March Madness with Sketches #322 & 323

Good morning and welcome to 

March Madness.  

It is the month for some people that Winter turns to Spring and Summer turns to Autumn (Fall), depending on which hemisphere you live in.

Now onto our new sketches for March.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to enter our last month's 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 or 5 cards, along with some additional inspiration.

You can enter up to three projects per month, so why not try the new sketches and the retro sketch?  

***Please note that one of our rules is to include the sketch that you used on your entry.  This helps you be eligible as the winner or in the Top 3 or 5, and it also promotes Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 to other crafters who read your blog, and if you enter other Challenges, others see your entry and might love the sketch you've used and wonder where you got your idea from.  Thank you for helping us. ***

We love visiting your blogs, and we can't wait to see your entries. We have two new sketches for you this month, and also a retro from the past sketch. Here are the sketches for March 2026.

Sketch #322

Sketch #323

I rate sketch #322 easy, and #323 is easy too; it's a way you can use up all those different pieces of scrap design paper we all have stashed away.

I've checked through my computer for older sketches, and this would be one of my very favourite sketches.

Sketch #144

29th August 2018

My card in August 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 from our wonderful Design Team.

Kathie from

Kathie'z Kardz 

Kelly from

Crafty Creatively

Annie from

Paper and Ink

Doris from

Kleido's Craft Room

Don't forget you can check us out on 

FACEBOOK

And for one of our winners, there is a chance to win a place as a guest designer on Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.  So it's worth playing along with us!!!

This challenge is open until 23.55 UK time on the 31st March 2026, as our new Challenge is on April 1st.

Happy Crafting and Good Luck

Kathie and the SSW2 Design Team

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

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

November winners and More December inspiration

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

The winner for the November challenge is

#7 Nancy Soetaert

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

#9 Annie

#12 Urska

#13 Silke

Please collect your badge from the sidebar

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

From our guest designer, Carol, using 

Sketch #316

Kathie with Sketch #317

Kelly with Sketch #317

Kleido with Sketch #316

Kleido with Sketch #317

Anne with sketch #316

 

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

We will be back with the next challenge on 

Wednesday the 6th of January. 

We look forward to visiting you.

Happy sketching and creating.

Anne and the SSW2 DT

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 December 2025 Challenge

 It's that time of the year!  Or it's getting to be anyway!  Kelly here from Southern Alberta, Canada and we are under a blanket of fresh snow!

Here's a photo from my front window.   

 

Although it was -22 C this morning, it is beautiful!  The mountains are so lovely this time of year so if you have a chance to visit Banff, Canmore, Lake Louise and area during the winter, I highly recommend.

 

 Let's get on to some crafty fun!  We have 2 fabulous sketches available this month as always provided by Kathie and a throwback as well.  So there are 3 amazing sketches for you to give a go this month!

 Let's see what our amazing Guest Designer and DT have in store for you.

Sketch # 316

 

 

Sketch #317 

 

 and a throwback from December 2023 Sketch #243

 

 and here is my card (I just rotated the sketch)

 

Our Guest Designer 

Carol from Crafty-stamper

has created a fabulous card using Sketch 317

Now let's get on to some amazing regular DT creations.

Kathie

 DT from

Kathiekardz

 

Sketch # 316

 

 

 

Kelly

 DT from

Crafting Creatively 

 Sketch #316

  

Anne

DT from 

Paper and Ink 

 

Sketch #317 

 

Kleido (Doris)

DT from 

Kleido's Craft Room

Sketch #316

Sketch #317

 

We'll be back on December 17th with November's winner and top 3, as well as more inspiration from the design team. 

Remember to add the sketch and a link back to our

Challenge Blog to your post.  It's as simple as that.

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,

6th January 2026.

Happy Holidays and crafting, everyone!

 

Big Hugs

Kelly and the Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 Design Team

Anne, Kathie and Kleido 

 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter