New Month, New Sponsor, New Challenge

Morning everyone! It's Monday again! I hope you all had a nice weekend and enjoyed bringing in October. I am assuming that in most places it is starting to feel like fall. I know here in Germany it's felt and looked like fall for a few weeks now.

This is a new month and we have lots of NEW stuff going on. One new thing, our DT....we just announced our new and returning members the other day and now today you get to start seeing some of their wonderful work. Second new thing, our sponsor....it's a new month so it's time for a new sponsor. Third new thing...challenge, a new one each Monday!

So, let's start with our sponsor this month. I am sooo pleased to say that MelJens Designs was able to get us out of a tight spot this month and was happy to sponsor us. They are some wonderful people over there!

So let's take a quick look at Melissa and her company:

Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical digital images inspired by her kids and family. The Meljen's Designs store officially launched on April 1 and is steadily growing! Meljen's Designs has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Monday and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at the WHIMSY STAMPS STORE to browse and enjoy Melissa's wonderful images!

Don't forget to join them in their weekly challenges and she is always offering some fabulous freebies!

They are offering FOUR wonderful images of your choice if you are the winner at the end of the month so be sure to play along with us each week this month to make your chances even better.

Next: CHALLENGE # 34

This month is ALL sketch month!!!

So here is the WONDERFUL sketch designed by our own DT member Michelle.

Isn't this a great sketch....she totally puts mine to shame!! Good work Michelle!

And now for a little inspiration from the DT!!

Colleen

I'm totally feeling fall now!!!

Heidi

I just love those colors for Christmas

Moira

What a great layout...love love love that border punch!

Jackie

Wonderful Halloween card!

Glenda

This sooo reminds me of home and the annual apple butter boil each year in fall!

April

I used a MelJens image for my project today, not very happy with my sketch...sorry Michelle I didn't do it justice!

 



DT Welcome!!!

We'd Like to Welcome our New DT for this Term

We have just started a new term so that means we have a new DT. We have been so blessed to be getting some fabulous girls on this DT and their work is always amazing! You will get your first look at the new and the old (some gals stayed on) on Monday. Until then...please take a look at their blogs for a sneak peak of what you can look forward to from them this term! They'd love for you to check them out and leave some love...we all love some love!!!! LOL!

MarshaW. Sanderlin

April Lower

 Moira Coward

Heidi Burt

Glenda Brooks

Colleen Spangler

Carla Heibert

Michele Tinsley

Jackie Randolph

Lorie Ames

Kelly Haberstroh

Tanya Johnson

Welcome Welcome ladies. Melanie and I are sooo happy to have you as part of this team and we can't wait to see what awesomeness you come up with during this term!!!

Don't forget to stop back by on Monday for a new challenge, a new prize, and a new sponsor!!!

Challenge #33 SKETCH!!

Oh my goodness!!! Blogger is acting totally crazy today and this new way of uploading pictures came up and...wow....this was a long process this morning (afternoon my time). BUT....I got it!!! It's all ready for you this week. I do apologize I'm getting this up like an hour late.

I want to let you know that this is the last week with our sponsor, Sew Many Cards whose is giving our lucky winner a 15 dollar gift certificate to be used in their store!

I'm going to get right into the challenge for this week. Challenge #33 is a sketch. Very simple this week...no extra's.

Of course this fabulous sketch (and new blog look) was done by Kelly Haberstroh! She does some great work!!! So I hope you enjoy this sketch from her.

Here is what the DT came up with this week to give you a bit of help if your having a lack of crafting mojo!!!

Moira

She loves her scrapbook layouts and so do we!! It's great that she can easily take a card sketch and turn it into a scrapbook page!!

Kim Howard

Wow...I just love these colors and how shiny those coffee cups look!

April (me)

I used the image given to us by Sew Many Cards this week. I just love that little cupcake on his back.

Lisa
What a great Christmas card...love those colors!

Heidi
WOW...that image is sooo cute...love that color combo too!

Marsha
OH MY.....what a cutie...and that rope and stars....adorable.

I hope that you will all join us this week and use this great sketch...we'd love to see what you come up with!
Enjoy your week and I'll see you all again NEXT week!!! With...a brand new sponsor!!

Bare with us!!!

I just wanted to jump on quick to let you know you can still upload your projects this week but we are having some technical difficulties...LOL! Actually Melanie and I are "technology challenged" SOOOOO.....we are going to ask our other favorite gal (who isn't so challenged....check out my blog...she did it for me ;) ) and have her fix it!!! So when you check back hopefully you will see a fab new layout and look just in time for fall!!!

Challenge #32 NO COLOR!!

Happy Monday morning everyone!!! I hope you all had a great weekend and are ready for a new challenge here at the Critter Sketch Challenge Blog!!!
You have two weeks left to play along for a chance to win a prize of 15 dollar gift certificate from our sponsor of the month

THE CHALLENGE:
NO COLOR!!! To break that down for you, you can ONLY use neutral colors, tans, beige, brown, cream and so forth. The punch to this is you can not use a black and white combo. What a challenge right??? Well, if you look below you'll see that our DT had no problem with this challenge!!!

Michelle
She used a technique from Splitcoast with crimping...how great! How cute is that bucket of leaves!


Kristen
love those color combo of the brown and cream and that hedgehog is adorable!!

Nancy
What a pretty card love the border!

Jackie
This card is really cute...love all the embossing. Ahhh...that poor fish looks ticked!!!

Have a great week everyone and we can't wait to see your fabulous creations for this weeks challenge!

Challenge #31

Good morning lovely bloggers! It's a great Monday morning here in Germany but then again, I am almost done with my cup of coffee so everything looks better after coffee right?!!!

Yep, it's me again, April....my BFF Melanie has asked me to help out a bit more with this fabulous challenge blog and of course I couldn't say no so I will be the one doing the Monday posts at least until I'm in the process of moving!

We are still being sponsored by the wonderful Sew Many Cards store and challenge blog. If you haven't stopped by their store yet you really need to...there are images for everybody no matter your taste! 

Are you ready for our challenge:

Challenge #31 IS......School, School, School

Your project, wether it be a card, scrapbook page, altered item, paper craft need to be school related. I have some inspiration below for you from our awesome DT team!  

Marsha

Look at her cutsie altered container, her image is from Sew Many Cards

Moira

First of all, what a fabulous picture and that is the cutest tin and business card I've ever seen.

Kim

She made a bookmark. I'm in love with that border punch across the bottom

Lisa

What an elegant card. I just love the coloring on the books and the background stamp.

Heidi

She also used an image from Sew Many Cards. What an adorable tag!

April

I used a Dustin Pike image this week (a past sponsor) and I thought this would be a cute card for someone that just passed a hard test or got a good report card or just finished the school year!

I hope you all will join us this week and show off your school projects. We love to see them!!! Don't forget, the more you play the higher your chances are of winning the prize at the end of the month!!! So come back each week and play along!

Challenge #30-Sketch

Okay...so...I'm filling in for Melanie today she had a long weekend, an enjoyable one but long so I'm doing the post today so if it seems a bit off....you know why!!!

Good morning everyone, it's April and I'm here to give you all kinds of details today, first off, Happy Labor everyone. I wish I could say we are doing something fun but...not so much. We are going to a birthday party for a friend of ours, her daughter is turning 3 but otherwise...not much happening here in Germany but then again they don't celebrate Labor Day, at least not on the same day as we do!

Getting right to business, we have a winner for the month of August.....the winner of the Lori's Paper Giraffes, congrats girl...send your information to Melanie at newbymom@embarqmail.com to claim your prize!!! You will be getting a great prize from LimeLight Papercrafts 

Okay, next, it's a new month so that means we have a new sponsor! Our fabulous sponsor this month is Sew Many Cards, they have a wonderful line of digi's and have great challenges every Friday that you can be part of.

So don't forget to join us each week this month for your chance to win a 15 dollar gift certificate from Sew Many Cards.

Have you applied for a DT spot with the Critter Sketch Challenge Blog yet? If you haven't and you are interested submissions will be taken until Friday Sept. 10th so if your interested quickly e-mail Melanie for details and an application. This is a fabulous group of girls with great challenges for us to work with each week so if you want to be part of our team...email Melanie before Friday!

Are you ready for the first challenge of the month? You are...okay...it's a fabulous sketch...can't wait to see what you come up with

And here are the fabulous creations by the design team:

Michele

look at that cute stitching down the side!

Nancy

Love that color combination

Jacquie

That image is ADORABLE (house mouse I think)

Jackie

Do you see all that embossing...LOVE it!

Have a great week everyone!!