Bi-Weekly Sketch Challenge #26

Welcome to our 26th 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). You can use stamps by other companies to create projects that you enter to our challenges but please do not use our challenges for the sole purpose of promoting another stamp company. If you have our stamps in your stash, we'd be tickled if you use them -- and we've tweaked the prize a bit to encourage you to use our stamps if you have them!

PRIZES

Winner

Prize: 3 digi stamps

+ Guest Designer spot in Sketch Challenge #29

Top picks

Guest designer spot in Sketch Challenge #29 if they will use a STAMPlorations digi stamp we will provide OR use our clear stamps if they already have them

Winner and top picks will receive a personalized STAMPlorations guest designer watermark and a personalized guest designer badge to display on their blogs.

FREQUENT PLAYERS
Play in all 3 challenges we host this month (January Challenge, Sketch #25, and Sketch #26) and you'll be in the running to win a STAMPlorations stamp and stencil pack valued at $10. The winner can also opt for a $10 gift certificate to the shop if she prefers.

INSPIRATION PROJECTS
Our guest designer for this sketch is Maria Tchotcheva, our sketch #23 winner. We're so glad to have you as our guest designer, Maria! Check out how the beautiful card she made based on the sketch and when you have moment, please stop by her blog to leave her some love!

Guest Designer: MARIA

"Hello! My name is Maria and I live in Sofia, Bulgaria. I love to paint and do all kinds of things - decorations, packaging and others. I started making cards in 2010. It is fun and a great way to relaxation. I adore CAS style. Actually now very often I create cards on different occasions for my family and friends. I'm so happy to have been invited by STAMPlorations to be a guest designer. Thank you!"

And here are the inspiration projects by the STAMPlorations design team. This is the last challenge the current team (except for Nonni) is participating in. Next month, the new challenge design team takes over. We'd love it if you'd visit our blogs and say hi!

DEBRA

using Sentiment Builders: Celebrate and Sketched: Cupcake

SHIRLEY

using Hashtag Authentic, Trendy Butterflies and Vignette: Chevrons and Arrows

CORNELIA

using Trendy Butterflies, Bloom Sketches and Mini Mixed Media Backgrounds

DEEPTI

using Subway Art Builders: Dare

MARIA F.

using The Bees Knees: Houses

MONIKA

using Trendy Butterflies, Trendy Leaves, Sentiment Builders: Thank You and MOM Subway Art Builders #3: Quiet Strength

NONNI

using Sugar Rush

READY TO PLAY?

• Create any paper craft on any theme using the sketch as your guide. Any style is welcome. Link up your project from your blog (or Pinterest board, Flickr account, Splitcoast Stampers gallery) to our gallery by 11:55 p.m. PST (GMT -8) on Friday, January 30.

• You must use stamps in your project(s) -- rubber, clear, or digi from any company. 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. Such entries will be deleted. You are welcome to play as long as your project/post is not solely 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.

• 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.)

• Include a text link back to this challenge post in your blog post to encourage other paper crafters to play too. Entries not linking back to our challenge will be deleted.

• You can submit a maximum of 3 entries for this challenge, and link up to as many other challenges as you want.

• Follow our blog.

• And lastly, have a great time creating your project (s)!We'll announce the winner and top picks on Thursday, February 5, 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