Bi-Weekly Sketch Challenge #23

Welcome to our 23rd bi-weekly sketch challenge! Here’s the sketch for the next couple of weeks. It’s open to interpretation. Feel free to change the orientation of the sketch, use different shapes, add other elements to suit the type of paper craft you’re making, and so on — just make sure the sketch is recognizable in your submission(s). Please make sure to read "Ready to Play?" at the end of this post before linking up.

PRIZE
The sketch challenges are sponsored by our sister shop, All About Scrapping. The winner gets to pick 3 DIGITAL products from the shop — any combination of printable sheets, Photoshop templates, and digital paper packs. The winner will also be invited to be a Guest Designer in next year's sketch challenge.

INSPIRATION PROJECTS

Our guest designer for this challenge is Ingrid of Ingrid's Craft Corner! She was our sketch challenge #20 winner. Check out how she was inspired by our sketch!

Guest Designer

INGRID

"Hi there! My name is Ingrid Kristina V, I’m in my early 30s and live in London with my fiancé and our two little girls. I have always been a crafty soul and enjoy cardmaking, art journaling, creating fine or mixed media art and more, which I share regularly on my blog, Ingrid's Crafts Corner. My cardmaking style is clean, simple and contemporary, with bold and bright features, as well as artsy, grungy and fun. My art could be described as grungy, textured, vintage, but I also like to play with colours and visual textures. I have an enormous passion for mixed media and love the creative freedom it gives me. I’m consistently on a lookout for new trends and right now my favourite are Brusho crystals so hop over to my blog to see what ‘mess’ I created so far."

And here are the inspiration projects by the STAMPlorations design team. We'd love it if you'd visit our blogs and say hi!

CORNELIA

using SENTIMENT BUILDERS: Happy, PATCHWORK FRENZY: Graphic Squares, and VIGNETTE: Retro Mod Shapes

DEBRA

using SENTIMENT BUILDERS: Christmas & New Year

KYLIE

using SENTIMENT BUILDERS: Celebrate and VIGNETTE: Celebrate Artsy

SHIRLEY

using Oh, Christmas Tree

MONIKA

using Trendy Leaves, BLOOM SKETCHES: Sunflower Artsy, SENTIMENT BUILDERS: Thank You

using VIGNETTE: Eat Drink Be Merry

DEEPTI

using VIGNETTE: Retro Mod Shapes and VIGNETTE: Trendy Feathers

NONNI

using VIGNETTE: Trendy Leaves and SUBWAY ART BUILDERS: Dare

MARIA F.

using VIGNETTE: Art Deco Border Builders and Joyful

VICKI

using VIGNETTE: Art Deco Border Builders and SENTIMENT BUILDERS: Christmas & New Year

SHERY
using VIGNETTE: Retro Mod Shapes, VIGNETTE: Celebrate Artsy, and SENTIMENT BUILDERS: Celebrate

READY TO PLAY?

• Create a new project -- card, tag, mini album/scrapbook cover, layout, home decor item, or any paper craft -- on ANY THEME using the sketch as your guide. Any style is welcome — CAS, shabby chic, vintage, grunge, and so on. Post your creation on your blog and submit it by 11:55 p.m. PDT on Friday, November 14. Don’t have a blog? You can post a photo of your project on your Pinterest page, Flickr, or any public online gallery.

• You must use stamps (rubber, cling, clear, digi — from any company) in your creation(s). You do not need to use STAMPlorations stamps to enter this challenge, but please keep this one important rule in mind: if you are on the design team of another stamp company, please don't use our challenges to link up projects that you make for the sole purpose of promoting or advertising your company. You are welcome to play as long as your project/post is not promotional in nature. If you are on the DT of a regular challenge blog (not affiliated with a stamp company), please feel free to link up your projects, including those where you use images provided by whoever is sponsoring your current challenge, if they fit our challenge.

• Copy the link of your blog entry where you have your project posted and enter it to the linky found at the end of this post. Remember to link directly to your blog post, not just your blog URL. (This will make it easy for us to find your submission and leave a comment. Please turn off word verification as well.)

• Please include a text link back to this post in your blog post, as well as display the sketch, to encourage other paper crafters to participate.

• You can submit up to 3 entries for this challenge.

• You can submit your creation(s) to other challenges — as many as you want — except to other sketch challenges for obvious reasons!

• Be a follower of our blog to qualify for the prize.

• And lastly, have a great time creating your project! :-)

We’ll announce the winner and top picks on Sunday, November 16, here on the STAMPlorations™ blog and on the All About Scrapping page on Facebook. That’s it…we look forward to seeing what you create!

~ The STAMPlorations™ girls