Love...

Hi everyone,

When I submitted these baby tags to Paper Crafts magazine I also submitted a similar one of a bridal couple. That one wasn't picked up and so I made it into a card...

I used my Silhouette for the die cutting along with Basic Grey papers and a Technique Tuesday stamp.

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you all have a wonderful, restful weekend!

Summer Shaped Cards

Hi everyone,

Thought I'd pop in and thank everyone for leaving such sweet comments during the Hero Hosti Blog Hop this past week. The other Hosti and I had SO much FUN! If you didn't get a chance to hop along here is my post: 2012 Hero Arts Hosti Blog Hop.

I also thought I'd share a few cards that didn't make the cut for Paper Crafts July/ August 2012 issue. There were SO many submissions for this call...which didn't really surprise me since there such fun topics - summer shaped cards, stamping with markers, and using paint were my favourite categories. I submitted about a dozen cards and had 3 shaped cards picked up! Feeling very blessed! I won't share my stamping with markers cards just yet as I resubmitted them for the current Stamp It! call but thought I'd share a few of the shaped cards. We could all use a little 'summer' about now, right? :)

All the shapes were cut with my Silhouette. Love it!

My twins were quite happy the shades and crab didn't get picked up. My daughter asked for the shades and my son wanted the crab card. He actually asked for it while I was making it. I was happy to oblige. :) 

 Hope you all have a great weekend!

Silhouette cards

Hi everyone,
I have a few things on the go but wanted to pop in and share some cards I haven't shared yet. These are all baby related. :)

The silhouette images were all cut using my Silhouette. ;) The first 2 cards use Hero Arts stamps and the last uses one from Technique Tuesday.

Hope you all have a happy and healthy weekend. I'm hoping to get over a cold before we start school up again on Monday.

Hugs!

Christmas Cards!

Pooping in REAL quick to share a couple of cards I made for the current Hero Arts challenge (focusing on Christmas cards).

Hero Arts: Envelop Pattern, Old Letter Writing, Holiday Sayings; Tree is a Silhouette shape; Buttons; PTI die

Hero Arts: Greatest Gift (LOVE this set!)

This it. Off to heat up leftovers for dinner and get us all out to watch my daughter's dance class. :)

Thank a Soldier

Hi everyone,

Popping in real quick (while my son works on his math sheet) to share a card I made for my brother-in-law who's serving overseas with the National Guard. We put together a care pack for him, including a Kindle from his entire family. Lots of down time gets kind of boring... but WE like it that way. He's serving as a medic, so the more bored he is the better. ;)

Anyways, here's the card I made to put in the care pack:

The background was created using the Silhouette and the sentiment is Hero Arts...

Thanks for visiting... and if you get the chance, thank a soldier for all they do to help keep the world safe.

Paper Crafts Card Ideas for Paper Crafters

Hi everyone,

I'm popping in today to share one of my cards published in Paper Crafts "Card Ideas for Paper Crafters". I LOVE this issue (and not just because I have 4 cards in it). ;) It really is fun to see how 4 different people approached one particular sketch. This issue is packed full of amazing cards and I'm sure I'll be referring to it often for ideas.

Here's one of my cards:

 

I hope you'll pick up this special Paper Crafts issue. It really is FABULOUS!

Thanks for dropping by! I hope you're all having a great weekend!

Why Hello There!!!

Hi everyone!!

I feel like I've been missing in action the last little bit. First blogger was down, then I was in Buffalo for the weekend taking stamping classes from the amazing Jennifer McGuire, and finally I came home to discover our home computer wasn't working. Eek!!! As always my brilliant hubby came to the rescue and now has it (and me) up and running. :)

Anyways, I've been wanting to share the card I made for the first half of Hero Arts May challenge focusing on flowers. The background, frame, sentiment and pearls are all Hero Arts and the patterned papers are yummy My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose.

and here's a quick pic showing the flowers in process...

I put glossy accents in the centers of the flowers and layered 4 together, scrunching them up to give them dimension. I cut some flowers in green and used individual petals for leaves.

