SSW2: Lacy Sunshine

Hi everyone!  It's Joanna here as your hostess this week.  The DT team and I wanted to be one of the first to wish you all a wonderful New Year!  As Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 starts our third year, we wanted to thank you for your continued support.  We are so grateful to have you all stop by each week and join in the fun.

Before I reveal this week's sketch, we'd like to announce our winner of the prize from our DigiStamp Boutique challenge.  Drum-roll for the Grand Prize Winner please....Congratulations, it's you

#6  Marieke

Please contact Sally at sallydubessw@gmail.com to claim your prize. Please also be sure to grab the winners badge to proudly display on your blog. The winner's badges can be found in the sidebar

This week our sponsor is Heather Valentin.  She is a creative, award winning,  modern-day  fantasy and  whimsical  artist who has displayed a dynamic and vibrant energy while painting professionally for over 18 years.  She  began to express herself creatively through movement at a very young age.
For many years she studied dance, being drawn to forms that allowed creative self expression, all the while feeling this constant urge to create with her hands. The canvas is now her dance floor where color, beauty and drama are expressed through her every pencil sketch and  brush stroke. Her  subjects vary from fairies, fantasy, mermaids, vampires, dragons, wildlife, abstract and more ...

Lacy Sunshine Stamps

Our very lucky winner will receive

3 Images

from the Lacy Sunshine online store.

You can check out the shop here.  We certainly hope that you might use an image from Lacy Sunshine in your creation, but it is not a requirement to enter.

And now on to the sketch for the new challenge...as it's the end of the month we are recycling one of our older sketches, created by Arlana Patten.  This month we are showcasing Sketch #233, originally featured on Sweet Sketch Wednesday on November 20, 2013.

Now it's your turn to create a card using this layout and enter it in the challenge through the link at the end of this post. Rules for the challenge are posted in the tab above.

Here's what our wonderful inspiring design team have created especially for you!!!

Anne

Heide

Joanna

Kathie

Still on vacation in London (waving)  We miss you, sweetie!!

Linda

check us out on Facebook, we feature a few cards each week AND preview the Sketch every Tuesday...visit us by clicking HERE!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and for becoming a Follower!!

Joanna

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Christmas Eve Eve mid-challenge reminder

Hello followers and friends.

Seasons Greetings to one and all from all of us at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.

It's Anne here with your mid-challenge reminder and a little bit more inspiration.

With the hectic run up to Christmas we have allowed 2 weeks for the current sketch so you have until Tuesday the 29th of December to enter and then we will be back with the winners and a new challenge on the 30th of December.

Here is Sallys' sketch to remind you

 

Please click here to go back to the original post and Mr Linky to post your entries.

We are sponsored by DigiStamp Boutique for this challenge but for this reminder have used any image.

Here's some Design Team Inspiration.

Heide

Joanna

Anne

We look forward to seeing your creations.

You can check out the Rules by clicking on the tab at the top of the page.

Best wishes

Anne 

and

Digi Stamp Boutique and Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2

Christmas will be here soon...are you ready? Yeah, me either!!! You'd think I didn't know it came around the same day every year, but I never seem to be ready. Well we hope our sketch this week here at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 will inspire you to get creative and join us...maybe for just one more Christmas card!

Our lucky winner from last week of 3 images from Fresh Brewed Designs is:

#6  Suze!!

Congratulations!!! Please email Sally at sallydubessw@gmail.com to claim your prize!!

Check out the fun sketch for you to try this week!! We look forward to seeing your take on it.

NOTE:  This Challenge will run through December 29th!!  Plenty of time to join in the fun!!

Our sponsor this week is the very generous Sally Ann from Digi Stamp Boutique. She sponsors our challenge every month and for that we say "Thank You!" Take a moment and browse her store, I know you won't be disappointed!!

"All images/designs are created and copyright owned by Sally-Ann Hancock.  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."

Prize:   £10 voucher

Now for some eye candy from the Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 Design Team.

 Judi using Christmas Percy Set

 Anne using Large Birthday Words and Colour Flower Set

 Joanna using Cute Penguin Set

 Linda using freebie Xmas Reindeer

Now it's your turn! 

 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!  

Linda &

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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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