The best things in life...

A CAS card from me today

Thank you for looking xx

Goodbye!

Here is a card suitable for someone leaving. I coloured the image with Distress Inks

Thank you for looking

Hugs

Sarah xx

CAS with flowers

 At Toatally Gorjuss this week our theme is

Anything goes......with flowers

I have gone for the CAS look. I stamped the leaves onto the card blank and coloured them with Distress Inks. I stamped coloured and cut out the flowers. Finally i stamped the SU sentiment.

We hope you will join us on this challenge.. This weeks sponsor is J & C Creations.

You still have ime to enter my candy here


Thank you for visiting

Hugs Sarah x

Swirls at Totally Gorjuss

At Totally Gorjuss this week we want to see swirls.  They can be stamps, die cuts, orembossing.  On my card i have swirls made by the gem embellishments. The sponsor is J & C Creations.

I used a mixture of stamps to create this card. I coloured the leaves and flower with Distress Inks. I used a couple of masks for the numbers and patterning and finally added Liquid Pearls to the flower.

Thank you for visiting.

hugs Sarah x

Far away in the sunshine.......

 Here is a card I made with my ladies a few weeks ago. We used Distress inks, embossing powders, stamps, 1 die, Stickles and Liquid Pearls.

I think this card has quite a subtle effect to it.

Have a good day. Going out for lunch now with a friend! She makes the most gorgeous floral arrangements. Will pop a link to her soon.

Hugs Sarah x

Distressed in yellows

 Here is a card I made recently using patterned card stock, stamps, Distress Inks, Promarkers, Stickles and Liquid Pearls.
This is so quick and easy to make, about 20 minutes.

Also you could win a £50 Goody bag just by "Liking"  Hotshot Craft's Facebook page . So please visit their page and could you spread the word too.

Have a super evening

hugs Sarah x

Take heart and Friendship

Brrrr it is so cold.  I think I NEED to make cards just to keep my fingers warm!!!!

Here are 2 cards I made using some new Nesties I had. They are quick and simple to make.

Also Hotshot Crafts 3rd challenge starts today. We want to see flowers, flowers, flowers..............

Have a lovely evening. I am waiting for my husband to come home so we can go and get some fish and chips!
So much for the diet!!!!!

Shivery hugs Sarah x

Distressed in red!

Good afternoon to all
Here is another Distress Ink card I made. I chose a bold red colour scheme this time. I tried to be a bit artistic with my photo!!!! A strategically placed plant next to it! Perhaps I should just stick to straight forward cardmaking..............

Hugs Sarah x

 Good morning
This is a very quick post as I am knee deep in sorting out out my excess kitchen items! I will be loading up the car and paying a visit to my local charity shop. I am, somehow, sorting through more craft items. Getting ready for another craftroom clearout candy

I have found so many stamps, punches etc that I don't use. Would any of you be interested in them if I put them up for sale here? They will be very cheap!

 

This card I made using my favourite Distress Inks and a bit of masking

I hope you like it.

Back to the kitchen!¬!¬!!

Hugs Sarah

P.P. Have you enetered my blog candy?

And have you entered your Easel cards into Hotshot Crafts challenge?.

Vintage, shabby chic type of card

I wasn't sure how to describe this card. It is kind of vintage and Shabby Chic all the same time. Lots of embossing and Distress Inks.  My favourites.

I hope you like it

hugs sarah x

p.s.

1. Have you entered my blog candy?
2. Have you entered Hotshot Craft's first challenge?

Challenges entered

Simon Says  - anything goes


Papertake Weekly - anything goes

What did I use?

Here is another sample I made for the NEC

• I embossed and distressed inked a piece of card stock.
• Die cut, distress inked and stamped the music score ( from Papermania Urban Stamps) on the leaves.
• Die cut and distress inked the flower with X Cut dies

Any ideas what I cut the flower from?

I will showcase here the blog of whoever guesses correctly

Hugs Sarah

P.S. I am having a craft clearout so will be putting up quite a bit of candy  when I get to 300 followers

Distressed butterflies

Here is one the samples I made for the NEC
I die cut a butterfly and stamped it with the new Papermania Urban stamps along with TH Distress Inks. I was very pleased with how popular these samples were.

 must "fly"!!!!!
Hugs sarah xx

" I remember"....Totally Gorjuss DT card

 

Hi everyone

I do hope you are all well. As it is Saturday it means we have a new challenge  for you at Totally Gorjuss

The theme is 

"I remember"

The sponsor is Fantastic Ribbons

So we want to see a card or project that brings back some memory to you. I have read my fellow DT's memorys and they are lovely. 

For my card, this is my special memory

"I can remember when I was a little girl that my Dad used to play the guitar. He was very musical as he played Saxophone and violin too. But it was the guitar I really liked. I would always ask him to teach me too. He  just never had the time to do it.
He was also very artistic. He did a lot of oil paintings when I was a child and I remember the smell of those paints and oils. Maybe that's where I got my flair for Card making from?!!!!!!!"

 And here is a picture of my lovely Dad at Emma's  ( his eldest grandchild) wedding this July. Can you believe he will be 87 in April?!!!!!!

Just for you................., Spellbinders and Sizzix

 

Here is a card I made recently using a mix of Spellbinders and Sizzix Dies

The flower was made with Spellbinders Sunflower die. I used white card stock and coloured it with Distress Inks. I added  some of my jewellery beads to the centre ( to look like seeds). It is placed on card stock that I cut using the Sizzix Top Note die ( Stampin up) then I embossed it and coloured it with Distress inks. The "just for you" sentiment was computer generated and cut and coloured as the rest of the card. I think it has quite an autumn feel to it.

Thank you for looking

Hugs Sarah x

challenges entered

What a distressing day!!!!!!

Yesterday in my card lessons I got our my distress inks and had my ladies making cards with them. It is so quick and easy to make cards with these inks and I always think they look amazing.

The stamp is one I bought from Rubbernecker at Ally Pally. I added alittle bit of Stickles to the thistles

I hope you like them

hugs Sarah x

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!


There is a new challenge blog coming soon. Watch this space I will tell you more soon

A striking Wedding Card!

 

My SIL recently asked me to make a wedding card. She had seen a card I made (which I will post tomorrow) with these 2 striking colours and said they were the colours of the bridesmaid dresses.

So out come some Spellbinders and Distress inks and a card was born. Not your traditional wedding card but she liked it 

I hope you do too

hugs sarah x

Sending you lots of love

Good afternoon
Here is a card I made a while back. I don't think I have shown it before. I have used Distress Inks ( which I love). The base "stopper" was cut out from a Sizzix die . I have decoupaged the butterfly and Stickled it. I have also put some Stickles on some of the ferns

I really enjoy using Distress Inks. If you haven't tried them yet, give them a go. They are on offer here

Enjoy your afternoon
hugs Sarah x

This card is for sale on Ebay