Festive Coffee!

Hello!

I have loved seeing all of the fantastic inspiration from the Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop which has been organised by the lovely Amy Tsuruta.  

I am not actually a coffee lover.....but I do love a creamy hot chocolate in a big mug on a chilly day :)  I decided to make a festive card along those lines:

The mug is from Paper Smooches Cyber Café with a white embossed snowflake from Clearly Besotted and a sentiment from Hero Arts.  The panel was die cut from Clearly Besotted and layered over some patterned paper. 

I have also made a card for the Merry Monday's Challenge to use silver, gold, white and another colour:

I silver embossed these lovely wreaths from PTI and embellished them with gold sequins and purple gems.  The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted.  It is a similar layout to the card above with the die cut panel.  I will also link up at Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge to Bling It On!

I hope you like these cards...it has been a mad hectic week so I am amazed that I got anything made :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Sarah x

Normal service is resumed.....

Hello!

Following yesterday's unscheduled detour from Christmas cardmaking I am pleased to announce that normal service is resumed and I am back with some festive cards :) 

This is a card I made using the beautiful winter vines set from Uniko Studio.  I simply drew a circle and stamped the images in first and second generation ink.  The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.  I shall link up at Uniko's current Anything Goes challenge - my last entry, I promise!

Next up is a card that I made using a new set of stamps from Altenew that I got from Make the Day Special.  I love these silhouettes and went with the stags head:

I stamped the stags head in red (obviously!) and cut it out.  I mounted it on a die cut circle stamped with the fab woodgrain from Waltzingmouse Stamps and then on another circle which I inked and then dusted with Perfect Pearls.  It is quite golden in real life but looks like woodgrain on here which I like too :)  Some gold splatters, gold thread and a sentiment from WPlus9 to finish.

I shall link up at Simon Wednesday's Challenge - Christmas/holidays.

I hope you like these Christmas cards - they are quite different styles!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Sarah x

LIM and Waltzingmouse Fanatics

Hello!

A quick post from me with a few cards for challenges.  I have taken a brief break from Christmas cards :)

I love the fresh colour combo for this week's Less Is More Challenge and decided to softly ink through a Memory Box die in Tumbled Glass as a background for a lovely dragonfly die cut from Clearly Besotted.  The dragonfly is two layers which have a nice shimmer created with aqua and white/silver shimmer sprays.  The sentiment from PTI is stamped in Hero Arts Tide Pool.

Eta - I also meant to link this up at Addicted to CAS where the code word is Dots!

Next up I wanted to make a card to play along with Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge which is a sketch.  Here is what I came up with:

I used my Waltzingmouse woodgrain stamps and a fave sentiment from Uniko Studio.  I thought that the grey and teal combo would be good for a boy's card.  Here is the sketch - my card is a fairly literal interpretation.

 

I hope you like them!  Thanks for your visit - I really appreciate it :)

Sarah x

ABNH and stuff

Hello!

I am over at A Blog Named Hero today with a card inspired by my favourite post from this year.  It will be no surprise that it involves stencils....

Head over to ABNH to see who inspired me....

I will also enter this card in to the SSS Flickr Challenge #7 (my third) which is about stencils.

While I am playing with stencils and embossing paste here is a Christmas card made with a lovely stencil from Clarity Stamp:

 

I used white embossing paste on kraft, coloured the little heart in red pen and added some glossy accents.  A bit of white ink around the edges to soften the kraft.  I like the rustic/Nordic look of this design - do you?

 

I will link up at Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge to make Christmas/holiday cards.

 

I promise to put away my stencils for my next cards!  Thanks for stopping by :)

 

Sarah x

 

 

Sparkly Silver

Hello!

How is your weekend going?  Well, I hope!  The boys were at their Nana's today so it has been a quiet Saturday catching up on cleaning and crafting.  I started off with the intention of tidying up my craftroom but ended up making more of a mess with stencils and embossing paste....

I used a combination of distress inks to create the night sky - Chipped Sapphire, Faded Jeans and Salty Ocean and SSS's Falling Stars stencil with silver glitter embossing paste.  The heart and sentiment are stamped from Hero Arts Written in the Stars set.  The heart is embossed in silver and stamped on grey cardstock which was sprayed with a bit of shimmer mist.  A strip of silver glitter tape finishes the card.

This was one of those cards which I haven't made for any real reason other than to have a play with some crafty supplies.  Stencils have definitely been amongst my favourite crafty products of 2014 and I now use them on lots of cards.  As it is a SSS stencil I will enter it in to the SSS Flickr Challenge #7 and as the background uses distress inks I will also join up with Virginia's View Challenge to Distress It!

Whilst I was working with blues and silvers I made a very simple Christmas card (still need a few!):

This beautiful dove stamp was my favourite Christmas stamp from last year's Uniko Studio release. It is just so lovely!  I used clear wink of stella on it and matted the panel over some navy blue and silver glitter card.  I thought I would leave it CAS after all of the distress ink and embossing paste on the first card :)

I will link this card up at SSS Wednesday's Challenge which is Christmas/holiday cards and at AAA Card Challenge's Blue Christmas - I am really enjoying the AAA challenges now that they are fortnightly.  I never seemed to get time to play along before :)  I will also link up with the CAS challenge over at Addicted to Stamps.  Finally, I will link up at Merry Mondays where the challenge is 'feathered friends'.

I hope you like my sparkly cards - thanks for stopping by!

Sarah x

Time Out Challenge #20

Hello!

What a fantastic response to the last Time Out challenge - it was great to see over 140 gorgeous creations!  This time we have a gorgeous card to CASE from one of my absolute favourite cardmakers - Amy Wanford (Aimes) of Crafting Confessions:

 

Isn't this adorable? Aimes has a fantastic CAS style and makes the coolest cards.  Her blog is definitely worth a visit but I am sure you already know that :)

Here is my take:

 

 

I was inspired to use Uniko Studio's Stunning Snowflakes set along with the new Background Builders Winter Vines set.  I silver embossed the vine and sentiment and stamped the snowflakes. 

 

Head on over to Time Out to see the fab inspiration that the DT have in store for you along with our Guest Designer - Milla.  Her blog Mustesormi is well worth a visit.

 

I will also link up at AAA Cards where the challenge is blue Christmas, at Uniko Studio's Anything Goes challenge and at Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday challenge which is Christmas/holidays.

 

Finally I will join in at the lovely Kylie's Christmas card challenge which is open until 21 December.  There is a chance to win one of her fab watermark and signature designs which I have been admiring on lots of my favourite bloggers creations:)

 

I hope you get Time Out to join us over this busy time....

 

Sarah x

Stencil Fun

Hello!

I have been to the dentist today and feel rotten so this is a quick post....

The current challenge at the SSS Flickr Group is to use stencils.  I do love my stencils....

 

I coloured some white cardstock with Worn Lipstick, Scattered Straw, Spun Sugar and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Inks and die cut the SSS balloons.  I put versamark ink through the SSS Falling Stars and Diagonal Stripes stencils and then dusted them with Perfect Pearls in gold and blush.  I did the same in the background and gold embossed the sentiment and stars from the SSS birthday set.  The pearls give a subtle shimmer and interest.

I will also link up at SSS Wednesday Challenge which is Anything Goes and at Virginia's View Challenge which, this month, is distress.

Thanks for stopping by!

Sarah x