A few cards

Hello!

Just popping by with a quick post amidst the last minute Christmas rush :)  I am slowly starting to feel in the festive mood....might even make mince pies tomorrow!

First up is a card playing with my fab new Hero Arts stars die.  It is a good size and perfect as the focal point on a card....it does most of the work for you.

I coloured a piece of watercolour card with distress stains and water and sprayed it with Mister Huey shine spray.  The die cut star panel was layered up several times to give some dimension and a few of the stars were scattered around the edge.  The sentiment from Hero Arts is silver embossed. 

I shall link up at the A2Z Scrapbooking's December challenge to use watercolouring.

My second card is inspired by the challenge at AAA Cards to use plaid:

I used some stripes and stitches stamps from Inky Doodles to create a plaid effect and die cut some baubles.  Some stitch stamps white embossed around the edge and a sentiment from PTI completes the country feel to my Christmas card.  The AAA link is closed but I can still join up at Addicted to Stamps where the themes is Anything Goes.  Also I will link up at CAS on Sunday where the theme is Christmas.

I hope you like them and are still finding time to create during the holiday period :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Sarah x

Snowy Cards

Hello!

Nearly at the weekend and the Christmas holidays :) I am just popping by quickly with a few one layer cards:

 

I masked the edges of the card and stamped these beautiful snowflakes from Waltzingmouse Stamps in first and second generation teal ink.  The sentiment is from Uniko Studio and embossed in silver.  The sentiment gave me the idea for my second, more CAS version.

 

I die cut a butterfly and used it as an aperture to stamp the snowflakes in shades of blue and aqua.  I like the wintry butterfly!

 

I will link up at Less Is More where this week's one layer card theme is snow and at CASology where the cue card is snow.  I will also link up at Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge which has a wintry theme and at the Anything Goes Challenge at Addicted to Stamps.

 

I hope you are still finding time to fit in to some crafty time in the run up to Christmas :)

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Sarah x

Time Out Challenge #21

Hello!

Are you ready for our last Time Out Challenge of 2014?  It is a word inspiration this time:

Christmas is love with all the trimmings

I hope you are feeling festive and full of the Christmas spirit!  Here is how I was inspired:

I decided to turn my Uniko snowflakes into ornaments and combined them with heart gems and the lovely sentiment.  It is a really simple card but I think it captures the spirit of the phrase.

We are joined by a fabulous guest designer for this challenge - Shirley from Shirley Bee's Stamping Stuff.  She is an amazing card designer who does cool things with inks and mixed media.  She also designs for Stamplorations.  You definitely want to check out her blog :)  I hope you will visit Time Out to see what the DT have created and to take Time Out to play along with us!

I will also link up at CASology where the cue card is Snow and at Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge where the theme is Winter Inspiration.  There is also a winter theme at Merry Mondays.

Thanks, as always, for stopping by :)

Sarah x

Sunshine Daisies

Hello!

I hope you are having a good week....I decided to take a short break from Christmas card making and think of sunnier days :)  My main reason being that I had recently got the lovely Hello Sunshine Daisies stamp set from Hero Arts and wanted to play with it!

I made 3 cards:

 

They are fairly self explanatory.  I coloured the lovely flowers with distress markers and spritzed with water before stamping on the first two cards and so I will link up at A2Z Scrapbooking's current watercolour challenge and at Virginia's View distressing challenge.

 

I tried something a bit more graphic on the last card by stamping the daisies in grey archival ink and overstamping them with a big circle from a HA set.  I quite like the spring pastels.  I will link this card up at Addicted to Stamps current Anything Goes challenge.  This is a surprisingly versatile stamp set - I don't always go for florals but there are lots of techniques that you could use with these.

 

I still have more Christmas cards to come but am starting to think more about cards that I will need for next year....

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Sarah x

 

 

Waltzingmouse Pajama Party Card #2

Hello!

I'm back with a second card for the Waltzingmouse Pajama Party.  This time I worked with the Bedtime Story sketch:

 

I stamped the pinecones in versamark on kraft cardstock and dusted with Perfect Pearls gold.  I stamped and die cut the pinecones and popped it up over a die cut panel with the sentiment embossed in gold.  I die cut the kraft panel with a die from Clearly Besotted.  I have used this quite a lot recently and like the bit of interest it gives to the focal point.

This is the sketch:

 

That's it from me :)

 

Sarah x

Waltzingmouse Pajama Party

Hello!

A super quick post from me this morning before I go to work to link up with today's pajama party over at Waltzingmouse Stamps:

I didn't get the chance to make as much as I was planning for this month's PJ party but got the chance to ink up the lovely Nordic Winter to play along with Challenge #3 Old Pajamas:

 

It is a really simple design with the borders stamped in navy and topped with a sentiment from Tis The Season embossed in silver.

 

I might get something else made after work this evening....

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Sarah x

Gold and Silver

Hello!

Are you having a good weekend?  Our tree is now up so we are starting to feel a bit more festive, just have another 1,000,000 jobs to do :)  Crafting isn't high on the to do list but I still indulged in a bit of play time.

Here is a card that I made for a few challenges:

This gold embossed swirly tree is from Inkylicious and added lots of green pearls.  Matted on green and gold cardstock.  I will link this up at Inkspirational where the challenge is gold and another colour along with Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge to bling it on!

I also wanted to play along with this week's CASology where the cue card is Silver and decided to use these fun stamps from Altenew:

The big diamond is from Avery Elle and embossed in silver.  I thought it would make a cute engagement card.

That's all for today.  I hope to get a chance to get inky again tomorrow :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Sarah x