January winners and some lovely DT and GDT inspiration

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

The winner for the January challenge is

# 15 Darlene

With this card

Congratulations!

Please email anne_ssw2@aol.co.uk to arrange a GDT spot.  Alternatively, if you are in our Facebook group, it's easier to send a message using Messenger.

Congratulations, please collect your badge from the sidebar.

Our Top 3 are in order of entry

#10 Silke

#16 Chris

#17 Nelleke

Please collect your badge from the sidebar

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

From our guest designer, Alma, using 

Sketch #321

Kathie with Sketch #321

Kelly with Sketch #320

 

You will find all the sketches and the link-up for February in our previous post.

We will be back with the next challenge on 

Wednesday the 4th of March. 

We look forward to visiting you.

Happy sketching and creating.

Anne and the SSW2 DT

SSW2 February 2026 #320 and 321

 Hello and welcome to our latest challenge.

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

You can enter up to three projects per month, so why not try the new sketches and a retro sketch? We would love to see your entries.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to enter our last challenge. We visited so many lovely cards on your sites, and we'll be back on the 18th of February with another post announcing our winner and the Top 3 cards, along with some additional inspiration.

So without further ado, here are the sketches for February.

Sketch #320

Sketch #321

and a retro sketch.

I have gone back to February 2016 this month and chosen sketch # 83

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, Alma, with this card using

Sketch #320

Thank you, Alma, for designing with us this month

Now it's on to the lineup of cards from our regular designers.

Kleido from Kleido's BastelStüble

Sketch #320

Sketch #321

 Anne from Paper and Ink 

Sketch # 320

Sketch #321

Here is 

Kathie from Kathie'z Kardz creation with the retro sketch.

 

 

Kelly from Crafting Creatively 

Sketch #321

 

Kathie from Kathie'z Kardz

Sketch #320

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 the 3rd of March.

Happy Crafting and Good Luck

Anne and the SSW2 Design Team

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

December Winners and some more January Inspiration

 Welcome to our winner's post for the December Challenge. 

 Please scroll down to find more inspiration for our current challenge.

The winner for the December challenge is

#1 Silke 

With this card

Congratulations!

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

and arrange a GDT spot.  Alternatively, if you are in our Facebook group, it's easier to send a message using Messenger.

Congratulations, please collect your badge from the sidebar.

Our Top 3 are in order of entry

#4 Fabiola

#7 Wies

#17 Colien

Please collect your badge from the sidebar

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

Kathie with Sketch #318

Kelly with Sketch #319

Kleido with Sketch #319

Anne with Sketch #318

 

You will find all the sketches and the link-up for January in our previous post.

We will be back with the next challenge on 

Wednesday the 4th of February. 

We look forward to visiting you.

Happy sketching and creating.

Anne and the SSW2 DT

Another Year Of Sketches Begin.

 Hello and welcome to our first challenge of 2026

We hope that all who celebrate had a joyous festive season and would like to wish you all the very best for the coming year.

We have two new sketches for you this month, along with 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 January 14th, we'll be back with another post announcing our winner and the Top 3 cards for the December challenge, along with some additional inspiration.

So without further ado, here are the sketches for January.

Sketch #318

Sketch #319

and a retro sketch.

To start 2026, I have chosen sketch 226, which was first published in April 2022

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, Urska, with this card using

Sketch #318

Thank you, Urska, for designing with us this month

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

 Anne from Paper and Ink 

Sketch # 319

Kleido from Kleido's BastelStüble

Sketch #318

Kathie from Kathie'z Kardz

Sketch #319

And here is Kathie's creation with the retro sketch from 2022.

Kelly from Crafting Creatively 

Sketch #318

And here is Kelly's creation with the retro sketch.

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 the 3rd of February.

Happy Crafting and Good Luck

Anne and the SSW2 Design Team

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter