Sketch #11 Darlene

Welcome back to another sketch!! This sketch marks the end of our rotation... that means you have not seen sketches by each team member! Yay! Aren't they fabulous!?
In saying that, I want to let you know that October is going to be a different month... we have a TON of stuff planned!!! I'll fill you in on it all next Friday, but one thing you need to know... we are having a BLOG HOP next Friday!!! It starts Friday at 8PM and goes until Sunday at 8PM (AST) You will have a chance to win a prize from our fabulous October sponsor who is..... going to be revealed next Friday! LOL!!!
So, mark your calenders... next weekend we have a blog hop! All you have to do is stop in here anytime after 8PM to see how to play!!!
October is also going to be a mont of cards... so we will be posting CARD SKETCHES on Wednesdays!! how cool is that?? VERY COOL!
Now, back to September... Darlene created a fabulous sketch for us to play with!! I know there are a few more LO's in the works... so they will be posted once they are ready!! Here we go!!

Darlene's sketch

Darlene's LO

Allison's LO
Tara's LO

Mel's LO
And there you have it!!
With this being the last post of Sept, we want to say a HUGE thank you to Allison Cope for being our Guest Designer!!! We loved working with her!! So much in fact... that we asked her to join the team!! YAY!! Welcome Ally!!
Another HUGE thank you to Gelatins for sponsoring our team and prize for this month! I loved working with these stamps and know the rest of the team did as well! THANK YOU!!!
Now you have until Thurs Oct 1st to upload your LO to the right comments!! I will announce our Sept winner on Friday evening with our sketch reveal and the beginning of the blog hop!!
So, until then... HAPPY SCRAPPING!!

Sketch #10: Tina

This week's sketch is brought to you my me!! The team did some fabulous work with it and changed it up to fit their page! Love the results!!
We again got to play with the fabulous Gelatins stamps!!
Don't forget to play along for your chance to win a set of stamps from Gelatins!!

Tina's Sketch


Tina's LO
I loved playing with the Asian garden stamps...so this time i wanted to incorporate an Asian theme. I added paper rolling to the bottom edge, as well as some asian looking dimentional stickers to the top right. The bird and ling grasses are stamped directly on the page using a Sepia toned ink.

Allison's LO:
I kept my sketch fairly simple like Tina's great sketch design. I jazzed it up with some bling and some fun rows of leaf stamps from my Gelatins "Asian Garden" stamps!

Emily's LO
i had the alpha stamps, i used them for the "socks" title

Calia's LO
I stamped by letters on cereal box and embossed them with clear UTEE.

Natalie's LO
I just stamped the sub title. i have the set oh gosh by golly letters.

So there you have another set of inspirational LO's to get you going!! Remember to link your LO's in the comments section for your chance to win!!! They must be loaded by Oct 1... Winner to be announced on Oct 2!!
Happy Scrapping!!

Sketch #9: Amanda

Welcome back! We have another fabulous sketch for you this week! Brought to you by Amanda!! The team has some great LO's to show you, and I know for a fact that there are a few more in the works!!
So remember, Sept sponsor is Gelatins! Play along for your chance to win a set of Gelatins stamps!!

Here we go!!

Amanda's Sketch:

Amanda's LO:

I had the gel-a-tins Asian Garden stamp set. I double stamped the grasses in the centre of the layout in olive green and brown and stamped them in olive green around the flowers on the top and bottom of the layout. I also stamped the leaves around the Prima flowers in the centre of the layout onto patterned paper and cut them out for some dimension. The bird stamp is also from the same set.

Allison's LO:

Berries by Allison Cope
I happen to look at my "Asian Garden" stamp set by Gelatins and realized that the flowers appeared to look a little like raspberries; perfect for our little outing picking wild berries in the mountains. So I masked a few flowers off to make them look like raspberries. I also took the leafy branch and printed them all over my label shape at the top on my page. I love the versatility of this stamp set!

Darlene's LO

Let me just say that I'm enjoying using these stamps on my layouts more than I thought I ever would. I've mostly only ever used stamps for cardmaking and it's really made me step outside my comfort zone to incorporate these on my layouts. Again, I wanted to do a border and I thought this flower stamp would be nice to cut around for a scalloped edge. And again I used the leaves to add to my flowers. Thanks again to Gelatins for a great product to work with!

Mel's LO

I had the letter stamps. I stamped them on green paper, cut them into squares and inked the edges with fushia stazon ink. I then added some bling to the D.

Tina's LO
I once again got to use the Gelatins Asian Garden stamps on this. Was determined not to just do the same idea as I did last week... but it worked so well! LOL! 3 colors of grass... blue clouds on pop dots and glittered. Birdie cut out and popped... Added my own sun to complete the look!


Thanks for playing along! You are ROCKING the sketches! Wasn't Allison's sketch a blast to work with? Didn't try it yet? you HAVE to! It's SO much fun!!!