Here's the detailed information:

HA:
Envelope Pattern
Sweet Thread Labels
Mixed Accents: Blush, Sea, Foliage
Latte Chalk Ink

Hero Arts shape for Silhouette (I used the blue flower):
www.silhouetteonlinestore.com/v2/viewShape.aspx?id=14335

Thanks so much for popping by!

Colorful Candles

Another card for Hero Arts March Birthday Challenge. For this one I used the Silhouette sketch pens with a couple of Hero Arts candles images. I made a row of candles by copying and pasting the images and ran it through the Silhouette with one of the colored sketch pens. I then moved the candles up and ran it through again with a different color. I repeated this until I had 5 rows of candles. I'm happy with how it turned out. :)

Okay. I better go make sure dinner isn't burning. Thanks for popping by!

Masculine Birthday card

Hi everyone,
Just a quick post to share a masculine card I made recently for the Hero Arts March 'Birthdays' challenge. This challenge was very timely for me as there are a LOT of March birthdays I have to make cards for. :)

Here it is:

All stamps are Hero Arts.
Thanks for looking!

You're Fabulous!

Quick post. I'm taking a recess. ;)

Here's a card I made for Hero Arts 'Inspired By' challenge

as well as this week's Play Date Cafe challenge.

My card seems to be more a splash of black and white and a lot of purple... but oh well. ;)
It was inspired by the cards found on page 69 of Hero Arts 2011 catalog.

Here it is:

Stamps, papers, inks and Silhouette images all Hero Arts. Tim Holtz distress ink on the middle panel.

Thanks for looking! I appreciate you visiting! Okay, back to school. ;)

Birthday Boy!

Today is my oldest son's birthday!!! Can't believe he's 8 already! The saying, 'The days are long but the years are short." is starting to ring true to my ears. :( We're having his 'friends' birthday party today and he wanted a hockey-themed party so I decided to make him a hockey-themed card for his birthday.

stamp: Hero Arts; pp: Basic Grey; hockey border: Silhouette

I hope it all goes well and we have enough planned to keep 11 kids busy for 4 hours. :s
Thanks for stopping by! Hope you all have a great weekend! I'll be doing lots of reminiscing. :)

I'm back!

edited to add: this will be my early posting of Scrapping Saturday... not sure I'll get another layout done this week. ;)


Hi all,
It been a while... but I'm back! :) Here's a layout I just finished for Jennifer McGuire's final Holiday Thinking Inking class and Hero Arts November Technique Challenge.

The main techniques I used: 1. Glossy Accents on my title 2. Inked and stamped on holly leaves before spraying with Perfect Pearls/ water 3. Stamped tree on Sticky Back Canvas and added embossing powder for snow.

HA:
Get Merry
Antique Flower Background
Old Letter Writing
Grenadine and Eggshell Layering Papers
Red Metallic Decor

HA shapes for the Silhouette:

Merry Christmas - www.silhouetteonlinestore.com/sd/viewShape.aspx?id=14086
Holly - www.silhouetteonlinestore.com/sd/viewShape.aspx?id=13852

Thanks for looking! Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends! :)

"Money Tree" Card & "Do Not Open" Gift Card with Nichol Magouirk

Please come visit me here today: 2 peas in a bucket. I was asked to play along with Nichol Magouirk in making gift card holders or money cards. So much fun and such an honour! If you scroll down to the guest projects mine is the one with the Christmas Tree Card and Owl Card. All the details are over there. :)

Thanks for dropping by!

Faux Chipboard

I made this layout this week for Nichol Magouirk's Making the Most of your Die Cut Machine class over at 2peas. The challenge was to cut multiple copies of the same image and adhere them together to make faux chipboard. Such a fun technique! I used it for the scissors, comb, and 'C' and love the dimension it created.

