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

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

Old Well

This beautiful Old Well image is from Beccy's Place.  I love the wisteria, wood, rock and shrubbery combo! Hope you do too!  This week at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 we are using the sketch below for our creations.  We hope you will join us!

Beccy's Place has some adorable images.  Be sure to check them out. 

Beccy is a new sponsor for us here at SSW2!

Have a sweet week!

Cuddle Me Better
Sweet Sketch 47
Sweet Sketch Wednesday
Sponsor: Busy Beauties Boutique


I found this adorable image on Busy Beauties Boutique. Isn't he just so adorable! I do want to cuddle him better! Don't you? It was fun using the crystal effects on the sucker, themometer and the water bottle cap! I haven't used it for awhile and it really adds some fun dimension!

Busy Beauties Boutique is our sponsor this week at Sweet Sketch Wednesday! So come and play along. Take a few minutes to look around their site and choose a fun image! If you are the Winner of the Week you will win the fabulous prize of 3 free images of your choice from Busy Beauties Boutique.

This is the sketch we are using this week at SSW! While I was in Utah in March I was able to attend the Scrapbook USA Expo. It was my first time and wow did I have a good time with Nancy and Arlana! One of my favorite finds was at the Sizzix booth....where we each purchased the Winter Set which included this large polka dot. It was so perfect with this card!
Supplies:

Image: Busy Beauties Boutique Cuddle Me Better
Paper: Paper Pizazz Blue/Brown Dots, KMA Cardstock Turqouise, SU Chocolate Chip
Ink: Copics
Tools and Embellishments: Marvy 3" Circle Punch, SU Scallop Circles, Sizzix Winter Set (Large Dot), SU Large Oval, SU Scallop Oval, SU Crystal Effects, Ribbon, Computer Generated Sentiment