See you next week!! :)

August Pink Paislee collection WINNER!!

Sorry for the delay in announcing this girls!! But we have a WINNER!!!!

Are ya ready?


Are ya sure?


Oh, you mean NOW?

Oh, alright....






TANYA C!!!!!!!
You're the winner!!!

Please email me your mailing address at
capturethesesketches@live.com

Congrats Tanya!!
Thank you to EVERYONE who played along!! Be sure to join in for Sept for your chance to win a set of delicious Gelatins stamps!!

Sketch #8: Guest Designer: Allison Cope!

Welcome back for another sketch!! It's a new month and so that means we have LOTS to cover! New Guest designer, new sponsor AND August's winner to announce! So let's get at it!!

To begin...
Our sponsor for September is Gelatins stamps!! Each member of the team, along with our Guest Designer was given a set of these amazing stamps to work with!! All month long we will be playing with them and giving you a little explaination as to what we did with them and what set we used!! A HUGE thank you to Gelatins for their generosity!!! These stamps were SO much fun to play with!! Play along this month for your chance to win a set as well!!! :)

Now, We'd like to introduce to you ourt Sept Guest designer Allison Cope! Here's a bit about Allison..

Howdy! My name is Ally! I'm a stay at home of one little boy, Spencer and I'm married to the best guy in the world, my husband Todd. Our small family of three live in the wilderness of Elkford, BC Canada. I have been scrapbooking for about 4.5 years and I am a true addict. Thankfully my boys understand my addiction which allows me creative time almost every day! I am the proud sketch artist and blog editor for the Scrapbook and Cards Today magazine and the lucky Co-President of weScap.com with one of my best friends, Tara. Thank you for this rockin' opportunity to come and create with you this month!

Here is the amazing sketch and LO Allison did for us!! Using our Fabulous stamps supplied to us by our Sept Sponsor... GELATINS!
Allison's LO

I got to use the beautiful Asian Garden set from Gelatins for my sketch creation. There were so many wonderful plant inspirations within the set but I just had to use the Asian grasses on my background. I stamped the grass image once to get the dark inked images and then a second image to get the light images. This helped add dimension to my page. I also stamped some leafy branches and coloured them with Copic markers to add to my frame. I took the blooms from the Gelatin's stamp set and stamped them on white cardstock and then airbrushed them to look like clouds. I know... flowers into clouds! Cool huh?!? I added a pretty orange birdie to my sky and voila... she was done! Thank you to the LCOM ladies for inviting me to create with them this month! I'm having a blast!

Natalie's LO

Calia's LO

SET: License Plate Letters and Numbers

I pulled my letters out of the tin leaving them on the plastic sheet. Inked the letters with embossing ink and inked the upper portion of my base paper. I used some black embossing powder and zapped it with my heat gun to emboss my letters. After cleaning my stamps, I stamped the word "GOOFBALL!!" on white cardstock using a black ink. I cut the letters out in a rectangle shape and used pop-dots to add some dimension to my title.

Emily's LO
I had the alpha ones, I stamped the "them" on cardstock with distess ink, then cut them out.

Darlene's LO

I received the Asian Garden stamps and knew they would be great for an outdoorsy type layout. My favorite in the kit was the cluster of leaves, so I stamped that with Timber Brown ink on green cardstock and cut around them. I wanted to use them for a border so attached under my row of photos. I also used the Timber Brown to stamp the little bird and cut around him for an embellishment.

Tara's LO

I have always been a fan of Gel-a-tins stamps and have acquired quite a collection already. Imagine my surprise when I received a set that I not only didn't have but always thought would be fun to use. I received the Vanity Plate Pick-Up Lines ( http://www.gelatinstamps.com/products/products_vanityplate.html) and they are way cute!! I knew right away the one I wanted to use and the pictures as well. I stamped it a few times using different colors but I liked how the black Ranger Ink really provided a great, clear image. One thing to keep in mind when using stamps that require alot of color is to stamp on a "spongy" surface. I use a mouse pad and it works great. I thought I would do something fancy but these stamps speak for themselves and looked best 'as is'. Thanks Gel-a-tins for adding to my collection with such a fun stamp set!!

Tina's LO

I was also blessed to get the Asian Garden set! The possibilities with this set are endless!! I did the grass in 2 tones, the clouds and the bird all directly on the paper. I used different colors of ink and then topped them off with different colors of stickles to add dimention and sparkle! See my blog for some more detailed shots! :)

So there you have it!! Are you all ready to run out and buy some Gelatins stamps? i know I fell in love and I'm sure you will too!!

And I'm afraid I'm going to make you wait one more day for the winner of the Pink Paislee collection... so drop in tomorrow to find out who that lucky winner will be!!

So until then... Happy scrapping!