Merry Christmas!

I wanted to take a moment to say thank you to all of our subscribers! It has been amazing this year, and I can only pray that our sketches have helped you get your memories scrapped! Also, Triple the Sketch will be taking Christmas week off. Be sure to join us on January 2, 2009, when we share a new sketch with you. Have a very Merry and Blessed Christmas!

Sketch 37: Cards

Do you have any last minute cards to make for Christmas or New Year's? Well, today's sample cards are perfect inspiration for doing that! Both of these cards are amazing yet shouldn't take too long to make.

4x6 Card by Danni
Papers: Bazzill, Making Memories
Tools: Fiskars Threading Water Punch
Embellishments: MAMBI, Jingle Bell and twine from craft supply store, Basic Grey Wassail button, Martha Stewart bling Card by Marcee
Papers: Stampin Up! Chocolate and Real Read Cardstock, Ski Slope Designer Papers
Tools: QK: Nesting Flowers Die, EK Success 2” Scallop Circle Punch
Stamps: Stampin Up! Scandinavian Season Stamp
Stamp Inks: Ranger Distress Ink Peeled Paint, Colorbox Ink Chestnut Roan
Embellishments: Stampin Up! Red Riding Hood Striped Grosgrain Ribbon October Afternoon Good Cheer “Merry & Bright” sticker, Making Memories Specialty Glaze-Glitter Have a great rest of your weekend! Enjoy!

Sketch 37: Layouts

Happy Friday! Before you start reading, grab a cup of coffee, hot chocolate, tea, whatever you fancy because we have some amazing layouts for you today! You will really want to just sit back with your warm cup of "something" and enjoy! Everyone has gone above and beyond today! Let's see what we have.

First, we have a fun new sketch for you, and we also have a guest designer with us this week! Let's look at the sketch first. Here is Sketch 37:
Our guest designer is Jennie. She is an amazing designer. And while you have that cup of hot "whatever," you will definitely want to stop by her blog and look around. You will NOT be disappointed. We are so glad to have you this week Jennie! Now, please enjoy all of the AMAZING layouts! What a way to go into Christmas week! The girls have all OUTDONE themselves this week for sure!

12x12 Layout by Jennie, Guest Designer
Papers: Creative Memories
Alphas: Creative Memories, American Crafts
Embellishments: KaiserCrafts bling, Imaginisce bling, Tim Holtz Grungeboard, Prima flowers and brads, Li'l Davis paint, Vintage Distress ink, Stickles by Ranger, Maya Road ribbon, misc. ribbon12x12 Layout by Carrie
Papers: Basic Grey (white background); Crate Paper (green); Bo-Bunny (red); Bazzill (mat behind photo)
Embellishments: Pink Paislee rub-ons; American Crafts brads; DMC floss for hand stitching
12x12 Layout by Chelsea
Papers: Basic Grey Boxer
Tools: Making Memories edger, Sewing machine
Alphas: Pink Paislee
Embellishments: Basic Grey Boxer chip stickers, Kaiser Crafts rhinestones 12x12 Layout by Elizabeth
Papers: DCWV, Big Lots, Doodlebug Designs glitter papers
Tools: Zig black writer, Cricut
Alphas: American Crafts chipboard letters, Making Memories letters
Embellishments: Making Memories paint, Target tags, misc. flower, K&C Company stickers, Pop dots 12x12 Layout by Ember
Papers: Sassafras Lass, Cosmo Cricket, October Afternoon
Alphas: Sassafras Lass, Basic Grey
Embellishments: Sassafras Lass stickers, white crepe streamer, wood grain vinyl 8 1/2 x 11 Layout by Hope
Papers: Pink Paislee, Bazzill
Alpahs: American Crafts
Embellishments: Kaiser Crafts 12x12 Layout by Julie
Papers: Basic Grey, Crate Paper
Embellishments: Crate Paper die cuts, Basic Grey stickers I hope you enjoyed your time with us today! Remember to stop in tomorrow for a few cards! See ya then!

Sketch 36: Cards & a Tag!

Happy Saturday! I hope you have some rest and relaxation planned for this weekend. Today we have two wonderful cards and a tag for you using Sketch 36.

4x6 Card by Danni
Papers: Bazzill white, Basic Grey wassail
Tools: Scallop scissors
Alphas: Basic Grey wassail
Embellishments: K&Co. bling, Deja Views rubo-ons, Basic Grey wassail stickers, Melissa Frances trim

Tag by Marcee
Papers: Basic Grey Euphoria Collection
Stamps: Stampin Up!
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Patina

Card by Traci Have a wonderful weekend, stay warm, and we will see you next week! Blessings,

Sketch 36: Layouts

It has been a slow start to this Friday. I think the kids and I have run so much that I could probably sit on the couch all day! Ha! But I know y'all are waiting for a new sketch so, here is Sketch 36. :)
This sketch leaves room for a lot of white space or a space for journaling or a title. Carrie and Elizabeth used the space for their journaling. I just love how they both used journaling strips. And Chelsea and Julie completely flipped their sketch which makes a great example for a second page of a two-page layout. Hope used the space for her title, and I love how she added all of the circles. Let's look at their amazing pages!

