Sweet Witch

Hi friends! Halloween is just around the corner and we're celebrating it at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 with our sponsor The Stamping Boutique. The challenge this week has a blast from the past sketch and a TWIST - everything orange and Halloween! Hope you'll join us in the fun this week.

This is a terrific sketch originally created by Arlana Patten from the original Sweet Sketch Wednesday.  I have always loved this one and how it turns out.

The Stamping Boutique is our sponsor for the challenge this week. Tracey Malnofski, the owner and artist, creates such wonderful images. The grand prize winner of the challenge will receive 3 free digi images from The Stamping Boutique and if the winner uses a TSB image, they'll get 4 digis! What a fantastic prize - thanks Tracey!

I adore this sweet witch that Tracey offers in her shop. It's part of the Smoochie Halloween Kit containing four separate images. It was colored with Copic markers, embellished with stickles for some magical sparkles and combined with papers from Authentique that I had in my stash from last year. This is the kind of witch I like to see on Halloween!

Now stop on by Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 to see the other Halloween witches and goblins we created for your inspiration.  Happy Halloween everyone!

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Winter Birds

Happy Wednesday friends. This week is already flying by and that's all right with me. So here we have a new challenge at Sweet Sketch Wednesday and my card has more of a winter theme this time. Sort of keeping with the colder temps creeping into Michigan of late.

I really like the sketch this week, drawn up by our own Sally. The elongated diamond works great and provides a fresh look. Give it a try and play along with us!

Our sponsor this week is Just Some Lines and I love the fun images than Jehanne, the owner, creates. The grand prize winner of our challenge will receive two free digis of their choice from the Just Some Lines store. Thanks for your sponsorship Jehanne!

I chose this adorable winter bird image called "3 Birds In Winter" from Just Some Lines.  It was colored with Copics and cut out and mounted on the diamond shape panel. the papers are from Bo Bunny and I like the cool colors for this winter theme card.

Now head over to Sweet Sketch Wednesday to see the rest of the team's cards using the wonderful image from Just Some Lines.

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Autumn Mums

It's time to showcase some fall images now that the weather and leaves are turning. This is my fall inspiration for the new challenge at Sweet Sketch Wednesday with an image from Pattie's Creations.

Let's start with the challenge sketch. This one goes together quickly and has a pretty look when put together.

Pattie Gomez, owner and artist of Pattie's Creations digital images is our sponsor this week. Pattie has such a wonderful selection of digi stamps in her Etsy shop. The grand prize winner of our challenge will receive two free images from Pattie's Creations.  Thanks for your sponsorship Pattie!

On my card today, I'm showcasing Mums In Basket from Pattie's Creations. It was colored with Copic markers and highlighted with Stickles to add more life to the autumn colors I used. The effect is really quite pretty in real life. The papers I used are by Basic Grey.

My team mates at Sweet Sketch Wednesday have created the most creative and beautiful cards this week. Stop on by the challenge site and take a look. You'll love what you see there.  Hope you'll join in the challenge too!

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Best Witches

Happy Wednesday friends. We move from coffee themes to Halloween this week in my inspiration for you and the new challenge at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.  This week we're featuring the fun images from Bugaboo Stamps.

Here's the sketch to follow - another terrific one from our own Sally. I love this fresh new layout for its asymmetric characteristics but it still has balance.

Bugaboo is our sponsor this week and we all love the fun images and characters that Jodi draws up for our coloring pleasure!  The grand prize winner will receive seven free digis of their choice from the Bugaboo online shop.  Thanks for your generous sponsorship Jodi!

I chose this fun "Best Witches" image from Bugaboo because it fit the circle layout so well. I just sized it to fit within the star die I had from Spellbinders. It was colored with Copic markers and the papers are from my stash by Cosmo Cricket. I loved how the moon on the background paper becomes part of the sketch layout.

Now stop on by Sweet Sketch Wednesday for more inspiration and to see how you can play along with us in the challenge this week.

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Coffee Crazy !

Hi there friends! It's the last Wednesday of the month, so at Sweet Sketch Wednesday we have a fun TWIST to the challenge starting today. Coffee themed cards are the twist - either through image choice, embellishments, papers, etc. Lot's of fun and, in part, our celebration or nod to National Coffee Day here in the U.S. on September 29!

We're also using a blast from the past sketch this week. This sketch is a fun one to follow and looks good with any kind of image.  Here's a link to my card when this sketch originally debuted at Sweet Sketch Wednesday so you can see another interpretation of it.

I can't think of a better sponsor for our coffee related theme this week than Fresh Brewed Designs! Heather Dennis, the owner and artist, is generously providing our grand prize winner with free images from her online shop.  Thanks Heather!

So I chose this Latte Cup image from Fresh Brewed Designs to fit our coffee theme. It was digitally paper pieced and the cup band printed on kraft cardstock and pieced on the image.  The papers used are digital that I found online and also printed them on kraft card stock.

Now hop on over to Sweet Sketch Wednesday for some more coffee inspiration and a creative view at more Fresh Brewed Designs images.

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Life is Good

Happy Wednesday friends! Here's my card inspiration for the new challenge starting today at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.  Isn't this little ape a cutie? Well he's from Digi Stamp Boutique our sponsor this week so read on and see how to play along with us.

Here's the sketch to follow - it's another fun one from our Sally.  I like the diagonal play here.

Sally Ann and her company Digi Stamp Boutique is our sponsor this week. Some of the cutest darn images are found in her shop with a wide variety.  The grand prize winner of the challenge will receive a £10 voucher to the Digi Stamp Boutique shop. A super generous prize package - thank you Sally Ann!

I chose this fun Cheeky Monkey for my card this week. It comes in a set of three monkey images. I colored him with Copic markers, cut it out and popped it up on the panel for dimension. The banana and monkey face in the corner are buttons from my local craft store - I just cut the shank off and mounted them on the card with glue dots. The papers are from my stash from several years ago and I've lost the identifier on them - but they are so darn perfect with this adorable monkey image. You can see one of the other DSB monkey images I used from the set here.

Now stop on by Sweet Sketch Wednesday to see other fun images from Digi Stamp Boutique on the wonderful cards created by our design team.

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Outing with Baby

Welcome back for another challenge at Sweet SketchWednesday! We're shaking it up a bit this week using some of our favorite images - digi or rubber stamps.

Here's this week's sketch to follow. If the hexagon stumps you, a circle can be substituted. Here's a trick though - print the sketch out in the size of your card and cut out the hexagon and trace it around your image and cut it out from there.  That's what I did for my card.

We do not have a sponsor this week and instead are offering our grand prize winner a package of stamping goodies put together by our own stamping queen, Sally Dube!  Embellishments, papers, stamps are all part of the package so you won't be disappointed!

I'm featuring this A Day For Daisies image called Outing With Baby Jane.  All the A Day For Daisies images are my favorites!  I've had this in my digi stash for some time and selected it because it fit perfectly with the hexagon frame. It was colored with Copics and the papers I used are from My Mind's Eye.

Now stop on by Sweet Sketch Wednesday to learn more about the challenge this week and to see the beautiful cards the design team created for your inspiration!

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Vintage Darlings

I have some vintage goodness for you today as part of the new Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge. There's something about A Day For Daisies images that bring out the distressing and shabby chic techniques in me and this week is no exception.

First of all, this is the sketch for the challenge this week.  I have rotated it to fit the image I chose and I think it looks good either direction - a very versatile sketch and perfect one for the taller and skinnier images too.

I always look forward to creating with A Day For Daisies digi stamps.  The images that Tammy, the owner and artist, draws up are spectacular, interesting and unique. And so many of them just seem to have a vintage flair which I love to accentuate in my card design and details. We are so thankful to Tammy for her sponsorship. The grand prize winner of this week's challenge will receive a $12 gift certificate to the ADFD online store - a fantastic prize!

I had this wonderful ADFD image called Five Vintage Darlings but never had the perfect sketch to use it with until now. These wonderful little maidens were colored with Copic markers, paying special attention to keeping the colors very pale so it had a faded, aged look. Lots of distressing on this card too with the rough and inked edges all the way around. The piercing was done freehand just to draw the eye more to the main panel. The papers set the overall color pallette and tone and they're from Prima's Divine collection.

So there you have it from me.  Now, you just have to pop on over to Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 to check out the other A Day For Daisies images and inspiration created for you by our design team.

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Tula's Heart

Happy Wednesday friends! Another Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge starts today and this time we have a blast from the past sketch and an added twist to it. The twist is to add stitching to your card - real or faux.

The original sketch being used this week was created by Arlana Patten. It was used in weeks 44 and 203 by the first SSW team. It has a fun and fresh look I think.

Our sponsor this week is Megan Suarez, the owner and artist of Dilly Beans Digi Stamps. She is generously providing the grand prize winner of our challenge with three free digi stamps of their choice. Her wonderful illustrations are loved by all. Thanks Megan!

I used Tula's Heart from Dilly Beans on my card for you this week. It was colored with Copic markers and then cut out and mounted on the diamond panel. The papers I used with it are from Stampin' Up and I like this fresh color combination. For the challenge twist I added faux stitching around the card base and the diamond panel.

Our Sweet Sketch Wednesday design team samples are fantastic this week with the Dilly Beans images so be sure to hop on over there to check them out.

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