Saturday 31 December 2011

Happy New Year!


Happy New Year
everyone!
I hope you all have a great evening and I wish you many blessings for 2012.
Thank you for your support this year and for all the lovely comments left
I appreciate every one of them.


*whispers* I've been a bad blogger at updating so here's hoping I can keep a New Year's resolution to update at least twice once a week from now on.....

So, to finish off the year I'm posting the last of the Christmas things I've made...

These were for Lydia's best friend, a felt keyring, brooch and bookmark.






This has been a very popular image from Digistamp Boutique and I love it. Though when I made this card, I asked my 5 year old if she liked it  and after looking at it critically for a minute she said, 'Nah, you've made a mistake'.  Really?, I said....Yes...only one reindeer should have a red nose....lol



I made the same card for my own Mum and Dad but it's minus the red background.

The red postbox on this card is a Molly Blooms stamp which I borrowed from my friend. I added glossy accents to the snow and sprinkled it with Glamour dust.

and the baubles digi image on the last card is from a Passion for Stamps. I coloured it with Stampin' Up markers and the sentiment is from Pink Petticoat.

See you next year!
Sarah x

Thursday 29 December 2011

Reindeer boxes

Hello again!

Back with more projects today :)
Thank you so much for the lovely comments yesterday - I really appreciate them :)
My back is improving, so much so that I'm back to my normal level of medication (I have an ongoing back problem from a car accident). I hope to be crafting again soon.  Helen - you would never regret buying a Silhouette Cameo - it's an amazing machine!

I made this little treat box (with the Cameo) for my father in law from the children.  He loves wine gums so we filled a cello bag and tied it with christmas twine.  The cutting file is from Silhouette's online store.  I added gingham ribbon around the bottom and two adhesive pearls for his eyes.


Warning! They can be addictive....I made four more for my nephews using googly eyes this time and bow ties.

We usually give them money for Christmas so I made mini envelopes to put it in and attached them to the back of the boxes.  I downloaded Echo Park christmas paper and cut them out using the print and cut feature in the Cameo.

I got the idea for this tic tac box here and downloaded the poem to add to the back of the packet.  I measured the tic tac box and designed the file in Silhouette Studio, cutting out the circle in the snowman and the background card to match - a circle punch would work just as well. The snowman image is from here.


I only added the poem to the ones I gave to family just in case anyone would be offended!

 I found the tutorial for this lovely lip balm holder here.
To save time cutting and scoring I made a file in Silhouette Studio which did all the hard work for me :)


 
This year Lydia's form class decided (at the last minute) to do secret santa and this is what she gave. Lip balm, tic tacs, Paperchase pen and tissues.

I made some fabric and felt Christmas tree decorations 

 and this is the bag I put them in. 
The paper is Echo Park and the bag was cut out with the Cameo, I think I bought the file from Silhouette online.

That's it for today!  I still have more but I'll save it for tomorrow :)
I've got a little time to spare so I'm off now to see your blogs.

Thank you for visiting today
Sarah x

Wednesday 28 December 2011

Christmas cards and gift bags

Hello everyone:)
I hope you all had a lovely Christmas!
We had a quiet Christmas day at home with the children, celebrated Boxing day here with my Mum & Dad and then had a family day at their house yesterday with my brothers, their wives and all of our children. It was quite a houseful but was lovely to catch up with everyone!
Santa was very generous and brought me a Silhouette Cameo and even delivered it early ;)  It hasn't had a lot of use yet, as silly me fell the week before Christmas when out shopping in Belfast. At the time my pride was hurt more than anything (lol) but that night my back pain flared up and I haven't been able to do much crafting since.  Fortunately though, I had most of my bags and presents made before that :)

Here are the teachers' cards and gifts - 4 in all, 2 for the teachers and 2 for the classroom assistants.

I cut these crackers out with the craft robo (I think the file came with the studio software). The papers are Echo Park, Jillibean soup, plain white card and Bazzill dotted swiss card.  The images are from DigiStamp Boutique and I resized them and cut them out using print and cut with the craft robo.  I coloured them with Copics and Stampin' Up markers. (You might have spotted that I made an extra one....it was for a friend :)




I bought some packets of tissues and embellished them with christmas paper, ribbon and a snowman.  I edited the snowman in studio software to remove his arms, it meant I could enlarge him to fit the circle better.

These base of these calendars are made of white chipboard which I bought in the PaperMill shop before it closed. The image is pre-coloured from here and the paper is Bo Bunnny - Peacock Lane Ivy.
  

