Walk on the wild side

 Good morning blogland

This is my Passion for Markers DT blog post and this week the theme is 'Birthdays', with the sponsor being RAM Stamps and a prize of a £10.00 voucher on offer.

As always you must use your markers somewhere on your project and follow the theme, but your project doesn't have to be a card.

The DT were very kindly allowed to use a Digi from RAM and this is my make with one of those digis:

Supplies used:

Digi stamp:

RAM Stamps - Safari Friends: Wild & Wonderful

coloured with my Copics

Dies:

un-branded stitched rectangles

Poppy Stamps - Scalloped Stitch frames

Anything else:

Distress Inks

Blending Brushes

flat backed gems

So the background for this card is an ink blended piece of the paper I use to colour on and, although I liked the idea, I don't think the actual card stands up to what I had in my mind.  I really feel like either the background colour is wrong, or the pink elephant didn't really work or it should have been a shaker card. Ho-hum, win some / lose some, and this is definitely a 'lose some' - moving on then and lesson learned.

So I would suggest you pop on over to the challenge blog and see the lovely cards  my Teamies have made, they have managed much better cards than mine!

See you soon,

Sarah

Thank you

Good morning blogland,

So here I am with my first Sweet Stampin' Challenge of 2025 and the theme this time is 'Thank you cards' - hence the title of the blog post! As always with Sweet Stampin' this is a 'for fun' challenge so no prizes on offer but do please use a stamp (digital or rubber) somewhere on your project and follow the theme.

I figured for Thank You cards you either go into a total one-off unique really heavy on the personalisation side or you go mass-production.  So, as I don't have any particular person to thank, I went mass-production.  I'm not saying these were really quick cards to make, but they were pretty easy. 

I used the stencil with Distress Inks to create a background, which I then stamped the sentiment directly onto, die-cut it and mounted onto black card and then onto the card blank.  Stamped (from the same set) a sentiment, die-cut that, foam pads on the back to 3d mount it, add some gems and viola! Straight forward and easily repeatable in as many different colours as you have Distress Inks (other background creating inks may be used :-)!)

Here's the card:

Supplies used:

Rubber stamps:

Altenew - Mega Greetings : Thanks for everything

Dies:

My Favorite Things - Fishtail Foundations

un-branded stitched rectangles

Stencil:

Honey Doo Crafts

Anything else:

Distress Inks

blending brushes

self-adhesive gems

You may also note that although I used my favourite 5x7 top-fold card blank, I turned it on it's side.  Added a bit more interest and worked better with the absolutely huge sentiment stamp!

Why not pop on over to the blog - my Teamies have made some wonderful cards which I'm sure will inspire you!

Aaaand that's it from me, folks - see's ya soon!

Sarah

All things girly

Morning blogland,

This post is for the new challenge starting today over at Passion for Markers and this week the theme is 'For the Girls'. I do hope you'll play along - the theme was my pick this week - eeek!

We have a lovely prize on offer by the always fabulous Paper Shelter and they also allowed the DT to pick a digital stamp to use for our makes.

So this is my card with that stamp:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

The Paper Shelter - Vintage Amy

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamp:

Woodware - Word Fragments 2

Dies:

My Favorite Things - Fishtal Foundations + Inside and Out circles

un-branded stitched rectangles

Paper:

First Edition - Love Letters

I find it odd how cards go together sometimes - sometimes I know exactly what I want to do, but others I surf and surf and surf, think I've found an idea but then it ends up not really looking like the that idea at all.  Then I find a scrap of paper (as with the striped bit on this card) or a discarded die-cut and 'boom' that's exactly what I wanted! Strange old world.

Anyways, enough rambling from me - pop on over to the challenge, why don't you - you'll find some wonderful cards and a great prize on offer.

Aaand that's it from me folks - I'll catch you next time I'm in blogland!

Sarah

Hello, 2025!

Good morning blogland,

Here I am and here we are - first post of 2025! I hope everyone had as good a Christmas and New Year as was possible.  Ours never really changes it's always very quiet - for both occasions - and (let's be honest here!) a tad boring. Not religious, don't do late nights and just us three for family - so hey, what'd I expect!

Still that can all be put behind us now and we move on, and in the moving on here's my first Design Team card of this year! We kick off 2025 with a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar Challenge with a theme of 'Add a die cut', no sponsor for this one but there is a prize on offer.

Now I do love my dies and I might have just a few, so this one is right up my street and I didn't stop at one die cut, oh no - you've got loads!

Supplies used:

Rubber stamp:

Time for Tea - Let's Party

coloured with my Copics

Dies:

Creative Craft Products - A2 Essentials Landscape Card Die set

Time for Tea - Smile Inverted Scallop Frame set

Time for Tea - Hey Hello Hi Sentiment Die set

Anything else:

white gel pen

blue striped blue light-weight card

I realise it's probably a little odd to pair that sentiment with that image and even I had a different sentiment to begin with, but I saw that 'hello' and thought 'oooh, I like that!' and went with it!  

Aaand that's about it for my first post of 2025 - I look forward to posting many more times over the next year!

See you soon,

Sarah