Exciting times.

Hello again,

Very exciting day for us members of the Sarah Hurley DT, as the second edition of the Lookbook went live this morning.  There has been a lot of work going on behind the scenes, and now I can start to show you my creations for this issue.

 

First of all I will show you a Christmas card I made using papers from the Tinseltown Digi Kit.  The options are endless, and I chose to make a green themed card.  I used a snowfall paper as my base layer and the petal dot as the bauble paper.  I embossed a sheet of white pearlised card with a Sizzix folder to carry on the snow theme. The dies are from Memory Box.  I had to add some bling onto the baubles, just to make it twinkle.  The sentiment is also from the kit.

 Ingredients

Sarah Hurley Tinseltown Kit.

Memory Box Die

Sizzix embossing folder

Silver ribbon, twine, gems and pearls from stash.

 

I hope you enjoy the Lookbook as much as we enjoyed making things for it.

 

 

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

Guylou's Inimitability - Let it snow.

Raise the Bar - Let it Snow

Dutch Dare Card Challenges - Snowflakes

ABC Christmas Challenge - Your favourite Die

Perfect Sentiments Challenge - Must have a sentiment on the front - Christmas

Crafty Sentiments - Snowflakes



 

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)

It's been a while...

Since I last blogged. I have been full of the dreaded lurgy with an added bonus of conjunctivitis.  Feeling better now, and have lots of cards to make, due to being unable to craft with my dodgy eyes.

 

I made this card a while ago, but couldn't show it until the recipients birthday had passed.  The brief was for a man who loved gardening, flowers and bright colours. So I came up with this card.

 

I stamped a gardening teddy and coloured him in with Promarkers, I used a deckle edged ruler to create the edge on the "mud" and "grass". I used paper flowers and buttons to create the scene, I am really pleased with the result and I hope the recipient was too :)

 

Ingredients

Paper from stash

Personal Impressions stamp

Coloured with Promarkers

Die cuts Whimsy, Memory box and Die'namics

Buttons and flowers from stash.

 

I have quite a few cards to make to catch up with a week of no crafting, so no doubt there will be more blog posts later today :-)

I would like to enter him into the following challenges;
2 Sisters - Things with wings(my bee button)
Dude Time Doodles - Must be masculine plus sentiment
I Love Promarkers - Occupations(Gardener)
Perfect Sentiments - masculine plus sentiment on the front
Twisted Tuesdays 2TC24 - Things that fly plus 3 different embellishments(Buttons, die cuts and flowers)