Get Packing!

Hello all!

Jess here today and I'm sharing with you my project for our current SPEECH BUBBLE challenge.

For my project, I really wanted to do something different so I have made a backpack! I used papers from volume 1 of Sarah's Monthly  A Few of my Favourite Things kit and the speech bubble badge from Sarah's Retro Badge Set. 

I was inspired by my school days when the done thing was to have loads of badges on your school bag.



If you would like to have a go at making your very own backpack you will find the template here

We have some fantastic prizes up for grabs this month challenge so get you most fabulous thinking cap on and get creating! link to out challenge post is here

Thanks for looking and hope you have been inspired!

Jess x

Special Day card

Happy Friday everyone! It's Ria here.

I'm sharing a card project today using a combination of Sarah's A Few of My Favorite Things kit.
I intend to do a masculine card and was considering one to give to my Dad who's birthday is coming up this month.

Back then when iPads and LED tv's are not yet invented, we used to prepare our school reports using the manual typewriter and watch with good old CRT TV monitor. I still remember how we move those antennas to get a better signal :)    

Well I think Dad will bring back those memories when he gets this graphic card.

I used AFOMFT Curio kit for my card elements. Apparently, I also love fuzzy cutting. The papers and tag are from the AFOMFT City Gent kit while the sentiment is from the Sentiments stamp set.

A closer look at the things that used to work for us back in the days.  I think we still have the typewriter hidden somewhere in our home. My mom will not let something like that we used to love be given away ;)

That's if for now and I'll catch up again soon. Happy weekend!  

THINGS THAT MAKE YOU LOL

Good morning and welcome to our blog.

Today I am sharing a scrapbook page and it's about scrapping something that makes you LOL (Laugh Out Loud) or perhaps those impromptu moments.

 I was just finishing getting dressed when Lewis came running through shouting 'mummy we are having a stripy sock day!' Coincidently both our socks are black and white and Sophie one of our cats is black and white to. She was having a nosey to see what we were up to. Luckily my phone was nearby so I grabbed it and took this picture. It seemed appropriate to take the picture in black and white format. 

I followed a sketch and here's the basic layers

 some embellishments

here's a picture showing some stamping

The finished result

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Below I have listed Sarah's products including links.

papers- selection from Sarah's Monthly kit
border stamp- Wish Upon a Star

I also combined this with our current challenge hosted by Nicole.

Click here or click the button on the side bar

Thankyou for stopping by

Clare x

Challenge 90 - Speech Bubbles

Hi everyone it is Nicole here to welcome you to our March challenge. Our theme this month is

 'Speech bubbles'. 

There are so many fun ways to use these so get creative and have fun! We have some fun prizes......

Enter our challenge and you have the chance to win the following

  First place - £10 voucher for Sarah's shop  

 Second place - a blog badge ( email Sarah)

Third place - a blog badge ( email Sarah)

This months special prize for one lucky winner drawn from entries using any of Sarah's 

products is.....

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Inspiration from me and the rest of the Design Team

Nicole

For my card I embossed a white card base with a bubble embossing folder. I then swiped a ink pad over this to add some colour. I Used lots of bits of papers from Sarah's collections. I also used the Speech Bubble stamps to create my own background paper on the wood grain paper. I made the little envelope on the card - its a perfect gift card size!

Elaine

I combined Sarah Hurley's Steampunk papers with Expedition image and added wooden speech bubble sentiment.

Tania

For my card I have used sentiments from Sarah Hurley's Sentiment Stamps, Doodle Doll new mum set and her Everday saying stamps. and stamped them in punched out speech bubbles, mounted on a white card blank. A great anniversary card.

Jaine

 I chose to use the mini speech bubble stamps included with one of Sarah's  AFOMFT kits stamped along with words from Everyday Sayings plus the girlie from my own Special Editions Back to School stamp set.

Claireliz

I decided to make a speech bubble shaped card, I cut a blank card into a speech bubble shape & covered in paper from one of Sarah's AFOMFT kits, I used the doodle doll & crown from Sarah's Princess Girl Doodle Doll stamp set, the doll is coloured using Blush, Dark Pink, Vanilla, Pastel Yellow & Blossom Promarkers, the dress & crown are also covered with Stickles.
I stamped the "Hello!" using Sarah's Block Alphabet Stamp set & added a bow & sequins from the AFOMFT kit

Lisa

I've used two patterned papers and a bird embellishment from Sarah's Be Mine Digi Kit to create a Birthday card. More details on my blog.

