Alter Something….

Welcome to another challenge from the  Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog. Just before I get started on my post there is a slight change being made to the challenges:

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From this weeks challenge our challenges will be monthly, we’ve made this decision for a few reasons..

1. It gives you more time to work on your projects – so many people say to me they just missed the challenge because they got caught up with work / family etc… we’re here to help! )
2. It gives us more time to bring you fab inspiration!
3. We can offer prizes for different categories – from now on entries using or incorporating Sarah Hurley products will be eligible for another prize as well as the main top 3 (yay!)
4. We can talent spot and ask some of our winners to join us for a one month guest position contributing a project to the challenge blog
5. this is the biggie!! we are bringing you something new and fabulous launching on the 3rd September and we are working flat out to achieve this – you’re going to LOVE it!! Keep a look out here on the blog or over on my Facebook page for more news!

Everything else remains the same, you still don’t have to use Sarah Hurley products (unless you would like to be considered for the additional category) though of course we’d love to see what you can do with them! You can make any creation you like be it a tag, card, scrapbook page, altered art, ATC or even cross stitch! and we will still be having lots of fab sponsors and prizes! Thank you all so much for entering the challenges, we just love to look at all your work and hopefully this extra time will mean we will have even more of your fabulous creations to look at!

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Now, public service announcement over, and on to the challenge. This month the challenge is to alter something. I altered a little trinket box from a small ornament. It was very dark and dull but was a fin shape and had a very cute opening. I painted it a pale blue inside and out, and then used papers from the Retro Home kit to give it a cute overhaul!

 

I adore these hex pattern papers, I have a thing for all things bee related. I covered the box panels with the paper after inking the edges with Peacock Feathers distress ink (I am in love with this ink colour!!) I added some blue hexagons I had cut out of the papers for another project to add a bit more interest. I then die cut a tag and some flourishes for the top of the box and finished with a Wild Orchid Crafts flower, the colour of which matched the papers perfectly! I also lined the bottom of the inside of the box with the paper too.

Now I have an adorable little box to use for a small gift or maybe just to keep and store something in on my desk!

Thanks for stopping by today. We can’t wait to see what you create for our Alter Something challenge!

Snow, blue and glitter!!

This weeks challenge at Sentimental Sundays is the theme of Snow, Blue and/or glitter – plus a sentiment. We are sponsored this week by the fantastic Bugaboo Stamps. I used the adorable Winter Circle Sentiments – Warm Wishes image from Bugaboo. I love this image, it is so cute!

I had fun with my card and layered strips of blue and white paper that had been edged with a boarder punch. All my papers were glimmer misted with diamond glimmer mist for my glitter! And then of course my image that I coloured with water pencils and some glimmer glitter pen!

Make sure to head over to the Sentimental Sundays blog and check out the rest of the design teams work. They are all so creative and all their work is just fantastic. Then once you are done getting inspired then make sure to join in our challenge!!

Say it in purple and blue….

This week at Annabelle Stamps they want you to Say it in Purple and Blue. This challenge will run for two weeks due to next Friday being Good Friday, so plenty of time to join in!

This is also my last guest post for Annabelle Stamps, and I just wanted to say thank you to them for having me and its been so much fun! Right onto my project. I took a small notebook and covered it in white paper. I then used my All things Grow set to stamp some grass all around the bottom of the notebook (front and back) in a olive green ink. I then clear embossed this to give it some interest and to stop it from smearing when I inked over it! I then inked over the grass with Milled Lavender distress ink – a pale purple shade. I then inked the sky blue with Tumbled Glass. I think this may be my favorite colour distress ink, I do love my blue!!

I used colour box chalk inks to ink up my butterflies in a two toned colour – blue and purple. The butterflies then got some shimmer added to their wings. The bookplate I inked in the blue colour box chalk ink and then went over with the purple one. Its a bit hard to see in the photo but you can see the blue come through a bit in real life. I then used the sentiment from the All things grow set and masked it so that I could split it onto the two lines. I added two vibrant purple sprinkles to the bookplate but they came out looking black in my photo :/

I added a pretty blue ribbon to mark my place in the notebook too.

Make sure to head over to Annabelle Stamps and see the fantastic DT’s work and then join in the challenge!!

Family

This week at Sentimental Sundays we want to see your creations focusing on the Sentiment! The prize for this challenge will be four INDIVIDUAL sentiment sets from theRaindrop Echo Designs Whimsy Stamps Digital Collection. If you like the weekly freebies offered here, please visit the store to see even more! They also offer custom digital designs at an affordable price with tutorials on how to use them.

This week my project is a altered photo frame, and instead of framing a photo I framed a lovely sentiment from Raindrop Echo Designs Family Sentiments set.

The sentiment is actually printed on a light blue card, but with the glass in front of it for some reason it came out looking white! Here is a quick before shot (I had started painting before I remembered to photo it!

Make sure to head on over to the Sentimental Sunday blog to check out the DT’s work and show us your work too!

Say it in blue, red & white….

I made this card following the colour combination over at Annabelle stamps – blue, red and white. I used the Rockin’ Instrumental set from Annabelle Stamps and used some of the star crystal gems from Annabelle also. For my card layout I followed Andreas wonderful CAS layout over on her blog. She has made a stunning card using her layout that you should definately check out!! Anyway on to my card….

I do wish the black pen I used to outline the red hadn’t blobbed a bit of ink out on the side, I hate when things like that happen, dont you?!

Blue bookmarker….

The last few days the projects I have put up here have been using my paper scraps. I have been making a real effort to use up scraps before cutting into new paper. It is almost a new years resolution ;p This is yet another quick and simple project to use up some more scraps. I seem to have made book markers for everyone but myself, so it was about time! I love the blues in these papers. I really love the sentiment on this too, I love its meaning and I love all things Douglas Adams! The sentiment is from Raindrop Echo Designs over at Whimsy stamps and can be found here. Looking at the photo on this the blue on the sentiment came out a lot more blue than the dp. Hmmmm. I used my new light box to take the picture and think I need to practice a bit more with it!!

PS: If you want a chance to win some Raindrop Echo sentiments check out the latest challenge here – celebrate friendship!

Say it in Brown and Blue….

Over at Annabelle stamps there is a colour combo challenge to Say it in Brown and Blue. I got this idea in my head when I got my new set of inchie stamps. However it looks much better in my head than it turned out here! I repeatedly stamped on the blue paper to give some interest to the card, and added 3 small stamped images. I love the ‘Follow your heart’ image! The ribbon came out very brown in the image but it matches better in real life!! Well thanks for stopping by and taking a look at my botched effort!

One for the girls….

I made this for the first ever challenge over at Pocket full of Posies. The theme was one for the girls. I think this has to be the girliest card I have ever made. I really am not a very girly girl so I find it hard sometimes making really girlie things! I made all the flowers on this card by stamping them out in two colours and then painstakingly cutting them all out. I then stuck the small ones on top of some big ones with foam dots and stuck them all on with foam dots.  I put little blue pearls in the center of some of the flowers too. The fairy image is a wonderful free digi from Steady On. I coloured her with colouring pencils as I dont have anything fancier!!

Hope you like it, and good luck to Pocket Full of Posies and their new blog!!

Just in time….

I made this for the challenge over at CAS-tastic challenges, it was a colour challenge of blue, yellow and a neutral. I wanted to embellish the ribbon a bit more but ran out of adhesive! I had this made a few days ago but its been a disaster of a few days, my bunny is sick and has needed constant nursing. I am just getting this on on time, phew!

Fun in the sun….

This was made based on the layout over at Cards for Men, and following the theme over at Simple Doodles – Fun in the Sun. I got the fab camper van digi over at Birds Cards, there are some great images over there. I love camper vans, my dream in life is to get myself a old blue one and travel around Europe in it one summer. Sigh, dreams!! I tried something different and laced twine up the front of the card, but I have to thank my hubby for help on this one. I realised at the age of 26 I have never laced a pair of shoes and kept making a mess of it. He came to my rescue, so thanks J

PS: My little princess of a bunny is sick at the moment, so send some positive vibes her way please