♥WELCOME to ICS♥

We here at Inspirational Card Sketches hope to bring you exciting inpsiration on a weekly base. Our goal is to inspire and get you to think outside the box. Worldwide everyone is welcome to participate, all types of projects (layouts, cards, and all types of other paper projects) are also welcomed. You can also combine this challenge with others. Enjoy and have FUN!

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

ICSketches #18

ICSketches #18

The winner of last week's prize from The Character Cafe goes to...

#1 Stephanie S

Congratulations! Please email me so we can get to you your
prize ASAP. ENJOY!!!

Once again, we are blown away by the outstanding job with the sketch last week. Such lovely inspiration from all of you! We do hope to see all of you back here this week. Thanks to each of you for participating! :)

This week's sponsor is the fun and lively Paper Popsicles!!! At Paper Popsicles you can find a variety of monthly kits designed with YOU in mind! And what is best is that the kits are a GREAT Value and packed with awesome goodies! The store at Paper Popsicles boasts savings up to 30% off of retail! WOWEE! Come join them on their message board for weekly challenges and prizes and visit their blog for MORE!

Paper Popsicles has unveiled their new line of custom digital designs. Soon you will be able to have custom digital stamps that coordinate with their monthly kits as well, exclusive to Paper Popsicles!



Check out the lovely digital designs Paper Popsicles will be offering
this week to a lucky random winner for participating in the sketch!
Aren't these kids ADORABLE?



The design team out did themselves this week with their creations. They are all absolutely breathtaking. So hopefully one of them has inspired you to create a lovely card this week. Remember you can rotate, flip or whatever your heart desire with the sketch. As long as I can see the sketch then it good to go. Happy creating!




Fink


Marcea


Kim


Terrie


Karen


Tricia


Pearl


Olena


Dawn
Deadline: June 1st, at 12:00 am midnight Central Daylight Time USA. Please be sure to link us up in Mr. Linky with a direct link to your cards.


Tuesday, May 19, 2009

ICSketches #17

The winner of last weeks prize from Kim goes to...

# 40 Kim Y.

Congratulations and please email me your info so we can get those images to you ASAP! Enjoy!

Eeveryone did an outstanding job with the sketch last week. Such lovely inspiration. We do hope to see all of you back here this week. Thanks to each of you for participating! :)

The lovely Kendra from The Character Cafe is our lovely sponsor this week. She will provide 3 digital stamps to the winner. The winner will get to chose which 3 digi stamps they want out of their collection. And they do have amazing collection. Go have a look! Some of the Design Team Members have some of their images in use this week.

The Character Cafe is a new stamp company specializing in digital stamps, some of which come with svg/pdf cutting files for easy paper piecing. They offer a variety of designs with card making in mind, but images could be used for much more given the versatility of digital stamps. The Cafe is an angel company geared towards crafters of all kinds, allowing use for small business as well as personal. The owners, Kendra and Kelly hope to provide a wide variety of unique characters with the intent of branching into rubber in the near future. Being crafters/consumers themselves, they strive to have customer service second to none and look forward to serving you for years to come. From The Café, Happy crafting!

The design team out did themselves this week with their creations. They are all absolutely breathtaking. So hopefully one of them has inspired you to create a lovely card this week. Remember you can rotate, flip or whatever your heart desire with the sketch. As long as I can see the sketch then it good to go. Happy creating!

ICSketches #17

Dawn

Olena (TCC~Sk8r Brady)

Karen (TCC~Precious Emmy)

Marcea

Jona

Pearl

Tricia

Terrie

Kim

Anna

Fink

Deadline: May 25th at 12:00 am midnight Central Daylight Time USA. Please be sure to link us up in Mr. Linky with a direct link to your cards.

Thanks!
ICS Design Team

Saturday, May 16, 2009

The New ICS DT & GD's

Good Day ladies!

After 70+ submissons I want to thank each and everyone of you that submitted to the ICS DT Call. WOW the ubber talent that crossed my path in the last 3 week+ was just outstanding. I spent many long hours visiting everyones blogs. I wish I could take each of you for the team. I hope that next go time you will all tryout again.

