Wednesday, January 25, 2012


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:


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!

In case you have been having trouble with blogger or trouble with commenting, try using a different browser such as Google Chrome.  

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!

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Sweet Sketch Wednesday Sketch # 137

Week 137 
Sponsor 
DigiStamp Boutique

Welcome everyone it's Kathie posting this week from Auckland New Zealand the City of Sails and we are in the middle of our summer.  Long summers nights, BBQ's and the children swimming at the beach that sunshine feels so good and we feel so revitalized!!!


Can you believe it we are half way through January already?  It only feels like yesterday we were all getting ready and of course excited because Christmas was only around the corner.  I was in a shop on Saturday and they had Valentines stock and Easter Eggs for sale!!!   I'm only getting over having a house full of guests for Christmas and Christmas shopping.


Valentines


Chocolate Treats
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My boys eat very little sweets, my youngest has just started liking White Chocolate but hates brown Chocolate and he's 10 and Liam isn't a big sweet eater either but does love Chocolate and Caramel filled Eggs.  Even at 10 and 12 years old they still love Easter Egg hunts in the garden and their Christmas Stockings.


What an amazing array of cards this week from our dedicated followers.  Every week you amaze me with your wonderful creations and last week was know exception.
So, without further delay

Our Grand Prize Winner for last week is:

*******      CARLA SUTO #18      *******

Congratulations!!!

Please contact Arlana at 
sweetberrydesigns@hotmail.com
to claim your prize!
Be sure to grab your Grand Prize Banner along the sidebar to proudly display on you blog!

 Our 
TOP 3 Cards

1. LISA T. #15

2. DEE #37

3.  BROOK #45

Congratulations your cards were stunning.

This week the Sweet Sketch Wednesday Design Team were spoilt for choice as this week we were working with our WONDERFUL MONTHLY SPONSOR


Sally-Ann Hancock to owner of
DigiStamp
Boutique

Did you know that Sally-Ann has been sponsoring Sweet Sketch Wednesday every month since SSW started?  Isn't that amazing dedication, such devotion and commitment from a sponsor.  She is so generous with her prizes and with the Design Team and she always let us choose what ever tickles our fancies for us to produce our wonderful Sweet Sketch Wednesday cards.


 This week Sally-Ann is offering our lucky winner

6 Digital Images 
of the winners choice.

That's such a wonderful prize as she has just so many amazing images to choose from and there are always new images added to the shop at the beginning of every month.  If you haven't used Digital Images before and would like to try one before your buy them she always has a monthly Freebie for you to download and try. You'll be hooked once you've tried one.

So don't forget to visited Sally-Ann at DigiStamp Boutique


Here are her following sites:
http://www.digistampboutique.co.uk/catalog/
http://www.digistampboutique.blogspot.com/
http://www.lovetodoodle.blogspot.com/

Here's what you have been waiting for another wonderful sketch from very talented Arlana  and here it is!!!

Sketch #137


Look what our wonderful Design Team have created just for you this week.


Heide at Heide'D Paperie


Sharon at Inklined To Stamp


Nancy at Mulberry Station


Jeannie at Dragonfly Journeys


Genevieve at Genevieve's Creations


Arlana at Sweetberry Designs


Patti at Patti's Paper Creations


Linda at The Stampers Touch


Kathie at Kathie'z Kardz

Kathie at Kathie'z Kardz




NOTICE:  
NEW CHANGES 
ARE COMING 
NEXT WEEK AT SSW!



To play along in the Sweet Sketch Wednesday


 challenge is really simple.

1. Create a card using the sketch of the week. You may
use any stamp or element you have to create your card,
 however if you have any DigiStamp Boutique, we'd 
love to see what you can do with them.



2. If posting to an online gallery, please use Sweet Sketch #137



3. Add a link on your blog to Sweet Sketch Wednesday.



4. Post your card along with the link.

5. Sign into Inlinkz and add a direct link back to your card on your site.

6. Be sure to leave a comment here as we

 love hearing from you.

YOU MUST DO THIS

 to be considered for the Grand Prize.


Wishing everyone a wonderful week

crafting and I'm so looking forward to

 seeing your cards.

