Balloons

Hello!

I hope you have had a great weekend.  I just squeezed in a bit of crafting time around Jack's birthday celebrations!

I wanted to play with my new balloon stamps and dies from Simon Says Stamps - I have had them for a little while but not got round to using them and the current cue card at CASology, Float was the perfect excuse.

I have tried to keep this card as CAS as possible - I thought the single red balloon had real impact.  I have just gone to link up and realised that my card is an exact copy of Kimberley's from the design team - oops, sorry! 

However, I couldn't resist stamping lots of overlapping balloons to create this colourful card:

I die cut a balloon out of the centre and decided to make a shaker card to play along with Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge.  It is also another card that I can join up with Virginia's View #5 Challenge to use die cuts.

I am off to bed - a busy week ahead :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Sarah x

Another Flower....

Hello!

Happy Friday :)  I hope you are looking forward to a good weekend - it is my youngest's 9th birthday tomorrow and the Tour de France is setting off close by where we live so there is much excitement here! 

That means I don't have much spare crafting time but here is another flower card I have made with the Clearly Besotted florals.  I am definitely putting them away now as I have lots of other things to play with :)

 

Apologies for the rubbish photo - I don't know why the card looks a bit bent.  It looks fine in real life :)

 

I will join the card up with Less is More at the last minute again.....the challenge is to use something recycled which had me stumped but while I was looking for birthday candles etc for tomorrow I found some old coloured doilies and thought one of them would work well on a card so that is my recycled item.

 

Just to show that it isn't all flowers and pretty things here - this is the card that I have made for my son's birthday:

 

 

I used cute robot stamps from Lawn Fawn - love the cute bow tie!  I hope Jack likes it :)

 

Anyway, best get back to wrapping presents.  Thanks for stopping by - enjoy your weekend!

 

Sarah x

 

A Quick Post

Hello!

I hope your week has been going well...it has been another busy one.  Three more weeks before the boys finish school and we are all looking forward to the break :)

I haven't had much time to craft this week but have made a quick card with the beautiful Clearly Besotted florals that are still out on my table :

I coloured the flowers with Spectrum Noir pencils and die cut them with the matching dies.  I also used a Clearly Besotted die to cut the panel and inked through it using the Simon Says Stamp diagonal stencil.  The sentiment is Avery Elle.

As the card features two die cuts it gives me the chance to play along with Virginia's latest fab challenge to use die cuts at Virginia's View.  I use them on most of my cards these days and there are such a fantastic range available.  I particularly love word dies at the moment :) 

I will also join up at Addicted To Stamps current Make Your Mark challenge.

That's it for now....I hope to be back again soon!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Sarah x

Sunday Crafting

Hello!

I hope you have been enjoying your weekend :)  I didn't get much time to craft but did squeeze in a few cards for current challenges.

First up is my card for this week's CASology with the cue card - Wood.

 

I gold embossed a circular woodgrain stamp from Hero Arts.  I stacked the die cut circle up with 4 or 5 layers to make it a bit more chunky.  The lovely bird die cut is from Penny Black and sentiment is from Hero Arts.  I used a gold krylon pen round the edge of the white card.  I love a black and gold colour combo and think it works well for a sympathy card.  I will also link up with Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge which is Anything Goes.

 

I have also made a card for The Card Concept's current challenge with a baby theme.  I used this sweet panda stamp from There She Goes which, unfortunately, is no longer available:

 

 

I die cut the heart and popped it up over some patterned paper.  The sentiment is from one of my all time favourite sets by Papertrey Ink.  A few enamel dots to finish.  Simple!

 

I hope you like these cards.  I'll be back soon once I have had the chance to make something else to share :)

 

Happy crafting!

 

Sarah x

 

Time Out

Hello!

Made it to the weekend, just :)

I can't believe that my card was picked out at the Time Out Challenge!

Thank you so much - it has made my day. 

I have a couple of cards to share today that I have made for the current Time Out Challenge to case this beautiful card by the fabulous Donna Mikasa:

I love the way that Donna uses vibrant colours with a splash of gold.  Here is my take:

 

I loved the gradient of colours on Donna's card and used Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade and Picked Raspberry Distress Inks to create it.  The die cut is from Memory Box and I stacked several up to give the panel more dimension.  The gold elements of Donna's design are mirrored in the gold embossed sentiment (Altenew's Label Love) combined with some gold thread.  It is quite a CAS design.

 

In addition to Time Out Challenges I will link this up with CAS on Sunday's challenge which has a birthday theme.

 

Obviously I had lots of leftover pieces from the die cut and made this second card with them:

 

 

It took me ages to glue all of the little circles in to the die cut!  The die cut sentiment is from Avery Elle (I think).  I inked a piece of background cardstock in the same colours to create a mat.  I will link this card up with Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes.

That's it from me....I hope you like these cards :)

Are you planning a crafty weekend?!

See you again soon, Sarah x

Wednesday already!

Hello!

I can't believe it is Wednesday already...the week is definitely getting away from me.  Anyway, I have found time to make cards to play along with a few of my favourite challenges:

This card features lovely floral stamps and a sentiment from Clearly Besotted Stamps.  I have coloured the image using distress inks and water.  Some splatter and a few sequins to finish.  I will link this up with Less Is More's Challenge to feature watercolour on our card along with Clearly Besotted's Anything Goes Challenge (just!).  I can also link up with Keep It Simple's Challenge to use splatters.

My next card was inspired by the code word at Addicted to CAS - Sun:

 

I have used circle stamps from Uniko Studio and a sentiment from Mama Elephant.  I popped up the stitched tag for added interest.  I really like this very CAS look :)  I will also link up with Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge where Anything Goes. 

 

I best dash as the link ups close on a few of these within the hour!!

 

I hope you like the cards - thanks for your kind comments :)

 

Sarah x

Float My Boat

Hello! 

I hope you have had a sunshiney Saturday :)  Just a few simple cards from me today:

 

Here is a card that I have made to play along with The Card Concept's nautical theme using (new to me) Lawn Fawn stamps and dies.  I have put some wink of stella on the sails and used the negative edges of a scallop border punch for my waves.

 

I made my next card playing around with these lovely border sentiment stamps from Simon Says Stamp.  I coloured and glittered some wood veneer stars as embellishments.  This was a super quick card to create :)

 

 

My final card today is playing with my new Uniko Studio butterfly stamps which are gorgeous.  I gold embossed them and used my current favourite stencil from Simon Says Stamp.  The middle panel looked a bit stark so I added some gold splatters.  The sentiment is from Mama Elephant.  I love black and gold as a colour combo....I do come back to it time and again.  Because my card features splatters I will join up at Keep It Simple's current challenge to use splatters :) and at Simon's Wednesday Challenge which is to make cards for friends.

 

 

Three cards in one post?  I will have to go and have a lie down :)

 

Hopefully I will have something more to share tomorrow if I can sneak back for more playtime in my craft room - should be easy with the world cup distracting my boys!

 

Thanks for your visit - stop by again soon :)

 

Sarah x