Sweet Cross Stitch

Morning, Claire N back with you and sharing something different today.

Did you know that Sarah also designs cross stitch kits?

Sarah asked me to stitch up one of the first kits, and of course I obliged. I find it so relaxing, usually in the evening while I'm watching TV, but these super little designs (approx 3inch in size) come together so quickly, so if you are new to cross stitching you really feel like you've achieved something fairly early on in the project.

Each of the kits come supplied with a clear easy to follow pattern guide, all the threads required and a needle. This is the second design, so check out the shop here for the first kit (or here where I have previously stitched and blogged about it) 

Thanks for joining me today x

Card for a new arrival.

Hello, it's Carol here today and I am going to share my make for this month's Celebrations Challenge.  

I decided to make a Baby Card for a change as it is something that is always handy to have in your card box.

1 Ink up the Chevron Background stamp with two different type of Brilliance Pearlescent inks, cover with clear embossing powder, then heat with a heat gun.

2 Cut out the Baby Journaling card twice on your electronic cutting machine. Carefully cut out the word and use Black Soot DI and place on to the chevrons. 

3 Ink up the stars from the Wish Upon A Star Doodle Doll stamps, and stamp them onto the journaling card, cover with clear embossing powder and heat.

4 Using two different shades of DI, distress  the journaling card, leaving the word white. Attach over the other word with 3D foam to add some dimension.

5 Pop the chevron layer onto some co-ordination paper, then stick to a card blank.

Ingredients

Chevron Background Stamp

Doodle Dolls Wish Upon A Star Stamps

Baby Journaling Card from Sarah's Silhouette Store

VersaMark, Brilliance and Distress Inks.

Clear Embossing Powder.

Hope you like this card, and it shows you that journaling cards can be used for more than scrapbooking or Project Life.

There is still time to enter our Challenge,why not have a go with a chance to win some great prizes.

Thanks for popping by today, Carol x

DIY note cards

Happy Saturday every one! It's Ria here today.

For my project share, I did half a dozen of 3x3 note cards using two stamp sets, Cupcake & Be Mine sets, both from Sarah Hurley.

I have been keeping these 3x3 note cards for some time in my stash but didn't know how I will be consuming them all with those bold colors. A better way then is to do some decorations and just play with the stamps I already have.

Just a quick look on the supplies that I have used:

I cut the patterned paper a little smaller than my 3x3 card base and also die cut vellum with a circle die. I wanted to have my main stamped images to be my focal point and vellum will keep part of the pattern paper to be subdued in color.

I then stamped random images from the two stamp sets. I used the big ones here, cupcake, party hat, typewriter, some of the leaves and the jar.

I colored the images with promarker. For the cupcake, I did it two ways, one was paper pieced (pink frosting) while the other was colored with promarker (purple frosting), just trying out some variety.

For the rest of my stamped images, I colored them with promarker.
Here's what I got with all the images, ready to be used.

For the base, I added a strip of fabric tape for some texture and grounding of the image. I just inserted the vellum over the fabric tape to hold it in place.

I also stamped part of the envelope with the same chosen images used also in my main card.

Then, I assembled the images and put each a bow while the other two with wood veneer x for some fun texture. I keep the image offset in the left as I don't want them to be too centered, just keeping a little playfulness in the layout.

A closer look to one of the note card, assembled..

That's it! I can now use any of these whenever I need to, for a birthday, an occasion, or just to write a note to someone, just because.

Supplies used:
Be Mine Scrapbooking kit
Special edition stamps - Cupcake by Jaine Drake
Be Mine stamp set
Resin Neon bow
Veneers from kit
3x3 blank Note cards and envelopes
Memento Tuxedo Black ink
Vellum, fabric tape
Promarker

Until next time!

Party Invites

Hello Claireliz here

I thought I'd share my creation for this month's challenge today, as you know the theme is Celebrate as we're celebrating 4 years since Sarah Hurley Challenges began, so what better way to celebrate than to have a party.

Having a child in primary school means I get a fair few party invitations coming home in my daughters school bag, sometimes several in one week *sigh*

But I never get any handmade ones so I thought I'd have a play around and see what I could come up with...

I started by cutting a piece of yellow cardstock to 6x4 inches, then cut some of the turquoise paper from one of Sarah's AFOMFT kits slightly smaller so that you can see a border of the yellow card behind it. I used some Bakers Twine & Hot Pink Washi tape for bunting, just cut strips of washi tape, fold in half over the Bakers Twine & cut a little triangle out of each one, I attached the ends of the bakers twine to the back of the turquoise paper so they will be hidden from view, then I attached the turquoise paper to the yellow cardstock.

I coloured the Princess Girl Doodle Doll stamps using Promakers (Blush, Dusky Pink, Vanilla, Mustard, Lemon, Rose pink) and attached her to the card using 3d foam pads, then using Sarah's Block Alpha stamps - these ones are my favourite alpha stamps ever - I stamped the words "you are invited" onto scraps of coloured papers from various AFOMFT kits, I cut each one out, inked  the edges with Black Soot Distress Ink & attached  them with 3d foam pads, as a final touch I doodled some borders around the edge of the card & paper and then sprinkled some little sparkly stars over it & glued them where they landed. 

The details of the party can be written on the back of the yellow card.

Well that's all from me, thanks for stopping by.

Don't forget, you still have plenty of time to enter this months challenge, all of the details are here.

Hope to see you soon

Claireliz

xx

CHALLENGE 94 - CELEBRATION

Hello and welcome to our amazing blog.

This month we have a very special challenge for you but before I (Clare) spill the beans we would like to say a huge thank you to all of that entered out Summer Brights challenge. You can check our post here to see if you have been chosen as one of 3 winners.

So now lets get back to this months challenge and why we have chosen the theme  CELEBRATIONS'. Heres' a little hint onto what we are celebrating....

Yip it's our 4th birthday here and having been here since the very first challenge I can honestly say it has been an amazing experience watching and playing a little part in Sarah's journey. I am also surrounded by an amazing and talented design team, all very different in style and all I call my friends.

Scroll down to the bottom of this post to see this months prizes and to add your entry.

And here's inspiration from the design team.....

Clare

This month I decided to create a layout using the following products..

Stamps - Block Alpha
                       Be Amazing Girl 
                               Chevron Background
                   Dates and time
                 Mini Textures
  Stars
                                                             Team Hurley - designed only for the DT

Papers - A Few Of My Favourite Things monthly kit

Elaine

I have altered a slate heart as a present-I used Sarah's Butterflies stamps to emboss onto the slate with white embossing powder. More details on my blog :-)

Claire N

I have used some new stamp sets that Sarah is to release soon (the flowers and the birds). I've also used plenty of embossing powder, firstly to enhance the flowers, and also through a couple of different stencils to add a layered textured effect.

Claireliz

I've made a party invite using papers from Sarah's AFOMFT kit, Princess Doodle Doll Stamp, Block Alpha Stamp, a bit of washi tape & some sparkly silver stars...

Jaine

Happy Birthday card made with my own Cupcake stamp set from the Special Editions range.

Nicole

I created this fun tag using some of Sarah's papers. I used the chevron for the tag base and some of the wood grain for the banner on the tag. The sentiment comes from one of the printable kits. The whale is a cutting file that Sarah has up over in the Silhouette store, I love this guy! I stamped his eye with a stamp from the zombie girl doodle doll set and drew on his mouth. The sequins make a little trail of bubbles that he is blowing....

Carol

I made a baby card using one of Sarah's Journalling cards from the Silhouette Store. I also used the Chevron Background stamp and the wee stars are from the Wish Upon A Star Doodle Doll Stamps. Full details of how I made the card are on my blog.

Lisa

A simple stamped make from me using the fabulous Special Editions Tweet Tweet Stamp Set. 

Ria

I created a happy card to celebrate a birthday using Sarah's A Few of my Favorite Things March kit. I love those ticket tabs. I also added a sequin that I also got from one of Sarah's kits. Those stars in the Snip N Stick sheet just add more fun to this card too isn't it?

Prizes

 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.....

An InLinkz Link-up

Tweet little birdies.

I'm up to June with my layout per month and this one is based around the pictures of the birds nesting on the back of the house.

I chose to use two of my own stamp designs to create the layout, Tweet Tweet and Nests are Best.

I stamped the border top and bottom and used watercolours to add a touch of colour. I stamped around where I wanted to place the photo's with a few other small stamps, some more watercolour paint and a bit of cotton thread.

The acrylic chevrons are also found in Sarah's shop.

I hope you enjoyed my layout.

Jaine x

ATC Photo Album

Hello and Happy July!

It's Sharon here, sharing an ATC album I made a few days ago. I have quite a few photos hanging about that I haven't got round to doing anything with, mainly because when I try to do Project Life I always panic that it's not as good as everyone else's!

ATCs(artist trading cards) were my first love and I never seem to have the same panic when I make them so I decided to make a little album with a few photos, enjoying what I like most, cutting and sticking!

I used card from one of my A Few of my Favourite Things kit to cut the ATCs along with some Documented365 cards and washi tape-the pink hearts were perfect for this!

I used a lot of my Snip 'n' Stick bits and bobs and this badge was perfect for the ATC about my son.(Just hope he doesn't find out I've posted this!)

I cut round a stencil to make the sun-type shape. It was such a hot day!

Being a crochet fan, I had to include this photo!

I held the album together with a book ring so that I can add more to my collection as and when the mood takes me!

That's all from me-hope to see everyone back for the next challenge in a few days!