Gorjuss Girlies

Hi folks!!  

Have finally got round to inking up these Gorjuss Girlies.  Tried to keep things simple on this card.  Followed the sketch from Mojo Monday. Colour Create wants us to use Blue & Green, The Pink Elephant has challenged us to use the same combo with the addition of white.  The theme over on A Spoon Full of Sugar is buttons.  You may need a magnifying glass for mine but I have added a tiny one to the sentiment (lost about half a dozen in the process!)   

The paper and sentiment are from K& Co, the punch is a Martha Stewart border punch and I have used a combination of Koi Water colours and Copic markers to colour the Gorjuss Girls. It's much more sparkly in real life with the blue foiling on the backing paper and the touch of glitter on each girl.

Please take a mo to scroll down and see my newly released 'Holy Communion Boy & Girl' digi stamps. Thank you!

Ciao for now ;o)

Sandra x

Sandra Dry Digi Stamps is now Open!!

Hi folks!!

The fairies have finally landed. Sandra Dry Digi Stamps is now officially open!! Hop on over to see the Rosabella Fairy collection. I hope some of them will flitter and flutter their way by magical digi dust to your house.

For this card I followed a few challenges. The sketch over on Mojo Monday is another cute one which was fun to follow. Cupcake Craft Challenges has the theme of Spring this week. A little fairy with fresh flowers in her hair remind me of Springtime. The Cuttlebug Spot is challenging us to use embossed Serendipity's (see their blog for a tutorial). I have embossed my Serendipity panel, alas my photography skills are not advanced enough to pick it up for you. It's a pretty simple card. Lots of layers adhered with glue gel to add dimension. The papers are K&Co. The sentiment, from Crafters Companion has been cut with deckle edge scissors, matted and cut again. Then I shaped it to produce quite deep undulations and adhered with dimensional glue gel. Rosabella Sitting, has been coloured in using promarkers and glitters. I also highlighted the embossing by painting with cosmic shimmer Aurora Sparkle glitter paint. I finished of with a knotted ribbon.
That's all for now
Hugs
Sandra xx

Multi Challenge Card featuring Tara and more Awards!

Hi folks!!

I made this card following quite a few challenges. The First being the great sketch over on Mojo Monday. This weeks Cuttlebug Spot Challenge is to use Bows. Papertake weekly has set a challenge to use Orange, Pink and Brown. The Pink Elephant challenge blog is asking for Ribbons and die cuts and A Spoon full of Sugar is looking out for torn edges.

For this card I used DCWV designer papers, (one of them had all different words for 'Mother' on it) I thought it would make a nice Mother's day card. I die cut the corner flourishes with my Cuttlebug. I think the ribbon came free with a magazine. It's been in my stash mountain for a long time. All the layers are adhered with dimensional glue gel. The beautiful image is one of Chris' new release Digital Stamps. If you haven't used a digi-download before why not consider having a go for one of these challenges. They are easy to use. You can download them instantly (no more waiting for the postie) and one of the greatest advantages is that you can re size them to fit with your project. I coloured the beautiful Tara with koi watercolours and rubbed some 'fruit punch' stickles over the flower petals. I think you can just about see in the close up that I have used glossy accents on her eyes to make the most of her wonderful features. I finished off the card with some self adhesive pearls.

Awards!

I have been chosen by fellow Sketch Saturday DT member Ria for the above two awards, thank you so much!, and would like to pass them on to:

Phree over on Ink Stain Survivor

Brandi over on Barely banana days

Dawn over on Crafty Ramblings

Lyn over on MickysMate

Poupette over on Le Blog de Poupetteval

Pinky over on Pinky's World

Alison over on Ali's Stamping Heaven

Desire over on Doing Life

Tara over on Happily Ever Crafting

Tara over on Inking on the Edge.

We are so lucky to have so many talented ladies blogging and sharing their ideas. You are such an inspiration to me. Keep up the good work.
Hugs
Sandra xx

Mojo Monday meets Colour Create

Hi folks!

Here is my crafty offering for tonight. Two challenges have been covered by this card. I followed the fab sketch on the Mojo Monday Challenge blog and the colour combination over on Colour Create. Pink and grey are the flavour of the week with the option of cute and cuddly. Well I don't think you can get much cuter than this teddy with his armful of flowers.

The designer papers are DCWV and the pink cardstock is co-ordinations. I adhered a contrasting white strip of paper behind the pink panel under the bear; stamped the grey swirls on; folded it back and held it securely with the five little grey brads. The square and scalloped layer are die cut with my Nestabilities. I used my Cuttlebug to emboss. I coloured the teddy with my Prismacolour pencils, Sanasodor and paper stumps. The flowers I painted with my twinkling H2O's and cosmic shimmers. Not sure if you can see or not but I did some feather cutting with a pair of sharp scissors all the way round the furry edges of the teddy.

Must get some sleep now, my twins were up at 5:30 this morning (technically yesterday) if they do the same today... I've only got a few hours sleepy time before they get up. Eeeek!

Nite folks!

Hugs
Sandra xx

Introducing Rosabella flower

Hi folks!
Has anyone seen my mojo anywhere? This card and gift tag took an absolute age to make last night and I'm still not happy with them. I think it's the colours.... let me know that you think.
To make the card I followed the sketch over on Mojo Monday, loved the sketch as soon as I saw it. May have to use it on another project to do it justice. Paper take weekly has the challenge of 'a matching set' so I made the gift tag to go with this one.


For these projects I have used K&Co and DCWV papers. The sentiment is an epoxy sticker from K&Co (I have tonnes of these to use up). The shapes were all cut using my Nestabilities and embossed with my Cuttlebug. The image is another one of my Rosabella designs which I'm hoping to launch as a digital download range soon. She has been coloured using a mixture of promarkers, koi watercolours and good old glitter... a fairy can never have enough glitter! The projects have been finished off with some gems.
Take care
Hugs
Sandra xx