Easter Basket

Hi Everyone..

It was my turn over on the Colourcraft Design Team Blog yesterday with a fun Easter Basket.. for the full blog post click here

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Steampunk Christmas Tree Workshop

Hi Everyone,

It is hard to believe it is December already, the weeks are just flying in!

I was over in Edinburgh yesterday at Stampers Grove for a Steampunk Christmas Tree workshop and I thought I would share all the lovely trees made by all who attended 🙂

I didn’t manage to get a picture of Rita or Isobel’s trees as they left before I got around to taking a picture of them but they looked lovely 🙂

I hope to start making some Christmas cards next week so will try and blog them as I go

Thanks for popping in

Sarah 🙂

The Wee Gingerbread Man

Hi Everyone!

Happy Saturday to you all and I hope your weekend is positively wonderful!

It is that time of the month again and my turn over on the Colourcraft Design Team Blog

I have been having so much fun playing with Expandit this week and if you head on over to the blog you can see how I made this cute wee man 🙂 >>>> Link Here 

Thanks for popping in

Sarah 🙂

A Wee Pink Egg House

Hi Everyone!..

Happy Saturday to you all 😀

I have a wee pink egg house to share with you today, this is the first of 2 that I have to share, I still have the other one to decorate…

Supplies List..

• Pink Egg House £1.00 from Hobbycraft
• Paperartsy Snowflake and Blush Chalk Paint
• Double Sided Tape 1/8th Inch
• Tim Holtz Vintage Platinum Glitter
• Styrofoam Eggs
• Dina Wakeley Matte Medium

I painted the whole house white first so that it did not alter the colour of the blush paint… left the inside white

Hope you liked today’s project.. I also finished my G45 Safari Adventure mini album today too.. I will take photo’s of that tonight and do the blog post tomorrow

As always, thanks for popping round

sarah x

 

The Christmas Clay Vase

Hi Everyone..

Welcome to Day 11 of Blogmas!

Today I gave a clay vase that I bought a couple of years ago a bit of a festive makeover… it was looking a bit sorry for itself sitting up on the shelf in my shed.

So… I gave it a layer of Deco Art Media White Gesso, dried it with my heat gun, then gave it a lick of Captain Peacock fresco finish chalk acrylic paint from paperartsy…

I wrapped some twine around the middle, painted a balsa wood star with Deco Art Media fluid acrylic metallic gold paint and placed a few sprigs of glittery foliage into it and we are done 🙂

I love making my own home decor for Christmas, makes it that wee bit special knowing its homemade…

As always thanks for popping round and if you fancy joining me tomorrow, I will have another festive project for you.

Sarah x

Masculine Christmas Gift Box

Hello Everyone!

A warm welcome to Blogmas Day 10! .. gosh we are into double digits now 🙂 we have 14 more days left until Christmas Eve and of course the end of Blogmas!

Today I have a masculine gift box to share with you.. it started out as a plain brown hexagonal paper mache box…

I half started making this the other night when I made a christmas card and mixed up too much of the light green paint, and instead of wasting it, I painted the lid of this box.

Supplies List :-

• 1 x paper mache box
• Paperartsy Hyde Park Semi Opaque Green Paint
• Deco Art Media Tinting Base .. when I mixed it with the Hyde park it gave me the colour on the lid.
• First Edition Wild at Heart 6×6 patterned paper stack (I love this stack)
• Double Sided Tape
• Black Tartan Ribbon from Stampers Grove
• 3 x Painted Pinecones from Hobbycraft (you get 6 in a bunch)
• Hot glue gun to stick the pinecones down

Now that I am writing this blog post and looking at the picture I am wishing that I had edged all the paper panels and the edges of the lid with distress ink just to give it some definition..

As always, thank you for popping round and I will see you tomorrow for Day 11 🙂

Sarah x

Festive Tray

Hi Everyone!

Welcome to Blogmas Day 9!

I made it ….. by the skin of my teeth with today’s project 🙂

I still have a few bits n bobs to add to this but it is almost there so thought I would share it as is..

I am at Stampers Grove tomorrow making festive trays with the lovely ladies and this is sample tray No. 2

These trays are perfect for filling with goodies (tea/coffee/biscuits or toiletries/perfume/makeup or even sit a dolly or a big teddy in the middle and wrap up in cellophane with a big bow on top..

I want to add some glittery snowflakes (using the Tim Holtz dies I used earlier in the week) along the outside edges just to finish this off but I will need to do that tomorrow morning.

I’m off to bed now as it is an early start for me in the morning, then I will see you all tomorrow evening for another blogmas project… I’m thinking it might be a gift box 😉

As always, I appreciate you coming round

Sarah 🙂

Halloween Pumpkin

Hi Everyone!

You know the other day how I said I was done with Halloween?  ….well…..I forgot that I bought a paper mache pumpkin when I was in Hobbycraft and seeing as it is Halloween tomorrow, I thought I better paint it 😀

I actually got a bargain it was reduced to £4.00 ! So here is my naked pumpkin, it is fairly big and about the size of a medium real one 😉

I gave it an initial coat of Paperartsy Butternut Opaque chalk finish paint I didnt have any opaque orange paints so had to improvise

then I added a dollop of Deco Art Media Tinting Base and some quinacridone gold which gave me a pale orange colour

then i mixed in more quinacridone gold to the base dollop on my desk and we are getting there..

and even more ….

then i dry brushed neat quinacrodone gold all over the top.. and happy with the result

Happy Halloween everyone!!

Sarah

Birdhouse Makeover (Timelapse)

Hi Everyone…

Apologies, it has been a while since I have blogged, It’s not that I have not been crafting, it is more the case of I have not had time to blog any of it..

Life is busy with the pups and Chunky has more trips to the vet than i can mention.. but he is still with us and on the whole keeps remarkably well 🙂

I altered this little wooden birdhouse yesterday and recorded the video, spent this morning editing it and chopping it down from 2 hours to 7 mins 🙂  I love how it looks.

Supplies used :-

• Wooden Birdhouse from Stampers Grove
• PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Acrylic Paint in Granny Smith Opaque Chalk Finish
• Claudine Hellmuth Semi Gloss Acrylic Paint in Traditional Tan
• Paperartsy Patterned Paper 12 x 12
• Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink
• Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive

I also made a little book yesterday, so I will edit that video next and see how it looks 🙂

See you soon

Sarah x

Hearts and Flowers Gift Box

Hi everyone..

The sun is out today for a change so I headed up to my wee shed to make some stuff 🙂

I have not been feeling very crafty of late, so it was nice to get up there and get covered in paint and glue!

I made two things today … I altered a paper mache heart shaped box and made a display board for my fridge magnets (to take to a workshop).

I recorded a video for both which I will edit this afternoon and will blog the display board tomorrow.

I made a slight change to the box at the last minute and will post a picture below..

I had a small box of Woodware mulberry flowers in dark colours, so I used the same paint I painted the box with to paint the flowers so that they matched.

supplies list:-

• Heart Shaped Paper Mache Box
• PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Paint in the colour Blush
• Glitz Designs Beautiful Dreamer Patterned Paper Collection
• Woodware Mulberry Flowers
• Pink Sequins and Pale Pink Acrylic Rose & Cotton Candy Glitter by Martha Stewart
• Mod Podge ~ Matte Finish
• Versa Magic Chalk Ink in the colour Pixie Dust
• Scortape, Paintbrushes, Paper Trimmer and Scissors & Heat Gun
• Late addition.. ruffle edge ribbon.

Thanks for popping round!

Sarah x