Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Here is my first project for the Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.  

The DT from the Not2Shabby Shop are playing along and Not2Shabby Shop is also participating as a super sponsor.  

The hop runs from December 9th to 16th and you can participate by creating a project with a winter theme using coffee, tea or hot cocoa.  There are many prizes to be won including a $25 gift certificate to the not2Shabby shop.  And to make it easier for you to find all the coffee related stamps Jamie has created a section in the shop - just click here.  

Even more exciting news there is a special coupon code during the hop for 15% off your purchase just use the code COFFEE.

Now to get on with my project.

I had to make a special card for my boss from the whole team and since our gift was coffee themed then this was the perfect opportunity to use some of my coffee stamps.  I decided to use the new Coffee Hedgehog from Gerda Steiner Designs and paired with it the Hedgehog with Sign.  These two are so cute.  My design was to stack them like a Christmas tree and use their signs to send our message.

I have to say that they worked out perfectly and the only masking I needed to do was for the coffee cup on the top hedgehog.

To colour my image I used Derwent Inktense pencils which I received as a birthday present this year, I am still new to them and working out how they work and what I can do with them but I have to say I am very happy with them.  The colours and very bright and Intense (hence the name).  

If you would like to see my process video for colouring these super cuties then please check out my YouTube channel here.  

Please hop along and visit the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog HERE.

I hope you enjoyed this project, don't forget to check out the other members of the Not2Shabby Shop DT.

Maria Russell
Ashley
Jamie

Happy Papercrafting! 
Sarah

Stampoholic Episode 5 - Repeat Stamping

This week I have a super cute Flamingo card to share with you.  I created my own background using my Stampoholic tool and a linear stamp.  All you need to do is stamp one image, move your paper the width of your stamp and stamp again, you can fill an entire page or just stamp a highlight like I did.   I also added some water droplets to make the distress ink move around on the background.

And not to leave out my Stampoholic Nano I used it to stamp the sentiment on my card front and the Flamingo too!

Check out the video to see the full process and instructions.  All stamps used for the flamingo and sentiments are from Your Next Stamp.

Hope you enjoy the video and get inspired to make many great projects.  But before you go Die Cuts and More is having a give away, at the end of this 6 Video series there will be a draw and you can win a Stampoholic Nano of your very own.  Please see the rules below.

Stampoholic Nano Giveaway
1. Must be a subscriber to Die Cuts and More on YouTube.
2. Must be a subscriber to ME on YouTube.
3. Join the Stampoholic Fans Facebook Group and Like the Stampoholic Shop on Facebook.
4. Leave a comment on the Die Cuts and More blog for Episode 1.

Good Luck and Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Stampoholic Episode 1 - Layered Stamps

Today I would like to share the first of my projects for the Stampoholic tool from Die Cuts and More.

This tool can come in handy when you are trying to perfectly position sentiments or other stamps and great for when you are not always able to get a perfect impression on your first try.  The paper and stamp stay in the same position so that you can stamp over and over.  But I would like to share some other uses for this tool.

The first project that I have to share is this "Lovely" Anniversary card.  I want to share how you can position your multi-layered stamps so that you can use them over and over again to make more than one image without having to place the stamps every time, which can take a lot of time and patience.

You will need a stamp set that has layers to the image and co-ordinating inks to stamp the layers in.  I am using the Vintage Roses stamp set from Altenew and Stampin Up Inks.

This is a very hard process to explain so please check out the video attached.  Below is a photo of what the stamps will look like after you have gone through placing and stamping for your first image.  Once they are all in place you can just put in a piece of paper and ink up the stamps one corner at a time to stamp as many images as you want.

Hope you enjoy the video and get inspired to make many great projects.  But before you go Die Cuts and More is having a give away, at the end of this 6 Video series there will be a draw and you can win a Stampoholic Nano of your very own.  Please see the rules below.

Stampoholic Nano Giveaway
1. Must be a subscriber to Die Cuts and More on YouTube.
2. Must be a subscriber to ME on YouTube.
3. Join the Stampoholic Fans Facebook Group and Like the Stampoholic Shop on Facebook.
4. Leave a comment on the Die Cuts and More blog for Episode 1.

Good Luck and Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

A Winter Card with Some Odd Girl

Today I am playing around with Some Odd Girl Digi images - Snowball Tia and Winter Tobie.
I printed them on Crafter Companion paper and colouring them in with my Copic markers.  If you are interested in the colours used I do have a process video on youtube.

On the front of the card I die cut watercolour paper with the snow capped mountains from Mama Elephant and some stitched landscapes from the stitched landscape trio - also from Mama Elephant.  I used Evergreen Bough distress Ink on the mountains and left everything else the white watercolour paper for snow.

The sentiment is an old wooden stamp (one of my fav's) from Penny Black.