  The paper for this calendar is Pebbles Inc. - My Girl Tiny Flower

 The paper for this calendar is from the DCWV - Pocket Full of Posies Stack.

 The paper for this one is Daisyd's - Maybe Baby Adore

I made all these bags with the Craft Robo and I bought the cutting file for it here.
I used Bazzill kraft card for the bag base and the paper is 3 Bugs in a Rug - Snow much fun Santa's Elves.  I cut the title (font is Georgia) and tag with the robo.  The Christmas Divine twine is from Creative Craft World.

The paper for this bag is Echo Park - Winter Park, Park City. The trees are cut with the robo from Bazzill embossed dot card and edged with Glamour Dust.

The paper on this one is Cosmo Cricket - Jolly By Golly, Merry Berry. The 'Merry Christmas' title is from Silhouette Studio, cut out with the robo.

and lastly, the paper on this one is 3 Bugs in a Rug - Let it Snow, Reindeer. 

 As I was running out of time, I made very simple personalised ('salad fingers' font) cards this year.  The images are from DigiStamp Boutique and I coloured them with Copics.  As they tend to bleed through the card I cut an extra piece of white card and taped it to the inside of the front of the card to cover it.  I usually add an insert to the card as well so it covers the extra piece added on. It's difficult to see in the photos but I added Glamour dust to all the images for extra sparkle! 



This card was coloured with Stampin' Up markers which don't bleed through so there is no need to cover the inside.




The finished packages ready for delivery! 

Sorry it's been such an overload of photos!
I have more to come but I think I'll save them for tomorrow!

See you soon
Sarah x

Wednesday 30 November 2011

...ANOTHER 2 months and some sock monkeys!

Hello everyone!

The blog scheduling went well, didn't it......! lol

I can tell you that in between looking after sick children, I have managed to do a little papercrafting and sewing , just not got it posted yet.  Here's a few of the cards and some sock monkeys:



For this card I used the Long Fellows hostess set from Stampin' Up and the sentiment was coloured using Stampin' Up markers (I love them!) The balloon is a cuttlebug kids die cut, embossed with the swiss dots folder and edged with stardust stickles.


I used an Elzybells stamp for this card and the spotty paper is doodlebug.  

I made this bag ages ago and found the photos when transferring them from one computer to the other.  I used adhesive backed funky foam for the embellishements and cut them out using the Cuttlebug 'Olivia' die set.



My Mum went to Australia for 6 weeks in September and I made these sock monkeys for her to take to my little nephews.  I made the hats from Ikea's fleece blankets.



This was the first monkey I made for them but it turned out a bit girly, so Phoebe claimed it!

At the minute I'm decorating a wooden advent calendar and I'd better get a move on since the first day will be tomorrow!  I'll post pics of it as soon as I can and also pics of the mini book I gave a sneak peek of, in the last post.

I'll try and be back soon, thank you for bearing with me  :)
Sarah x

Saturday 24 September 2011

2 months later....

Good Morning!

I really am a disaster with this blog aren't I!  Hopefully I'm back on track now and I'll try and schedule posts more often in the future :)  I don't know where to start to catch up but I've been making various bits and pieces over the summer and I'll share them with you over the next few days.

The highlight of my summer holidiays was catching up with my lovely cousin Vicky of Crafting Clare's paper moments.  She came to Northern Ireland on holiday and took time out to do a Stampin' Up workshop for me.  She also gave me a beautiful gift which you can see here - I could never photograph it to do it justice like Vicky does :)

Here are a couple of cards I made for Mum's birthday August
The branch and the sentiment are both Unity stamps and the stitches are a Wendy Vecchi stamp. The inks are Stampin' Up - Melon Mambo and Old Olive (I think...)




The card from the children - the stamp is Elzybells and the flowers are Prima e-line scrunched up and layered together.  The paper I've had a long time but I think it's Making Memories and the font is 'Stars from our eyes'

 The back of the card

Needle cases made using the pattern from the Sew Pretty Homestyle book
 Needle case open

And finally, this is the little mini book I mentioned at the beginning of the summer.  It's just a little peek as it's not completely finished yet but when it is I will post photos of each of the pages.  I'll be teaching this at a class next month using different papers.



I'd like to say hello to my new followers and thanks for joining me.  Vicky, in a previous post you asked a question about making the bags using A4 card.  They're made using 2 sheets of A4 card both cut and scored exactly the same, folded and taped together. I will try and do a photo tutorial as that might explain it better :)

See you soon
Sarah x