Little Miss Mouse

Hi there friends and followers! What a great selection of cards we are showing off today at Sweet Sketch Wednesday as we kick off another challenge this week.  We're featuring the beautifully detailed images from Elisabeth Bell who is the sponsor of the challenge and you'll be so inspired by what we're showing today. Let's get started...

Here's the fun sketch - a blast from the past layout first appearing in Week 60 of the Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenges.  The circles in the background provide such a nice backdrop to the main image panel.

Elisabeth Bell Designs is our sponsor this week and we all love the sweet digis Elisabeth creates.  The Grand Prize winner of the challenge will receive two of the following images as the prize:

Little Miss Mouse

Merry Weather

Miss You Love You

I created my card with the lovely "Little Miss Mouse" image and I just love the dreamy look of this dear, sweet image.  It was colored with Copics and I glittered the fairy's wings.  Gold half rounds add more sparkle on the flower centers, on the butterfly embellishment and along the diecut frame. The papers are my all time favorites from October Afternoon.

The Sweet Sketch Wednesday design team has created such gorgeous cards this week to inspire you - all of them using the feature images from Elisabeth Bell.  Stop on by SSW and check them out and then play along with the challenge this week - we'd love to see what you create!

Thanks for stopping by!

Wise Winston

Oh my goodness! What happened with blogger while I was traveling last week? Totally missed my post for Sweet Sketch Wednesday and what a shock that was when I logged in  this morning! Well here it finally is and I hope it inspires you to join us in the Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge this week.

We have another terrific sketch from Sally this week. I like the added flair of the rounded corners and the ribbon treatment overlapping the image on this one.

Digi Stamp Boutique is our sponsor this week. Sally Ann is always so generous in providing prizes for our winners each month.  The Grand Prize winner of the challenge will receive 6 free digi images of their choice from Digi Stamp Boutique - a fabulous prize for all the fans of Sally Ann's images! Thanks Sally Ann!

I love the character Winston the owl at Digi Stamp Boutique and this one is perfect for all the graduation cards I'm needing this year. This image is aptly called "Winston Graduation" and he's so cute. He was colored with Copics and paired with papers from MME "Fiddlesticks" collection.

So there you have it - better late than never!  Now stop on by Sweet Sketch Wednesday and see the other fun creations with Digi Stamp Boutique images and then join us in the fun challenge!

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Buddy

Hi there Sweet Sketch Wednesday fans! We have a new sketch challenge starting today with our all time favorite A Day For Daisies as our sponsor.

Here's the sketch for this week - another fab one from Sally on our team. I love the oval placement here.

A Day For Daisies is our sponsor this week and I just love the images that Tammi creates there.  Our Grand Prize winner will receive a $12 gift certificate from A Day For Daisies - a terrific prize! You have to play to win so join us this week in the fun!

To create my card this week I choose the image "Buddy" from A Day For Daisies. I love this image that shows the companionship of a boy with his dog. It was brought to life with Copic markers and the papers are from MME's Gnome Sweet Gnome line.

The Sweet Sketch Wednesday design team has some amazing creations this week using A Day For Daisies images. You'll love the inspiration they've created for you so stop on by and play along with us this week.

Thanks for visiting today!

Graduation Bear

Greetings blogger friends!  This is a scheduled post as I'm once again out of town on business - ugh! So it's a quick one too as I head out the door to catch a plane to California.  I hope you like the card for this week's challenge at Sweet Sketch Wednesday. We have a new sponsor for this challenge, QKR Stampede and the images we're using are just so whimsical and fun!  

It's a fun and quick-go-together sketch this week created by our own Sally Dube.  I know you'll want to give this one a try!  Terrific sketch Sally!

If you're not familiar with QKR Stampede you just have to head over to their site and check out this wonderful images.  They're sponsoring us for the first time this week and the Grand Prize Winner will receive 5 digi stamps of their choice - a really fabulous prize.  Here's a little bit about QKR Stampede:

Do you have a sense of humor? Are you looking for a cute stamp? Then, we are the company for you! QKR Stampede is the somewhat cute somewhat quirky rubber and digital stamp company. We Showcase the artwork of Ken Herrod, who had a unique, somewhat quirky style with lots of humor and character. You are sure to get a chuckle out of our stamps! We have been offering our unique stamps and supplies to the craft industry for over 15 years. At QKR Stampede our images are available as unmounted, natural red rubber stamps OR as digital stamps! If QKR Stampede Stamps aren't exactly what you are looking for, Don't miss out on the sister companies: Eureka Stamps, Biblical Impressions Rubber Stamps, or the newest addition; Alluring Impressions

I chose this hysterical "Graduating Bear" image from QKR Stampede for my card this week. What a fun card it makes. Now is the time to get those graduation cards done and this bear is perfect. He was colored with Copics and paired with a variety of papers from my stash.

Now stop on by Sweet Sketch Wednesday and see the rest of the design team creations using QKR Stampede images - lots of inspiration there!

Thanks for stopping by!

For This?

Hi there Sweet Sketch Wednesday fans! Yep, it's a new challenge today with Bugaboo Stamps as our sponsor. I know how much you love Jodie's images and I get such a kick out of her character Stella which I'm featuring on today's card.

The sketch this week is a blast from the past sketch - originally appearing in Week 44 of the Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenges and drawn up by Arlana.  I like the large focal panel set as a diamond shape. It works really well for tall or broad images.

If you're a big fan of Bugaboo Stamps (and who isn't?) this is the week to play along with us at Sweet Sketch Wednesday! They are providing 7 free digi stamps to the Grand Prize winner of the sketch challenge this week!  Thanks Jodie for your generous sponsorship!

The Stella images from Bugaboo Stamps always make me chuckle and this one is no exception. This is Stella Tidbits-For This?  Who hasn't felt this way one morning or another?  I must have the day I selected this image to use for this week's sketch challenge!  Stella was colored with Copics and the papers here are DCWV Dots Pack that I picked up at Michael's craft store. I thought they were perfect with Stella's polka dot robe and cap!

There are such terrific cards being shared today by the Sweet Sketch Wednesday design team using Bugaboo Stamps. Please head over and check them out - you'll love what you see there.

Thanks for stopping by!

Book Worm

Hi everyone! It's time for a new sketch challenge at Sweet Sketch Wednesday and this week our sponsor is Digi Stamp Boutique. I created this fun card for my son. He's working so hard on his classes and studying for college entrance exams. I thought he just needed to know that I'm so proud of his hard work and efforts and of him.  This DSB image with our sketch this week was a perfect way to convey that.

This terrific sketch was created by our own Sally who's been filling in for Arlana and doing a bang up job of these sketches week after week.  Thanks Sally!

Digi Stamp Boutique has sponsored Sweet Sketch Wednesday since the challenges started 202 sketches ago!  This week, Sally Ann is offering our Grand Prize winner six free digi images - a fantastic and generous prize to one lucky player out there. I hope you'll grab the sketch, create a card using it and play along with us at SSW this week!

Meet "Book Worm Joe" from Digi Stamp Boutique. He was colored with Copics and cut out to add dimension to the circle focal panel.

This fun worm is part of the image and also provided separately in the Book Worm Joe digi set along with a couple sentiments. I thought it was good idea to use this as the embellishment in the sketch.  It could also be used as a stand-alone image which would be great for graduation cards.

We have such a terrific selection of cards created for your inspiration over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday to entice you to shop Digi Stamp Boutique and to play along in our challenge this week. Stop on over there and take a look!

Thanks for stopping by!

Ahoy Matey!

Ahoy there Matey! It's Wednesday and that means a new challenge at our mother ship Sweet Sketch Wednesday! We have a terrific sketch this week and StampFairy as our sponsor so let's get started.

This sketch is fun and fast to go together and highlights your tall images just perfectly. It was created by our own Sally Dube and I know you'll enjoy working with it.

We all love the adorable images that Gerda creates for StampFairy and are so lucky to have her sponsor the challenge this week. For me it was fantastic to create with StampFairy images again - it's been a while since I was on the team there.

One lucky Grand Prize winner of the challenge will receive a $10 gift certificate to the StampFairy shop for playing along at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.  Thanks for your generous sponsorship Gerda!

To create my card this week I chose this cute Lenny Pirate image.  Lenny is one of my favorite teddy bears from StampFairy. He was brought to life with Copic markers, a glitter pen on the earring, sword and treasure box as well as crystal lacquer on his nose. I found these perfect papers at Hobby Lobby during our trip last week.  StampFairy images are so fun to color - stop on over to the StampFairy store and try it out for yourself!

Now to see more of these incredible StampFairy digi stamps with our sketch, visit us at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.  The design team pulled out all the stops this week to show off the variety of StampFairy images and you'll be so inspired by what they created.

Thanks for stopping by!

Muffin Mouse

Happy Wednesday to you! We're right smack dab in the middle of the kids' spring break and today we're on the campus of Miami University of Ohio on a college tour for my son. Three universities this week - Purdue University (my alma mater), Miami University and Virginia Tech.  All with really terrific engineering schools, business schools and pretty campuses. We're just at the start of a time intensive process of visiting and eventually selecting a college and he has not even concluded his junior year yet!

Let's get on with the card now that I've blabbered on enough about spring break!  It's the start of a new challenge at Sweet Sketch Wednesday with a beautiful sketch to follow this week and a fantastic sponsor that we all love.

This sketch, created by our own Sally Dube, is a quick one to go together, shows off those pretty designer papers we're all addicted to using and has just the right touch of embellishments.  I love the two papers cut on the diagonal. Great job Sally!

The fabulous Jennifer Nilsson, owner and super talented illustrator, at The Doodle Garden is generously sponsoring the Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge this week. You just can't resist the darling and whimsical images she creates.  The Grand Prize Winner of the challenge will receive 5 free single images from The Doodle Garden - a terrific prize. Please join us this week for a chance to win!

This adorable image from The Doodle Garden is called "Muffin Mouse" and he has the sweetest little face. I colored him with light pastel color Copics and keeping it fair and light is a challenge for me! The pretty papers are from My Mind's Eye Fiddlesticks 6x6 DP pad. The flowers from the same papers were layered with SU punches, scrunched up and held in place with single silver brads.

Now you just have to see all the other wonderful cards the design team created to inspire you using The Doodle Garden images. Such beautiful cards this week! Pop on over to Sweet Sketch Wednesday and take a peek!

Thanks for stopping by!