Carol

I used a Speech Bubble Silhouette Background File, Paper from A Few of My Favourite Things Kit and stamps from Picture This Stamp Set. Full details are on my blog.

Clare

I used speech bubble paper from Sarah's monthly kit. For more details please come back tomorrow when I'll be sharing my inspiration post or check out my blog here

Sharon

My printer's on the blink so I wasn't able to print anything out to use so I raided my bag of digi images that I keep ready cut for times like these and made an ATC. The backing paper is a bit of squared paper cut from Sarah's DayBook (I made a bit of a mess on the other side!). I coloured it with Derwent Aquatone which the paper took really well and stamped some speech bubbles with stamps from AFOMFT kit. Then I added Angelica and Malcolm from 31 Spook St and added the little wooden speech bubbles.

Ria

I love speech bubbles into card. In this project I used the printed speech tab and the speech bubble stamp from A Few of my Favorite Things February East Village kit. I then stamped the Sentiment using the Outline Alpha stamps. I just added some scribbled lines in the word "happy" for some fun. The orange patch stamp is from the Doodle Doll Art Girl stamps. All the papers are from AFOMFT May Caught on Camera kit.

Claire

I used papers from Sarah monthly kit, way back in August and printed the speech bubbles from the digital kit 'Say Cheese'. I couldn't resist using Ronnie the Robot from a special edition set of stamps designed by our very own Clare Brown.

Jess

For my project, I really wanted to do something different so I have made a backpack!  I used the speech bubble badge from Sarah's Retro Badge Set.

An InLinkz Link-up

CAS Butterfly card

Good morning everyone, hope you are well :-) I am here with my creation for Sarah Hurley's 365 blog. It is a simple make for those times when you want to make a special card but are restricted by time. I used Sarah Hurley's butterfly stamps, Memento, a card blank and pink metallic gel pen. I stamped the sentiment first, then stamped each butterfly from the sentiment up. I coloured the butterflies with a Pink metallic gel pen.

Stamp Catalogue...

Good Morning, It's me Claire N, and it's my turn to share with you today.

How do you store your clear stamps? They are a fabulous way for sure to collect them, and I have begun to store mine on A4 sheets like this

This may be familiar with some of you, but I find I have a dilemma on how to catalogue them for quick reference. I do stamp the card insert included when they arrive, because it has Sarah's branding and is the most gorgeous duck egg blue. But I did want to do something a little more inventive.

I took some supplies, not too many, and decided to use the journal book from Sarah's shop as my new 'catalogue'.

Next question, which stamp set am I going to start with first? It could quite easily have taken me a week to decide, so I went with my newest purchase, and Sarah's latest stamp release from the Be Mine... range.

Taking a number of small scraps of Sarah's design papers that I had stashed away, I arranged them on the double page spread on the first pages of the journal. The journal is so pretty (you'll have to get it to see !!) but each page has a different one of Sarah's designs printed on it, so the back drop to each page is already there for you.

I then used Sarah's two newest stamps sets

1)  Be Mine.... 

2)  Be Mine .....Borders & arrows stamp set.

I used every stamp from both sets. I stamped some straight onto the page, and others I stamped, coloured (with watercolour pencils), fussy cut and decoupaged to the page.

I added some hand written notes and doodles, that may act as prompts in the future if I'm having a design block.  These pages show the stamps used in one way, of course, but it is also a fabulous visual reminder of the sets you have, and may hopefully entice and inspire you to continue revisiting them and to try out new ideas and colourways.

Thanks for stopping by today, I would love to see and hear suggestions on how you store your stamps.

Visit again here at http://sarahhurley365.blogspot.co.uk/, there is much more inspiration on its way from the rest of the team.

Thanks for stopping by.
Claire N x

Challenge Winners

Thank you everyone for entering the challenge this month, even though it was a quiet, with only a couple of entries  it has been a pleasure to visit new blogs, and pick up some inspiration of our own along the way.

First place goes to Heather Mills, who made a personalised Valentines card for her husbands Grandfather and wife. Congratulations, you win a £10 voucher to spend in Sarah's shop.

Second and third place blog badges go to AJ for the two bright and cheery cards entered.

Get in touch with Sarah using the contact address on the right hand side bar.

Again, well done and thank you for taking part.

Be sure to come back and join us for the next brand new challenge coming soon.

(Just a little reminder for you, that our new address for you to bookmark is http://sarahhurley365.blogspot.co.uk/)