Sketch 53 Blog Hop Day 2

Happy Sunday everyone!
Thank you to everyone who participated in our blog hop yesterday and visited Nina and Rimma's blogs.

If you just visited today, here are the rules of the blog hop.

1. Everyday from today, Feb 27 until Thursday, March 4th (except Monday) we will host a blog hop.

2. We will not post our cards here. Each day, 2 of the team members will post their cards in their blog so please visit them when you have a chance! Their photos will be posted with a link to their blog. 2 a day isn't bad isn't it?

3. We will pick 3 random winners to anyone who will complete the blog hop.

4. We will also pick 1 random winner if you participate on our challenge. All you have to do is create a card out of the sketch and type in your name and the direct link to your card to Mr. Linky box provided. It will stay on top of the posts until our Anniversary blog hop is over.

5. To be entitled for the prizes and Guest Designer spot or if you just simply want to join in the fun, please make sure you submit your entries before midnight (Eastern Standard Time) on Friday, March 5.

6. We will announce the winners of the prizes on March 5, Friday.

7. Super Six and Guest Designer winners will be announced on Monday, March 8.


Today, we are bringing you our lovely talented Yvonne and yours truly!
Click on our pictures to go to our blog and have a look on what we did with the sketch.




Have a wonderful wonderful weekend! And thank you for checking back in!

Sketch 53 Blog Hop Day 1

The day is finally here, Card Patterns is celebrating our first year!

There are so many things we are thankful for...
- our current team and previous design team. They rock!
- our sponsors (despite the economic situation, your generous heart has touched us!)
- you our dear participants. Oh yes, we love you!
- sharing your talent with us
- your blogs. You've only not inspired us with your creativity but also reading about your lives, your family each time we visit.
- we're so thankful that you still join our challenge regardless we have a simple sketch or something that is out of your comfort zones.
- most of all, we are so thankful for your friendship that you've given us.

A Big Thank You from the bottom of our hearts!




So here's our anniversary sketch for you along with a little game.

Here are the rules:

1. Everyday from today, Feb 27 until Thursday, March 4th (except Monday) we will host a blog hop.

2. We will not post our cards here. Each day, 2 of the team members will post their cards in their blog so please visit them when you have a chance! Their photos will be posted with a link to their blog. 2 a day isn't bad isn't it?

3. We will pick 3 random winners to anyone who will complete the blog hop.

4. We will also pick 1 random winner if you participate on our challenge. All you have to do is create a card out of the sketch and type in your name and the direct link to your card to Mr. Linky box provided. It will stay on top of the posts until our Anniversary blog hop is over.

5. To be entitled for the prizes and Guest Designer spot or if you just simply want to join in the fun, please make sure you submit your entries before midnight (Eastern Standard Time) on Friday, March 5.

6. We will announce the winners of the prizes on March 5, Friday.

7. Super Six and Guest Designer winners will be announced on Monday, March 8.





As mentioned above, here's our first batch of blog hop host for you today. Click on their photos to go directly to their blog.



Looking forward to all your visits and your cards!

Sketch 51 Super 6

Happy Monday to you all! I hope you're as excited as we are about our one-year anniversary!

If you're not sure what I'm referring to, scroll down or click here to read about our one year anniversary blog hop.

We were blown away by your creativity on sketch 51. Without further ado, here are the super 6:

Faith
Jennifer
Marja
Nika
Southern Scraps
Tina

And the winner, our guest designer for sketch 53, who blew us away with her soft and romantic card is:

Nika: My Dream

Congratulations Nika! Please email us to get all the details on being our guest designer.

And the winner of the wonderful prize from The Stamping Boutique is:

62. Stephanie Muzzulin

Congrats Stephanie! Please email us to claim your prize!

We're Turning 1!

Yes it's our first year anniversary and we are happy to be celebrating it from Saturday, Feb 27 - March 5, 2010.

We're going to do a blog hop and have a few prizes in store only for YOU!

So watch out for it, hope you'll come join us!

Sketch 52

Good morning friends! It's a cold, snowy day here in New York. I hope it's warm where you are!

It's time for sketch 52, so let's get to it.


Michelle has a great sketch drawn up for you. Rotate it, switch out some of the shapes, but most of all- have fun with it!

Our design team was generously sponsored by PaperWorks Co:


"PaperWorks Co (fondly known as PWCO) is a online scrapbooking and rubberstamping supplies store based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Besides carrying an array of supplies (think Copics, Nesties, Cuttlebug, etc), we have recently branched out to include our own line of line of deeply etched rubber stamps. Our in-house Design Team consists of a bunch of SUPER talented ladies from US and Canada, and you can find their work at our blog. Make sure to check them out!"

The prize: A gift certificate value of $39.99 to redeem any of PWCO and Little Loud stamps. [The winner can mix and match whatever stamps she like, as long as the value does not exceed $39.99.]

Our guest designer this week is:

Kathy Racoosin

Hello, My name is Kathy and I’m so thrilled and honored to play along with Card Patterns. I have been a rubber stamping addict for over a year and I have always had the love to color anything. Once I discovered Hero Arts stamps, blog & their Flickr group there was no turning back. CP blog is a regular stop for me because I have found that having a sketch can save lots of time and I love the weekly inspiration! Currently I’m on a few digital design teams and just joined SRM stickers design team. I have been married for 19 years and we have a 14 yr old daughter & an 18 yr old son. They keep me hopping mostly in the kitchen. Thanks again for letting me play along with you!

And Kathy's amazing card using this week's sketch:


And now onto our DT's cards, starting with:

Debbie Standard

Nina Brackett

Lizaveta Danenkova

Yvonne Yam

Tracey Kuszniak

Iwona Palamountain

Michelle Bertuzzi

Julia Stainton


Tracy Schultz

We would love for you to join us and create something based on the sketch and link up your creation via Mr. Linky below. Make sure you link directly to your creation. General blogs links will be deleted. You have until Friday, Feb 26 at 11:59PM EST to link your creation to qualify for the prize and a chance to be our guest designer. Have a wonderful weekend!

Sketch 50 Super Six

Good day beautiful people! It's a holiday for some of us so another free day to chill, hang out with family or extra time to be creative.

Here's our Super Six for Sketch 50. There were sooo many great entries that often, the DT who picks it takes a long time to pick them.

You can click on their names to leave them some sweet lovin'!

Laurel
Lenet
Lynne
Sehrnett
Kathy
Julia

And our Guest Designer for Sketch 52 is......... (drum roll please!)

Kathy
(The Daily Marker)

Congratulations Kathy! Please send us an e-mail to discuss Sketch 52 with you.



And our lucky winner of $10.00 gift certificate from our sponsor from Inktegrity is none other than....

Natali
(Окно в мир скрапа...)

Please send us an e-mail with regards to your gift certificate.


Do have an enjoyable week!

Sketch 51

Hello, Card Patterns friends...We have a great sketch for you this week, just in time for Valentine's day. But, as you will see with the DT samples below, you can use other shapes instead of the hearts.

The sponsor this week is The Stamping Boutique:

"The Stamping Boutique" is dedicated to quality products and original artwork. We not only provide wonderful digital images in our store, but also several lines of red rubber images. Our designers are chosen for their character and personality,as well as, their beautiful designs. We work hard to give you our very best. Thank you so much for having us as your sponsor this week.

Make sure you check out their challenge log, too: http://thestampingboutiquechallengeblog.blogspot.com/

The prize for this week is a choice of 5 digis or 3 rubber stamps. Here's a sampler of some of the rubber stamps they offer. And make sure you check out their digis, too.



Trace from Stamping Boutique also joined us this week with this bright and cheerful card:

Trace (Stamping Boutique)

And our Guest DT this week:

Saida Sadykova

Getting to know Saida:

Hi! My name is Saida, I’m from Russia. First of all, I’d like to thank you! I’m very pleased to be a guest designer here at CardPatterns! I’ve been creating things as far back as I can remember. Just a year ago I tried my hand at cardmaking and scrapbooking. And eventually they turned out to be among the most addicted passions of mine and filled my routine with so many things I truly enjoy now. I learn new things and skills, I meet lovely talented people, I have a blog, and a few more on-line projects, and one of them is my recently opened on-line fabric flower shop. Being an avid photographer, I love searching for the perfect way to display my projects, experimenting with backgrounds. Well, so many of my interests compliment each other so perfectly and I seem to be happy about that)

Ok, here is my take on this fab Love-theme sketch. Actually this is a birthday card, I made it for lovely friend so dear to my heart.

