Sweet Sketch Wednesday

Sweet Sketch Wednesday #138

Hi everyone! It's Sharon here from Michigan posting this week for the Sweet Sketch Wednesday team. For those of you who are new to this blog, we welcome you to the Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge! We are so happy to have you join us! And for those loyal followers of SSW, we welcome you back and thank you for your support!

I know I speak for the whole SSW team when I tell you how excited we get to see all the amazing creativity you share with us week after week.  There are so many talented crafters that bless us with your online friendship and support. We are so very thankful for that. You are all an inspiration to us.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday is making some changes to the challenge rules effective today.  We are trying to put more of an emphasis on our generous and dedicated sponsors and do more to promote their images.  So with the new sketch released today, please take note of the following:

1.      Create a card using the sketch of the week.  Remember to follow it without changing the orientation or flipping it.  A flower can be any embellishment or a sentiment.  Small dots can be brads, jewels, pearls, flowers or other embellishments.  Remember to follow the main layout and shape of the sketch.  For example:  If the sketch is an oval, it needs to be an oval.  A vertical rectangle needs to be a vertical rectangle.  However, if the layer behind a circle is a zigzag, it can be a scallop, another circle or whatever you want it to be.

2.     Use an image from this week’s sponsor (A Day For Daisies).  Feel free to use one of their freebies, if available.  We appreciate our sponsor’s generosity in offering you a prize for your creativity!

3.     Post this week’s sketch along with your card on your blog with a link back to Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

4.     If posting to an online gallery, please use Sweet Sketch Wednesday #138

5.     Click into Inlinkz to add your card to this week’s sketch challenge.

6.     Leave a comment for us on this blog.  You must do this to be considered for the Grand Prize.

In making these few changes to the rules of our weekly challenge, we know that we may see some of our players drop out.  We hope you will reconsider as we feel a need to give greater support to our sponsors for their willingness to provide a prize for our winner.  That winner could be YOU!

We hope you understand and will continue to join our challenges.  We value our participants and our sponsors and appreciate your support of Sweet Sketch Wednesday. 

Now on to announcing the winners of the Sweet Sketch Wednesday Challenge #137...

The Grand Prize Winner of SSW137 is:

Lucianna-Delsaver #3

Please email Arlana at sweetberrydesigns@hotmail.com to claim your prize!

Also, grab your Grand Prize Banner along the sidebar to proudly display on your blog!

And our TOP THREE are:

1.  Creativek9s (#22)

2. Dangina  (#1)

3. Lizy (#24)

We would like to congratulate all of you for your wonderfully creative cards.

Be sure to grab your TOP 3 Banner on the sidebar.

Thanks so very much to everyone who joined us last week. We truly love seeing the creativity that all of you bring to our challenges. 

Now here's what you've been waiting for... a new sketch from Arlana for Challenge #138...We can't wait to see what you do with this week's sketch!

  

And, we're so happy to welcome back A Day For Daisies as our sponsor of this challenge. 

A Day For Daisies provides themed categories of over 1000 fun and whimsical digital images, including fairy tales and magical mermaids, cutie kids, vintage illustrations, sentiments and lovely designs for all occasions!  Please visit the A Day For Daisies Store to see the fabulous selection of images that are offered there.

The Grand Prize winner of the challenge this week will receive a $12 Gift Certificate from  A Day For Daisies.  Now that's a terrific prize and we thank Tammy, the owner and illustrator for her generosity.

Now to inspire you further, here are the samples created by the Sweet Sketch Wednesday design team Divas using A Day For Daisies images...

 Genevieve

Jeannie

Sharon

Linda

 Arlana

Nancy

Judi

Patti

Heide

Kathie

Be sure to pop over to the Design Team blogs - they'd love to hear your sweet comments on their creations this week.

Now, remember these new rules for the challenge:

1.      Create a card using the sketch of the week.  Remember to follow it without changing the orientation or flipping it.   A flower can be any embellishment or a sentiment. Small dots can be brads, jewels, pearls, flowers or other embellishments. Remember to follow the main layout and shape of the sketch. For example: If the sketch is an oval, it needs to be an oval. A vertical rectangle needs to be a vertical rectangle. However, if the layer behind a circle is a zigzag, it can be a scallop, another circle or whatever you want it to be.

2.     Use an image from this week’s sponsor (A Day For Daisies).  Feel free to use one of their freebies, if available.  We appreciate our sponsor’s generosity in offering you a prize for your creativity!

3.     Post this week’s sketch along with your card on your blog with a link back to Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

4.     If posting to an online gallery, please use Sweet Sketch Wednesday #138

5.     Click into Inlinkz to add your card to this week’s sketch challenge.

6.     Leave a comment for us on this blog.  You must do this to be considered for the Grand Prize.

So grab Arlana's sketch #138 and an image from A Day for Daisies and begin your creation!

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We are looking forward to seeing all your entries this week. Thanks for your support and for stopping by!

Sharon

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Remember to follow the sketch, post the sketch on your blog, use an image from A Day for Daisies and leave us a comment below to qualify for the Grand Prize and Top 3!