I'm New Here {Stuck?! Sketches Blog Hop}

Hello friends!  We have something special going on for our September 15th challenge!  Along with the reveal of a new sketch challenge, and 2 amazing sponsors, we have loads of bonus inspiration for you, in the form of a blog hop with our generous friends at My Creative Scrapbook!!

We are teaming up with My Creative Scrapbook to bring you a super fun blog hop, to share loads of inspiration from both design teams and to give you an extra chance to win their prize!  The My Creative Scrapbook design team members will be using a variety of their fabulous September kits to showcase our sketch. Each of the blog hop commenters will earn a ballot and have the opportunity to win one of My Creative Scrapbook's gorgeous September main kits (shown below)!  Read on to find out how you can earn a second ballot to win this prize!

As usual, we have a second sponsor! Thank you also to the amazing, supportive and long-time friend to Stuck?! Sketches, Creative Embellishments  who are also sponsoring this challenge with a $25.00 gift certificate to their online shop for our second randomly chosen winner!

Creative Embellishments is a new family owned company that was created by Michael and Nicolle Kramer. We are a husband and wife team who design and manufacture unique, high quality chipboard, wood and rubber stamp products. It is our mission is to offer fun and inspiring products to bring out your inner creativity that you can add to any project. In the near future we will be expanding into other mediums such as rubber/acrylic stamps and acrylic embellishments.

ALSO, We want to show you how much we appreciate that you play along with us and share your designs and talent with us so we will be choosing one scrapbooker from this challenge to guest with us for our November 15th challenge!

Of course, we still need to share our sketch with you, check it out:

And now here is your hop order!

 Stuck?! Sketches

Lee-Anne Thornton

Ashley Smith

Wendy McKee

 Debbi Tehrani

Yvette Weber 

 Helen Wallace

 Tracy McLennon

Janice Daquila-Pardo

Angel LeBouef 

Kelly Barron

Jenifer Evans

 Lisa Moen

Aimee Kid

Monique Liedtke (belongs to both teams!)

Shona Keehn

Natsuko Suzuki

Sandra Brimelow 

Marielle LaForge-LeBlanc

Laura Whitaker (belongs to both teams!)

Maja Nowak

My Creative Scrapbook

You can also earn a second chance to win the My Creative Scrapbook September main kit by playing along with our September 15th sketch challenge and linking up your entry as usual!  As always all winners will be chosen randomly, though we will be doing a random manual draw for the My Creative Scrapbook prize, and our usual random.org draw for the Creative Embellishments prize.

So here's the layout I created for my niece. Her sweet little outfit says "I'm New Here" and features a little alien, so I decided I'd use that as inspiration for my page. I have a thing for aliens and monsters, and I had recently bought these cute little monsters that look sort of like aliens to me.

Here are some details. The background paper with the wonky dots is from the Amy Tangerine Stitched collection. The pink stripe is by Teresa Collins. That blue circle was cut out of an old A2Z Essentials paper that I've probably had for a dozen years. The blue floral paper is also super old--from Autumn Leaves MOD--remember that company? The speech bubbles were cut out of an Echo Park paper. The tab is by Pink Paislee. The chipboard #has my heart phrase is by MAMBI.

Here's a shot showing another monster. The stars were punched with a Fiskars punch.

And another monster. So cute! I added some blue water color in the background using the packaging technique and used a KaiserCraft grid stamp. The rub-ons are also really old, by Luxe Designs (it said 2007 on the package), but they still rub on like butter! The scallop borders are old Doodlebug Paper Frills. I sure did use a lot of older stash on this page.

I hope you'll come play with us! As always, Laura's sketches are so fun to work with!