Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2

Tuesday, 2 September 2025

Sweet Sketches for September

Hello, crafting friends. It's Kathie from New Zealand here for you this month. I know I'm at the other end of the world for most of you. But did you know we are the first country in the world to see the new day? New Zealand has a tiny population compared to other countries in the world, as of 2024, we reach just over 5 million. I live about an hour's drive from Auckland, which is our largest city.

Here are a couple of photos of Auckland by night.

Now it's time to see our new sketches for September.

Thanks so much for joining us this month. We can't wait to visit your blogs and check out what you've created for us. Be sure to check back here on 17th September for our August winner and Top 3. Happy crafting, everyone.

For September, we have two new, fabulous sketches for you this month, even if I do say so myself. I love designing them; by the time I create with them, a year has passed, as I work a year in advance with my sketches, and they are a surprise for me as well.

Sketch # 310

Sketch #311

Here is what our great, dedicated design team have created for you this month.

Kathie DT from Kathie'z Kardz

Sketch # 310

Anne DT from Paper and Ink

Sketch # 311

Kleido (aka Doris) DT

from Kleido Baststuble

Sketch # 310

Sketch # 311

Kelly DT from Crafting Creativity

Sketch # to come

Our throwback sketch for this month is

Sketch # 119 on 16th August 2017

We really hope you have the time to play along with us this month. There are three fab sketch options for you to choose from, and if you're feeling crafty, you could always try them all.

Remember to add the sketch and a link back to our challenge blog to your post.

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 along with us!

This challenge is open until 23.55 UK time on Tuesday, 30th September 2025.

Happy crafting everyone

Hugs

Kathie

and the Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 Design Team.

Wednesday, 20 August 2025

July winners and more August inspiration

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

The winner for the July challenge is,

#8 Colien

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

#1 Silke

#3 Fabiola

#10 Wies

Please collect your badge from the sidebar

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

Firstly our GDT Wilma with Sketch 309

Kelly with Sketch 308

Kathie with Sketch 309

Anne with Sketch 309

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

We will be back with the next challenge on the 3rd of September, the first Wednesday.

We look forward to visiting you.

Happy Sketching and creating.

Anne and the SSW2 DT

Wednesday, 6 August 2025

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2- August 2025 Sketches 308 and 309

Hi there, crafty friends and welcome to Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2! I'm Kelly and will be your hostess for this month. I am lucky enough to live in Southern Alberta, Canada, and it's been a rainy but fantastic summer! Everything is lush and green, and it's been great.

I am currently in Northern Idaho on vacation so here are a couple photos from on the water on Lake Pend Orielle but we're actually on the river side-Sandpoint, Idaho.

Thank you for joining us for the July challenge. Be sure to check back mid-August to see if you were a winner.

We have two fabulous sketches for you this month from Kathie, as well as our throwback sketch and a wonderful guest designer this month.

Our sketches are

Sketch 308

Sketch 309

To start off, we have some inspiration from our guest designer, Wilma, featuring

Sketch #308

And here are some more great makes from our design team.

Anne DT

from Paper and Ink

Sketch #308

Kathie DT

from Kathie'z Kardz

Sketch #308

Kelly DT

from Crafting Creatively

Sketch #309

Kleido (aka Doris) DT

from Kleido's Bastelstuble

Sketch #308

Sketch #309

Our throwback Sketch is #262 from September 2023

And here is some inspiration from me!

I sure hope you will play along with us this month. There are 3 fab sketch options to choose from, and we would love to see you use them all! Remember to add the sketch and a link back to our challenge blog to your post.

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, 2 September 2025.

Happy crafting!

Kelly

and the SSW2 team.

Wednesday, 16 July 2025

June winner and more inspirations

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

The winner for the June challenge, chosen by Doris aka Kleido is,

#13- 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

#9 Wilma

#10 Colien

#11 Claudia's kaartjes

Please collect your badge from the sidebar

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

Firstly our GDT Nat with Sketch 306

Kelly with Sketch 307

Anne with Sketch 307

Kathie with Sketch 307

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

We will be back with the next challenge on the 6th of August, the first Wednesday.

We look forward to visiting you.

Happy Sketching and creating.

Anne and the SSW2 DT

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

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