Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 July 2025

         Good morning and welcome to Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2. 

Hello from Yorkshire in the North of England where we have lots of beautiful scenery but at the start of June was lucky enough to visit Norway where the scenery is also beautiful so thought I would share an image of a wonderful waterfall which we visited, this may also help those of us in Europe who are experiencing very hot weather at the moment feel a little cooler (apologies to our southern hemisphere friends and those elsewhere).

Thank you to everyone who entered June's challenge, we'll be back on 16th July with June's winner.

Just a note about our rules, to be able to win you should show our sketch and have a link back to the challenge, this was not always obvious in some of the entries last month.

Here are our two new sketches for July 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 #306

Sketch #307

Here's some inspiration from our Guest Designer this month

Nat from Crafty Nats Cardmaking Corner 

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 (aka Doris) DT

from Kleido's Bastelstuble

Blast from the past, Sketch # 229 from May 2022. 

and here's some inspiration from Kathie

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, 5 August 2025.

Happy crafting everyone 

Anne and the SSW2 team.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

May winners and more June inspiration

 Welcome to our winner's post for the May challenge. Please scroll down to find more inspiration for our current challenge.

The winner for the May challenge, chosen by me, is

#10- Wilma

With this 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

#5 Wies

#11 - Granne

#14 - Silke

Please collect your badge from the sidebar

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

Kathie with Sketch 305

Kelly with Sketch 304

Anne with Sketch 305

Doris, aka Kleido got creative with the retro sketch

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

We will be back with the next challenge on the  2nd of July, the first Wednesday. 

We look forward to visiting you.

Happy Sketching and creating.

Anne and the SSW2 DT

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 June 2025

 Hello and welcome back, dear crafty friends,

 I'm Doris – nicknamed Kleido – and this month I'm your host. However, before I begin the actual post about this challenge, I'd like to share a little about myself, just as my teammates did.
I'm originally from Stuttgart... 

...and moved to Duisburg to be with my husband 23 years ago. It was a real culture shock for me... because I went from rolling green countryside with great views to a flat, industrial landscape. It still offered plenty of greenery, water, and things to see!

Three years ago, we moved to a rural area, just before the Dutch border – on the Lower Rhine – in the Viersen district. Since then, our lives have unfortunately been turned upside down, as we're renovating the house and garden in addition to work. That's also the reason why you don't see as much of me as we have in all the years before. But better times will come again...

Now, back to our current challenge:

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 recognise 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 #304

Sketch #305

And these fantastic inspirations were created by our design team.

Anne (DT)

Sketch #304

Kathie (DT)

Sketch #304

Kleido (DT)

Sketch #304

Sketch #305

Kelly (DT) 

 Sketch #305

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 work.

Retro Sketch #169 Feb 2019

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

And here is the inspiration from Kathie

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 1st of July.

Lovely creative greetings

Doris and the SSW2 Design Team

Don't forget you can check us out over on 

Facebook

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

April winners and more inspiration

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

The winner for the April challenge chosen by Kelly is

#6-Guylaine

with this 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

#3-Colien

#14-Wies

#15-GerJanne

Please collect your badge from the sidebar

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

Our guest designer 

GerJanne with Sketch 303

Kathie with Sketch 302

Kelly with Sketch 302

Anne with Sketch 303

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

We will be back with the next challenge on the 4th of June the first Wednesday. 

We look forward to visiting you.

Happy Sketching and creating.

Anne

May Sketches at SSW2

  Hello and Welcome to our May challenge

It's Anne here as your hostess for May. I am from Yorkshire in the north of England famous for Yorkshire puddings among other things but a very diverse county with everything from cities to moorland to beaches. We are just coming into spring and next doors clematis is looking wonderful trailing over the gazebo in our garden, I think we have more of it on our side than they have on theirs.

The blue-tits have returned to our nest box as well this year. The picture is of a previous visitor but it reaaly feels like spring is well and truly here when we see them and hear the chirruping coming from the box.

So onto the challenge for this month.

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 April Challenge.  We visited so many lovely cards on your sites and now we'll be choosing our winners. On the 21st of May, we'll be back with another post announcing our winner and the Top 3 cards for the April challenge along with some more inspiration.

So without further ado here are the sketches for May.

Sketch #302

Sketch #303

and a retro sketch.

I have chosen sketch 128 from 17th January 2018

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 GerJanne with this card using

 Sketch #302

We'll have another card from GerJanne 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 # 302

Kleido from Kleido's BastelStüble

Sketch #302

Sketch #303

Kathie from Kathie'z Kardz

Sketch #303

And here is Kathie's creation with the retro sketch from 2018.

Kelly from Crafting Creatively 

Sketch #303

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 3rd June.

Very best wishes 

from the

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 Design Team

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter