Just a quick one today as I’m just dashing off for a long weekend but just wanted to share this project from Sandrine. Isn’t it fabulous?  I am particularly impressed with Sandrine’s bargain hunting skills – what a fab find the unit is

Oh, and make sure you pop back next week for a chance to win in our fabulous blog candy giveaway!

Happy crafting

Jane

It’s a very special day here on the Craftie-Charlie blog as we welcome our very first Guest Designer – so a big HELLO to Sandrine!

I adore Sandrine’s beautiful work and was delighted when she agreed to come along and be our guest designer – she’s created a collection of fabulous projects using the Cosmo Cricket Material Girl range, which we’ll be sharing during this week – get ready to be inspired!

Here’s a little taster of the treats in store and some info about Sandrine

“My name is Sandrine, I’ll be 36 years old on the 29th of April! I’m married and mother of two amazing kids: Louis who’s five and half years old and Charlotte who’s two and half years old ! They are my everyday inspiration and I’m also a half part time worker in “Kids’s Paradise” in Ikea Belgium.

And the rest of time I’m a crazy crafter! I’m mad about papers, glue, inks, ribbons, stamps, fabrics, felts, embellishments,….. (I could write an encyclopaedia with all the things I LOVE!) I love to use products to create lovely and full of colors objects and love to play with textures and try new techniques! My favourite is to learn and try I also adore to use fabric inks and lovely scrapbooking stamps to create new patterns on fabrics or ribbons: it’s like giving a second life to scrapbooking stuff! Not only for making pretty albums or journals or layouts or cards, you can also use all of these scrapbooking items for another use, creating, decorating, altering objects. I’m not afraid to try new things, new styles and others unknown things because for me it’s always a pleasure and kind of challenge. I don’t “treat” myself as a scrapbooker (even if I do “scrapbooking”) maybe I could say I’m a mixed media girl or simply a crafter !

I’ve been published several times in Belgian magazines (craft magazines & womens magazines), have been guest designer member of some european & american companies, and also designer for a famous Belgian company (Artemio & their online shop Diane Hobby)”

And without further ado, here’s Sandrine’s first project – a totally adorable altered folder:

Some tips and directions!

Supplies used: Cosmo Cricket Material Girl Papercrafting Kit, Cosmo Cricket Material Girl Ready Set Chip, Cosmo Cricket Ready Set Chip Alphas – High Noon

Happy crafting

Jane

I’ve had this clipboard for ages – it was a make-and-take at a weekend we went too and I’d never found a use for it (it was pretty as decorated but not very practical).   I receive about 10 letters a week from my son’s school (okay, maybe not quite that many, but a lot!) most of which I manage to mislay so I thought I’d recycle the clipboard to keep them all organised.

I’ve got a pocket at the bottom and a piece of acetate (with buttons on!) to go on top of my ‘clipped’ letters  so I can write little reminders and rub out when done ) I’ve used the fab DCWV Grade School cardstock stack – perfect for school themed projects

Apologies for the picture – we actually have a sunny day (hurrah!) here in Sheffield but I’m out of practice of taking pic in the sun so it’s not come out well…

Supplies used:   Recycled clipboard, DCWV Grade School Stack, Basic Grey Cupcake buttons, yellow grosgrain ribbon from a swap with my sister, acetate sheet.

Happy crafting

Jane