 

 Thanks for stopping by! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Another Scrappin' Saturday

I'm typing this up at 8:30 pm Friday night and am one tired chickie. Sooo... I be brief. :) Here's this weekend's layout. It's about my 2nd son becoming a big brother and what a wonderful, loving big brother he is (and has been from day one). Sorry about the bad pic. If I had more energy I'd retake it. ;)

I must say that I'm kind of embarrassed to be showing my layouts on here. I feel like I've been bitten bad by the card making bug and am having so much fun with that and all the fun inky techniques out there...  I just can't seem to project all that on to my layouts. Maybe it's because I'm feeling pressured to just get them done? *sigh* Anyways, thanks for bearing with me. ;)

Have a great weekend,
Sarah

Two More Christmas Cards...

for Hero Arts October Challenge and Jennifer McGuire's Holiday Thinking Inking.

Loving the stamp block technique! Jennifer may just have created a monster here. Hee. :)

World Cardmaking Day

Happy World Cardmaking Day!!!

I seem to have lost my mojo today and had absolutely no desire to play. :( I am however working on getting my Christmas cards done. I've got them designed and so I'm able to stamp without having to be creative today. :)

I'm entering them in the Caardvarks CAS challenge, the Hero Arts October challenge, as well as 2peas challenge to make a set of cards but with different colors in each card.

Here they are:

I used my Silhouette to cut out the Nativity Scene and Hero Arts Musical Background & Get Merry Clear Set for stamping. One gemstone in the center of the star and it's done. :)

Thanks for looking.

Leaf Cards

Some more cards for Hero Arts Autumn challenge. I LOVE using my Silhouette (in case you hadn't noticed). ;) They have a new program and I'm trying to transfer my library to the new system but it's not going very well. Oh well... we'll get there. :)

Here are the cards:

 

 The leaf shape is from here: www.silhouetteonlinestore.com/sd/viewShape.aspx?id=12581. I ungrouped the image so I could use the outline for the back and front of the card and cut the inside on a separate piece of paper. The greeting is from the Frames and Messages clear set. On the last one I crinkled up the paper to give it the texture of a real fall leaf.

I also made this card for challenge:

The main panel was kind of a happy mistake. I clear embossed the maple leaves and went over the panel with Walnut Stain distress ink. Apparently some of the tiny flowers were embossed and so they also resisted the ink. :)

Hope everyone had a great weekend. We had family over today to celebrate our twins' birthday. :)

Pairing up with Tanya... take two!

I'm back from Scrapfest and getting back into the swing of things here at home. I'm planning to post about my adventures (along with a giveaway) tomorrow. Today I'm excited to post the 2nd of 3 pairing up challenges with scatteredstamper (Tanya) from the Hero Arts flickr group. I'm also entering this is the Caardvark CAS challenge found here. This week we decided to use Hero Arts 'Kiss from the Sun' clear set. I hadn't broken this one in yet and so I was glad for the extra motivation.

Here's my card:

The sentiment is computer generated and the clouds are the Hero Arts clouds for the Silhouette. Blue cardstock and twine are both Papertrey Ink.

Thanks for looking! Be sure to check out Tanya's card here and remember to come back tomorrow night. :)

Virtual Cardmaking Party in celebration of Operation Write Home’s birthday

Today starts Hero Arts virtual cardmaking party in celebration of Operation Write Home's birthday. The goal is collect 500 cards from this weekends festivities for soldiers to send home to their loved ones. The past and present Hero Hostesses as well as some Hero Artists have come up with some challenges for this weekend... and there are prizes involved. ;) My group of hostesses came up with the theme of "cards of encouragement". Here's my card:

I decided to make a card that could be sent to a teen or tween son. I thought this might be a group that might not get as many cards as teen boys can be difficult to create for. Yet, I have a feeling that teen boys struggle just as much (if not more) than others with having their male role model away for so long.

HA:
Classic Messages
Graph Background
Layering Paper: Cerulean, Poppy, Grass

Hero Arts shapes for the Silhouette:
www.qksilhouette.com/sd/viewShape.aspx?id=12585
www.qksilhouette.com/sd/viewShape.aspx?id=6991

For more details go here. To see the list of challenges go here. Hope to see some of you over there. :) Have a great (stampy) weekend). :)