10 Minute Makes - Congratulations Card

Hi, it's my turn over on the Sarah Hurley 365 Blog and I am sharing a "10 Minute Make" Congratulations card.  

Full details are over on the Blog.

Light nights and summer brights.

I'm a bit late with my blog post for  my Sarah Hurley 365 Challenge make, and this time the theme is Summer Brights. It is such a lovely cheery post to look through with my awesome teamies making super cheery bright projects, perfect on a grey rainy day like today!

I decided to finally dabble in Project Life, which is quite a big step for me as I have only made a few Scrapbook Lay Outs. 

I subscribe to Sarah's A Few of My Favourite Things Kit and after re-organising them I discovered so many pretty things I had totally forgotten about. How shameful is that?  I love how all the kits work well together and with other goodies in Sarah's Shop like this awesome Moustache Washi Tape! I chose to do the month of January, rather than trying to do one week, I looked through my piccies on my mobile and printed out 4 of my favourite. I then had great fun picking out papers, stamps, embellies and colours to work with. I added some dimension by layer sentiments and shapes on with 3D Foam. Here are the results.

Ingredients

Papers, Journalling Cards, Stamps - A Few of My Favourite Things Kit

Moustache Washi Tape

Sequins, plain papers, punches, dies from stash.

I hope you like my PL page and will join in with the Summer Brights Challenge this month.

I would like to enter the following challenges;

Craftitude - Pop It Up

Get Inky-  - Summer Crafty

Jo's Scrap Shack - Anything Goes

Time Out Challenges - Summer

Anything Goes at Sarah Hurley 365

Hello, I'm running a day behind with my blog post, but yesterday over at the Sarah Hurley 365 Blog a new challenge was launched with the theme of "Anything Goes" This theme always excites me as there is no limit to using your imagination, and you can see that from my lovely teamies creations.

I decided to use my Cameo again and some of Sarah's Files from the Silhouette store to jazz up my boring old brown leather filofax. I used the Personal Organiser Set and the Days of the Week Tabs to make two sets of page dividers. 

I used papers from  A Few of My Favourite Things kit, and cut out the organisers, then took the untabbed file and merged the Days of the Week Tabs to make daily dividers. I popped some navy card behind the cut out days, to make them pop. Make sure you keep a wee eye on Sarah's Silhouette Store as there are new files being added.

 

Ingredients

Sarah's Portfolio in the Silhouette Store

Personal Organiser Set

Days of the Week Tabs

Papers from A Few of my Favourite Things Kit

I am really looking forward to getting my boring old filofax looking funky with these and hopefully it will encourage me to use it more too.

We look forward to seeing your creations over at Sarah Hurley 365 this month!

It's Almost Easter.

Hi, it's Good Friday and I thought I would make something to reflect the time of year it is.

 I was lucky enough to be treated to a Cameo electronic cutting machine a few months ago and I still have the new machine "fear" and realised I really had to use it rather than just download lots of Sarah's yummy files.

I thought I would make a card using one of Sarah's new designs and chose the  Easter Page Mat. When you open in onto your "Drawing Area" it opens as a 12"x12", but that is easily sized down and I will try and explain how I did that.

I wanted to use a 6"x6" card, so decided to make the cut out 5.5", to do this I selected the whole image, clicked on the Scale tool, typed in 5.5" and ticked the lock aspect option.  It resized it perfectly to leave me with this. 

I was feeling confident, so decided I wanted to layer the cut out, and knew I could do it easily using the Offset tool.  I wanted it to just have a nice frame, so chose 0.1" as my Internal Offset. The result was this;

You may be wondering why I am working on the right hand side of the page...this next step will explain that. I clicked on the internal image, and dragged it over to the left of the page. That way I could do the two cuts on one pass through, and use two separate colours of card;

I sent them to the Cameo to cut, then went about picking out matching backing paper and some sparkly bits. Et voila, here is the finished card...taaa daaaah!!

Ingredients

Easter Page Mat from Sarah's Silhouette Files

Backing Paper from A Few of My Favourite Things Kit

I hope this shows that once you overcome the new machine fear, you can have lots of fun making pretty things. 

Remember there is still time to enter our Challenge this month and the theme is Stitching - Real or Faux.

Have a great Bank Holiday Weekend, and a lovely Easter, Carol xx

I would like to enter the following challenges;

4 Crafty Chicks - Sentiment only, no pictures.

Milk Coffee Challenge - Easter

Sassy Studios Designs - Here Comes Peter Cottontail

Little Red Wagon - Easter Parade