Remember you are Loved

I hope you all had a great weekend.

It is my turn for the design team post over on the Indigoblu Blog today, so I thought I would share them over here too.    First of all I have an 8″x 8″ Card to share using the new Limor Webber Circles stamp set and the sentiment from the Becca Stamp (both available to pre-order now on the Indigoblu shop.

Here is a peek at the stamps which are available to pre-order through the Indigoblu website.

I also used this stamp set plus the new Becca Stamp on this 5″ x 7″ Canvas

 

Hope you liked this week’s projects… I am out and about this weekend demonstrating with Indigoblu, I will share the details tomorrow evening 🙂

Thanks for popping round

Sarah 🙂

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Dramatic Eye Canvas

Hi everyone!!

Long time no see!!  I have been absent from my blog since well before Christmas, but I am back now 🙂

Where have I been?

I have been very busy creating projects for Indigoblu, they attended CHA 2015 in Anaheim, California… very exciting indeed.. my projects were all there too, really really pleased and humbled that they were good enough to go.

Which leads me on to the blog post for today.     Indigoblu have collaborated with Limor Webber to bring a range of gorgeous mixed media stamps and stamp sets, and they are absolutely fabulous!

It is my turn back over on the Indigoblu Blog today, after the festive break and my project is using one of the new Limor Webber stamp releases, this one is called Dramatic Eye and comes in 2 sizes, I used the larger stamp in the canvas below.

and here is my project, it is a 5 x 7″ canvas, I tried to keep it monochromatic 😉

There are lots of bits n pieces used here, including Indigoblu cottage acrylic paints and alter ego flourishes

I also used the snow white metallic paint watered down in a spray bottle to create a shimmer spritz spray..

Well, that’s me for today, I will be back, with lots more things to share in the not too distant future, so as always, thank you so much for popping in

Sarah x

you are ….

you are….

….the sunshine to my day

I recently subscribed to Craft Stamper Magazine and blog, and I have to say having been a crafter numerous years, I don’t know how I missed this fab wee magazine and blog!     I decided to enter the Take it Make it challenge for October and the theme is make something using the multicoloured stamping technique.

I picked the lollipop tree stamp from Indigoblu and various different colours of distress markers all in autumn shades..

supplies list :-

• Cream card
• Metallic Teal Card
• Indigoblu A6 Lollipop Tree Stamp
• Indigoblu Bear Hugs Stamp Set
• Tim Holtz Distress Markers : Gathered Twigs, Vintage Photo, Brushed Corduroy, Ripe Persimmon, Festive Berries, Mustard Seed, crushed olive, Mowed Lawn, broken china, tumbled glass, peacock feathers (I think that’s them all)
• Dimensional Adhesive from Stampin Up
• Scor tape

 

as always, thanks so much for popping round

Sarah

Jelli Prints and Fuzzy Flowers

Hello everyone..

An early start for me in my wee shed today and as a result this blog post will be a rather long one with lots of pictures.

I busted out my new Jelli Plate, who knew that they would be so much fun!

a) I get to use up some of the mountains of paper that I have been hoarding for the last 7 years

b) I get to use up some of the bottles of acrylic paint I have accumulated

c) I get to make cool new backgounds for my cards

First of all I will share the new jelli prints that I made, then I will show the cards I made after I was done 🙂

Grab a cuppa, it’s a long’un 🙂

 

and here are some of the cards that I made using the above jelli prints, along with some of my homemade felted fuzzy flowers

and with the valuable advice from Joycie I made the card below, notice how all the petals are the same size 🙂 thanks Joyce xx

how about a wee close up of those fuzzy flowers on the lovely backgrounds…

I hope you enjoyed today’s blog post, as much as I enjoyed creating all these lovely backgrounds and felted flowers

as always, thank you so much for popping round..

Sarah

Birthday Happy Mail

Hi Everyone..

I just wanted to share with you all the lovely handmade birthday cards my crafty friends sent me for my birthday a couple of weeks ago…

First up a lovely card from Wee Eileen 🙂

 

then a lovely piece of artwork from Dede

 

then Elizabeth sent me a lovey card, I love the way she decorates cards inside and out 🙂

 

and finally a birthday card arrived in the mail today from Nicky, along with a lovely piece of artwork … Love it Nicky, thank you x

 

A huge thank you to everyone for the cards and birthday wishes

Sarah 🙂

Shabby.

