Thank you card with Basic Grey papers

Close up of 3D flower

Hi again!

I had a fab day on Saturday, but the day flew by too quickly. Everyone got most of their books completed and from what I hear they all put the finishing touches on at home that night :) Well Done!! I've just started to make the toilet roll book for the next class which is on Sat 14th November.

Mum asked me to make her a thank you card for the hotel which catered for her 'cousins' get together on Saturday night. They had a fantastic evening and the meal was excellent.

This card is made with Basic Grey Urban Couture papers and the flower is a Wendy Vecchi stamp (I love these stamps!) The sentiment is a Daisy Bucket stamp and I also used distress inks. The colours remind me of autumn :)

Thanks for looking x

A CD Mini Scrapbook Album

I'm having an all day Craft Class on Saturday (17th) to make this little CD book.
It's made by covering compact discs with paper and embellishing them. The holes are punched with a cropadile and the pages held together with book rings.

I have a couple of places left so if there are any crafters in Northern Ireland who would be interested in coming along, if you email me before Friday, at sarahmcards@hotmail.com I can give you all the details :)

It's got lots of detail so should keep you busy! I've really enjoyed making it and I hope you will too.

The key is cut out of shrink plastic with a Sizzix die and melted down to size with a heat gun.

pages 1 and 2

pages 3 and 4 

Tag for inside pocket

pages 5 and 6

Inside Folder for hidden journaling and photo

pages 7 and 8 

Includes a little 3 page tag book in an acetate pocket

Back Cover with metal charm

Thanks for visiting today :)
Sarah x

Chipboard and Acetate Mini Scrapbook - Little Boy

Lots of photos! (sorry for the poor quality - it's a very dull and wet day today...)

The journaling inside

This little book is a record of all the things Caleb loved from birth to five and the title is 'A little boy's world'. I made it in January and love to look at it now and again. I'm amazed at the things I have forgotten about him (I'm glad now that I included extra journaling pages of his little quirks at each stage :)

The album is a Woodware Chipboard and Acetate book and the papers are Cosmo Cricket - Cogsmo. I made a box to keep it in and covered it with matching papers. Hope you like it :) xx

Neglecting my blog......

Hi again!
After all I said about keeping up to date with this blog, I have been later and later at updating my posts..... I'm sure you don't want to hear about ironing piling up and housework etc...... but seriously though I have been working on stuff but haven't anything finished yet to show. I've nearly finished the cd book for my next class so will post photos of that in the next few days.

This is a little card I made for mum and dad to give to my little great-niece (in April...I was digging through past photos and found it!)

I used some striped paper that came free with a magazine. The sentiment is printed on the computer and the duck is stamped on pink card and chalked then raised on foam pads. I added some pink grosgrain ribbon and punched 3 small hearts. Quick and easy!

Thanks for looking and I'll be back soon!
xx

Card for Phoebe's 3rd Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHOEBE!

I can't believe our 'baby' is 3 tomorrow and starting Nursery as well!!

As she is pink on the brain at the minute, the card had to have a definite pink theme! I love this Messy Rabbit stamp and think it makes a really cute girly card :)

SuppliesWhite card – 15 x 15cms finished size
Designer Paper – Imaginisce – Fairest of them all
Pink Bazzill card
Green card
White card
White satin spotty ribbon
Martha Stewart punch – Doily Lace
Messy Rabbit stamp – Joanna Sheen
Stazon Black ink
Image coloured with – Koh-I-Noor pencils
Sansodor Oil
Blending Stumps
Nestabilities – Circle & Scalloped Circle
Small white flower – Green Tara
Card Candy – Craftwork Cards
McGill punch – Leaves
Cuttlebug – Tiny tags die
Sentiment - Elzybell’s acrylic word stamps
White brads

Quick and easy Baby Girl card

This little card is very easy to make :)

I stamped the Elzybells baby image on plain card, a scrap of Doodlebug paper and also on skin coloured card. I cut the papers and paper pieced them to the main image with a glue pen (Zig 2 way glue).

The sentiment (Scrappy Cat)was stamped with the same pink ink (memento Rose Bud) as the image. Then I tied 2 strips of satin ribbon down the side in bows and finished off with 3 small pink gems on the right hand side.

Thanks for looking! xx

It's been a while.... back with 40th Birthday cards

Card 1 Card 2

Close up of chipboard numbers

I will update this post later.....busy trying to catch up on things I should have finished by now!

Update
It's my brother's birthday on Sunday so I'm a bit last minute with these cards :O
The 2nd card is really a deep red but it looks pink in the photos!


Supplies-Card 1White card – finished size A6
Designer paper – Basic Grey Cupcake
Nestabilities – Labels 8
Woodware Punches
Silver brads
Distress ink – Blue Jeans
Glossy Accents
Computer font – My Organization

Supplies-Card 2White card – finished size 15 x 15cms
Designer paper – Basic Grey Perhaps & Urban Couture
Nestabilities – Circles
White Chipboard – Cuttlebug numbers Red Tag Sale
Happy Birthday – Hampton Art acrylic stamps
Distress ink – Black Soot
Distressing tool

Change from flower to.....a Pig!

I was looking at the flower last night and thought it looked a bit like a pig's nose in the centre so I had a felt circle which I cut in half then folded in half and sewed on as ears and two little black beads for eyes and I made a little piggie!!
Please don't look too closely at the sewing!! It's a long time since I did any and I'm a bit rusty....
I sewed a little bar broach pin on the back and Phoebe has fallen in love with it. She wore it pinned on her beret to Sunday School today :)

Fabric Flower...1st Sewing Project

My first flower :)

I've been meaning to make one of these flowers for ages but never got round to it, so I've taken the plunge and tried it out!

The fabric is an offcut from Ikea and I cut the circle with the largest circle nestability die (you need to run it through the machine a few times, and cut the bits that are not quite cut through). Thread a running stitch around the outside edge and pull tight and fasten off. Cut a small circle (nestabilities) from felt, sew it on and finish it all off with a button.

The leaves are cut from felt with a sizzix die using the Cuttlebug.
I'm on the look out for nice fabric now, I think I'll be using these flowers in different sizes on my mini books :)

Check this out!!!

Isn't this gorgeous!!!

I found a new website selling this felt and loads of other things. My order came yesterday and I just love it (still at the touchy, feely stage - I can't bear to cut it yet!!).

The website is http://www.paper-and-string.co.uk/ . The felt is really good quality with loads of colours to choose from. There's also buttons and ribbons and you can buy handmade goods too which are beautiful.

Just thought I'd share :)