Need some Card Sketches for Inspiration

Making a card and deciding where to put what  can be time-consuming so many card makers participate in sketch challenges each week.  These sketches alleviate hours of frustration and crafters block by showing us the best placement of card components and are great for inspiration.

A card sketch is made up of three very basic components: matting paper, designer paper, and embellishments. Matting paper is typically, but not always, cardstock, and is used to frame the designer paper to make it pop.  Matting paper is typically, but not always, cardstock, and is used to frame the designer paper to make it pop. Designer paper is available in many different brands, colors, and sizes and will be the most crucial part in the design of your card. The focal image, ribbons, buttons, brads, or "embellishments", you choose to use for your card are often based on the theme of your designer paper.

Below is a list of websites that offer free sketches and/or sketch challenges.

Splitcoast Stampers

• Splitcoast Stampers
  Splitcoast Stampers is one of the largest paper craft communities you will find on the web. Besides the endless resources they provide, Splitcoast offers a weekly card sketch challenge each Wednesday in which hundreds of card markers participate.

Taylored Expressions Blog

• Taylored Expressions
  At the Taylored Expressions blog, you will find dozens and dozens of paper craft creation ideas and card sketches. Taylored Expressions also hosts a card sketch challenge each Friday in which many card makers participate.

Mojo Monday Blog

• Mojo Monday - The Blog
  Mojo Monday is a blog completely dedicated to card sketches and sketch challenges. Each monday, a new challenge is given to those who wish to participate, and a winner is announced on the following Tuesday.

Card Patterns Weekly Sketch Blog

• CardPatterns
  Card Patterns Weekly Sketch blog offers many different free card sketches for any skill level. They also host a sketch challenge every Friday.

Inspirational Card Sketches Blog

• Inspirational Card Sketches
  Inspirational Card Sketches offers many different card sketches as well as a weekly sketch challenge every Tuesday.

Card Challenges & More Blog

• Card Challenges & More
  Another wonderful resource for card sketch templates. Card Challenges and More also hosts weekly sketch challenges.

Two Peas in a Bucket

• The Best Scrapbooking Supplies On The Web - Two Peas in a Bucket
  Two Peas in a Bucket offers many different card sketches. They also provide message boards for paper crafters, tutorials and resources for projects, weekly challenges, and more.

Oz-some Stamps Blog

• Oz-somestamps: Card Sketches
  Oz-some stamps: Card Sketches is a blog that offers many card sketches, as well as weekly challenges, project tutorials and more.

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2 Sketches 4 U

• 2 Sketches 4 You
  This blog has a lot of unique, card sketches and also features a weekly sketch challenge

 Sugar Pea Designs

• Sugar Pea Designs
  This blog has nice card sketches and also features a regular sketch challenge.

 Operation Write Home

• Operation Write Home
  Operation Write home has hundreds of sketches with measurements for US A2 cards (4.25" x 5.5").  They also have brilliant tutorials and a youtube channel.  The have a great link to a colour schemer to inspire you even more.

Verve Stamps

• Verve Stamps
  Verve stamps have great sketches with weekly challenges and a monthly sketch and color challenge.  This is one of the blogs I have followed for the longest due to the inspiration I get from their sketches and gallery.

Fusion

• Fusion
  This blog has nice card sketches and inspirational photo's and also features a regular challenges where you can use only the sketch or the photo of combine the two.

 Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge

• Operation Write Home
  Operation Write home has hundreds of sketches with measurements for US A2 cards (4.25" x 5.5").  They also have brilliant tutorials and a youtube channel.  The have a great link to a colour schemer to inspire you even more.

Outlawz Challenges

Outlawz will be so happy if you decided to join in!  So what are you waiting for come join in at:  http://outlawzchallenges.ning.com.  They have some exciting challenges for you with montly prize draws!  So come by each week to check out the challenge as they change  weekly. The Outlawz team want everyone to have fun with the challenges, so if you have any questions, please ask :)  Here is a few guidelines though to help you if you do decide to come play....

Challenge Rules

1. Your projects must be new. No back linking (cannot be posted anywhere prior to the posting of this challenge)
   
2. You can enter the challenges as many times per week as you like...BUT...you can only link ONE entry per week into the monthly Inlinkz.
3.  Please post your own creations only to the challenges
4. In order to be eligible for the site's monthly prizes, you must link us up with the Inlinkz so...LINK US UP!! :)

Directions for entering a challenge:

1. Go to the box under "Reply to this":
2. At top of the box, you will see "link" with a light blue square next to it. The square is for entering your image. When you hover your cursor over the top of it, it will say "Image."
   
3. Click the light blue square and add your photo.
   
4. Set width to 400 pixels.
   
5. If you are using a link, enter it into the link box.
   
6. Click ADD REPLY.
7. After you place your card in the challenge, add it to the gallery and tag it with the appropriate code, given at the beginning o each challenge
   
8. Last, enter it into that months Inlinkz located in the menu bar, at the top of every page, right under The Outlawz header. Click on the Inlinkz tab, then click on the "Month Inlinkz" tab, then the "Add your link" blue bar now enter your link. 

 

Dialy Challenges:

I hope this will interest you.  I will be posting a little more on each challenge shortly.