A Few Cards

Hello!

We have had a hectic weekend with scooter parties, football presentations and shopping for my eldest's prom outfit - who knew boys could be so fussy!  I did manage to squeeze in a few cards along the way and here they are:

 

This card was made with the sweet panda set from Mama Elephant with a touch of colouring with Spectrum Noir pencils. I am linking this card up with CASology's Challenge based on the cue card - Glow.  The glow from the lamp, glitter tape and sequins reflect the theme.

 

 Next I wanted to play along with the new Tag You're It Challenge - particularly as the inspiration tag was made by Virginia Lu.  Here is my take:

 

 

 

I cut a stitched tag using my Waltzingmouse Stamps die and the hello die cut is from Papertrey Inks which I stacked up with a couple of layers.  The circle stamps are from Uniko Studio.  I hope that you can see that I was inspired by the colour combo and the die cut word from Virginia's designs!

 

Thanks as always for stopping by - I hope you have had a great weekend :)

 

I'm off to check out the Altenew blog hop - so excited about their next release!

 

Bye for now, Sarah x

 

 

 

Happy Accidents with Alcohol!

Hello!

I mean alcohol inks of course :)  I was playing around with my alcohol inks at the weekend and getting frustrated - I never seem to be able to get a look that I like.  It may be my preference for CAS that makes the inks just too unpredictable for me!  Anyway, I accidently got a few drops on a piece of gloss card and liked the way it spread out so I tried making a few backgrounds by dropping the inks with some blending solution.

I embossed and cut out the gorgeous new Hummingbird stamp from Uniko Studios on vellum as I thought that my inky background gave the impression of a blurry background created by the bird hovering....

 

I will join up with Uniko's current challenge as it is using a similar colour palette....also I will link up with Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge to use clear elements on our cards as the hummingbird is stamped on vellum.  Finally, and very belatedly I will link up with the lovely Darnell's birthday party as I am sure she will appreciate a card made using NBUS!

 

Here is a second card with a bit more green and gold in it:

 

 

I can't decide which I like more - what do you think?

 

I hope you are looking forward to a lovely weekend :)

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Sarah x

 

Grab Life by the Beans!

Hello!

Just a quick post tonight with a card I have made for the current Less Is More Challenge to use earthtones.  This is a major breakthrough as I am usually posting the hour before the challenge closes on a Friday so I am very pleased with myself :)

This is made from a fun set by Paper Smooches called Cyber Café.  I love the sentiment!  The twine and kraft card adds a bit of texture.

I hope your week is going well - I'll be back soon with a few more cards.

Thank you so much for stopping by and your kind comments.

Sarah x

Over at ABNH

Hello!

I am over at A Blog Named Hero today with some cards made using Paper Smooches and Hero Arts products.  I love Paper Smooches stamps - they are so fun and always make me smile :)

 

 

I white embossed Hero Arts Tiny Stars Background and inked with Salty Ocean Distress Ink.  The cute owl is from Paper Smooches Chubby Chums and coloured with Promarkers.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts Written in the Stars.

 

I will link up with Virginia's View #5 Challenge to use die cuts and also at Addicted to CAS where the code word is Sky.

 

Head on over to ABNH to see the other cards that I have made :)  Also link up your projects with our latest challenge:

 

 

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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