Wooden Owls - Thursday Blog Project by Sarah

Good Morning Everyone! 

It's Sarah here with a new LC Designs Project. Today I am sharing something a little bit different. I have used the fab paper pack - Quirky Quilts to decorate some wooden owl shapes - cut out for me by my lovely husband!

How cute are these right!?
Here is a list of materials and products I used for this project: 

LC Designs 6x6 Paper Pack - Quirky Quilts
Wooden Owl Shapes

White, Black and Orange Card stock

 Circle Dies

Triangle Punch (Xmas Tree Punch)

Glue and Sandpaper 

To make - I spread the glue over the whole side of the wood and then put the papers on, smoothing out any bubbles or creases. Once completly dried I trimmed down and sanded the edges to give them a shabby style finish. I then die cut the circles for the eyes and punched the triangle for the beak and glued these on too!

  Simple but really cute! Thanks for stopping by to take a look, hope you enjoyed the tutorial!

Sarah x

June Challenge Inspiration from Sarah

Good Morning to you All!

For the Team Challenge Create a Scene, I bring you inspiration using the lovely Wavy Elephants Stamp Set and the Paper Pack Falling Daisies. There are some fab wavy stamps which you can find here. 

To create my scene I played around with papers and die cut shapes to compliment the stamp. I used Pro-markers to colour the elephants and flowers - Distress Inks for the background. I love the cuteness of this stamp and the sentiments are fab!

The Wavy Elephants, Wavy Hedgehogs and Wavy Doggies are £6.00 each set - but you can ... Buy all 3 for £12.00 (get one set FREE!) The offer can be found here!

The prize for this challenge is:

Defo worth entering! Details can be found here.

Thanks for looking,

Sarah x

Sarah's Monthly Blog Challenge Inspiration

Good Morning Everyone!
 

For the Team Challenge # 69 - Butterflies, I have used the lovely Butterfly Tree Stamp Set and the Paper Pack Floating Butterflies. I decided on the lovely blue paper and selected my pen and watercolour to match.

I used ProMarker Pens and Distress Ink (with a water filled brush - to create the watercolour effect) to colour the tree. I punched out the large butterfly shape and added blue pearls to match the colour theme. So pleased with how this turned out!

 
The prize for this challenge is:

Defo worth entering! Details can be found here.

Thanks for looking,

Sarah x

Flower Easel Card - Thursday Digi-Stamp Blog Project by Sarah

Good Morning Everyone! 

It's Sarah here with a new LC Designs Project. I have used the digi stamp Flower Head and had a play with changing the line colour of the digi stamp to create my own flower background paper and embellishments. 

Here is a list of materials and products I used for this project: 

LC Designs Digi Stamp - Flowerhead
White Cardstock folded into an easel card.
Smooth white Card Stock - to print on 

Pink Card Stock

Die - to cut greeting shape
  Distress Ink - Picked Raspberry, Watercolour Brush
White Gel Pen, Gems
Foam pads and Glue

I used Photoshop to change the colour and this is how I did it . . .

Layer the digi stamp from the background – by right clicking on the background tab (bottom right) and selecting Duplicate Layer. Delete the original background so that it’s just a white page and use the Magic Wand Tool to remove the white background on the duplicated layer so just the black lines remain.

Right click on the duplicated layer (tab saying Background copy) and select Blending Options, click on Color Overlay – you can click on the black box and this will bring up a colour pallet for you to choose a colour to change the lines.

I selected a bright cheerful pink. Once happy with the colour click ok and ok again. Your Flower Head stamp lines are now coloured.

Copy and paste the digi-stamp to create a random pattern on an A4 template – I then copied one and made the stamp a bit larger (in the end I printed the paper twice to have enough flowers to cut out for the project) I then Selected the Type Tool and wrote a favourite saying in the same colour as the flower. My design sheet looked like this – (ready to print - twice) …

To make the card I folded a blank to create an easel and used some plain pink papers to matt and layer with the flower papers. I used a shaped die to cut out the greeting and border. Then cut 3 flowers out for the feature. I used picked raspberry Distress Ink with a watercolour brush to give the flowers some colour, a white gel pen to highligh the centres and finished with some pink gem stones for extra detail.

Thanks for stopping by to take a look, hope you enjoyed the digi tutorial!

Sarah x

Sarah's Monthly Inspiration

Good Morning Everyone!
 

It's Sarah here with my inspiration card for the New Challenge - Spring Colours. I have used the lovely digi stamp Hedgehog with Flowers - also available as a dinkie stamp. I found a cute paper that was free with a magazine and based the colours on the backing paper - adding bright yellow daffodils for a spring feel.

I used ProMarkers to colour in the super cute Hedgehog and added a green scalloped boarder to the paper edge. I used a bright green gem for the punched purple flower and small orange buttons for the daffodil centres. One little wooden ladybird finished the card :)

The prize for this challenge is 3 packs of LC Designs Irresistible Images worth £2.99 each:
  
Defo worth entering! Details can be found here.

Thanks for looking,

Sarah x

Monthly Blog Challenge Inspiration - Sarah

Good Morning Everyone!
 

Today I bring you a quick reminder and inspirational post for the Anything Goes Challenge. For my card I have used the a sheet from the Irresistable Images - Silhouette Everyday Images. I also used a green paper from the Splodge paper pack, these packs are so stunning and I thought this would work perfectly for an artist themed card.
 

I used Distress Ink to create my own blue backing paper and used an oval punch to create the artist palette. I creates the brush using the tip of a flower petal and added some Card Candi in the colours of the paint from the palette to finish.

 
The prize for this challenge is this bundle ...

 Defo worth entering! Details can be found here. 

We are also looking for some Guest Designers to join in with our future challenges. If you are interested please add "GDT" beside your name when you enter this challenge! Good Luck :) 

Thanks for looking,

Sarah x

Thursday Blog Project with Sarah - Box Frame Sampler

Good Morning Everyone! 

It's Sarah here with a new LC Designs Project. I decided to raid my stamps and use lots of the 'dinkie' sized stamps for this 9 square sampler. 

Here is a list of materials and products I used for this project: 

8 x 8 Wooden Box Frame
Little Claire Stamp - At Home Stamp Set
Little Claire Stamp - Tea Party Stamp Set
Little Claire Digi-Stamp -  Trailing Birdhouse 2
Little Claire Stamps - Dinkie Pincushion Birdy 
Little Claire Stamp - Dinkie Single Flowers Hedgehog Stamp
Little Claire Stamp - Dinkie Butterfly Cat Stamp
Little Claire Stamp - Butterfly Flourish Stamp Set
Little Claire Stamp - Dinkie Boxed Dandelion 
Little Claire Stamp - Butterfly Tree Stamp Set

Smooth white Card Stock - to stamp and print on 
2 Inch Square Die

White leaves embossed paper
  Distress Inks, Watercolour Brush
Various coloured Pearls
Foam pads and Glue

I stamped 9 different images I thought would look nice in a sampler and cut them out using a 2" square die. If the stamped image was larger than the die I cut around the over hang of the stamped part and layed this over the die so it would not cut (as above). I also cut on my guillotine 9 x 2 1/2" squares for boarders.

I trimmed my 12 x 12 paper to 8 x 8 and used 3 Distress Inks to go over the sheet blending in a random pattern to create a background.

I used these colours to ink the 2 1/2" square boarders and also to paint the stamped images with a watercolour brush to create a soft and matching tonal range for each small sampler.

To finish I added different coloured pearls to each piece and then layered these onto the background with foam pads using a thin strip of card for guidance and measuring.

 These sampler style art pieces are so pretty. Any colours could be used to match where you wish to hang the frame :)

 Thanks for stopping by to take a look, hope you enjoyed the Box Frame Sampler!

Sarah x