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

Color Me Scrappy - Challenge #7

This challenge was pretty sweet - get it :-) 

I had fun with it, I think my colors were a little brighter but I was probably looking more at the candy than at the color swatches.  I really enjoyed it though.

 I chose a picture of Madison's broken foot in the "ugly" boot.  She was so sad when she heard the doctor say that her foot was broken and then when she saw what she had to wear on her foot!!  I told her that she could bling it up when she got home, so out came the bling.  For an added touch on the layout I used the same bling that we used on her boot.  I used a layout from Canadian Scrapbooker with lots of layering.

 Show us what you have and you could win a $20 Gift Certificate from Peace, Love and Scrapbooking.  What a great prize!  We also got a fancy new blinky - so grab one for your blog and show your love!

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Creative Chaos

So I'm sure I haven't shown a photo of my crafty space in a while - but obviously there's a reason for that!!  Check it out.  I've been working on so many different things lately that all the miscellaneous "stuff" is piling up.  And I feel like I've been neglecting the blog but I've also been spending alot of time studying for my insurance course which will be done on July 5th.  Then I'll have more time to be crafty! until the next one starts :-)

See anything exciting in there??

Well I thought I would share one project that I've been working - at least the outside of it.  And then hopefully it will be completed this weekend and I will post a video, woohoo.


Here's a close up of some of the pictures that I hand died with Tim Holtz Distress Inks.  I just love them.

Stay tuned!

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Color me Scrappy Challenge Day!

 Well it's time for another color challenge over at Color Me Scrappy!  I love this one with lots of pinks and blues and red - what a great challenge. Sorry for the delay - my mind was on Relay for Life yesterday - Madison and I walked all night long and helped raise money to help cure cancer!

For this one I chose a lovely photo of Madison from Valentines day quite a few years ago.  And I couldn't resist when I found these wing die cuts on a sheet of valentines die cuts.  All the elements were from the die cut sheet and worked perfectly with the color challenge.

Here is a little close up to show you the dimension I used behind the wings.  Head on over the Color Me Scrappy and see what the rest of the design team has come up with.  There is another great prize up for grabs.

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Color Me Scrappy - Challenge Day

Well today starts a new challenge over at Color Me Scrappy and if you are a neutral scrapper then this one is for you.

I'm not to keen on all neutral scrapping, I always seem to have some color in my layouts so this was a true challenge for me.  I decided to pull out a new stamp that I purchased in Buffalo at CKC last month.  It is a really cool medallion flower that you stamp on different papers and fussy cut into different layers.  Each time you use it you get a different effect by using different colors or choosing different layers to cut.

I chose four different patterned papers in the neutral colors and stamped the flower a couple of times.  I then chose what order to layer them and cut out each section.  To add a little bit of dimension I shaded with my spectrum noir markers.

I then glued some layers directly onto each other and some layers were attached with foam dots (which I bought in black this time - yes it does make a difference, you can't even tell they are there).

I topped them off with a rhinestone flower which I colored in with my markers.  I bought a whole bucket of these at Hobby Lobby - great purchase!




When I saw that I had the spotted feathers in my stash I just knew I had to add some.  And the die cut fence was something I acquired from a visit to my mothers house (Thanks Judy ;-)

I really love how the flowers turned out and will definitely make more, can you image these in bright colors!!

Well here is the final layout - another picture from Vegas but it was neutral and that's what I was going for.

Head on over to Color Me Scrappy and get your layout in.  There's a great prize up for grabs.


Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah