Speedy cards Part 1

Hi All

Back again with some speedy cards that we made at a super slick class with Alex Kamann our copic colourist extraordinaire....... The two below are both made using distress inks and a lovely Hero Arts stamp called Silhouette Vines. The first one is embossed in detail black and then the flowers coloured with Seedless Preserves, Peeled Paint and Mustard Seed. It really makes the flowers pop. The second card, which I love was supposed to be in reverse to the first, but you know me...... I replaced the Seedless Preserve ink with Broken China and added a little bit of Spiced Marmalade. Well its good to add a bit of spice to your life...... This time I clear embossed the stamp in clear and then rubbed Vintage Photo instead of black and I am really pleased with the result.

This card was really quick as it has one background stamp Hero Arts Newspaper background, three stripes of dotted Washi tape and the patterned rectangle was made with nothing more than two copics (of course I didn't write down the numbers did I!!) A quick message and a couple of brads and a home made flower using three discs of paper which  have been sprayed with water scrunched up and left to dry & Voila!

Another pair of quick cards to make once the original paper is dry. A square piece of gloss paper covered with an Imagination Crafts stencil - Butterfly Delight. We spritzed with Cosmic Glimmer mists, copper, red, bronze and teal. I then lay another piece of plain paper on top which picked up the mist which was sitting on the mask itself. Two for the price of one..... once dry these cards took minutes to assemble

Finally wasn't the parade today marvellous and it was great to see everyone on the Mall waving flags and all so happy to have seen the Queen for a few seconds on the way to St Pauls and back. Some people had camped out all night, now that's dedication.

Unfortunately I had some really bad news this afternoon about my ex-sister in law, who is very seriously ill in hospital following a stroke at the age of 43. Our thoughts and prayers are with her, her new husband and my nephew who is only 13.

Pomp & Pagentry

Dear All

Back again with some more cards from the Glitter Pot. This time by the uber talented Jane Gill. The cards have been stamped in Black Archival ink and clear embossed. They are then coloured with Sakura Gelly Roll pens, which I don't know about you, but mine have not seen the light for quite

some time! 

 This card uses the With Love Doodle and matted on some Bazzill scraps. I love the coral colour, but don't ask me what colour it is! The heart is made with Card Candi and provides some lift on what could have been quite a flat card.

 The camera wouldn't behave for this card as I couldn't keep it all in focus and not have a shadow at the top..... I still think you can see the detail. Once again a Woodware stamp. but this time we used the Huge Cake and |Candles. Coloured with Sakura Gelly roll pens again, but this time I picked some colours which would be more appropriate for a wedding and a touch of stickles to bring out the edges of the icing.

Another Doodle stamp - Happy Birthday, which I coloured with a Primary palate and I think this would be a very useful stamp for kids, especially with the Huge Cake and Candles stamped onto shrink plastic lightly coloured and then shrunk down and used as an embellishment.

Finally my favourite layout and stamp and of course that means the worst photo.This one is purely light related as the weather is not conducive for taking macro shots. Once again we used a Doodle stamp - Best Wishes coloured with Sakura Gelly Roll pens.... I must dust mine off again as these are such quick and easy cards to make......

Right must dash I need to get my prime position on the sofa for the Queens Diamond Jubilee river pageant. How exciting............

As always thanks for looking

Hugs

Sara

Tim Holtz

Dear All

Yippee an extra long weekend thanks to this fabulous lady. I have to say a big WOW to her..... 60 years doing the same job and what a great one she has done. The whole of our cul-de-sac in leafy Cobham is covered in bunting and flags and looks so pretty. I am an unabashed whole hearted royalist, which is hardly surprising given is was born within the shadow of Windsor Castle! The whole highstreet is also covered in flags and quite a number of the streets will be closing at noon for street parties. Dean my partner is quite the opposite so I have agreed a compromise from all the festivities with a morning at the GlitterPot Summer Spectacular and an afternoon down on the south coast walking the dog. But when he slopes off to a soggy game of cricket on Sunday I will be a full patriot and glued to all the festivities.

