

Rosemarie

Sponsor of the Week

This week we welcome back Starving Artistamps. Our Spooktacular design team worked with the Backlit Blooms set from DoodleFactory. 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.

Winner of Card of the Week

Will win the images Dogwood, Holly, and Poinsettia with sentiments from Backlit Blooms!

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 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, October 31st here at 2 Sketches 4 You.
• International Card makers are welcome to enter

Lets get creating!!

Hugs,

Laura & your Spooktacular Design Team

cards of the Week & our Fab 5!

The official countdown to Halloween has begun in our household.  Our mantel is dressed, the door is spooked up and the pumpkin patiently awaits carving.  My hubby and I have decided that this year we will dress up with the girls (feeling a bit of pressure from the other parents in our group) so now to find that perfect costume for me!  Eeeaak.  My youngest saw a huge furry duck costume in Target and suggested I be a giant Mommy Duck!!! mmmmm I am thinking that might be my backup plan ;)  but in the meantime you all will not need a back-up plan to get creative because we have a ton of inspiration in the gallery as well as some draw dropping cards to feature this week!

Thank you so much to Clear & Simple stamps for you wonderful sponsorship. We love your stamps and we know our readers will love them too.  Here are the winners for this week:

Card of the Week

Lindsay

I love the paper Lindsay used on this card.  The attention to detail and her interpretation of the sketch is fabulous - look at that decorative edge, and those cut out flowers.  I love the sentiment too and how the vintage theme is carried through from paper to embellishment.  Lindsay's blog, Note to Self,  is awesome too - if you love vintage inspired projects you are going to bookmark this one for sure!!

pop me an email Lindsay - I will get you in touch with the wonderful folks at Clear & Simple to redeem your prize :)

Fab 5!

Samantha 

Melissa

Kriss

Kerry

Helen

I hope you are all having a wonderful Sunday.  I have a few little chores to do and then some stamp time  :) Yay!  Tomorrow Laura is back with one of our fav sponsors and a sketch :)

Hugs

Kazan & your fabulously talented DT

Kazan's Sketch 64

Kazan used an image and sentiment from the Harvest set on her Card

We had a super exciting week last week.  After pouring over almost 200 entries in our Gallery we were finally able to narrow down the finalists to the final two new designers:

Mona Pendleton 

and 

Julie Lacy

We know you are all going to be super impressed with their interpretations of our upcoming sketches and we look forward to weeks of wonderful inspiration from them :) Welcome ladies we are so pleased to have you on board.

I know you may be a little confused seeing my name up here for the sketch two weeks in a row BUT Laura has the week off!  For the first time in 2S4Y history one of us is missing a week but for good reason.  You see Laura is moving into her new home this week (and for those of us that have moved we know how crazy it gets) but we wish her all the best with this new adventure and tons of happy (crafty) memories in her new abode and eagerly await her return next week  :)  

This week we were all lucky enough to work with Clear and Simple stamps who are the sponsors for Card of the Week.  Here are the Designers interpretations of the sketch:

Angie

Angie used images and sentiments from the Beware set on her card

Courtney

Courtney used images and sentiments from the Holi-Dazzle set on her card

Stacey

Stacey used images and sentiment from Computer Love on her card

Bonus Sketches & Cards

This week we have two bonus sketches and cards for you.

Regina Mangum

Regina used images and sentiment from the O'Tree set on her card

Regina is one of those talented card makers who has a way of bringing flat 2D images to life! Her wonderful interpretations of sketches and challenges in general (think final 5 on Papar Craft Idols) make her a much sought after designer in this industry.  Her blog,  The Stampin' Bean is full of wonderful surprises and we know you will have fun with her wonderful sketch - Thanks sweet Regina :)

Rosemarie Diehl

Rosemarie used an image and sentiment from the Harvest set on her Card

Rosemarie is not only one of the sweetest people we know but her talent with all kinds of product is amazing.  We love her style and how she is able to rock a sketch like no other.  Rosemarie's blog, Rose's World is filled with tons of inspiration and a goodie or two to win, just sayin' :) Thanks so much for for such a gorgeous sketch Ms. Rosemarie

Sponsor of the Week

This week we welcome back Clear & Simple stamps as our Sponsor of the week.  They folks at Clear & Simple stamps describe their clear polymer stamp images as fun and fashionable which will inspire you to be a true stamping diva!  Their concept is: Clear and Simple Stamping (love that!!)

After visiting the website you will be certainly have fun with all the features they have to offer their readers.  They have a gallery jam packed with inspirational samples and a section devoted to Style Watch:  Here you will be inspired by the latest trends in fashion and design right from the runway to your craft room. 

One of my favorite features that Clear and Simple Stamps has to offer it's readers is the awesome

CSS Paper crafting App !  

Yes folks you read that right - a daily boost of creativity is delivered to your iPhone/iPod Touch every day.  This is the first ever paper crafting app of its kind!  The app's are available for download through the App Store.  Wait there is MORE!!!!

You can see your works published in the CSS App on your iPhone or iPod Touch.  Find out how by learning more of their Submission Guidelines HERE 

Winner of Card of the Week

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 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, October 24th here at 2 Sketches 4 You.
• International Card makers are welcome to enter

Cards of the Week & our Fab 7!

Thank you for your patience!  We poured over all the gallery cards and looked at your blogs and we marveled at the amazing wealth of talent in this community. We did find our two Designers and our Fab 7! Yup these cards were just too gorgeous to pass up and not get a second look. So without further adeu please welcome your two newest 2S4Y Designers who start their reign in November:

Mona

Blog: Cupcake Creations

Mona's Card of the Week

and our second designer is:

Julie

Blog: Stamps & Taxes

Julie's Card of the Week

Fabulous Fab 7!

Amy

Dawn

Chupa

Renee

Suzanne

Jinny

Tesa

Thank you one and all for your participation - we will be back tomorrow with a new sketch and sponsor.

Have a wonderful evening

:) Kazan & your uber cool Design Team

Results for our Card of the Week Winners...

Hi Everyone - I am still working through all the entries but I want you to know TWO new Designers will be chosen today.

Hugs

Kazan

P.S. Updates on Facebook too :)

Kazan's Sketch 63 & Design Team Search

How exciting was last weeks gallery and a huge shout of congratulations goes out to Laurie on making the team by winning Card of the Week.  We know she is going to be a fabulous addition to our team whoot whoot.  If any of you are keeping track you may have noticed that we still need two more members to make up the new team beginning November 1st.  Soooooo at the end of this week we will pick TWO winners for our Cards of the Week :)  It is super exciting so give this your best shot. We will be judging your interpretation of the sketch and we will also be snooping around your blog!  We can't wait to see your work and we are eager to see who the next two designers will be so load up those projects!

To get you in the creative mood take a peek at the Designers interpretations of this weeks sketch.  Each designer worked with their own product and supplies:

Angie

Courtney

Kellie Marie

Regina

Rosemarie

Stacey

Card of the Week Winner

Remember this week we will be picking TWO winners who automatically become Designers for 2 Sketches 4 You starting November 1st.

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 16th 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 17th here at 2 Sketches 4 You.
• International Card makers are welcome to enter

Thank you so much for spending part of your week with us. We are so excited to see your work 

Hugs 

Kazan & Your Fabulous Design Team