Have fun crafting!

With love, Saida

And just look at her very shabby chic card. I love the lace:

Saida Sadykova

The Stamping Boutique generously provided some adorable images for the DT to use:

Iwona Palamountain
Tracey Kuzniak
Yvonne Yam
Lizaveta Danenkova
Nina Brackett

Julia Stainton

Debbie Standard

We hope that we've inspired you to create something based on the sketch and link via Mr. Linky below. Make sure you link directly to your creation. You have until Friday, Feb 19 at 11:59PM EST is the last day of participating for this sketch. We can't wait what you come up with. Have a safe and warm weekend.

Sketch 49 Super Six

Good morning beautiful people!
Sketch 49 was a blast! Never fail to impress us with all your creations.
Thank you to all who joined us.
Here's our Super Six for Sketch 49

Nika
(Мои мечты)

Amy T
(Tsuruta Designs)

Stef
(Ingenious Inking)

Carole' Ann
(Stampin Stress Away)

Saida
(фотография, хэндмэйд, немного музыки и настроения)….)

Doreen
(Dragonfly Art)

And our Guest Designer for next week is.....

Saida

Don't you feel like living a little bit ahead of the season and wish it's already spring with Saida's card? Gorgeous!
Congratulations Saida! Please send us an e-mail so we can discuss Sketch 51 with you.

Big bear hugs to all of you for checking back in.

Sketch 50

Wow, the week flew by fast! Michelle here bringing you this week our 50th sketch which is being sponsored by Inktegrity Stamp owned by wonderful Joni Wilson.



Hello fellow crafters! My name is Joni Wilson and I am the owner of Inktegrity. As a mother of 6, I wanted to create images that every age could enjoy working with. This past summer I debuted my line of digital images and have enjoyed every minute of it.
I am inspired by personal experiences, suggestions from friends, and the everyday goodness in life. Please visit our blog at Inktegrity.blogspot.com for wonderful ideas and inspiration.
I am so happy to sponsor this fun site, thank you to this wonderful team for letting me be a part of Card Patterns!

Just for you lovely Card Patterns' participants, Jodi will be giving away....


We're also featuring a talented Guest Designer from Colorado, United States. Click on her name or her photo to visit her blog - she's sharing some great techniques you may want to try.
Please welcome

Christi Milliken
(Stamp Monkey)

Getting to know Christi:
Hi! I'm Christi Milliken {aka "stampmonkey"}, and I'm sooo excited and honored to have been invited to play along with the talented ladies at Card Patterns this week! I love to use sketches as my jumping-off point when making cards, and Card Patterns has some of the best! When I'm not making cards, you can usually find me busy at home with my family...well, half of it. ;) My {very supportive} husband and I have a Brady Bunch family of sorts --six kids...three boys and three girls...in our 'his, hers, and ours' family. The older four college-age kids are all still in California, and the rest of us now call Colorado our home, where I'm blessed to be able to home school "our" two. Growing up with a crafty mom, I've been crafting for as long as I can remember; but when I began making cards about eight years ago, most of my other interests were quickly put on the back burner...where they've pretty much remained. I love that I get to enjoy creating something with my hands and then I can give it away to bless someone else. There's so much inspiration to be found online these days {challenge sites and blogs}, there's just not enough hours in a day to do it all...but that doesn't stop me from trying! ;)

Tons of possibilities on this sketch. You don't have to stick to circles. Remember, a sketch is just a preliminary idea. It's up to you to elaborate it. Let go of your imagination and make it your own. There is no right or wrong with it. The important thing is to have fun with the process (wink wink).




And here's how our team interpreted the sketch.

Christi Milliken

Julia Stainton
Lizaveta Danenkova


Yvonne Yam


Tracy Schultz


Iwona Palamountain


Michelle Bertuzzi

Trace Kuzniak


Debbie Standard


Nina Brackett

We hope you'll have fun on this one!
It's easy to join us:
1. Create a card based on the sketch.
2. Post it in your blog
3. Type in your name and the direct link of your card to Mr. Linky box provided below this post.
4. Friday, Feb 12 at 11:59PM EST is the last day of participating for this sketch.

Thank you for checking in and have a weekend as creative and as beautiful as you all are!