My Favorite Flower Pot For You!

Well friends, it's been 10 years since my sister, Arlana, began the Sweet Sketch Wednesday sketch site.  My other sister, Nancy, and I diligently helped in the weekly process of starting something new, exciting and a place where others could display their talents.  Later it was changed to Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 where other team mates have kept things running.  We've developed many new friends along the way.

This challenge is a throwback to our very first sketch that Arlana created.  I wasn't a designer the first week because my sisters had to convince me that I could do this.  I have so appreciated their encouragement as I found a new love and an excitement for creating my own style and to also try new techniques.  My first week on the Design Team was week two.  I barely knew how to use the paper cutter.  LOL.

Thank you, Kathie and Anne, for wanting to have a throwback from our first week.    Nancy is playing along; however, Arlana is in the middle of moving and her lovely craft room is all packed up.

We hope you will play along and enjoy the fun.  A Day for Daisies is our sponsor this week at SSW2 and is offering a $12 gift certificate to our Grand Prize Winner.

Enjoy!

A Day For Daisies began as a small token to a constant need to create. Pairing a love of whimsical illustration, with a tidy graphic design background, Tammy S Thompson, produced her first stamp designs, introducing irresistibly sweet stamps to crafters around the globe. Drawing inspiration from the beautiful world around us, she strives to express the happiness and gratitude she feels in each stamp design she creates.

Presently, A Day For Daisies has grown to over 3,000 Digital Stamps with a quickly expanding line of Best Loved Clear Polymer. A Day For Daisies has been published and awarded over the years for innovative and unique designs created to inspire the crafting community. With a whole team behind her now, she remains passionate about illustration, obsessed with quality, and dedicated to her customers. A Day For Daisies thanks you for your ideas, comments, and creativity!

Prize:  $12 Gift Certificate

My Recipe:

Images:  A Day For Daisies, Favorite Flower Pot; Stampin Up 1993 For You

Papers:  Recollections Soda Pop;Cosmo Cricket Little Girls Picnic Flip for Fun

Ink:  Copics, SU Chocolate Chip

Technique:  MS Eyelet Lace Border Punch, SU Word Window

Accessories:  Celebrate It Jute, Chocolate Pearls, Michael's Flowers

Make a Splash!

This week's sponsor is Sparkle 'n Sprinkle.  I adore this Tropical Mermaid Alana digi.  To my sweet surprise this image also came with a pre-colored digi...Makes for a quick and simple card in just a few moments.  We would love to have you play along at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 with our #157 Sketch.  You may be the lucky winner of a $15 gift certificate at Sparkle 'n Sprinkle. 

SSW2 Sketch 157

Sparkle 'n Sprinkle

My Recipe:

Image:  Sparkle 'n Sprinkle: Tropical Mermaid Alana

Ink:  Pre-colored

Papers:  SU Tempting Turquoise, 

KI Memories Pieces of Me, Deep Sea-Words in Water 2005

Techniques: MS Tropical Fish

Accessories:  Colorbok Metal Dots, Stickles

A Thankful Heart

Isn't she beautiful?  You can find her at A Day for Daisies: A Thankful Heart!

Truly only of my favorites!

A Day for Daisies is our sponsor this week at SSW2.  We hope you will play along.

ADFD will provide a $12 gift card to the winner.

A Day For Daisies began as a small token to a constant need to create. Pairing a love of whimsical illustration, with a tidy graphic design background, Tammy S Thompson, produced her first stamp designs, introducing irresistibly sweet stamps to crafters around the globe. Drawing inspiration from the beautiful world around us, she strives to express the happiness and gratitude she feels in each stamp design she creates.

ADFD Website www.adayfordaisies.com View a full selection of A Day for Daisies Digital Stamps

ADFD BLOG http://adayfordaisiesblogspot.com

ADFD Face Book https://www.facebook.com/adayfordaisies/

ADFD Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/adayfordaisies/

ADFD Etsy http://www.etsy.com/shop/adayfordaisies

SSW2 - 150 Sketch

My Recipe: 

Image: A Day for Daisies, A Thankful Heart

Papers:  Lawn Fawn Pink Lemonade/Sweet Tea, SU Bermuda Bay, SU KMA Orange, SU Lucky Limeade, Avery Yellow, 

Ink: SU Pumpkin Pie, Copics

Technique:  Spellbinders Curved Square, Paper Smooches Wise Dies Leaves 1, 

Accessories: Darice Hemp Cord, Knick Knacks Fall Icons, Celebrate It Jute

Merry Christmas Tree!

Digi Stamp Boutique is our sponsor this week. However, Sally Ann has now moved her images to Lili of the Valley.  So this week we are honoring Sally Ann for the many years she has sponsored Sweet Sketch Wednesday and Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.  I have always loved her images.  This sweet image is Bobbi and Xmas Tree.  Isn't he just so adorable?

Here is the link to Lili of the Valley and Digi Stamp Boutique images!

https://www.liliofthevalley.co.uk/acatalog/Digi-Stamp-Boutique.html

Sketch 147 

My Recipe:

Image:  Digi Stamp Boutique Bobbi and Xmas Tree

Papers:  SU Cherry Cobbler, Green Dot paper from Stash...no name,  Cream Card Stock

Ink: Copics

Techniques: La La Land Crafts Dies Stitched Circles, Stitched Scalloped Circle, SU 1 1/4" Round Punch

Accessories: Christmas House Crystal Stickers, Red Twine, Star Brad, Glossy Accents, Embossing Powder, Make It Christmas Buttons

Rollin Along!

Dearie Dolls has the sweetest free images!  Take a moment and look around Mary Ellen's site. Today I used her Firetruck - Boy Color image.  Quick and easy birthday card for one of my grandsons!

SSW2 Sketch 145

Mary Ellen's Dearie Digis are inspired by the wooden dolls she and her husband Kip made together for 25 years. She likes to tell a little story with each illustration. Some of her favorite subjects are snowmen and children.

My Recipe:

Image:  Dearie Dolls, Firetruck - Boy Color

Papers:  Studio G Paper Pack 2014 Janet Dunn, Recollections Shades of Red

Inks:  Precolored

Techniques:  Gina Marie Hexagon Stitched Die

Accessories:  Wright Twill, Teresa Collins Signature Essentials Enamel Dots-Red, Printed fire hose from the internet

Just for YOU!

This is Bugaboo's Mouse-Big Flower image!  Such a great image especially for a birthday, Mother's Day, or Just Thinking of You card!  We hope you will play along at Sweetsketchwednesday2.blogspot.com.

SSW2-144 Sketch for this Week!

Everything that you ever wanted to know about Bugaboo Stamps:  As if raising 5 children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the work of paper crafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. Bugaboo Stamps has become one of the leading companies in digital images. From seriously snarky to sugary sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects.  Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week!!  If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps at Totally Stampilicious.  And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT for the weekly Challenges at Catch the Bug.

Store:  www.bugaboostamps.com

Challenge Blog:  http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com

Prize:  4 Free Images

My Recipe:

Image:  Bugaboo, Mouse-Big Flower

Ink:  Copics

Papers:  SEI Bright Blossom, SU Blue Bayou, Rose Red, Avery Yellow

Techniques:  Stitched Square Dies

Accessories:  Stickles, Pearl Stickers

Mums

Lovely Mum Wedding image from ADFD.  Loved creating with this image!

SSW2 Sketch 141

A Day For Daisies began as a small token to a constant need to create. Pairing a love of whimsical illustration, with a tidy graphic design background, Tammy S Thompson, produced her first stamp designs, introducing irresistibly sweet stamps to crafters around the globe. Drawing inspiration from the beautiful world around us, she strives to express the happiness and gratitude she feels in each stamp design she creates.

Presently, A Day For Daisies has grown to over 3,000 Digital Stamps with a quickly expanding line of Best Loved Clear Polymer. A Day For Daisies has been published and awarded over the years for innovative and unique designs created to inspire the crafting community. With a whole team behind her now, she remains passionate about illustration, obsessed with quality, and dedicated to her customers. A Day For Daisies thanks you for your ideas, comments, and creativity!

Prize:  $12 Gift Certificate

My Recipe:

Images:  A Day for Daisies, Mum Wedding and SU sentiment Just a Note.

Papers:  Teresa Collins ~ Fabrications~Canvas; 

K & Company Wild Raspberry; SU Old Olive, Peach Parfait

Ink:  Copics, SU Old Olive and Real Rust

Techniques:  Spellbinders Petite Scalloped Circles Large and Standard Circles Large, 

SU Scalloped Punch, Fiskars Round Punch

Accessories:  Harvest Home Collections Ribbon

Flower Vase

I loved this beautiful precolored floral vase...such an easy card to  make in seconds!  Our sponsor is Digi Stamp Boutique.  Sally-Ann is offering a £10 Voucher for our lucky grand prize winner at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.   The image I have used is A4 Quick Print - Flower Vases.


All images/designs are created and copyright owned by Sally-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 my images as much as I enjoy creating them.

Prize:   £10 voucher 

SSW2 138 Sketch 

My Recipe:

Image:  Digi Stamp Boutique, A4 Quick Print - Flower Vases

Ink:  Preprinted

Papers:  KMA  Perfect Plums, SU Old Olive, Paper Heart Dazzel Purple Pink Stripe

Technique:  Suzzix Texturz Plate Perfect Details. Frame Diecut

Accessories:  Michaels Celebrate It Ribbon

Sweet Geisha Charlie

Little Blue Button is our sponsor this week at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2. Our Grand Prize Winner will win a $10 Gift Certificate from Little Blue Button.  Love this sweet Geisha girl image and had to use it for a birthday card for my grand daughter.  I didn't have a die cut for this shape but tried my hand using a banner die cut cutting it part way then turning the point around and cutting the other end.  Surprisingly, it worked.

SSW2 -137 Sketch

Little Blue Button Stamps started it's life in December 2012 as free digital stamps company "Digital designs by Olga".

Later in spring 2013 it was reborn as Little Blue Button Stamps and first Design Team started it's work.

In the summer of 2013 we started to produce rubber stamps which were pressed and packed by C.C.Designs company. In Fall 2014 we started to release clear stamps but due to some problems in my life I had to shut down both clear and rubber and continue with digital stamps only.

Now I continue to create designs for digital stamps and printables by LBBS and clear stamps for Russian store by Tamara Startseva.

My Recipe:

Image:  Little Blue Button, Sweet Geisha Charlie

Paper:  K&C Company Brenda Walton Designer Mat Pad

Ink:  Copics

Technique: Gina Marie Designs Banner Diecut

Accessories: Recollections Floral Embellishments

Get Well with Chicken Soup

Love this adorable  Kitchen Chicken-Soup  image from Bugaboo Stamps.  Thought it would make a perfect get well card!  

Be sure to play along at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.

"Everything that you ever wanted to know about Bugaboo Stamps:  As if raising 5 children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the work of papercrafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. Bugaboo Stamps has become one of the leading companies in digital images. From seriously snarky to sugar sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects.  Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week!!  If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps at Totally Stampilicious.  And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT for the weekly Challenges at Catch the Bug."

Store www.bugaboostamps.com

Challenge Blog:  http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com

Prize:  4 Free Images

My Recipe:

Images:  Bugaboo: Kitchen Chicken-Soup, Studio G Get Well Soon,

Ink:  Copics, SU Creamy Caramel, Summer Sun, Memento Black,

Papers:  Paper Co. Bright Lights, SU Real Red

Techniques:  Spellbinders Standard Circles Small, Petite Scalloped Circles Large, 

Cuttlebug Chicken Wire embossing folder

Accessories:  Heart Brad, Red and White Checked Ribbon

Thinking of You!

This sweet image from A Day for Daisies must be retired but I couldn't resist using it.  Hope you will stop by ADFD and look around her amazing shop.  Tammy's creativity is amazing!  I love everything she creates.  I'm sure you will too.  Please play along at SSW2 to have a chance to win a $12 gift certificate at ADFD.  

SSW2 Sketch # 133

"A Day For Daisies began as a small token to a constant need to create. Pairing a love of whimsical illustration, with a tidy graphic design background, Tammy S Thompson, produced her first stamp designs, introducing irresistibly sweet stamps to crafters around the globe. Drawing inspiration from the beautiful world around us, she strives to express the happiness and gratitude she feels in each stamp design she creates.

Presently, A Day For Daisies has grown to over 3,000 Digital Stamps with a quickly expanding line of Best Loved Clear Polymer. A Day For Daisies has been published and awarded over the years for innovative and unique designs created to inspire the crafting community. With a whole team behind her now, she remains passionate about illustration, obsessed with quality, and dedicated to her customers. A Day For Daisies thanks you for your ideas, comments, and creativity!"

Prize:  $12 Gift Certificate

My Recipe:

Image and stamps:  A Day for Daisies, Fancy Easter Egg; SU So Happy for You

Papers:  DCWV Spring Mix, DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Boy, 

SU Lavender Lace, Lucky Limeade, The Paper Co. Primary Fashion Yellow

Inks:  Copics, SU Lucky Limeade

Techniques:  Gina Marie Stitched Rectangles

Assessories:  Recollections Paper Flowers, Recollections Rhinestone stickers

Love Grows

This sweet image from Digi Stamp Boutique is called 

Simply for Valentines 4A-Cute 

and comes with 6 different images colored and also black and white.  

Of course, Digi Stamp Boutique is our sponsor this week at 

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.  

We hope you will play along. You may be our lucky grand prize winner!

"All images/designs are created and copyright owned by Sally-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 my images as much as I enjoy creating them."

Prize:   £10 voucher 

Sketch 130 at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2

My Recipe:

Image:  Digi Stamp Boutique, Simply for Valentines 4A-Cute

Papers:   Bo Bunny A Gift of Love Crazy Love Kisses, 

SU Poppy Parade and Pixie Pink and Pretty in Pink

Ink:  Copics

Techniques:  Scalloped Stitched Heart, Cuttlebug Stars and Hearts

Accessories:  Teresa Collins Enamel Shapes, Stickles

Cute As A Button Birthday Gift

This week our sponsor is Cute As a Button Stamps.  I love this sweet birthday image called Birthday Gift.  If you are our lucky grand prize winner you will receive 2 black and white images of your choice from Cute As a Button Stamps.  How fun is that!  Be sure to follow the sketch below created by Kathie from our DT.  Hope you are enjoying the new year and creating new creations of your own.  We'd love to have you play along with us at SSW2.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 Sketch 129

My Recipe:

Image:  Cute As A Button, Birthday Gift, SU Birthday Whimsy. Floral from stash,

Papers: MME Free Bird "Love",  SU Riding Hood Red, 

Ink:  Copics, SU Riding Hood Red and Creamy Caramel

Techniques:  Avery Elle Wonky Stitches Die, Die-namics banner,

Accessories:  Recollections Paper Flowers, Jolee's All that Blings

Happy Penguins

Well, this is my last card for the year!.  This image is from Digi Stamp Boutique and is called "Happy Penguins."  Aren't they just adorable?  Easy to color up and so fun to use for the holidays.  The sketch this week is also delightful!  I love the banner look!  Hope you enjoy it too!  Play along at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 for a chance to win a gift certificate at Digi Stamp Boutique.

All images/designs are created and copyright owned by Sally-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 my images as much as I enjoy creating them.

Prize:   £10 voucher 

My Recipe:

Image:  Digi Stamp Boutique, Happy Penguins

Ink:  Copics

Papers:  Recollections Christmas Noel, SU Cherry Cobbler

Techniques:  Gina Marie Designs Stitched Die Cut Banner

Accessories:  Michael's Ribbon, Puffy, Embossing Power

Merry Christmas!
Judi

Mr. Snowman

This fun snowman is called Snowball Sam at A Day for Daisies!  Isn't he adorable?
I had fun coloring but after the stickles dried I realized his red button ran!

A Day For Daisies began as a small token to a constant need to create. Pairing a love of whimsical illustration, with a tidy graphic design background, Tammy S Thompson, produced her first stamp designs, introducing irresistibly sweet stamps to crafters around the globe. Drawing inspiration from the beautiful world around us, she strives to express the happiness and gratitude she feels in each stamp design she creates.

Presently, A Day For Daisies has grown to over 3,000 Digital Stamps with a quickly expanding line of Best Loved Clear Polymer. A Day For Daisies has been published and awarded over the years for innovative and unique designs created to inspire the crafting community. With a whole team behind her now, she remains passionate about illustration, obsessed with quality, and dedicated to her customers. A Day For Daisies thanks you for your ideas, comments, and creativity!

Prize:  $12 Gift Certificate

My Recipe:

Image:  A Day for Daisies Snowman Sam

Papers:  Bo Bunny Sleigh Ride, SU  Night of Navy

Inks:  Copics

Techniques:  Lifestyle Nesting Circles, LaLa Land Stitched Nested Circles, MS Snowflake, Marvy Snowflake

Accessories:  Stickles, Jewels

Winter Wonderland

Our sponsor this week is Digi Stamp Boutique.  Please play along at SSW2 and have a chance to win the grand prize.

All images/designs are created and copyright owned by Sally-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 my images as much as I enjoy creating them.

Prize:   £10 voucher 

My Recipe:

Image:  Digi Stamp Boutique, Simply for Christmas Winter Wonderland

Papers:  Bo Bunny Attitude Collection, SU Baja Breeze and Chocolate Chip 

Ink:  Copics

Tools and Techniques:  Avery Elle Wonky Stitches,

Accessories: Brown Sheer Ribbon, Michael's Sugar Dots, Stickles