Fresh Brewed Designs

Hello and Happy Wednesdays to you! Heide here from MI and I am you hostess today. Can you believe the Holiday Season is upon us. It is such a busy time of year and I am glad that you can join us.  My tree is up, the lights are on, and the house has some decorations scattered throughout.  I do have some of my shopping done and still have a bit more to do. I will finish my shopping when I return from Florida! I am headed down to Sunny warm FL for a few days while my daughter plays some soccer, I am sooooo looking forward to the small vacation!

                                       

Hopefully, I will have a chair just like the one in the photo waiting for me and a book, LOL!

The Grand Prize Winner of the 3 Dilly Bean images.....

#7 Chris!!

And...  our Top Three...

#3  Paperesse

#10  Kerys

#13 Carol Dee

Be sure to grab either the Winner's Badge or the Top Three Badge from the sidebar to display on your Blogs =)  We are all so grateful to all of our Followers who stop by our blog and share their gorgeous creations each week.  Thank You!! So on to this weeks post.
Our wonderful Sponsor is Heather Dennis from Fresh Brewed Designs.
Here is a bit of info about Heather and her Stamp Company.

This week we are honored to have Fresh Brewed Designs as our sponsor. Here's a little bio from owner and artist Heather Dennis:

Hello, I am Heather Dennis, the owner and artist at Fresh Brewed Designs.

I love and do all I can to put God first in my life. I am so blessed beyond all I deserve.
I have an amazing husband who supports and loves me more than anything.
We lead praise and worship together in church. I love hearing him sing.I home school two of the best kids in the world. They are my heart.I can't even describe how much they mean to me.

I LOVE all things crafty. I have been crafting and creating since as early as I can remember.
 Hello, I am Heather Dennis, the owner and artist at Fresh Brewed Designs.
I love and do all I can to put God first in my life. I am so blessed beyond all I deserve.
I have an amazing husband who supports and loves me more than anything.
We lead praise and worship together in church. I love hearing him sing.
I home school two of the best kids in the world. They are my heart.
I can't even describe how much they mean to me.
I LOVE all things crafty. I have been crafting and creating since as early as I can remember.

Here is a little about our shop:

Fresh Brewed Designs is a small online company that has been
offering a wide variety of digital
and rubber stamps since November 2010,
designed to meet the
needs of paper crafting addicts
everywhere. With over 30 categories to choose from and
new additions each month, our range of products is expanding all of the time.  


                                     

This weeks Lucky winner will recieve 3 free digis of their pick from Fresh Brewed.
Let get on to Our sketch.

                 

Here is some inspiration from the DT.

                                      Joanna made this lovely card with the Christmas candle                                                      

                                        Linda made this cute card with the image-
                                                                 Christmas Stocking Girl. 
                                       

                                        Anne used this darling image called Sheppard.
                                   

                                   Heide ( this is me) use the adorable image Santa's Latte   

If you have an image from the current week's Sponsor, we'd love to see what you can do with it.  However, you may use any stamp or element you have to create your card.
 
    Add the sketch of the week to your blog and include a link back to Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.
    Post your card on your blog along with the link to SSW2.
    Sign in to Inlinkz and add a direct link back to your card on your site.
 
In order to be considered for the Grand Prize, be sure to leave a comment on the current Challenge post. Also...  check us out on Facebook, we feature a few cards from our challenge participants each week and preview the new sketch every Tuesday.

Have a fantastic week creating!

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Dilly Beans!!

Hi friends and welcome December!!  Can you believe it??  I think December comes quicker every year...  I am so glad you stopped by to visit our Blog today!!  If this is your first time checking out our Sketch Challenge - Welcome!!  This is Sally as your Hostess this week.  I am welcoming you from Massachusetts, New England USA where the leaves have all fallen and the days are getting chilly, no sign of snow yet, but winter will be upon us soon!!

