Indigoblu Cardwell Demonstration Day

Hi everyone!

Happy 1st of February to you all…

Remember a few blog posts ago I mentioned I was heading to Cardwell Garden Centre in Gourock to do a demonstration for indigoblu… Well I thought that I would share my day there with you and also make this a regular feature here on the blog.

A huge thank you to Mairi and Faye for looking after me it was a lovely day and great to see so many like minded crafty ladies and youngsters.

First of all I would like to thank Elizabeth for driving over to see me at the demo… Elizabeth and I have been online crafty friends for well over four years but had never met!  well we finally got to meet and give each other a big hug yesterday .. You can find Elizabeth and all her gorgeous crafty goodies over here on her blog:

http://silverscrappers.blogspot.co.uk

and here we are

It was a great day and it is a great shop and if you are ever through that way pop in and visit the craft shop and say hi to Mairi and Faye 🙂

here are couple of the cards I made yesterday using the new indigoblu release stamps.

And finally a wee photo of me making something and chatting to the ladies (photo credit to Mairi for this one).

Well that’s me for now, I hope you enjoyed a wee insight into my demo day yesterday..

As always thank you so much for popping round and I will see you all soon with more crafty stuff 🙂

Sarah x

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Ink Splat Butterfly

Hi Everyone…

Guess what…

It’s nearly Friday 😀  I am so looking forward to the weekend…

On Saturday I travel through to Gourock for Indigoblu demonstrating all the lovely new release stamps.. details here

So today I thought I would share another card I made for CHA USA / Frankfurt Show / Stitches Trade Show with you all, it is featuring the Ink Splat Butterfly Stamp  and the Rugged Edge Stamp Set   This card measures 8″ x 8″

 

Supplies List :-

• Indigoblu Ink Splat Butterfly Stamp
• Indigoblu Diamond Stencil
• Tim Holtz Peacock Feathers Distress Ink
• Indigoblu Cottage Acrylic Paints : Banana Custard, Grandmas Teacup, Park Lane
• Indigoblu Sarah’s Choice Stamp Set
• Indigoblu Rugged Edge Stamp Set
• Indigoblu Flitterglu Starter Kit
• Sheffield Steel Mega Flakes
• Stazon Inks : Jet Black, Blue Hawaii, Cactus Green & Vibrant Violet available from Indigoblu

 

As always, thank you so much for popping round

Sarah 🙂

The Bird, The Box and The Bauble.

Hi Everyone!

Hope you are all well .. can you believe December is here already!

I have a few Christmas sparkles to share with you today, and to say that I won’t be around on my blog much between now and the new year, I have a lot of stuff happening.

My husband broke his leg in two places the other week, and will be off his work for the next 6 weeks, which means, my workload has increased… Hospital appointment with the consultant to see if they are going to operate/pin/plate the bones to stabilize tomorrow.

I was at the dentist on Monday… I’m on antibiotics for a week as I have an infection in my jaw from a broken crown (just my luck!) and I go to the dentist on Monday to have the root removed (not looking forward to it one bit!)

I will be busy between now and the end of December preparing samples for Indigoblu for their CHA releases, which unfortunately I can’t share.    However there will be a blog post from me every Tuesday over on the Indigoblu Blog and another card share on the challenge blog around the 19th December.

My Indigoblu Demonstrations have now finished for the year and I have one final workshop to do this Saturday over in Edinburgh for Stampers Grove,  there are still a few spaces left if you fancy joining me making Christmas shaker cards, money wallets, gift card holders and Christmas tags!

Phew!.. and did I mention in amongst all the December mayhem, I still have to make my own  Christmas cards for friends and family and do all of my Christmas gift shopping  eek!

Now onto my sparklies…

A christmas pillow box

 

The Bird, The Box and The Bauble

 

Gift Box

 

Glass Bauble

As always, thank you so much for popping round and for all your support this year.

Sarah x

Christmas Keepsake Workshop – Saturday 8th November 2014

Join me next Saturday 8th November 2014 from 11am till 1pm at Stampers Grove where we will be creating lovely wee Christmas keepsake boxes.   Call James or Emma on 0131 221 9440 to book a place

Christmas Keepsake Box

Hello there everyone..

It is Tuesday and that means it is my turn over on the Indigoblu DT Blog.     My project this week is a heart shaped keepsake box..

I used a paper mache heart shaped box with lid, and applied a couple of layers of White Gee-soo Good Gesso, and gave all the edges a touch of distress ink…

Along the bottom edge of the box I ran some 1/8″ double sided tape then gave it a little dusting with Eton Mess Megaflake.. the gorgeous crochet lace trim around the top is available from the Indigoblu Shop, I picked up a some when I visited HQ in August, it was wrapped around a lovely wooden cotton reel.

I decorated the top with a felt snowflake, then layered a couple of paper flower blooms together, these were spritzed with Vodka Martini Acrylic paint made up into a little spray bottle, the edges of the flower petals were dabbed with flitterglu and sprinkled with some vintage mica flakes.

The wooden cotton reel base was covered with flitterglu applied directly with the phat foam, and smothered with Eton Mess Megaflake, the above picture is a side view of the trinket box

This is the back of the box, or the top of the heart 🙂 I love how the megaflake shines in contrast with the matte finish of the white gee-soo good Gesso

Supplies used :-

White Gee=Soo Good Gesso
Flitterglu Starter Kit
Eton Mess Megaflake
Vodka Martini Metallic Paint
Spray Bottle
Cottom Trim
Pinflair Gel Glue

And the front view… these little trinket boxes would made gorgeous gifts for your guests around the dinner table filled with yummy mints in shiny wrappers 🙂

I hope you liked this week’s project for Indigoblu and I will see you all soon with more crafty goodness

As always, thanks for popping round

Sarah x

 

Holly Berry Christmas

Hi everyone..

Happy Monday to you all!

Today I have another Christmas card to share with you, using the new Holly stamp from Indigoblu!

supplies used :-

• White 7 x 7 card base
• Silver mirror board
• Kraft Cardstock
• Mama Elephant Femme Frames
• Indigoblu Holly Berry A6 Stamp
• Self Adhesive Pearls
• Clear wink of stella pen
• black soot distress ink
• Versamagic Starlight Silver Ink
• WOW! Vanilla Opaque Embossing powder

As always, thank you for popping round

Sarah x

Autumn Shaker Card

Hi Everyone..

Happy Thursday to you!  I hope your day flies in, then it’s just one more day to the weekend!

It is my turn over at the Indigoblu blog to do a step by step tutorial.. so I chose to make a shaker card, if you would like to see the full process, just click here and it will take you across to the blog.

Supplies List :-

• Paperania tall card blanks 10.5cm x 21cm
• Stampin Up Nesting Circle Dies
• Stampin up Heart trio Punch
• Vintage Photo Distress Ink
• Stazon Inks : Jet Black, Ganache, Cactus Green and Olive Green
• Indigoblu Nature I and Nature II Stamp Set
• Indigoblu Live Laugh Love Stamp Set
• Chocolate Box Mega Flake
• Flitterglu starter Kit
• Foam Tape
• Stampendous Silver Halo Holographic Glitter
• Stampin Up Champagne Glass Glitter
• Indigoblu Soft Copper Glitter

As always, thank you for popping in and supporting my wee blog

Sarah x

Spider Treats

A quick little Monday post to share … Spiders 😉

supplies list :-

• Tiny wee square kraft treat boxes from Stampin Up
• Halloween Stamp Set from Craftystamps
• Onyx Black Versafine Ink
• Black Soot Distress Ink
• 1 1/4″ and 1 3/4″ Circle Punches from Stampin Up
• Chunky orange and white bakers twine from Stampin up(this is fab!)
• Orange circle is a scrap of sprayed and stencilled paper
• Dimensional adhesive from Stampin up

 

If you are in the UK and are looking to order some stampin up goodies, I have a link in my side bar —–> to Helen Anderson who is an independent stampin up demonstrator and where I get all my goodies from 😉

As always, thanks for popping round, much appreciated

See you all tomorrow at 10am with my Tuesday Slot over at the Indigoblu Blog

Sarah x

 

 

Christmas “Chocolate Box”

Hello there everyone,

It’s Tuesday and It is my turn over at the Indigoblu Blog to share another project …. I can hardly believe a week has passed already.. time certainly does fly when you are having fun 

I have used the snowflake lace background stamp and the gorgeous new Chocolate Box Megaflakes to create this versatile little christmas  ”Chocolate Box” gift holder, where you can slide the sides apart, fill with special chocolates and close right back up again.    The good thing about this project is you can adapt it for a variety of different holiday occasions, for example Halloween, Valentines Day, Easter etc…

 

I have used the gorgeous new chocolate box megaflakes and applied these to textured card stock for the main body of the box, I also die cut a rosette die and applied the flake, it just looks so lush, and to top it all off I took a chunky button, applied flitterglu and covered this with flake too 🙂

Supplies used :-

• Snowflake Lace Background Stamp
• Flitterglu Starter Kit
• Chocolate Box Megaflake (coming soon)
• Goldfinger Metallic Acrylic Paint

The large plastic snowflake was a cheap christmas decoration that I painted with Goldfinger metallic paint and I just love the effect,  In fact I would love to apply the new release metallic paints to more of these snowflakes and make several more in different colourways… perhaps I will do this for my step by step blog post next month if you would like to see how these are put together 😉

I hope you enjoyed this week’s project, as much as I did making it …

I hope you all have a super week!   Remember to check the Indigoblu blog for more posts later this week from the super talented Indigoblubelle’s

Take care

Sarah x

80th Birthday Wishes Book

Hi Everyone ….

A very happy sunny Saturday to you all!

I have been a busy wee ted in my shed today … I woke early this morning, had a bowl of porridge drizzled with ginger syrup, then headed up to my shed to get stuck in.

I finished off the 80th Birthday Wishes Book for a friend at work,  the best way to describe what this is…  It’s a bit like an autograph book, except instead of a birthday card, you get this wee book filled with lovely birthday wishes from friends and family 😉

supplies list :-

• Chipboard
• 12 x 12 Patterned Paper – Recollections the sweetest thing stack
• 1/2 ” ‘O’ Wire for the Bind it All
• Prima Say it in Crystals Swirls & Hydrangea Flowers
• Filigree wooden Butterfly from Strikes Garden Centre
• Metal Key from Indigoblu
• Various trims, lace, tuille, and mesh & a Coffee Filter
• Distress Inks: Wild Honey, Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade & Ripe Persimmon
• Memorybox numers dies
• Cardstock
• Indigoblu Royal peacock Megaflake
• Indigoblu Flitterglu Kit
• Indigoblu Cottage Acrylic Paint Pink Iced Gems and Post Box Red (mixed together)
• Sheets of Cream Challenge writing paper for the inside of the book

I cut and layered up 5 pieces of cardstock to provide a sturdy 80 for the front of the book

As always, thanks for popping round

Sarah 🙂