Be Amazing card

Hello everyone!

Its Ria here today.

There are new inks out in the market recently and what a better way than to try them out using one of my favorite stamp set from Sarah.

I used the different butterflies from Zen Doodle Nature stamp set to create a full background design. I randomly stamped the three butterfly designs using two types of ombre inks.

In the small spaces I added small bubble stamp to fill in the gaps.

For my sentiment, I gold embossed the Be Amazing stamp in vellum which you can see here

And this is the full card

This is it for today and I hope you have an amazing weekend! :)


Supplies used:
Zen Doodle Nature Stamp set
Be Amazing Girl Stamp set
Gold Stripe Washi tape
Ombre ink stamp pads 

A Pocketful of Memories

Good morning, it's Susie here today.  Since becoming part of the Sarah Hurley team, I have found myself creating more scrap layouts, which is brilliant as I rarely made time for scrapbooking previously.  Today's layout is a collection of photos and memorabilia from my bairns' dance show earlier this month. 

After seeing Louise's green retro tap outfit, I decided that the green 12" square card, from one of Sarah's A Few of My Favourite Things kits, would be a great base.  (It also co-ordinates wonderfully with my last layout!).  I thought that the star card would be a great addition for my "little stars" and I loved the little journal cards and camera, also from A Few of My Favourite Things kits.  

I roughly laid the cards in position and decided that a bling studded banner would be great as the title.  ("Born  2 Dance" was the name of the show, by the way.) I sketched the rounded "rope" for the banner and placed the banner stamps to get the rough spacing.  

I then stamped the banners (from Garden Fairy, by Clare Brown) using Sahara Sand ink.  After letting it dry, I rubbed out my pencil line and stamped the letters, before drawing the "rope" back with pen and gluing the gems in place.  

 Louise felt great in this green shift dress and her wig, so the sentiment of "looking good feeling wonderful" was perfect.  The "Be Amazing" sentiment is from the Be Amazing Girl Stamp set and "Shine" is from Sid the Robot, by Clare Brown.

I ended up having more photos printed and wanted to keep other items like the tickets and running order, so I decided I would make a little pocket.  I had an orange C6 envelope, but it was a little too large for my layout, so I cut the edges to fit.  I then decided that the star card would look better than the full bright orange of the envelope, so added that to the front of the envelope and used the envelope shape to cut the top of the panel.  The panel was stuck to the envelope back - narrower  double sided tape would have been better than this 10mm one.  A tiny bit of velcro and some decorative button and gems completed the pocket, so that none of my bits get lost, but they can easily be removed to look at.  

Sarah Hurley Items Used:

A Few of My Favourite Things kits - card, journalling cards, camera picture, This week circle, button

Garden Fairy, by Clare Brown) - to create the banner

Be Amazing Girl - sentiment

Sid the Robot, by Clare Brown - sentiment

Silver Stickles - on the title and sentiments

Birthday card

Happy Saturday!

Its Ria here today sharing a quick birthday card using new stamps from Sarah and Jaine.

For today's project, I used a combination of three different stamps sets from Sarah.

How I did this card:

• I first stamped the card base background with a leaf from Be Amazing stamp set.  
• I then die cut my pattern papers from Sarah, cutting some printed elements like the heart from the Snip N Stick embellishment sheet
• For the birthday sentiment, I white embossed over the gray shaped paper
• I also stamped hearts and added some sequins randomly. I also stamped the banner and colored them with colored pencils. The Robin is also stamped and I added some colors into the stamped image using colored pencils

And here's the full card

Supplies used
Charm Street Cuties Thinking of You stamp set
Special Edition stamp - Robins by Jaine Drake
Be Amazing Girl stamp 
Patterned papers from A Few of my Favorite Things
Shaped Dies, Sequins
Colored pencils

Until next time!

Fabric piecing and stamping

Happy Friday everyone! It's Ria here and I'm excited to share today's project.

Sewing is one of my favorite thing to do besides card making, so today I'll be showing both sewing and stamping joined together to make a home decor.

Below are the supplies I used. Most of these are already available in my stash just waiting for me to use them up :) Instead of paper piecing usually used on cards, I'm using felt and fabrics to piece the images on this decor.

I only use one stamp set from Sarah called Be Amazing. Love the simple outline of the lady image on this set, its simple lines would be easy to cut out fabrics.  

So, this is what I did.

I chose fabrics that don't have a very busy pattern on it but enough to highlight the main dress of my image. I stamped the part of the image directly on felt and on the fabric.

I cut the felt already on the below but see how I stamped the fabric? It's the wrong side up so the ink will not be show in front of the fabric, just my preference.

Here, I already stamped and cut the dress and leaves that I'll be using.

I then arranged the sentiment in place to see the spaces I need to permanently adhere all my pieces. See the other piece of red fabric on the side? I decided later not to use them as it overpower the other elements in the cut pieces.

I then stamped the Be Amazing using a stamp press. You can use your regular block too.

Oh and I used a fabric glue, Mod Podge to stick the pieces into the fabric base.

To finish off I added the arms by stitching them. 

And to add some texture, I stitched the leaves and using embroidery floss too.

After all the stitching is done, that basically sums up today's project, ready to be fixed on the wall or a framed decor in the table.

Thanks for stopping by and will catch up again soon. 

Bee Amazing

Hi everyone, it's Carol here today and I am going to share a card I have made using two sets of Sarah's stamps.

I love the whole honeycomb trend just now and couldn't resist the fab Hexagon Background Stamp and decided to use this along with the Be Amazing Girl Stamps to make a bee themed card.

Firstly, I stamped the background using Versa Mark ink and covered it with black embossing powder to make it look like a honeycomb. I heated it from behind, I find it gives it a much smoother shinier result. I did this twice, you will see why when you look at the picture.  I then stamped the gorgeous Be Amazing Girl onto white card, coloured her face and limbs in using promarkers and cut her out.  I used a bit of magickery on the Be Amazing sentiment so I could have an extra "E", hooray for post-it notes. I also used embossing powder on this and it looks really smooth and shiny.  

I stamped the girl onto the extra piece of embossed paper and cut out her dress, how funky does that look? And I opted to just pop some wee sequins in her beehive hairdo.

I used a honeycomb embossing folder on some Tim Holtz Core'dinations to add some more dimension.

Ingredients

Hexagon Background Stamp

Be Amazing Girl Stamps

Versa Mark & Memento Ink

Black embossing powder

Promarkers

Honeycomb Embossing folder from Stampin Up

Sequins and papers from stash

I hope this inspires you to bee crafty, thanks for popping by.