Altered Journal

So excited to share a super cute project that I was working on today.  I altered the cover of a chipboard journal that I have had in my stash for quite some time.  I had picked it up at a scrapping garage sale at my LSS - Scrappin Great Deals.

I purchased this Penny Black stamp set called Tutu Sweet a while ago and have not had the chance to colour one of these cuteys up.  I found my water brush while I was cleaning up the other day so I decided to pull out some Tim Holtz Distress Markers and give it a try.  I absolutely love how it turned out.

I used some texture paste with a stencil on the background and splattered some Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays. Check out my youtube channel for a video detailing all the little pieces and colours that I used.

Here is a close up look to see all the detail in the colouring.  I really do like the distress markers for water colouring, it is super easy and so pretty.

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Guest Designer, Little Blue Button Stamps - Yah me!!!

Hi Everyone!

I am so happy to be coming to you today with a project for Little Blue Button Stamps.  I was chosen to be a guest designer for the month of June and will be sharing three projects with you.

So, for my first project I started with Sweet Geisha Charlie and I wanted to alter an item.  I chose a paper mache note pad holder that has been in my stash for quite some time.  I started by colouring it with black gesso and then covering it with patterned paper from the Bo Bunny Enchanted paper line.

She turned out so sweet.  I coloured her up with Copic and Spectrum Noir markers and added some glossy purple with a Sakura gel pen.  I used the Tim Holtz Ornate frame for the background and stood it up with a picture frame backing that I pulled off of one of the Micheals $1.50 ceramic frames.
Added some little white doilies from my stash and decorated with roses from Wild Orchid Crafts and cherry blossoms from I am Roses.

Check out my YouTube channel for a closer look and a list of marker colours used.
Stay tuned for more projects before the end of the month - thank you so much for stopping by.

Sorry - forgot to share the link to Little Blue Button Stamps - check them out for some great rubber and digi stamps - http://lbbstamps.com

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Fun with the Envelope Punch Board

So I finally broke down and bought the envelope punch board and all because of Bona at LiveLoveScrap.  She has made some truly amazing projects and I wanted to get it on it :-)

So the first thing I did was make some envelopes - of course, it's an envelope punch board isn't it - lol!!

Here are a couple of my decorated envelopes for Halloween.  I have no idea the company that these stamps came from - they were deep in my stash and I had even stamped and coloured them last year too.


Then  we have the super cute Happy Meal box that Bona created.  I just fell in love with this and had to make it.  She does have a tutorial over on youtube if you are interested.  Head on over to my youtube channel and the link is in my video on the envelope punch board.

To decorate these I used some of my super cute Saturated Canary digi images which are coloured with my Copic and Spectrum Noir markers. 

Take a look and enjoy!!

Happy Paper Crafting!
Sarah

Altered Pocket Watch

I told you I love Halloween and I've already finished another project.  I wanted to use another of my Saturated Canary images that I purchased - fly girl - and the original ones that I printed were pretty big so I decided to make a Halloween decoration for my house.

I picked this Want2Scrap chipboard pocket watch from the steampunk album kit.  It's an old one that I've been hanging onto in my stash.  I started off by covering it with some patterned paper and distressing the edges with Black Soot distress ink.  I then mixed up some texture paste with glimmer mist to get a light lavender colour.  I love the way this turned out.  And used my new Crafters Workshop template - Aspen Trees.

 Here is a close up before I did anything else too it - the trees are so cool and spooky at the same time.  I also used my palette knife to soften the edges and spread some texture paste around the whole project.  After it had dried I sprayed some orange glimmer mist and splattered black, orange and purple all over.

She is so super cute.  Just had to finish it off with some flowers and leaves from I am Roses and a little bit of bling.

Check out the video here.

Happy Paper Crafting!
Sarah

A Spooky Card Share

 I haven't forgotten about my blog.  I know, I just like to take breaks - actually it's all YouTube's fault.  It's just to addictive and I spend all my time over there, watching and uploading videos.  Well I'll try and spend some more time over here too and what better time to start then gearing up for Halloween.

I've been inspired recently from Bona at LiveLoveScrap with all of her beautiful projects and she's been using quite a lot of Saturated Canary digi images, so guess what, I went shopping!  But this shopping was fun, I didn't have to pay any shipping costs and it was instant gratification because you get your images right away to play with.  I play around with the size, print of the image and voila - it's time to colour.

I was going through my stamps and realized I didn't have many Halloween stamps - I probably do and just can't find them right now - so I picked out a couple of images.  Here is the first one that I coloured - Rollerskating Zombie.  I love how she turned out.

 I created a circle easel card with my mini8 punch - love it.  Added a ton of layers and used some of my Halloween spellbinders.  When I was all done putting everything together I added some glimmer mist of the whole project (really love the effect on the black cardstock) and splattered a little bit of black chalkboard spray.

Check out the video here !


Happy Paper Crafting!
Sarah

Playing with Prima Dolls!

 I finally got my hands on the Prima Doll Stamps and had to play with them all weekend.  I got to play with one so far but check out what I made.

The first one is a sign made out of a page of chipboard from a Michaels chipboard album.  Patterned paper is all from My Minds Eye.

She is just so sweet, I love how she turned out. 

This sign is hanging right above my craft room door on the inside so that I can stare at it all the time. 

I absolutely love it!  I used pretty much every technique I could think of.  The base is patterned paper with tons of glimmer misting, molding past, torn paper, gesso and goosebumps.  The turquoise through the middle is cheese cloth sprayed with glimmer mist.

The flowers are from I am Roses and Craft Supplies 1.  With tons of embellishments from Prima and Michaels.

Check out the video on You Tube here!

Happy Paper Crafting!
Sarah

Girly Grunge Altered Canvas

Hi everyone.  Sorry I have been MIA - I have however been keeping up with posting videos on my you tube channel and am 1 subscriber away from hitting 100!!  Wow, can you believe it.  I am so excited.  I'm going to come up with a challenge for a giveaway so you'll have to check in on my you tube channel to get in on the fun.

In the meantime I thought I would share some still shots of my fun altered canvas.  I pulled out one of my favorite pictures of my daughter Madison from when she was a cute little three year old - my how they grow :-)

I have watched so many start to finish videos and everyone makes it look so easy, it's not easy but it is super fun and super messy.  I started off with a 10x10 canvas from Michaels and put a nice layer of Gesso down.  I added some crepe paper streamers and some paper doilies with gel medium and then added in a full crochet doily that I got at the thrift store - yes on top of being a dollar store junky I am now a thrift store junky.

I took some pointer from one of my fav you tube inspirers - msliberty25 - Miranda is super talented and has the most amazing girly grunge and all sorts of projects.  I wanted to try her embossed tin tape technique - you'll see little bits of it shining through here but you get a good view in the video.  I also added some paper leaves from Michaels in the $1.50 bin.

Once I had all the base glued down and another layer of gesso, I started spraying with glimmer mist.  Now everyone else always comes out with a super bright and colorful project - mine seems a little pastel but the colors are still vibrant in person - it's give a nice shabby look to it. 

 I embellished with quite a few items from my stash.  Some bloomers trim that I've been hanging on to - okay I'll admit - hoarding.  Some rhinestones, music note washi tape, prima wood clock, I Am Roses black roses and cherry blossoms that I sprayed with my glimmer mists. 

And many other various things that I just fell in love with. 

I really love how it turned out and will have to do one for my son now.  Definately something that I will do over and over again.

Check out the video over on my you tube channel.  And don't forget to watch for my upcoming challenge.

Happy Paper Crafting!
Sarah

Happy New Year!

Hi Everyone!  Belated Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!  Hope everyone had great holidays.  We had a little bit of sadness over the holidays, my Grand Mother passed away just before Christmas.  It put a little bit of damper on things but we all still had a big family dinner on Christmas day and had great times together.

I'm slowly trying to get back to crafting and am pretty excited about doing some Valentine's project.  I even had a new video ready to go but it must have got messed up while I was trying to upload it to You Tube and it is now gone :-(  I will have to try and sit down and do another one.

I do however have some blurry pictures to show you of some projects that I made for my family.  I didn't get a chance to do a video but I took some pictures, unfortunately it was at night before we were packing up to leave for Barrie so the lighting was not great at all.  But you'll get the idea and I have a couple of trees left that I have to decorate for myself and my mom.

The wooden tree frames are something I pickup up at one of my favorite stores :-)  The first one was painted with gesso and then I added in some brown glimmer mist in the middle and then some gold pearlex around the frames.  The second tree was totally sprayed with green glimmer mist and then distressed a little along the edges with some distress ink.  All the flowers and leaves are from I am Roses.  The red ones were just sprayed with glimmer mist and distress ink on the edges and the blue ones were originally white, I colored the edges with a marker and then sprayed them with glimmer mist (one of my fav techniques).  I added in white cherry blossoms that have a little bit of gold glimmer mist and then the signs are water color paper with metal letters.

I really love how they turned out and they are great family photo holders to have in your home.


Happy Paper Crafting!
Sarah

Here is my first ever 3D paper heart - yes, I know, it looks like an apple :-)
My inspiration for this came from a very talented woman on you tube Tubeyoumaster1.  You really need to check out her channel.  She has some the most amazing projects.  I was watching her 3D paper cupcake video and really wanted to try something out so instead of a cupcake I chose a heart.  I decided to open one side of my heart and decorate in it so help it look more like a heart.  I used a 6x6 My Minds Eye - A Happy Heart paper stack and yes it was all 24 sheets of paper from the stack.  Everything was sprayed with Gold Glimmer Mist and Caramel Apple Glimmer Mist.  The flowers and leaves are from I am Roses.  The acrylic flowers spray is Recollections.  Everything else is from my stash.

Take a look at the video for a little better look.  I really enjoyed making this and will definitely be making more - might even try the cupcake for some birthday presents.

Happy Paper Crafting!
Sarah