Valerie Salmon Designs

A new Got Sketch class

It's time, once again, for another class filled with brand spankin' new Got Sketch? sketches to help get your creative juices flowin'!

Beginning October 1st, we will start to release TWELVE never-seen-before sketches (or FOURTEEN, if you sign up early) in a 4-week duration.

8 singles and 4 double-pagers! (Plus 2 bonus singles for pre-registrants).

Get the details at our GS Express! 4 Info Page.

Hope to see you there!!

It's December

It's hard to believe the year is almost over.  Time seems to fly by faster, the older I get.  How about you?   And speaking of getting older, I am turning 1 year older this month.  Yeah, I am going to be 27.  ;P  {yeah in my dreams, right?  LOL}

So the holidays are coming.  And I have a long way to go before I complete my gift-shopping.  

But I have been crafting, as always, and plan on making several handmade gifts this year.  As I mentioned earlier, I am on a sewing frenzy.  I'm back to my first love: my sewing roots have kicked in.  

Wanted to share a project I created for Fiskars, that ... get this, involved no sewing.  It's a 2-sided fleece throw.  Some of you may have made these before.  After I created the one pictured below, I had to do more!  I took the kids to the fabric store & let them pick out their own prints.  I just finished my third.  It is so cute and cozy!  Check out the article here, which features rotary cutters.  You gotta have one of those.  They are quite handy. 

The article also includes other projects from the Fiskars DT, along with the most adorable pot-holder set by my pal, Janna.

Oh also, we just ended our Got Sketch Express last week.  So, all 8 sketches & their downloadable pdf's are all posted.  If you want to take advantage of seeing the whole GSE set, go to the GSE info page to sign up. We will keep the site open until the end of December.

Have a good day!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope you all have a nice Thanksgiving celebration tomorrow.

Ours will be a simple one, but the best part is that my younger brother is visiting from California (arriving tonight!).  My kids are very excited to see him.

Just a few things I thought I would share before I go MIA for a little while.  ;-)

As I mentioned, I have been sewing up a storm lately.  I love to sew and have been sewing since I was a young girl ... and it's something that got put on the back-burner because of all my paper-crafting work.  Lately, I have dusted off my sewing machine to create some projects for Fiskars -- and boy, am I thankful for that.  It has really re-ignited my passion for sewing!  Now, I can't stop sewing!

Here are some fun things I've done lately:

Custom Child's Apron & Matching Tote

See more information on this ensemble here.  See Ian modeling it.  :)  This is completely made from scratch, but it can be made using pre-made items.  I like creating my own patterns & customizing things to my liking.

 

Holiday Table Runner

See the article here.

On the Got Sketch? homefront, Janna and I just wrapped up Got Sketch Express!  We just released our last sketch yesterday.  Here is a peek of that.

Now that all 8 sketch downloads are complete, you can still sign up to get all of them as a whole!

We've had fun.  We hope you did, too.

That's all for now.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, everyone!

GSE: Week Seven

The Got Sketch Express program is flying by!

Our weekly deliveries end with our last sketch next week.  Then, we will release the GSE sketches2go in our popular miniature format!

You can certainly still sign up and have access to all the GSE sketches.

GSE: Week Two

Are you ready for a peek of Got Sketch Express sketch 2?

At around 2pm EST today, these will be delivered in your inboxes!

We are excited about our new format, so watch out for those pretty messages.

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It doesn't get any easier than that!

It's not too late to sign up.

We will email you the past sketches you've missed.

Join the many others who are getting their weekly Val-Janna sketches and layouts!