Sweet Sketch Wednesday: July 2013

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Happy Sweet Sketch Wednesday 217!

The very generous sponsor of this week's challenge is MilkCoffee Stamps, and I hope you're ready to see the gorgeous creations from this week's Design Team to inspire you!

But first here are the lucky winners from last week's challenge:

Grand Prize goes to DEE #14

Please email Arlana at sweetberrydesigns@hotmail.com
Subject: Paper Addictions and SSW July 2013 Winner
Include the names of the 5 digi images you would like from
http://www.etsy.com/shop/paperaddictions

And our Top Three are:

1. Regan #18

2. Carrie #5

3. Cyndi #21

Congratulations!!

Be sure to grab both your Winner's Badge, and your Top Three Badge from the sidebar to display on your blog!

MilkCoffee Stamps is a digital image shop specialized in cute and girly images.There are 2 people behind this shop, Esmeralda and Nathaza. We are best buddies from our childhood with a common thing that we love so much: drawing. What we try to do is drawing various styles that suits different kind of tastes, so a lot of people with different style can still play along with our image for their cards.

Right now we have 8 talented DT ladies who always help us to have fun together with our weekly challenge at our challenge blog here. Also we have 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 challenge.

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

Here are the Sweet Sketch Wednesday Design Team's Creations:

Heide

Nancy

Holly

Sharon

Sally

Linda

Joanna

Kathie

Jeannie

Arlana

The Grand Prize Winner will receive 3 Free digis from MilkCoffee Etsy Shop.

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

1. Create a card using the sketch of the week. If you have any MilkCoffee 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 #217 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. Please be sure to leave a comment here on this site and also remember that this is one of the rules to be considered for the Grand Prize.

Have fun! Much Peace 'n Luv....Jeannie and....

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Paper Addictions and Sweet Sketch Wednesday

Hello everyone, This is Arlana hosting you this week at Sweet Sketch Wednesday. I have been busy preparing for a boutique for my Paparazzi Jewelry. It will be for two long hot days outside. Luckily I have this cute tent to help me stay a little cool. Wish me luck in holding up as I am still recuperating from my surgeries earlier this year.

Our fun sponsor this week is Paper Addictions. What fun digis you will find in Jackie Mathews' store! Hope you bug on over and take a look.

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

http://paperaddictions.blogspot.com/

Jackie Mathews

A little bit about Jackie!!!

My name is Jacqueline Mathews and I am a crafter and designer. I love paper, pens, doodling, stamping and above all designing. I have a degree in fine arts with an emphasis in graphic design. I worked in the graphic design industry for many years and quit 15 years ago to become a stay at home mom for my 3 kids. Now that the kids are older and don’t need me as much, I am reinventing myself and have decided that I wanted to create my own line of digital stamps. I have dabbled in rubber stamping and became a “Stampin’ up!” demonstrator and had a blast, but thought it would be more fun to create my own stamps. I decided digital was the way to go. It is affordable for the customer and for the designer. I now have a digital stamp shop on Etsy called “PaperAddictions”. I would love to create my own line of rubber stamps someday, but for now I am testing my designs out in my shop to see if anyone likes them. I am pleasantly surprised that I have gotten a good response to the images I have designed so far. This positive response has motivated me to create more images in the future.

The winner for this week's challenge will be able to choose any 5 items from Paper Addictions Esty Shop.

First of all, the winner of last week's Challenge is...

JANETTE #22

Congratulations!

Please email Sally Ann, owner of Digi Stamp Boutique:

http://www.digistampboutique.co.uk/catalog/contact_us.php

to receive your 6 free images.

Subject: DSB and SSW Winner for July 2013

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

And our Top Three...

1. Carla Suto #7

2. Kozmik #32

3. Lynne #11

Congratulations ladies!! Be sure to grab both your Winner's Badge, and your Top Three Badge from the sidebar to display on your blog!

On to our Challenge... This week sketch is an oldie from Arlana

Heide

Arlana

Sharon

Kathie

Linda

I hope you will join us this week!! I look forward to seeing your creations!!

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

1. Create a card using the sketch of the week. If you have Paper Addictions 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 #216 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 SWEET Day!!!

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Sweet Sketch Wednesday #215 and Digi Samp Boutique

Soooo, another Wednesday is upon us and that means here at Sweet Sketch Wednesday, it is time for another challenge.

These Wednesdays seem to be flying by. Summer has finally arrived here in the UK and looks set to stay for the first time in a few years.

I love summer and for me, summer here is epitomised with the traditional cricket game on a Sunday afternoon and strawberries from the garden. You really couldn't get any more English.

I am really enjoying the bumper crop of strawberries that is coming from my little garden this year - fresh ones every night for dessert, and on my little walk around the local park on Sunday, low and behold a cricket match was taking place. For those of you not from the UK, sorry I couldn't explain the rules of cricket if I tried or even try to explain it at all, but nothing beats lazing around on a Sunday afternoon in the park with a game of cricket taking place in the background.

So, it really does feel like summer to me. Now, if I just didn't have to go to work and could enjoy the sunshine while it lasts.

My local park - you can just see the white kits of the cricket players at the other side of the pond

First of all, the winner of last week's Challenge is...

Lori Byrns #25

Congratulations!

Please contact:

Please contact: Tammy at A Day for Daisies

to receive your $12 Gift Certificate.

http://adayfordaisies.com/contact-us-2

Subject: ADFD and SSW July 2013 Winner:

And our Top Three...

1. Tine #24

2. Carol Dee #20

3. Henriette #7

Congratulations ladies!! Be sure to grab both your Winner's Badge, and your Top Three Badge from the sidebar to display on your blog!

On to our Challenge... This week we have a brand new sketch by Sally:

And, we are Sponsored by regular sponsor: the wonderful Digistamp Boutique!! Let me share with you...

All images/designs are created and copyright owned bySally-Ann Hancock. My work means the world to me - it allows my passion to draw and create, to fit with my family life too - often the inspiration for my designs. Hope you enjoy as much as I enjoy creating.

They can be found here:

http://www.digistampboutique.co.uk/catalog/

http://www.digistampboutique.blogspot.com

http://www.lovetodoodle.blogspot.com

This week's Prize: 6 free images

On to our Design Team cards...

Sharon

Arlana

I hope you will join us this week!! I look forward to seeing your creations!!

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

1. Create a card using the sketch of the week. If you have Digistamp Boutique 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 #215 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.

Happy Crafting!!

Holly and

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

SSW214: A Day For Daisies

Welcome back!!

This week, I am your Sweet Sketch hostess. It's Joanna from Colorado!! Today I am going to share some photos not of Colorado, but of my second place to live, Arizona.

We recently visited family there and went to the Sonoran Desert Museum. If you've never been to the museum, I highly recommend it; the views there are A-MAZING (tho' cell reception not so much; we found THAT out when we lost my 17 1/2 year old niece briefly!)

This second picture is not a tree but is the inside of a cactus, the bones of an old Saguaro. The crazy thing about Saguaro cactus is that it takes around 75 years for them to develop an arm.

Of course, my kids think that the best reason to visit Arizona is all the pools to swim in.

Let's get started this week by announcing the winners of last week's challenge....

the Grand Prize winner from last week is

Shellshearer #4

Congratulations!
Please email Arlana at sweetberrydesigns@hotmail.com

Subject:Clearly Digi Stamps and SSW 2013 Winner for July 2013

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

Our Top Three are:

1: Milnie #29

2: Regan #10

3: Semsee #26

Congratulations to all the winners last week. And now on to this week's challenge. We are sooo happy to be able to welcome back Tammy from A Day For Daisies as our sponsor.

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

You can find the links to her store here:

Website

If you are new to Sweet Sketch Wednesdays a BIG welcome to you and we are looking forward to see your creations and for those that are returning we are always happy to see you here at Sweet Sketch Wednesdays. We can't wait to see what you do with the sketch.

And speaking of Sally's sketch .... you are going to love it. It is simply elegant and fantastic for a wide variety of stamps.

Our winner will receive the prize of a $12 gift certificate to the on-line A Day For Daisies store. Let's see what the talented crew from the SSW design team has in store for you this week:

Heide

Joanna

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

Create a card using the sketch of the week. If you have a ADFD, we'd love to see what you can do with it. However, you may use any stamp or element you have to create your card.
If you are posting to an online gallery, please use SSW #214 as your label or tag.
Add the sketch of the week to your blog and include a link back to Sweet Sketch Wednesday.
Post your card on your blog along with the link to SSW.
Sign in to Inlinkz and add a direct link back to your card on your site.
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.