Unscripted Sketches

Unscripted Sketches #158

admin — Sat, 12 May 2012 12:00:18 +0000

Welcome to Sketch it Saturdays at Unscripted Sketches! If you are just finding Unscripted Sketches, every Saturday morning we post a sketch for the week. Flip the sketch, rotate it… create a card, a scrapbook page, or anything your imagination comes up with! There is no right or wrong way, as long as you are using the Unscripted Sketch as the inspiration and basis of your creation!

Unscripted Sketches #158

And here are the special creations designed by our outstanding design team!

We hope you will visit the Unscripted Sketches Designers’ blogs:

Adriana, Alicia, Arielle, Billie, CherylAnn, Debbie, Geri, Jane, Jessica, Laura, Michele,
Nicole, Patrice, Rudlis, Steph C, Stephanie G., Stephanie S., SarahKaye, Susan and Tracey

GUEST DESIGNER

Please welcome this week’s guest designer, Karen. She comes to us from Washington and is a wonderfully talented, very busy lady. Find out more about her and see more of her beautiful work by visiting her blog, Simply Frenzied. Thanks for joining us this week, Karen!

TOP 3 Announcement!

Thank you all again so much for playing along this week! We are always so excited to see how many of you are inspired to make amazing creations to share with us! We love seeing them and we look forward to seeing more great projects using this week’s sketch!

Our Top 3 picks, in no particular order, for last week’s sketch #157 are Susie, Caro, and Rhonda!!! Congratulations!!!! We just loved your projects and are so happy you shared them with us! There is a brand new badge for the weekly Top 3 winners, so grab that badge and display it proudly on your blog! Enjoy!

Click on their names above to visit their blogs, check out their other fine work and leave them a little love while you’re there!

Ready to Play? Using this week’s sketch, upload your creation to your blog or gallery. When you add your link below, please be sure it is a direct link to your Unscripted Sketches project. Please give credit to Unscripted Sketches #158.

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UNSCRIPTED SKETCHES #157

admin — Sat, 05 May 2012 12:00:24 +0000

Unscripted Sketches #157

And here are the special creations designed by our outstanding design team!

We hope you will visit the Unscripted Sketches Designers’ blogs:

Adriana, Alicia, Arielle, Billie, CherylAnn, Debbie, Geri, Jane, Jessica, Laura, Michele,
Nicole, Patrice, Rudlis, Steph C, Stephanie G., Stephanie S., SarahKaye, Susan and Tracey

GUEST DESIGNER

Please welcome this week’s guest designer, not only is she super sweet – she’s also VERY talented! Stop and visit her blog here. Thanks for joining us this week, Sandy!

TOP 3 Announcement!

Our Top 3 picks, in no particular order, for last week’s sketch #156 are Szaferik, Einat, and Leslie!!! Congratulations!!!! We just loved your projects and are so happy you shared them with us! There is a brand new badge for the weekly Top 3 winners, so grab that badge and display it proudly on your blog! Enjoy!

Click on their names to visit their blogs, check out their other fine work and leave them a little love while you’re there!

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UNSCRIPTED SKETCHES #156

admin — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:00:03 +0000

Unscripted Sketches #156

And here are the special creations designed by our outstanding design team!

We hope you will visit the Unscripted Sketches Designers’ blogs:

Adriana, Alicia, Arielle, Billie, CherylAnn, Debbie, Geri, Jane, Jessica, Laura, Michele,
Nicole, Patrice, Rudlis, Steph C, Stephanie G., Stephanie S., SarahKaye, Susan and Tracey

GUEST DESIGNER

Please welcome this week’s guest designer comes to us all the way from Poland! Stop and visit her blog here. Thanks for joining us this week, Marta!

TOP 3 Announcement!

Our Top 3 picks, in no particular order, for last week’s sketch #155 are Sandy Beaches, Jan and Kim!!! Congratulations!!!! We just loved your projects and are so happy you shared them with us! There is a brand new badge for the weekly Top 3 winners, so grab that badge and display it proudly on your blog! Enjoy!

Click on their names to visit their blogs, check out their other fine work and leave them a little love while you’re there!

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UNSCRIPTED SKETCHES #155

admin — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:00:11 +0000

LAST WEEK’S WINNERS

I still haven’t received an address for our three blog-iversary game winners so Glee, Visell and Lisa (This Sweet Madness), please send your snail mail address to sarahkozy@hotmail.com so I can get your prize out to you!

PIGGYBACK CHALLENGE

It’s time for our monthly PIGGYBACK CHALLENGE! If you haven’t played along with us before on a piggyback week, it is simply an additional, optional challenge. Whether you choose to add the piggyback challenge element to your project will in no way effect consideration for Top 3 or other prizes.

Since it’s Earth Day Weekend, our additional challenge this week is to use SOMETHING RECYCLED somewhere on your project! We’d love to see what you do with it, so whether you choose to do the piggyback challenge or not, post a link to your project below. Enjoy!

Unscripted Sketches #155

And here are the special creations designed by our outstanding design team!

Tracey’s RECYCLED ITEM is a flower made from brown paper packaging that came in a delivery last week.

Adriana’s RECYCLED ITEMS are a box of Caribou coffee and the tag on the right is from a key chain.

Stef’s RECYCLED ITEM is recycled packaging from Amy Tangerine embellishments & recycled cardboard sleeve from a coffee drink (behind flower).

Alicia’s RECYCLED ITEMS are black ribbon from product packaging.

Patrice’s RECYCLED ITEM is a vintage illustration.

Michele’s RECYCLED ITEMS are: the tag with the birds on it was recycled from a shirt or some article of clothing, the cardboard with the saying on it is recycled as well and the little safety pin.

Billie’s RECYCLED ITEMS are cork, calendar pages for butterflies button, scrap
ribbon from gift bag.

Jessica’s card is totally RECYCLED! Giraffe paper from a previous scrapbook page….corrugated box, 100% recycled kraft paper and jute!

CherylAnn’s RECYCLED ITEMS are the map, the glass, the string and beads.

Geri’s card is totally green! The card base is from a cereal box covered with a used paper bag, the flowers are die cut from a Coffee Creations hot cup holder thingy, the paper is some incredible home-made paper bought at a craft show, the wee bit of cording is a piece of the paper bag twisted, dipped in coffee & dried.

Susan’s RECYCLED ITEM is corrugated book packaging, formed into a gift box and decorated with a Santa from a section of wrapping paper and a UPC tag from a Christmas stocking.

Nicole’s RECYCLED ITEMS are: two ‘flags’ in the background are actually the little piece cut off of the 12×12 papers that display the company name and barcode. In addition, the buttons were leftover from a sewing project, the paper button was made from a scrap piece of paper and die, and the twine was a scrap found in the garbage can!

Debbie’s RECYCLED ITEM is K & Company bag from another card.

Stephanie’s RECYCLED ITEM is brown tulle {layered with button}.

We hope you will visit the Unscripted Sketches Designers’ blogs:

Adriana, Alicia, Arielle, Billie, CherylAnn, Debbie, Geri, Jane, Jessica, Laura, Jenny,
Michele, Nicole, Patrice, SarahKaye, Stef, Stephanie, Susan and Tracey

TOP 3 Announcement!

Our Top 3 picks, in no particular order, for last week’s sketch #154 are:

Lauren, Natascha & Marciula!!!

Congratulations!!!! We just loved your projects and are so happy you shared them with us! There is a brand new badge for the weekly Top 3 winners, so grab that badge and display it proudly on your blog! Enjoy!

Click on their names to visit their blogs, check out their other fine work and leave them a little love while you’re there!

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UNSCRIPTED SKETCHES #154

admin — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:00:01 +0000

RAK WINNERS

We had a great turnout for our blogiversary games last week! We had a total of 43 entries from all three games! That’s fantastic! So without further ado, here are our winners:

Glee

Visell

Lisa (This Sweet Madness)

Congratulations, ladies! Please email your snail mail address to sarahkozy@hotmail.com and we’ll get a little something special in the mail to you! Thanks for playing, everyone! Here’s our sketch for this week. I look forward to seeing more beautiful projects again this week!

Unscripted Sketches #154

Our new designers are making their debut this week, and our current designers have lived up to their past wonderful work, so here are this week’s treats! Enjoy!

We hope you will visit the Unscripted Sketches Designers’ blogs:

Adriana, Alicia, Arielle, Billie, CherylAnn, Debbie, Geri, Jane, Jessica, Laura, Michele,
Nicole, Patrice, Rudlis, Stephanie G., Stephanie S., SarahKaye, Susan and Tracey

TOP 3 Announcement!

Our Top 3 picks, in no particular order, for last week’s sketch #153 are:

Teresa

Kasia

Monia

Congratulations!!!! We just loved your projects and are so happy you shared them with us! Teresa even used the reminiscence sketch, #3! There is a brand new badge in the sidebar for the weekly Top 3 winners, so grab that badge and display it proudly on your blog! Enjoy!

Click on their names to visit the winners’ blogs, check out their other fine work and leave them a little love while you’re there!

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Unscripted Sketches #153 + THREE YEAR blog-iversary!

admin — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:00:39 +0000

IT’S OUR THREE-YEAR BLOG-IVERSARY!

We’re celebrating THREE years in blog land so welcome to our blog party! We’d like to thank everyone who has visited us over the past three years. We’ve seen lots of changes over the past three years and I think you’re going to like the newest ones, too!

NEW LOOK

First would be our new look. How do you like the new format? (If you can’t see our new format, header, etc. you may need to refresh.) Our new header, clipboards, Top 3 badge, etc. were all designed by our own Arielle, giving us a great new look! Isn’t it fabulous!?! Thanks, Arielle! We’ll be making little alterations and tweaks for the next few weeks, so you may see a few more new things coming up in later posts, too!

NEW DESIGNERS

Second is the announcement of our new designers. We’ve taken on some great ladies with lots of talent! Here they are (in no particular order).

Stephanie Severin
Michele Cunningham
Jessica Carlberg
Alicia Thelin
Patrice Plauche
Stephanie Gaines
Nicole Laha
Adriana Benitez
Tracey Holdyk
Jane Wetzel
Laura Davidson

A couple of them, even in such a very short time, have had a chance to create something with this week’s sketch! They’ll all make their debut in the next week or two, so you’ll be seeing a lot from all of them soon! Welcome, ladies!!!

GAMES

What’s a party without games? Since we’ve been here THREE years, we’re playing THREE games. There are THREE RAKs to give away and THREE ways to win! (These will be mailed so please see the disclaimer in the sidebar.) Every time you play one of the games, your name will be entered into the “hat”.

1- COMMENT GAME- Everyone who posts a comment below before midnight EST on Friday, April 13 will have their name entered to win one of THREE RAKs. You may comment as many times as you like, but each person will only be counted once.

2- PROJECT ENTRY GAME- Every project submitted via Inlinkz at the end of this post using this week’s sketch (#153) before midnight EST on Friday, April 13 will get their name entered to win one of THREE RAKs. Each submission will count as one entry. Multiple entries will be accepted for this game.

3- SKETCH #3 ENTRY GAME- Even though we’re making lots of new changes and updates, it’s also fun to look back sometimes, so every project submitted via Inlinkz at the end of this post using our THIRD SKETCH (below) before midnight EST on Friday, April 13 will get their name entered to win one of THREE RAKs. Each submission will count as one entry. Multiple entries will be accepted for this game.

After midnight EST on Friday, April 13, all entries submitted for all three games will be collected, combined and three winners will be drawn from all eligible entries. Winners will be announced in next week’s regular Saturday blog post. Have fun and happy creating, everyone!

Unscripted Sketches #153

And here are the special creations designed by our outstanding design team!

We hope you will visit the Unscripted Sketches Designers’ blogs:

Arielle, Billie, CherylAnn, Debbie, Geri, Jenny,
Linda, Loes, Rudlis, SarahKaye and Susan

TOP 3 Announcement!

Our Top 3 picks, in no particular order, for last week’s sketch #152 are Jessica, Rhonda & Dawn C !!! Congratulations!!!! We just loved your projects and are so happy you shared them with us! There is a brand new badge for the weekly Top 3 winners, so grab that badge and display it proudly on your blog! Enjoy!

Click on their names to visit their blogs, check out their other fine work and leave them a little love while you’re there!

