Sketch 81

Happy Saturday friends! So glad you could join us here on Card Patterns again. Let's get right down to business because my husband and I are going apple picking today- fall is almost here in New York and it's going to be a beautiful day.

The Sponsor:
We're delighted this week to be sponsored by Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps. Here's more about them:

"Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps - a two woman company comprised by Nicole La Cour, Founder and Creative Director and Mary Boesel, COO. Established in 2002, PPRS boasts hundreds of original red rubber stamp designs and has just recently started to manufacture clear stamps and coordinating dies. Our stamp collection includes a wide variety of sentiments, collage and background images and beautiful, whimsy stamps.

Be sure to visit the PPRS blog which features weekly projects, techniques and tutorials blog hops and more!"

The Prize:
One random participant this week will win a $25 gift certificate to Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps.

The Sketch:

Another wonderful sketch this week cooked up by the talented Michelle! We hope it'll get you jump-started on making some fall cards or whatever theme you like.

The Guest Designer:
This week we're proud to introduce the talented Petra as our guest designer. Here's more about her:
"Hello, my name is Petra. I´m from Germany, mom of two boys (4 and 5 years old) and married with my best friend. I am so happy to be chosen for guest designing for the Card Patterns blog this week. I started scrapbooking in 2005 for all the cute baby photos and since march this year I do cardmaking. It makes so much fun to try all the different techniques. And now I want to say thank you for chosing me and my work this week."

Here is Petra's card using this week's sketch:


Design Team Inspiration:
Lastly, here is our design team's take on the sketch this week, using Prickly Pear Rubber Stamps.

Leslie Rodriguez (PPRS Design Team)

Therese Broman (PPRS Design Team)

Michelle Bertuzzi

Heather Jensen

Nina Brackett

Anthea McConachy

Tracy Schultz

Agata Pfister

Also, just a note to our dear readers. All of our DT members lead busy lives, just like you. But we want to visit your blogs to see your gorgeous takes on the sketches. However, with word verification enabled on some blogs that makes it extremely time-consuming for us to leave comments. Please consider turning off (disabling) word verification on your blog to help ensure we leave a comment for you!

Don't forget, to participate simply link up your creation using the Mr. Linky box below. Please post a direct link only. Non-direct links may be deleted. [Click here for a tutorial on how to link using the Mr. Linky box.] You have until Friday, September 17th at 11:59pm EST to link up your creation for a chance at the prize and to be a guest designer.