Dare U to use Ribbons!

Hi folks!

Think you may need your 'Sunnies' for this card. I decided to go for bright and colourful (which fits in nicely with the theme over on Colour Create). This weeks 'Dare' on Dare U to digi Stamp is Ribbons. I started off by just wanting to use the tiny ribbon bows (yes they are hand tied ;o) in Bonnie's hair... would have been a bit 'spot the ribbon' so I added the larger one too.

The gorgeous papers I used for this card are by Imaginisce, quite an old collection so I'm not sure if it's still widely available (I'm a bit of a hoarder) Bonnie and Daddy are available here. The scalloped card is by Craftwork cards. I cut the scalloped, funky foam frame using my Nestabilities. All the flowers are cut from one of the Imaginisce papers. I curled, inked and stacked them up using glue gel. The leaves are a Woodware punch. Bonnie and Daddy have been coloured in using Copic Markers.

My fellow DT have come up with some fabulous makes for this challenge. Do hop on over and be inspired. Hope you can join in. I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Have a great weekend...I will... 2 days of solid crafting at The Craft Extravaganza, Lingfield. Wall to wall desmonstrators and lots of crafty lovely jubbliness!!!!

Ciao for now!

Sandra x

I'll try and schedule tomorrows post as I'll be at the Barn. (Ooo that sounds so 'Escape to the Country') Blogger hasn't been playing ball lately. If it doesn't work and you want to find out who the winner of my Birthday Bash Box is see the Sketch Sat blog as Jo will have a list of winners up.

Big Beautiful Buxom Birthday Bash

Hi folks!

It's our birthday over on Sketch Saturday and to celebrate not only do we have a fabulous prize from our regular sponsors, The Craft Barn, but you have 10 extra chances to win. The fabulous DT have agreed to give away their wonderful creations made for this weeks challenge, filled with a combination of stamped images and some surprise goodies. All you need to do to win my over sized crayon box above is to create something following this weeks sketch. Then leave a direct link to your creation here in my comments. Then hop over to my fellow DT blogs and leave comments on all of their creations for more chances to win. Don't forget to add your entry to the Sketch Saturday blog too. This 'party bag candy' will be open until 8am(UK time) on Friday 5th June. You can, of course, enter the Sponsors prize draw in the usual way until midnight on Friday. I hope I haven't lost you all ;) I'm not very good at giving concise instructions.

As mentioned above I decided to make an over sized crayon box, cut using my Cricket Expression, to house my stamped images and other goodies. Primrose, one of my own designs available at The Craft Barn has been coloured using Copics. I also used my Nestabilities, Cuttlebug embossing folder, Sizzlet tag die, hand stitching and buttons from my stash mountain.

I really hope you can join in with this weeks birthday bash and I'm looking forward to visiting your blogs and seeing how you have been inspired by this sketch.

Ciao for now!

Sandra x

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Cutie Sunday and Top '5' at Cupcake Craft Challenge

Hi Folks!

Blogger is not playing ball with me today so only managed to upload one piccie of this card.  I'm sure you can imagine all the lovely layers and textures I have used.  I followed the sketch over on the Cutie Sunday challenge, it was a fun one to use.  The papers are from Cosmo Cricket.  I have used my Nestabilities, Quickutz corners and Go-Kreate Alphabet dies.  The Velvet ribbon is by American Crafts.  The image is a Hanglar stamp that I coloured with Copics and a touch of glitter for the 'Shampoo' in the glass. I used the 'off-cut' wire from the paper roses and twirled them around my pricking tool to create the coils.  I've just remembered.... the scalloped card is from Craftwork Cards.  This was a commission for one of my work colleagues.  Hope she likes it!

Ciao for now!

Sandra x

In my haste I forgot to add........ my card made the top 5 at the Cupcake Craft Challenge!!!!  I can't believe it!!  Thank you so much Donna, I'm so thrilled you liked my card.  Your sketch was a real pleasure to work with.  What an amazing week I am having ;o)

 

Sketch Saturday #51 another Hanglar Wedding

Hi folks!

It's Saturday and time for another one of Jo's fabulous sketches on Sketch Saturday.  This week we are sponsored by All That Scraps, I wish I could enter there is a smashing prize up for grabs.  Our sparkly new Guest Designer for the next two weeks is Janneke.  Janneke and the rest of the team have come up with beautiful designs to inspire you.

For my card I have used DCWV papers; my Fiskars swirly embossing folder; my Martha Stewart doily border punch; my Nestabilities to cut the circles, rectangles and scallops; my Woodware leaf branch punch; a mixture of Prima flowers and paper roses and finally my Quickutz Phoebe, skinni mini, alphabet for the monograms.  The cute wedding couple are a Hanglar & Stanglar stamp and I have coloured them with distress inks.

This card is a commission for my friend who received my previous Hanglar Anniversary card....and it has turned out curiously similar ;o)

Hope you enjoy your weekend!

Ciao for now!

Sandra x

Thank Heaven for You....

Hi folks!

Phew, what a weekend.... lots of working and driving kiddies to and from grandparents.  What would I do without m'Ma & Pa??  Hope you all had a lovely weekend and the weather didn't spoil your plans too much.

My card today is a multi-challenge card.  The Sketch is by the lovely Bev for Just Magnolia challenge,  the Saturday Challenge wants to see Flowers, Charisma Cards has a theme of 'Thank You' this week and Cute Card Thursday would like us to use something shiny for their 'Mirror, Mirror' theme.

I know I have only recently made a card with these Imagininsce papers, they were still on my desk and crying out to be used on this card.  I have also used my Nestabilities, Martha Stewart border punch and Doodlebug paper frills.  The swirl in the corner is an adhesive sheet, die cut with a Quickutz revolution die and sprinkled with glitter.  I added flower gems and leaves.  I coloured the cute Tilda Magnolia image with Copics, Koi watercolours and glitter.  The sentiment is from a Precious Moments angel set that I have.  There are lots of 'shiny' bits to this card, the glitter, the gems and the mirri card.

Hope you like it.

Ciao for now!

Sandra x

Dare U 2 Digi Stamp #5 My very 1st Sketch!

Hi folks!

Welcome to week #5 on Dare U 2 Digi Stamp!  This weeks 'Dare' is a sketch by 'moi'.  I love making cards using a sketch as my starting point but boy, they are not easy to draw.  I take my hat off to those who come up with fab sketches every week.  If you want some inspiration look no further then our talented DT.  I hope you are able to join in as I would love to come and see what you create with my sketch.

I re-sized, cropped and mirrored Chris's digi stamp of Vicky for my card.  She is coloured using Copics and distress inks. I love  how you can change your digi image  to fit your project rather than have to change your project to fit your stamp.  The pretty papers are by Imaginessence.  I have used my Nestabilities to cut the frame and the sentiment is a Bosskut die.  I finished off with some gems and ribbon. Oh, I nearly forgot to say, I cut out a tiny tiara from the patterned paper for Vicky to wear.

I was flabbergasted to see the number of comments I received for my previous card. It was a record for me :o) Thank you all so, so much.  I really appreciate each and every one of them.

Hope you have got fun things planned for Bank Holiday weekend.  I'm afraid life goes on at The Dry residence as both Adrian and I are working over the weekend.

Ciao for now!

Sandra xx

Birthday Card for Mum-in-Law

Hi folks!!

Wow this card took an age to make.  I was pushing paper around all  yesterday evening and in the end I just gave up.  Have spent most of today making it too.... my poor house is really suffering.  Am going to have to do some 'housework' soon. Mum-in-Laws birthday is tomorrow so the pressure was on to come up with something...anything.  In the tradition of Sandra Dry card making this one had got so much stuff on it it could prop up a fly-over! 

I followed quite a few challenges.  The Sketch is from Friday Sketchers,  Just Magnolia was asking for pink &  green (one of my fav colour combos) Stamptacular wants to see charms this week,and over on the Cupcake Crafts Challenge it's 5 different embellishments.  I think I've covered this one with 1. die cut flower, 2. leaf charm, 3. fibre, 4. Butterfly button and 5. circles & hoops.  Tilda & the bench are both Magnolia stamps coloured with Copics and distress inks. The Designer paper is by K& Co.  I have also used my Nestabilities, Quickutz, Bosskut and Sizzix dies to make this card.

Hope Mum-in-Law likes it :o)

Thanks for all your encouraging comments.  I haven't had much time of late to come and visit you all.... now if I could only just speed up my crafting  ;o)

Ciao for now!

Sandra xx  

Sketch Saturday #48, an Anniversary card

Hi folks!!