So back to business with a few photos of the cards I have been making down at the Glitter Pot with the girls. These cards were made using the lush dies from the King of craft himself Tim Holtz.

I just love these colours and the bird cage has been covered in the Frantage embossing Enamel - Aged Rose

This one uses the On the edge die - Doily, which is beautiful when it works and an real pain if you don't get the right shim. I love the way it looks when its layered and these colours are so elegant.

This card uses the Movers and Shakers Die - Dream, which was really tricky to cut through the base card, but it looked so good when shadowed with the Jacaranda blue Bazzill card stock. The paper is antique script and the paper is the beautiful new forget-me-not paper from Magnolia.The stamp is an individual TH stamp - Flutter and is overlaid by the bird from the Caged Bird die.

Finally I think this is my fav of the day and uses the Sewing Room die and the On the Edge Die - Sewing Edge. The colour combination is so me and using the silver card candy really makes the silver mirri card sissors more real. The Tim Holtz Alterations - Texture Fades Embossing Folders - Pattern & Stitches Set, which has been distressed with Black Soot.

Well thats all for now

More over the weekend

Hugs

Oh Christmas tree......

Hi all

I'm finally getting my Xmas Mojo!! In the last 24 hours I have put up my tree, finished off my Xmas shopping (albeit I now have to find gifts for my family from my hopeless brother and father- men eh!!) and started writing all my Christmas cards.

I have been so busy that I haven't made a card today, but thought I would show you another of my mass produced cards.

This card is just for fun, but incorporates this lovely Hero Arts Poinsettia Circle and I have used a twister card to fully show it off as each side of the circle part of the card is decorated indentically.

The normal close up......

Recipe: 246/365 Stamps: Poinsettia Circle from Hero Arts stamped in Brilliance Poppy Red. Other: Anita's Glitterations - Circle Frames - Black, Poinsettia flowers from Craftwork cards. Diamante from stash, but no stickles!!!!

Thanks for looking

Hugs

 xx

Class challenge

Hi all

Back again!

Sorry I haven't posted this week, but I have had a very busy week. Two hour interview Monday, which unfortunately still didn't land me the job. Another interview for a contract landed Tuesday afternoon and the same happened Wednesday, one of which I am still waiting for an answer for (Here's hoping!) Then Thursday I picked up a day contracting. Phew!! I had forgotton how tiring it was to work!! Then today it was supposed to be a nice day of relaxing, card making with some lovely ladies down at The Glitter Pot. It didn't quite end up that way as we made three cards and five toppers in less than 4 hours! Trust me that is very quick for me!

All the cards are made using various stamps from Art Impressions range, the great Xmas word set from Woodware some polar white Flowersoft and a splash of Stickles.  I have made all of the toppers into cards now, but am too pooped to do anything else tonight.

Time for a bit of Jungle action now me thinks!!  (thats 'I'm a celebrity get me out of here' to those not from the UK)

Ciao

Sara xx

October Weekend

Hi all

Thought I would quickly post the cards I made at the weekend.

194/365 - This first one was from the Make and Take at Crafts u Love on Friday. It is a very quick card using the Papermania clear sets - Deck the halls.

The base card is stamped in Versamark with one of the snowflakes. The reindeer is coloured with copics. Bit of stickles on the antlers and all finished!

This card was made at the all day class at The Glitter Pot with Jane Gill. The day was all about using her new peel Offs. As someone who doesn't really use peel-off's I thought I would see if I could add another medium to my repertoire

195/365 - This card used a whole raft of bits and pieces to 'fill' the holes of the bubble tree peel off. I mainly used peel off holographic circles, glass beads, seed beads, diamante and a few buttons.

The pot was made using some bugle beads from a new range of beads at the Glitter Pot. We also used some of the negative elements from the peel of to change the shape of the tree slightly, which means that the cards can be altered to all be unique. The card was covered with My Mind's Eye Double Sided Paper - Twirling Circles

This next card 196/365 was a gate fold card which used the ribbon peel off and was coloured with Inktense pencils. We then attached the knotted ribbon using glue and finished it off with a bow on top. Very quick and easy.

