"Be Amazing" 10 minute make.

Hello, it's Carol here today and no it's not an April Fool lol.  Today I am sharing one of my "10 Minute Make" Cards made using just two stamp sets and some Distress Inks.

I love Sarah's Doodle Doll Stamps and how well they all work together, I used the arty extras from the Art Girl Stamps and the sentiment from Be Amazing Girl Stamps. It actually took me longer to decide which colours of ink to use, but that isn't unusual for me lol.

I cut a piece of white stamping card to size and got all my pretties ready to get creative.

I stamped a line out with the circles from the stamp set, then got the splash and brushstroke stamp and stamped them out in different colours. I just love the new Limited Edition Distress Inks, don't you? I stamped on the "Be Amazing" Sentiment in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink as a contrast to the pastel colours.

I used some double sided tape to stick it down to some lemon coloured paper and used my Perfect Layers ruler to make a wee border round the card. I then popped that onto my card blank.

Ingredients

Doodle Doll Art Girl Stamps

Doodle Doll Be Amazing Stamps

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

Beacon 3-In-1 Advanced Craft Glue

DST from Stix2

Distress Inks

I hope this shows that "10 Minute Makes" can be inky and fun! Thanks for stopping by today, remember to visit again soon to see what the other #TeamHurley girls are up to.

Carol xx

Watercolor play

Happy Saturday! Its Ria here today.

Watercolor has been on trend for a while in card making. Its only lately however that I've been playing with watercolor and this card is one of them.

Today's card is simply a watercolor play using Sarah's Charm Street Cuties stamp.

Here's a quick look of the supplies I used, stamps and watercolor mainly are used.

First off is to stamp the main image in a watercolor paper.

I then placed the stamped paper into a wooden board and adhere them temporarily with washi tapes. This will hold the paper well and support the curling of paper while its all wet during the process.

 

Then I started coloring the face, I diluted the brown color with lots of water to have this very light brown color for the skin

I then moved to color the hair with yellow, red and brown.

The clothes and background were the last to color.

While my watercolor piece is drying, I later move to stamp my sentiment using the Alpha stamp sets. One good thing about these alpha set is you can customized the sentiment as you wish.

I colored the outlined stamped sentiment using the block stamp, this time coloring it off-set

  
And here it is after coloring using the block stamps

I then went back to add some hearts in the colored image, I find the lower left area to miss something so I added these two hearts using second generation stamping using distress inks.

And the final card detail..

and the full card, clean and simple.

That's it for today and happy weekend everyone!


Supplies used
Charm Street Cuties Thinking of You Clear Stamp Set
Block Alpha Stamps
Outline Alpha Stamps
Ink pads
Watercolor
Watercolor paper & brush

Organiser Box.

Hello, it's Carol here today and I am going to share something I made using a range of Sarah's products.

As some of you have seen, I am in the process of jazzing up the inside of my boring old brown leather Filofax and thought it would be great if I had a wee weekly organiser on my desk so I could easily see what was on that week.  I decided to have a browse of the files available from Sarah's Silhouette Store and see what I could come up with. This project has LOTS of different files, so I will link them all at the end, go and grab a cuppa and a biccie and get comfy lol.

I had a couple of spare plastic storage boxes from Ikea and decided that one of these would be perfect for what I had in mind. I used the Days Of The Week Tabbed Journaling Cards as my base, as these were a perfect size for the box, and added some extras as I went. I made some cute Number Paperclips so I could highlight days I needed to plan ahead for. I made some Love Heart Paperclips,  Star Paperclips and Moustache Paperclips. I have some glassline envelopes from previous kits from Sarah so popped all my spare paperclips in there.

We all have calls that we need to make and forget about, so I made a Mobile Phone card so I can pop it in to whichever day I need to make my calls.  I had lots of speech bubbles leftover from a LO I made from the Speech Bubble Background and glued them onto pieces of card to be used for anything from ideas to reminders.

I used a few different stamps sets to add some details to the cards, and of course some pretty Washi Tape. Here are a few pictures to illustrate my finished make.

Ingredients

Days Of The Week Tabbed Journaling Cards

Number Paperclips

Love Heart Paperclips

Star Paperclips

Moustache Paperclips

Cellphone/Mobile Phone

Speech Bubble Background/Template/Mask

Block Alpha Stamps

Special Edition Stamps, Traditional Christmas Ornaments by Jaine Drake

Washi Tape

Papers & Stamps from A Few Of My Favourite Things Kits

Adhesives from Stix2

Thanks for sticking with the post to the end, I hope you like the organiser box and it is something you would try. If you do, please comment below or send us a picture as we would love to see your makes.

