Vellum Hearts

Hello!

Yay, we have got to the weekend....and tomorrow is Valentine's Day!  I have made a few cards inspired by current challenges. 

I red embossed a SSS honeycomb heart on to vellum and die cut it.  I combined it with a mixed  font word from Clarity Stamp.  I pierced the heart and stitched through it with black embroidery thread.  I layered the panel up on some newsprint paper.

I will link up at ColourQ and at CASology where the theme is Love.

While I had the stamps and vellum out I made another card:

I also wanted to play along for a 2nd time at AAA Cards.  Again the red swirly heart is from SSS and is embossed on vellum.  Finally I will link up at the Anything Goes challenge at Addicted to Stamps.

I hope to be back with some non love cards this weekend....time to move away from the hearts :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Sarah x

Time Out Challenge #24 Reminder

Hello!

Here we are at the midway point already in our current Time Out Challenge to CASE Kylie's beautiful card.  Here is my second take on the inspiration:

I went very CAS with this one and simply focused on the spring flowers from Kylie's card.  I stacked this sweet Memory Box tulip die up several times for some dimension and coloured with Chameleon Pens.  I added a very plain sentiment (from PTI, I think).  I think it looks really fresh and clean.

Here is Kylie's card:

Her fab blog Kylie is Addicted to Stamps and More is full of equally gorgeous inspiration!

Head over to the Time Out blog to see what our fab GD Sarah from Sazzle Dazzle Crafts and the rest of the DT have created.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Sarah x

Pink and Grey

Hello!

Just a quick post with another pink and grey creation for the 4th birthday challenge at Less Is More.

This is very simple - I die cut this new Memory Box butterfly from grey cardstock and adhered to a light pink base.  I combined with a sentiment from Hero Arts stamped in grey ink.

I will also link up at SSS's Wednesday Challenge - All Things Bright and Beautiful.

I hope your week is going well :)

Sarah x

Lots of Love

Hello!

I hope you have had a fabulous weekend.  I seem to have less and less time to craft at the moment but really hope that I can catch up with myself and with all of your wonderful blogs as the week progresses. 

I have just managed to squeeze in at the last minute to play along with Taheerah's Cure for the Monday Blues.  Here is my card:

Here is the inspiration photo:

I was inspired by the floaty feel of the heart strings and the combination of whites and metallics.  I cut the fabulous SSS heart die in gold mirri and in vellum and adhered them slightly offset to the card using gold staples.  I had already splattered the card with gold spray and gold embossed the sentiment from SSS.  I also sponged through a Tim Holtz stencil in gold delicate ink on the card base for a bit more interest.

I will also play along at the first AAA Card Challenge of the year where the challenge is Love.  I think the SSS heart die works with the inspiration photo:

Given all of the sparkly elements I will also link this card up at SSS Flickr Challenge #12 which is sparkle.

My next card is to play along with Less Is More where it is a colour challenge to use pink and grey.  That is one of my fave colour combos so I might try and play along again this week too. 

I used new (to me) Clearly Besotted Stamps on this card stamping the keys randomly in the background.  I silver embossed the heart lock on the tag and added a few enamel dots for good measure.  I was definitely inspired by Michelle's lovely GD card for this challenge!  LIM is 4 years old so that is another good reason to play along - big congrats to Chrissie and the lovely DT.   I love my Saturday morning visit to LIM to see what they have in store for us :)

That's all from me - I hope you have a great week!

Thanks for stopping by,

Sarah x

Time Out #24

Hello!

What an amazing response we had to our last challenge at Time Out - over 240 entries!  Thank you all so much for playing along....it was great to see so many fantastic designs.  We have another fab challenge to get you creating which is to CASE this gorgeous card by Kylie with your own twist:

Many of you will know Kylie Purtell from Kylie is Addicted to Stamps and More.  She is one of my favourite cardmarkers and the inspiration behind popular challenges such as Addicted to CAS, Addicted to Stamps and the Happy Little Stampers forum. 

This card is so lovely and fresh from the light pinks and greens, to the embossed stripes in the background, the tag and polka dot ribbon - there are so many great elements.

Here is what I came up with:

I think that my take on Kylie's card is fairly obvious!  I have used a stitched tag from Waltzingmouse Stamp and stitched rectangle die from Lawn Fawn.  I have combined them with stamps from WPlus9 to reflect the spring blooms on Kylie's card.  Above all, there is lots of lovely white space :)

We also have a fabulous guest designer with us this week in the lovely Sarah from Sazzle Dazzle Crafts.  Sarah makes the most amazing CAS cards and is a designer for Less Is More, Uniko and Addicted to Stamps.  Her blog is always worth a visit!  Check out what the rest of the DT have created to get more inspiration. I look forward to seeing what you create.

I am also going to link this card up at Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge - All Things Bright and Beautiful. 

This is also the card for my post today at Make The Day Special as you can buy the fabulous WPlus9 stamps there.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Sarah x

Sending Love

Hello!

I recently got some fab new stamps and dies from Simon Says Stamp and have been itching to have a play.  Here is a quick card that I made this evening:

I stamped a Clearly Besotted striped border down the edge of the card and created a background from the SSS envelope stamps in pale grey.  I coloured a piece of card with Picked Raspberry distress ink and die cut the fabulous distressed heart from it.  I added wink of stella to that and to the die cut sentiment.

I will link this up at the SSS Flickr Group Challenge #11 and for a final time at SSS's Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes. I will also play along at Addicted to CAS's current challenge where the code word is Hugs and Kisses.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Sarah x

More Birthdays.....

Hello!

With the number of cards that I make, you would think that I am never short of a birthday card...however, my Mum asked me to give her a card for a friend and I seemed to have more valentines cards than birthday cards!  Time to stock up....

I am loving playing with my Create A Smile stamps at the moment.  I actually made this card a little while ago but don't think I have posted it before:

I combined the cute monster family with a sentiment from Hero Arts and paper chains from Altenew.  I am still practising with my Chameleon pens!  I will join up for a third time at Create A Smile's March Guest Designer call and at Simon Says Stamp's Anything Goes challenge.

Last week my post at Make the Day Special featured the lovely butterfly frame die from WPlus9.  I made this card from patterned paper but didn't have time to add it to my post:

 

I will link up a second time at Seize the Birthday Challenge blog.

 

I hope you like my birthday cards :)

 

Thanks for stopping by,

 

Sarah x