On the inside I used a spellbinders die and some of the patterned paper along with Winter Tobie.
So cute.  Please take a look at my video on youtube to get a better look and visit Some Odd Girl for some great digi and clear stamps.

Some Odd Girl - http://www.someoddgirl.com
Snowball Tia - http://www.someoddgirl.com/collections/digital-stamps/products/snowball-tia
Winter Toby - http://www.someoddgirl.com/collections/digital-stamps/products/winter-tobie

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Happy Halloween!

Wishing everyone a safe and happy Halloween!

I have a process video up on my youtube channel for the Zombie Band Camp card.  I promise that this will be the last of the zombies for now =)
Hope you enjoy!

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

Just wanted to stop by and wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!  We are having a great long weekend with wonderful weather and I am getting in a little bit of crafty time.

Also wishing my american friends a Happy Columbus Day!

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

World Card Making Day!!

Happy World Card Making Day!!

Hope everyone had a chance to sit down and make some cards!

I finally got a chance to sit down and make one card - lol.  And I filmed it for my YouTube channel, so if you are interested head on over there and take a peak.

I coloured up Dancin' Mae from Some Odd Girl with distress markers and popped her up on this super cute card.

Don't forget to check out all the deals that everyone is having this weekend in honour of WCMD!

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Another Embossed Background

I had so much fun with the tree background that I decided to try a different one.  I picked this triangle embossing folder from WeRMemory Keepers and did the same technique.  You can see the whole process from start to finish on my YouTube channel.

I used the Booyah stamp set from Lawn Fawn, my favourite Halloween stamp set this year =)

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

More Fall Fun with The Greeting Farm

I really enjoyed making my fall card the other day so I thought I would share the process in a YouTube video.  I started out by filming two backgrounds using the Nuance Powders from Magenta (a canadian company!) with the beautiful fall colours.  And then I stamped out a couple of my Greeting Farm images to colour in.

For the first background I put blue in it by accident, but it still turned out so pretty.  I coloured my image with a little bit of blue to bring out the colour.

The second one was just perfect with the little touch of green.  both of the them were framed with the scalloped card front from Mama Elephant and adding a little banner with an image.

The funniest part was I didn't realize until I was colouring out the last image Evie from the Super Secret Stamp Club that she is holding a phone and not a coffee mug like I thought.  I had to have a second take when I noticed the little dot in the top right hand corner and realized that that was the camera from her phone - too funny!!

Check out my video for the background and colouring process.  I did show my peerless water colours and how I use them when colouring images like this.  And don't forget to subscribe when you are over there =)  I will be having a giveaway soon to celebrate my growing subscribers.

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Happy Fall Y'all!

Today is the first day of fall so I'd like to celebrate with a fall card.  I was playing with my Nuance powders from Magenta and made a beautiful background that reminded me of fall leaves changing colours, so I wen through my stamps to find an image that would go with a fall theme.  I picked this super cute Tawny from CC Designs Pollycraft by Paula.  I just love their little images, they are so cute.

I stamped the image out in Black Licorice MFT Hybrid Ink and coloured it up using Peerless Water Colours.  I love the bright colours that you can achieve with these water colours and they are so fast and easy to use.

The saying is from a CC Designs AmyR set called Happy Harvest.  Those AmyR sentiments are the best for cards and more.

To finish off the card front I wrapped some black embroidery thread around and tied a bow, added some acrylic leaves and popped up the image on foam tape.  I will be sharing this card in more detail on my YouTube channel later this week.

Happy Fall to everyone!!

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Bring on the Marching Band...

Anybody miss me??  Well I'm sure if you've been following me on YouTube and Instagram you haven't missed a thing.  But I thought I would come back to the world of blogging.

Lately I went a little crazy at Simon Says Stamp and who wouldn't during this wonderful holiday of Stamptember - yup Stamptember.  September is the month that Simon puts together a new release and also does collaborations with other stamp companies to produce exclusive stamp sets that you can only buy during the month of September or until they are sold it - which is pretty fast some times.  So normally I don't get caught up in the world of "I have to buy it before it's sold out", but when you get the emails and follow them on Instagram and see all the images and samples.  I just couldn't resist.

So I thought I would share with you a card that I made as soon as this cute little stamp set showed up in the mail.  I used Band Camp which is a Stamptember exclusive from WPlus9.  They are so adorable and I love the sayings so much.

The background was created with Nuance powders from Magenta.  I coloured the little band members with copic markers and fussy cut them out to glue down on top of he background.  To finish it off I embossed the saying in black embossing powder.

Really love these cute little guys and the images and saying are so versatile.

Check out my YouTube channel for a close up of these and stay tuned for more super cute cards =)

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Creative Wednesday and last DT Project for LBBS!

Hi Everyone!!
Today is my last post for my last DT Project for Little Blue Buttons Stamps - it has been an awesome time but I will not be staying on with the DT.  I am taking some time off all DT's to clean up and organize my room and get using some of my supplies that are just sitting around and collecting dust.

So with that being said - today is Creative Wednesday and I had the opportunity to play around with a Perfect Gentleman digi stamp from LBBS.  Here is the link to the store here and here is the link to the blog to see the other great projects created for today.

Check out my youTube channel for a closer look and details.  Thank you for stopping by =)

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

LBBS Digi Release

Hi Guys, I totally apologize for this late post.  I finished my project and with the busy-ness of the holidays I forgot to make a video and schedule my post.  So better late than never here is the super cute card I made for the release with Miss Lily Cupcake 2 - unfortunately I will not have a video for this one - sorry.

I coloured Miss Lilly up with my copies and added some patterned paper from the My Minds Eye My Girl collection.  I also used my Impression Obsession die for the Happy Birthday sentiment off the side of the paper.

The paper flowers and pearls are from my stash - which is growing like crazy - I think it is time to do some cleaning =)

She turned out so adorable.  Head on over to the Little Blue Button Blog and store to see the other project which were made and get the new digi's.

Happy Papercrafting! Sarah

December Digi Release for LBBS!

Today is the December Digi Stamp release for Little Blue Button Stamps - there are some super cute stamps to play with =)

I was playing with the Button Fairy - her eyes are so big and bright, I just love how it turned out.  I apologize but I took these photos before I added the stickles but if you check out my youtube channel you will see the sparkle.

Head on over to the Little Blue Button Stamps Blog to see all the new stamps released today, and head over to the shop to buy them all!!

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Creative Wednesday with LBBS!

Today is creative wednesday over at Little Blue Button Stamps.  I played with Eris on Sleeping Bear and decided to make another Christmas card.  Gotta get ready for all those cards that I need to send out =)

I coloured her up with Copics and cut her out.  Popped her up on some foam tape to lift off the card.

Check out Little Blue Button Stamps Blog to see the other DT Members projects and head over to the store to get your own digi or rubber stamps =)

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

A Christmas Card with New Stamps

For this weeks DT Project at Not2Shabby I made this super gorgeous Christmas card with one of my new Stamping Bella's.  Savannah has a Star.  I absolutely love the way it turned out, she is just awesome!

Check out my video on youtube to see all the new stamps that I got from Not2Shabby and a closer look at my card.

Head on over to Not2Shabby to get some awesome stamps - and if you make a purchase use my coupon code for an additional 10% off your purchase - SARAH - code is good from Nov 1st to Nov 15th.

Copic colours are below.  Skin colours are E50, E51, E53 and R11.

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

I received this super cute CC Designs - Polly Craft stamp called Russell from Jamie the owner at Not2Shabby.  He is so stinkin' adorable that I had to ink him up right away!

Here is the card that I made along with the copic colours I used to colour him.  Check out my youtube channel for a close up look.

And run over to Not2Shabby to get your own Russell - right now she has a fall card kit that includes the stamp, paper, burlap and embellishments.  If you spend $40 from the US you can get free shipping by using the code FREESHIPUS or if you are international and spend $50 use the code INTL3OFF for $3 off your purchase.

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Card for National Card Making Day!

I almost forgot that today is National Card Making Day so of course I had to make a card.  I coloured up this super sweet image from Saturated Canary - Crisscross Applesauce!

The stamps and burlap flower used all came from the Not2Shabby shop on Zibbet - check out the store here!
And don't forget if you make any purchases between Oct 1st and 15th then you can use my DT coupon to save an extra 10% of your purchases - SARAH.


Here are the copic colours used below and check out my youtube channel for a video on this card =)

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Creative Wednesday - LBBS

Welcome to Creative Wednesday with Little Blue Button Stamps.

Today I got to play with Rocker Charlie who is so super cool.   I decided to make a card and of course I had to use stars with this super rock star!

I love how she turned out.  I found some black rhinestone Want 2 Scrap bling that was star shaped to go with the star spellbinders.  The patterned paper is from DCWV.

Head on over to LBBS and check out the other projects for Creative Wednesday and head over to my youTube channel for a video of this card.

Here are the copic colours that I used to colour Rocker Charlie - I also used a silver gel pen to accent her boots, guitar and earrings.

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Playing Around with Distress Markers

I was playing around with my new stamps and decided to colour one with my Tim Holtz Distress Markers.  I used the image Oak Tree Girl from Whimsy Stamps, she is so adorable.

I did not keep track of the colours used as I was playing with them.  I recommend you make a chart to show what the colours look like with and without water as they can be totally different.



I finished off the card with some Prima bling, a die cut doily and some acrylic leaf gems.  The lilies are from Wild Orchid Crafts which I purchased at Not2Shabby.  And of course the fall leaves are some that I have been hoarding in my stash from Michaels.

I love how the card turned out and it is really helping me look forward to fall =)

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah