October Sketches at SSW2

 Hi there, and welcome to our latest challenge. Kelly here with you as hostess for this month. Southern Alberta is enjoying some lovely fall weather right now, and I will thoroughly enjoy it before the snow flies because I am sure it is right around the corner:-)

We want to send a big thank you to everyone who joined us for our September challenge. We will be back again with another post announcing the winner, but in the meantime, we hope that you all had a wonderful September and are ready with your crafting shoes on for this month's sketches!

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. 

Here are the sketches from Kathie for October.

Sketch #336

 

Sketch #337

 

And for the retro sketch this month, I thought random.org was a great way to select a sketch so I did the same as Anne did last month- asked the random number generator to pick me a number between 1 and 300 and here is the result.

Sketch 223 was in February 2022. Here's a link so you can see the original inspiration from the DT, and be sure to check out the great entries as well for further inspiration.

 

Sketch #223

As always, any of our sketches can be turned and/or flipped-just as long as we can see the original sketch in your card. 

First up some inspiration from our Guest Designer

Chris from and here's one I made earlier

Sketch #336

Sketch #337

Here's some inspiration from the DT

 Anne from Paper and Ink 

Sketch # 336

Sketch #337

Kathie from Kathie'z Kardz 

Sketch # 336

Sketch # 337

 

Kelly from Crafting Creatively 

Sketch #336 

Sketch #337 

 

 

 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 3rd of November, so there's almost 4 weeks of creative time for this challenge.

Happy Crafting and Good Luck

Anne, Kathie and Kelly.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

August Winner

 Hello and welcome to our winners post for the August challenge. Our entries were really low so we only have a winner and no top picks this month. Hopefully it will get better and we will have more entries soon, I can't help but wonder if it is because the Blogger Reading list has been playing up recently.

Our winner for August is entry #2 Majda with this card

Congratulations

Please email anne_ssw2@aol.co.uk to arrange a guest designer slot.

We will be back on the 7th of October with our next challenge.

September sketches at SSW2

  Hello and welcome to our latest challenge.

Thank you to everyone, both old and new, who took the time to enter our last challenge. Entries were quite low, but even if we didn't have the quantity, we definitely had the quality. We visited some lovely cards on your sites, and we'll be back soon with another post to announce our winner. We hope that you all had a lovely summer and are raring to go with this month's sketches.

As usual, 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. 

Here are the sketches from Kathie for September.

Sketch #334

Sketch #335

And for the retro sketch this month, I asked the random number generator to pick a number between 1 and 300 and here is the result.

Sketch 235 was in August 2022. Here's a link so you can see the original inspiration from the DT, and you may also be inspired by some of the lovely entries.

Here's the sketch

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 # 334

Sketch #335

Kathie from Kathie'z Kardz 

Sketch # 334

Sketch # 335

 

Kelly from Crafting Creatively 

Sketch #334 

Sketch #335 

 

 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 6th of October, so there's almost 5 weeks of creative time for this challenge.

Happy Crafting and Good Luck

Anne, Kathie and Kelly.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

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

 

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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***

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