Steampunk Tag

Hi All,

Nicole here again today! I made a masculine Steampunk card for this blog last month. I had some scraps from that left on my desk so I decided to create a tag to match it that I could add to a gift for with the card. I used some of Sarah Hurley papers, and the steampunk digital kit for this. The word strips, and tickets were from the digital kit. I cut them out and glued them to my tag. I stapled some of the tickets together to give an effect of a ticket book. 

I die cut the cog from the Sarah Hurley papers and used inks to help make it look rusted up. The papers have fantastic texture so this really helped with the look. I stapled the Enjoy the Journey word strip to a small journaling banner. I then stapled this whole thing onto the tag and let it curve out from the tag for some more dimension. Some splatters of white spray and some twine finished it off nicely!


Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you got inspired!

Project Life catch up.

Hi there, it seems Spring has sprung and with it the garden is shouting to me, so at the moment my time is spent between that and my basement studio.

I've brought you some more of my Project Life pages today, weeks 11 and 12 and as well as the kit club cards I'll show you how I use up my off cuts too.

  
I seem to have collected loads of bits of patterned paper from off cuts which are just too good to throw out, but what to do with them? Well, I decided to go through them all and create journaling cards and die cuts for my PL pages.

The first thing I did was cut all the larger pieces into either 3 x 4 or 4 x 6 sizes to fit the pockets, then I rounded all the corners (just because I prefer that finish).

With the smaller bits I die cut arrows, flags, frames etc and even getting down to the mini pieces, I punched hearts and butterflies from them.

 I managed to find a set of drawer tidy boxes which fit nicely into this cardboard box to keep all my bits in.

When putting my pages together I had everything on hand and ready to go.

I also experimented with adding my own handwriting with paint and a brush this time and I really like that look. Normally I hate my writing but the brush gives it a whole different look.

Enjoy your week,

Jaine

Challenge 91: Stitching - Real or Faux

Hello everyone! 

It's Ria here and I'm so excited to introduce you to  our April challenge theme:

"Stitching"  

Sewing is very close to my heart and I enjoy doing other craft projects that involve sewing or stitching.

For this month's challenge, go and apply a stitch or stitching in your project, this can be faux, by hand,  or machine stitched. We would love to see how you use them.

Here is my take

For my card, I hand stitched the three bokeh hearts to highlight them and paper pieced my doll's dress.

I also used a number of products from Sarah's shop:

Stamps -  Doodle Doll Art Girl stamp set, Large background stamp Ledger 

Papers - Documented 365 Kit, Paper Collection, AFOMFT- Be Mine kit, AFOMFT East Village

Scroll down to the bottom of this post to see the great prizes to win  when you enter the challenge.

  

The rest of the design team's take on the challenge is here to inspire you.  

Nicole

I used the digital Documented 365 Neapolitan kit to create my card. I printed out the sequin journaling card larger than its set size and used it as a strip of paper on my card base. I cut one of the other journaling cards down into a banner and I hand stitched this onto the sequin paper. I left my stitching threads exposed for some more texture on the card. I stamped a few doily stamps on my card base and put it all together. The gold looks fantastic with the soft pink and brown in real life, its a fabulous colour combo!!

Clare

Faux sewing using Sarah's Stitch and Doodle stencil/mask/template. All papers are from various 'My Favourite Things Kit', totally in love with this colour combo. Fairy and butterfly stamps are from my latest stamp set called Garden fairy

Elaine

Faux sewing on a card using papers and elements from the All Sewn Up kit with the 

addition of some pretty buttons.

Tania

For my card I have used  the stamp set Special Edition Fun of the Fair by Jaine Drake, then I paper pieced the layers of the merry-go-round and the buntin. I added faux stitches around the outside edge and on the flag and canopy.

(Make sure you call back on the 10th for my Spotlight 

showing you how I created the card)

Claireliz

I used a mixture of papers from a selection of Sarah's AFOMFT kit, along with Sarah's Picture This Stamp Set to create this scrapbook layout, I hand stitched the large red circle using back stitch.

Claire N

 For this card I have used Jaines' stamp set 'Tweet Tweet', stitched around the two love birds and also stitched the layers to the backing felt. The papers are from AFOMFT kit from October 2013, and I managed to sneak in a doily from my favourite coffee shop!.

Sharon

I couldn't resist this bright paper and circle stamp from this month's AFOMFT kit. Don't you just love the colours! The sentiment is from the same kit. I crocheted some flowers with embroidery thread, trying to match the colours on the paper.

Carol

I decided to make an altered A5 "Spell Book" using this month's AFOMFT Printable Kit, how awesome is the kit this month? Skulls, rainbows, moustaches and too  many other things to mention! I coloured the doodle sheet in using Promarkers and Flexmarkers. I stamped the new Voodoo Doll Stamp and coloured him in with Pros & Flexis. Full details are on my blog.

Jaine
This is my Project Life card for week 11 where I've used actual stitching to add interest. On Tuesday I'll be sharing more of my pages here so call back for that.

Jess

Here is my faux stitiching project.  Now the summer is here (well, nearly!) I've be inspired by all things summer/spring like.  Bunting immediately sprang to mind when I thought of faux stitching - so that's what I've made.  I used the gorgeous papers from Sarah's All Sewn Up paper pack for my bunting and hand drew the stitch lines and string.

Lisa

I have used papers from January's A Few of My Favourite Things Kit along with Sentiments Stamps and Butterflies Stamps to create a birthday card.

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.....

You have until 27th of April to enter the challenge.

Have fun!

Click Here to enter Challenge 91!

Scrapbooking with A Few of My Favourite Things Kit

Hello, Claireliz here.

Every month I stalk my postman for a few days, not just for fun though, as soon as I know that Sarah has posted the AFOMFT kits out I lay in wait for my kit to arrive, sometimes if I'm quick I open the front door before he's even rung the door bell, this month was no exception, the Doodle Love kit arrived & was opened with squeals of delight and expressions of "oooh bright pink!" it's safe to say it made me happy.

Bright colours can be a bit intimidating if you are using them all together, but there are a few tricks to making a scrapbook layout that really pops...

I started with a piece of white cardstock and then splattered it with hot pink, aqua, yellow and lime green spray inks, allowing the ink to dry in between colours so that they didn't run together creating an inky mess. When all of the inks had dried I doodled a stripy border around the edge of the cardstock.

As soon as I saw the hot pink grid paper I thought "doodled frame" so I drew a frame, cut it out, doodled around the edges just following the lines of the frame, then I inked the edges with Black Soot Distress Ink, I then used the paper that was cut from the centre of the frame, this is the turquoise paper, I cut it in half, inked the edges with Black Soot Distress Ink again and positioned it just behind the top and bottom of the frame. I felt it wasn't quite popping enough so a quick look in the kit box revealed a 6x4 card which was spotty on one side and lime green on the other, again I cut this in half, inked it up and positioned this behind the frame on the left and right hand sides. I then cut up the Live out Loud 6x4 card and positioned these at the top and bottom of the turquoise papers. By now I was happy with the positioning so I doodled some faux stitching around the edges of all of the papers. I was then able to stick everything into place. As a finishing touch I added the neon yellow resin bow & some small foam Thickers for the title. The black ink on the edges of the papers helps it all to stand out from the white background.

Well that's all from me for today, thanks for stopping by, we'd love to see what you make with this months AFOMFT kit.

C xx

Elegant Birthday

I have been having a little play with last months A Few of My Favourite Things Kit. My usual style is quite cutesy so I thought I would aim for an elegant card...

I've also used some ribbon and pearls from my stash and some embellishment left over from previous kits.

Here's what I used:

• A Few of My Favourite Things Kit

• Sentiments Stamps

• 'Walnut Stain' and 'Tea Dye' Distress Ink

• White Square Card Blank

• 1 inch Circle Punch

• Mini Stapler, Picket Fence Distress Stain, Viva Decor Pearl Pen, Ribbon and Pearl String

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Challenge 90 Winners

Thank you everyone for entering the challenge this month. It was fantastic to see everyone's use of speech bubbles and we loved visiting all your work. It is always had to pick winners but a huge thank you to you all for entering!

So without further ado - first place with this adorable card goes to:
Lynne in NI

 Congratulations Lynne, you win a £10 voucher to spend in Sarah's shop!!

Second place blog badge goes to: Pam Sparks and
 Third place blog badge goes to: Susan Renshaw

Congratulations everyone!

Get in touch with Sarah using the contact address on the right hand side bar. Again, well done and thank you for taking part.

Be sure to come back and join us for the next brand new challenge coming soon.

Woman in Making 2014 Competition

Today we all have a small favour to ask.

The amazing and super talented Sarah Hurley has entered Triumph's Woman in Making Competition 2014

So we would love it if you could please spare a few seconds and show your support by voting for her and helping us spread the word. 

Check out this picture below, who could say no to these two lol

Just click here to vote

Thankyou all once again.