Nov 27 challenge

Happy Thanksgiving!

We have another wonderful sketch by our dear friend Amy Gandy aka Southernbellescrapper. Thank you for the privilege to use your sketch. Please check out her HERE and her sketch blog HERE!

We have an announcement to make regarding the month of December (starting Dec 4th)...As so many of us are extra busy this month we have decided not to do any sketches until the new year and instead will be bringing you tutorials by each one of our designers. We hope that you will enjoy these and feel inspired by them!

Without further a do, here is our sketch and our interpretations........

Aymee Gandy sketch

"Profiles of 3 Generations"

Sandi Clarkson

Soft Side of Sandi

"Miracle"

Sandy Windsor

Details by Sandy

Leah Schaeffer

Beeing Creative and Feeling Cherry

Nanné Harry

Nanne's Creations

November 20 challenge

Challenge number 8
Hello, all! This week we are pleased to be using a sketch designed by Beggahuna.  We all had a great time with this one.. You can see below how differently the designers were able to use the sketch.  Hope you get a chance to play along and if not, we encourage you to try this sketch at a later date.

(The due date for this challenge sketch is next Friday (Nov 28th).. If Mr.kLinky isn't working anymore, just leave a comment with a link to your layout or card.)

Beggahuna Sketch

Leah Schaeffer

Beeing Creative and Feeling Cherry

"Tub Time .. cute, clean, cuddly"

Sandi Clarkson

Soft Side of Sandi

Sky is the Limit

Nanné Harry

Nanne's Creations

Keep Christmas in Your Heart

Sandy Windsor

Details by Sandy

November 13 challenge

Hello, all! This week we are pleased to be using a sketch designed by Aymee Gandy, a fellow Cricut Message Board member. You may know her as Southernbellescrapper. Visit her at http://southernbellescrapper.blogspot.com/ We all had a great time with this one! The horizontal and vertical lines help to give it a great sense of balance. And you can see below that all our designers use them differently. Hope you get a chance to play along and if not, we encourage you to try this sketch at a later date. Aymee, thanks again for letting us use your sketch!

(The due date for this challenge sketch is next Friday (Nov 20th).. If Mr.kLinky isn't working anymore, just leave a comment with a link to your layout or card.)

Aymee Gandy's Sketch

Family
Nanne Harry
Nanne's Creations

Leah

Beeing Creative and Feeling Cherry

"Meeting Bossy"

Sandi Clarkson
Soft Side of Sandi

" Gramma's ...just antique little girls"

Sandy Windsor

Details by Sandy

November 6 challenge

Wow, what a great response we had to our triple challenge last week! Many thanks to all of you who participated and those of you who maybe just enjoyed seeing all the great work the scrapping community put out last week. We were so excited to be part of that and amazed at how many of you were able to incorporate all three challenges into one project! Now, I'm sure you are anxious to know who won our prize! Drum roll please .... the winner is ScrappinPsycho with her project "What A Hoot". Congrats!!!! ... Please send your email address to mrsbealash@aol.com and we'll get your prize right out to you. Now for this weeks sketch we have another Pagemaps sketch my Becky Fleck. Scroll on down to see what our designers have done this week!

The due date for this challenge sketch ends Friday (November 13th) at Midnight.. If Mr. kLinky doesn't work anymore, just leave a comment and we can find your layout/card that way..

Leah Schaeffer

Beeing Creative and Feeling Cherry

"Love that lasts a lifetime"

Sandi Clarkson

Soft Side of Sandi

"Love ...the best gift of Christmas"

Sandy Windsor

Details by Sandy 

 

Adore

Nanne Harry

Nanne Creations

Oct 30 Sketch and Triple challenge!

Today is reveal day here at Stuck On U Sketches and we have a great sketch lined up for you. This is yet another one of Becky Fleck's awesome sketchs over at Pagemaps. ( Next week I think we are changing up a bit LOL)

Anyway, we are doing something special this week! We have teamed up with Practical Scrappers and Frosted Designs to challenge you to a triple! What's that? Well, each site has their own separate challenge for you this week ... but to become a winner, you have to meet all three challenges and post your project or projects on all three sites. Each blog will choose a winner and give individual prizes BUT you have to have met all three challenges and post on all three sites to win! You can incorporate the three challenges into one project or you can do 2 or 3 projects .. it's up to you! So, hop on over to Frosted Designs and Practical Scrappers after you have finished seeing what our Design Team has done with this week's sketch. Winners will be announced next Friday, so check back to see if you have won the goodies shown above! OUR challenge is, of course, to use this great Pagemaps sketch.

"Laugh"

Sandi Clarkson

Soft Side of Sandi

"Natural Beauty"

Sandy Windsor

Details by Sandy

"Who Loves You"
Leah Schaeffer

Being Creative and Feeling Cherry

"2's Company but 3's a Hoot"

Nanne Harry

Nanne's Creations

Oct 23 Sketch

We are really enjoying the sketches that Becky has over at Page Maps! Such a great assortment there!
We hope that you will enjoy this weeks challenge...as well as the examples we have for you!

Thank you all for your joining in and we can't wait to see what you all do with this (something I am sure we'll say each week! LOL!)

Leah Schaeffer

Beeing Creative and Feeling Cherry

Nanné

Nanne's Creations

"Boo Careful Out There!"

Sandi Clarkson

Soft Side of Sandi

"Take These Wings and Fly"

Sandy Windsor

Details by Sandy

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100 Follower Blog Candy Winner!

Just wanted to announce our winner...thank you all for joining and getting us to 100 followers! We look forward to the future and to lots more fun together!

xoxo the DT!

Tammara!!!!!!!!!! Your the lucky lady!!!!!! Please leave a comment to get your prize!!!

Floral Branch Tutorial

With all the lovely layouts displaying beautiful floral branches I decided to try my hand at making one....here is a branch I made....it is very similar to the branch on my Through My Eyes layout...the flowers are different but the branch the same....if attaching all the pieces seem monotonous I would suggest attaching the wire branch to the layout and then building the flower and leave layers right on top of it...you can do this using a tacky glue....This is the branch I will show you today.....

Each flower will have 4 layers. I used my cricut to cut the Graphically Speaking blockout feature of the five petal fower. 2 each @ 1 and 1 1/4 inches. After cutting them out wad them up! Do this for all the flowers you will need....I did a total of seven.

I chose to chalk mine....use your glue pen to layer the flower....remember to stagger the petals.

Then ball the flower up and unfold...this part is where you create...work with the petals until you get the effect you want.

For the stem I used floral wire and tape. I tried other wires and this is the only one my tape would stick to.....Cut the wire the length you would like you stem to be and then cut 2 or 3 slightly shorter pieces...and wrap...this goes very quickly....

After the stems are wrapped start building your branch....I wrapped the wire several times...twisting one end up the branch and the other end down the branch.

I cut my leaves using my A Child's Year cart. I cut them in both 1 and 1/2 inches...chalk or ink...take a small piece of wire and glue it to the back of the leaf....fold the leaf to make sure it has good contact with the wire....let these dry.....

Begin adding the leaves to your branch by twisting the wire around the branch.

Glue the flowers to the leaves....at this point I added the smaller leaves by glueing them under the flower.

Cut some additional wire pieces at about 4 inches and spiral around a wooden sqewer.

Add these to your branches and you have created you own handmade floral stem....hope you have enjoyed this tutorial....can't wait to see how you use it!