Before we get started with our new challenge, I want to announce last week's winner.  And the Winner is...

#12  Claudia!!

Please e-mail Sally at sallydubessw@gmail.com to claim your prize!!

On week's that we have more than 15 entries, we choose a Top Three - Last week we were almost there with 14...  We will be featuring a few cards on our Facebook Page - Be sure to check it out - you may find your card there =)

One other piece of business to take care of...  We have 201 Followers!!  We have been saying there would be a prize for one of the second hundred Followers, so, by Random selection our winner of the prize features on the left side bar is....   Sarah Stone!!  Congrats Sarah!!  I will be sending you an e-mail shortly!!  Thanks for being a Follower!!

Now, on with this week's Challenge...

Our Sponsor is Megan Suarez of Dilly Beans!!  Check our her wonderful images by visiting her Blog  Dilly Beans. I just LOVE her unique images.  Megan will be providing the challenge winner with three free images from the Dilly Beans online shop. Wow!!

Dilly Beans offers some wonderfully whimsical digi stamps in a lot of different themes. To see more of Megan Suarez’s beautiful illustrations, visit her InspirationsBlog, Dilly Beans Challenge Blog and the Dilly Beans Facebook Page.   Thanks for your generous sponsorship Megan! 

And now the Sketch...

Here are the Design Team creations:

Anne

Heide

Joanna

Linda

The rules for playing along can be found by clicking the CHALLENGE RULES tab at the top of the page.

Please remember to comment on this post to be eligible to win.  Thanks so much for stopping by and playing along with us - tell your friends about our Challenge, we should love to see more and more entries each week!

Blessings to you!!

                                         

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Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 and Deedees Designs

Hello and the warmest welcome to Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2. It is Anne here in the UK welcoming you this week on behalf of the team and we are so pleased to have you come and visit us at this busy time of the year.

to all who celebrate it, here's hoping that you have a wonderful holiday time with loved ones.

Before we get onto this weeks sketch it's time to announce last weeks winner ...

#8  Kelly!!

Congratulations!

Please contact Sally at sallydubessw@gmail.com to claim your prize and don't forget to grab your winners badge from the sidebar.

On week's that we have more than 15 entries, we choose a Top Three - Last week we were almost there with 14...  We will be featuring a few cards on our Facebook Page - Be sure to check it out - you may find your card there =)

And now, on to this week's Challenge.  Our sponsor is DeeDee's Designs

with a wonderful prize of $15 worth of digis.

Here's a message from them 

 We are delighted to be able to sponsor this fun challenge and to offer a prize to a happy winner! Visit Daydream Designs store for our full line of whimsical, hand-drawn digi images, sentiments, papers, embellishments, and more for all your crafting needs. Images are usually in both JPEG and PNG with 300 dpi resolution, are resizable and our crisp, black-line sentiments can be recolored in most photo editing programs. We promote family-friendly, wholesome products with many Christian-themed images and scripture verses. There is sure to be something for every crafter and every project whether digitally created or traditionally designed.

Visit our Daydream Designs blog for tons of inspiration from our Dream Team Designers. Diane Noble, Owner/Illustrator

As it is the last week in the month we are re-visiting a previous sketch and this month it is designed by Arlana

and here's what the Design Team did with it 

Heide - using Bounteous Blessings

Joanna - using Homework Helpers

Kathie - using Stocking Pals

Linda - using Snow Angel

Anne - using Autumn Splendour

If you have an image from the current week's Sponsor, we'd love to see what you can do with it. However, you may use any stamp or element you have to create your card.

Please don't forget to leave a comment in order to be in with a chance of winning.

We are only 2 Followers away from our next "Candy" drawing...  tell you friends to come join us!!

Happy Crafting!!

Anne  &

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Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 and Digi Stamp Boutique

Welcome friends to Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2!!  I am so glad you have stopped by to check out our Challenge and hope you will play along with us!!  If you are a first time visitor WELCOME!!  Thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to visit us at SSW2!! 

Before we get started with our new challenge, I wanted to announce last week's winner ...

#13 Dorothy S!!

Please e-mail Anne at annepuddicombe@aol.com to claim your prize!!

Be sure to visit our page on FaceBook to see a few favorites from last week's Challenge! 

It's the third week of the month, the middle of November!!  Christmas is just around the corner...  All of the DT this week were thinking Christmas when creating their cards.  So many wonderful images to choose from at Digi Stamp Boutique - this week's Sponsor!!   We are so thankful to Sally-Ann Hancock of Digistamp Boutique for sponsoring us.  She has created some of the sweetest images!  Did you know that Sally-Ann releases new sets the second week of each month?  I encourage you to visit her shop often!!   Here's a bit more about Sally-Ann and her shop:

My work means the world to me - it allows my passion to draw and create, to fit with my family life too, often the inspiration for my designs. Hope you enjoy my images as much as I enjoy creating them. 

This week we are offering a £10 voucher to Sally-Ann's store as our prize!  Yippee!

On to the Challenge and this week's Sketch...

Here are the cards by the talented Design Team:

Anne

Heide

Joanna

Kathie

Linda

Judi

I'm excited to see all the fabulous creations you make this week. The rules for playing along can be found by clicking the CHALLENGE RULES tab at the top of the page.

Please remember to comment on this post to be eligible to win. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and for becoming a Follower!! We are getting close to the 200 Follower mark.  Only 2 more to go!!  There is another drawing scheduled for candy once we hit that mark, so, if you have crafty friends who do not know about SSW2, send them our way - share the fun!!  

Blessings to you!!

                                      

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Dearie Dolls and Sketch 2-74

Hi there friends!!  Welcome to Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.  It is Sally here welcoming you from Massachusetts.  I speak for the whole Team when I say I am SO HAPPY to have you join us this week. Our wonderfully talented sponsor is Mary Ellen with Dearie Dolls. Below is a little something about Mary Ellen and her store Dearie Dolls. 

If you are new to Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 a BIG welcome to you.  We are excited to have you play along with us and love to see all the wonderful creations each week!!  Do not forget to become a follower to our little blog here, we are so close to having another drawing!!  We just need a few more Followers to reach 200.

Without further ado, I want to introduce you to Dearie Dolls:

Mary Ellen's Dearie Digis are inspired by the wooden dolls she and her husband Kip made together for 25 years. She likes to tell a little story with each illustration. Some of her favorite subjects are snowmen and children.

http://freedeariedollsdigistamps.blogspot.com/

Most of Mary Ellen's images are free to use.  They are so delightful and you could spend hours looking through the images that she has on her blog.  She has colored and uncolored images to choose from.

Mary Ellen also has a Etsy shop- Dearie Dolls by me where she has some very cute images for sale be sure to stop and take a peek. 

***Special Prize Info***

This week, everyone is a Winner - why??  Because all of the images are Free at Dearie Dolls!!  I do have a last minute announcement though...  Anne, one of our DT has offered a wonderful PRIZE for this week's Winner - A paper pad from Lili of the Valley!!  Check it out by clicking HERE  Remember,  If you want to have an opportunity to be the Grand Prize Winner, you must leave a comment on this Post =).

Before we get on with the Challenge,  I want to announce last week's Winner of 7 free images from Bugaboo!!

#9  Louise

Congratulations!  Please contact Sally at sallydubessw@gmail.com   Be sure to grab your winner's badge from the sidebar and display it proudly on your blog.

No Top Three this week - all of the cards were wonderful and it's so hard to single out a "Top Three" with so few entries.  Week's when we have 15 or more, we will announce the Top Three.

I do encourage you to head over to Facebook and check out a few favorites that I posted last night =)

Here is this weeks Sketch. 

And here is some inspiration to get your creative juices flowing!! 

Linda

Anne 

Heide

Kathie


Joanna

If you have an image from the current week's Sponsor, we'd love to see what you can do with it. However, you may use any stamp or element you have to create your card.

Be sure to check us out on Facebook where we feature a few cards from our challenge each week and preview the new sketch every Tuesday.

Blessings to you!!

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SSW2 Sketch #73 Bugaboo

Welcome to Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 it's Kathie here from New Zealand and I'm your hostess this week.  I can't believe that we're in the first week of November already and there's only 50 days until Christmas and the Holiday season is upon us.  It's going to feel strange for myself and family this year as we're spending our Christmas in the Northern Hemisphere, where it's going to be a lot colder than we're use to and hopefully we'll have some snow.  Our Christmas holiday season is part of our summer holiday celebrations and being very warm.  My husband who is Irish will have to acclimatised as it's many years since he's had a cold Christmas.

New Zealanders were up glued to their Televisions early hours of Sunday morning watching the World Cup Rugby Final
New Zealand's All Blacks V's Australia's Wallabies 

New Zealand win the World Cup

Ruthless New Zealand withstood a rousing fightback from Australia before crushing the Wallabies 34-17 at Twickenham to become world champions for a record third time and the first team to retain the Webb Ellis Cup back to back.

We are so proud of our World Cup winning team and their families.

Congratulations from all of us.

For those of you that are new to Sweet Sketch Wednesdays 2 Welcome and we hope you find some inspiration on this blog and our returning friends Welcome back  we are happy that you could join us.

It was lovely to see so many more entries this week.  Thank you from

 Team Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.

Please support us as we don't want to be a statistic of a Challenge Blog.

Before we get started with our new challenge, I'd like to announce last week's winner...

                                        

#10  Sam (Whisper)

Please e-mail Sally at sallydubessw@gmail.com to claim your prize!!

and our Top 3 are in no particular order

#3  Laura
#11  Tip Top
#16  Louise

Well done!

  Congratulations

  You guys should also grab your badge from our sidebar for your blog. 

Now, on to this week’s challenge...

Sketch #73

Another great sketch to work with and it's very easy.

We also welcome back one of Team Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 favourite sponsors

Bugaboo Stamps

Bio:

Everything that you ever wanted to know about Bugaboo Stamps:  As if raising 5 children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the work of papercrafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. Bugaboo Stamps has become one of the leading companies in digital images. From seriously snarky to sugar sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects.  Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week!!  If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps at Totally Stampilicious.  And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT for the weekly Challenges at Catch the Bug.

Store www.bugaboostamps.com

Challenge Blog:  http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com

Jodie is offering our very lucky winner this week

Now it's time to see what

Team Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 have created this week using

Bugaboo Stamps

Joanna

 from Sitting on Pens and Needles

Used one of my very favourite Bugaboo characters  Gus

Gus Christmas Aspirin.  Don't you love those glasses.

Linda

from The Stamper's Touch

Linda has used Christmas Ornaments I love this image Linda especially your colour combo.

Anne

from Paper and Ink

Anne has used this really cute image Autumn Scarecrow I love your colours Anne.

Heide 

from Heide D' Paperie

They say great minds think alike, both Anne and Heide have chosen the same image and both cards look so different.  Love the use of the natural jute and straw.

Kathie

from Kathie'z Kardz

Yes I used an old favourite of mine JJ Christmas Cheer, I do think that all of us know a JJ in our lives we've come across or crossed paths with at some stage.

She really makes me smile.

We hope these samples inspire you to create and join in our challenge this week. The rules for playing along can be found by clicking the CHALLENGE RULES tab at the top of the page.

Just remember to comment on this post to be eligible to win.  Also...  check us out on Facebook, we feature a few cards from our challenge participants each week and preview the new sketch every Tuesday.

Thanks for stopping by!

Take care everyone wishing you all a wonderful week and happy crafting.

and

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