Woodland Wonders- card project

Hi  all its Tania here and  I would love to share my project with you.

I love using stamps but often try and  use them a little differently.

Today I will be using Woodland Wonders Doe stamp set , paper from Woodland wonders in the wood digi set and letters from Block alpha stamp set.

I have used the tree stamp and stamped it a 12, 3, 6 & 9 (if looking at a clock) and then  coloured it with promarkers. Each tree represents a season. I then added glitter glue to co-ordinate with the tree. To finish off the card I added a squirrel.

I then fussy cut the tree shape out and mounted it on black card. 

I mounted  the tree topper onto footprint paper.

I used the Alpha stamps to stamp out seasons greetings. This could be used for  any type 

of card from birthday to thank you. 

Thank you for stopping by.

If you have any questions please ask and I will let you know.

Hugs Tania xx

Cross Stitch Pouch

Hello, it's Claire (Newcombe) with you today, for my first inspirational post here.

I thought I'd show you something that I made just before Christmas with the first sample of the first cross stitch kit that Sarah has designed.

You can pick up this kit here

I used to cross stitch alot, but as many of you will relate to, your life moves on with either family or you develop interests and passions for other crafts and finding the time to get back and revisit old loves is not always easy.

So I was thrilled to have the opportunity to stitch again with this gorgeous kit, and when finished, my mind got to wondering how best to finish off and frame these two little cuties.

Like any crafter, I am a magpie for anything with a pretty pattern, and that extends to fabric. It just so happened that I had a set of fat quarters (the quilting term for a manageable piece of fabric, 18" by 22" from which you cut your patchwork pieces)...... the quilters equivalent of 12" x 12" sheet of paper, if you like!

 I have had these turquoise fabrics stashed for many years, and it just so happened to match Sarah's colour of choice for her website & packaging.

So, out with the sewing machine it was, and a little bit of patchwork and quilting started to take place, creating the pouch you see above. I sized it to hold microwaveable hand warming gel pads, as a christmas present and thank you to Sarah - and to highlight the fabulous designs she create.

I hope that it has inspired you to perhaps think outside the box a little, to create items that be incorporated into your everyday life and remind you of how crafty you are.

Be sure to check back daily for more inspiration from our team, and then if you have time, sit for a few minutes and browse back through posts that have already been.

Keeping it simple.....

Hi all,

It's Natalie this late evening with some tips on keeping it simple with Sarah's kits. I love to create "simple" pages and "simple" cards with a touch of ink and a sprinkle of colour.

I don't know about you, but i love the "snip n stick" elements that come with the kits. I'm not a huge fan of fussy cutting but these are just perfect to cut out, even with my injured arm.

Onto my first card. I always have to use paint or ink in almost everything i create.
I used a yellow mist on this card. I sprayed very close to the card to get a block of colour and drips. As the card was drying i tapped it gently on ,my desk to create a "splatter" effect.

I used the december kit washi tape and snip n stick elements to create a small cluster of embellishments then added a prima flower selected to match sarah's kit perfectly.
I used sarah's wooden butterfly and some Adorn it mini alphas to finish. 


My next card is super simple, but effective. I used Ranger Ink to create a giant "splat" and then cut out a flower from the snip n stick. I used a dynamo to type the word "love" and that's it. If i was to add anything else it would be some scattered bling....but i ran out of glossy accents.

I still have enough of this kit to create several more cards and several layouts! Stay tuned to my blog and sarah's to see what else can be made from this kit.

Thanks for reading and I hope to see some of your creations with sarah's kits soon!

Natalie xx

Butterflies Stamps Shrink Plastic Charm bracelet

Good morning everyone, hope you are well :-) Its Elaine here with my inspiration piece for you today.
I decided to share with you a make using one of my favourite mediums for crafting which you can use to create lots of different looks and for lots of different kinds of crafts! Its a great way for using your existing stamps in a new way too :-)
What youll need to create something like my project is Shrink plastic, stamps (I used Sarah's butterfly rubber stamps here), Stazon ink pad, hole punch, scissors, glittered gel pens, jump rings, bead spacers, tiger tail, crimps, toggle clasps and basic jewellery tools.
First of all youll create your shrink plastic charms. Choose your stamp and ink up with Stazon. Stamp onto the rough side of the shrink plastic. Next colour your butterflies should you choose to do so (you can see I left one uncoloured on the end to show the look without colour) I find glittered gel pens work the best with this, but do be careful not to smudge the ink as it dries.
Cut around your butterfly but leave a border around the top to punch before you cut all the way round. Punch in the centre, then cut carefully around this hole, leaving enough plastic to keep this intact.
Follow the shrinking instructions on your shrink plastic, then place in a heavy book when warm to make sure they dry flat.
Take your finished charms and your jewellery kit and add jump rings to the holes. I added two jump rings on each charm to give a good swing from my bracelet. I then created a design for my bracelet using Rose Quartz, pearls and bead spacers with butterfly charms placed equally between this design. Finish with your clasp.
You can always use shrink plastic to make your own embellishments for cards, scrapbook pages-anything you can think of! You could even use without a hole and stick it directly onto a project with strong glue.

Documented 365 - Daily December

Good morning and welcome to the Sarah Hurley 365 blog.

It's my turn ( Clare) to play host and today's topic is about divulging into the world of DOCUMENTED 365. For those of you who have never heard off or know much about it you will find it explained fully here on Sarah's blog. 

In particular I'm focusing on DAILY DECEMBER. The concept is that you record daily in the month of December or you may just want to record some days, it's entirely up to you. 

 The point I would like to make is that everybody can do this no matter what your background or how daunting you may think it is. So let's get out of our comfort zone however  I do warn you though, it's very very addictive and once you get started there will be no stopping you lol.

 Below I have done a step by step tutorial showing you how I created my layout.

Step 1

Choose a sketch. I have used one of Sarah's. 

 I have used one of Sarah's. You will see many of these popping up on our blog.

Step 2

Choose a picture

This is me and my friend Tracey running on Christmas day!

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Step 3

Choose papers/embellishments 

Sarah's Daily December kit

 Perfect if like me you 'need' everything to co-ordinate! You can subscribe to the kit here 

Step 4

gather together the basic elements of the sketch

Step 5

Arrange on your page 

Top tip don't stick down until you are completely happy with your layout. It gives you scope for any last minute changes.

Step 6 

consider adding more layers/embellishments

Step 7

Add some journalling

I swapped my title and journalling around as I was restricted for space

Step 8

The finished result

Now it's your turn and feel free to share your projects with us

by leaving a link to your blog in the comment section below.

 You can also leave any questions you may have too.

If you would like to join in with our monthly challenge click here or on the button on the side of the blog.

Thanks for stopping by and we hope to see you all again soon

Clare x

Snapshots - card project

Hello everyone!

It's Ria here today. Can you believe we're already half of January 2014? I hope you are all having a great time getting inspirations from the new Sarah Hurley 365 blog. I'm amazed with the mix of talents being shared here.

For today, I'm sharing my card project using one of my favorite mini vintage camera stamps from Sarah's kits. I have used these cameras in a number of cards already and still can't get over it til now. Maybe because I love photography and camera images just keep me close to this hobby of mine.

To start off, I alternatively stamped the cameras on a kraft card stock, that plays as my card background.

I then stamped another set of the cameras and colored them with promarkers, then fuzzy cut them to be used as my card's focal point.

To ground the set of cameras, I used the wood veneer frame and oh the vintage camera came from Sarah's A Few of my Favorite Things Kit.  The other polaroid camera I also got from Sarah's add on kit too. That open frame just fits two of the cameras in place and I popped them up using dimensions.

I stamped the geotag from Stamp & Stitched! Expedition stamps while the pretty in pink twine is from the East Village kit. I added the chipboard stars from Sarah's kits as well.

Have a great weekend everyone and I will be back soon for another project soon.

Documented 365 - Goals

Well Hello there & welcome to Sarah Hurley 365, Claireliz here, how are you?

I'm going to attempt Documented 365 this year, I've decided to use a mix of page layouts including normal 12x12, then 2 different sets of pages protectors with 3x4 & 4x6 pockets. I've never used pockety type page protectors before so it'll be interesting adapting my scrapping style to suit them.

I'm  the sort of scrapbooker that if I'm making an album on a particular theme, project or class then I feel it needs an intro page, it's part of the story after all. 

So this the page that I'm using as my intro page and it records my goals for 2014 &  the plan is to check in with them every now & then & see how I'm getting on.

I knew I wanted this to be a bright colourful layout & I wanted some glittery sparkle too.

I started by splattering yellow, hot pink, aqua & lime green spray ink onto the white cardstock, then I doodled a loopy border around the edge.

I cut a frame from the pink polka dot paper and an arrow from the turquoise chevron paper both from Sarah's My Favourite Things Kit & inked them both around the edges with Black Soot Distress ink.

I used a little spotty envelope from the kit for my journaling which is written on a tag & lists my goals for 2014. I'm careful when choosing my goals,I always make sure that a couple of them are easily attainable that way if I don't achieve any of the others I don't feel guilty about it. Some of my goals for this year are: Save money, Take more photos, Blog more often and Create more, these are actually quite easy, but they are still things I need to do. Slightly harder ones are Work on our home - which depends on our finances. And improve my cooking - which will take a lot of work on my part and possibly a bit of effort for DD & Hubs if they are going to survive my culinary learning curve - okay you can stop laughing now :D The envelope was attached to the page under the pink frame which is attached with 3D foam pads.

To sparkle up my title I sprayed some DIY Thickers with gold shimmer ink then coated in gold glitter glue, but you can do this with most styles of Thickers using either spray ink or paint to change the colour, it's one of my favourite techniques.

I felt it still needed a bit more so I dotted some orange, yellow, blue, pink and green buttons all over the layout & a little strip of washi tape under the 2014. I was just packing everything away when I found a little bag of stars inbetween the papers and decided to stick those around the page in amongst the buttons.

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed my layout & I'm looking forward to seeing all of your Documented 365 pages this year.

Take care

C xx