I love this weeks sketch over on Sketch Saturday, such a pleasure to work with. A huge thanks to Jo for giving us such great sketches to use every week. It's the last Saturday of the month and so The Craft Barn are sponsoring us. There are two stamps up for grabs. One of them is 'Huggles' which I drew for the Kadoodle range. There is lots of fabulous inspiration from the DT and also a beautiful card made by our Guest DT Diane *thanks* for being such a star Diane :o)

I made this card a little while ago as I knew I would be busy this weekend. It's the twins birthday party today and we've got 19 kids coming to their Peter Pan & Tinkerbell bouncy castle party.

Anyway, back to the card.... I love the base layer of this card, it's a DCWV embossed white card blank which I chalked. I've used my Nestabilities, Martha Stewart border punch, Prima flowers, Woodware punches, self adhesive pearls, Velvet ribbon and Go Kreate alphabet dies. The image is the gorgeous Hanglar and Stanglar wedding couple which I have coloured with distress inks.

I was asked to make this card by my friend Lee. He has already given it to his wife, and I'm thrilled to report that she loves it so much she's framing it!!

Hope you are enjoying your weekend.

Ciao for now!
Sandra xx

Introducing the Meerkats...Simples!

Hi folks!!
I've been meaning to draw these little fellas for a while now. The Meerkats are available now on my Digi Stamp blog. Hop on over to meet Meerkat Amigos, Meerkat Dancer and Meerkat Youngster. Something a little bit different that can be used for male cards too.

I followed three challenges when making this card. The sketch is another great one from Friday Sketchers. Cute Card Thursday's theme is 'family affair' they are asking for cards made for a member of the family, here I have made a card for Dad. Lastly Charisma Cardz have challenges us to use our favourite things. My favorite thing at the moment is making cards with my vary latest digi stamp releases.

The papers and tag embellishment are all K&Co. I have used my Nestabilities and WRMK compass cutter to cut the circles. All the embossing has been done on my Cuttlebug. I printed 'Love You Dad' on some ribbon using my Xyron Design Runner and cut the sentiment from funky foam using 'Amsterdam' a Go-kreate alphabet. As I have already mentioned 'Meerkat Simples!' is a digi-stamp and I have coloured him using koi watercolours. I have added glossy accents to his eyes and nose. Don't forget you can re size Digi stamps and print them out to whatever size suits your project.

I hope you like my Meerkats and look forward to reading your comments.

Ciao for now!

Sandra xx

Kadoodle blog Candy and Charisma Cardz Challenge

Hi folks!

Here's a card I made using one of my new Kadoodle designs 'let it grow'. This particular stamp is being offered as blog candy over on the Kadoodle blog. Hop on over if you would like to enter. It's open until Friday as new candy will be up again on Saturday. Good job it's not 'Sweetie' candy, our teeth would have rotted away ages ago.

I am entering this card in to the Charisma Cardz Challenge as this week the theme is 'something for the guys'. Have lost the label strip for the patterned papers, sorry, but I know they are available from The Craft Barn. I cut the rectangles and scalloped rectangles using my Nestabilities. The flowers are made using a Cuttlebug retro flower die set. They have been die cut, inked, curled glued and finished off with a self adhesive pearl. I looped some green ribbon and poked it into the dimensional glue behind the flowers. The sentiment is die cut funky foam and I have used the Go-Kreate 'London' alphabet. I coloured the image using a mixture of copics and watercolour paints. (I have to make do with this combination until I am able to buy more copics)

Ciao for now ;o)

Sandra xx

Loupy Lou Kadoodle Candy and Sketch Saturday #41

Hi folks!!

Lots to share with you today so straight down to it! Hope you like the stamped image on this card. She's my very own design, Loupy Lou and here she is 'Just Posin'. The Craft Barn have a huge 1st birthday Fest on this weekend with demonstrators galore for your inspiration. So wish I could be there but it's my long weekend at work :o( Keep reminding myself - I need to work to buy more crafting goodies - so it's not so bad. Please hop on over to the Kadoodle blog where you could be in with a chance of winning Loupy Lou as she's being offered as candy.

Also, over on Sketch Saturday it's Ria's turn to create the sketch. I'm sure you will agree with me that she has done a wonderful job. Thanks Chicken!! The Challenge is being sponsored by Funky Fairys Papercrafts, more details of the fabulous prize on the blog. Don't forget to check out all the great cards created by my fellow DT.

