It's all about the dads.

This time over at the Digi Galore the theme is "Fathers Day", and our sponsors are the fabulous Kenny K with the lucky winner picking 5 of their cool digis.

I used Remote Control Digi, and coloured him using Promarkers and Flexmarkers. I then VERY CAREFULLY cut him out, my word my hand and fingers were sore after this lol. I used papers from the Britannia kit by Sarah Hurley to add lots of colour. I finished it off using my Sizzix Corner Die and a wee sentiment from Lili of The Valley.

Ingredients

Remote Control Digi by Kenny K

 Papers - Britannia Digi Kit by Sarah Hurley

Coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Lili of The Valley Sentiment

Sizzix corner die, Nestie die, circle punch, star punch.

Blue and red card from stash.

I hope you like the card and join in with us this time.

I would like to enter him into the following challenges;

Jellypark Challenges - Masculine

Kitty Bee Designs - Fathers Day

Pattie's Creations - Fathers Day

QKR Stampede - For Dad

Milk Coffee - Fathers Day

Crafting By Designs - Anything goes with a Male twist

Digistamps4Joy - Masculine

The Stamping Chef - For Dad

Craft Your Passion - Fathers Day

Eureka Stamps - Fathers Day

Stars in our eyes.

It's time for a new challenge over at Digi Sketch Challenges, and the theme is "Stargazing" and anyone who knows me will know how much I LOVE stars, so much so I even have a tattoo of them. This time we are sponsored by LEJ Designs and the lucky winner will get 4 digis of their choice. As always there is a sketch too, and I followed it with my card.

I used the Sentiment sheet and made a starry birthday card.  For my backing paper I really was spoiled for choice, but in the end opted for a teal starry one from Scrap Basics Christmas Stars digi papers pack from Sarah Hurley, because stars are for life not just for Christmas.  To give the card some texture I used a starry embossing folder and some Tim Holtz Kraft Core paper, and die cut some stars using Sizzix Framelits. I popped the sentiment on some 1mm foam to give the card some dimension.

Ingredients

Sentiment by LEJ Designs

Star papers from Sarah Hurley

Star embossing folder,Tim Holtz Kraft Core paper

Sizzix Star Framelits.

I hope you can join us this time, and we look forward to seeing your creations.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges;

CAS on Sundays - Make it masculine

Brown Sugar - Masculine birhday

Creative Corner  - Boy oh boy

Paper Crafting Journey - Masculine

Biker Chick.

Hello again, lots of blog posts this week, and this time it's to tell everyone about a new challenge over at the Digi Galore Challenge Blog. And this time Louise has drew up a funky wee sketch for us to play with.  We are sponsored by the fabulous The Paper Shelter with a $20 voucher for their online store as the prize.

I chose to use "Undetected" On The Routes, and coloured her with my favourite MOTO GP riders colours of blue and yellow. For those of you unfamiliar with MOTO GP, the rider is Valentino Rossi and he is an amazing rider! Colouring her was rather tricky as the digi is very detailed, but thanks to fine tips for Promarkers and LOTS of patience I finished her and I love her.

Ingredients

Undetected from The Paper Shelter

Spotty Stripey Paper from Secret Rose Garden

Coloured with Flexmarkers and Promarkers

Memento ink

Sentiment and dies from Clearly Besotted Stamps

Spellbinders die, XCut corner punch

Ribbon and blue papers from stash.

I hope you can pop over and join us this time, we look forward to seeing your creations.xx

I would like to enter her into the following challenges;

Oldie but a Goodie - Inspired by a song- "Born to Be Wild"(Something 6 months old, ribbon)

Papertake Weekly Challenge - The Sound of Music - The song "Born To Be Wild"

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

Lacy Sunshine - Anything but a square with hand coloured image.

The Corrosive Challenges - Sentiment on the front.

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - Something Blue

Moving Along With The Times - CaS

The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes.

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.

Rain, Rain, Go Away!!!

Is the theme for this fortnights challenge over at Digi Sketch Challenge, which is rather fitting with all the rain we have had the last couple of days in Scotland. Though my weekend away had gorgeous weather :D

The sponsor this time is Ellephantastic and Crafty Sentiments Designs. So the winner will be spoilt for choice.  As always there is a theme and a sketch to follow, and I decided to do both this time.  I used "Emily in the rain" from Ellephantastic, and used some Echo Park papers to match in with the theme.

Ingredients

Emily in the rain - Ellephantastic

Echo Park - Walk in The Park Papers 2

Coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Sentiment from Craftwork Cards

Green card and card blank from stash.

I hope you can join us this time and enter the challenge.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Crafty Calendar - Sunshine and Showers

Card Crafter's Circle - April Showers

Digi Haven - Rain/umbrella

Whimsie Doodles - April Showers

Let's hear it for the girls.

Is the theme over at the Digi Galore Challenge Blog, and it is sponsored by the fabulous MayzyArt. I love the MayzArt digis and have quite a few waiting to be coloured up.  This is my first DT card for Digi Galore,and following the theme of the challenge I opted to use the beautiful Frog Princess digi and make her very girly.

 

I coloured her using my trusty Promarkers and Flexmarkers. The frog is covered with Glossy Accents to make him nice and shiny :D I also put Glossy Accents onto her crown. And what princess is complete without some sparkles?

 

I opted to keep the card as digi as I could, and used papers from digi kits(details in ingredients)

 

Ingredients

Frog Princess from MayzArt Digi Stamp

Pink polka dot paper - Secret Rose Garden Digi Kit

Pink and green background paper - Carina Gardiner

Memory Box Corner Die

Coloured with Flexmarkers and Promarkers

Glossy Accents and gems.

Sentiment made on computer.

 



 

 

I hope you can pop over and join us this time.

 

 

I would like to enter the following challenges;

One Stop Craft Challenge - Colours - Pastels
Dilly Beans - Pastels(digi stamp)
Crafty Ribbons - Pink and Green
Belli Challenge - Pastels
The Stampin Chef - Girly Girl
Whimsy Inspiration - Pretty in Pink
 

 



Another card from my colouring in fest last week.

And this time it is one of the beautiful hand drawn Rose Digi Stamps from Sarah Hurley. I am starting to get a wee bit more confident with my colouring and loved the results I got from colouring this.  I also coloured one in shades of purple and will blog that once I have made it into a card. 

 

I used papers from the Secret Rose Garden Kit, as there are lovely polka dot papers in the kit. I cut the rose out with scalpel so you could really see all the details in it.

 

Ingredients

Sarah Hurley Hand Drawn Rose Digi Stamp

Papers from Secret Rose Garden Kit

Coloured with Promarkers and Fexmarkers

Sentiment from Whimsy

Gems and plain papers from stash.

 



There is still plenty of time to join in at the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog, where the theme is "Projects with character" and it is sponsored by Letraset.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges;
Broken Box Stock - Florals
Happy Campers - Flower Power
Moving Along With the Times - song or film..."Kiss from a rose" by Seal
Passion For Promarkers - Week 193, "cut out your image"
House of Gilli -Anything goes with a flower
Sparkle N Sprinkle - SNSSC18 - Use a digi.

Pretty stash is "All Sewn Up" by Sarah Hurley.

Today is a very exciting day, Sarah Hurley is launching a brand new kit called "All Sewn Up". And as you may have guessed from the name, it is packed full of delicious sewing related goodies.

 

The papers are gorgeous, they have cute little cotton reels, measuring tape, stitches, flowers and lots more, and I used a selection of them to make my cards for the launch.  There are also beautiful embellishments, including buttons, bobbins and mannequins, and I just adore the hand drawn digi stamps that Sarah has included in this kit and I had to use one of them on my cards(they are even pre-coloured so ideal for quick cards).

 

You may have noticed some other pretty embellishements on my cards like the crochet flower, glass jar and twine, which are also available from Sarahs online shop and some of the items were in the A Few of My Favourite Things kit. 

 

For those of you who prefer "real" stamps, there are two sets available to compliment the range, along with papers.

 

Thanks for taking the time to read my post, hope you love the new range as much as we do, and remember to pop over to the Facebook Event for the launch of Sarah and Phill Martins Secret Garden range.

 

It's launch day for Hurley HQ.

Hello and welcome to my wee crafty corner in cyberspace, if you are following the Sarah Hurley Blog Hop you have arrived here from the blog of the lovely Elaine. If you have just stumbled across my page then hello, and why not pop over to the first blog on the hop? which belongs to the lady behind the beautiful pretties we get to play, I mean create with - Sarah Hurley.

Todays hop is all about the launch of Sarah's brand new website. Now you can see all of Sarah's gorgeous products in one place.  To celebrate the launch we are all showcasing items we have made using kits and embellishments that are available from the online store.  I used the very versatile and pretty Kissing Booth digi kit to create my card.

I used the papers from the kit to create bunting with dies and put that onto bakers twine to create a line of bunting.  I die cut two pretty birdies from the papers and popped them ontop of the bunting.  I die cute the love using papers from the kit too.

I took lots of different shots to show the dimension that I have created on the card.

You may have noticed some very pretty crochet flowers and pegs in my pictures and these are also available from Sarah and are part of the "A Few of My Favourite Things" monthly kit.

I also had to pop on some of my favourite items from the store which is of course these delicious chipboard stars.  I have used gilding flakes on these ones, but the options are endless.

I have told you my favourite thing, so why not tell me your favourite product from the shop in the comments below or on Sarah's FB Page and you have a chance to win it plus a £10 voucher to use in Sarah's shop.  There are THREE chances to win, so the more comments you leave, the more chances you have of winning - good luck.

Your next stop on the hop is the lovely Lisa. Have fun and thanks for popping by.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Ladybug Crafts - Valentines and or Love

Card makin Mamas - I'm in the mood for love.

Craft Us Crazy - Get to cutting(used my big shot)

Little Miss Muffet  - Hearts and flowers

Paper Pretties - Square cards (PWC243)

Ruby's Rainbow - Valentine's (hearts)

Perfect Sentiment - Anything goes with a die cut

It's time to celebrate.

Happy New Year, here's hoping it is a fabulous one for us all.

 

This is my first blog post of 2013 and what better to post about than the fabulous new challenge over at the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog, and the theme this month...it's "Celebrate".  I made a card for someone who has passed their driving test using the Britannia Kit (which has a massive 50% off) and Craft Basics Kit in Black and White. Both kits are full of great papers that you will use time and time again. The Britannia kit is choc full of iconic images, and I had to use the Mini one as the proud owner of one ;)

Ingredients

Sarah Hurley- Black & White Paper Kit , Britannia Digi Kit

Promarkers,

Di'Namics

One of hubbys old maps.

 

I hope you join in and celebrate with us, there is a fab prize up for grabs.

 

 

 



6 weeks today is...

Christmas day...eeeekkkk!!! And I am trying to be organised for my first proper year of making my own cards. So yesterday I had a play with some of my dies, embossing folders and some Sarah Hurley papers.  I opted for a really clean and simple look with white and turquoise.  I printed out a couple of different papers from the Tinseltown collection, and cut out some baubles using a Memory Box die.  I love these dies, they are really easy to use and the results are great every time. I embossed a sheet of white pearlised paper with a Sizzix folder to make the background look like snowfall, and layered it onto a sheet of "Snowfall" paper from Tinseltown. Hope you like the end result, it is completely different from my usual style of card.

Ingredients

Papers and sentiment - Tinseltown by Sarah Hurley Digi Kit

Dies - Xcut and Memory Box

Sizzix Embossing Folder

Pearlised paper from stash.

Hope this inspires you to try something different with your Christmas cards.



I would like to enter it into the following challenges;
Crafty Sentiments - Christmas
LEJ Designs - Seasons Greetings
Crafty Bloggers Network - Christmas - anything goes
Crafty Cardmakers - more than one die cut
Fashionista Challenge - Blue Christmas
Hooked on Craft - Christmas no Red or Green
The Pink Elephant - Use dies
Delightful Challenges - Let it snow.(snowflakes on baubles and snow on paper and embossed paper)

Remember, remember...

The 5th of November, gunpowder, treason and plot.  It's almost Guy Fawkes night, and the theme over at the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog this month is "Fireworks".  So I decided on a night time scene using my favourite kit, Oz and a hot air balloon from Woodland Whimsies.  I created the scene where Dorothy is returning home from Oz and made some fireworks in the background from gems.

 

I printed out 2 hot air balloons from the Woodland Whimsies kit, cut them out, then used one as a template to make the Oz balloon.  I coloured the basket with Promarkers.  There are lots of amazing papers in the Oz kit, and I used the "Yellow Brick Road" paper as a base for the scene, and used the "Oz" papers for the balloon.  I also used the digi stamps in the kit to make the Wizard, Dorothy and of course ToTo. The fab sentiment is also from the kit, if you like the Wizard of Oz you will love this kit and use it time and time again.

I hope you like this card, and join in with us this month.

There is still time to get your creations submitted to the next Sarah Hurley Lookbook, with all the information you need here. Why not join in?

New DT announcement

And it's the weekend, happy happy happy!!

I am delighted to announce I am joining the very talented ladies on the Just Some Lines Design Team.  They have an amazing range of digi stamps in their store, and I will have lots of fun making creations with them.

The first challenge I am taking part in is "Use more than one colouring medium". I scratched my head for a while with this one, then realised I could use Promarkers and Distress Inks, result.  I used Paula Stands for my card and used autumnal colours now that the leaves are starting to turn.

Ingredients

Just Some Lines Paula Stands Digi

Digi Paper

Coloured with Promarkers, Kuretake Art & Graphic and Sakura Glitter pens,

Distress inks in Broken China and Evergreen Bough

Ticket from Whimsy Stamps

Ribbon, gems and craft card from stash.

I hope you pop over to Just Some Lines and join us :0)

I would like to enter her into the following challenges;

Fab 'n' Funky Challenges - Colours of Autumn

Lexi's Creations - Autumn Colours

Lollipop Crafts - Fall Frolic

The Pink Elephant Challenge - Use patterned paper