Card with Sarah Hurley Sentiment Stamps, Banner Cameo Files and Stix2 Stardust Glitter Card.

Hello, I am slowly getting back to crafting and blogging after my extended break.  Today I am sharing a clean and simple card using Sarah Hurleys Sentiment Stamps, Sarah's Cameo files and Stix2 Stardust Glitter card.

1  Select which colours of Stix2 Stardust Glitter Card you would like to use, I opted for a black base and contrasting bright colours.

2  Lay down your base layer, then cut 3 different sized banners from the colours and one white banner to stamp your sentiment onto.

3  Put your card together and the sentiment of your choice onto the white banner. Place 3d foam behind the banner to give the card some dimension.

Ingredients

Sarah Hurley Sentiment Stamps

Sarah Hurley Banner Nests from the Silhouette Design Store

Stix2 Stardust Glitter Card

Stix2 PVA Glue

Stix2 3d Foam Pads

Thanks for popping by today, I hope you like the card.

"Be Amazing" 10 Minute Make Card

Hello, I can't believe it is another new month! Where is this year going?  

Today, it's my turn over on the Sarah Hurley 365 Blog and I am sharing my latest "10 Minute Make" Card using Sarah Hurley Doodle Doll Stamps and Distress Inks.

Ingredients

Be Amazing Girl Stamps

Art Girl Stamps

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Distress Inks

Beacon 3-in-1 Advanced Craft Glue

Stix2 DST 

Thanks for popping by today, I hope you like the card. Carol xx

Organiser Box

Hello, it's my turn over on the Sarah Hurley 365 Blog and I am sharing an organiser box I made using Sarah's Silhouette Files, Stamps and Washi Tape. Full details are over on the blog.

Ingredients

Sarah Hurley Silhouette Files

Sarah Hurley Stamps

Washi Tape

Stix2 Adhesives

Thanks for popping by! Carol xx

Neon Zendoodle Card

It's the first of the month which means one thing, my turn to post over on the Sarah Hurley 365 Blog. This time I have made a neon Zendoodle card, and full details are over on the blog.

Ingredients

Sarah Hurley Zendoodle Borders & Bits Stamps

Sarah Hurley Everyday Sayings Stamps

Perfect Medium Ink Pad

3 in 1 Advanced Craft Glue

Embossing Powders

Stampin Up Punches

Stix2 3D Foam Pads

Card from stash.

Thanks for popping in today, hope you have a great day, Carol xx

Silhouette Scrapbook Page

Hi, it is my turn over on the Sarah Hurley 365 Blog and I am sharing a Scrapbook LO I made using some of Sarah's Silhouette Files.

Full details are over on the Sarah Hurley 365 Blog and I would love it if you could pop over and say hi!

Thanks for popping by, Carol xx

Cameo Cards

Another make for my Sarah Hurley 365 Blog Post were these love themed cards using my Cameo machine.

Full details are over on the blog.

Catch Up Time

Time has totally ran away from me, and I have been very naughty with my Blogging! *sits in the naughty corner*

I will share some recent makes over the next few days to catch up with things!

The first thing I will share is this butterfly card I made for my DT post on the Sarah Hurley 365 Blog.

Full details are over on the blog.

Get Well Soon Card.

Whoops, I am running behind as usual and am using this rainy Sunday as the perfect excuse to stay indoors dry and cosy with a cuppa to play catch up.

This card is one I made for my Sarah Hurley 365 DT post. Full details are over on the blog.

Remember there is still lots of time to enter our new challenge and the theme is Favourite Things.

I would like to enter the following challenges;

Aud Sentiments  - "Thinking of You" style sentiment

Hanna and Friends - Animals

7 Kids College Funds - Anything Goes(with a sentiment)

Brand new stamps coming your way.

Hello, it's been a busy couple of weeks here. Thankfully I have had lots of time to play with the gorgeous new Zendoodle Stamps from Sarah Hurley. 

They will be released soon and contain a great mixture of stamps that you can use for lots of different occasions. I decided to have a play with the mannequin stamp first and got out the embossing powders for a play. Full details are over on the Sarah Hurley 365 Blog.

 

Ingredients

Zendoodle Stamps,Doodle Doll Art Stamps Perfect Medium Embossing Ink from Sarah Hurley 

Gold, Silver, Copper & White embossing powders

Papermania shimmer textured papers

Punches from Stampin Up

Card & Sequins from stash

Thanks for popping by today, see you again soon,Carol x

I would like to enter the following challenges;

Kraftyhands - Anything goes

Brown Sugar - Anything goes

Crafty Catz - Embossing

Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything goes

4 Crafty Girls - Anything goes

Natalie & Amy - Rubber stamping

One Crazy Stamper - Anything goes & an embellishment

Oddball Art Stamp Co - Girly and Glam

Use Your Stuff  - Rule of three

Faith,Trust and Pixie Dust.

Hello, I am currently enduring the joys of a pinged back and blogging when I can sit up lol. So today, I thought I would share a fairy themed card using unreleased stamps from Clare Brown for Sarah Hurley, but shhhhh!!! it's our secret ;-)

I just love fairies, toadstools and anything related to them so I really HAD to have this stamp set. I'm hoping to make a toadstool themed card soon if my back behaves itself.  

I wanted to make the card as pretty and feminine as possible without it being a pink-fest. I love the papers in the Be Mine Digi Kit and used glossy photo paper.  I layered it up with silver pearlised papers for a bit of extra twinkle.

