Paper Craft Planet Sketch Saturday

Happy Saturday!


Have you buzzed over to the Planet yet this morning? Each Saturday morning one of PCP's Design team members will be issuing a Sketch challenge. We're so excited that many sponsors have been lining up to give away prizes to one lucky winner for each Sketch! How cool is that?! This week, Sakura is the sponsor and is giving away some of their awesome pens! I was excited to hear that - I didn't know they were the sponsor when I made these cards this week... but I ended up using their Glue Pen, Glitter Pens, and Glaze pens on my cards!

Our design team theme of the month for November is gratitude. So, I was still thinking of that theme while creating these cards. This first one could be for a special daughter, mom, babysitter, church nursery worker... and the list goes on and on! This image is from GinaK's Kindred Spirit's line - which is one of my very favorite stamp lines ever.

The image is Rebecca - isn't is adorable? The saying is from the Kindred Greetings for her stamp set.

I listed the specific details about my cards at PCP, so I'm not going to do that here. Check out my page, Sketch Gallery sk110808, or the Gratitude album to see them all there.

This next card is another Kindred Spirit image - this time from Gina's Kindred Kid's line. The stamp is called Slumber Party. The sentiment is actually from the Kindred Greetings for Him stamp set, but fit so well with the image. The Friend saying is from Botanical Dreams.

The images were colored with Copic markers and highlighted with Sakura's Glitter & Glue pens & Doodlebug's Glitters. I did my Watercoloring Sakura Style technique on some of the images on each card to make it all sparkly. The close up views show that a little better I think.

Here's my last card... a text message thank you. Wouldn't this be perfect for a teenage girl? I absolutely love this Basic Grey Romani paper pack that I used on all the cards I'm sharing today. They are so bright and cheerful!

The stamp set is Gina's Text Messages and the saying is from the Kindred Greetings for Kids stamp set. I thought it was perfect with this thank you saying. We're all lucky to have good friends, aren't we?

I hope you enjoyed all the projects I've shared today. Susanna's sketch is so fun and easy! Give it a try - I'd love to see what you'll share with us on PCP!

On another note, GinaK's release party and sneak peeks are next week! The sneak peeks start on Tuesday at Midnight with the Release Party on Thursday from 7 - 10 in her Forum on SCS. Mark your calendars - we have lots of fun stuff to share with you all!!

Have a wonderful day,
Jessica

CHA Highlights

CHA was very educational and inspiring for me. Gina and Melanie were awesome roommates. I had the 'hard' job of helping Gina pick out all sorts of new products to carry in her store. It was tough, but someone had to do it and I was up for the task! LOL!

It was fun walking the CHA floor together getting inspired by all the products and samples that were displayed at every turn. We both came away with ideas for a variety of new classes in the upcoming months in Gina's McFarland store.

New Friends
I really enjoyed spending time getting to know Melanie - who is as sweet and adorable as all of those super cute animals she's drawn for Gina combined! Mel is an awesome illustrator and designer and it was a big highlight of my trip to spend time with her while I was in Chicago.

It was a real pleasure to meet some of Gina's other design team members: Cammie, Joanne, Kurtis, Michelle. I've admired all of their design team work - they are really talented and such nice people.

We were also able to spend time with My Favorite Things Owner Kim van der Saden and several of her design team members. They welcomed us into their group with open arms and it was really fun going out to supper with them the first two nights we were there. They are an amazing group of talented, lively ladies who are full of love for each other. Their friendship for each other was really cool to see and to be part of.

Vendors & Designers
One of my very favorite spots to hang out at was the Ranger booth. I spent a lot of time there learning some great tips and techniques specifically with their Distress Ink line. I was able to stand at the tables of two of their amazing designers - Tim Holtz and Wendy Vecchi and watch masters at work doing many different techniques with their amazing products. Watching them reminded me of why I love their products so much.

Another favorite booth of mine was the Copic one, where some of their top coloring experts demonstrated step by step their coloring processes along with blending and shading tips. Mish Wooderson, Marianne Walker, and Debbie Olsen all colored and even signed one of their demonstration samples before each one of them gave me one to keep! How amazing is that?

I met Kathy Sanders at our Milwaukee Copic Certification class so I was so excited to see that she was working the Copic booth as well. She gave several awesome shading tips as well. She told me that she has taught thousands of classes at her local stamping store in Milwaukee over the past 6 years and is just now beginning to pursue more teaching opportunities for other stores. She has written an awesome tutorial for Splitcoast Stampers on Alcohol Markers. Go check out the link to see it - you'll learn a lot, I'm sure! I'm just disappointed that I forgot to ask her for a sample with an autograph... bummer!

I also met another super talented lady whose work I have admired for some time. Her name is Cathy Matthews-Scanlon. She was working the EK Success booth and was so sweet to me showing me some tips to try out with their variety of pens and markers. I learned some great ideas from her - and was so tickled to keep on running into her during CHA... okay, maybe I was stalking her, but that's just between us, okay? heehee...

I hit the jackpot at the ScorPal booth. Diana is a genius and I was so thrilled to meet her and tell her in person how much I love all of her ScorPal products. I use them all the time at home and when I'm teaching at Gina's store. She was so sweet and gave me some products to encourage me to continue to use her products! I guess she knew that I can be bought! LOL!

Val Stangle worked the ScorPal booth and I was thrilled to meet her in person. She is one of my favorite Dirty Dozen Designer Girls from Splitcoast Stampers. Her style is so classy and I go to her blog and gallery often to be inspired. She is a Rock Star stamper in my book and I was so happy that I could personally tell her how much I've admired her work over the years. We ate lunch together on the last day of CHA and she even made me a box with the ScorPal. How lucky am I?

Overall, CHA was amazing. I learned so much and enjoyed meeting so many wonderful people from many different companies. I found a lot of great products while I was there and can't wait until the ones Gina decided to order arrive in her store.

Some of my favorite new products:

Ranger Metallic & White Crackle Paint

EK Success new jumbo sized punches

Marvy Velvet markers

Bind-it-All

Pentel Outline Markers; Brushables

Core dinations Cardstock

Tonic Paper Cutters

ApplePie Acrylic Books

Basic Grey new Paper Lines & Board Books

Cuttlebug Embossing Folders

That's just what I can remember off the top of my head... wait until I get my hands on all the catalogs to help refresh my memory!

Sorry this was so long... I've been composing my thoughts about CHA for a few days now. I didn't want to forget any of the highlights. And, Brad was giving me a hard time about not posting for a few days! LOL!

I couldn't write such a long post without including a couple of cards. I finally had a chance last week to pull out some of Gina's adorable Kindred Kids that she released last month. They are so fun to watercolor!

Card Details: Kindred Kids - At the Beach, Little Girl at Play; SU paper; Watercolor paper; India Ink; Nestabilities; Hero Arts gems; ribbon colored with copic; liquid applique; Koh-i-noor watercolors; aqua painter; buttons; fiskars handheld heart punch



Thanks for taking the time to stop by and let me talk your ears - I mean eyes off!

Jessica