One Little Teacup

Well, I borrowed some Heartfelt Creations stamps and spellbinders from my mom today.   She really wants me to try out for their design team but I don't get to use their stuff too often so I want to give some a try.  I started off with the China Fragments large teacup and stamped it on some pattern paper from DCWV Garden Tea Party Stack using Pearlescent Chocolate Brilliance ink (makes it look like it's embossed).  I then coloured in the flowers with my Spectrum Noir markers (colours shown below).

 I stamped the Shabby Chic Lace with the same ink on a piece of vellum to layer underneath and then dyed some white lace with Caramel Apple glimmer mist.  Added some paper flowers and a resin white one.

On the inside I used this cute little message from the patterned paper.  The teacup on the front is actually on there with foam tape and creates a little pocket to slip a tea bag into. 

Very cute. 

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Haunted Halloween

I love Halloween.  It is one of my favorite holidays and I have to say that I think the colors is one of the things that makes it my favorite.  I love orange, purple, green and black and especially all together.  I really love dressing up too!  Although I do not like "scary" - I can't watch scary movies or go through a haunted house - it freaks me out!!

But I LOVE Halloween! 

I pulled out all my halloween paper, stamps and embellishments and got down to business this week.  I'm going to have more to share but for now I have a mini album that I did with My Minds Eye - Haunted paper and some left overs from last year.  And yes I bought some new Halloween paper this year even though I had some left over from last year - I told you I love the holiday!

This is a close up of the three tags that are inside the mini - did I mention I love googly eyes - I think I have an addiction.  These little guys are from the Michaels $1.50 stamps last year.  I colored their cheeks with Copic marker and then colored the orange and purple with nail polish (makes it shiny and see through) and the skeleton was with a silver sharpy - one of my new best friends (great mummies)!


Head on over to my you-tube channel to check out the whole album - don't forget to subscribe to my you-tube and my blog - I'm thinking that I'm getting close to 5000 visits on my blog so there might have to be some blog candy - spooky blog candy :-)

I'll leave you with a close up of the unfortunate spider that got stuck in some hot glue on the back cover - he's so cute!! NOT.

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Color Me Scrappy - Challenge #12

Welcome to Challenge #12 of Color Me Scrappy.  This time we have a really cool and unique color palette to play with - FRUIT LOOPS!!!  Isn't that exciting??

I love these colors and all I could think of was Fun, Fair, Cotton Candy and of course I have pictures from the fair :-)  I used a patterned paper for the background that was from a Fair stack - sorry I don't remember the brand and it was one that we shared so I don't have the cover.  I used a matching patterned paper that had strips of tickets that I trimmed and cut out - they look great.  Then to finish it off I added some basic grey chipboard letters and of course cotton candy and balloons.

Make sure you head over and get in on the fun.  Also check out the posting for the next design team, it's really exciting and you'll love the challenge.

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Color Me Scrappy - Challenge #11

Well it is officially September.  I'm so excited, the kids are going back to school!!  It's the most wonderful time of the year!  (I miss that Staples commercial).

And it's Challenge #11 over at Color Me Scrappy.  The colors were definately not something that I'm used to so of course it was a challenge.  Very beautiful and classic though when I look at them.

 

I started off by stamping some of the butterflies when I was stamping with the kids.  It was perfect because I could choose the colors I wanted from the markers and make them match the color palette.

I then stamped the lace background in Navy blue ink and added some glimmer mist to the whole page.  I love using glimmer mist but I don't like how it wrinkles your page when you are drying it with your heat gun.  And I'm too impatient to watch it dry!!

I added some lace, trim, bloomers flowers and some polyester flowers.  To finish it off I used an adage ticket from Tim Holtz and a resin flower that I was hoarding.  I do love how it turned out, kinda hard to take a picture though when the glimmer mist is shining through the flash

Make sure you head on over and check out the other design team layouts.  And get your layout added to have a chance to win a great prize!

Happy Papercrafting! Sarah

Getting Crafty with the Kids

We decided to take a break from carrying things up from the basement to my new room for a little bit of creative relaxation.  So I invited the kids in to do some stamping.

My mom picked up these Local King Rubber Stamp sets at the Heirloom Stamp show in Novi, Michigan.  Madison has been bugging to use them ever since we borrowed them but finding table space has been pretty hard with the craft room move going on. 

These stamps are very interesting because they focus on the negative space so that you can color the images with water based markers and ink to get a marbled look.  Oh and it works best on glossy paper to help blend the colors.

 It is so much fun to play with different colors and get different effects every time.  It's hard to pick favorites but I really love the turtles.  We also have matching dies to cut out the turtles and emboss the shell.  Awesome!!

Jonathan loves to color and loves to stamp so he had a lot of fun.  We even found a Micheals $1.50 stamp that was a solid monster that worked beautifully with the technique.  His "tickle monster" had chicken spots - lol.

Hopefully my organizational chaos will be done soon and I will share some photos of my new room.  Maybe even a room tour on youtube.  

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Color Me Scrappy - Challenge #10

I almost forgot that today was the start of a new challenge over at Color Me Scrappy.  I got caught up in my reorganization.  That's right I'm working on my new craft room, finally "movin on up" from the unfinished basement to a wonderfully finished spare bedroom where I can put up shelves and make myself at home - more of that to come!!

Here's the new colors for Challenge #10 over at Color Me Scrappy.  Don't forget that they have a wonderful prize pack up for grabs for the month of August.  Such beautiful colors this time don't you think?

 And here is my awesome layout!  I used a die cut sheet of patterned paper which I've been hoarding :-)  and some Basic Grey chipboard flowers that I got my hands on. The Sugar & Spice title is a flocked sticker that I had in my stash.

Hope you like it.  Don't forget to head over to the Color Me Scrappy blog and check out the rest of design teams layouts and link yours in for a chance to win!

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Color Me Scrappy - Challenge #9

 
 We have a treat for you this month.  Color Me Scrappy has joined together with Sketches in Thyme for a joint challenge. This was so much fun to do, take a look at the amazing sketch and color palette that we got to work with....

I have been hanging onto these super cute photos of the little tiny baby frogs that appeared one morning outside our house.  You had to be super careful walking across the driveway or even on the grass or you could have crushed one or many tiny frogs.  It was amazing and of course the kids loved it. 

I love how my layout turned out, I even added some "sugar" under the focus photo - you can see the glitter shining in the photo.  I switched up the layout a little from the sketch but still have the general layout and got in five photos - which is a real challenge for me - I generally focus on one big picture all the time.

Well head on over the Color Me Scrappy and Sketches in Thyme to see what all the design team members came up with and don't forget to add a link to your layout for your chance to win a great prize.
Thanks for playing along with Color Me Scrappy!!

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Celebrating 15 Years

My husband and I are celebrating our 15 year wedding anniversary tomorrow and what better way to celebrate than with a card :-) Well maybe a shopping trip to the states and seeing Cirque de Soleil Michael Jackson was a little more exciting!

I chose a Mo Manning stamped image that my mom gave me along with the sentiment to match. What a cute couple.

 Enjoy the card and watch for the next Color Me Scrappy challenge - coming tomorrow.

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Color Me Scrappy - Challenge #8

Today is a new challenge over at Color Me Scrappy.  And such amazing colors this time around.  I think we were all challenged with it.  I ended up choosing some beautiful birthday paper but not on a birthday layout.

Check out my little man in one of my favorite shirts that he had for valentines day.  What a cutey!

 Makes sure to get your layout in by July 31st for your chance to win a gift certificate from Peace Love & Scrapbooking.

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

 Check it out!!  I spent the whole day in my craft room in the nice cold basement.  It was so much fun.  I finally sat down and made some of the cool butterflies from youtube out of paper flowers, I just altered some of them a little because I didn't have very many 5 petal flowers.

So to start off with I made the ones with paper flowers - love them!!

 And then I decided to make some out of chenille stems, the ones with the bumps on them - so much fun.  The feather kinda sticks to them because of static but I still think they look really cool.

 And then lastly I decided to make some with some foam flower stickers that I found in our kid craft stash.  These ones were fun and the best part is that they are adhesive backed - awesome! 
Now Madison loved these ones so much that she wanted to make a tutorial video - she wants to be famous too.  Maybe next time I should hit record when I tape her.  We'll try it again tomorrow and post to you tube.  In the meantime check out my video of all the cool butterflies I made today.  HERE!

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

The Sky is the Limit

I have always loved this stamp and wanted to get my hands on it right away.  Thanks Mom!!

Well I had some left over paper from the last challenge at Color Me Scrappy and had to use the bright and cheerful colors.  I stamped the image a couple of times on each different paper and then cut the separate sections out, shading with my Spectrum markers.

I even added some clouds that I hand cut and inked up with distress ink.  So cute!

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Wallet Mini Album

 Check out my finished project.  Feels good to get something done.  I had some inspiration from my favorite inspiration website "youtube" - hehe - I could spend all day sitting and watching videos on youtube and love to just sketch and figure out how to make a project.  This one came from one of the channels I subscribe to creativecafegirl - she's very talented.  (the link to her video is in the description of my video on youtube).

When I saw this wallet mini I really wanted to try it out and had recently got my hands on some 6x6 My Minds Eye paper pads.  Honey Cake was one that my mom saw and just wasn't one of her favorites so I thought I would give it a try.  As soon as you separated the papers and put some brown cardstock with it the colors popped and everything looks gorgeous!


 All of the elements on the pages are only attached at the sides so that photos or mats can slide underneath.

I have some close ups but make sure you head over the youtube and check out my video HERE.

 The stamp in this one was embossed with clear embossing ink and then the paper was rubbed with Distress Ink to make it pop.








This stamp was embossed with Cloisonne embossing powder, this and verdigris are my two most favorites. 

 You're going to have to check out the video to see the rest of the album.

 Hope you enjoy it.

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah