Sweet Sketch Wednesday No. 56

It's Wednesday again and what a line up we have this week at Sweet Sketch Wednesday! There are new Design Team members and their work is amazing! You met some of them last week but they're all here this week to join in the fun so hop over to Sweet Sketch Wednesday  to check out the inspiration from our fabulous DT!!!


Thanks again to Arlana for another fab sketch. I always forget about my oval nesties so I love when a sketch calls for one!

This week we are sponsored by the very generous Jodie at Bugaboo.  

The winner gets to choose seven, yes, SEVEN, digi stamps that value $21!!!

 

I have to say it was very hard to pick an image to use this week, could easily have picked 11!!!

I got the very cute Girrblock Love image and here's what I did with them.

I used the wonderful promarkers to colour in the majority of the image and then the shrubbery and sky was done with chalks. I also chalked around the image to blend it in better. 

Could not believe my luck when I found that I had Giraffe print paper in one of the DCWV stacks so that's what's behind them and the other DP is from the Papermania Hampstead collection. Still very much in love with this. 

The flowery orange ribbon is actually self adhesive, you wouldn't believe how ecstatic I was when I found this! 

The three glass beads are another find at Mam's shop, they're actually a florist sundry item and you can get a nice size bucket of them for a ridiculously low price! 

The flowers are from the stash and have yellow brad centres. Hope you like it! :-D

Now hop on over to the Sweet Sketch Wednesday Blog and give some love to my new DT friends.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday No. 55

Hiya lovely people! I'm in a really super mood this week! Have gotten most of the dreaded housework out of the way including 8 hours (yes 8!) of ironing on Monday and my first ever veggie patch is thriving! The little dude is quite happy with himself too, he planted the peas that are now 20" high!! 

Anyway the reason for the post, it's Wednesday so it's Sweet Sketch Wednesday time! 

Arlana has produced the goods again bless her, and this is the sketch you can have a play with this week:

Our very generous sponsor this week is Shirley's 2 Girls 

 

And the winner of this challenge will win a $10 Gift Certificate! How sweet is that! Now, what do you need to do to win this fabulous prize? Hop over to Sweet Sketch Wednesday and find out! :-D


For my card this week Shirley 2 Girls gave me the brilliant 'Mother Knows Best' digital stamp. I'm in love with it! I've never found a stamp for an expecting Mom before and I just love this one. It was great fun to colour too.

I used the Promarkers of course and tried out some colours I tend to avoid. The gingham paper was one I created myself in Gimp, if you would like it just send me a mail and i'll forward them on. The other two papers are from the Papermania Henbury Lane range. The flower is from my trusty flower jar stash and the satin ribbon is a self adhesive turquoise i've had for a full year and only opened this week! LOL! :-D

We've got some new DT members this week, be sure to hop over to their blogs and show them some Sweet Sketch Wednesday love and don't forget the oul reliable DT members too, they've got a few stunners to show you too! :-D

Sweet Sketch Wednesday No. 54

Hiya SSW fans. I've posted the post on the main blog this week so if there are any mess ups blame me and sorry in advance!!! :-D Back to business, sooooooo how'd you like the anniversary hop? I loved it! Looking forward to many more. Great cards entered by everyone. So the winner on my blog for the two images one from the Digi Stamp Boutique and one from another sponsor is:

Genevieve!!! 

Congratulations Genevieve, you can email Arlana at sweetberrydesigns@hotmail.com and she will tell you the next steps.

This week's sketch is another beaut, but hey ain't they all now. 

Our sponsor this week is the very generous Katy at KLM Designs

Katy has generously sponsored us this week with a gorgeous digi stamp image called

Crocus Window Box 

She has also given us a FREEBIE for all you lucky followers to play with too.

Now you just have to play!!! :-D

My card this week has Bairds Bird on it and ain't he just cute.

I used the V&A Papers, Hampstead Papers and Making Memories Paper for this card. Got my new star nesties last week so they got their debut. Baird is coloured with the trusted Promarkers. Tried a different coloured hair this week, not sure if you'd call it blonde or light brown but I like the end result.

My wonderful DT buds have some great designs for you to check out too so off you hop for some more inspiration!

Now before I forget. I have to make the draw for my own blog candy for last week. I'm going to use that Random Org thing and feel all important and popular. So the lucky winner is 

Go Cannucks Go at Crafty Creations

If you can send me on your address to jrcreations24@gmail.com I can get it posted today.

Thanks again to everyone who joined in last week and I hope you can all make it this week at Sweet Sketch Wednesday

Au revoir mes amies!!!

Sweet Sketch Wednesday Anniversary Blog Hop

Are you ready for some fun? Yes!!! It’s our one year anniversary. We are so happy to have you join us in the fun. Yes, it’s been one year since Sweet Sketch Wednesday arrived in Blogland. It’s hard to believe as the year has passed by so quickly. Thanks to all of our dedicated players and followers and to the best Design Team ever. Come on and let’s have some sweet fun.

So, pull up a chair, grab a refreshment of your choice and join us in Sweet Sketch Wednesday’s Anniversary Blog Hop. Digi Stamp Boutique is our main sponsor for this celebration…offering 12 prizes in all.

Since it was our anniversary we decided to ask our past sponsors:

Inktegrity,

Bugaboo Stamps,

Prairie Fairy Designs,

Fresh Brewed Designs,

Busy Beauties Boutique,

Bee Crafty,

Soft Pencil Digital Stamps,

Delicious Doodles,

My Grafico

The Stamping Boutique

We were overwhelmed with their support to celebrate. They will also be adding their prize to this fabulous week. The winning images will be awarded at the end of the Blog Hop. Let’s get hopping!!!

Here are the rules of the contest for a chance to win:

1. Comment on each of the Design Team blogs and become a follower.

2. Comment on Digi Stamp Boutique blog and become a follower.

3. Return to Sweet Sketch Wednesday after you have completed the blog hop and leave a comment and become a follower.

4. By doing this, you will have a chance to win an image from Digi Stamp Boutique or one of our other sponsors image. That means you will have 22 chances to win a prize as there will be two prizes on each Design Team Blog.

5. After participating in the Anniversary Hop, create a card with the Anniversary Hop Sketch or create an altered item. Then post it on Inlinkz. Completing all five steps will qualify you for the Grand Prize from Digi Stamp Boutique on the Sweet Sketch Wednesday blog.

6. For those that complete 1through 5, you can also have another chance to win another sweet prize by participating in Arlana’s “Blast from the Past!”Instructions for participating in the “Blast of the Past” are posted on Arlana’s blog at http://sweetberrydesigns.blogspot.com

Let’s Begin!

Head on over to Arlana’s blog and see her creative blog hop cards. Then hop on over to the next blog in order and see all of our DT’s fabulous creations. The next Design Team name will be posted on each blog so that you will be able to follow from one blog to the next. i.e: From here hop to Heather's blog.

Remember to follow the rules above.

Happy hopping and thanks for joining us for our One Year Anniversary Celebration.

Hoping to see your creations too….Hop to it! :-D

Arlana

Nancy

Judi

Jeannie

Lisa

Melissa

Terry

Stacy

Deanne

You are here --> Jenny

Heather

DigiStampBoutique.Blogspot.com

Sweet Sketch Wednesday

So here's the sketch to get busy with after you have fun hopping around.

This is the card I've made for our wonderful blog turning one.

Couldn't resist the 'One Today' for such a great occasion. As this is my first ever blog hop to be a DT member on i'm offering some Blog Candy to celebrate too. One lucky winner will be drawn randomly from the comments on this post.

The candy includes:

Briefcase style bag I made for the occasion

40 Pearl Brads

40 Gem Brads

1 meter of purple floral scalloped ribbon

120 self adhesive gemstones

50 Wild Orchid Pink Roses

Looking forward to visiting all your blogs in return and thanks to all at Sweet Sketch Wednesday for making this blog hop a great one! Especially to Arlana for the sketches and Judi for all the behind the scenes organizing! :-D

My Partner in Crafting Crime Challenge 4

Show Papa some love...

Our challenge this week at My Partner in Crafting Crime is to create something with a male theme. Father's Day is a coming so dust off all those male stamps and male papers that we all try to avoid for the rest of the year and get making. :-D

I usually hate male cards cos i'm always stuck for that embellishment bit that I want to add, can't stick flowers on it and for an older man brightly coloured buttons and stars don't really work. So dug through numerous drawers and remembered I had that brad making kit thing from Papermania so used two of them this time. The newspaper type paper is from Pink Petticoat and the other is from the V&A collection. The stamp was a find in TK Maxx of all places. It's Hero Arts believe it or not and there are three of them, so that's me sorted for male cards for a while! :-D I distressed the edges of the paper and cardstock on the image and then also distressed with, Old Paper, Antique Linen and Walnut Stain. The stamp itself is just stamped with Staz On Timber Brown. I coloured his face, cane, hand and gloves with Promarkers but that was it. Didn't think it needed anymore.

Hope you can all join in for this challenge. Details over at My Partner in Crafting Crime.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday No. 52

Only one week to go until the madness starts!! I cannot wait!! I'm talking about our Anniversary Blog Hop at Sweet Sketch Wednesday from June 9th to 15th, there's gonna be some super duper prizes too. 

Back to this week's sketch. Another fab design by Arlana.

Our sponsor this week is:  DIGI DOODLE SHOP and the very generous Judy is offering 3 free digis of your choice to the winner of the challenge.  They have a collection of 250 wonderful images to choose from and boy oh boy did I have a hard time picking. I picked this beautiful vintage lady and of course couldn't resist so bought a few more!!!  Go check out the store, you will be amazed at how gorgeous these digi's are. If you need inspiration check out my fab DT's creations, they are all so different and oh so beautiful.

I've used Promarkers to colour her. The flowers are from Wild Orchid, the red paper is a scrap from my Christmas pile and the stripey is DCWV. I distressed the circle with, Antique Linen, Walnut Stain at the bottom and a smidgen of Tattered Rose  around the top.

Looking forward to checking out all your creations this week and to gearing up for a fab blog hop! :-D

Passion for Promarkers Card

Couldn't let the week go by without entering into the Passion for Promarkers Anniversary challenge. I've been rather busy the last week so even though I started this a week ago i've only managed to finish it tonight in the wee hours of the morning. Happy Anniversary to all the PFP crew.

Papers were Hampstead, K&Co and Henbury Lane.
Stamp is a WOJ and coloured with pretty much all of the browns in the Promarker range.
Big flower was a multiple of acrylic flowers heat gunned to make them all crinkly. Check out Deanne's blog, my fellow SSW DT member. It's where I got my inspiration. Link to the right.
Buttons were stash orientated.

Night night everybody!! :-D