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

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.

Birthdays Galore!

Brrrrr from a very cold Glasgow. The last few days have been really busy with Christmas makes and 3 birthdays in the space of a few days. 

 This first quickie post is a card I made for my nieces birthday, she loves skulls and really isn't a "girly girl" so I opted to make the card monochrome.

Ingredients

A Few Of My Favourite Things Kit Stamps by Sarah Hurley

Memento Dew Drop Gray Flannel

Memento Dew Drop London Fog

Memento Dew Drop Black Tuxedo

Card and cardstock from stash.

Thanks for popping by.

Happy Cake Day!

Hi, another wee catch up post from me with creations I have made but not blogged.

 

This card was made for my emergency card box, as a crafter I always find I can never have enough cards for occasions, especially as my family and friends are quite partial to using my cards ;-)

Ingredients

Block Alpha Stamps

Time For Tea Stamps

Outline Alpha Stamps

White Photo Corners

Bakers Twine from Stampin Up

Silver charm from Stash

Coloured with Promarkers

Memento Inks.

Thanks for popping by.

It's been a while!

Just realised it has been over a month since I last blogged, so brace yourselves I have lots of new things to share.

I will start the catch up with my February PL Page. I am loving PL as I can do lots of different things on one project. In this one I stamped, embellished, punched and used my Cameo.

Ingredients

Today Stamp Set by Sarah Hurley

AFOMFT Kits by Sarah Hurley

Heart Doodle Corner by Sarah Hurley at the Silhouette Store

Love Journalling card by Sarah Hurley at the Silhouette Store

This was made for a challenge over at the Sarah Hurley 365 blog. The new challenge is currently Halloween and we would love it if you could join in with our final challenge 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)

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

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

It's all about the background.

This month over at the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog the theme is "Create Your Own Background". That is always daunting to me, as I tend to over think things, this time I drew out a sketch of my card and went from there with the ideas I had.

I got a piece of white card and masked the bottom half of with a post it note so I could stamp the wallpaper. I used the stripe stamps from the Doodle Doll Halloween Edition Witch stamps set. I stamped the fireplace from the Fireside Kisses stamp set onto a separate piece of card, and cut it out, I used Distress Inks to colour the bricks, and Flexmarkers for the top and bottom. I cut out the central part of the fireplace and added some black paper behind it and made a fire to make it look cosy and wintery. I used a die to make the stockings in felt and popped them on.  The mistletoe is also from the Fireplace Kisses set and I popped some tiny pearls on to be the berries. The girl and the sentiment come from the Be Amazing Doodle Doll stamp set, I just love these as they are so versatile and fun. I thought I should make her a wee bit more festive and popped some snowflakes and holly onto her, they come from the Christmas Tags Holly Jolly Stamps. To add some extra sparkle, I put some red gems on as the holly berries. I coloured her dress with FlexMarkers and her hair and holly with Promarkers. I used lots of foam squares to give the card lots of dimension, will need to pop some other pictures on.

Ingredients

Doodle Doll Halloween Edition Witch Stamps

Fireplace Kisses Stamps

Be Amazing Doodle Doll Stamps 

Christmas Tags Holly Jolly Stamps

Felt

Flexmarkers,Promarkers

Distress Ink, Memento Ink, Archival Ink.

I hope you can join us for the last challenge of the year.

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

C.R.A.F.T - Christmas

Crafty Little Fairies - Candy Stripes

Paper Crafting Journey - It's Christmas Time

Divas By Designs - Feeling Festive

Simon Says Stamp - Make your Own Background

Emerald Faeries - Christmas

Live your dream.

What a dreadful day it is here today, heavy rain, freezing cold, damp and dark.  So I thought I would share a nice bright and cheery card with you all.

I made this for the Lookbook from Sarah Hurley using the Doodle Doll Princess Stamp Set. I got a piece of white card and used the star border from the set to make the corners. I used lots of bright colours of ink to make it really pop.  Once I had completed that I stamped the princess onto it and coloured her hair, eyes and face with Promarkers. I just love the sentiments that are part of this set and this one was perfect for the card.

 

Ingredients

 Doodle Doll Princess Stamp Set  by Sarah Hurley

Promarkers

Memento Inks

Card from stash.

I hope you can pop over and have a look at the Lookbook and get lots of inspiration from all the fabulous creations in it.

I would like to enter the following challenges;
7 Kids College Fund  - Anything Goes
Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes
Whimsy Inspiration - Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes
Loves Rubber Stamps - Anything Goes
Try It On Tuesdays - Colour Explosion

It's Lookbook time.

I can't believe it is November already, where has this year gone? And even more surprised that the fourth edition of the fabulous Lookbook from Sarah Hurley and I thought I would show you some of my creations. I ventured out of my comfort zone of cards quite a few times in this issue and you will see that from this post.

I decided to look out all the lovely Martha Stewart paints that have been hiding in my craft room and make something completely different.  I bought door hanger blanks ages ago and they have been lying unloved, time to change that.  As the Lookbook is an Autumnal themed one, I thought I would make it slightly Halloweeny, though this can be used at all times, if you are anything at all like me ;)

I painted it with Arrowhead, then Silver.  I stamped the "Keep Out" and "Casting Spells" using Block Alpha Stamps, the "Beware" and the skull came from Angelica Strange Stamps and Malcolm Strange Stamps. To add some texture, I masked off the words using a post it note and  used Sarah's Crackle Background Stamp. I added a skull and crossbones die cut, which I cut from Black Magic Co'redinations and scrunched it up, then sanded it to reveal a wee glimpse of orange.

Ingredients

Block Alpha Stamps

Angelica Strange Stamps

Malcolm Strange Stamps

Large Texture Crackle Stamp

Martha Stewart Paints

Door hanger blank

Archival Ink

Skull die

Co'redinations Black Magic

I am sure you will agree this is different for me, and hubby has claimed it already for his tool cupboard!!

I hope you love the new Lookbook as much as I do, and enjoy having a look through it.

I would like to enter it into the following challenges;

Try It On Tuesday - Halloween

Stamping With The Dragon - Halloween

A Spooktacular card.

It's almost Halloween, and I thought I would make another wee Halloween themed card.  I decided to use Angelica Strange as the focal point for my card, how cute is she? I coloured her using Promarkers, stamped the skull onto her dress, then masked it to have the crossed bones on the dress too.  All of the papers are from the 31 Spook Street Digi Kit and I punched them out using my trusty Hexagon Punch.  The sentiment also comes from the Angelica Strange set.

Ingredients

Angelica Strange Stamp Set by Sarah Hurley

Papers from 31 Spook Street Digi Kit

Promarkers

Memento and Archival Ink Pads

Foam pads

I hope you like her as much as I do, and it inspires you to do some Halloween crafting!

I would like to enter the following challenges;

2 Sisters - Cute & Spooky

Di's Digi Designs - Halloween

Stampin With The Dragon - Halloween

Cute Card Thursday  - Spooktacular

Happy Campers - Halloween

Crafting for all seasons  - Too cute to spook

Eureka Stamps - Halloween Colours

Make My Monday - Halloween

Black, white and one other colour.

Is  the theme over at Kitty Bee Designs Challenge Blog, and I opted to use hot pink as my other colour with this super cute Zebra digi stamp.

It is such a versatile image, which you will see from the creations my team mates have made. It is always good to have a digi in your collection that you can use for births, congratulations, birthdays or just a note card.

I coloured her using a Magenta  and Cool Grey Promarkers. I got my backing papers from The Papeterie in Aberdeen, and their papers are just divine. The punch is from Stampin' Up and the adorable "Make A Wish" sentiment is from Sarah Hurley.

I hope you can join us this time with our "Black, White and one other colour" at Kitty Bee Designs.

There is a new range on the block.

And I would like to say "Welcome to 31 Spook Street" . And the residents of this street are The Strange Family. I am soooo super excited and lucky to have had a sneaky play, and teased you all with a sneaky peek, with this spooktacular new range from Sarah Hurley.

I had a play with the Digi Kit to make this card, and a couple of the stamp sets are winging their way to me.  As soon as I saw them, I knew I had to have them, especially when I saw the really cute cat, owl and ghosts wooooooo. Though best of all is this little chap that I have coloured as he is called "Malcolm Strange" and I adore him, nothing to do with the fact my hubby is called Malcolm ;-) The digis in the set are coloured or black and white, so ideal if you want to make a quick card, or like me want to create a scene with one or more of the characters. I popped Poe the Owl and Muffin the Cat in, just so Malcolm wasn't alone.  You may have noticed the awesome skulls and bones on the background paper, that is also from the set and is featured in different colours, and they all work perfectly together.

 

Ingredients

31 Spook Street Digi Kit  Paper & Digital Stamps

Coloured with Promarkers and Flex Markers

Malcolm - Hair - Ice Grey 4 & 5

Face - Leaf, Apple & Meadow Green, 

Shirt - Cool Grey 1, 

Waist Coat - Aubergine, Plum & Purple

Buttons, Bow Tie & Hankie - Orange & Burnt Orange

Trousers - Warm Grey 4

Shoes - Warm Grey 5

Muffin - Cool Grey 1, 3 & 4, Bright Orange and Salmon Pink

Poe - Tawny Owl, Grey Squirrel and Purple

Post - Auburn(FM) and Burnt Sienna

Stampin Up Punch and Stamps

"Boo" sentiment made using Block Alpha Stamps

Bakers Twine, Pearlised card and orange paper from stash.

I really hope you can pop over to 31 Spook Street and say hello :D

I would like to enter the following challenges; 
Clear It Out Challenge- Let's Hear it for the boys 
Passion For Promarkers - For The Boys
Shopping Our Stash - For the kids
Cards For Men - String it Up
Digi Sketch Challenge - For The Boys
Cutie Pie Challenges - Cute one for the boys
Glitter n Sparkle  - Male cards
Opus Gluei - Boo!
Creative Corner - Happy Halloween

Autumn Glow

Hello, it has been a couple of weeks since my last post. And this post is for the new challenge over at the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog, and the theme set by the lovely Jess is Autumn Glow.  I don't know about you, but Autumn is my favourite season, cold sunny days, walks in the park with crunchy leaves under foot, hot choccies and candles...oooohhhh can't wait!! Anyway, I digress, for my DT creation, I played about with Autumnal colours and used the idea of an Indian Summer and made a pretty little Red Indian girl.

I used stamp sets available from the Sarah Hurley Shop and will explain which stamp set each one came from.  

I made the background arrows using a border stamp from the Borders, Corners and Banners stamp set (I also used a banner from this to stamp the sentiment on).

The girl comes from the Be Amazing Girl stamps, as do the feathers in her hair and her fabulous eyelashes. I stamped her onto white card using brown memento ink. I decided to put lots of stars on her dress and they came from the Wish Upon a Star Girl Stamps. I really wanted to put a headdress on her and used one of the chevrons from the Borders, Corners & Banners stamp set and curved it slightly to sit nicely on her head. For the first time ever I stamped the feathers onto the top of her head using the masking technique, oh it was nerve wracking lol. I coloured her hair, skin and shoes in with promarkers.

The sentiment is from Sentiment Stamp set.

 

Ingredients

Borders, Corners & Banners 

 Be Amazing Girl Stamps

Wish Upon A Star Girl Stamps

Sentiment Stamps

Memento ink pads

Promarkers

Martha Stewart Corner Punch

Diamond White card

Green and burgandy card from stash.

I hope you like my card, and will join in with us this time.

I would like to enter the following challenges;

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes with an Uplifting Sentiment

Part Time Tuesdays  - Anything Goes

Kaboodle Doodles  - Fall Colours

The Squirrel and the Fox - Fall Colours

A Creative Romance - Masking

Here's one I made earlier.

Hello there, I am slowly easing myself back into crafting and blogging and thought I would share another card that I made a while ago but haven't blogged.

This one is a Get Well Card and I wanted to keep it clean and simple with some embossing and a sentiment. The sentiment is from the new Sentiment Stamps by Sarah Hurley, and the set is full of great every sentiments that can be used for lots of occasions from Births to New Home.  I embossed some plain white card with an embossing folder I have in my stash, popped some grosgrain ribbon on and some wee punchie flowers with gems on them. I opted for green as it is quite a neutral and calming colour.

Ingredients

Sentiment Stamps by Sarah Hurley

Paisley embossing folder

Memento Ink Pad

Ribbon, gem, papers from stash.

Thanks for popping by, always nice to have visitors.

I would like to enter the following challenges;

Whimsy Stamps - Clean & Simple

Top Tip Tuesday - Embossing

ABC39 - Monochromatic

Eureka Stamps - Clean & Simple

My Craft Spot - Clean & Simple

It's been a while!!

Hiya, what a few weeks here we have had at Chez Christie, started off with what I thought was a touch of lurgy...ended up in the Emergency Docs at 11pm one evening being with a high temperature and a pulse of 143 eeeekkk. The diagnosis - Scarlatina, a form of Scarlet Fever!!! I had no idea people still got that in this day and age. I can tell you, it is the worst thing I have ever experienced. Hubby has been amazing, and has looked after me so well, he has the patience of a saint!! Anyway, after 2 weeks of monster sized anti-biotics, I am slowly getting better and trying to get back to some kind of normality and build myself back up.

So, today I thought I would gently ease myself in with a card I made a few weeks ago before the lurgy struck. I made a pile of cards using the fab new Sentiment Stamps from Sarah Hurley and this one is a Congratulations one, perfect for this time of year with all the exam results coming through. I wanted to keep the card quite Clean & Simple, so embossed some white cardstock, popped a ribbon on it and stamped the sentiment.

Ingredients

Sentiment Stamps from Sarah Hurley

Star Embossing folder

Memento Ink Pad

Ribbon, gems and card from stash.

Thanks for reading, it's nice to be back.

I would like to enter the following challenges;
Art Impressions Stamps - Simply Sentiments
C.R.A.F.T - Monochromatic
Cuttin & Stampin - CAS
C is For Challenge - Fresh and bright

New week, new challenge.

And this week it is with the fabulous girls over at Stitchy Bear Stamps, and this is my first DT card for them and I was really nervous as the girls on the team are super talented.  The theme this time is Use A Digi, with the winner getting a $20 voucher for the store if they use a Stitchy Bear Image, or $3 if they don't.

I was lucky enough to get the gorgeous "I'm Too Old For You" .

I coloured her using Promarkers, Flexmarkers and decided to pop some gemstones on the skulls eyes to make it a bit more girly.

I made the sentiment using stamps from Everyday Sayings Stamps from Sarah Hurley, they were just perfect for this card.

Ingredients

"I'm Too Old" from Stitchy Bear Stamps

Everyday Sayings Stamps from Sarah Hurley

Nesties

Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Gemstones and ribbon from stash.

I really hope you can join us this time over at One Stitch At A Time xx

I would like to enter her into the following challenges;
2 Sisters  - Make it sparkle
Crafty Friends - Inspired by a song( Sweet Child of Mine by Guns N Roses)
Paper Creators - Think Pink
Aud Sentiments - Two word sentiment

The sun has got his hat on.

And he's coming out to play! It is really warm and sunny here in Glasgow, and I am toiling with this heat! We have fans on in every room, and it is just too warm to do anything energetic, so today I took myself into the craftroom and made a bundle of CAS cards.

I am having trouble sleeping again, and the heat isn't helping lol. So I lie in bed thinking of different cards to make and keep a wee notebook beside the bed for my ideas. This was one that came to me at 1am last night.

I made ten in total, and made 9 of them with the sentiments from the new Sentiments Stamp Set from Sarah Hurley. I am always on the look out for a nice sentiment stamp set and this set has stamps for all occasions, ranging from "New arrival" to "Thinking of you".  I decided to use the "Thinking of you" stamp, but use lovely bright colours instead of the usual neutrals or pastels that I would use when using a sentiment like this.  As the stamp is a really generous size, I used two different colours of Memento Ink pads, to match in with the ribbon I found in my stash. I have lots of embossing folders, and really don't use them enough, so today I used my honeycomb one from Stampin Up.

Ingredients

Thinking of You stamp from Sentiments Stamp Set by Sarah Hurley

Honeycomb embossing folder from Stampin Up

Memento Ink Pads

Card Candi

Ribbon and orange pearlescent card from stash.

I hope you like my sunshiney card.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges;

Crazy 4 Challenges - Let's get wordy

4 Crafty Chicks - Dry Embossing

Aud Sentiments - Two Words