Xmas Notebook

Hi everyone,

 

It is my turn over on the Colourcraft Ltd Design Team Blog with a fun mixed media Xmas Notebook, perfect for me to write down everything down and make sure I don’t forget anything!

Head on over to the Blog to see how I created this notebook here

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Blue Christmas

Hi Everyone!

It is my turn over on the Colourcraft Design Team Blog today and I have a Steampunk themed Blue Wooden Christmas Tree to share.. I would love for you to pop over to the blog and have a wee peek .. link here

This project is also on an upcoming workshop at Stampers Grove on Saturday 2nd December.. details here

I hope to share more projects with you in the coming weeks leading up to christmas as I have workshops to prepare for and I have bought a ton of new crafty goodies and I need to start playing with them and start making my christmas cards!

See you soon

Sarah

Happy Holidays

Hi everyone!

Welcome to Day 14 of Blogmas… Day 14!! they are flying in!

Today I have a clean and simple Gift tag to share.. A wee stitched tag, a felt christmas tree and a chipboard scribble heart.. and it’s finished, I do like to keep things simple and love how it looks 🙂

Supplies List:-

• Stitched Border Tag Die
• Clearly Besotted Stamp Happy Holidays
• Hero Arts Shaddow Ink in Soft Olive
• Scrapiniec Chipboard heart and holly
• Felt Christmas Tree from Hobbycraft
• Wink of Stella Clear glitter pen (for the scribble heart)
• Tacky Glue
• Lawn Fawn Trimmings Natural Twine

Join me tomorrow for Day 15, as always thank you for popping in

Sarah x

Shiny Star Trio

Hi Everyone!

Welcome to Day 12 of Blogmas and another Christmassy Crafty Project

I was at Stampers Grove Craft Shop on Saturday and got some of these fab papermache stars to paint…

I have had a lot of fun painting stuff for christmas this year, and I used some of the Imagination Crafts Starlights Paints to give these stars a lovely shiny new coat..

The three colours I chose to paint them were Apple Green, Chartruese and Jade.. I love how they turned out and they will look great on the tree 🙂

As always, thank you for popping round and I will see you tomorrow for Day 13 of Blogmas

Sarah 😀

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 🙂

Shine

Hi everyone,

A warm welcome to Blogmas day 7

I mentioned last night that today’s post was going to be a card.. here it is 🙂

It is a 4 x 4 card and similar to the one i made the other day, but with this one I tried out my new sizzix 3D embossing folder that I bought at the weekend at Stampers Grove..

It also uses the new Tim Holtz /Sizzix Thinlets snowflake dies that I used the other day too… here is a wee picture of the ones I bought, I am hoping to use the branches dies very soon too..

Supplies List

• White Cardstock 8″ x 4″ and scored at 4″ so when folded makes a 4″ x 4″ card base
• White Cardstock for the top embossed layer
• Sizzix 3D Embossing Folder
• Tim Holtz Alterations Snowflake Die Set
• White Glitter Paper
• Aleene’s Tacky glue
• Scotch Double Sided Foam Tape
• Tim Holtz Chit Chat
• Black Soot Distress Ink
• Small star punch and silver glittered cardstock

I love all the texture in this wee card  and it is very white.. almost too white like snow 🙂

Oki Doki.. that’s me for another night, back tomorrow with Day 8

As always, thank you for popping round

sarah

Purple Rain-Deer

Hi Everyone..

Welcome to Blogmas Day 6!

Today’s Christmas crafty project is a couple of purple reindeer Glitter and Shimmer 🙂

I have made these for Alex at work’s daughter to hang on her wee christmas tree, I made the glittery one first and I think If i was making another glittery one I would give it a base layer of paint the same colour of glitter I was going to cover it with, the reason being, if you look hard enough you can see the paper mache brown shining through… did i mention i got these at hobbycraft reduced to 50p each.. i love a wee bargain

But as this will be going on a Christmas tree I don’t think you will notice it too much..as after the glittery one was finished, I painted the other one with Imagination Crafts Lilac Mist Starlights paint… i like this one better

I forgot to mention that I gave the glittery one a good old spray with Crafters Companion shiny varnish spray to keep the glitter in, as it sheds like crazy

I really need to get my christmas cards made, so tomorrow will be a card post 🙂

As always, thank you so much for popping round and I will catch you all tomorrow 🙂

Sarah

Gilded Christmas Ornaments

Hi Everyone!

Welcome to Blogmas Day 3

I have had a super busy day today, my day  started off with a workshop at Stampers Grove in Edinburgh, followed by late lunch with the boys, a couple of hours housework and then I headed up the garden to my shed to make things 🙂

If you remember last week I featured Tags and Cards that were gilded with gilding flakes to make them look that wee bit special… well today I thought I would share some tree ornaments that I gilded too.

I took a paper mache reindeer and a glass clip on bird and turned them into lovely ornaments.. here are a couple of before and after pictures

The Reindeer

Glass Clip on Bird (it’s hard to see against the background.. I tried a few but they all looked the same 🙂

I used Cosmic Shimmer Flake and Glitter Glue as my adhesive and also some gilding flakes Chocolate Box and Yorkshire Dales.

Here is the Reindeer with his new coat

and the wee bird

and the two together

I hope you enjoyed today’s Christmas ornaments, these two will be added to my tree once it goes up 🙂

I hope to see you tomorrow for day 4, and thanks so much for popping in today.

Sarah