Crafty Muse Sketch and Recipie

It's Crafty Muse Fortnight Friday today and that means another challenge for you. We have a sketch combined with a recipie, so nip over there to see what they are.

I've used the sketch on top of a box I've made. The image is one of the new 'sisters and friends' download collections available later today.

Allsorts #6, Papertake Weekly, My Time To Craft #66 and Sketch Saturday #56

1 card, 4 challenges.

Lou and Karen have put together two amazing new collections for us. Pixie Chicks 1 and 2. The images are so sweet, that it's so difficult choosing which to buy. I'd advise you to give up trying to decide and go for them both. You get pixies, backgrounds, sentiments and a card template in each set. The pixies and backgrounds come in black & white outlines and coloured. As always, I went for the GIF option so that I could print them onto anything I chose and also to layer them onto each other.

I've printed some images onto watercolour paper and made these 2 cards today. The first one is using Daisy 3 and Swing (both pre-coloured) which I layered before printing. This one is for the 4 challenges. The saying (life is beautiful) is a sticker which I've matted onto some scrap watercolour paper.

Allsorts ~ #6, Wings ~ Yep, Daisy 3 has wings

Papertake Weekly ~ delightful downloads ~ Both my cards have downloads on, but this is the one I'm entering into the challenge.

My Time To Craft ~ #66 In the garden ~ Daisy is on a tree swing - in the garden of course!

Sketch Saturday ~ sketch #56

Card 2 uses Water Lily and the Flower Frame pre-coloured images. I've drawn round a CD to get a circle before cutting the folded card. Lou I think gave us a tip a while back and said to cut off a small piece at the back to give a flat surface so that the card will stand. Thanks for that. The saying (wonderful) is another sticker that I've matted onto some scrap watercolour card. I've stuck the frame flat and added Water Lily using foam pads, then I've stuck gems to the frame and put some diamond stickles in the centre of the yellow flower.

Don't forget to check out Dottie's World for more ideas plus hints and tips.

Thanks for looking,

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Crafty Muse's Sketch Challenge

We have a sketch challenge for you at Crafty Muse this fortnight. If you enter the challenge, your name will be in a draw for a new, yet-to-be-seen, download collection. Use one of the many Crafty Muse downloads for your entry and you will be entered twice. How fab is that?

Here's what I've done with it. Papers and sentiment were magazine freebies last summer. The image is Angelique sitting which I've printed onto photo paper and I've added some turqouise Stickles to her dress and wings. I've edged everything with my new Colorbox Fluid Chalk Inkpad

Thanks for looking,

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Go Mikey!!

Lou's digital downloads are always worth waiting for and the latest collection (MIKEY) is no exception. Have a look here and then hop over to Charmed to get yours. You can see cards made using them at Dottie's World.

The best things about them for me are that:
1) there's no waiting for them to arrive in the post
2) you can re-size them to your needs
3) you have a choice of choosing them with a white background or transparent
4) they don't cost much
5) they'll make teen boys and young men's cards so much easier to make

Have I convinced you to get them yet? I have? You won't regret it. Just in case you need any more convincing though, here's a picture of the pre-coloured ones you get along with the black & white images for you to colour as you wish.


Thanks for looking
Take care, love and hugs
Sarah C xoxoxo

New Downloads

I'm a little late with the sketch challenge, but here's my take on last week's Papertake Weekly sketch using a download from the new Holly & Madison collection which I've watercoloured using watercolour paints.

Thanks for looking
Take care, love and hugs
Sarah C xoxo

WOWeee Lou

Hop on over to Dottie's World to see what Lou's latest dowload collection is. It's just simply an amazing work of art. It's totally Back to Front. Go on then, what are you waiting for?

1st Design Team Submission

I'm guessing that by now you are aware that I'm on the design team for Crafty Muse. Their challenge this week is to create something using the colour purple. This was so hard for me considering purple's my favourite colour!!! LOL

So, what did I do?

Using images from Crafty Muse, I made this card with Millie Rose Dots which I watercoloured using my bush markers. I covered some card in purple star paper and tied some ribbon on the left. I stuck Angelique and the sentiment (made using WordArt) before adding some diamond Stickles to Angelique, the sentiment, the ribbon and the stars.

I thought this card might make a perfect invitation for a little girl's party.

My second offering is this using sitting down Angelique.

Here's how I made it:

I took a piece of mountboard and cut it large enough to fit a notepad, pen and clip onto. I covered it in the same star paper as the card and inked the edges. I mixed blue, red and white acrylic paint to get the right shade and covered the front of the notebook. Sitting down Angelique was printed onto SafMat and put on the bottom then the notepad was stuck using wet glue. I punched holes in the mountboard using my crop-a-dile to thread ribbon through to add detail to the pad, to hold the pen and to be able hang it all up. The clip at the bottom is stuck using hot glue and can hold vouchers, extra notes and more. This could also have magnets stuck on the back (instead of the ribbon) for putting on a fridge and using as a shopping list/voucher centre.

Thanks for looking.

Take care,
Love and hugs