For this card I used papers by My Mind's Eye. For the stripy panel I used a Fiskars border punch and covered the tiny apertures with red and green coloured papers. I then filled them with glossy accents. The stamped sentiment is by Studio G. I punched, inked, shaped and layered the flowers. I used glue gel to adhere and poked in some small bits of dark green ribbon. The flowers were finished off with a self adhesive pearl. I used my Nestabilities to cut the square and scalloped square. Loupy Lou has been coloured in using my Koi watercolours except for her wings where I used art intitute glitter (flax). Just a little bit of chalk around the image to take away the white glare of card and voila! Finito!

Have a great weekend and thank you all so much for your wonderful and much appreciated comment.

Hugs
Sandra xx

New Look Blog & Bobo kickin' back

Hi Folks!!

What do you think of my New Look Blog? It as all courtesy of my fabulous friend Christine. I couldn't have done it without you...thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU!!!!

For this card I followed the sketch over on Cutie Sunday. It's a great one if you are partial to circles. I have used one of my new stamps available at The Craft Barn called Kickin Back. I wanted to create a dreamy, floaty feel hence the calm serene colour pallet. The designer paper is Cosmo Cricket. I have inked the edges with blue brilliance ink pad. I stamped and coloured the image with my Koi watercolours; cut it out with my scalloped circle Nestabilities and inked the edges with black ink. I cut a two vellum circles with Nesties, embossed them with my Cuttlebug. I adhered using wacky tack and added a little glitter glue to the velum. This did crinkle the vellum slightly but I quite like the effect. It glistens much more in real life. The sentiment is die cut using the Amsterdam Go-Kreate die adhered to a metal rimmed tag which has been threaded with ribbon. I finished off the card with white brads in the corners.

My new Digi-Download-Design blog is near completion...I'll keep you posted regards the launch!! (I'm soooo excited..... can you tell? :o)

Hugs
Sandra xx

Loupy Lou and Bobo are finally here!!

Well.... they are finally here!! Introducing Loupy Lou and Bobo you can find my little fairy and elf collection here at The Craft Barn. Hop on over and you can see the rest of my designs. While you are there check out the designs by the newest Kadoodle designer Carol Staples. Many of you will know Carol as she has been a tutor at The Craft Barn for many years. Carol had drawn 'Ma & Pa Iggly'. They are such great characters for humorous cards. I laughed until my sides hurt when she was telling me about the Iggly's so go and check them out!

For this card I followed last weeks sketch over on The Saturday Challenge. The designer papers are 'My Mind's Eye'. I cut the square and the scalloped square using my Nestabilities and the photo corners are Quicktuz. The stamp is 'Home Sweet Home' from my new collection at The Craft Barn. Here I have stamped and coloured (with my Koi watercolours) the image a few times and decoupaged some of the elements. I finished it off with a self adhesive pearl for the door knob. It's a simple card but I quite like it.
I do hope you like Loupy Lou and Bobo.
Hugs
Sandra xx

Gorjuss Girls

Hi folks!!

I know, I know.... I don't do yellow... normally, but I just love these hot and spicy shades in the K&Co Mira kit. For this card I followed the sketch on the Truly Scrumptious Challenge blog. I am also entering this card to Cute Card Thursday and Charisma Cardz Challenges as they have both set the theme of animals.

I have already mentioned the papers I used for this card. The oval and scalloped oval were cut using my Nestabilities. The flower, which is made of tiny beads and has a resplendent jewelled brad in the centre, the leaf branch and the sentiment are all K&Co embellishments. I cut the photo corners using a Quickutz die. The black ribbons and red brads are from my stash mountain. I coloured my Gorjuss Girl and kitty with Koi watercolours. I know the combination and shades of colours may not be to everyones' taste... but I think they are cute ;o)

That's all for now folks!
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

My New Kadoodle Designs Available Soon!

Introducing Loupy Lou and Bobo, my New Kadoodle rubber stamp designs that will be available exclusively at The Craft Barn. This collection will be launched on Saturday 28th February with free demos by Lexie Wilson at The Craft Barn.
This stamp is aptly named 'huggles' I thought it would be perfect for this weeks Charisma Cardz Challenge which is 'Hugs and Cuddles' and also the Cute Card Thursday Challenge of 'Signs of Spring'. I followed the wonderful sketch over on Cutie Sunday.

