April scrapbook challenge at CCW

Good morning!

 

It's been a while since I posted but I'm back to let you know about the new scrap map challenge at Creative Craft World.

 We are having another blog hop this month and you'll find all the details on the CCW blog.

 

I didn't follow the sketch entirely this month as I only had one photo to use instead of three but I quite like how it turned out.

The papers are Echo Park 'Yours Truly' and the flowers are Green Tara.

I added a mix of fabric, suede and pearl brads to the flower centres and I made the gem flourish using a stitching template as a guide for placing the gems.

The photo is of Phoebe looking very pleased with herself at 11 months.

 

 

and now all you need to do is hop on over to Sarah W's blog to see her lovely layout. 

 

Thank you for stopping by to visit today

and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend :)

Take care

Sarah xx

Day 2 of Christmas Countdown

 

This morning I have a link to Ali's blog and she has been working with Fimo.

We only have a taster photo for you but you can see it all HERE

 

 

I also have a card to share and it's a little sleeping House Mouse.

The image looks pale in the photo but it's not really, my photograpy skills are lacking!

 

The papers are Echo Park 'Life is Good' and I coloured the image with Copics.

The base card is Bazzill 'French Vanilla' (I love that colour!)

and the embossed dots were made with a Sizzix large dot embossing folder.

 

 

I am off today to a sewing class to learn how to make the most of my sewing machine.

I have so many feet for it and no idea how to use them. 

Maybe after today I'll be whizzing up all sorts of things.......I can live in hope anyway :)

 

Thank you so much for joining me today and I hope you have a lovely weekend.

I'd love it if you could come back tomorrow when I'll be sharing my scrapbook page for the next challenge at Creative Craft World.

 

See you then!

Sarah xx 

Rainbow Blog Hop with Creative Craft World

Good morning everyone!

 

Today it's my turn to share a project in our Rainbow Blog Hop

at Creative Craft World.

The reason for the blog hop is, it's the 6th birthday of  the shop on the 6th!

 

Blog hopping is all totally new to me so I hope you'll bear with me as I try to get the details right.....

 

My colour as part of the rainbow is Violet and I used these gorgeous papers from Echo Park

(springtime collection) 

 

Maybe I should start with my project and give you all the info at the end?

 

 

I started with a plain wooden 'bingo board' and painted it with gesso.

Next I took a sponge and inked the edges with seedless preserves distress ink.

 

Then I applied wet glue all over front of the board and adhered the spot paper, trimming the edges with a craft knife and sanding the edges.  I traced around the 'clip' part of the board on violet paper and cut the outline before gluing to the top of the board.  I covered the join in the two papers with patterned paper.

 

 

I covered the back of the board with matching violet paper.

 

For the notebook I took a narrow jotter and removed the front cover.

Taking striped paper I cut it to size across the width and 2.5" longer at the top which I wrapped over and taped at the back. 

I tied some green tulle around the cover and finished with a button which was threaded with twine.

I added punched butterflies and raised the wings with my favourite pinflair glue gel and a sparkly trail.

 

 The cover is double sided so it's just as pretty on the inside!

The word notes is cut from co-ordinating green paper with Cuttlebug 'red tag sale' dies and I brushed a white paint dabber across the board a few times before sticking them down.

The little metal clip at the top for hanging

 

and now for the blog hop details 

 

By this stage if you're following the hop we are on day 7 and you should already have hopped across 6 projects

but here's a reminder just in case you've come to mine first...

There's still time to take part (if you're new to it)

 

1. Red - Susi

2. Orange - Sarah W

3. Yellow - Michelle

4. Green - Trish

5.Blue - Ali

6. Indigo - Sue

7. Violet - me

 

and tomorrow, the final day - you need to visit Lou's blog

to find the POT OF GOLD at the end of the rainbow!

 

There are a few things you need to do to be in with a chance to win:

 

1. You need to visit each of the blogs listed above and leave a comment

2. Then visit Creative Craft World's blog and become a follower (if you're not already)

and that's it!

 

As part of this blog hop some of the team are offering a prize on their own blogs and

as a thank you for leaving a comment on mine I'd like to offer one too.
 

I am giving away the clipboard and notepad to one of my lovely followers!
(new followers will be included too but please only follow if you like my blog)

 

If you would like to be in with a chance to win it, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post.

If you want to leave a comment as part of the blog hop but don't want to be entered into my draw just put 'no draw' after your comment.

I won't be offended!

 

All the names will be put in the hat and I'll get Phoebe (my little daughter) to draw a winner next Wednesday (12th Sept).

 

I hope you will all take part in the blog hop

and thanks so much for visiting :)

Take care

Sarah xx

 

I'd like to enter this in the following:

Bearly Mine #51 ~ anything but a card

Jackson's digital expressions #21 ~ anything but a card

SOS #67 ~ wood element (clipboard)

Tuesday Alchemy #30 ~ anything goes

MIM #105 ~ linky party anything goes

Stamps & Fun = creativity #115 ~ anything but a card

The Crazy challenge #128 ~ seeing spots

Totally stampalicious ~ anything but a card

Unique Crafters challenge ~ anything goes

Natalie & Amy #1 ~ anything goes

Just keep on Creating #3 ~ anything goes 

 

30th Birthday

Good morning!

 

I hope you're all having a lovely weekend :)

 

As it's the beginning of September I would normally be sharing a new scrap map for

Creative Craft World but our blog hop started last Thursday and will continue this week, so the scrap map is postponed until next Saturday.

You can check out the details of the blog hop here and there are some fab prizes to be won!

My project will be on Wednesday.....

 

Over the summer I've been asked to make some projects which I'm only able to share after the event has passed and this birthday card is one of them.

 

 

 I didn't have much time to make it as I had to post it to England in time for them to hand deliver it to their daughter in Scotland, so I turned to my trusty Cameo!

The sentiment is printed on the computer (I didn't use print and cut for this one) and then I loaded the 10x10cm square in the Cameo and cut out the '30'

On the 15cm base card I layered swirly pink card near the bottom right corner and then layered the square on top using foam pads for dimension.

 

The butterflies are a mixture of Cameo die cuts and punches and I adhered them with a thin line of glue to the body and then raised the wings. Next I put a tiny blob of pinflair glue gel underneath each wing to keep them raised. To finish I doodled little antenna on each and made a butterfly trail of tiny adhesive gems from Meiflower.

 

I'm glad to say the recipent loved it!

 

Friday was a big day for us as our two youngest returned to school.

 

 

After 9 weeks of school holidays, it's nice to have a little bit of quiet in the house again.....  :)

I made Phoebe a P.E. bag for last year which she wants to use again this year. I never got round to posting it on this blog but if you'd like to see it, you can find it here.

 

Thank you for visiting today

and I'll be back tomorrow with another card.

Sarah xx

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Catch the Bug ~ anything goes

The Cameo Spotlight #2 ~ numbers

Little Red Wagon #148 ~ use a number 

  

New scrap map at CCW

Hello again!

Oh dear, I'm not much good at blogging in the summer......

At the minute I've come down with the flu so I'm writing this post in fits and starts.

As it's the first Saturday in the month (can you believe it's August already!!) we have a new scrap map challenge at Creative Craft World.

This is my take on the sketch

 I used the 'Echo Park Hello Summer' kit and for once I didn't use my Cameo!

I tried to do some paint splatters (lol) with pink paint but I think more of it ended up on my poor laptop than on the page....

The sketch

I cut nine 1½" squares from 5 sheets of the double sided papers and inked the edges with antique linen distress ink. After adhering them to the page I added various sized buttons from Fancy Pants.

The photo is of  Phoebe crossing a wooden bridge at a beauty spot near our home.  She was petrified of the water rushing underneath it so Caleb crossed first and encouraged her from the other side. 

I can remember being afraid of this same bridge as a child and I'm still not keen on crossing it now!

The banner underneath the photo and the sentiments are stickers from the Echo Park kit.

The title is also made with stickers from the kit and I added a doodled string with black pen.  I pierced holes at the 'ends' of the string and put red brads through to 'pin' the string to the page.

To frame the whole page I added faux stitching ¼" from the edge using my Tim Holtz ruler as a guide.

I haven't got round to adding the journaling to the page yet but I made this tag to hide behind the photo.  I cut one of the journaling tags from a sheet of paper in the kit and matted it on to green card.  Using my SU tab punch, I punched a tab from the chevron paper and taped it to the top of the tag.  I hand cut a heart and added 2 mini gems for a little bit of bling!

Don't forget there's still time to enter the mini monochrome challenge at CCW too.

You can find it here.

Thank you for coming to visit my blog today,

I can't promise I'll be back soon but I will be back as soon as I can :)

I hope you have a great weekend!

Sarah xx