12x12 Layout by Carrie
Papers: Sassafrass
Embellishments: Hambly Rubons, Rusty Pickle buttons, Staples
12x12 Layout by Chelsea
Paper: Sassafras Lass Pocket Full Of Rosies
Tools: Sewing machine
Ink: Brown chalk ink
Embellishments: Kaiser Crafts rhinestones, Sassafras Lass Pocket Full Of Rosies flowers and letters
12x12 Layout by Elizabeth
Papers: Collage Press Double Take Camden Collection papers, Bazzill
Tools: Creative Memories corner maker
Alphas: MM FA LA LA tiny alpha stickers, Computer font Batang
Embellishments: Collage Press Journaling Cards Camden Collection papers, Cloud 9 Designs Cocoa Mint chipboard, BasicGrey Offbeat chip stickers, Buttons from Create My Keepsake kit




8 1/2 x 11 Layout by Hope
Papers: Bazzill, October Afternoon, Making Memories
Alphas: American Crafts
Embellishments: Maya Road, Making Memories, We R Memory Keepers, Target $ spot, Prima transparency 12x12 Layout by Julie
Papers: Sassafrasslass
Stickers – Making Memories, American Crafts, Scenic Route, Sassafrasslass
Embellishments: Maya Road felt and chipboard, Technique Tuesday chipboard, Prima flower, Tattered Angels glimmer mist


I hope you are inspired to scrap a bit this weekend with our new sketch! Enjoy, and see you tomorrow with cards!

Sketch 35: Cards and an ATC!

Good morning Saturday! Are you ready to spend today crafting? How about using Sketch 35 and adding your creation to our gallery? We would love to see what you are doing with this week's sketch! To get you started, here are a couple of cards and an ATC!

Card by Carrie
Papers: Scenic Route (background grid); American Crafts (striped)
Alphas: Making Memories black letters
Embellishments: October Afternoon Rub-ons (houses, trees, and car), Twine known, American Crafts brad
ATC by JulieCard by TraciI hope you have enjoyed today's inspiration. Have fun with the sketch, and we will see you next week!

Sketch 35: Layouts & a New Designer!

Welcome to December! I pray you had an amazing Thanksgiving holiday! And I can't believe we are nearing the end of 2008! Where does the time go? Well, I have some very fun news to share with you today! We have a new designer joining us--Danielle Holsapple! Danielle is not only an amazing person, she is a spectacular designer! I know you will love her! You will see her work starting to trickle in over the next month or so. Because of the schedule we run at TTS, she will be getting into the loop slowly. So be watching! Until then, please be sure to check out her amazing blog here, and be sure to congratulate her. We are so excited to have her on this journey with us. I know you will enjoy her creations!

Now onto our sketch for this week, Sketch 35! As you will see, we have three boxes on this sketch that can be used for photos, journaling, whatever inspires you. Be sure to look at how the designers turned the sketch and the different elements they used for the boxes.

We have five very inspiring layouts for you using this sketch. Let's see what they created:

12x12 Layout by Chelsea
Papers: October Afternoon Good Memories
Alphas: Making Memories Tiny Alphas; Pink Paislee letter Stickers (brown "Best Gift")
Tools: Making Memories edger, sewing machine
Stamp Ink: brown chalk ink
Embellishments: October Afternoon rub-on, flower, and journaling tags

8 1/2 x 11 Layout by Danni
Papers: Bazzill pinecone, October Afternoon Chilly Mornings
Alphas: Pink Paislee
Tools: American Crafts white gel pen
Embellishments: Creative Cafe buttons, Autumn Leaves buttons, hemp, Basic Grey Offbeat chipboard

12x12 Layout by Elizabeth
Papers: Bazzill, Collage Press Double Take Camden, Making Memories Fa La La
Alphas: American Crafts chipboard letters
Stamp: Making Memories date stamp
Embellishments: Martha Stewart flower, generic buttons, Luxe Simple Lime Labels, Basic Grey Offbeat chip stickers, Collage Press Journaling Cards

8 1/2 x 11 Layout by Hope
Papers: Bazzill, Crate Paper, October Afternoon
Alphas: Basic Grey, Making Memories
Stamp: Heidi Swapp
Embellishments: Jenni Bowlin, American Crafts, Heidi Swapp, Prima, Bazzill, Kurio, Making Memories paint
12x12 Layout by Marcee
Papers Bazzill rain, We R Memory Keepers Nonsense
Embellishments: Scenic Route chipboard circles, Kaiser Scrapbooks copper droplets

Enjoy, and we will see you tomorrow with cards and other fun!

Happy Thanksgiving & RAK Winner!

First, I wanted to congratulate our winner of the awesome October kit from The Scrapping Spot. Our winner by random drawing was chattyscrapper! Please e-mail me your address so that we can get your prize mailed to you! Congrats! And please be sure to look at her layout here along with all of the other creations in the gallery. Thank you to everyone that played along. We love seeing everyone's work in the gallery! And thank you to The Scrapping Spot for offering such an amazing prize!

And I also wanted to take a moment to say Happy Thanksgiving to each of you! I pray that everyone has an amazing, joyous, and blessed day! Also, the TTS team will be taking this week off. We will resume our schedule next Friday, December 5th! Please join us for our latest sketch and inspiration then!! Happy Thanksgiving!

Sketch 34: Cards

Happy Saturday! Today's post won't be nearly as long as yesterdays. :) I hope you are busy crafting something fun so that you can be entered to win the amazing kit from The Scrapping Spot! And be sure to check out their December kits they have available. Yum!!!!

Now for today, I want to share five beautiful cards with you using Sketch 34. I am sure they will be great inspiration for you!

Card by Carrie
Papers: Doodlebug (embossed white); Pink Paislee (pink)
Embellishments: Hambly rub-on (tree), Making Memories Gems, My Minds Eye Gold Gems, Glitz Gems, Twine unknown
4x6 Card by Danni
Papers: October Afternoon, Reminisce, Basic Grey Offbeat
Tools: Scallop scissors
Embellishments: Basic Grey Offbeat chipboard, Creative Cafe buttons, Autumn Leaves buttons, Be Blessed rub-on, DMC floss
6 1/2 x 5 1/2 Card by Hope
Papers: October Afternoon, Sassafras Lass, Crate Paper
Embellishments: Love Elsie, Maya Road, stampin up
5x7 Card by Julie
Papers: Collage Press
Stamp: Collage Press
Ink: Staz-on
Embellishments: Collage Press die cuts, Making Memories stickers, Collage Press stickers, Hambly Studio stickers
Card by Traci

I pray you have a wonderful week ahead, and remember your entries are due by Tuesday, Nov. 25th, at 11:59 p.m. CST to be eligible for our big prize! So, let's see the gallery fill up, and don't forget to stop by and leave some love. There are already some beautiful, inspiring pieces in the gallery! Blessings,

Sketch 34: Layouts & Another Fun RAK!

Wow, there is a lot happening at Triple the Sketch this week! First we have a winner from last week's RAK, then we have another new RAK being offered, and lastly we have a guest designer! Hang tight, and let's start with our RAK winner from last week for the $20 gift certificate to The Shabby Shoppe. Thank you all for posting in our new gallery and sharing your creations. I loved looking at them, and I hope you all will stop by the gallery to post your creations too and leave comments on the wonderful items already posted!

Our winner of the gift certificate is susielittle! Yeah! Congrats to you! Please e-mail me so that I can get your gift certificate e-mailed back you.

Our RAK this week is being offered by The Scrapping Spot. They are offering their October 2008 kit to one lucky winner this week! This kit contains goodies from Fancy Pants, Bazzill, KI, Scenic Route, Making Memories, Doodlebug, Heidi Swapp and MORE!!! Here is the pic and complete kit details can be found here. Now doesn't that look amazing? To enter, you will need to create a layout with ANY Triple the Sketch sketch. Post your creation in our gallery by 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, November 25th. One lucky winner will be announced on Wednesday, November 26th. So, let's see that gallery fill up with entries!

And we have an amazing guest designer joining us today. Please welcome Kathleen Taylor. Kathleen is an amazing artist, and I hope you will enjoy her layout today. And be sure to check out her amazing advent calendar here. You will not be disappointed!

Now onto this week's sketch: Sketch 34. This sketch allows for another circle on your page. I think most of you know how I love circles. :) Our design team along with Kathleen created some gorgeous inspiration for you. Let's look!12x12 Layout by Kathleen Taylor, Guest Designer
Papers: Creative Memories Primary High School Power Palette, Stemma First Grade
Embellishments: Creative Memories Primary High School Power Palette cardstock stickers, Stemma Pencil Jumbo Clips, Junkitz Alphabet Tilez, Junkitz Christmas Square Tilez
12x12 Layout by Chelsea
Papers: Basic Grey Urban Prairie
Alphas: Doodlebug
Tools: Sewing machine
Stamp ink: Black
Stamp: Unity Stamp. Co. Nov. KOTM journaling block
Embellishments: Chipboard elements Basic Grey Urban Prairie chipboard elements, Kaisercraft rhinestones12x12 Layout by Elizabeth
Papers: Making Memories Delaney DieCut Stamp, Scrap Within Reach The Cottage, Pink Paislee Vintage Moon Blue Moon Collection
Tools: Zig black writer, ruler
Alphas: American Crafts Thickers
Embellishments: WalMart stickers, Dollar Store stickers Layout by Marcee
Papers: Cosmo Cricket Fleuriste
Embellishments: Cosmo Cricket Fleuriste Cardstock Stickers, Melissa Frances Lace Trim, 7 Gypsies Rub-ons, Craft n Craftin’ Peel-off Stickers So, let's see those entries pour into our gallery! And be sure to stop over at The Scrapping Spot! They will love having you!