Sneek Peek at upcoming catalogue items!

Good morning!

Hope you are all well! It has been awhile since I posted on here but there have been some new and exciting things happening here, such as ONSTAGE LIVE in Amsterdam and NEW 2017-18 ANNUAL CATALOGUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So let me tell you Onstage Live was brilliant but the catalogue is even better and you won't be disappointed!

The catalogue does not go live until 1st June 2017 but if you would like one I can send you one as soon as they become available, just contact me via EMAIL

Since I went to Onstage I was allowed to do a pre pre demo order for some products, I will do a youtube video of my goodies I purchased so stay tuned, but in the meantime I am just starting to do videos so check them out HERE!

So one of the items I purchased was the Birthday Memories Suite, which included a photopolymer stamp set, along with goegeous coordinating 12"x12"  Designer Series Paper and dies that cut the stamped images and some of the images on the papers! How cool is that! No more fussy cutting.

So these are the cards I have created with the set:

I coloured in these images with the watercolour pencils and blender pen, which I find produces a gorgeous subtle coloured image.











 

As you may have noticed there is a Happy Birthday sentiment and yes this is a die!!!!!!!!!! New for the new catalogue, woop woop!

I love this little girl and I masked the image of her over the present to make it seem she is hiding a present behind her back. 

As with the above and below card images these all use the new DSP, they are beautiful and can be used as a framed image just as themselves, especially one of the papers that is not shown here.

Look at this chef, love how you can make it look like he has just iced the sentiment. 

I loved making these cards, especially colouring in the images, I hope you will love this set once it is available. If you have any questions about this set, then please contact me and I will endeavour to answer your query no matter how complicated or simple it may seem!

I am looking at doing these three cards as a card kit in the post for June, which as a basic kit will include the stamp set, measured and cut cardstock, DSP, embellishments and instructions on how to create them. 

If you would like to purchase the dies and/or watercolour pencils as well as part of the kit then that will be an option too, but you do not need the dies to make these as they can be fussy cut with scissors. You will need to have your own inks and adhesives.

If you are interested in the card kit then please register your interest with me so that I can get them prepared and provide you with payment details, for an idea the basic card kit will cost roughly £30 including postage.

Thank you so much for reading! If you would like to leave a comment then please do as I like reading through them.

Thanks

Sarah xx

Stylized Birthday

Good morning!

Hope you are having a nice Saturday morning, or if you have joined later on in the week then I hope you had a good one!

Anyways todays make will be using the Stylized Birthday Wood-Mount Stamp Set.

 

 This is quite a basic stamp but I love the font and it also acts as a background, sentiment and the main focus of the card all in one go so you don't really need any other stamps apart from this one and some Designer Series Paper and you are off to go!

 So I have made quite a few of these cards, when I do cards sometimes I just stamp the same thing loads of times and then figure out what to do with that stamped image afterwards and how to make it fit. Not sure that is how you are supposed to do it but that's what I do!

For the majority of the cards shown here I have used the DSP stacks for the Brights and 2015-2017 In Color collections. There are four designs in these packs and I used these as it keeps the cards simple and lets the stamp be the main focus.

I also used the Polka Dot embossing folder on some of these card backgrounds to just give it a little texture.

The main highlight of these cards are that I used the ombre ink pads on the sentiment, and I think this stamp is one of the best stamps to show off this effect. Unfortunately my photography does not do it as much justice as when you see it in real life but take my worked for it the ombre effect is lovely and cool!

Oh and don't forget to finish the cards off with rhinestones, ribbon and other embellishments! ;-)

Stylized Birthday Wood-Mount Stamp Set	2015-2017 In Color Designer Series Paper Stack	Brights Designer Series Paper Stack	Polka Dot Textured Impressions Embossing Folder
Bermuda Bay Ombre Stampin’ Pad	Rich Razzleberry Ombre Stampin’ Pad	Calypso Coral Ombre Stampin’ Pad

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl

So that is that from me for now but hopefully I will see you next time and please leave me a comment.


Thank you for reading 

Sarah x

Boys Will Be Boys

Good morning all!

With my latest card I thought I could use my brick and men embellishments I mentioned in my earlier post to go on it, have not done so yet as I only just thought about it, but will do! Also this is the first card that I have made that is solely for kids, or for big kids :-)  I do not seem to have many stamps that are for children and am hoping Stampin' Up! will produce some more, there is a new catalogue coming out in June so cannot wait to see what is in it.

I was looking at Pinterest, again, and got some ideas regarding the use of opaque embossing powders on black card. I had never really thought you could get colours that are opaque as all of my embossing powders were translucent on coloured card and very pale. However, I saw this and thought I must go online and see, and there you have it brightly coloured powders in green, yellow, glow in the dark, blue, etc all in opaque colours I was in heaven! So I purchased a few and as you see above there is one of my creations, I have no doubt though you will see more from these embossing powders he he cannot wait and watch this space...

So all the stamps I used (Robot, Bricks and Sentiment) were all from the Boys Will Be Boys Wood Mount Stamp Set and can be purchased on the below link:

Boys Will Be Boys Wood Mount Stamp Set

Balloon Celebration & Balloon Punch Bundle

Hello again!

Sorry it has been overdue for a post but I have been busy getting creative so that I could have something to post :-)

I got the Balloon Celebration & Balloon Punch Bundle the other day, well I got the stamps a week or so ago but had to wait for the punch as it was on back order but I finally received it!

So when I was looking at this stamp set I was thinking I wanted something that could be given to kids as well as adults, so I thought I would use the Brushstrokes background stamp as I thought it looked a bit like a fairground, maybe I had that idea from the latest episode of Extant I was watching at the time anyways, I used sponge daubers to get the two different colours on the same stamp.

I am still stuck with using the inks from the Subtles set as they are still my fave at the moment so used these on my cards. The balloons were punched from the coordinating colour cardstock and stamped with the dotty image from the Balloon Celebration stamp set. I used dimensionals to get the height on some of the balloons and the sentiments are also from the set apart from the Happy Birthday that comes from Boys Will Be Boys stamp set. Then I just added a few embellishments here and there, I love my rhinestones and candy dots so they always go on at least one card!

To order the stamps and inks click on the below or the Shop Online tab at the top of this page:
Balloon Celebration Photopolymer Stamp Set & Punch Bundle

Boys Will Be Boys Wood Mount Stamp Set

Brushstrokes Wood Mount Background Stamp

Subtles Ink Collection

Mother's Day cards & more...

Definitely Dahlia and Birthday Blossoms stamp set combination!

I love the subtle colours collection, as the name suggests it is nice and well, subtle! But I think the colours make the cards look elegant and pretty, With this make I combined the Definitely Dahlia and Birthday Blossoms stamp sets. I have made a few cards with these stamp sets so it shows how versatile they can be and they I have got my money's worth with them.

Sometimes I have made cards too complicated in the past but I am hoping these are not too bad. I do like simplistic cards which I have seen from other demonstrators but I find it hard to just choose a few things to use as I want to try numerous stamp sets and techniques all at once!

Also I do like how Stampin' Up! have inks, cards and embellishments that are all colour coordinating, as before I used to spend hours trying to figure out which colours went together but now I can just concentrate on the substance of the card,

Anyways that's enough waffle for now, see you soon!

Below are the products that I used to make the above cards: