Altered Tea Box and Discount Paper Crafts

While I was looking for inspiration on YouTube I came across a video from MsLiberty25 telling us all about Discount Paper Crafts on Etsy - It's also an amazing altered cigar box.  Well she also mentioned that they have a call for Design Team members - one for cards and one for altered projects.  Woohoo!!!

I'm all done my term on Color me Scrappy and really looking forward to working on some other items - I was getting in a 12x12 rutt :-)

Ok so for my project - I found these amazing unfinished wood tea boxes at Dollerama for $3 - yes $3 and thought that would make an amazing Christmas present.

I already had Garden Tea Party paper stack from DCWV and thought it would be perfect.

Take a look at my YouTube channel for the video - giving a description of how I altered the box.

I used some of my sacred items from my stash including the felt die cut strips that are adhesive - love the way they look on the glass lid. 

 Here the inside - I covered all sides with the patterned paper which is already tea stained.




Take a look at Discount Paper Crafts on Etsy - I've taken a look and I'm in love - she has amazing projects and great prices.  I already have a wish list going.

To Cathie at Discount Paper Crafts - thank you for the opportunity to apply - it would be a great privilege to design for you.

Don't forget to get in on my first give away and stay tuned - I've been collected some mixed media supplies and am working on some new projects.

Happy Paper Crafting!
Sarah

My First Giveaway!!

I am so excited about my growing list of subscribers on YouTube.  I have 14 subscribers and would love to see more so to help promote my channel I am having my first giveaway - and also to help celebrate my birthday as I am turning 36 on October 28th.

I've made a video of the prize which you can view HERE along with all those goodies there will be one surprise gift handmade by me.  You have two chances to enter your name into the draw. 

1. follow my blog right here to the right hand side and leave a comment.
2. become a subscriber of my YouTube channel over HERE and leave a comment on my video.

Current subscribers and followers are included. 
Good Luck to everyone - contest will end October 31st at noon and winner will be drawn that night by Madison and Jonathan in their halloween costumes.  

Happy Paper Crafting!
Sarah

Halloween in Wonderland and Room Tour!!

 Good Morning!

I finished my last halloween project which is this amazing paper bag album made with Graphic 45's Halloween in Wonderland.  I was so excited I had to make a video (note to self - wait until the sun comes up for better quality video)  Oh well!! 


I used white paper bags and sprayed them with Glimmer Mist in Peach Delight and Fully Purple - so pretty and shiny but I used a lot of glimmer mist for only seeing such a tiny part of the bags.  You'll have to take a look and see what you think. 

I really love the way the binding turned out on this one - very nice and clean with the burlap covered with spider web netting - which is flocked.  Gotta love the dollar store!

So check out the video HERE and I also uploaded a video of my room tour - so exciting! 

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

BAcraftygirl Halloween Challenge

Okay, so I'm sure most of you know that I'm a silent stalker on youtube - I get some great ideas and tons of inspiration from videos on youtube and pictures from the internet.  I thank everyone out there that shares their ideas and projects and I'm slowly working my way up there myself and adding some inspiration onto the net. 

I may not always leave a comments but I'm trying to let others know that they are great!!  Well tonight I noticed that there were a lot of videos out there entitles BAcraftygirl video response so of course I had to check it out.  Head over to BAcraftygirls channel and become a subscriber she has great projects and cards and gives some great how to's.  She also has issued a challenge for halloween or fall inspired projects with some rules - and amazing prizes.  So I figured how better to get out there than to make a card and get in on her challenge.

Here are the rules:

1. colours - purple, black, orange, white & green - awesome!!
2. use two stamps - easy peasy
3. washi tape - love it!
4. any item - layout, card, frame, altered item or home decor
5. new project - of course!
6. upload video response or blog posting
7. be a subscriber - DONE!

Oh and the deadline is - YIKES - tomorrow!!  So I decided to make a card and unfortunately I am waiting on my super long download putting my room tour video into youtube so I was not able to make a video response - blog posting will have to do.

I used these super cute trick or treater stamps from my stash - sorry I don't know the brand because the package does not have a label on it - it was one of my garage sale finds.  I also used a Michaels $1.50 stamp - Trick or Treat on some white washi tape and added in a piece of polka dot washi tape.  I also added a really cute pinwheel (first one I ever made) for some embellishment.  

Sorry that the pictures do not do it justice it is very dark here right now and way past my bedtime :-)

 Take a look at BAcraftygirls youtube channel and I hope you enjoyed my card.

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

IT'S A GIRL!!

Very exciting news!!  My brother and his wife had their first baby yesterday.  Arianna was 6 lbs, 6 oz and 18 in long.  So tiny!

Well I won't get to see her just yet but I finally finished her mini album.

 I've been working on it for a while and was stumped on the cover.  I knew I wanted it to say "it's a girl" and have some flowers but didn't know how to do it. 

I found this resin crown in my stash and knew I had to use it!!

 The inside pages are all made with envelopes and I attached flaps for additional photo space. 

Check out the video on you-tube HERE to see the rest of it.

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Color Me Scrappy - Challenge #13

Here we are at Challenge #13 with another great color palette.  This one is called Charred Hues with some great blues, tans and warm yellow.  Love those colors together.

I was looking through my photos and found a color copy that I had taken of a family photo from when I was just a little girl.  It is my brother, sister and I all dressed up - of course - in some pretty retro clothes.  Well it was the 80's you know!!

I pulled out a light kraft background and distressed the edges and then matted the photo in a nice blue.  The embellishments are from the K & Company "Handmade" ephemera pack.  I cut flags out of some my minds eye lost and found paper along with the Adore label.  I tied it all in by attaching the photo with some really cool text washi tape.  I love how it looks all yellowed and old. 

Don't forget to head over to Color Me Scrappy and check out what the rest of the design team has done.  Get you layout done for a chance to win a great prize.

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

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