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

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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

WINNERS MARCH 2025

 Welcome to our winner's post for our March challenge.  There were so many lovely cards to choose from.  Please scroll down to see more inspiration from our design team for our current challenge.

The winner for the March challenge chosen by

Kathie here in New Zealand.

#21 Nat

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 Chris

# 13 Heather

#17 Claudia

Please collect your badge from the sidebar.

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

Our Guest Designer for April 2025 is 

Silke from Card Stuff 

using Sketch # 301

Kathie from Kathie's Kardz 

using Sketch #300

Kelly from Crafting Creatively

using Sketch # 300

Anne from Paper and Ink

using Sketch # 301

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

We will be back with the next challenge on the 7th of May, the first Wednesday of the month. So there are still 3 weeks left to enter. Maybe we can beat the number of entries we had last month, as you have the Easter break to craft.

We look forward to visiting you.

We wish everyone a wonderful Easter Weekend.

 Happy crafting and creating, everyone.

Big Hugs from the

Design Team

Kathie

 xox

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 April Sketches

 Good morning, crafty friends!  It's Kelly here as your hostess for April!  I am from Southern Alberta, Canada!  I live an hour east of Calgary.  Kind of in the middle of nowhere but also the middle of everywhere, if that makes sense!  

Calgary hosts the Calgary Stampede every summer in July and it is 10 days of fun!  We enjoy the rodeo, chuckwagon races, cattle shows, and various concerts.

 

 

 

We live in rural Alberta and while things don't look this green right now as we are just coming out of winter, summers are lovely!

 

We are about 2 1/2 hours from Canmore/Banff and the mountains are amazing!

 

Thank you so much for joining us for our March challenge.  Be sure to check back on April 16th when the winner of the March challenge will be announced.

 

Here we have our sketches for April, and we would love you to join us using one, two or all 3!

Sketch 300

 

 

Sketch 301

 

 

Here are some great creations from the DT to showcase Kathie's awesome sketches.  Our fabulous Guest Designer this month is Silke from KartemKram, who is featuring her card for 

Sketch #300

 

 

 

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.

 

 

Here is our blast from the past sketch. If you want to use it for your entry, we would love to see it.  This sketch is #213 from August of 2021.

 

 

 and here is my card using that sketch featuring Cosmos from Fred She Said.

 

 

Don't forget you can check us out over on 

Facebook

For one lucky winner, there will be a little surprise sent your way and a place as a guest designer to win.

 So it's definitely worth playing along with us!

The challenge is open until 23.55 UK time on Tuesday, the 6th of May 2025.

Happy crafting, everyone!

 

and the SSW2 team!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

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 February 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

Please collect your badge from the sidebar

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