Hanglar 'Congratulations' card

 Hello folks!!  I am so sorry that I haven't been around much lately.  The festive season is keeping me on my toes this year.  I'm hoping to be able to catch up with you all later on this month. 

 I made this card for the December Scrapology card challenge which this month is all about 'leaves'.  I dug out my favourite Hanglar and Stanglar stamp and coloured it with alcohol markers.  The background paper started off life as a sheet of Brenda Pinnick paper.  I stamped over it with the large swirly flower and painted with Mica paints.  I then scrunched it up, flattened it out and spritzed it with pearl and silver Mica sprays.  More scrunching and spritzing on the purple layer too.

 I added the sheer patterned ribbon, Prima velvety leaves and clear beads.  I just love the gorgeous texture the Prima leaves bring to the design which contrasts beautifully with the clean shiny beads.  I die cut the letters from gold mirri paper using my Go-Kreate alphabet dies.  I added glitter to the characters wings and the flowers for a finishing touch.

 The prize for this months card challenge is a fabulous Kaisercraft set from the Cockadoodledoo range.  Hop on over to find out all the details and be inspired by the gorgeous cards created by my fellow DT.  I hope you can join in with the fun.

Ciao for now!

Sandra x

Corrosive Challenge - Anything except Christmas

Sparkles forum Challenges - Anything but a Christmas card

The Crafty Pad - Anything but Christmas

Frosted Designs - Ribbons

Scrapology Dec Layout Challenge - 'F is for Filters'

 Hello folks!!  Ooo I can tell it's December.  I look forward to 'The Season to be jolly' all year and when it arrives I remember how busy I always am.  Anyhow, back to the challenge over on the Scrapology blog.  This month we have gleaned our inspiration from a beautiful layout by Pamela Young.  Our additional challenge is to use filter paper.  Please hop on over to Scrapology to find out  more details about the challenge; see the wonderful pages created by my fellow teamies and drool over the fabulous prize that is up for grabs (Echo Park Merry Christmas Collection kit and cardstock) kindly donated by Jilly from Cardinal Colours.

 I had loads of fun creating this page.  Isabelle was so little.  I'm really pleased I was able to create a page with these photos as I adore them.  The patterned paper is by My Minds Eye.  I cut the the branches, leaves and little birds using my cricut.  I tend to cut on white card and colour the pieces, before shaping and adhering.

 I didn't have any filter paper to hand so I used tissue paper instead to make the leaves.  I inked them, spritzed them with Mica Mists and cut them into leaf shapes.  The large fabric flowers were from a 'mother's day garland making kit' which I found in the clearance section in Sainsbury's a few years ago.  In the centre's  I popped some Prima flowers. 

 I cut the large scallop shape with my Cricut from Core-dinations cardstock, scrunched it up and sanded it back a little.  I also cut the baby bottle on the Cricut too and added some cardstock stickers.

I used self adhesive gems for the birds eyes an a white gel pen to add the year to the branch.  Voila! my first Dt layout for Scrapology :o)
Ciao for now!
Sandra x

Winner!! and Challenge No.1

 Hello folks!  Well, it's finally here.... the first challenge over on the official Joanna Sheen challenge blog.  A nice and easy one to kick us off 'Christmas Wishes'.  My fellow team mates have made delightful creations to inspire you with the challenge and Joanna has given a £30 winners prize voucher for the online shop.  A great prize I'm sure you will agree.  I hope you are able to join us.  All the details are on the challenge blog , if I've missed anything.  I decided to make a scrapbook page of my twins on the run up to Christmas in 2008.

 I really enjoyed making this page.  The patterned paper, chipboard candy canes and sweetie are DCWV.  I created my own doeflex (sp?) snowflake template with my gypsy and cricut machine.  Through it I scraped Artists Spackle (similar to embossing paste), removed the template and covered with glitter.  I rounded the corners of the photos and the mats and added some coarse Martha Stewart crystal glitter to the edges (see above)  The small snowflakes, again are created with the Cricut, I inked them and glittered the shadow layer.  I cut the letters with a Spellbinders Alphabet set from red funky foam.  I printed the large Father Christmas pic from the Giordano Christmas CDrom, matted and layered using my Nestabilities.  This layout is so sparkly and glittery in real life.... I'm sorry I didn't manage to catch that on my photos.

Now for the important news of the Blog Hop winner................  My winner, chosen at random is:

Jan

and here is what she had to say..........

Excellent blog hop good luck with the new blog xx Jan

Congratulations Jan!  Please leave me your email in my comments box and I can organise your prize.  You have 7 days to claim at which point we will do the draw again.

Looking forward to seeing your Christmas Wishes.

Ciao for now!

Sandra x