Hugs

Kathie


xox




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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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This is Arlana posting this week. I hope you had a wonderful week in the New Year. As we get ready to embark upon a new year, I hope that  you will be able to come here often and enjoy in our creative fun. We look forward in  seeing all of the cards that you will make using my sketch. May we continue to inspire you with our creativity. I am very thankful to have two wonderful sisters and a fabulous design team that help keep this blog up and running. I can't thank them enough.



Speaking of fabulous I have such a talented daughter so I would like to highlight her Photography this week. She has re vamped her web site Hardman Photography. So go take a look around and enjoy her fabulous work and her talent.

You can also view lots of pictures on Facebook. So why not become a fan of Hardman Photography while you're looking around. It's lots of sweet fun to see the new photos as she adds them.


Look at all those yummy cake pictures . Makes me want some just looking at them. Then another favorite is this picture of this lovely bridal dress.



This week our sponsor is Wee Stamps. We love Wee Stamps  and we had such a fun time creating with Sylvia's images.

 "The owner and illustrator behind Wee Stamps - Sylvia Zet – creates unique designs of charming and whimsical characters, which are loved for their adorable little faces expressing innocence and trustful hearts. Wee illustrations feature cute kids and fluffy animals are available as digital downloads at Wee Stamps and also as deeply etched red rubber stamps at Whimsy Stamps."


Our prize this week is 3 Digis of the Winner's Choice. We would like to thank Sylivia for sponsoring us.


Now on with the sketch with is one we have done before. You've got to give me a break once in awhile.



So, without any further delay......
Our Grand Prize Winner for last week is:
******* PINK DANDELION #45*******
Congratulations! Please contact Arlana at sweetberrydesigns@hotmail.com to claim your prize! Be sure to grab your Grand Prize Banner along the sidebar to proudly display on your blog!
And, our top three are:
1. Lucianna #8

2. Stacey #47
3. Julie B #28









To play along in the Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge is really simple.

1. Create a card using the sketch of the week. You may use any stamp or element you have to create your card, however if you have any Saturated Canary images, we'd love to see what you can do with them.

2. If posting to an online gallery, please use Sweet Sketch 136-73.

3. Add a link on your blog to Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

4. Post your card along with the link.

5. Sign into Inlinkz and add a direct link back to your card on your site.

6. Be sure to leave a comment here as we love hearing from you.You must do this to be considered for the Grand Prize.





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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Happy New Year!!!

I still can't believe it's 2012!! Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and feel rested and recharged for the new year ahead. Any resolutions? Here's one for you, to play along with our challenges here at Sweet Sketch Wednesday every week!!!

For those who played last week, allow me to announce our grand prize winner of a $12 gift certificate to A Day for Daisies:     DOROTHY G. #18

Congratulations!!!! Please email Arlana at sweetberrydesigns@hotmail.com to claim your prize. Also, be sure to grab your Grand Prize Badge from along the sidebar to proudly display on your blog.

And now for our TOP 3:        1. GOLDIE #19 

                                                2.  HEIDE D #6

                                                3.  MAGS #14
Congratulations to you as well!! Be sure to grab your Badge from the sidebar to display on your blog.

Here is Arlana's fabulous sketch for this week!



What a thrill to have Saturated Canary as our sponsor this week! The prize is two free digi's from the Saturated Canary shop.

The lovely Krista Smith is the owner and artist of Saturated Canary. You can read more about Krista on her blog, as well as her challenge blog HERE.

Last week we said good-bye to a DT member...sniff, sniff. Well today, I am beyond words thrilled to introduce you to our newest DT member! Please put your hands together for the beautiful Heide Dronchi!!

Heidi is from Michigan and a long time follower of Sweet Sketch Wednesday. You can find her blog, Heide D's Paperie, HERE. She is very talented and we are thrilled to have her on the team. Without further ado, allow me to present you with Heide's fabulous card.

There's lots of inspiration to be found here by the rest of the DT as well, so be ready to get WOW'd!


Genevieve

Nancy

Jeannie

Patti


Linda

Sharon
Kathie





To play along in the Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge is really simple
.

1. Create a card using the sketch of the week. You may use any stamp or element you have to create your card, however if you have any Saturated Canary images, we'd love to see what you can do with them.

2. If posting to an online gallery, please use Sweet Sketch 135.

3. Add a link on your blog to Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

4. Post your card along with the link.

5. Sign into Inlinkz and add a direct link back to your card on your site.

6. Be sure to leave a comment here as we love hearing from you.You must do this to be considered for the Grand Prize.