Blogmas Day 22

Hi there everyone,

A very warm welcome to my blog and to Blogmas Day 22!

I have a quick and easy project for you this evening… I needed to make a gift wallet, now normally I would make these from scratch, but with time ticking on and a million and one things still needing done I opted for the quickie option and it is a good one to keep under your hat.

I used a Papermania Geometric Gift Wallet and added some chipboard elements to make it more christmassy

supplies list :-

• Papermania Geometric Gift Wallets
• Scrapiniec Chipboard Snowflakes
• Letter M Chipboard Alpha
• Imagination Crafts Starlights Pain in White Gold
• Glue

This is the reverse side of it… I do have a blog post and a you tube video on how to make these envelopes from scratch if you are interested in making some for yourself

I love how it turned out and i even stuck some of the unused snowflake arms that I chopped off the top right snowflake into the letter M to give it a bit of dimension

As always thank you so much for popping round and I will see you for Day 23 tomorrow

Sarah x

 

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A Merry Christmas

Hi everyone..

Welcome to Blogmas Day 8…

I can’t believe how fast the days are flying in… the good thing is, I have 3 Christmas cards made already 😉

I have another card to share with you all, simple yet I love it.

Supplies list :-

• Daler and Rowney Watercolour card for the base
• Scrapiniec Chipboard Shapes
• Paperartsy Hyde Park Semi Opaque Paint
• Deco Art Media Tinting Base (added to the Hyde Park to make it opaque)
• Papermania 2mm clear Rhinestones
• Clearly Besotted Merry Christmas Stamp
• Scotch Double Sided Foam Tape
• Versafine Onyx Black Ink

I love the simplicity of this card, not too many things going on… just paint a chipboard shape and add to your card 🙂

Thanks for supporting my blog I really do appreciate you all who take the time and stop by 🙂

I’m out tomorrow for my works Christmas Lunch, but should be back in time to make something for the blog … I have a workshop on at Stampers Grove this Saturday and have another tray to alter… so that will probably be my blog post..

See you all tomorrow

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

Merry Little Christmas Card

Hi everyone!

A warm welcome to Blogmas day 5.

It is absolutely freezing outside and I had to stick an extra heater on in my shed tonight to warm the place up 😀 however the cold spell is due to go away mid week as the jet stream sits above the UK bringing warm air up from the nether regions 😉

I have a wee christmas card to share today, I am using my favourite patterned paper and also a new Snowflake Die Set.

supplies list:-

• First Edition Christmas Promise 6×6 Patterned paper stack
• Clearly Besotted Merry Christmas stamp
• Tim Holtz Snowflake Die Set
• Versafine Onyx Black Ink
• Stampin Up Dimensional Adhesive

I’m thinking i might just make this my Christmas card for the neighbours this year, I will see how many I can make this weekend 😉

As always, thanks for popping round and I will see 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

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

Who mentioned the “C” word?

Christmas cards already….. surely not?

I did, not only did I make a christmas card,  I recorded a tutorial for it too for Youtube 😀 …. keen or what!

Here she is…

 

supplies list :-

• Heavyweight white cardstock for the base 13″ x 4″ scored at 6.25″
• Maja Designs Vintage Spring 6 x 6 stack
• Studio Calico Sundrifter 6 x 6 stack
• SEI Berry Melody Sundries
• Tattered Angels Patina Glimmer Mist
• Pink Paislee City Sidewalks chipboard Snowflakes
• Vintage Lace from Etsy Store Lavish Laces
• Ingvild Bolme Distress Tool
• Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink
• Muslin Fabric Scrap
• Colall All Purpose Glue
• Clearly Besotted Tag Along Stamp and Die Cut Set
• Stampin Up Dimensional Adhesives

 

I added a little bokeh photo treatment to give it a nice christmassy feel plus it will look nice for posting over on pinterest 😉

 

Oki doki.. i’m going to head off now, the video is currently uploading to Youtube, should be live any time soon!

Thanks for popping in

Sarah