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Monday 30 April 2018

Design Team Cards using Little Claire Designs - Drinking Tree Stamps

Good Morning Everyone!

  Today I am sharing another two cards I have made using the Drinking Tree Stamps for Little Claire Designs. This stamp is so cute and fun! The wording stamp that comes with this set is great too!


For the next card I used one of the tag blanks and put the words inside :)


Thanks for looking,

Sarah x

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Saturday 28 April 2018

Floral Favourites Design Team Card using For the Love of Stamps and Kraft Card

Good Morning!

  Today I am sharing my last card I have made using the beautiful new Floral Favourites stamp set and matching dies for the April launch of For the Love of Stamps by Hunkydory.


I use a sheet of paper from the FTLOS Beautifully Bright stamping pad and Distress Oxides to colour the flowers I stamped onto kraft card. I finished by adding some small pearls across the background.

Thanks for looking,

Sarah x

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Friday 27 April 2018

Little Claire Designs - Design Team Card using Stacks of Clocks Stamps

Good Morning!

  Today I am sharing a Design Team card I made for the Little Claire Designs Hochanda show which was shown last Saturday. You can catch the rewind show here. For this card I used the cute stamp set Stack of Clocks - I just love the mice and the footprints with the perfect sentiments.


This card was actually shown on the show :)


I kept this one simple using some Little Claire Papers from my stash and layering against a dark brown. I stamped the feet across the paper and coloured my stamped clocks with Promarkers. To finish I added a banner sentiment and some little cross stitches with my lovely Fiskars Cross Stitch Punch.
Thanks for looking,

Sarah x

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Wednesday 25 April 2018

Floral Favourites Design Team Card using For the Love of Stamps Products

Good Morning!

  Today I am sharing another card I have made using the beautiful new Floral Favourites stamp set and matching dies for the April launch of For the Love of Stamps by Hunkydory.


Here I cut the flowers first the stamped overtop and used Promarkers to colour the flowers in. I layered the turquoise blue against the kraft card for contrast and added some sequins to finish.

Thanks for looking,

Sarah x

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Tuesday 24 April 2018

Imagine Design Create Design Team Card using Retro Gamer and Gamer Quotes: Experience Card


Hello Everyone,

Today I am excited to share my first card as a member of the full Imagine Design Create Design Team! I have guest designed for a few months now and super happy to have been asked to become a full time member. I've also got a fab discount code for you! If you use my code you can get 15% off your order!!! The code is:
SB2018IDCDT

I have used one of my favourite stamp sets for this card - Retro Gamer and Gamer Quotes stamp sets. I decided to also use the stars from Star Mix to give this card a retro funky feel. I have combined these with some Distress Oxides to create a vintage feel to the card. The original blog post can be found here!


I have also used:
6” x 6” white card blank
5 ¾” x 5 ¾” white card

This card was fairly simple I stamped the stars around the edges firstly in Fossilized Amber and leaving gaps to fill in with Broken China, twisting the stamp round to create different patterns. I then stamped the sentiments and a few background patterns in Vintage Photo to create the surround for the centre. Lastly I stamped the space invaders and the shooter and the blended the Vintage Photo Ink around the edges to finish.

I love using contrast of the Distress Oxides on white giving this card a clean yet grungy / funky / vintage feel.


Thanks for stopping by,
Sarah x

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Monday 23 April 2018

Fiskarettes Foamiran Flower Decorative Heart using Fiskars In Bloom Squeeze Punch and Petal by Petal Squeeze Punch

Good Evening Everyone! 

Today I am sharing my Fiskarettes Design Team Decorative Heart I made using the In Bloom and Petal by Petal Squeeze Punches with Foamiran.



I painted my wooden heart with gesso and punched out four flowers in a pale peachy Foamiran.


I used Faber-Castell Gelatos and to colour my Foamiran and my iron to heat and roll the petals to create the texture.


I used Frayed Burlap Distress Oxide through a Tim Holtz stencil across the heart, blended the edges of the heart with the pink colour.


I finished my flower with hot glue from my Stix2 Glue Glun and added stamens in white and some leaves coloured with the Frayed Burlap ink.


I love the depth of the flower and how cute this project has turned out.


More inspiration can be found on the facebook Fiskarettes UK page and on Instagram!

Thanks for looking, 

Sarah x

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Saturday 21 April 2018

Design Team Card for Little Claire Designs using Darling Daschunds for the Hochanda show today at 2pm!!!

Good Morning Everyone!

  I am sharing another card ahead of the Little Claire Designs Hochanda show which is on today at 2pm! This card is using the cute stamp set Darling Dashunds!



I love this cute set and kept this card simple. I used some Little Claire polka dot papers and used a Fiskars punch for the flower and Sweet Dixie die for the swirls.
Thanks for looking,

Sarah x

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Friday 20 April 2018

For the Love of Stamps Floral Favourites Design Team Card using Stamps and Dies to create 3D Flowers

Good Morning!

  Today I am sharing a card I have made using the beautiful new Floral Favourites stamp set for the Apriil launch of For the Love of Stamps by Hunkydory.


I use the Polka Dot paper from the FTLOS stamping pad and Distress Ink to give the 3D flowers a vintage look. I used the fab gold mirri card from Hunkydory to give this card a luxury feel alongside the vintage inkyness.

Thanks for looking,

Sarah x

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Thursday 19 April 2018

Little Claire Designs Card Sample for the upcoming Hochanda show - Saturday at 2pm!

Good Evening Everyone!

  I am sharing a second card today as one of my favourite stamp companies is back and I have made some super cute cards for their Hochanda show which is on this Saturday (21st) at 2pm. Little Claire Designs have some super cute stamps ready and this is one of the cards I made.


I just love this kitchen scene and had so much fun colouring this with my Promarkers. I added a wavy black border around the stamped image and a die cut banner and black cat to finish.

Thanks for looking,

Sarah x

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Design Team Card for April Lauch: For the Love of Stamps by Hunkydory using Floral Favourites

Good Morning!

  Today I am sharing a card I have made using the beautiful new Floral Favourites stamp set for the launch that is happening now (9am) on Create and Craft with For the Love of Stamps by Hunkydory.



I use the masking sheet to create the layers for this card and love the monochrome feel. There is another show for this stamp launch at 5pm today!!!!

Thanks for looking,

Sarah x

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Wednesday 18 April 2018

Sweet Birthday Card using Lawn Fawn Critters in the Jungle and Baked with Love Stamps

Good Morning! 

Today I am sharing a card I made using the cute Critters in the Jungle and Baked with Love stamps by Lawn Fawn. The papers are from the Tonic Studio Magazine Issue - Issue 4.


I stamped and coloured the elephant with a cup cake and die cut these with Hunkydory's Moonstone Dies. I then stamped the greeting and added some die cut letters for the name. To finish I fussy cut some flowers from the paper and added some pearls.
Thanks for looking,

Sarah x

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Monday 16 April 2018

Crafty Ribbons Design Team Card using Bake Ribbons and Ribbon Threader Die by John Next Door

Good Morning Everyone! 

Today I am sharing a Design Team card for Crafty Ribbons I made with ribbons from the Bake Ribbons Collection. I used: Cake Slice Large, Cake Slice Small and Cut a Slice Cinnamon. You can see the original blog post over at Crafty Ribbons Inspiration here


On the Design Team facebook group we have been chatting about a new die set by John Next Door which is for ribbon threading. It sounded fab and so I decided to treat myself to the dies. It took some working out in my head how I wanted to use them and which ribbons would work but I'm so happy with them!

It was very easy to thread the ribbon once I die cut and I love how I've made my card all about the beautiful ribbon!


To finish my card I added a bow and some gems and pearls to act like sprinkles on top of the cakes!!!

Thanks for looking, 

Sarah x

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Friday 13 April 2018

Diamond Dream and Wish Tags using Distress Spray Stains - Guest Design Team Project for Imagine Design Create

 Hello Everyone,

Today I am sharing some tags I have made using the pattern stamp set Diamond Mix and a sentiment from Never Stop Making Wishes by Imagine Design Create . I have used Distress Spray Stains and Distress Oxides for these tags.
You can view the original blog post here!  


I have also used:
2” x 3.5” White Card with the end punched into a tag shape
Distress Spray Stains: Picked Raspberry, Antiqued Bronze and Picket Fence
Distress Oxide Ink: Walnut Stain, water filled brush, Blending Tool
Bakers Twine, White Gel Pen, Gems


I stamped the four diamond stamp onto the tags in different places using the Oxide ink, the sprayed the tags with the three different Spray Stains to blend them together.

 
I inked up the large solid diamond gently to give it a distressed look, so the stamp is not totally covered in the ink. Then use the water brush to blend a little. 


I stamped the sentiment in the Oxide ink where there was a kind of gap in the design and then once dry added some white gel pen to highlight the words. I cut the bakers twine to length and sprayed this with the pink stain to create matching coloured twine.



To finish I blended the Oxide ink around the edges of the tags and added some pink and gold gems randomly to give the tags a bit of sparkle.
In hindsight I might have tried stamping the sentiment in a different colour to make it stand out more but I happy with the overall result.


Thanks for stopping by,
Sarah x

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