Remember and pop by again soon and see what my talented teamies come up with.

Carol xx

Cloudy Day.

Hi, it's Carol here today! Hope everyone is well and looking forward to the new week ahead of them. Exciting times for some of us #TeamHurley girls as we are all heading to Birmingham at the weekend for a meet up...totally hyper in this household...anyway I digress.

Today I am going to share a  card I made using the stunning new Large Tiger Butterfly stamp,  Doodle Home Stamps and Sentiment Stamps. I even got out the Distress Inks and got inky!

1 Stamp the gorgeous butterfly using embossing ink, cover with clear powder and heat. Take a piece of 5 3/4" square card and stamp with the 3 different clouds from the Doodle Home set, cover with embossing powder and heat.

2 Look out the colours of Distress Inks you would like to use and get inky!

3 Fussy cut the butterfly, add to the card using 3d foam. Stamp a sentiment onto some card, punch it out then distress the edges. I popped some wee sparkly gems on the antennae of the butterfly and the sentiment.

Ingredients

Large Tiger Butterfly Stamp

Doodle Home Stamps

Sentiment Stamps

Perfect Medium Ink Pad

Beacon 3 in 1 Craft Glue

Distress Inks; Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers & Broken China.

Punch

Gems

3d Foam 

Thanks for popping by today, why not have a look at some of the other posts from my fabulously talented teamies, and remember to pop by soon for another new post.
Carol xx

Super quick Valentines Day Card!

Hello, and Happy Saturday! It's Carol here today and a wee while ago Sarah asked us to have a wee think about things we could do on the blog, one of my ideas is "10 Minute Makes" and the other will be revealed on the 1st of February!

This is a super busy birthday weekend for me, but I thought I would share a very Clean & Simple Valentines Day Card with you all. Though it can be used for any occasion to be honest. I will take you through the various steps I used to make the finished card. 

1 here is my assortment of pretties that I used. I find it easier to look things out first once you have an idea.

2  Wipe your piece of white card with your anti static bag, stamp your Zendoodle Heart from the Zendoodle Fashion Stamps with Perfect Medium Ink or whichever embossing ink you have. Stamp them onto your card, cover with embossing powder, tap off the excess and heat.

3  Measure a piece of red card as a banner across the card, roughly place your hearts where you would like them and add some bakers twine to make them "dangle" from the big heart. Place some foam squares behind the hearts to give you some depth and dimension.

4 Stamp the "Me & You" sentiment from the Sentiments Stamp Set using black ink and there you go.

Ingredients.

Zendoodle Heart from the Zendoodle Fashion Set

Perfect Medium Ink Pad

Sentiment Stamps Set

Card Blank, red card and bakers twine from stash.

Thanks for popping by today and I hope this inspires you to try heat embossing, a 10 minute make, a clean and simple card or all three.

Have a great weekend,

Carol x

Dream A Little Dream

I hope you are all well and haven't been blown away in this wild weather! Today, it is my (Susie) turn to show you a little something and I decided that I fancied stamping one of the lovely Doodle Dolls. This one is called Dream a Little Dream and is lovely and easy to colour. I stamped her onto Kraft card (aka the inside of my Christmas wrapping paper!) and coloured her with my Polychromo pencils. After shading and colouring her face, I stamped her beautiful big eyes and added a little more shading for her nose and her eyebrows. After that, I decided I would give her a little smile.....must have been feeling brave, huh?!

As is pretty normal for me, I kept the layout really simple to show off the gorgeous teal/turquoise paper and image. (Have I ever told you that my favourite colour is teal/turquoise?!!). The papers, heart and turquoise gems are from various A Few of My Favourite Things kits. I decided to add a little doodling and Stardust Stickles to finish off my card.

And here is a wee close up of Doodle Doll Dream a Little Dream Girl:

 

 

 

Season's Greetings.

Hello, it's Carol here today and I thought I would share a card using a set of Sarah's new Christmas Stamps. 

I am not an inky crafter, as many of you will know, but the Woodland Christmas Stamps just screamed inky fun to me. Here is how I made it.

1  Measure up a piece of white card for your base, Use Versamark on the snowy border stamp, moon and stars and stamp them onto the card. Cover with white embossing powder and heat.