In the final card 197/365 the peel off was stuck onto acetate and coloured with peel off pens on the reverse. The side panel was stamped with a small snowflake and a bow attached to the bottom. As you can see on the top photo we all used different colour ways and they all looked exceptional together.

So thanks for looking and I will be back later with a couple of cards I have made.

Hugs

Sara xx

Take Boooooo

Hi all

I'm back with another go at a challenge. This time it's only for two Mojo Monday & Simon Says Stamp. I really like all these challenges as they give me a place to start. I don't have issues with coming up with ideas, its more a question of too many ideas and always trying to doeverything at once......... So using the sketch from Mojo Monday and the Spooky theme from Simon Says stamp I whipped up this little number....

I just love this little witch she does look so cute. I have raised the hat and her arm slightly although its tricky to see on the photo and coloured her in using distressed inks finished off with some stickles for a bit of bling on her hat and dress and some on the candy tots in the corners. I have had a further play with the embossing folder since yesterday and used a purple coordination paper, which I think has come out much better.
Recipe: 183/365
Little Witch with Broom by Belles & Whistles from Zoe Bunny crafts. Purple Coordination card, Black pearlized card and patterned paper - Daisy & Dandelion trick or treat & cuttlebug embossing folder - Spider web all from the Glitter Pot. Candy Dots & ribbon from stash. Punches MS - Cornice edger & EK Success - spots.
Any way have to dash I am off to a ball tonight so best get my glad rags on.....
Hugs
Sarax

Busy as a bee

Well so much for posting my cards over the week, its Thursday already. Can't even moan about where the week has gone as I have been busy catching up with all the work I didn't do last week!! So I suppose its quite apt that the first bunch as cards I have loaded are all based on our little workaholic. Before I get to the cards I have to add that I went to a great class at The Glitter Pot by Kay Carley. http://kaycarley.blogspot.com/2009/05/pink-and-green-dragonflies.html (118 - 121/365) Kay makes such feminine cards and I love to go to class of hers to inspire me. Anyway to digress a little, the class tends to have a core of 'regulars' and we always catch up during the day and chat about some of the things we are doing. One lovely lady, Gill is a very keen and talented photographer, and she then takes these beautiful shots and creates the most amazing scrapbooks. I promised I would include some Sugar Nellie stamps. So please wait a little longer Gill, they are coming.......

Recipe: 122/365

Stamps: Magnolia - Tilda with Bee (from the Glitter Pot)

Other: Watercolour pencils, Cuttlebug embossing folder - Forest Branches, Nestabilities, Buttons - Eternal maker, Rub-on's - Pebbles Inc Rub-Ons - Thank You - Black

I loved making this card as it has all my favourite elements (Watercolouring, embossing and die cutting), but each is very simple.

Anyway its up the stairs to bedfordshire to me

Night

Sarax

Birthdays and crafting - What a great combination

As I said on my previous postings I have been trying to get all my antics of the last week uploaded and failed three times so this is the last part of my post from the weekend. I have quite a number of birthdays this week and so have been busy trying to get together a pile of cards so I don't get caught on the hop so to speak. (non seasonal pun intended!)

Saturday I took my friend Hilary to a Jane Gill class at the Glitter Pot, which was great fun albeit there was a huge amount of cutting out which she was not happy about we did a great card using the Hero Clear Design - Printed Flowers stamps. (115/365)

I will link to the card on Jane's site once she has loaded it.

Afterwards we went off to another friends house for a party for her daughter who was four. We managed to arrive just as all the kids were worn out or leaving (what a shame LOL). Anna was having a great time and loved our present which was a big box of crafting goodies I had put together to start her on the right way forward.

