Happy Sweet Sketch Wednesday!!

And what a Sweet Wednesday it is!!  Not only is it Sweet Sketch Wednesday day, but it is the day before Thanksgiving for all of us in America!!  So my house is going to be filled today with the sweet smell of Pumpkin Pie later today!!  My family is getting together tomorrow at my sister's house for Thanksgiving!  We all bring dishes to pass and celebrate what we are thankful for over a huge feast of food!!  Tomorrow we have a lot extra to be thankful for because my sister is getting married to her fiancee Claude in the presence of our family! It is going to be a very sweet Thanksgiving for us!!  We are so happy that Claude will be joining our family!  :-)

So on to today's sketch and my card!

We are on sketch # 25 this week...

And this week our sketch is sponsored by my good friend Joni who is on the Whimsie Doodles Design Team with me.  Joni not only has talents in making cards, but she also has started her own company and designs Digistamps too!  The concept of her company called Inktegrity is so wonderful.  You can learn more about it HERE!

Joni has offered up a prize to one of this week's participants in the sketch challenge should they be so lucky to win!  And remember, you can' t win if you don't play along!!  The winner will receive Joni's newly released stamp set called Going Places!  Check out the Sweet Sketch Wednesday Blog for all the deets!!

Here is what I made using this week's sketch!

I love this martini glass image from Inktegrity.  What a versatile image to have in your collection.  It would be perfect for birthday cards, celebratory wishes, holidays, a ladies night night out invitiation, bachelor and bachelorette cards, and even for wedding toasts!!  Don't you think it is cute?  Of course I enlarged it quite a bit to make it the focal point of my card.  That is the beauty of digistamps... you get to resize and reorient them as you choose!!

I colored in my image using Copic markers and did a lot of blending near the edges of the glass to make it look like it had color, yet was still see-through.  The cute sentiment is an epoxy sticker that I purchased last year and was thrilled to see it not only was the perfect sentiment, but that it was the right color for this card too.  Not sure who made it, I did not keep it in its' original packaging.  Sorry!

To add a little punch, I used some stickles on the Holly Berries, added a black border that was punched with a MS punch and added some trim from BG (I believe!). The DP is from MM and I love it because it has such bold colors and a touch of black to it too!

Thanks for taking a look and hopefully amidst the time you spend in the kitchen preparing for Thanksgiving you will find some time to do some blog hopping on the DT blogs to see what they created using this sketch.  Stop on over to the SSW Blog and you can also visit the DT's blogs by linking to them from my side bar!

Have a great Wednesday and may your bucket overflow with the sweet smells of preparing Thanksgiving dinner or any thing else if you don't celebrate this day with us!

Masculine but Still Sweet!!

Today is Sweet Sketch Wednesday and it is extra sweet because the DT and I have two card samples to share with you from the same sketch! Arlana over at SSWand the whole DT are so excited because we got a sponsor for this week's sketch. Which means there are FREE stamps at stake!!!



My good friend Joni who is a fellow DT member with me at Whimsie Doodles has also started her own line of digital stamps. Her stamps are as sweet as can be and focus on the family and are very wholesome! Her company is called Inktegrity (love that name!)

Someone is going to win her brand new stamp set called Going Places if they play along with this week's sketch and submit their card on the SSW blog. All the details are provided on today's post.

So here is this week's Sweet Sketch 13...

And here is the card I made using Joni's Inktegrity stamp from the Going Places line...

I decided to make it a masculine yet juvenile card that would be perfect for a young boy. I used the tugboat and sentiment from her Going Places set that was just released. (Edited to add: click HERE to purchase this stamp set!) I printed the image out onto GP cardstock and heat set it before coloring with my Copic markers. The DP is from Dude Designs and is the Walt line. The yellow CS is Bazzill. I free hand drew the water and the seagulls! (Bet ya couldn't tell... Ha!!) The sentiment prints out in the round and is perfect to add a button embellishment to. I love how it mimics a life preserver!

Thanks Joni for letting us use your wonderful stamps!! I am so happy for you and wish your new company well!!




For my second card, I also went masculine, but this time the intended recipient was my future BIL, Claude. I was led to make this card after reading the sentiment from the August KOM at Unity. It fit him to the tee!!

The sentiment says "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." Isn't that a cool thought. To realize how perfectly it matches Claude you would have to understand that he has finished the IronMan competition and has also competed in an ultramarathon where the runners run 100 miles!! Isn't that crazy?? At first I told him if he has a desire to run 100 miles then he must by CRAZY and he can't date my sister!! LOL!!

But actually Claude is a wonderful man who adores my sister and I am so happy that they found each other. They will be marrying in January and he is going to be a wonderful BIL to have!

So I can sneak in another picture of my beautiful great niece... here is a picture of Claude holding Ava in the hospital!!

Please head on over to the SSW blog and see all the cards that the DT made this week and read about your chance to win the Going Places stamp set from Inktegrity. I hope you will play along with us at Sweet Sketch Wednesday!

Have a really Sweet day and may your bucket overflow with non-caloric sweetness!!