Christmas Lights

Morning Everyone!

It was my turn yesterday over on the Colourcraft Design Team Blog and I made a lovely little Christmas card incorporating mat board, fabric, Colourcraft White acrylic paint and pearl SprinkleIT (so shiney)!

If you would like to see more please head over to the colourcraft blog (here) and have a look see 🙂

Thanks for popping round

Sarah

 

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The Wee Wooden Tray

Hi everyone!

Something different from cards to share today… I altered a wee wooden tray for an upcoming workshop.. this is the before picture 🙂

If you would like to decorate one with me I will be at Stampers Grove on Saturday 10th December from 11am till 1pm.   they are perfect for that last minute Christmas gift, you can paint/embelish , then fill them with a whole host of festive goodies, wrap up in cellophane and you have a perfect tailor made christmas gift!

Here is the one I made today, this would be perfect filled with fruit teabags, coffee, and homemade shortbread biscuits..

There are a lot of different things incorporated in this tray, I gilded the edges in gold leaf, Stamped and heat embossed the sides with embossing powder and lined the inside and sides with a gorgeous patterned paper.. the handles are bound in gorgeous twine

I also took a picture outside, it is amazing how lighter it looks in natural lighting 🙂

To book a space on the workshop telephone 0131 221 9440 or email enquiries@stampersgrove.co.uk or pop into the shop at 92 Grove Street Edinburgh EH3 8AP .. Link to the workshop schedule here

Thanks so much for popping round.. I have another tray to prepare as a sample for the workshop, so be sure to check back next week

Sarah

 

If you Love Life…

Hi Everyone,

As promised, here is my second blog post..

A small 4″ x 4″ card with a rather nice sentiment on the front.

“I have found that if you love life, LIFE will love you right back“ arthur reubenstien

Supplies List;-

• Daler & Rowney Watercolour Card 140lb
• Kaiser Craft Pickled Pear Patterned Paper & Sentiment
• Scotch Double Sided Tape
• Papermania Self Adhesive Gems
• Mama Elephant Dotted Circle Die
• Pretty Lace from my stash

That’s all for now, and I will be back soon with more crafty goodness

Thanks for popping round

Sarah x

A Wee Hoose

Hi everyone…

Well my hanging up project was not ready..sigh … I have just given it another layer this morning and i need to wait for it to dry, then apply one more layer tonight, then i hope to be able to work on it tomorrow and hopefully share it then..

In the meantime, this wee mdf wooden hoose was sitting on the window ledge of my shed, so i painted it and decorated this instead..

I am going to a workshop this afternoon at Stampers Grove where I am going to learn how to draw faces!!.. i am looking forward to it, because I can’t  draw worth a sook lol .. I will show you my faces later tonight when I blog them

Back to the wee hoose… a coat of lovely paint, some mica flakes, buttons and a spot of distress ink and it was done.

Supplies List :-

• Paperartsy Fresco Finish Acrylic Opaque Paint in the colour Chalk
• Vintage Mica Flakes for the roof
• White and Cream Buttons
• Hot Glue Gun
• Cosmic Shimmer Specialist Acrylic Glue
• Vintage Photo Distress Ink

I’m off to get ready to head into Edinburgh for the workshop, I better look out my dylusions journal, I plan to draw then in that today 🙂

Laters 🙂

Sarah x

 

Just Breathe…

Hi everyone…

I nearly missed making a card tonight…

It was such a lovely evening, after dinner we took the dogs out on a huge big walk and didn’t get home till after 9pm..

So tonight’s card is another quickie.. using one of the star embelishments that I made last week 🙂 I have to say they are coming in handy!  I know I have only made 2 lots of embelishments and I need to make some more to build up a wee stock.. this week hopefully.

Sometimes we need to sit down and just breathe, and this was my inspiration for tonight’s card.  We lead such a busy life these days that we sometimes forget to sit down for 5 minutes and relax

supplies list :-

• Daler & Rowney Watercolour card for the card base ( I love the thickness of it)
• Cream cardstock
• Lil Inker Designs stitched square dies
• Tim Holtz Self adhesive words.. small talk
• Blue and Green Sequins
• Light Green Polka Dot Patterned Paper
• Sizzix Primitive Stars Die
• DCWV Christmas Stack of Corrugated Card
• Double Sided Tape, Foam Tape and Acrylic Glue

I am already organised with a wee project for tomorrow night… here is a sneek peek 😀

See you tomorrow !

Sarah x

Be Happy, Be Bright, Be You!

Hi Everyone..

I have a lovely wee cream and pink card to share with you today…

I missed 3 days crafting last week, due to birthday’s and I had a real sore neck/back, glad to report the chiropractor fixed me yay!

However, this has made me a little behind with making stuff, recording videos and blog posting, but I will get there.. there is no real rush.

For the card today, i used up the leftover strips of patterned paper from when I made the rosettes the other day, I glued them down to a sheet of cardstock to create a nice shabby chic panel for this card

Supplies List:-

• Daler & Rowney water colour card for the base tomake a 5.5″ square card
• Glitz Designs beautiful Dreamer patterned paper
• Leaf / Branch Die
• Lace
• Sequins
• Sentiment is from a journaling card, chopped down to size
• Stardust stickles

As always, thanks for popping round

See you tomorrow

Sarah

Shabby Chic Rosettes

I have to apologise, this is the second time I had to edit this video..but got there in the end…just 🙂

Here is the make your own day #2

Shine like the whole universe is yours

Hi Everyone…

I have been missing in action for the last two days, but back again rearing to craft 🙂

We have had a family birthday celebration, so i have not been able to get up to my shed to make anything until tonight.

Remember the shabby chic stars i made the other day..i have made one a focal point on tonight’s card.

This is another clean and simple super easy card to make…

Supplies list :-

• Daler & Rowney watercolour cardstock for the card base
• Pink Sequins
• Tim Holtz Small Talk Stickers
• Sizzix Primitive Stars Die
• Patterned Paper
• Stampendous Shaved Ice

That’s us for the night then… see you tomorrow 🙂

Sarah

Make your own… Day 2

Hi everyone!..

Day 2 of making my own embelishments and it’s Shabby Rosettes..

I love them .. they make projects and cards so pretty…

I used various different mediums again..

• Stickles
• Rock Candy Distress Glitter
• SU Champagne Glass Glitter
• Distress Inks
• and just left some plain.

Here they are…

Once again thanks for popping round and joining me on my crafty journey.. see you all tomorrow!

One last photo to share… with Isla springer doing a nose bomb on my photo lol

I think she liked them haha…oh and nearly forgot, there will be a video up for these on Youtube later tonight

See ya

Sarah

 

 

 

Make Your Own .. Day 1

Hi there and a warm welcome to you all..

Can you believe it has been 3 weeks today since I challenged myself to make something every day for a year without buying any new crafty things (except adhesives)

I have to say it is fun and also a challenge!

Starting today I have the Make your Own series… my thoughts behind it were to create my own embelishments to give me a box of go to things that I can use on cards and things..

So today for Day 1 we have Make Your Own Shabby Chic Primitive Stars 🙂 I also have a tutorial video on my youtube channel.. just click on the video below to watch

They were so much fun to make, I think this series is going to be so much fun in the making!

I used various different sparklies for the edges..all shown and listed below 🙂

I hope you enjoy the video and I will see you tomorrow for Day 2!

Have a great weekend

Sarah x