WINNERS CIRCLE FOR JULY

 Good morning 

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2

Entrants and Followers.

Here it is, 19th August already; time flies when you're having fun crafting.

Here are our winners for our July Challenge.  Thank you, ladies, for all your beautiful entries.  

Our Winner is

#16 Chris

 with this lovely Christmas card, beautifully coloured with Polychromo Pencils and glitter pens.

Congratulations!

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

Congratulations, please collect your badge from the sidebar.

I'm sorry, but I found it hard to make a decision for our Top 3, so I've gone with a Top 5 instead. I know we haven't got enough entries, but honestly I couldn't make up my mind. So please take our Top 5 badge and display it proudly on your blogs.

Top 5

In entry order:

#2 Wises

Such a cute image, and the sketch was executed perfectly.

#3 Darlene

Beautiful colour combo and stunning design papers, and a matching envelope.

#8 Urska

This is such a lovely feminine 60th birthday card.  Your colours are lovely, Urska; they are so delicate.

#15 Nat

I just love the colours and design papers; they blend together beautifully, and your embellishments are so perfect.

#18 Pat

This is such a pretty card; the design papers are lovely, and Pat finished her card off with this cute daisy, exactly the same as my sketch.

I'm so looking forward to seeing what you all create this month with our two new sketches.  Don't forget you can go into the archives and pick a sketch which has an #8 in it, as there are plenty to choose from.

Hugs, Kathie, Anne and Kelly

xox

August 2026 at SSW2 #332 #333

 Hello and welcome to our latest challenge.

We have two new sketches for you this month, and a twist for the 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 soon with another post announcing our winner and the Top 3 cards.

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

Sketch #332

Sketch #333

And for the retro sketch, you can choose any sketch which contains the number 8. Please tell us which sketch you used in your post. The retro sketches are in the left-hand sidebar.

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. 

Here's some inspiration from the DT

 Anne from Paper and Ink 

Sketch # 332

Sketch #333

Kathie from Kathie'z Kardz 

Sketch # 332

Sketch # 333

 

Kelly from Crafting Creatively 

Sketch #332

 

Sketch #333

And for one of our participants, there is a chance to win a place as a guest designer.

This challenge is open until 23.55 UK time on the 1st of September.

Happy Crafting and Good Luck

Anne, Kathie and Kelly.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

June winner

Hello and welcome back to the blog and to our winner's post for the June Challenge. 

As always some lovely entries made it a difficult to choose, but the winner for the June Challenge is

#4 Donna T

with this super card

Congratulations!

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

Congratulations, please collect your badge from the sidebar.

No Top 3 for June as there were insufficient entries

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

We will be back with the next challenge on 

Wednesday, the 5th of August. 

We look forward to visiting you.

Happy sketching and creating.

Anne, Kathie and Kelly.

JULY CHALLENGE

Good morning and welcome back to Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2!  We're happy to have you join us for July- yes, July already. We are over halfway through the year.

Hi, it's Kathie here this month, from New Zealand.  At this time of year in the Southern Hemisphere, it's winter, and I woke up to 2 Degrees Celsius.  For me, that's cold. I have a friend living in the South Island of New Zealand in Queenstown, a stunning part of our country where parts of The Lord of the Rings were filmed.  She woke to 0 this morning, to a beautiful day, but won't get any warmer than 6 Celsius.

 

I would like to thank everyone who had the time to answer Anne's questions about our Challenge Blog last month.  We'll be sitting down and having a team talk via Messenger about what and if we make any changes to our challenge.  

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our June sketches.  Be sure to join us again on the 15th July to see who our winner is.

 So, onto our July sketches. Remember, you can enter up to 3 projects per month, and luckily, we have 2 fab new sketches and a retro sketch to choose from.

July Sketches:

Sketch # 330

Sketch # 331

And here is our fun retro sketch #165 from 7th August 2019 and  28th December 2019.  Please follow the links for inspiration from our wonderful design team back then.

Here's my card back then.

Now, with this month's inspiration from the Design Team.

