Winners February 2025

 Welcome to our winner's post for the February challenge and please scroll down to see more inspiration for our current challenge.

The winner for the January challenge chosen by Doris (Kleido) is

#8 Nat

with this festive card

Congratulations!

Please email anne_ssw2@aol.co.uk to claim your prize 

and arrange a GDT spot or if you are in our Facebook group and it's easier then you can send a message using Messenger.

Congratulations, please collect your badge from the sidebar.

 Here are the top 3 in order of entry

#1 Uschi

#9 Wilma

#12 Silke

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Now, here is some more inspiration for our current challenge.

Kathie with Sketch 299

Kelly with Sketch 299

Anne with Sketch 298

You will find the sketches and the linkup for March in our previous post.

We will be back with the next challenge on the 2nd of April the first Wednesday. So there are still 2 weeks left to enter. Maybe we can beat the number of entries we had last month

We look forward to visiting you.

Happy Sketching and creating.

Anne

SWEET SKETCH WEDNESDAY 2 MARCH 2025

 Good morning and welcome to Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.  I'm Kathie, a team member and sketch designer from                Auckland, New Zealand. 

If your geography is good, you'll know that New Zealand is in the southern hemisphere. We are the first country in the world to see the sunrise daily.

Our Christmases are usually warm, sometimes sunny, and families celebrate differently, traditionally or with BBQs at the beach or at home. 

                I live approximately 50km from Auckland,  Auckland is called the City of Sails. I live in Pukekohe, they call it the bread basket of New Zealand for its Market Gardens and cropping land with the rich volcanic soil and Dairy Farming, Sheep and Beef cattle farming as well.

Auckland's Population is approximately 2 million.

 Auckland day and night views.

Pukekohe township and cropping land

 population approximately 27,500 people.

Thank you to everyone who entered February's challenge, we'll be back on 19th March with February's winner.

Here are our two new sketches from March and don't forget we have a third, a blast from the past from our archives.  Please feel free to use that as well, even better use all three sketches, it would be brilliant to see so many entries.

 Sketch #298

Sketch #299

And these fantastic inspirations were created by our design team.

Kathie DT

from Kathie'z Kardz

Anne DT

from Paper and Ink

Kelly DT

from Crafting Creatively 

Kleido (ak Doris) DT

Is taking a break this month.

Blast from the past Sketch # 104 created by Anne 18th January 2017. 

Here's my card using that sketch.  Card by Kathie image was from Bugaboo Birthday Bird #4

Don't forget you can check us out over on 

Facebook

For our lucky winner, there is a little surprise and a place as a guest designer to win.

 So it's worth playing with us!

The challenge is open until 23.55 UK time on Tuesday the 1st of April 2025.

Happy crafting everyone 

and the SSW2 team.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

January 2025 Winners

 Welcome to our winner's post for the January challenge and please scroll down to see more inspiration for our current challenge.

It was so hard to choose a winner but the winner for the January challenge is

#18 Gerjanne

with this fun card

Congratulations!

Please email anne_ssw2@aol.co.uk to claim your prize 

and arrange a GDT spot or if you are in our Facebook group and it's easier then you can send a message using Messenger.

Congratulations, please collect your badge from the sidebar.

We had so many entries in January that we have a top 5 this month (this also was hard to choose) and here are the top 5 in order of entry

#4 Jenn

#14 Colien

#22 Guylaine

#23 Carol Gill

#32 Urska

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Now, here is some more inspiration for our current challenge.

Firstly our guest designer Heather, thank you so much for creating with us this month

Using Sketch 297

and now the regular team

Anne with Sketch 297

Kathie with Sketch 296

Kelly with Sketch 297

You will find the sketches and the linkup for February in our previous post.

We will be back with the next challenge on the 5th of March the first Wednesday. So there are still 2 weeks left to enter. Maybe we can beat the number of entries we had last month

We look forward to visiting you.

Happy Sketching and creating.

Anne

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 February 2025

Hello and welcome back dear crafty friends,

 I'm Doris - known as Kleido - and this month I'm your hostess.

Every month we have 2 amazing sketches for you, designed by Kathie, which you can also rotate and/or flip - but we should still be able to recognize them.

If you still need more inspiration we have a sketch from our archives too.

We hope we can inspire you a little with our work and look forward to your participation.

Sketch #296

Sketch #297

Our guest designer this month is Heather from Wire Wrapture. Here is the card she created using Sketch #296

We will share Heather's card using sketch 297 in our winner's post on the 19th.

And these fantastic inspirations were created by our design team.

Anne (DT)

Sketch #296

(rotated anti-clockwise)

Kathie (DT)

Sketch #297

Kleido (DT)

Sketch #296

Sketch #297

Kelly (DT) 

 Sketch #296

(rotated counter clockwise)

If you want to work with our retro sketch?! Please feel free to do that... or.. you can use all three sketches this month. We'll be happy about your choice and works.

Retro Sketch #43 / Feb 2015

Anne has been a member of the SSW2 DT for 10 years this month and this is the first sketch that she created with as a member of the DT.

and here's some inspiration from Anne using an image from A Day for Daisies

Don't forget you can check us out over on 

Facebook

And for one of our participants, there is a little surprise and a place as a guest designer to win. So it's worth playing with us!

The challenge is open until 23.55 UK time on Tuesday the 4th of March.

Lovely creative greetings.

Doris and the SSW2 team

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

December 2024 Winners

 Welcome to our winner's post for the December challenge and please scroll down to see more inspiration for our current challenge.

Our winner for the December challenge is

#9 Silke

Congratulations!

Please email anne_ssw2@aol.co.uk to claim your prize 

and arrange a GDT spot or if you are in our Facebook group and it's easier then you can send us a message using Messenger.

Congratulations, please collect your badge from the sidebar.

No top 3 this time as too few entries.

Now, here is some more inspiration for our current challenge.

Firstly our guest designer Julie, thank you so much for creating with us this month

Using Sketch 295

and now the regular team

Anne with Sketch 295

Kathie with Sketch 294

Kelly with Sketch 294

You will find the sketches and the linkup for January in our previous post.

We will be back with the next challenge on the 5th of February the first Wednesday. So there are still 2 weeks left to enter. It would be lovely to get more entries this month.

We look forward to visiting you.

Happy Sketching and creating.

Anne

Welcome to another year of sketches

 Hello and Welcome to our first challenge of 2025

We have two new sketches for you this month and a retro sketch.

You can enter up to three projects per month so why not try out all three of our sketches we would love to see your entries.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to enter our December Challenge during what for many is a very busy time.  We visited so many lovely cards on your sites and now we'll be choosing our winners. On the 15th of January, we'll be back with another post announcing our winner and the Top 3 cards for the November challenge along with some more inspiration.

So without further ado here are the sketches for January.

Sketch #294

Sketch #295

and a retro sketch.

To start 2025 I have chosen sketch 25

Remember these sketches can be flipped and or turned it's entirely up to you as long as we can see the original sketch in your card. 

Now onto some inspiration.

First up is our Guest Designer Julie with this card using sketch #294

We'll have another card from Julie to share later in the month.

Now it's on to the lineup of cards our lovely design team have made.

 Anne from Paper and Ink 

Sketch # 294

Kleido from Kleido's BastelStüble

Sketch #294

Sketch #295

Kathie from Kathie'z Kardz

Sketch #295

and here is Kathie's creation with the retro sketch from 2014

Kelly from Crafting Creatively 

Sketch #295

Don't forget you can check us out on

 Facebook 

And for one of our participants, there is a little surprise and a chance to win a place as a guest designer. So it's worth playing along with us!!!

This challenge is open until 23.55 UK time on 4th February.

Very best wishes for 2025 to one and all

from the

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 Design Team

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Christmas Greetings

As Christmas begins around the world we just wanted to wish all of our followers and friends of the blog a joyful and peaceful Christmas and all good wishes for the coming year.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 Design Team