For those of you that tried out and didn't make the team. YOU all have amazing talent, picking this team was very hard. Narrowing the submissions down was even harder. I hope that each and everyone of you will join us here at ICS and create with the sketches each week. We'd love to see more of your work. Cause you are very talented.

Now for the announcement of the new DT here at ICS. These ladies will be joining Terrie, Tricia, Olena, Kim, Karen and Fink. Please help me welcome and congratulate:

Alecia
Regina
Dolly
Wendi
Claire
Liz
Heather
Rosie

New news for ICS! I have decided to add GD's to the TEAM. The thing about the GD is I've picked them from the submissions I got. So for the month of June and the next 6 weeks these ladies will be our GD.

Michele (June 2nd & 9th)
Laurel (June 16th & 23rd)
Heather F. (June 30th & July 7th)

Congratulations and welcome to the ICS June-Sept 2009 Design Team!

Thursday, May 14, 2009

ICS DT Call is CLOSED!

June - Sept 2009 Term
ICS DT Call is official CLOSED!
Thank you all for your submissions!
Dawn

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

ICSketches #16

Winner of last weeks prize from Paper Blooms is....
# 16 Mrs. J.
Congratulations!
Please email me your info and we'll get that PRIZE to you ASAP!

Wow thank you to all who created such lovely cards and project with last weeks sketch! Each and everyone of you are just full of AWESOME talent. Thank you for being part of ICS!

This weeks Prize is these lovely IMAGES angeled by our very own Kim aka PaperBabe! Thank you Kim for the amazing prize!

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Here's this weeks sketch and below that is the DT creations fo your eye candy inspiration! They all did a lovely job! Thanks girls for the inspiration.

Now we want to see what you can create using the same sketch. Please remember you don't have to be a stamper to make these sketch work for you. You can rotate, stretch, shrink or anything your heart desires to the sketch. Just have FUN! That's the main key to it all is to enjoy!

ICSketches #16


Dawn
Anna

Jona

Kim

Karen

Marcea

Olena

Pearl

Terrie

Deadline: May 18th @ midnight CDT (USA). Please link up in Mr. Linky with your name and a direct link to your cards. Thank you so much!

ICSketches Design Team

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Mr. Linky Problems (UPDATE)

Apparently Mr. Linky is having problems with their site and there is no way to right now to fix Mr. Linky. So for those of you that are posted cards. Just leave a link in the comments section and I will add them as soon as Mr. Linky is up an going. Sorry for the inconvience.

Mr. Linky is back, so get those creations linked up! And if you still have problems just link up in the comments.

ICSketches #15

Using Random.org the winner of the PRIZE for sketch #14 is...

# 34 Ineke Boerman

Congratulations! Please email your information so I can get your prize in the mail ASAP. Thanks.

Oh my goodness we had so many lovely cards showcased using sketch #14. Wow you ladies are just full of talent. Thanks to all that made such fabulous cards. We hope to see you this week.

Our lovely sponsor this week is.....

Paper Blooms Etsy shop carries hand crocheted blooms in a wide array of colors, bloom style and sizes. Each bloom is handcrafted and is perfect for adding that extra special touch to any of your projects. I gladly take custom orders and offer free shipping on all orders. Please visit the Paper Blooms shop at: http://paperblooms.etsy.com For more inspiration and to see the blooms in action please visit the challenge blog at: http://paperblooms.blogspot.com Remember to make it extra special!

Here's what Leah will give the winner of this weeks sketch challenge. Yummy blooms!

You don't have to be a stamper to do the sketches. About half my team is stampers and the other half non-stampers. We want to inspire all types of cardmakers to come join us in the challenges. Also you can rotate, stretch, flip or whatever your heart desires to the sketch.

ICSketches #15

Here's what the amazingly talented Design Team have created for your inspiration. They all did a very lovely job with the sketch. So now we want to see what you can do with the sketch.


Dawn

Anna
Fink
Karen

Kim
Marcea
Olena
Pearl

Tricia


TerriDeadline: May 11th @ midnight CDT (USA). Please link up in Mr. Linky with your name and a direct link to your cards. Thank you so much!
ICSketches Design Team