The designer papers are by 'My Mind's Eye'. Such gorgeous colours, I think you will agree. The circle and scalloped circle are cut using my Nestabilities. The embossing has been created using my Cuttlebug. I cut the flowers from some of the patterned paper. I added MM brads after shaping the flowers. The flourishes are Quickutz Revolution dies. All the elements are adhered using dimensional glue gel. I coloured the characters using my trusty Koi watercolours and a touch of Art institute glitter for Loupy Lou's wings. I finished off the card with a few faux pearls in the corners.
Hope you like Loupy Lou and Bobo... lots more of these stamps in the range.
Hugs
Sandra xx

A Multi Challenge Card

Hi folks!
For this card I have followed the sketch over on Friday Sketchers and incorporated the theme of 'Spring has Sprung' which can be found on The Saturday Challenge blog. I thought this little Hanglar girl would be perfect for the theme, and so the card evolved. It Also had a lot of Glitter and is quite 'blingy' so I thought it would be perfect for this weeks 'All that Glitters' challenge over on The Pink Elephant.

The papers are DCWV, from Nana's kids stack. The design had some really cute little pink ladybirds on it. The papers are glittered and quite sparkly but I couldn't catch that on the photo. I used my Nestabilities to cut the oval and scallop. I then embossed the oval with my Cuttlebug.
The flowers are Prima with some added punched flowers in the middle and finished off with a brad. The flourishes off the flowers are a Quickutz revolution die.

I coloured the little Hanglar with mixed media. For the flesh and green tones I used Promarkers, her cheeks are chalked, the pink tones are koi watercolours but I felt they looked a bit flat so I covered with translucent glitter. All except for the pink heart and the black dots to which I added glossy accents. The Key is coloured with a silver galaxy marker and I made the highlights with a white uni-ball signo pen.

I finished the card off with a Papermania butterfly (freebie from magazine) and some pink gems.

You should have seen the state of my craft table when I had all that lot out!! :oO

Have fun crafting!

Hugs

Sandra xx

Hanglar & Stanglar - Love

Hi folks!

It's been ages since this little beauty has been inked. Isn't she adorable! I followed three challenges to make this swirly girly card. The Sketch is from Ismaki, A Spoon full of Sugar is calling for 'Doodle-do's' or swirl stamps and the first challenge over on The Pink Elephant is 'Pink, Black and White' I'm sure they won't mind some flesh tones and hair colour too.

The papers are from Basic Grey Two Scoops range. I have used my Nestabilities to cut the centre rectangle and scalloped rectangle. I have also embossed the white panel using my Cuttlebug. The swirl stamp was a freebie from a magazine. I have coloured the image with my Koi watercolours and highlighted the heart with glossy accents and sprinkled some glitter on. Hopefuly on the second picture you can see that I have decoupaged her arms and heart. I tried this out having been inspired by the talented Debby. You need to hop on over to her blog, her creations are amazing. I think maybe I should have decoupaged the little Hanglar girl's face and hair, but I'm pleased how it turned out. The letters are a Quickutz alphabet and I finished off the design with some black brads.

Thanks for looking.

Hugs
Sandra xx

4 in 1 Challenges

Hi folks!

Here's a quick card that I made for my Nephew today. Have popped it in the post so I had to resist all those lovely dimensional layers I tend to use. I have followed the Friday Sketchers Sketch; Lili Of The Valley Challenge this week is, 'one for the men'; Cute Card Thursday has the thee of metallica (for this card I have used brads and Gold Mirri board) and finally the Basic Grey Challenge is 'Let's Mix It Up'.... we need to use at least 2 of the BG ranges. I have used Archaic papers and Boxer brads.

As mentioned above the papers are Basic Grey. I cut the circle using my Nestabilities and embossed it using my Cuttlebug. I used my Koi watercolours to colour the Character, who is SK8R BOY designed by the talented Evelina Wikberg. The Numbers are cardstock stickers from the BG Archaic range.

Thanks for looking!!

Hugs

Sandra xx

Friday Sketchers meets Colour Create

Hi folks!
Just a quickie from me tonight as I really need to get some shut eye. For this card I followed the sketch on Friday Sketchers and the colour requirements of Pink, Green and Brown on the new Colour Create Challenge (hence the pink and brown ladybug....artistic license?)

I'm still using up those Basic Grey papers. I've used my Nestabilities Label One dies. I had a shot at colouring with my promarkers, not too sure about the results. More practice needed methinks. I could not resist glittering her wings. Not forgetting to introduce 'Rosabella & Ladybug' another one of my Rosabella fairy designs.

That's all from me tonight folks!

Hugs

Sandra xx