 

This is my latest design team project for Wild Orchid Crafts, it’s a re-purposed face cream selection box, which has had the shabby treatment, and tomorrow I will make the mini album to go inside.

This is what the box looked like before I set to work on it today…

 

and the inside

 

I decided to leave the silver cover visible on the box and not paint it out in acrylic paint, opting to matt and layer it with patterned paper, pearlescent shimmer card stock, lace and fabric.

 

I incorporated the shabby rose pins on the front of the box, that I made last week…

 

and I also made layered up some new flowers, after being inspired by some Prima Flowers that I had seen online

 

There is also little banner’s featured on the box, one in the top left corner of the box and another on the inside of the lid:-)

 

Its been fun making this today, and I am looking forward to making the mini album tomorrow, be sure to check out my Youtube channel for the video tomorrow showing the completed project

 

Thanks so much for popping in

Sarah x

Shabby Chic Love Canvas

 

A shabby chic love canvas created for Wild Orchid Crafts Youtube Design Team…

I took a blank canvas and layered it with flowers, skeleton leaves, rhinestones, lace, seam binding and a ton of rock candy distress glitter..

Here is a link to the video over on youtube {click here}

 

 

Wild Orchid Crafts products used:-

BM-00006 100 MIXED BROWN/CREAM TONE BLOOM SET
FS-00009 10 LT PINK MULBERRY PAPER LILY FLOWERS
LL-00003 100 NATURAL SKELETON LEAVES FOR CRAFTS
LL-00004 100 PINK SKELETON LEAVES FOR CRAFTS
EM-00058 100 MIXED SMALL IRIDESCENT BUTTERFLIES
SP00029 100 SELF ADHESIVE RHINESTONES – TAUPE
REZ-025 50 Cream Flower shape Flat Back Pearl 12mm
REZ-032 20 White flower Embelishments
SB-00014 VINTAGE SEAM BINDING RIBBON – PINK TULIP
LA-00010 1 METRE WHITE GUIPURE LACE

 

other products used :-

Pearl Lace Trim

Vintage Cream Acrylic Paint

Wooden Hearts

Ranger Rock Candy Distress Glitter

Spun Sugar Distress Stain

Golden Fluid Matt Medium

 

Thanks for popping round

Sarah x

Shabby Chic Photograph Book

I headed up to my shed late morning to make something shabby… it feels like an age since I made anything shabby…

I was supposed to be working today, but I worked my butt off for 10 hours straight yesterday, so that I didn’t have to go into work today.

So shabby chic it was and as it turned out, very much a recycling project..

here is what i made:-

 

it started off  it life looking like this

 

then I chopped the sides off

 

and made it into a bookcover..

 

I added some watered down acrylic paint..

 

and painted the cover back and front with several coats, until it looked how I wanted it

 

I took a second & third piece of corrugated cardboard, ran it through an embossing folder, and gave it the same paint treatment, all the edges were inked with pumice stone distress ink..

 

the picture above is the piece that I added to the outer spine of the photograph book.  I then added some burlap strands and a piece of junk jewels from my local charity shop and it looks like this…

 

The inside pages are just a heavy weight textured cardstock that I stitched together, then stitched them into the book, I used Ozegran (Jen’s) binding technique, a link to her blog is on my sidebar.

 

I roughed up all the edges of the book pages..

 

the front of the book features another one of the wooden hearts that I picked up from Hobbycraft at christmas.

there are also some vintage flowers, a padlock and a heart stick pin.. and I also incorporated some of my own handmade paper that I made last year from pulping down old letters and envelopes

 

As I mentioned at the start of my post, I have done a lot of recyling and “using it up” in this project..

• The cover was from an old cardboard box
• the spine gem came from the charity shop
• the cardstock I had for 4 yrs (using it up)
• the handmade paper on the front I made from old letters and envelopes

you can see the handmade paper just peeking out from behind the wooden heart..

 

Thanks for popping round.. hope you have had a great weekend!

