




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
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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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.
To begin with I used some really sturdy dark card as a base. Stamped and embossed the edges with this great clear stamp, another purchase from QVC. The square panel is actually from the DCWV Once Upon A Time stack but I managed to cover all the gorgeous glittered crowns with other elements! I cut the vertical band directly from the cardstock from the stack. I used my Cricut to cut the dotty frame and adhered some faux coins. They have been in my stash for agesand I was glad to get them out. The dragon and knight are from Whiff of Joy and I coloured them with distress inks. The letters are rubs ons which also came in the DCWV kit.
I made this card for my buddy Christine Dark. Please join me in wishing her a HaPpy bIrThDaY today!!!! The papers for this card are by Imaginese. I punched a strip of vellum with my Martha Stewart punch. I think the ribbon was a freebie from a magazine. The cute Tilda is from the Spring kit. As usual I have chopped of the ladybirds antennae and replaced with curled wire ones. I coloured the image with my koi water colours. The flower and leaves are from my button box and have been adhered with dimensional glue gel. The sentiment is a Papermania sticker and I have finished the card off with some lush red self adhesive pearls. Not sure if you can see or not but I gave Tilda some eyelashes which help her to look ultra cute ;o)
Hi folks!
For this card I used Papermania designer papers from their 'Sweet Nothings' range. I added iridescent sequins to some of the dots on the patterned paper. The ribbon is by American crafts. I cut the circle and scalloped circle using my Nestabilities. I then embossed the lilac layer using my Cuttlebug and lightly inked with Crimson copper Brilliance ink. The fabric flower was a bit if a find. I was in my local Sainsbury's yesterday and they had reduced their Mother's Day lines. In amongst the chocolate and scented candles were a couple of kits to be made up as flower garlands for mum. The kit was £1.24 reduced from £4.99 and contained about 20 fabric flowers, in 4 colours, 1 yard of pink ribbon, some glitter glue, thread and a bag of sequins. Great value! (I just had to have it) I have layered the fabric flower with a felt flower cut with my Cuttlebug and finished off with a plastic pink dot (not sure what these are called) I cut the sentiment with Go-Kreate dies. The stamp, coloured in with Koi watercolours, is one of my own designs available at The Craft Barn. 'Huggles' is also being offered as Blog Candy on the Kadoodle blog this week.
For this card I printed out some background sheets onto linen card from my new Crafter's Companion Flower Fairies Friends CD rom. The final square panel is Vellum as I didn't want to loose all the beautiful detail from the card underneath. The large swirl under Rosabella is a We R Memory Keepers adhesive rub on that I covered in glitter (it's much more sparkly in real life) The leaf tags and tiny dragonflies and butterfly are Quickutz and I have cut them in Vellum. I added some glittery dewdrops to their tiny bodies and some rub on sentiments to the tags. One says 'loving' and the other 'butterfly kisses'. Rosabella Wish is one of my Digi Stamps available here. I have coloured her using Copics, Koi watercolours and glitter.
I am honoured to receive this award from the talented Ruby over on Ruby 2 Shoes. (Thanks Ruby!!) and would like to pass it on to... All My Followers!!!! So if you are one of my fabulous followers then grab this award, and thank you dearly for all your support and comments.
There is new Candy up for grabs over on the Kadoodle blog. This week it's one of Carol Staple's designs... 'Pa Iggly'. Curious? then hop over and have a look.
The Design Team call for Dare U 2 Digi Stamp is open until 24th March. Details on how to enter are here.
So sorry for the looooong post. Had lots to share with you today :o)
Ciao for now!
Sandra xx
Hi folks!
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!
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Woweeee! What a fabulous response to last weeks Sketch Saturday Challenge. Thank you all so much for joining in. This week is being sponsored by Pollycraft Designs and Paula is offering two fabulous stamps from the new 'Sharing Sherbet' collection. These images are really fun check them out. Also don't forget to view the stunning creations from my fellow DT... they are all great!
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My fun card has been made with DCWV papers and card. I think the eyelets came with my Big Bite. I used the Cuttlebug to emboss the circle layer and my Nestabilities to cut out the circles and scallop circles. I coloured in Primrose (from the Kadoodle range) using Derwent coloursoft pencils for her skin (didn't come out too well in the photos... I think my photography is getting worse not better... help!) I used a mixture of twinkling H2O's and cosmic shimmer watercolours for here attire and I finished off with cream pearlidoodles for the ice-cream.
Howdy folks!! Hope you're all keeping warm wherever you are... it's freezing here! This is my card for this weeks Sketch Saturday Challenge which is another one of Jo's fabulous sketches. This week has been sponsored by Pink Gem Designs. If you love 'cute' images as much as I do then hop on over to her site and meet the family! If you are quick you can enter for the fabulous candy that's up for grabs at PGD... the draw is tomorrow!
My card is quite simple. I had my big brother in mind when I made it as it's his birthday later on in the month, so no glitter or frills on this one. The papers are American Traditional Designs, The background image is from Alota Stamps. For the sentiment I used my Xyron Design Runner and the stars are brads. I embossed the bottom Green panel with fiskars texture plate 'fabric'. Cowboy Dan is one of my own designs that I drew for the Kadoodle range sold exclusively at The Craft Barn. I'm still playing with my Koi watercolours and that's what I used to add colour to the stamped images.Hi folks!
Christmas is nearly here... I'm so excited (am just a big kid really) and I would like to wish you all a wonderful Christmas and new year.
Jo has provided another stunning sketch this week over on Sketch Saturday and my fellow DT have come up trumps again with some gorgeous and varied creations.
For my card I turned the sketch. I have used K&Co papers and American craft ribbons. I embossed the uppermost panel using my Cuttlebug and embossing folder. The image is Hanglar & Stanglar and I have coloured her using my Prismas, Sansodor and paper stumps. I like lots of dimension on my cards and have used glue gel to adhere the layers and image.
Again I wish you all a magical Christmas and New Year.
Have fun and take care of each other.
Hugs
Sandra xx