More inspiration for Sketch #26

We see lots of you having fun with our newest sketch...there has been many layouts uploaded in the past week and we're lovin' all of them!!
Today we bring you more projects from our design team to inspire you.
To start off, Mary has designed this awesome DIGITAL layout...

Layout by Mary

Some 12x12 layouts...

Layout by Chiqui



Layout by Jennifer



Layout by Kathleen



Layout by Lynn



Layout by Lisa



Layout by Sarah





8.5x11 Layout by Christie





Cards by Anja

Keep those layouts coming in! :) Deadline for entries for this month's draw is 31 July, 11.59pm. :)

Sketch #26

Hello everyone!! We hope you loved all the talent of our new designers. They are soooo talented and we're honored to have them with us for the next 6 months so be prepared to be VERY inspired! :)

We're releasing a new sketch today and we haven't done a 2-pager in some time so here it is...

Our lovely and talented guest designer for this sketch is none other than Emilie Ahern. She is no stranger to many scrappers and we're thrilled to have her design a layout for us.

I am a 30+ year old wife and a mommy of two little red-haired girls. They have perfectly beautiful names, but we find ourselves most often referring to them as Chicken and Fifi.

I have an unhealthy addiction to.... Project Runway, creme brulee, the color orange, blogging, simple carbohydrates and cool Indie music. I know every single word to every single song on the ABBA Gold album. It's a crowning achievement of my life and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

I have been scrapping since 1997. In the past two years I have been fortunate enough to have been published in Creating Keepsakes, Simple Scrapbooks, Memory Makers, Scrapbook Trends, Paper Crafts, Scrapbooks Etc, Handmade and other scrapbooking publications. I have also been blessed to share my passion for crafting on manufacturer design teams and by teaching classes all over the US. I currently teach classes for Big Picture Scrapbooking online. I am also the Founder and Editor In Chief of THE SCRAP REVIEW, an online site which gives honest and unbiased reviews of scrapbooking products.

Layout by Emilie

Here's what our designers have come up with for this sketch ...

Layout by Christy

Layout by Kim

Layout by Wendy

Layout by Aud

Layout by Akiko

This is a two-pager in 8.5x11....

Layout by Christa

Two-page layout sketches are so versatile you can even do one-pagers with them. Here's what April did with one side of the sketch!

Layout by April

You can even do cards with the sketch...

Cards by Elaine

Wow! We hope you are inspired with all these wonderful creations. Can't wait to see yours in the gallery!! :) More projects on sketch #26 to come next week!

Welcome back Sarah, Jennifer and Christie!

Joining us at IB for a second term are Sarah Ward, Jennifer Yates and Christie Wildes!

Name: Sarah Ward
Location: Australia
Blog: www.sarward.blogspot.com
Designer: 12x12 layouts

Thanks for having me back as part of this amazing sketch site!  My name is Sarah Ward, but I'm known as Sar (rhymes with bear!) in the scrap world.  I am married to the love of my life Daniel, and we have three amazing children - Cooper 4, Georgia 2 and Bronte 1.  I have recently become a scrapbook shop owner (www.scrapbooksavvy.com.au) and as you can imagine my life revolves around scrapbooking,   whether it be packing orders, looking at and buying new products, or actually scrapbooking with my girls at crop days & nights.  The most important thing for me at this point is to continue scrapbooking, I don't want to become a scrapbook shop owner who no longer has time to scrap...continuing to create and actually BEING a scrapbooker is something I refuse to give up!

Sarah's layout

 

Name: Jennifer Yates
Location: USA
Blog: www.thepinkroom.typepad.com/

Designer: 12x12 layouts

I am THRILLED to be continuing with the team!  I absolutely love it here.  Hello! My name is Jennifer Yates and I am a SAHM living in the Dallas/Fort Worth area of Texas with my husband Mark (13 years) and two wonderful kiddos, Mason (4 1/2) and Maren (18 months).   I started scrapbooking almost 5 years ago, after the birth of our son Mason and have been HOOKED ever since!  Coming from a Graphic Design background scrapbooking gives me my creative release that I once had. It is definitely my therapy!  Scrapbooking has also started a love for photography that I never had.  It is something that I continually try to educate myself about and work on.  One of my favorite things in this wonderful hobby are embellishments!  I can't seem to get enough of them!!!  I really enjoy layering pieces, taking embellishments and different styles of papers and mixing them all together! It's fun to see what comes of it in the end.   What I love about scrapbooking is that things are continually changing and there is always new tips and techniques to learn from, which makes it so fun and exciting!  I have met many wonderful women who share the same passion for scrapbooking as I do and look forward to meeting many more here at Inspired Blueprints!

Jennifer's layout

Name: Christie Wildes

Location: USA

Blog: www.wildscrapper.blogspot.com/

Designer: 8.5x11 layouts

I am honored to be a part of your team once again.  Love it there!!!  Hi!  My name is Christie Wildes and am a Florida native.  I have a wonderful husband, Andy, who is an active duty soldier in the Army.  I am a stay-at-home mama to my two main scrapbooking subjects - Bayleigh, 7 years, and Layne, 1 yr old.  I have been scrapbooking since 1998, when I was introduced at a CM home party.  Needless to say, it wasn't long before I was exploring the local scrapbook store hunting contraband for my albums.  I am mostly a one page scrapbooker, but do enjoy creating various sizes of pages.  I consider myself a shabby chic, eclectic scrapbooker, with lots to look at on my pages.  I just love using product!  I enjoy scrapbooking as my creative outlet and a way to work with my hands artistically.  It brings me great joy to create lasting legacies and memories for my children to cherish forever!   I usually just pick some products and find a couple of pictures and get to work!

Christie's layout

 

So there you have it...the Inspired Blueprints Team!  Join us on 15 July 2009 for the reveal of Sketch 26!

Introducing Anja and Elaine...

New to Inspired Blueprints, Anja and Elaine will be creating cards from our sketches each fortnight!

Name: Anja Curvers
Location: Netherlands
Blog: www.scrappietoo.blogspot.com
Designer: Cards

Hi, my name is Anja Curvers.   I'm a SAHM living in the Netherlands with my husband and four children Arno (15), Rick (14), Emy (12) and Susanne (7), they are my inspiration.  I have been scrapbooking for about 6 years now but lately my passion is making "scrap"cards.  I used to make cards from the scraps I had left over when I finished a lay-out but somehow it has changed in making cards and making a lay-out with the left-overs from the cards.  I don't have a personal style I just do as I like or it depends in which scrap-mood I am.  I hope I'll inspire others with my work as much as they inspire me.

Anja's Cards

 

 

 

 

 

Name: Elaine Teo

Location: Singapore

Blog: http://angel08.wordpress.com/

Designer: Cards

 

Hi! I'm Elaine from Singapore and am a stay-at-home mother to 2 very energetic boys. Beside trying to keep up with my boys and cleaning the house, I also love to scrapbook, make cards and sew - I basically love making things and I enjoy trying out new techniques where scrapping and cardmaking are concerned. I get most of my inspiration from scrapbook and card making magazines. I used to read a lot of fiction books, but eversince I stumbled upon scrapbooking (and cardmaking) 4 years ago, I read more craft magazines these days. I definitely have to browse through one magazine before I go to bed every night. :)

Elaine's cards

 

 

Introducing Wendy and Aud...

Wendy and Aud have both been guest designers in the past and we're thrilled they're here to join us as part of the team!

Name: Wendy Smith
Location: Australia
Blog: www.my-head-space.blogspot.com
Designer: 12x12 layouts

I am Wendy Smith, married to the most understanding 'Scrap Widow' in the world Duncan, and mother to 2 ratbags…ahh I mean Boys…. Charlie and Angus.  I first started scrapbooking when I was pregnant with Charlie in 2004. I really loved the thought of keeping memories, and being creative. I have always been a lover of stationary and remember collecting writing paper and stickers when I was young. I am a definite paperholic, and love the feel, texture, colours and even smell of paper. I have always enjoyed cutting and sticking and expressing myself creatively and scrapbooking seems to be the perfect way for me to do this.   I would consider my style quite masculine, as a I rarely scrap girly pages. To look at, my layouts are quite distressed, layered and bright. I really love the technique of clustering embellishments, and feel I have my own unique way of doing this that works for me! I don’t claim to be a photographer, and enjoy using my everyday photos in layouts.  I get inspiration from the world around me. I love scrapping with my friends and my sister, as they are all very talented scrappers who have their own unique styles that are very inspirational to me. I love browsing online galleries and blogs to get inspiration for layouts, and find creating and using sketches extremely inspiring also.

Wendy's layout
 

Name: Aud Randi Kalve
Location: Norway
Blog: www.arkscraps.blogspot.com
Designer: 12x12 layouts

Hello! My name is Aud Randi and I live with my husband and two teenage daughters, aged 15 and 18 in Bergen, Norway.  During the day, I work as a study leader for a large engineering company in the oil business.  All my free time I spend with scrapbook-related activities like browsing the internet, reading magazines, shopping for supplies, and of course creating layouts. I started with this hobby in September 2008 because I decided to make an album for my youngest daughter's 15th birthday. As I have never before been a great fan of putting pictures into albums, you could say that I have a lot of catching up to do.

Layout by Aud

Winners and Favourites for June

Hello everyone! We hope you've been enjoying the new DT introductions this past week and been inspired by their awesome talent. But we're interrupting the intros a bit here to bring you the winners of the random draw for June.

The winner of the prize package from Scrapbook Circle is: Chiakish

Here is her layout:

 

And our second winner who wins for herself a prize package from Scrapbook Savvy is : kobakyon.

Here is her layout:

 

Congratulations to our winners and thank you all for your wonderful entries. Here are some of our favourites this month:

Keep those layouts coming in for a chance at this month's random draw. :)

Introducing Mary and Kathleen...

Introducing two more members of new design team!

 

Name: Mary Martinez

Location: USA

Blog: www.marnels.blogspot.com

Designer: Digital

My name is Mary aka "marnel" around Digi Land.  I'm from Connecticut and work full time as an Administrative Asst. I'm married to an awesome man Nelson and we have 6 dc 4 girls and 2 boys ranging from 18 to 20mth old. The 3 youngest are my main scrapping subjects they don't complain about the camera in the face yet so until they do they will be my main focus, LOL Although I am trying to scrap my older ones b/c they need to look back and know that they were also a big part of my inspiration.  All I can say about my style is it's all over the place, I can't stick with just one" style" their is so much out in digi land and I must mix it all up and just scrap by what inspires me from the kit.  I hope my layouts inspire at least one person to create their own memory. So let's scrap ;)

 

 

Name: Kathleen Glossop

Location: Australia

Blog: www.kathleenglossop.blogspot.com

Designer: 12x12

My name is Kathleen Glossop, I’m a SAHM to my gorgeous (but mischievous!) 2 year old boy, Clay, and wife of 8 years (OMG!!) to Jason. I’ve been scrapping for about 4 years, and am a complete scrap nut, (Jas would argue “obsessed”, lol). I’d call my style fun & funky, I love white space, but still like to think my work is still quite detailed.  The inspiration I get from combing through my overflowing stash of pretty papers, adorable buttons, gorgeous embellishments and unusual odds ‘n ends, is second only to that which I get from my family – scrapping is my way of conveying my love and adoration for them.

More to come, watch this space...

Meet April and Chiqui

Name: April Yap

Location: Singapore

Designer for: 12x12

Hello! My name is April Yap, and I live in Singapore with the most wonderful man in my life. We will be celebrating our 16th anniversary in a few months' time. We have 3 children, Sarah (14), Glenn (10) and Keane (8). 

 
I have been scrapbooking for 2 years now, and I am totally addicted!! I love taking photos and telling stories about our life's little moments. Creating precious keepsakes (for my family) like this make me very very happy! I love it most when they picked up the albums, read and enjoyed our stories again and again.
 
Now I am a huge fan of pretty pp, stamps, tags, diecuts and and all sorts of embellies! Playing with and mixing them is a super fun process that I really enjoy!

Layout by April

Name: Chiqui Gutierrez

Location: Philippines

Blog: www.chixgutierrez.blogspot.com

Designer for: 12x12

I am
Chiqui Gutierrez from the tropical islands of the Philippines. I’m in my
mid thirties, and been married to my hubby Herbert for 7 years. He recently got
interested in photography so I get lots of pictures to scrap. We have 2
adorable daughters, Julia Francesca is 6 and Anneliese is 3 years old. I am a
Pediatrician by profession, and a certified scrapaholic for 2 years now. I
admit I’m addicted to this wonderful hobby! I love how the
layouts tell the story behind the picture. I consider myself a newbie in the
scrapbooking world so I guess I’m still discovering my
style. Most of my layouts are of the clean and simple kind but I also love the
shabby-chic look. I tend to experiment with different techniques but
handcutting, layering, & distressing are some of my favorites. I absolutely
love working with sketches and I am really thrilled and honored to be part of
the Design Team of Inspired Blueprints. I hope I’ll be
able to inspire you as much as others have inspired me. 

Layout by Chiqui

Stay tuned for another 2 designers tomorrow!