Sketch #68 cont...

With this post, we farewell our inspiring card designers, Gladys and Leah.  Thank you so much for all of the beautiful cards you've created based on Inspired Blueprints sketches. We wish you all the very best for your future crafty pursuits. Before they go...here's a few more cards the girls created based on Sketch #68.

Happy Birthday - Card by Gladys Chia

Birthday Wishes - Card by Gladys Chia

Happy Birthday - Card by Leah Allen

Happy Birthday - Card by Leah Allen 

Looking to try your hand at digital scrapbooking?  Ann Marie has created another fab digi template for you to use....just download the file from here.

Digital layout - Ann Marie Borg

12x12 Layout - Jennifer Yates

12x12 layout - Wendy Smith

12x12 layout - Kim Arnold

Stay tuned for our next post on 1 April 2011 when we announce our new design team!  There were so many applicants and it was a difficult decision, but we know we've selected scrapbookers who will continue to inspire you.  Also featuring on 1 April 2011 is a new sponsor! Yes, we will again be offering you the chance to win fabulous prizes from our sponsors...and all you need to do to enter each month is upload your layouts based on our sketches into our gallery.  Have you joined yet?

Cheers from the IB team.

Meet our Guest Designer for Sketch #68...

Ms. Joscie Cutchens!!! We are so excited to have Joscie, all the way from Honolulu, HI, here at IB this month! You will find Joscie many places in the scrapbooking world including DIGI!!! Her work is so flawless, clean and unique. Take a look at her take on Sketch #68 and find out a little bit more about Ms. Joscie!

Hello, I am Joscelyne Cutchens and am also known online as Joscie, which coincidentally rhymes with bossy. I have been crafty for most of my life. I love to try new things and have dabbled in creating hand made papers, sewing, screen printing, book binding and beading but my true passion is in photography, computers and paper crafts. My husband Troy and I have just celebrated our 15^th anniversary and we have two sons Jalen (10) and Jordan (5). We live in Honolulu, HI.

Online, I’ve been featured as a guest designer for the Making Memories Blog, and has been highlighted at ClubCreatingKeepsakes and GalleryStandouts.com. My creations have been featured in online magazines Scrapbook Dimensions, Digital Artist Magazine, Scrapstreet.com and Scrapbooking.com. I have also been published in Creating Keepsakes Magazine, Memory Makers Magazine, Simply Handmade, Scrapbook Trends Magazine, Scrapbook Trends: For the Home and Scrapbook Inspirations (UK). I also have two publications coming up this summer in Scrapbooks, ETC. and Paper Crafts.

I am currently a member of the Peppermint Creative Hybrid DT, Two Peas in a Bucket Digital Creative Team, Design House Digital Hybrid Team, Jen Martakis Creative Team, Volume 25 Design Team, an Educator for Tattered Angels and on the Creative Charms Design Team.

Come visit me at:

http://www.cutchens.com

Check out her gorgeous closeups of her layout "A Boy and his Bear."

What a gorgeous button banner and the color combination for this layout is so fresh and clean!

I love how she incorporated the tape throughout the layout. It really POPS against the lighter colors.
Thank you again Joscie for being with us this month! Don't forget to stop by the gallery and check out all the Design Team Members work!!! And don't forget to leave Joscie some *love*.

Sketch #68

Every gallery in you look in these days, there are layouts featuring mini photos.  If you are loving using mini photos on your layouts, or are keen to try it out yourself, then this sketch is perfect for you!

Based on layout by Lisa Warren 

With this sketch, we say farewell to our current team members. I am sure you'll agree with us when we say, the inspiration the girls have been providing during their dt term has been exceptional. Before they head off to tackle other scrappy pursuits, here's their final layouts. We will miss you!

Layout by April Yap

Layout by Aud Randi Kalve

Layout by Gilly Lester

Layout by Kyoko Kobayashi

Layout by Leanne Allinson



Join me later in the week for more inspiration using Sketch #68.

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Design team update

Design team applications have closed and we're very close to making a decision. Successful applicants will be emailed letters of offer this weekend.

Where to next for Inspired Blueprints...

• new inspiring sketches
• new design team
• new sponsors
• new learning opportunities
• and much, much more...

Over the next few weeks, you will begin to see some great changes here at Inspired Blueprints. There has never been a better time to join the Inspired Blueprints community.

Cheers, Lis.

More FUN with Sketch #67 !!

Hope you are having fun with Sketch 67 ! To keep you creating and give you more ideas here is the rest of the Design Teams samples starting with some beautiful cards by Leah and Gladys, and our FREE digital template.

 "Happy Birthday" Card by Leah Allen

"Happy Birthday" card by Leah Allen

Happy Birthday card by Gladys Chia

"Look Who's 4" card by Gladys Chia

Digital Template for Sketch 67

12 x 12 Digital Layout by Ann-Marie Borg

8.5 x 11 by Leanne Allinson

12 x 12 by Lynn Kopas

12 x 12 by Lisa Warren

12 x 12 by Gilly Lester

Hope this helps you create some great projects and PLEASE share then with us in the gallery ! Please tag your projects '#67' when uploading to the gallery so we don't miss any of your awesome work !! Have FUN !!!

Meet our Guest Designer for Sketch #67...

Ms. Mimi Leinbach!!! Mimi's work is so timeless and classic. I know you have seen her work in many areas of the scrapbooking world!!! We are HUGE fans of hers here at Inspired Blueprints and we know you will love her too!

Here is a little bit more about Mimi and her AWESOME take on Sketch #67...

Hi, my name is Mimi Leinbach and I am 39 years old. Yikes! I am a SAHM to 2 soccer loving boys Nick(13) and Jack(9) and when I am not scrapping I can be sure to be found at a soccer game or helping out at school. I have been married to Josh for over 16 years. He has given me the freedom to indulge myself in this hobby and I just adore him for it. You could say I am obsessed, completely and totally. I have been scrapping for 13+ years now and I would say my style is ever changing. I like to try every technique at least once and some a lot more. I have a passion for patterned paper, to which I just can't seem to get enough. I have been published many times in Creating Keepsakes, Memory Makers Magazine and Books, Scrapbook Etc., Scrapbook Trends, Simply Handmade, Creates Idea Books as well as Scrapbooking and Beyond magazine. I love designing and am proud to have designed for many manufactures and kit clubs. I just love Inspired Blueprints and am honored to be one of their guest designers this month.

My blog:
http://mycharmingblog-scrappermimi.blogspot.com/

MY MEN

(what handsome men they are!!!)

OUT

FOR

PUBLICATION

(be back soon!)

Thank you Mimi for being with us this month! Please stop by the gallery to see Mimi's and all the Design Team members take on the sketch. And don't forget to leave Mimi some *love* :))

Sketch #67

Hey there scrappers .... it's March and we have a fresh new sketch just for you !! Sketch #67 is perfect for a larger photo but can be swapped out with several smallers ones. As always the sketch can be easily flipped as some of our designers chose to do !! So, jump right in and let's see your take ... here's the sketch and a few DT samples to get your creative juices flowing ...

Sketch #67

12 x 12 by April Yap

12 x 12 by Wendy Smith

12 x 12 by Aud Randi Kalve

12 x 12 by Kyoko Kobayashi

12 x 12 by Jennifer Yates

Stay tuned for the announcement of our next Guest Designer and her take on this fun sketch !!