Anne from

Paper & Ink

Sketch #330

Sketch #331

Kathie from

Kathie'z Kardz

Sketch # 330

Sketch #331

Kelly from

Crafting Creatively

Sketch #330

Sketch #331

I rotated the sketch:-) and went with Christmas in July

 

Don't forget you can check us out on 

FACEBOOK

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 4th August 2026, as our new Challenge will launch on the 5th August 2026.

Crafty Hugs

from

Kathie, Anne and Kelly 

the SSW2 Design Team

 

***A reminder 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***

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

May winners and GDT inspiration

Hello and welcome back to the blog and to our winner's post for the May Challenge. 

Please scroll down to find more inspiration for our current challenge from our guest designer Colien.

Thank you to everyone who has commented about the future of the blog on the previous post, we would love to hear from more of you if you have a few moments to spare. 

As always some lovely entries made it a difficult to choose, but the winner for the May Challenge is

#16 Chris

with this fun card

Congratulations!

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

Congratulations, please collect your badge from the sidebar.

Our Top 3 in order of entry is 

#4 Nat

#12 Nelleke

#14 Gerjanne

There's a badge for you as well

Now, here is some more inspiration for our current challenge from our guest designer Colien using sketch 328

Thank you to Colien for designing with us this month

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

We will be back with the next challenge on 

Wednesday, the 1st of July. 

We look forward to visiting you.

Happy sketching and creating.

Anne, Kathie and Kelly

June 2026 - Surveys and Sketches

Hello and welcome back to Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2!  We're happy to have you join us for June. I'm Anne here as your hostess this month.

Before we get into the sketches I'd like to ask you a few questions,  we've been thinking about making some tweaks for a while and your answers may help us decide on the way forward. Please use the comments section for your responses, we would love to hear your feedback. 

Question 1 - Would you prefer a monthly challenge or a challenge twice a month with an extra challenge on a 5th Wednesday?

Question2 - Would you like an optional theme as an alternative to the sketch challenge so you would either follow the sketch or make a card with a theme?

Question3 - When you enter a challenge how important is the chance to win a physical or digital prize?  

We have all the sketches ready for next year so we're not planning on going anywhere but maybe just tweaking things a little.

 Thank you to everyone who joined us for our May sketches. We'll be back next week with our winner and top picks.

 So onto our June sketches.  Remember, you can enter up to 3 projects per month, and luckily, we have 2 fab new sketches and a retro sketch to choose from.

 Our June sketches are:

 Sketch #328

Sketch #329

And here is our fun retro sketch #228 from May 2022. Please follow the link for inspiration.

 Here is the inspiration for the new sketches

We have Colien as our guest designer this month. Here is her beautifully bright  card using 

Sketch #329

Thanks for joining us Colien. 

Now onto some inspiration from our Design Team.

Kathie from Kathie'z Kardz

Sketch #328

Sketch #329

Kelly from Crafty Creatively

Sketch #328

 

Sketch #329

Anne from Paper and Ink

Sketch #328

Sketch #329

Don't forget you can check us out on 

FACEBOOK

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 30th of June 2026, as our new Challenge will launch on the 1st of July.

Happy Crafting and Good Luck

Anne and the SSW2 Design Team

 

***A reminder 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***

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

April winners and some more inspiration

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

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

Some lovely entries made it a difficult choice, but the winner for the April Challenge is

#11 Fabiola

with this card

Congratulations!

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

Congratulations, please collect your badge from the sidebar.

No Top 3 this month as there were insufficient entries

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

Our guest designer, 

 

Darlene with Sketch #327

 

Anne with Sketch #326

 

Kathie with Sketch #326

  

Kelly with Sketch #327

 

 

Doris with Sketch #327

 

This is Doris's last DT creation for us for now, as she is leaving the team. Thanks for all the inspiration you have created for us over the last 5 years. Keep in touch, and we wish you well in your future endeavours.

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

We will be back with the next challenge on 

Wednesday, the 3rd of June. 

We look forward to visiting you.

Happy sketching and creating.

Anne and the SSW2 DT