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!

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 January 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!

January 2025 Winners

 Welcome to our winner's post for the January challenge and please scroll down to see more inspiration for our current challenge.

It was so hard to choose a winner but the winner for the January challenge is

#18 Gerjanne

with this fun 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.

We had so many entries in January that we have a top 5 this month (this also was hard to choose) and here are the top 5 in order of entry

#4 Jenn

#14 Colien

#22 Guylaine

#23 Carol Gill

#32 Urska

Please collect your badge from the sidebar

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

Firstly our guest designer Heather, thank you so much for creating with us this month

Using Sketch 297

and now the regular team

Anne with Sketch 297

Kathie with Sketch 296

Kelly with Sketch 297

You will find the sketches and the linkup for February in our previous post.

We will be back with the next challenge on the 5th of March 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 February 2025

Hello and welcome back dear crafty friends,

 I'm Doris - known as Kleido - and this month I'm your hostess.

Every month we have 2 amazing sketches for you, designed by Kathie, which you can also rotate and/or flip - but we should still be able to recognize them.

If you still need more inspiration we have a sketch from our archives too.

We hope we can inspire you a little with our work and look forward to your participation.

Sketch #296

Sketch #297

Our guest designer this month is Heather from Wire Wrapture. Here is the card she created using Sketch #296

We will share Heather's card using sketch 297 in our winner's post on the 19th.

And these fantastic inspirations were created by our design team.

Anne (DT)

Sketch #296

(rotated anti-clockwise)

Kathie (DT)

Sketch #297

Kleido (DT)

Sketch #296

Sketch #297

Kelly (DT) 

 Sketch #296

(rotated counter clockwise)

If you want to work with our retro sketch?! Please feel free to do that... or.. you can use all three sketches this month. We'll be happy about your choice and works.

Retro Sketch #43 / Feb 2015

Anne has been a member of the SSW2 DT for 10 years this month and this is the first sketch that she created with as a member of the DT.

and here's some inspiration from Anne using an image from A Day for Daisies

Don't forget you can check us out over on 

Facebook

And for one of our participants, 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 4th of March.

Lovely creative greetings.

Doris and the SSW2 team

December 2024 Winners

 Welcome to our winner's post for the December challenge and please scroll down to see more inspiration for our current challenge.

Our winner for the December challenge is

#9 Silke

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 us a message using Messenger.

Congratulations, please collect your badge from the sidebar.

No top 3 this time as too few entries.

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

Firstly our guest designer Julie, thank you so much for creating with us this month

Using Sketch 295

and now the regular team

Anne with Sketch 295

Kathie with Sketch 294

Kelly with Sketch 294

You will find the sketches and the linkup for January in our previous post.

We will be back with the next challenge on the 5th of February the first Wednesday. So there are still 2 weeks left to enter. It would be lovely to get more entries this month.

We look forward to visiting you.

Happy Sketching and creating.

Anne