We had a fantastic evening sitting around chatting to people that I hadn't seen for ages, but it was a little curtained as I got a call from Dean to say he had managed to take a bounce into his face when playing cricket and had just got back from the hospital. Fortunately they managed to glue and steri strip the cut, but he has a lovely shiner developing now!

Sunday was free so I managed to get our in to the garden for a while, but although it was sunny it got quite cold later on allowing me to sneak off and do some crafting for a little while.

I had a packet of acetate cards, which I had sitting in my stash for ages and this stamp just looked so good on a smaller layout.

Recipe: 116/365

Stamps: Penny Black - Squeeze 'til I squeak & Scrolling along!, Alota - Happy birthday to you, Woodware - Jane's script.

Paper: Single Fold acetate Card Blanks, Bazzill Bling - Hollywood and bank roll

Other: Embelishment - Craftwork cards, Stickles - diamond, White stazon, Watercolour pencils

Recipe: 117/365

Stamps: Penny Black - Squeeze 'til I squeak,

Other: Bazzill Bling - Emerald City & In The Pink, Cuttlebug - Bloom dots, The Robin's Nest dew drops - Poinsettia, papermania ribbon - Pretty Pink Floral, Birthday wishes from Craftwork cards, Ink Colorbox Queue - Tulip Field, H2O's - can't remember the colours, Green square card from stash.

Phew, well that just about wraps it up. All that precious crafting time wasted......

So its toodle pip for now - have to dash to get to my aerobic class

Sara

x

Birthday Bonanza

Well here is part two

I have so many birthdays at the beginning of May I was under quite a bit of pressure to get some cards made, but luckily for me (LOL) I had some new stamps from my visit to the Glitter Pot the day before to ink up so off I went.

Recipe: 111/365

Stamps: Penny Black Little Edition - Teddy and Company; Stamping up - Circle of f- riends

Paper: Bazzill Bling - Bank Roll

Other: Watercolour pencils, Quickutz - Nesting Flowers,Glossy accents, Stickles - Diamond

Recipe: 112/365

Stamps: Penny Black Little edition - Teddy and Co; Stampendous - Words
Paper: Bazzill Bling - Bank Roll, My Minds Eye - Graceful Circles
Other: Versamagic - Green Tea, Cuttlebug embossing folder - Bloom Dots, Quickutz - Nesting flowers, green dots and diamante from stash



I carried on the flower theme on the inside with the Quickutz nesting flowers from Crafts u love


Recipe: 113/365
Stamps: Penny Black Little Edition - Team Teddy
Paper: My Minds Eye - Graceful Circles, Bazzill Bling - bank roll
Other: Prima flowers, Brads, words from stash, watercolour pencils, Glossy accents, Stickles - Diamond

Recipe:
Stamps: Daisy & Dandelion Stamps - Dandelion Goes Fishing
Other: Coordinations paper, Glossy accents
Phew so far so good so am going to try and post this while everything is still working!!

Late Post for May bank holiday

AAAAH

I have trying to post this entry onto my blog for the last couple days and I keep having issues. Technology & I really don't mix LOL

So here goes.... my third attempt! I'm going to break this down into three posts in an attempt to sneak my entries into the 'puter.
So last week end ended up being really great as I managed to persuade Dean to take me down to the Glitter Pot on the Sunday in exchange for a nice lunch in a pub on route. There were some great demo's there and I picked up some really great ideas. Paula Pascule was using the new Co-ordinations Whitewash, which looks great with the cuttlebug folders. Jane Gill was showing us a miriade of uses for the Woodware Chippies and the lovely Stamping Caz was of course demoing the new 'Little edition' Penny Black stamps which were gorgeous and meant I had to have a little spend. Well it would be rude not too.......
So on bank holiday Monday I agreed to give up my 'crafting' day to go for a long walk. This ended up being a bit of a long walk interspursed with visits to some pubs on routs around the villages Cobham as the weather was pretty dodgey.

In between all the pub hopping we did manage to take a couple of shots of the blue bells.
And when Dean collapsed on the sofa later on I finally managed to to get some crafting done