Sandra Dry Designs: January 2011

Monday, 31 January 2011

Enchanted Forest Mini Book

Hi folks! Boy have I missed blogging. Hope you are all well and that January has been a great start to the year for you. Here is a mini book of my daughter Isabelle that I made to showcase my Enchanted Forest stamp designs which are available on the Joanna Sheen website (here)

The front cover features the main fairy image from the 'magical day' set. I stamped, watercoloured and cut her out. I then inked her up with Stazon, layered on some crystal aurora fusible film and heated the film with a hot iron. The film is then a pleasure to cut through and adhere to my fairy.

Here is another shot of the fairy. Hopefully I have captured the beautiful sheen of the fusible film. I used my scalloped oval Nestabilities to die cut the frame. I added some prima flowers enhanced with flat back gems. All the elements were layered onto some ribbed Kraft card.

Here are the first two pages. Again I used the same fairy but this time she has just been watercoloured. The ladybird and sentiment are also from the 'magical Day' stamp set. The library card holder and tag are Sizzix dies. The beautiful pink backing paper that I have used throughout this project is printed from the Josephine Wall 'Enchanted Dreams' CD rom.

The fairy and sentiment are from the 'Enchanted' stamp set. I have also added a tiny butterfly which I made using a Martha Stewart punch.

I used the smaller fairy from the 'Enchanted' stamp set on this page. I finished the centre of the flowers off with liquid pearls.

Quite a minimal page here, with just the photo, a sentiment and the little character from the 'Magical Day' stamp set.

And finally the last page where I used the main fairy image from the 'funtime' stamp set. I punched and bound the mini book together using my Cinch and added ribbons to the spine.

I've got lots of designs photographed and ready to share with you.... just hoping I'll have more time in February to blog.

Take care all.

Ciao for now!

Sandra x

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Tuesday, 4 January 2011

Enchanted Forest Party Bag

Hello everybody peeps! Here's a little fairy party bag I made using my little fairy from the 'Enchanted' stamp set and the, oh so versatile, flower from the 'Magical Day' set.

I cut the bag shape using my Cricut and stamped the reverse with the flower stamp (I hope you can see that from the piccy above) I had fun adding some colour to my flowers using promarkers and a sakura sparkle pen. I cut a scalloped circle with my Nestabilities and embossed it with my Cuttlebug. On top of that I popped my fairy. The letters are die cut from funky foam. The flowers are (from the Magical Day set) stamped onto pearlescent card, cut out and shaped with a large embossing stylus. I added a few wire spirals and a large ribbon bow to finish it off. If I do make these for my daughters birthday I'll personalize the party bags for her fairy guests. I would love to host a fairy party for Isabelle but I would find it a challenge as twin brother Ben would not be amused. The nearest we've managed so far is a Peter Pan and Tinkerbell party. Hmmm best get my thinking cap on.

Ciao for now!

Sandra x

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Monday, 3 January 2011

HaPpY nEw YeAr!!!!!

Hello dear blogging friends and Happy New Year!! I hope you all had great time 'seeing in' the new year. Mine was a quiet one. Children in bed. Hubby was working but managed to get home
10 minutes to midnight. It was lovely.
I thought it would be a good time to look over my creations from 2010 and share some of my favourites. (click on the month if you would like to go to the original posts)