Sketch-a-thon back to school contest!

As seen at the Sketches for you blog! It's going to be awesome!!!! read below and then head on over to sign up!

Hello friends.....we proudly announce the BACK TO SCHOOL contest

that will start SEPTEMBER 10TH untill SEPTEMBER 30TH.



There will be lots of CHALLENGES and SKETCHES... with DT prizes...RAK's and

at the end of this contest there will be a 15 dollar certificate and for now a surprise PRIZE!!



We have a 1st and 2nd place winner.



And the greatest news is that we have two fabulous Guest Designers!

First we have Cherie Averill from Sassy LIL sketches..which are awesome sketches to use!



And we are also proud to announce NIKKI SIVILS....We are so glad we have such a great designer and

scrapbooker on our site....both will provide us with a sketch!!!

THANKS ladies to take the time to be on our site and provide us with a awesome sketch and

inspiration.



I also want to thank my DT Michelle...she was the one for this idea and she coordinate this!! Thanks for

your work.


pre challenges will be posted on september 8th......

so stay tuned for some awesome work and visit our site:

http://sketchesforyou.ning.com/



WE WELCOME YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

The winner of the Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall Blog hop is...

Lucky number 9 as picked by the random number generator.
Judy!!!

Judy please Email me with your address so I can send you your prize. Thank you everyone for participating!!!

Paper strips

  For those of you looking for the Goodbye Summer Hello Fall!blog hop, scroll down to the post below this one.

Paper strips can be an effective way to highlight a photo. In this case, I made a matte out of paper strips. It's easy to do. I used my cricut to cut two of the same shape. You could also use a stencil or circle cutter...or just cut two rectangles or squares of the same size. Next, layer the two shapes together so that all sides match, then use you paper trimmer to cut strips at even increments. You can then easily piece together alternate colors as you adhere them to the page in the shape of your photo matte.

I used an older Sketchy Thursday's sketch for this page. For the background below the matte, I spritzed glimmer mist in moonlight and frost. The main inspiration for this page were these cute die cuts which I received in a Club CK swap. I immediately knew I wanted to use them with these photos of my son's first experiences with snow. For added interest, I used 3-d adhesive on some of the letters and on the snowflake.

If you try a page with paper strips, you can submit it over at Scrapwhispers.There are other inspirational ideas there to help you use up leftover paper strips in your stash.