New Year, new challenge and new blog.

Happy New Year!! How quickly did the Festive period pass? Hope you all had a great time.  Now it's time to get back to some kind of normality, and my first make of the year is for the new Sarah Hurley 365 Blog. This new blog will showcase some of the amazing creations that the fabulous DT come up with using Sarah's fabulous range of products.

The first Challenge on the blog is "Thank You", and I opted to make a card using some of the stamps from my October "A Few of my Favourite Things" Kit, and the sentiment from the Sentiments Stamps. I used different colours of ink pads to make it nice and bright and popped some tiny gems onto the flowers.

Ingredients

Sentiments Stamps

Flower and leave stamps - A Few of My Favourite Things Kit

Lime Zest Promarker

Memento Ink Pads

Gems and paper from stash.

I hope you can join in with us this month, and enjoy having a browse around the new Sarah Hurley 365 Blog.

Launch day for the "All Crafts Challenge Blog"

Hi there, today is a very exciting day for my lovely friend Elaine as she relaunches her fab All Crafts Challenge Blog. I am honoured to have been asked to be part of it, and exicited about the blog hop.  You should have arrived here from the lovely Natalies blog.  There are lots of prizes up for grabs too from Stix2, Sassy Designs, Sarah Hurley and Crafty Ribbons.

The first challenge is sponsored by Sarah Hurley , the theme is " Anything but a card" and I have made a tag using some of Sarah's lovely range. I decided on the "Perfect Day" theme, as it will be for Elaine's Launch :)  I used a paper from the versatile Kissing Booth Digi Kit and made it into a hot air balloon, and stamped a cloud with the beautiful "Perfect Day" stamp from Aprils A Few of My Favourite Things Kit to finish off the theme.

Ingredients

Red Arrow paper - Kissing Booth Digi Kit by Sarah Hurley

"Perfect Day" cloud stamps - A Few of My Favourite Things April Kit by Sarah Hurley

Memory Box and Sizzix Dies

Memento ink

Ribbon and card from stash.

I hope you like it and are enjoying the blog hop, your next stop is the lovely Nicole. Thanks for popping by *waves*

I would like to enter the following challenges;

My Time To Craft - Bookmarks

Stampin With Dragon - Tags

Gold ahhh, always believe in your soul!

Can you guess what the theme is over at the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog? It is "All That Glitters is Gold", as if we need an excuse to look out our glitter and sparklies :D 

I decided to go for a clean and simple card, with LOTS of gold glitter. I used the jar stamp from the Odds & Ends Stamp Set, it is so versatile, and I love how you can colour it, fill it with stickles, die cuts and I could go on and on. I stamped out 4 jars onto some white card, and cut one out and popped it on top of the middle one to give the card some dimension.  I decided to use gold Stickles to fill the jar, if I had used loose my cat would have looked like the Cat of a Different Colour ;)  

To make the sentiment I used the "Fan'Tashe'Tic" stamp from the March "A Few of My Favourite Things" Kit. I used some gold ink for the Tashe, and black ink for the sentiment to make it a wee bit different.

I added some more gold by using mirri card for my layers.

Ingredients

Jar Stamp - Odds & Ends Stamp Set

Sentiment - A Few of My Favourite Things Kit

Gold Stickles

Gold Brilliance Ink

Black Memento

Promarkers

White & Gold card.

I hope you can join us over at the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog with your gold creation.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges;

Happy Campers - Use Metal

Crafting by Designs - Anything Goes

Nutcrafters - Monochrome

Stampin Chef - Metal

Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Get Inky! - Glitter

Stamps & Fun=Creativity - Clean & Simple

Amusing Challenges - Anything Goes

Lots of firsts in the craftroom for me.

And this time it is a scrapbook page!!! Pick yourself back up, I know it's a shock, but I HAD to when I started receiving the A Few of My Favourite Things Kits from Sarah Hurley. They are packed full of strokeable papers, embellishments, journalling cards and stamps. They really make you want to scrapbook and that is something I NEVER thought I would say!!!

I used the first kit;

And made this layout;

It was great to look through our old pictures and give them a new lease of life instead of them being on a laptop or in a drawer unloved.

I can safely say I am a convert to scrapbooking, and have made a digi page which I will share soon.

Why not pop over to Sarah's website and have a look through her fabulous range of goodies with something for everyone, whether you are a scrapbooker, a stamper or a journal lover.

Shades of blue.

Is the theme over at the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog this month, and I am always amazed at how many different creations we come up with for a theme, but especially when it is a monochrome one. 

I chose to make a card using different blue papers, and made my theme the sky.  I took the gingham paper from Oz, and made it my base layer. Used some gorgeous polka dot papers from Secret Rose Garden and die cut them to be wee hot air balloons, this is one of my favourite dies as it makes me think of floating away to Oz. My sentiment "Enjoy the Journey" comes from the Expedition kit.  I also managed to play with this months A Few of My Favourite Things Kit, which is full of gorgeous cloudy papers, bright coloured papers, journalling cards and stamps. I used one of the stamps on my cloud die cut, and I love the result.

Ingredients

Gingham paper - Oz

Polka dot paper - Secret Rose Garden

Enjoy the Journey sentiment - Expedition

Perfect Day Stamp - A Few Of My Favourite Things Kit

Hot air balloon and cloud dies.

Blue pearlised card, white card and card base from stash

Baskets on hot air balloon coloured with a flexmarker.

We also have lots of exciting creations in the third edition of Lookbook, why not have a browse?

I really hope you can join us this month, and don't be blue about it if you can't :)

I would also like to enter the following challenges;
As You Like It - Dies 
Southern Girls Challenge - Say that again
Crafting For All Seasons - Monochromatic
Stampavie and More - Lots of Die Cuts
Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments - The Letter B(Balloons & Blue)
Die Cuttin Divas - Anything Goes
Love to Create - Dies
Glitter N Sparkle - White & One other colour.

Moustache you a question?

Are you as crazy about the moustache trend as I am? I adore them and can't get enough of them.  You can imagine how delighted I was when Sarah Hurley added moustache stamps to the range.  Last months "A Few of my Favourite Things" kit was simply fan"tash"tic :D, it was packed full of moustache papers, embellishments and this fab sentiment and a moustache stamp. I also have the Odds & Ends Stamp Set which is choc full of yummy stamps.  I decided to make my own backing paper using the 'tash stamp and popped the sentiment onto some 1mm foam to give the card dimension.

Ingredients

Moustache Stamp - Sarah Hurley, Odds & Ends Stamp Set

Moustache Stamp & Sentiment - Sarah Hurley, A Few of My Favourite Things Kit

Memento Ink and pen

Silver paper from The Papeterie.

This week is a very exciting week for us all, as the third edition of LookBook goes live and it will be full of inspiration to get you making beautiful things using Sarahs amazing ranges.