Sweet Sketch Wednesday 193!!

Welcome back to Sweet Sketch Wednesday for another Sweet Sketch Challenge!!  I have had quite a weekend.  New England had a good ol' fashioned Nor'easter!!  The Blizzard broght up to 30 inches of snow around my neighborhood, with drifts 4 and 5 feet high!!  I live on the South Shore of Massachussetts.  As I write this Blog Post, many of my friends are still without power 4 days later.  We were fortunate not to lose power and only had to deal with the inconvenience of clearing away the snow.  But it IS winter after all, and I have to say I enjoyed being snowed in for a few days!! 

We had gorgeous blue skies the day after the storm which made clean up a little easier to deal with...

Now I'm sure you would like to know  the winners of last week’s challenge…..

The Grand Prize Winner of Sketch #192 is:

COOPS #14

Congratulations! 

Please contact Esme and Nathaza at Milk ‘n Coffee

http://www.etsy.com/shop/MilkCoffee

to receive your 3 digis.

Subject:  Milk ‘n Coffee and SSW February 2013 Winner

Please include the names of the 3 digis you would like.

  

Be sure to grab your winner’s badge from the sidebar and display it proudly on your blog.

Our Top Three are:

1.  Calypso #16

2.  Barbara Thompson #11

3.  Just Yolie #1

Awesome job!  Please grab your Top 3 badge from the sidebar and post it on your blog!

Now, on to our Challenge!

This week our Sponsor is Krista of The Saturated Canary!!  Love her wonderful images!! 



My name is Krista Smith. I am the artist behind the Etsy shop, Saturated Canary Digis. I began working in the stamping world about a year ago when I was hired to create rubber designs for the sweet Scottish company, Sugar Nellie. They launched my artwork under the name 'Simply Sassy.' I moved into the digital world just this past month (it's been a super busy month, indeed!). And-- I love it!! There is a little more freedom here, as I can create anything that pops into my head:)! I am so humbled by the artistic talent of the girls coloring in my designs-- it is truly an inspiration! Likewise, I am so thankful for the friendships I've made in this wonderful and lovely crafty community! It's been a true delight! I'd love for you to stop by my challenge/inspiration blog, Saturated Canary Challenge and join in the fun...And, while you're there, click over to my personal blog (Saturated Canary) and introduce yourself! I am a bit eclectic and touch on everything from family (I've got me a great one!) to fashion (obsessed!)...Please say 'hi!'...I'd love to be friends!:)

Prize:  2 free digis from Krista’s shop!!!

Here is this week's Sketch:

And here are our Design Team creations:

Heide - Heide D's Paperie



Holly - Fairy Elephants Craft Creations

Jeannie - Dragonfly Journeys

Joanna - Sitting on Pens and Needles

Kathie - Kathie'z Kardz

Linda - The Stamper's Touch

Nancy - MULBERRY STATION

Sharon - Inklined To Stamp

Sally - Sally's Window of Scraps...



Here are the Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge rules for playing along:

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

2. If you are posting to an online gallery, please use Sweet Sketch Wednesday #193 as your label or tag.

3. Add the sketch of the week to your blog and include a link back to Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

4. Post your card on your blog along with the link to SSW.

5. Sign in to InLinkz and add a direct link back to your card on your site.

6. Be sure to leave a comment here on this site and please remember that this is one of the rules to be considered for the Grand Prize.

I do hope you will join us this week!!  Stop by the DT Blogs and leave them some love =)  We love to hear from you and we LOVE to see your creations and leave you some love too!! Oh, AND HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY to you all!!  May your day be EXTRA SWEET!!

Happy Crafting and Blessings to you all!!

Sally and...

Sweet Sketch Wednesday

Sketch 192

Sponsor:  Milk ‘n Coffee Stamps

Hi everyone!  It’s Sharon here from cold, wintery 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 Sketch 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! You all are an inspiration to us.

Well they say that January is the coldest month here in Michigan but not this year. Freaky weird temperatures as high as 60 degrees greeted us in January. And now February is bringing in the frosty, freezing temps with snow and ice. Go figure!

 I’d thought you all might like to see the frozen Great Lakes of Michigan. This photo is of the Mackinaw Bridge which joins the lower and upper peninsulas of Michigan and is also roughly the spot where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron converge. It’s amazing that such large bodies of water freeze over. While we may not like the cold weather, there is a lot of beauty in this state this season – probably why we often refer to Michigan as the “winter wonderland” this time of year.    

Okay now let’s get started by announcing the winners of last week’s challenge…..

The Grand Prize Winner of Sketch #191 is:

TAMERA #1

Congratulations! Please email Torico, owner of Birdie Brown at:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/birdiebrown

to receive your 3 digital images. 

Subject:  Birdie Brown and SSW January 2013 Winner

Please include the names of the 3 images you would like.

  

Be sure to grab your winner’s badge from the sidebar and display it proudly on your blog.

Our Top Three are:

1.  VICKIE O'DELL #4

2.  DEBBIE #15

3.  CAROL DEE #19

Awesome job!  Please grab your Top 3 badge from the sidebar and post it on your blog!

Now here is this week’s fabulous Sketch 192…..

It’s another great sketch this week by our own talented Assistant Sketch Designer, Sally Dube!  We’re so lucky to have Sally creating these wonderful sketches.  Thank you Sally!

We also want to  give a Get Well shout out to Arlana – we miss her terribly here at Sweet Sketch Wednesday!  We’re thinking of you every week Arlana and hope your recovery is progressing! 

Be sure to check the rules for the challenge at the bottom of this post – we want everyone to be eligible for the Grand Prize!

Our fabulous sponsor this week is Milk ‘n Coffee Stamps! The Grand Prize winner of this week’s challenge will receive three digi stamps from the Milk ‘n Coffee Shop – a terrific prize!  Now here’s a little info about the artists behind these terrific images:

Milk ‘n CoffeeStamps is a digital image shop specializing in cute and girly images. There are two people behind this shop, Esmeralda and Nathaza. We are best buddies from childhood with a common thing that we love so much:  drawing! What we try to do is draw various styles that suit different kinds of tastes so a lot of people with different styles can still play with our images for their cards.

Right now we have eight talented DT ladies who always help us have fun together with our weekly challenge at our challenge blog here. We also have a monthly colour challenge at our main blog. You can check it here. It’s very nice to see a lot of people join and have fun at our challenges.

In the future we want to make more cute images that are loved and used happily by many people.

Prize:  Three digi stamps from the Milk ‘n Coffee online store

Thanks Esmeralda and Nathaza for your generous prize package! 

And here’s what the Sweet Sketch Wednesday design Divas created for your inspiration using Milk ‘n Coffee Stamps:

Kathie from Kathie'z Kardz

Heide from Heide D's Paperie

Nancy from Mulberry Station

Linda from Stampers Touch

Jeannie from Dragonfly Journeys

Sally from Sally's Window of Scraps

Holly from Fairy Elephants Craft Creations

Joanna from Sitting on Pens and Needles

Sharon from Inklined To Stamp

We hope these samples inspire you to create and join in our challenge this week.

Here are the Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge rules for playing along:

1.       Create a card using the sketch of the week.  If you have Milk ‘n Coffee images, we’d love to see what you can do with them.  However, you may use any stamp or element you have to create your card.

2.       If you are posting to an online gallery, please use Sweet Sketch Wednesday #192 as your label or tag.

3.      Add the sketch of the week to your blog and include a link back to Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

4.      Post your card on your blog along with the link to SSW.

5.      Sign in to InLinkz and add a direct link back to your card on your site.

6.      Be sure to leave a comment here on this site and please remember that this is one of the rules to be considered for the Grand Prize.

Have a fantastic week creating!

Hugs,
Sharon :)

Note:  The challenge closes on Tuesday evening, 7:00 pm MST.