2  Ink up the tree stamps with green ink and stamp onto the border, I stamped them twice in different places to get a shadowy background effect.

3  Ink up the deer and stamp him.

4  Get inky with some Distress Ink and make your card look like a night scene.

5  Stamp your sentiment using Archival ink.

6  Put your inky scene onto a card blank.

Thanks for popping by today, have a great weekend, Carol.

Batty About You!

Hi, it's Carol here and today I am going to share a card I made using Sarah's Silhouette Files, Sarah's Stamps and lots of other crafty goodies.

1  I picked the Silhouette file I wanted, then the colour of card I wanted to use, I picked the awesome Bat Card Frame. I also "released the compound path" of the file so I could cut out the oval shape in plain white card. I also placed a couple of Bat Silhouettes on the top and bottom of the oval, you will see what I did with them next.

2 I placed the bat frame onto a piece of red mirri card and layered it up, with black card too.

3  I took the Oval and the bat cut outs and distressed them using Black Soot Distress Ink. You will see the finished result on the card.

4  Once I distressed the oval, I stamped "Batty About You" using Sarah's Block Alpha Stamps and Lady Bug Memento ink, I used the Outline Alpha Stamps in Tuxedo Black to give some contrast.

5 I put the card together and popped a bit of 1mm foam under the body of the bats to make them look like they are about to fly off. 

I really hope you like the card, and it shows that Halloween themed pretties can be used all year round.

Thanks for popping by, remember there is still time to join in our Halloween Challenge.

Bye for now,
Carol x

It's a Strange time of year.

Hello, Carol here today and I thought I would share a Halloween card I made a wee while ago using the fabulous Angelica Strange Stamps and papers from one of my favourite digi kits 31 Spook Street.

1 - Stamp Angelica onto white card.
2 - Stamp two skulls, one onto the sticky bit of a post it note as you will need that as a mask for the bones and one onto Angelica's dress.
3 - Place the mask over the skull you stamped onto Angelica's dress and stamp two bones like in the picture.
4 - Colour her in with your favourite pens or pencils. I used Promarkers and Flexmarkers.
5 - Fussy cut her out.
6 - Punch out lots of different bits of Halloweeny papers from the 31 Spook Street Digi Kit and go around the edge with a black marker or ink pad. This is a great way to use up scraps of paper.
7 - Layer them onto the page.
8 - Pop Angelica onto some 3d foam and place her on top of the punchie shapes.
9 - Use the Spooktacular sentiment from the stamps to finish the card.

Ingredients

Angelica Strange Stamp Set

Papers from 31 Spook Street Digi Kit.

Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

Thanks for popping by today, we would love it if you could join in our challenge this month, the theme is Halloween.

My Favourite Things Creation.

Hello, it's Carol today and I am going to share my creation for this months Favourite Things Challenge. As usual I was indecisive about what to make, so rather than just use some of my favourite stash I opted to put my favourite things into my PL layout.

I am VERY new to PL and thought  a monthly layout would be better for me, rather than trying to keep up with weekly, stressing myself out and ending up not enjoying it. So here is Februarys Layout in great detail. 

This is a 4x6 card, with a cropped 4x3 journaling card, it has brands and a resin heart and I used love heart hearts, all of which came from AFOMFT kits. The month stamp is from the Today Stamp Set.

This is a 4x6 card, with a couple of wee layered pictures, and a sprinkling of pretty sequins and a small journaling card in the corner.

This is a 3x4 journaling card with a teal heart on it. I got the Love Journaling Card by Sarah, from the Silhouette Online Store, and cut it out on my Cameo and layered it onto the heart. I just love how they fit together. 

This is a 3x4 card with a smaller one layered on top. Sometimes it is nice just to leave things simple.

This is a 3x4 card with a picture of my hubby and great niece, I have layered it up and added some lovely brads from the AFOMFT kits.

This is a 3x4 card with my naughty cat Aggie eyeing up my Tunnocks Teacake!! The stamp is from the Today Stamp Set.

This is a 4x6 card with an adorable wee picture of my great niece and her super cute "crinkly" nose she gets when she is giggling! The gorgeous flourish in the corner is the Doodle Heart Corner Flourish by Sarah in her Silhouette Store.

I love this 4x6 card with Aggie making noise!

 And here is the completed layout. I like to think that each card tells a wee story, and it really does encapsulate my "Favourite Things"

Thanks for popping by today, remember there is still a week to enter our Favourite Things Challenge.