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UNSCRIPTED SKETCHES #152

admin — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:00:31 +0000

DESIGN TEAM CALL!!

We’re still accepting applications for the design team, so if you’re interested in applying, there’s still time! Click here for the post with all the information. Even if you’ve applied before, please apply again; we’re not always looking for the same thing! Hope to hear from everyone that might be interested!

Blog-iversary party!

Next weekend is our 3rd anniversary in blog land! Be sure to stop by- and tell your friends- for a special post with fun and games!

Unscripted Sketches #152

And here are the special creations designed by our outstanding design team!

We hope you will visit the Unscripted Sketches Designers’ blogs:

Arielle, Billie, CherylAnn, Debbie, Geri, Jenny,
Linda, Rudlis, SarahKaye and Susan

TOP 3 Announcement!

Our Top 3 picks, in no particular order, for last week’s sketch #151 are Kristi, Jonia and Skye!!! Congratulations!!!! We just loved your projects and are so happy you shared them with us! Click on their names to visit their blogs, check out their other fine work and leave them a little love while you’re there!

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Still plenty of time to apply for the design team!

admin — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:01:55 +0000

If you’re interested in applying for our design team, there’s still plenty of time! Click here for the post with all the information.

UNSCRIPTED SKETCHES #151

admin — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:00:48 +0000

Unscripted Sketches #151

And here are the special creations designed by our outstanding design team!

We hope you will visit the Unscripted Sketches Designers’ blogs:

Arielle, Billie, CherylAnn, Debbie, Geri, Jenny,
Linda, Loes, Rudlis, SarahKaye and Susan

TOP 3 Announcement!

Our Top 3 picks, in no particular order, for last week’s sketch #150 are Monia, Stef & Lisa!!! Congratulations!!!! We just loved your projects and are so happy you shared them with us! Click on their names to visit their blogs, check out their other fine work and leave them a little love while you’re there!

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New Designers Wanted!

admin — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:43:45 +0000

Design Team Call

Unscripted Sketches is looking for new designers! Requirements are high quality work, a personal blog & desire to be part of the best DT on the web! Here is a brief description of what it would involve. We’re a low-key team and are very flexible.

Unscripted is a weekly sketch blog, with a theme of “Sketch it Saturday”. To keep with the theme of being an ‘Unscripted Artist’ we hope that the Unscripted Designers will shake up the weekly sketch and go outside the box as often as they can. Flip the sketch around, add paint, mixed media, ephemera etc. Not in the mood to create your usual? Want to create an altered item, wall art, a mini album, a scrapbook page instead? Great! The more variety and the more unscripted the better!

We like to have a wide variety of talent, so if you’ve applied before, please apply again! We’re not always looking for the same thing each time we have a call.
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Unscripted Design Team responsibilities:

*Help promote Unscripted by adding our link and blinkie to your blog, signature line of any online communities that you belong to, by sending out an email to invite your rubber stamp/scrapbook friends announcing that you are an Unscripted Designer, etc.

*Promote the Unscripted Designers’ blogs by adding their links to your own blog.

*Create one piece of work per week of your choice that uses the sketch as inspiration, upload it to the designers forum no later than Thursday of that week.

*At anytime on Saturday you will publish your creation onto your own blog showcasing your creation and the US sketch with a link for followers to come to the Unscripted Sketches blog to see the other creations and upload their own.

*Comment every week on follower submissions in the InLinkz.

*Frequent and participate in the private designer forum, giving your feedback and ideas for planning and continued improvement of the site.
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If feel you will be able to fulfill these obligations, and you’re interested in applying, please email the application below (or any questions) to sarahkozy@hotmail.com. Applications will be accepted until Monday, April 2, 2012 at midnight EST. Applicants will be notified by Wednesday, April 4 and new designers will be introduced/announced on April 7, in our Blog-iversary post.

APPLICATION

1. Name and blog address: (if you do not have a personal blog, how would you promote the site outside of the Unscripted blog?)

2. Why do you want to be part of the Unscripted Sketches DT?

3. Do you have any unique skills?

4. Will you be able to commit to making one project a week and posting comments on participants’ entries every week?

5. Please include… 3 photos of projects that are good examples of your style.