Rapunzel/Princess tower birthday card

 Hello folks.  It's been really fun hopping around in blogland and catching with you.  I have especially enjoyed looking at your 'year in review' posts where you share your favourites.  So much crafty talent out there.  I thought I'd share this card I made to showcase Joanna Sheen's 'Country House' stamp set.  I used one of the small stone work stamps on the tower. 

 I cut the tower itself on my Cricut.  All of the layers were cut in white and I coloured the shades of grey with alcohol markers.  I die cut the flowers (an old 'Little Claire's' die) from red cardstock and added Martha Stewart garnet glitter. The tiny leaves are punched using my Pinflair Multi-punch.

I plaited some yellow yarn and positioned it on the card using dimensional glue gel.  The sentiment was printed out on my Xyron Design runner and I hand cut the banner shape.  Then was then shaped and adhered with more dimensional glue gel.  I added the tiny red ribbon as a finishing touch.

Ciao for now!

Sandra x

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HaPpY NeW YeAr!!!!

 Hello to everyone in blogland.  I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year!  Here's a little 4.5x4.5 inch card that I made for the Joanna Sheen Challenge.  The theme this month is 'Celebrations' and, I thought, what better celebration for January than 'Happy New Year'.  There are some fab prizes to be had this month, all the details are here.  Do hop over to check out the weekly candy too and, of course, the fabulous creations from my fellow teamies.

 I wanted to create a colourful, bright and fun card.  The backing paper is from my scrap mountain, I think it was DCWV.  I coloured the cute image with alcohol markers.  I coloured the steamers with MS glitters and the wine glasses with glossy accents.

I coloured the ribbon with alcohol markers to colour match with the design.  I finished the design by popping on some black gems to the corners.
Ciao for now!
Sandra x

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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

Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog launch Hop!!

Hiya everyone and welcome to the

Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog Hop!!!

Our blog hop is to celebrate the launch of the Brand New Joanna Sheen challenge blog!!!

If you have landed here from Jane's then you are hopping in the right direction - If not then you need to pop over to the Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog to begin.

Our DT have had a great time creating with loads of fab Joanna Sheen images for our first challenge which starts on Thursday 1^st December.

As there is a week before our first challenge starts we have decided to do a blog hop where we have some scrummy prizes up for grabs!!!

Each DT member has a fab prize of pretty ribbons to be won so there are 9 – Yes… 9 chances to win!!!

All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is become a follower of the Joanna Sheen Challenge blog here  and then leave a comment on every member of the DT’s blogs on their blog hop post.   

On 30^th November each DT member will pick a winner from their comments and announce their winner on their blog on the 1^st December when the 1^stchallenge goes live so don't forget to check back on all the blogs to see if you're one of our lucky winners.

The order of the blog hop is as follows:-

Paula

http://paulaholifieldcrafts.blogspot.com/

Suzi 

http://wwwsuzies.blogspot.com/

Wendy

http://craftblog.craftybutterfly.co.uk/

Teresa

http://craftingalldayscards.blogspot.com/

Natalie

- http://ngcards.blogspot.com/

Jane

http://thecraftbucket.blogspot.com/

Sandra

http://sandradrydesigns.blogspot.com/

Carol

http://carol-mylittlepieceofheaven.blogspot.com/

Suzanne

http://suzannelily.wordpress.com/  

From here you need to go to Carol's Blog to continue the hop!!! 

Hop, hop, hop!!!! 

Good luck!!!

Ciao for now!

Sandra x

The Official Joanna Sheen Challenge blog!!

 Hello folks!  Well here I am with another announcement..... The news is out! .... The Official Joanna Sheen Challenge blog goes live on 1st December and I'm on the design team! Yay! (ok that's enough exclamation marks for now) To celebrate the launch we will be having a blog hop during the week running up to the first challenge.  There are 9 prizes up for grabs... one with each of the DT members (super talented gals).  It will be from 24th-30th November.

 What better way to share the news than with a House Mouse card.  I made this one for Joanna's recent HM launch on Create & Craft.  The papers are by Papermania.  The image is coloured using Alcohol Markers.  I have used my Cricut  to die cut the the lattice border, the leaves, the oval and scalloped oval frame.  The flower is die cut using Tim Holtz Tattered Floral Sizzix die.  

 I used my Nestabilities to die cut the parenthesis square mats for my sentiment.

And added self adhesive pearls for the finishing touch.

I hope you'll be able to join in with lots of challenges over the coming months.  I can't wait to see what we create together.

Ciao for now!

Sandra x

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