My Sketch World

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Gift Bag with Bev

After watching the video you will be able to easily make these too cute gift bags/boxes... and follow the printed directions below.
Supply list:
Cardstock: 9"x12"
Cut/trimmer/ score piece
score pad/ cutter with score piece / old pen
Corner punch/ cut your own
about 1" circle punch/ cut your own
Glue
Accents: any scraps and accents to your desire

This little but perfect size gift box.. will be amazing for Valentines Day treats for those special people in our lives. Also would be a great fabulous table treat box for dinner occasions, birthday parties.. and even a teachers gift bag.. So many different ways to use it.
The front view using Lucy Chesna Design Jan. Card Sketch from My Sketch World. Sketch below.

Side view.. I did the full wrap around decoration for my gift box. Added a cute tag with tied ribbon. Accented with fun punched border layered with accent paper. fun 3 D valentine stickers, a matted title and cute brads. The tag with more 3D stickers on a tag.

Here is the directions sheet to print and follow when making your project... the gift bag. Be sure to visit My Sketch World FORUM in the Tutorial by Bev section.. play along and share your project with us. We'd love to see it. Hope you have a scrappy day.. Bev MSW DT

Sunday, January 15, 2012

January Card Sketch

Hello Everyone

Its the 15th so that means its our reveal of January's card sketch

Here is what the designers did with the sketch

Barb Prendergat

Bev Code

Jan Tatomir

Lisa Moen

Marion A. Wybranietz

Nicole Wise

Sherri Priest

Karen Zabuska

Reminders

My Sketch World eBook Pub Call: I am searching for designers for my second ebook that I doing. Check out the call HERE

My Sketch World Sketch-a-Thon: Our 6th Anniversary is coming up and it will be our 3rd year with the sketch-a-thon. We have alot of sponsors already and I know we will have more by the time it starts. I am so excited. You can check it out in the BLOG or head over to the FORUM

Sunday, January 8, 2012

MSW eBook Pub Call

eBook Publication

I am excited to share with you today that I will be creating a second ebook of sketches!

MSW eBook 2

A publication you can download and print yourself and use it as you wish!

This second issue of this ebook will feature exclusive sketches created by me but some of the examples will be made by you!

I would love to see your creation to be published in MSW eBook 2!

To be considered for publication send the following to mysketchworld@gmail.com

Compensation for being selected will not include products or monetary value but a free eBook for you and one friend

Subject line - MSW eBook 2
Name
Email address
Blog address or gallery
Attach 2-3 of your layouts, cards or projects so I can get an idea of your scrappy style. Images to be .jpeg version, each under 600k in size.

Note: Photos should be taken in high resolution with clean and crisp backgrounds using excellent lighting.

If you are selected I will contact you by email before March 3rd and I will send you a unique sketch to create a layout with and you'll be required to send it back to me by March 31st.

This is will be OPEN call till we have enough applicants.

Compensation for being selected will not include products or monetary value but a free eBook for you and one friend

So don't wait and submit today!

We are looking for card makers and scrapbookers of all kind (paper, digi and mixed media)

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Weaving with Bev

Weaving is a method of fabric production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth. The other methods are knitting, lace making and felting. The longitudinal threads are called the warp and the lateral threads are the weft or filling. The method in which these threads are inter woven affects the characteristics of the cloth.

All these pages show you that there are many different patterns to give unique and amazing designs.

Some are more involved and take more concentration with the row changes but look how fabulous they look when weaved.

Well I am so glad you could join me, Bev today. I thought with all the talk of the New Year, resolutions etc and also so much talk of using up some of last years stash...... what a better way to use scrap than to slice those pieces into strips and weave them. And then the next thing is how would you use them on a layout page?

Lucy Chesna's Design Layout Sketch above for January 2012 had border clusters on top right and left bottom. Well instead I thought we'd try some weaving in each of these corners.

So starting with scraps that are cut into equal pieces I glued just the edge to the outer edge of background piece.

Then doing the easiest of the weaves 1st row under and over and 2nd row over and under... I continued this pattern repeatedly until I had enough to fill the corner.

I then did the other corner too. The outer edges looked great just being left at staggered lengths. I glued the outer sections down . The center section was held very tight by the weaving.

From there I added the main photo with circular accent and extra inked matting for colour.

So now the fun part.. adding all the extra strips, accents, flowers, buttons, some twine added to some flowers, a couple cute butterflies and finished it off with stamped corners and some stitching in the corners.
As you can see a plain cardstock background with weaving added so much colour, texture and dimension to the page and I used up some stash too.
I would love to see you make a project using weaving of that stash and share with us. It would also be great to see some of the other patterns from above.