Tennis Olivia

Happy Wednesday friends - you know that means a new sketch challenge begins today at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.  This week we're featuring images from Digi Stamp Boutique our monthly sponsor. I created this card for my niece who is starting to play tennis and loves it. This DSB image looks just like her.

Here's the sketch to follow this week. Pretty easy and perfect for so many different images and paper combinations.

Sally Ann at Digi Stamp Boutique is our monthly sponsor and the sponsor of our challenge this week at Sweet Sketch Wednesday. The Grand Prize winner will receive six free digi images of their choice - a really terrific prize for playing along with us this week!  Thanks Sally Ann for your generous support.

This DSB image called "Tennis Abi" looks just like my niece - it should be called Tennis Olivia! I digitally paper pieced her outfit and headband and the rest was colored with Copics. The papers are digital by Zoe Pearn called Summer Sorbet. I love the bright, cheery patterns.

I really hope you'll join the Sweet Sketch Wednesday team and play in our challenge this week. You'll find the rules for entering on the SSW blog along with a host of wonderful cards created by team to inspire you.

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Summer Vacation

Today I'm continuing with the summer theme cards with this creation for the new challenge at Sweet Sketch Wednesday. We're featuring Deidre Mosher Design images this week so let's get started...

This is the terrific sketch for this week created by our own Sally for your challenge pleasure. And what a pleasure it is to work with this sketch. It looks great and has lots of layers which I love.

Wildly whimsical and seriously sassy art is Deidre Mosher's trademark and we're thrilled to have her sponsor the challenge this week. The Grand Prize winner will receive a $10 gift certificate for her digi stamps at Deidre Mosher Designs.  Thanks Deidre for your generous sponsorship!

I choose this fun digi called Summer Vacation from Deidre Mosher Designs for my inspiration card this week. It was fun to color up with Copic markers. I added crystal lacquer on all the bubbles and the scuba mask to add interest and a little shine to the image.

Now join us over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday to see all the fun cards the design Divas created for your inspiration. I hope you'll use the sketch and join the challenge too!

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Beachtime Fun

Well we're in the height of the summer now and what a perfect way to send summer happiness than this darling card for the start of the new sketch challenge at Sweet Sketch Wednesday. We're featuring images from StampFairy this week and they are so darn cute!

This is such a fun sketch this week drawn up by our talented Sally. I love all the fun paper combinations you can use - they really draw attention to the focal panel.

We're so happy to welcome back StampFairy as our weekly sponsor. Gerda illustrates the most adorable teddies, kids, bunnies and other sweet characters to create with. You'll always find something cute at StampFairy!

The grand prize winner of our challenge this week will receive a $10 gift certificate at the StampFairy shop - a super generous prize package. Thanks Gerda for your wonderful sponsorship this week!

I chose this sweet StampFairy girl from the Patsy Beachtime collection to create some inspiration for you this week.  She was brought to life with Copic markers and the papers are appropriately called Summer Splash from My Mind's Eye. The pinwheel embellishment was created with a die from Stampin' Up.

So there you have it - a fun summer card for those August birthdays or to celebrate the start of a beachtime vacation.  Be sure to stop by Sweet Sketch Wednesday and gaze at our design team cards using a selection of StampFairy images, including some terrific ones from the StampFairy design team too.  You'll be inspired by everyone's creativity.

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Love Fruit

Welcome back friends and followers! Today kicks off another challenge at Sweet Sketch Wednesday and we're hoping you'll join us in the fun this week.

This sketch is just perfect for the bigger stamps and digi images with the large circle focal panel. And it provides for a combination of coordinated designer papers too. My favorite kind of sketch! I hope you'll give it a try!

Milk 'n Coffee is our sponsor this week and who doesn't adore the sweet girly images that are created by Esmeralda and Nathaza there. We love creating with these darling digi stamps. You will too! The Grand Prize winner of the Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge this week will receive three free digi images of their choice from Milk 'n Coffee. Thanks for your generous support and sponsorship Esme and Nathaza!

I chose this sweet Lisbeth and Love Fruit image from Milk 'n Coffee to create with this week. She is just gorgeous with this sketch and fun to color with Copic markers. The papers are Happy Day by MME.

Now you'll just have to stop by Sweet Sketch Wednesday and see the gorgeous cards the design team created for your inspiration using Milk 'n Coffee images - they are exceptional this week and you just won't want to miss it!

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Gone Bananas !

Well I've just gone bananas - literally - with this cute card for the new sketch challenge at Sweet Sketch Wednesday starting today!

Here's our fun sketch this week - a blast from the past sketch, originally designed by Arlana for Week 149 of our challenges. It's a sketch that goes together fast and can look clean and simple or fussy depending on the designer papers you use for the background.

