Buttons!

Hello, it's the 5th of month which means it is time for a new challenge over at Sarah Hurley 365 and the theme is "Buttons".

I am just loving all the gorgeous new designs Sarah has launched over at the Silhouette Store and I used one of them to make my card.

This Circle Steampunk Cogs Page Mat is designed for a 12x12" page LO, but I resized it to 5x5" and it worked perfectly. Even though the design is very intricate and detailed, it still worked beautifully when resized. I popped buttons onto the cut out shape.

I used lots of 3d foam and placed it onto a piece of chevron card from an AFOMFT kit. I used the "Curio" stamp from Sarah's latest range for Personal Impressions

Ingredients

Circle Steampunk Cogs Page Mat from Sarah's Silhouette Store

Curio Stamp set from Curio Stamp Set

Chevron Paper from A Few of My Favourite Things Kit

Rich Cocoa Memento Ink Pad

Pearlised card, card blank and buttons from stash.

Thanks for popping by today, we would love it if you joined in with our challenge this month.

I would like to enter the following challenges;

Craft for the Craic - Something with circles

Crafts 4 Eternity - Digital(Cameo die cut)

Crafty Catz - One for the boys

Crafting Musketeers - Use buttons

The Crafting Cafe - Shades of one

It's time to celebrate!!

And what better way to do it than to make beautiful things to commemorate it. The Sarah Hurley Designs challenge is 4 years old this month and we are hosting a Celebration Themed Challenge.

I decided to make a baby card for a complete change! I am loving the different styles of journalling cards Sarah has over at the Silhouette Store and used the Baby Journalling Card as the main focus of the card. I stamped some tiny clusters of stars from the Doodle Doll Stamps and stamped them round the card with VersaMark ink then clear embossed them. I distressed the card using Worn Lipstick and Shaded Lilac Distress Inks. I cut an extra journalling card, and removed the baby word, distressed it with Black Soot DI and placed it on the chevrons. I popped the journalling card onto some 3D foam to give the card some dimension.

I used the Chevron Background Stamp, which I inked with lilac and pink pearlescent Brilliance inks, then covered with clear embossing powders and heat sealed it. Such a great look for not an awful lot of work. I really love inking this stamp up with different colours, it always looks great for a large background.

Ingredients

Baby Journalling Card

Chevron Background Stamp

Doodle Dolls Wish Upon A Star

Brilliance Inks

Distress Inks

Clear Embossing Powder

I really hope you can join in with our Celebration Challenge this month. See you soon, Carol x

I would like to enter the following challenges;
Ladybug Crafts Ink - Baby
CCC Digi Creations - Digi/wet or dry embossing (journalling card is a digi file)
Savvy Handmade Cards - Reach for the stars
Cute Card Thursday - Reach for the stars

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

Speech bubbles.

Hello, it's the 5th of the month which can only mean one thing...new challenge over at Sarah Hurley 365 and this time Nicole has picked the theme of "Speech Bubbles". 

A lot of my regular readers will be surprised to see I have made a scrapbook page, I felt like a change, and after taking this picture of our Great Niece at the park, I really had to do something special with it.

As a new owner of a Cameo, I thought I should play with some of Sarah's Files from the Silhouette Store. There are lots of great cutting files to chose from, and I opted for the Speech Bubble Background as the main layer for my page. I love the versatility of the files as you can resize them to suit your project. I made it 8x8 and cut a piece of contrasting pink paper to put under it.

I stamped "Smile" and "Snapshot" into a couple of the bubbles using sentiments from the  Picture This Stamps. I loved the Chevron papers from last months A Few of My Favourite Things Kit, it is a 12x12 so was fabulous for this lay out, and means I can make a few things from the one sheet of paper!

I had taken lots of pictures of the little one at the park (she smiles as soon as she sees you are taking a picture), and the heron, ducks and squirrels and printed out a few, layered them onto purple pearlescent paper and linked them all together with some strips of punched paper. My tip is to use colours that compliment the picture.

I used a 12x12 sheet of purple glittery card and layered everything onto it, I decided to do things at an angle for a change, even the title of the page and I am really pleased with the result. I wrote a wee story on a bit of black card with a chalk marker, chalked around the edge and popped it beside the picture. I finished the page with a scattering of sequins, I used glitter glue for them, the  more sparkle the better.

Ingredients

Speech Bubble Background by Sarah Hurley  from The Silhouette Store

Picture This Stamp Set by Sarah Hurley

Chevron paper - A Few of My Favourite Things Kit

Border Punch, Date Stamp and Chalk pen from Stampin Up

Papers and sequins from stash.

I hope you can pop over and join in with our Speech Bubbles Challenge, there are some great prizes up for grabs!

I would like to enter the following challenges;

Top Tip Tuesday - 3.5 or 7...3 pictures, 3 colours of sequins.

All Crafts Challenge - Anything but a card

That Craft Place - Anything Goes