Charmed I'm sure!

Good morning blogworld!

Well wasn't that an exciting week over at the Divas 1st birthday / anniversary celebration blog hop!  I've never had so many comments on a post!  I'm also so pleased that some of you lovely people liked what you saw so much that you've decided to stay to listen to my inane waffle and look at my OK-ish cards for yourselves!

Thanks ever so much for stopping and a very warm welcome to you. I'll say again that I'm always astounded when I get new followers and I really do hope that you see something you like in my averagey cards.

So, just as with life, the excitement of a birthday is over and ordinary life goes on - and here we are again with a new challenge at Divas by Design.  This time we'd like you to use a charm or charms somewhere on your entry.

Now for this week's exciting news - we are sponsored by the brilliant artist Krista Smith who is the person behind the gorgeous images at:

I have to confess to having just  a couple (or more!) of Krista's images - altho (due to the stash diet) nothing from her newest releases, but enough that I had a difficult time to pick which one I'd use!  What swung it for me was the charm that I decided to use.

And, without further ado - here is my little creation:
Front shot:

Detail shot of image:

I used:

Saturated Canary digi - 'cell'; coloured with my Promarkers and die-cut out with a Go-Kreate die.  As pretty much normal for me I chalked the image while still in the die for definition.

Touch of Stickles glitter on the fringe on the handbag

Papers: Basic Grey - sultry 

Flourish: Cheery Lyn die - Fanciful Flourish (yes I know, again!)

Flowers - Prima

Pin - I made it!!!

Ribbon, charm, gems - from my stuff

Craftwork cards - card blank

I do hope you will pop over and have a peek at the wonderful creations my Teamies have made and give the challenge a go.  As always, am really looking forward to seeing all the charming (couldn't resist it!) entries I know there will be this week!

See you soon,
Sarah

A challenge, or two:

Tuesday Throwdown: #93 - Stick pins

Twisted Tuesday Challenge: I never promised you a rose garden - flowers but not roses

Use it Tuesday: Challenge 29 - Anything goes - everything is from my stash (apart from the beads in the pin - they are new) but the paper and flowers would be the oldest.  Hmmmm, a year or more?!