Sarah

Sparkly Blue Art

Good evening everyone…

 

Hope you all had a a great christmas and you are all looking forward to a sparkly new year!

I have been busy cleaning the house all day today, getting ready for a wee party we are hosting on new years eve/day

So later on this evening I headed up the garden to my shed for a spot of arty crafty fun.

Tonight’s project consisted of me creating some art tiles / paintings to go into a 5 photo frame that I usually have hanging in my downstairs loo… there were pictures of various sail boats in it before and I wanted  something blue and sparkley.. so here is what i made

 

 

I used various distress stains, glitters, seam binding, embossing powders, and Salt!

 

Here is the first tile/sheet ….. it is embossed with my new embossing folder that I got for xmas and also has the addition of some gilding flakes

 

the second is stamped and embossed with clear embossing powder, I also encorporated some lindys stamp gang scintilating silver spray… it makes it lovely and sparkley 🙂

 

number three is scrunched and embossed with silver embossing powder

and number4 has the addition of some rock salt, thanks to Eileen, one of my crafty friends for the suggestion… I love the effect!

and if you look closely, you can see 2 faces!!

and finally on to number 5… this incorporates seam binding and rock candy distress dry glitter.. love this one too!

 

I have a new laptop and new photo editing software, which are taking quite a bit of getting used to !!

Have a great weekend and have a happy new year when it arrives x

Sarah

Christmas Distress Tags

Hello everyone, hope you are all having a great weekend!

I uploaded a video onto youtube this morning showing all the scrummy goodness from my latest Design Team package from Wild orchid crafts… click here to watch.

Today’s project is made on behalf of the Wild Orchid Crafts Youtube Design Team is Christmas Distress Tags using the Tim Holtz Artful Dwellings Die.

Not only could these be used for attaching to christmas presents, but you could also use them as a tree decoration too!

 

I ran all 3 tags through a Sizzix snowflake embossing folder, they all have the same distress crackle paint and distress rock candy glitter application applied, using different distress inks and stains for a different look.

First up I made this little red tag..

 

Supplies used :-

• Tim Holtz Artful Dwelling Die
• Sizzix Snowflake Embossing Folder
• Big Shot
• Distress Crackle Paint in Clear Rock Candy
• Distres Stickles Dry Glitter in Clear Rock Candy
• Distress Stain : Barn Door, Tea Dye
• Distress Ink : Festive Berries and Vintage Photo & Gathered Twigs
• Red iridescent Snowflakes Ref CX-00049 from Wild Orchid Crafts
• Gold Decorative Bells Ref : CX-00072 from Wild Orchid Crafts
• Silver Seam Binding SB-00020 from Wild Orchid Crafts
• Burlap
• Authentique Noteables Collection : Wonder Item # DW0005

 

Then I made a little brown tag…

 

Supplies used :-

• Tim Holtz Artful Dwelling Die
• Sizzix Snowflake Embossing Folder
• Big Shot
• Distress Crackle Paint in Clear Rock Candy
• Distres Stickles Dry Glitter in Clear Rock Candy
• Distress Stain : Gathered Twigs
• Distress Ink : Gathered Twigs and Walnut Stain
• Red Wiiden Star embelushment  ref : CX-00069 from Wild Orchid Crafts
• Silver Seam Binding Ref : SB-00020 from Wild orchid Crafts (see above tag info  for inks.stains used to dye this)
• Authentique Noteables Collection : Wonder Item # DW0005
• Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher stapler

 

and finally a nice festive green tag…

 

supplies used :-

• Tim Holtz Artful Dwelling Die
• Sizzix Snowflake Embossing Folder
• Big Shot
• Distress Crackle Paint in Clear Rock Candy
• Distres Stickles Dry Glitter in Clear Rock Candy
• Distress Stain : Evergreen Bough, gathered Twigs
• Distress Ink : walnut stain and crushed olive
• Gold Bow ref : RB00133 from Wild Orchid Crafts
• Gold Decorative Bells Ref : CX-00072 from Wild Orchid Crafts
• Authentique Noteables Collection : Wonder Item # DW0005
• Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher Stapler

 

The video for this weeks distress christmas tags on Youtube can be found here

Thanks for popping round everyone and have a wonderful weekend!

Sarah x