Wedgwood silhouette plate card

Hi folks! Here's a card I made using Joanna Sheen's Silhouette stamp set 'Stepping Out'. I wanted to stamp and emboss the image using white embossing powder which reminded me of the beautiful Wedgwood plates I had admired over the years. So I did... and I went with the plate theme hence all the circles.
I embellished the card with a sheer white ribbon bow, some decorative pins and a punched white flower secured with a white brad.
I would like to take this opportunity to say 'thank you' to my fabulous followers. There are 300 of you now!! :o) Thank you!
Ciao for now!
Sandra x

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge - Embossing
Truly Scrumptious - Anything goes
Sugar Creek Hollow - Shaped Card
Crafting for all Seasons - Anything Goes

'The happiest of Birthdays...'

Hi folks! Hope you are all well. Everything is fine and dandy here as my little boy had his cast taken off yesterday. Happy days! Here's a card I made using Joanna Sheen's Wordy Stamp set 6 plate.
I covered the card with a sheet of stripy backing paper an added 2 strips of brown ribbon and a large bow. I made the roses by cutting a spiral in some red cardstock and coiling it up. I secured it in place with tacky adhesive and added some Stickles to it. The final element was the large sentiment itself which I stamped and die cut using a Spellbinder label die.

Joanna Sheen has my Enchanted fairy stamp sets on offer in the clearance section.... head on over if you want to catch a a bargain! (Click here and scroll down to see if there are any left)
Ciao for now!
Sandra xx

Creative card crew - Anything goes
Tuesday Throwdown - Stripes
Truly Scrumptious - Anything Goes

Paper Play Challenges - Blossoms and Blooms

Paper Romance Challenges - Distressing

Crafty Catz Challenges - Anything Goes

My Time to Craft - Use a die cut

I did it Challenge - Anything Goes

Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes

Bright, cheerful and colourful...!

Hello folks!

I hope this card will brighten your day :o) It's inspired by all those gorgeous images around that depict beautiful ladies with flowers in their hair. Maybe I went a bit far with mine.... hubby says it looks like one of those 1960's swimming caps. Even that brought a smile to my face.

It's quite a clean and simple card.... well it is for me anyway. I printed off a sheet of rainbow background paper (from an MCS cdrom) onto pearlescent cardstock. I stamped and embossed loads of the daisy flower and leaves (from Joanna Sheen's pressed flower stamp range - Narcissi) No need to colour as I stamped onto the coloured cardstock. I cut each one out and shaped some of them.

I drew the ladies face, neck and shoulders straight onto the card base (coloured using promarkers) and adhered the flowers and leaves using dimensional glue gel. I punched what was left of the coloured sheet with a scalloped border punch and used the strips to edge the top and bottom of the card.
The finishing touch was to add some chunky 'ice-stickles' to the centre of the flowers. And that was it. Not much to it really and I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

Ciao for now!

Sandra x

Make it Monday - Anything goes

Crafty Creations Challenge - Anything goes

Diva's By Design - Anything goes

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Anything goes

Simon Says Stamp- Anything goes

The Crazy Challenge - Anything goes

Crazy 4 Challenges - Flowers
Flourishes, Bring Back Beautiful - Flowers.

A jug o'flowers

Hello folks! It's Saturday morning and Hubby is downstairs with the kids.... I thought I'd try and sneak a blog post on before they come charging in.
I made this card to showcase Joanna Sheen's Narcissi pressed flower stamps set. I stamped, embossed, coloured and cut out a number of flowers and leaves. I used a mixture of Promarkers and mica watercolour paints to add colour. I created the jug card blank using my Gypsy and Cricut Expression and cut the top layer from blue gingham card stock as I wanted a country cottage feel. I added a large cream ribbon bow before adhering the top layer to the card blank.
A fun card to make, I really enjoyed crafting this one.
Enjoy your weekend.
Ciao for now!
Sandra x

Papertake Weekly - Anything goes
Flourishes - The beauty of a flower

A 'charm-ing' Hanglar birthday card

Hello folks. I still haven't had my crafty-blog-hopping fix yet. My little boy had his cast replaced today for a smaller one (from his wrist to his elbow) everything is healing well :o) we just need protection for another couple of weeks. His new cast comes off the day before half term. Other news - I had loads of fun at the craft sale on Saturday thanks to my fabulous friend Becky. We just giggled our way through the day... such fun!

This is a card I made for my friends little boy that recently celebrated his 6th birthday. His big sister is so sweet, she showed me an album where she keeps all the cards that I make for them. iIt was great fun going through it with her.
I made this card using papers from a cute 6x6 Making Memories pad and used a Nestabilites for the red panel. The little character is a Hanglar rubber stamp that I coloured with my Copics and Pro-markers. I cut the letters using a Sizzlet alphabet (night and day) and added a tiny bow and charm to the top corner
Ciao for now!
Sandra xx

Scrapology - Charms
My partner in craftimg crime - incorporate numbers
The Pixie Cottage - One for the boys
Paperplay Challenges - Show us your style
Just Magnolia & Hanglar and Stanglar - Anything goes
CES Challenges - fav colour combo

Scrapology April Scraplift

Hi folks

It has been an absolute age since my last post. I have missed sharing with you all. Lots has happened in the Dry household. My hubby ran the Brighton Marathon in under 5 hours and raised lots of dosh for charity... we're so proud of him. The very next day (first Monday of the Easter holidays) my little boy broke his arm! It felt like we were in and out of hospital for most of the holiday. Poor little fellow had to have an operation to have it manipulated. Doc's said he might be able to have his cast off next week.

Anyhow... back to crafting. I made this page for the April Scraplift on the Scrapology challenge blog. There is still time to enter. You can find the details here.

I really had fun putting this one together. I immediately thought of using the Mickey Mouse iconic shape for the bunting. When it came to the 'tickets' towards the bottom of the sketch I was completely stuck. I didn't have any dies or stamps to help me out with the shape so I thought I would go for one of the borders on my Mickey and Friends Cricut cart. I'm really pleased I did as I love how it turned out. My printer was playing up a bit when I printed the little Mickey pictures but I think the lines it add to the 'TV' effect. I flood filled the screens with glossy accents.
The flowers were from a giant pack of Petaloo flowers from QVC. I added the self adhesive pearls in the centre after I had coloured them with my Pro Markers.

And now for some good news :o) I was thrilled to be the winner of the March Scrapology Challenge. Yay! Details here if you'd like to have a peak.

If you want to grab a crafty bargain this Saturday come along to the Second Hand Craft Sale in Horley. I'm being brave and letting go of some of my crafty stash. Hubby keeps telling me that I have enough stock to open a shop (and he's not kidding there!) I just haven't got the room anymore.... some of it has to go. So don't miss out. I'm clearing out lots of things from rubber stamps to craft tools. I'm unsure whether to take my piles of craft mags... what do you think?

Hopefully see you on Sat 12-3 :o)

Ciao for now!

Sandra x