May 15th Sketches

Here you go ladies

Layout Sketch

Here is what the designers did with the sketch

Card Sketch

Here is what the designers did with the sketch

Guest Card Designer- Karla Gordon


Hi my name is Karla Gordon and I live in Ontario, Canada. I am a stay at home mom and have two girls Laura (16) and Maggie (7). My husband, Calvin and I will have been married for 11 years in June. We just adopted a sweet dog (Tia) and she is keeping me very busy! I started scrapping about 4 years ago and it is my most favourite thing to do. There is always something new to learn and play with. I had no one to teach me until I came across a group on line. My scrapbooking has grown so much since then. I have had the pleasure of teaching (addicting) family and friends what I know. MSW is a great place to be with so many friendly ladies. Lucy does amazing sketches and the forum is full of great information and fun chatter. I followed Lucy over to Faith Sisters and did her card sketches there and now I am getting hooked on making cards. I was thrilled to be picked for guest card designer for May here at MSW. All the ladies at Faith Sister and MSW have been very inspirational to me with all their fantastic work. I hope you all enjoy my card!

Blog Challenge #1 ~ In Stitches

I love using Lucy's sketches. I have been using them for so long they feel like home.

I used the May 1st Sketch to create this layout:

Did you take a close look at it? Notice all the wonderful hand stitching? I hope so. I am going to walk you through using hand stitching on your layouts.

Gather up some supplies:

Paper and die cuts ( I used My Minds Eye)

Embroidery thread (DMC)

Needle

Paper Piercer ( You can use a thumb tack)

Pad for piercing ( mouse pad works well)

Bazill stitch Template ( these are great)

1. Use your piercer and pierce holes by hand on your die cut image. The more holes you punch.... the more stitching you will be doing. :) Thread your needle and stitch through your holes.

Close Up:

2. Using the Bazill Stitch Template I pierced holes along the left hand side of my layout. I chose the scalloped edge. Love this one. Stitch through your holes.

**If you do not have a Stitch Template then you can draw a design lightly in pencil and poke your holes.

Close Up:

Tips:

*Be sure to either knot your stitching or adhere on the back of your layout. Otherwise you risk your stitches unraveling.

*If you do not have a stitch template you can draw a design by hand in pencil and poke your holes freehand.

* The thicker your thread the more bold your stitching will appear.

*Stitch your alphas for a bold, textured title feature.

*Bazill makes amazing templates. Not only do they have border templates but shapes and even word templates. Way cool!

*You can also stamp an image and poke your holes.

Challenge #1: I would like to see you do some hand stitching on your layout!! Be brave and try this easy to do technique. You can use any of Lucy's featured sketches as the foundation of your layout. Load your layouts in the gallery and email it to me at thynner5@yahoo.ca. Be sure to put Lucy's Blog Challenge in your subject line.

You will earn a ballot for a Blog RAK!! How would you like to have some Bazill Stitch templates and some stamps?? Cool eh?!

Look for another Blog challenge after the next sketch reveal!

Due: June 1st.

~Tara~

Hello There

I am so excited that Lucy has asked me to be a part of the blog. I see alot of familiar faces on the forum and the design teams as well. I also see alot of people I don't know yet and I am looking forward to getting to know each of you too.

My name is Tara Thynne aka Thynner to most of you. I have my own blog that I hope you will visit as well. I offer up lots of challenges and prizes. I will be here to inspire you and challenge you here as well. You will be seeing me post a few times a month. I will be posting some inspiration based on Lucy's wonderful sketches. I have not only been a friend of Lucy's for a long time now but, I am also a fan.

I have three girls who are very close to one another. The twins, Emmy and DD are 9 and Paige is 7. I have been married to my soul mate for 12 years now and I adore my family. I find scrapping to be my sanctuary from the everyday chaos of raising a family. It is my quiet time at the end of the day. I love trying new and interesting things on my pages and in my designs. I have been on various design teams for almost 5 years. I have been responsible for many new and exciting things. I have organized crops, contests, challenges and have been blessed with making new friends. I have been fortunate to have my layouts published in magazine and online galleries. I hope to take all the wonderful things I have learned and shared with the amazing team and members here at My Sketchworld!

Watch for my first post later tonight. I have a challenge, a mini tutorial and of course a RAK as well.

~Tara~

Happy Mother's Day

I want to wish everyone a Happy Mother's Day to you, your moms, grandmothers, mother-in-laws, aunties, cousins or someone that means alot to you that you feel she deserves a special note of thanks of being there.

May 1st Sketch- Happy May

Happy May to everyone

Here is your layout sketch for May 1st.

Here is what the designers did with the sketch.

Here is your card sketch for May 1st.

Here is what the desugners did the sketch.

Our Guest Designer for May is Ginni Gass

My name is Ginni Gass and I live in Deerfield Beach, Florida. My husband, Steve, and I have been married for almost 19 years and have lived in Alaska, California and 3 different cities in Florida during that time! We are empty-nesters with four children (Greg, Jeff and Mike are his sons, and Michele is my daughter) and two grandchildren (Molly is 8 and Noah is 5). I’m an avid scrapbooker and have been scrapping for almost 8 years now. I had two layouts published in the April issue of Scrapbooking News and Review and am currently serving on the Design Team at Scrapdango. My husband and I love to sing on worship teams at church and we love to experience new places and things. In fact, we are currently trying to figure out how to build our dream – a family-oriented fishing lodge/bed & breakfast in Southeast Alaska! I’m totally honored to be your Guest Designer this month! I’m really excited and hope to be as much of an inspiration to you ladies as you have been to me.

Come and Check out the Forum--->alot of challenges and an awesome contest going on.