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

It's October

And that can only mean one thing...Halloween is on it's way! It is my turn to host the challenge over at Sarah Hurley Challenges and I had to choose Halloween.  I love everything Halloweeny, from witches to bats, ghoulies to black cats and I think it is becoming much more of an occasion here in Britain too.  Thankfully, it is much easier to get Halloween stash to make things too.  

Sarah has recently launched a new range of characters and you can find them living in 31 Spook Street. There are stamps and a great digi kit, which includes some awesome digi papers.

I used stamps for my project and did some inky crafting for a change.  I usually make quite clean and simple cards, so this was an adventure for me.  I used elements from Angelica Strange and Malcolm Strange Stamp Sets and embossed some of them with clear embossing powder to make a background.

I then used Distress Inks to add some colour to the background, whilst leaving the pumpkin and boooo clear/white.  I was really pleased with the results, and the stamps produce clear crisp images every time, and because they are clear you can see exactly where you are stamping and that it is straight, which was important for the "Spooktacular" sentiment, which is in the Angelica Set.  I used black embossing powder for the spider, fussy cut him and popped him onto some 3d foam to give him some dimension.

Ingredients

Angelica Strange Stamps

Malcolm Strange Stamps 

Distress Inks

Clear and black embossing powders

Versa Mark Ink, Black Memento ink

Orange and white card from stash.

I really hope you can pop over to the Sarah Hurley Challenges and join in with the things that go bump in the night.

I would like to enter the following challenges;

Bearly Mine - Halloween

Cutting & Stampin - Halloween

Country View  - Something Spooky

Emergency Crafters - Halloween

Imagination Crafts - Halloween

The Stamping Boutique - Halloween

Created with Love - Halloween

Quirky Crafts - Quirky Pumpkins

CD Case with a difference.

Hi, I thought I would share another project I made for the Sarah Hurley Lookbook 3.  This time I came out of my comfort zone and chose to alter something, and used a background from  Journaled 365, Journal Basics and a stamp from the fabulous Odds and End stamp set.

There are a few pictures, and I will explain as I go.

I took a blank CD and CD case, and made them "retro" using the Cassette stamp from the Odds and Ends set.  I used lots of different colours of Memento ink pads to make it really bright and funky.  

I stamped the CD too, to make it match the CD case.

I printed out a paper from the Journaled 365 digi kit, and to make it even more vivid I printed it onto photo paper and it looks amazing.

It is truly inky fun, without all the mess which suits me fine *happy face*

Ingredients

Journaled 365 - Journaled Basics by Sarah Hurley

Odds & Ends Stamp Set by Sarah Hurley

Memento Ink Pads

Photo paper, CD Case and CD from stash.

It is a great way to personalise gifts, or update the old "Mix Tape" and bring it right up to date.

I hope this inspires you to try something different in your craft room.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges;

That Craft Place - Makes for Men

My Time To Craft - Show us The Inside

Delicious Doodles - Anything But a Card

Crafting By Designs - Remembering Our Childhood(Mix Tapes)

Whimsical Designs - Alter It

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.