Here's another take on the sketch when it originally appeared back in April 2012.

Our sponsor this week is Paper Addictions and Jackie Matthews the owner and designer of the cute images you'll find there.  The Grand Prize winner of the sketch challenge will receive five digi stamps from the Paper Addictions Etsy Shop. Thanks Jackie for your generous sponsorship of Sweet Sketch Wednesday!

I chose this adorable monkey from Paper Addictions and he's so happy with his stash of bananas - appropriately it's called "Gone Bananas".  He was colored with Copic markers, the papers used are from Reminisce Monkey Business collection and I found the perfect embellishments at my craft store - monkey and banana buttons!

Stop on by Sweet Sketch Wednesday to see the other darling Paper Addictions images that the design team created for your inspiration with challenge this week! You'll go bananas over those too!

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Teddy Bear Wishes

Today we start a new challenge at Sweet Sketch Wednesday using the wonderful images from Digi Stamp Boutique and a fun new sketch.

Our own Sally created this one which is quick and easy to go together and is great for some creative embellishments. I hope you give this one a try and join us in the challenge this week.

Digi Stamp Boutique is our monthly sponsor and we're featuring a terrific selection of images this week that Sally Ann offers there. Sally Ann's generous sponsorship includes 6 free digi images to the Grand Prize Winner of the Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge.  Thanks Sally Ann!

I choose this adorable new Bobbi teddy bear created at Digi Stamp Boutique to create with this week. Doesn't he just look soft and cuddly?  Totally adorable with his own teddy too. The digi was colored with Copic markers and paired with Summer Fresh papers from Simple Stories.  The ticket embellishments were cut from a sheet of the paper pad and stamped with the sentiment.

Now it's time to pop on over to Sweet Sketch Wednesday and see the other creative cards that our design team created with Digi Stamp Boutique images. And then after that, give a try with the sketch and join us in the challenge!

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Ocean's Little Girl

Welcome back my friends. Today, we have a new sketch challenge starting at Sweet Sketch Wednesday with an all-time favorite sponsor of ours and our fans - A Day For Daisies. My card was created to celebrate the birthday of a sweet friend of mine at work and she loved it!

First let's start with this elegant sketch for you to follow by our talented Sally Dube. This looks terrific and is quick to go together so I hope you'll give it a try and join us in the challenge this week.

I always love creating with the wonderful images that Tammy creates at A Day For Daisies. You'll find a huge selection of digi stamps there, from whimsical to children to beautiful vintage-looking images. As the sponsor of our Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge this week, Tammy is generously providing the grand prize winner a $12 gift certificate to the A Day For Daisies digi stamp shop. You have to be in it to win it as they say, so get out your supplies and start creating with our sketch!

I chose this beautiful mermaid image called "Oceans Little Girl" from A Day For Daisies to create my inspiration card for you this week. I think our sketch this week is just perfect for it. She was brought to life with Copic markers and then glittered up. I sponged the cloud effect in the background to fill the white space in the oval. The paper is Teresa Collins' Fabrications Canvas collection and the cardstock and ruffly ribbon is the new in-color Pistachio Pudding from SU.

So there you have it for this week. I hope I've inspired you to join in the fun this week at Sweet Sketch Wednesday. Now stop on by SSW to see the beautiful creations with A Day For Daisies images the design team made to entice you to play along!

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What's Cooking?

Happy Wednesday friends!  We have such great news to share at Sweet Sketch Wednesday this week. Our sweet Arlana is back with us creating her fun sketches and terrific cards and we're so glad she's doing better! Be sure to stop by and wish her well!

Here's the great sketch for the challenge this week. I love the clean lines and simplicity of this one created by our team mate Sally. It goes together quick and the square focal panel fits just about any stamp or digi design.

Our sponsor this week is Clearly Digi Stamps owned and operated by Lori McCroskey from the parent company Clear Dollar Stamps LLC. Clearly Digi Stamps is a home-based business run by moms from the basement of Lori's home in Pleasant Hope, Missouri. Six different designers create the digi sets that are sold at incredibly affordable prices in the CDS Store. The Grand Prize Winner of the Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge this week will receive a $25 gift certificate for digi stamps at Clearly Digi Stamps. Thanks Lori for your generous sponsorship this week!

I chose this fun digi set from Clearly Digi Stamps called What's Cooking. I thought it would make a good birthday card for a guy. So I kept the embellishments simple and the papers not so fussy. It was colored with Copic markers and the papers are My Minds Eye - A Mother's Love collection.

Now pop on over to Sweet Sketch Wednesday and see the terrific collection of cards using a variety of Clearly Digi Stamps images. You'll love the inspiration they provide!

Thanks for stopping by!