Scraps and Doodles

Good morning, everyone, it's Susie here and I have a collection of scraps and doodle stamps to show you.  Are you sitting comfortably?  Then we shall begin!!

I had a collection of scraps from Sarah's Dotty Papers and Watercolour Love collections and LOVE the combination of turquoise and grey together.  3 strips of the paper were mounted onto silver card to make a panel for my card.

Then, I used the triangle stencil, a grey promarker and a silver pen to add a background panel directly to the right hand side of my card blank.  After removing the stencil, I added some definition to the triangles with a thin black pen.

I stamped one of the Doodle Home house stamps and a tree in black ink onto scrap white card and cut them out - lovely easy shapes for cutting out.  They were then mounted onto a square of Watercolour Love paper (which reflected the triangles on the background) and silver card:

I added a turquoise heart and some Stardust Stickles as roof tile detail to the house.

After the scrap and stamped panels were stuck to the card, I stamped the sentiment and added further definition to the letters with my super thin pen.  A final round of Stardust Stickles was added to the edges of the stamped panel and one edge of each triangle in the background.  

Et voilà, the card is complete and lots of stamping, scrappy and stencil fun has been had!!!

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

It's Christmas Eve!

Wow, what a super quick month December has been and super busy for all of us too! Today it's me,Carol, sharing a Christmas make with you all! Rather apt with my name don't you think?

I made this PL Lay Out using the idea of the "12 Days of Christmas", as my PL Page Protector had 12 pockets.  I won't go into full details of everything I did as I would be here until next Christmas lol.

Unusually for me I actually wrote/drew out a wee plan as I knew I was going to be putting a lot of different things in this LO.

Not a very comprehensive plan, but enough to get me started!

As you can see there is rather a lot of different techniques used from heat embossing to Cameo cut outs, die cutting and dry embossing.

All of the papers are from last years December kit, and the stamps are all available here including the adorable Christmas Carol Doodle Doll Stamp Set. All of the Silhouette files I used are available from Sarah's Silhouette Store, the journaling cards are a must have item for us Project Lifers.

I hope you have enjoyed my post today and have a magical Christmas Eve, I will be back tomorrow to share a card and say Merry Christmas.

Thanks for popping by, Carol x