I stamped her with Memento Ink and coloured her using Promarkers and Flexmarkers(colours are in the Ingredients List) she really is a joy to colour. And no fairy is complete without some Stardust Stickles on her wings,belt and shoes. I even covered the sentiment in Stickles too.

 

Ingredients

Woodland Fairy Stamp Set from Clare Brown for Sarah Hurley 

Papers from Be Mine Digi Kit 

 Promarkers; Dress - Mint,Pastel, Tea Green

Wings - Tea Green

Skin - Satin & Ivory

Hair - Saddle Brown & Nutmeg (Flexmarkers)

Outline - Cool Grey 1

Stardust Stickles

Punch, pearls, glossy photo paper, card all from stash.

 

I hope you can pop over to Sarah Hurley 365 and join in with our "Anything Goes" Challenge this month, there are great prizes up for grabs.

 

I would like to enter the following challenges;

Ditzie Designs - Anything Goes

Di's Digi Designs - Use your markers

KraftyHands - Anything Goes

We do Doobadoo - Lots of Layers

Brown Sugar - Pastel

Crafting For All Seasons - Lots of Layers

Pennys paper Crafty - 2 or more patterned papers

 

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

In stitches over at Sarah Hurley

Hello, today I am sharing my creation for the new challenge over at Sarah Hurley 365 and the theme is "Stitching - Real or Faux", chosen by the lovely Ria.  

I decided to make something a wee bit different from my usual cards, and opted for altering a notebook.  This months A Few Of My Favourite Thinks kit is my favourite so far, I say that every month don't I? I just love the doodles and bright colours, I used the Printable Documented 365 Kit for my doodle page and the two cards with the skull on them.  I coloured it using Promarkers and Flexmarkers, I decided to use quite dark colours as it is a Spell Book, I really didn't want it too bright.  I stamped out the brand spanking just released Voodoo Doll Stamp (HOW COOL IS THIS???) and coloured him in too.  To add in the theme of "Stitches" I drew some faux stitches around him, and around my navy backing layer.  I used the Block Alpha Stamps and Archival Ink to pop "Spells" onto the wee skull card.

I also used lots of 3d foam to give the whole page some dimension.  

 

Ingredients

From Sarahs Shop of Loveliness 

AFOMFT Documented 365 Printable Kit 

Block Alpha Stamps 

Voodoo Doll Thinking Of You Stamp 

Promarkers, Flexmarkers, Stampin Up Chalk Pen, Letraset Pigment Pen

Archival and Memento Ink

Card and adhesives from stash.

We would love it if you could join us this month for some great prizes over at the new sparkly Sarah Hurley 365 site, remember we have regular Spotlight posts too for us DT Girlies to show you our lovely makes.

I would like to enter the following challenges;

My Sheri Crafts - Anything but a card

Crafts 4 Eternity - Anything but a card

Quick Quotes - Project with stamping

4 Crafty Chicks - Colour a stamped image

New challenge over at Sarah Hurley 365.

And this time the theme has been chosen by the lovely Claire N, and it is All Embellishments Just One Shape. What a great theme, I of course had to pick stars for mine.

I used some gorgeous navy blue starry paper from one of Sarah's  A Few of My Favourite Things kit as my background. I made a postcard using the Christmas Mail Stamps, I am really loving this set and use the postcard quite a lot as it is so versatile. I masked the bottom left hand side of it and stamped the gorgeous Wish Upon a Star set, and coloured her in with Promarkers and Flexmarkers to match the papers. 

The sentiment comes from Star Stamps, and I heat embossed it using silver embossing powder. To add a few stars to it, I scattered some silver sequin stars on the backing paper and one on the front of Twinkles dress. I distressed the edges of the postcard using some Memento ink.

I popped some pleated ribbon on and put the postcard onto some 3mm 3D foam to give the card some dimension.

Ingredients

A Few of My Favourite Things Kit

Christmas Mail Stamps

Wish Upon A Star Girl Stamps

Star Stamps

Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Memento, Versa Mark and Archival Ink.

Foam Pads and Collall.

Ribbon and silver sequins from stash.

I hope you can pop over and join us this month at the Sarah Hurley 365 Challenge, there are great prizes up for grabs.

I would like to enter the following challenges;

Through The Purple Haze - Anything goes

Whoopsi Daisy - use a Sentiment

2 Sisters - Embossing

Allsorts Challenge - Colour Beginning with B

Cards Galore Encore - Add Bling

Frosted Designs - Winter Blues

Crafty Ribbons - Anything goes with ribbons

Paper Crafting Journey - Emboss That

Fan-tashe-tic Day!

Today was the first post from the Sarah Hurley Design Team on the new Sarah Hurley 365 Blog and I was the lucky DT member picked to do it. You will find my fan-tashe-tic post and all the details here.

I won't go into all the details on here, I will pop the pictures on and the ingredients and hope you wander over to the Sarah Hurley 365 Blog for a proper look.

 

I love the fact the bookmark can be detached easily from the card and used seperately.

 

 Ingredients

 Steampunk Craft CD Instant Download

Moustache Background Stamp

Gentleman's Accesories Silhouette File

Set of 2 Moustache Paperclips

I hope you can pop over to the blog and would love it if you could leave a comment.Thanks for popping by.

I would like to enter the following challenges;

Dream Valley Challenges - Boys/Men

Totally Gorjuss - Manly