Sunday 5 July 2015
Chore and Activity Chart
Saturday 27 June 2015
A Bug Themed Card
I've been helping a lot in school during the last month, and one of the many activities we did was a Bug Hunt in the local woods and that inspired me to make this card.
I started with two hexagons from Sarah's Zendoodle Borders & Bits Stamp Set, stamped in Wheat ink. The ladybird, from Clare's Woodland Fairy set and the snail from Clare's Flower Fairy set, were stamped in black ink and coloured with my pencils. The butterfly is from Clare's Garden Fairy set.
The bold stripy card was from one of Sarah's A Few of my Favourite Things kits and matted onto some red paper as a colourful contrast. Just a little bit of Platinum Stickles completed my clean and simple (and easily mail-able!) card.
These cute insects, together with the other items in the sets, would be wonderful for a scrap layout of a woodland walk.......mmmmm, maybe I have my next project sorted!!
Monday 22 June 2015
Furry Friends for Father's Day
The gorgeously colourful papers are Beachside from Lawn Fawn, matted onto orange paper to make it 'pop'. The sentiment has been made up from the Clearly Besotted "You & I" and "Pretty Petals Plus" sets - I love the fonts!
I think I'll enter him in the Sugar Bowl challenge!
Tuesday 2 June 2015
A Magnetic Bookmark for (Gran)Dad
I’ve been having a bit of fun with my children creating a bookmark to give to my dad for Father’s Day.
Another robot was stamped at the the other end of the strip so that they were facing different directions. This means that they will both be upright when the bookmark is complete.
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Sunday 10 May 2015
Doodle Home Keyring
I stamped my chosen images (the tall house, cloud and tree) from the Doodle Home set onto the PolyShrink using StazOn Jet Black ink. (The StazOn ink is perfect for stamping onto the shiny, non-porous PolyShrink surface.) Each shape was then cut out carefully and turned face down onto some scrap card. The BACK of each stamped polyshrink shape was coloured with my Promarker. (Alcohol based markers like promarkers, copics, etc smudge the StazOn ink, hence colouring the back of the image.) You can skip this step if you'd rather have your charms black and white.
Sunday 26 April 2015
Rainy Day Fun
Thursday 16 April 2015
A Pretty Oceans Gift
I decided that I really fancied making a special background for her, so I used my VersaMagic inks:
Sunday 12 April 2015
A Few Little Gorjuss Girls
So, I have, so far coloured 6 Gorjuss Girls, made cards from 2 AND managed a blog post!!!! Woohoo! Which means that I can play in the Sugar Bowl and join the Gorjuss Party. Are you coming too? x
Tuesday 7 April 2015
Ballerina, Bar Work and Bunting
I have had fun creating another scene and doing some paper-piecing using the Ballet set from Clare Brown. Isn't she cute?
Please pop over to the Sarah Hurley blog for more details on how my card was created and have a fabulous day! x
Friday 3 April 2015
A Bright and Rainy Day Scene
Thursday 26 March 2015
Scraps and Doodles for Sarah Hurley
Good morning, everyone. I had a collection of scraps from Sarah's Dotty Papers and Watercolour Love collections and love the Doodle Home house stamps, so created this New Home card. Take a look at Sarah's blog to find out more about how I created my card.
Tuesday 3 March 2015
A Wee Sausage Dog Keyring
Thursday 26 February 2015
A Pocketful of Memories
Tuesday 3 February 2015
Using Up Some Scraps
Good morning, folks, it's Susie here today. I love to use up my scraps in new projects, which is just as well given the amount I have!
So, for today's card, I started with these scraps from various different A Few of My Favourite Things kits:
I cut the striped paper into a square and matted it onto the navy card.
The teal card was cut into a smaller square and also matted onto the navy card.
The turquoise house was cut out and windows from the cream house were glued into place.
The grey card was cut to fit across the card and small scraps of navy added to either end of the grey. (There was no navy piece long enough to match the grey, but the squares we're going to be placed on top so that wasn't a problem.).
Some small flowers were punched from the teal card and my favourite gems were stuck to their centres.
I added some Platinum Stickles to the grey and navy strip and to the house roof and left it all to dry:
Once the Stickles had dried, I stuck it all together, with foam pads behind the house to add interest. The greeting is a rub on that I have had for years and was pleasantly surprised that it still worked!!
So, from some scraps of paper and card I now have a cool New Home card, suitable for male/female/couple. What scrappy projects can you come up with?
Susie x
Monday 26 January 2015
Adventure Layout
Good morning, folks, I have a 12" layout to show you today. It's been a wee while since I've done this size of layout, but I decided that I had too many photos to include to make a smaller layout!
So, I started with a 12" piece of green card and gathered all of the green card and journalling bits from Sarah's A Few of My Favourite Things Kits. (Outdoors and nature seemed to demand green backgrounds!!) I loved the "Life is a Wonderful Adventure" card and wanted that to be my centre piece. I cut out the ends of the banner with a craft knife so that I could layer my photos behind the banner, like so:
There is also a strip of the green leaf card and some of the Snip and Stick leaves added to my layout. Also included in the kit was this fantastic checklist banner:
I decided to secure it with a couple of eyelets as I thought that it suited the theme. But, if you decide to curl the banner to add dimension, like I did, its best to wait until your ink has actually dried, otherwise you leave smudges, doh!!!!!
I added a little journalling to complete the memories but refrained from adding any other items to my already rather busy page.
Have a lovely day, folks.
Saturday 10 January 2015
Dream a Little Dream
I hope you are all well and haven't been blown away in this wild weather! Today, I decided that I fancied stamping one of the lovely Doodle Dolls from Sarah Hurley. This one is called Dream a Little Dream and is lovely and easy to colour. I stamped her onto Kraft card (aka the inside of my Christmas wrapping paper!) and coloured her with my Polychromo pencils. After shading and colouring her face, I stamped her beautiful big eyes and added a little more shading for her nose and her eyebrows. After that, I decided I would give her a little smile.....must have been feeling brave, huh?!
As is pretty normal for me, I kept the layout really simple to show off the gorgeous teal/turquoise paper and image. (Have I ever told you that my favourite colour is teal/turquoise?!!). The papers, heart and turquoise gems are from various A Few of My Favourite Things kits. I decided to add a little doodling and Stardust Stickles to finish off my card.
And here is a wee close up of Doodle Doll Dream a Little Dream Girl:
Take care, folks.
Susie x
Thursday 1 January 2015
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, folks! I hope you all had a brilliant night last night and have had a good start to 2015. We spent a fabulous night at Nethy Bridge: a torchlight procession, ceilidh with fantastic stovies, soup and mince pie, fireworks and lovely night with friends. Most definitely a brilliant goodbye to 2014 and hello to 2015!
Whilst we've been in Aviemore, we've had loads of lovely family time, snow fun, eating and lazing about, so I've managed to read a book and do some colouring. I decided to colour up these Saturated Canary cuties first - Jules, Ava and Canary Love. I haven't coloured these in ages and had fun with some different colour combinations too. I've used my wonderful Polychromo pencils - fantastic to bring away with me as I can have all my colours in one box - I'd need about 6 boxes if I brought all my pro markers! Here are the individual close-ups:
Have a lovely day, whatever you're up to.
Susie x
Friday 19 December 2014
Sarah Hurley - Documented December - Christmas Blessings
The prompt for today (can you believe it is day 19 already?!) is Christmas Blessings. I am not a religious person, but I regularly like to think about what I am thankful for, or to "Count My Blessings", as my Gran used to say!
This Christmas, at the very top of my list is "Dad". In February this year, he was diagnosed with cancer of the mouth and neck. He started his treatment in April and has been very unwell as a result, not to mention all the associated worry that accompanies the diagnosis. I'm pleased to say that the treatment seems to have worked and he is doing well, although his body still has a long way to go to get back to normal!! But it is wonderful to acknowledge the good. (By the way, that's my mum and my nephew in the picture too.)
Originally, my layout was going to be all about my dad, but then there is just so much to be glad about, so I changed it to be one for each day of the month!! It mostly uses last year's Christmas kit, together with some more of those gorgeous turquoise gems from a previous kit.
So, what will your layout include? I'll look forward to seeing them.
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Tuesday 16 December 2014
Sarah Hurley - Documented December - What I love about Christmas
But what I love most, is time together with my fantastic family. Hubby is off work throughout Christmas and New Year and the factory is closed, so he has less to stress about and nothing in particular to do (at least that is the theory!!). So we have time to watch those DVDs we've had for ages, play Monopoly, go for nice long walks with our border collie ALTOGETHER and there's always lots of eating too!!!!!
I am also loving these gorgeous papers and the snip & stick elements from this year's kit. And I've left plenty of room to add anything else I love about Christmas as I go along!
Monday 8 December 2014
Sarah Hurley Documented December- Winter Wonderland
Well, yesterday we had a little flurry of snow, which was exciting. Today it's just wet and miserable and exceptionally slippy, but you never know, we may get more snow.
My family LOVE snow and we are, most definitely, hoping for a snow filled holiday - our Winter Wonderland! Sledging, skiing, snowmen, snow angels........endless fun!!
I had already decided on a rough plan and layout for today's prompt, but when I saw Sarah's beautiful paper, in my absolute favourite teal/turquoise colour, I HAD to use that as my background.