Baby Girl Card

A little baby girl card :)

The base card is A6 landscape in white and the designer papers are from a Making Memories 6x6" paper pad.  I taped two strips of paper to the base card (one is broader than the other).  Then stamped 'Brand New' & 'tiny miracle' on the base card with sky gray versacolor pigment ink. Next I tied pink satin ribbon around the card and finished with a bow at the front.  I took another piece of matching pink paper and cut a scallop circle with a Nestabilitie die (you could use a punch) and then I cut another smaller plain circle from white card.  I stamped a baby face on the circle with sky gray ink and coloured it with copic markers.  I attached the white circle to the pink circle with foam pads and then taped the pink circle to the base card.

Have a lovely day :)
Sarah x

Supplies
White card
Making Memories 'Kate' collection
Versacolor cube ink - sky gray
Stamps - sentiments are American Crafts & Studio G
            - Baby face is Doodlebug designs
Ribbon - Poppicrafts
Copic markers

Sock Piggy!

Here's another little sock creature :) 

She's made with baby first size socks - 1 pink with hearts and the other plain white.  Her eyes are tiny black brads and the little bow is made with ribbon from my scrap box.

 I should have made her a curly tail!

Thanks for taking the time to visit :)

Sarah x

Apologies

I am so sorry I haven't been updating my blog.  I haven't been feeling very well (my haemoglobin has dropped again) though I have been able to make a few things (in between naps!) I just haven't been able to upload them.  I'm going to try and post a bit more regularly from now on :)  Thank you to all who have stuck with me!!

Here's a quick little card using dry embossing, stamping and punching.

The flowers/leaves along the bottom are embossed using a Cuttlebug embossing folder.  The designer paper is MME Bloom & Grow and I punched the flowers from it using different sizes of EKSuccess retro flower punches. The flowers were then layered and held together with an orange brad.  The leaves are punched with a Woodware grass punch and the Just Because stamp is by American Crafts.

Thanks for visiting :)
Sarah x

Birthday - For my Wife

This was a last minute card I made for Dad to give to Mum.  I just couldn't think of what to make but it eventually came together in the end :)

The paper is American Crafts double sided and I cut a wavy line with a craft knife and turned one side over overlapping slightly.  I hand stitched the two pieces together with two lines of straight stitches and stitched the two corners of the pink paper.  I then matted it onto brown card. 

For the die cuts I used nestabilies Labels One (brown card) and Labels Four (white card).  The clear stamp used for the image is by Recollections and I coloured it with Copics and added star dust stickes glitter glue to the flower and leaves.  The sentiment is computer generated (anke calligraphic font) and cut out with a nestabilites labels trio die. I tied the brown organza ribbon around the mat before adhering it to the base card.  The little white pearls are Papermania.

Have a great weekend!
Sarah x

Happy Birthday Easel Card for Mum

Hello again!

This is the easel card I made for Mum's birthday last Sunday.  Lots more stitching too!
Tip - When you have stitched the whole way around the card and you finish off at the end, to tidy up loose ends, give the threads at the back a little tug and the front threads should start to come through to the back.  Pull them completely through, tie them together and tape down.

The double sided paper is from the My Mind's Eye, Quite Contrary range.  The sentiment is computer generated and cut out with labels one nestabilities die.  I stamped some flowers on it and put adhesive gems in the centre.  Then I inked victorian velvet distress ink around the edges. I cut the large scalloped circle with a nestability die and inked the edges with distress ink, then added the rabbit with foam pads.

Thanks for stopping by today :)
Sarah x

Supplies
White card - 15x15cms card (folded size) plus extra 15x15cm square
Bazzill - Vintage Pink
DP - My Mind's Eye
Stamps - Joanna Sheen Messy Rabbit, American Crafts Clear stamp collection (Fun) 59096
Inks - Memento Tuxedo Black, Distress ink Victorian Velvet
Nestabilities - Scalloped Circle, Labels One
Thread
Buttons
Ribbon - Ribbons Galore Australia
Papermania adhesive gems

Mum's birthday

Hi everyone!

This is a really quick post today, as we are just heading off on holiday this week. (Richard's tapping his foot - we should already be away!)

This is the first of Mum's birthday cards and I would have had it uploaded for yesterday but this computer has been very tempermental and keeps crashing :(  Here's hoping I get this post finished before it happens again!!

The papers for this card are Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety mini deck.  I have my sewing machine out permanently now and am stitching everything in sight.  The sentiment is computer generated and cut out with a circle nestability die.  The flower is made with the blossom nestabilities, crumpled, cut and layered together with some ribbon and a button in the centre.

Thanks for visiting today and I will be back on Friday with more cards.  One of them is my first attempt at an easel card.

See you soon
Sarah x

Sock Creature - Meet Flossie!

I finally got my sock creature photographed and here she is...

the socks we started with

Last week we were visiting Richard's parents and took the opportunity to visit their local library.  I came across this book and fell in love with all the wee creatures inside.  A quick trip to Primark for socks and we were ready to make sock buddies! What I didn't realise was.....we should have bought baby socks...... A bag and a half of stuffing later and we had Flossie! (her nose is huge!!!)
I so enjoyed making her and I have a few requests for some more :)

Thanks for taking the time to visit today.
Sarah x

Have a Happy Day

I'm late again for the Clean and Simple sketch this week!  Here is FTL 103





and this is what I made

I love these little birds :)

The stamps used are Unity and I used Stampin Up's Stamp-a-ma-jig to place them.  The folded paper down the side is by Daisy Bucket and the string in the button is coloured with Victorian Velvet distress inks to match the sentiment.

The background of the card is embossed with the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder and inked with Pumice Stone distress ink. The birds are coloured with distress inks as well.

Have a lovely day :)

Sarah

Another thank you card

I can't believe it's been a week since I last posted anything.......!  I have been making cards but can't show you them until Sunday - they're for Mum's birthday and I'm afraid she might look at the blog before then.

I did make a card this morning but I've just remembered I left the camera in the car and Richard is away to work in it, so I can't take a photo 'til he comes home!  I've also been sewing a sock creature but again no camera for a photo.....

I made this Thank You card a few weeks ago using Bazzill Kraft cardstock.  The various stamps are by Heidi Grace (flowers & sentiment) and Papermania (tag & scallop border).  It is coloured with Koh-i-noor pencils and Sansodor oil.

Thanks for visiting today and if you stop by tomorrow, I should have some pics of my sock creature :)

Sarah xx

CAS sketch - Quick Thank You card

Here is this weeks great sketch FTL 102 on the Clean and Simple stamping blog.

This card was very quick and simple to do. I created a template for the card in a Word Document and printed it. (The font is Pea Stacey Tunibug)
My friend Freda gave me some strips of felt flowers (I love felt!) and I cut a flower from each strip and glued them to the card and added pink gems to finish.

Sarah xx