Distress Inks " 5 for 4"

Just a quick post to let you know that Sarah at Hotshotcrafts has Distress Inks on offer. That's 5 Distress inks for £19.80 plus FREE p + p. How great is that! They have all the colours.

Grab them now before they sell out.

Also the stamps I used in the video tutorial are also available at £8.80 per set. These stamps are excellent quality.

Happy inking
hugs Sarah x

Fancy a bargain?

If you live in England you just may have a store by you called Home Bargains. Well I found a great bargain with these stamps. Not only do you get a stamp but you also get an inkpad too. And all for .....wait for it........
39p!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! each
A bargain or what?!

I have used one of the stamps on a card in my previous post.

So if you have a home Bargains by you go and see if you can snap up a bargain too!
hugs sarah x

A card just for fun

 

Here are a couple of cards I made over the weekend, just for fine.
Here is what I used
Card 1.

• LOTV stamp
• watercolour paper
• colouring pencils
• MME paper stack
• Siizix die - fram
• Distress Inks - vintage photo
• Stickles
• Stamp - from Home bargains 39p!!!!!!

Card 2

• stamp
• colouring pencils
• papers from stash

Blog candy winner

Thank you to all those who entered my Whiff of Joy surprise stamp blog candy.

 I can announce that the winner is....................................

Ali at My crafty Desk

Congrats Ali. Please email me with your full postal address so that I can post your prize out to you. Hope the postman can get to you okay in this bad weather!

Warm hugs Sarah x

I am feeling generous .....so more blog candy

 This candy is now closed

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Hi everyone.
Hope you are all coping with the cold and snow if you have it where you are.
I have some exciting news which I will let you know about later this week. It has put me in such a good mood that I am offering a little bit of candy.

The candy is a Whiff of Joy stamp. Which one will be a surprise!
To enter all you have to do is:

1. Become a follower ( if you haven't already)
2. Spread the word on your blog ( link in your side bar)
3. Leave a comment.

This candy will end Sunday 4th December. If I get a good response I will put up more candy starting December 5th.
Warm hugs Sarah x

Totally Gorjuss challenge 59 - DT card 0 Sketch

How cold is it???!!!

It is almost to cold to craft ( it will NEVER be THAT cold!)
Our challenge at Totally Gorjuss this week is a sketch. The sponsor is Joanna Sheen
Here is what I used

• Sheena Douglse Poppy stamp
• Colour pencils
• MME papers
• Ribbon
• Craftwork Cards sentiment
• Flat backed Gems
• Distress Inks - Vintage Photo

Keep warm this weekend
Warm hugs sarah x

Distress Inks Butterfly card

 I hope you enjoyed my video tutorial on Distress Inks .
Thank you so much for the feedback. Some of you mentioned that the sound wasn't to good. I will see what I can do about that to improve it for the next video.Here is another card I have made.

On this card  I have stamped the Butterfly twice, coloured it with Distress Inks, decoupaged it and added Gold Stickles
I used a cheap, thin card stock for the Butterfly. The distress inks helps curl the petals slightly as it dries and as you walk past it and cause a draft the wings flutter a little.
So do you like this card?
Thank you for taking the time to look and leave a comment
hugs sarah x

LOTV challenge card

 

It has been ages since I entered a LOTV challnge. his week you have to use your favourite items.
So I have used a LOTV stamp ( love this little fairy), my distress inks ( can't live without them) and my Marianne die.
Nothing fancy added to this. No flowers, flourishes or anything else. I hope you like it
warm hugs Sarah x
You still have time to enter my blog candy

My exciting news - video tutorial!!!!!

 I told you I had some exciting news and that's why I was offering some more candy.
Well my news is that Sarah at HotshotCrafts has asked me to do video tutorials for the shop. Well I thought about it for all of 1 second and said YES!!!!!!!
So my first video tutorial has gone live. You can access it through the shop web site or on you tube. You can also see it here.



Please let me know what you think so that I can improve for the next one. I have already realized that I kept my ink pads in the wrong place  as I keep crossing over the screen.
On this tutorial I show you how to make a very quick and easy card with Distress inks and stamps. All the items I have used are available at Hotshotcrafts
Here is the finished card

I really would appreciate the feed back
Keep warm Hugs Sarah x

2 more Tilda and snowman cards

 

 Just a quick post to show you 2 more cards I made with Tilda and the snowman.
Hugs Sarah X

p.s. Have you entered my new blog candy?

edited to add 
I received this lovely award from Dawn. Thank you Dawn
I have to pass it to 8 recent bloggers I have found and say 8 things about myself. So here goes

1. I can't drive on the snow and ice!
2. I am missing my son who is at University
3. I am 50 in 4 weeks but still act like a 5 year old!!
4. I LOVE jewelry and can't resist a bargain
5. I would love to have a card I made printed in a magazine
6. I use the black Promarker to get rid of my Grey hairs!!!!!
7. I have an Indian takeaway every Saturday night
8. I LOVE X Factor and Strictly Comes Dancing

I haven't had much chance to look around many new blogs recently but these 3 are are my newest finds
they are

1. Debbie
2. Beccy
3. Janneke
4. Hugs sarah x

Totally Gorjuss DT card - Tree

Hope you are all keeping warm!
This week at Totally Gorjuss we want to see trees. For those of you who don't want to do a xmas tree any other tree will do. I have used my Magnolia, magnolia tree. I have  coloured with Distress inks and colour pencils. I added glitter and white fluffy stuff for the snow.
Looking forward to seeing what you have done
hugs sarah x

CAS card

Here is a CAS card I made using just papers, a stamp and Nesties.
I bought the stamps from Hobbycraft's reduced bin. It is quite nice to make a simple card occasionally. This type of card is also good for using up scraps of paper that we crafters keep. I have a "bitty" box full!
I hope you like it
hugs Sarah x

Blog Candy winners

Thank you to those of you who entered my 30,000 hits blog candy.
sorry I didn't get to post the results when I should have. Mike took me to the Good Food show!!!!!
Also we had to visit family as a family friend died yesterday.

As promised there are 2 winners.
1. The winner who commented on the original post and
2. The person who commented the most from the day the candy started until Monday 22nd November

So here goes
Winner number 1 is..........................Dawn
here is your candy

Congrats. Can you email me with your full postal address.
Winner number 2 is ..............................Stacie ( craft princess)
here is your candy

Congrats. Can you email me with your full postal address.

Please keep checking my blog as I will be putting up more candy soon. I will also randomly pick out someone who comments regularly too for some candy
Hugs sarah x

At last a card for some challenges

Hi everyone.
I had a lovely lesson this afternoon. I was showing my ladies how to use embossing powders, glossy card and brayers, making miniature tiles etc. It was good fun.
In yesterday's lesson I showed my ladies how to make this Magnolia card. The image is so cute. It is mainly white and pink.  Some copied mine exactly whilst others varied it. The results were beautiful. They were very pleased with the cards they took home.
Here is what I used:

• coloured it with Distress inks....Tattered Rose, Worn Lipstick, Bundled Sage, Frayed Burlap, Tumbled Glass, Vintage Photo.
• Nestabilities
• Tim Holtz Shabby Vintage papers
• Flourish stamp
• Stickles
• MS punches
• various flowers

The challenges I have entered are

• A spoonful of sugar - Anything goes
• Papertake Weekly - Cut it out
• Just Magnolia - White + 1
• Pink Friday -  A pink card to cheer someone up

 The winners of my blog candy will be posted tomorrow

Thank you for visiting and any comments you may leave
hugs Sarah x

30,000 (and more ) hits Blog Candy

 This candy is now closed

Well I can't believe I am fast approaching 30,000 hits. As a way of saying thank you I am putting up some blog candy. It will be a mixture of items. I haven't decided what yet....makes it a bit more interesting!

To be in with a chance to win you must
1. Become a follower
2. Post a link on your blog to my blog candy
3. Leave a comment

As an Extra, whoever comments the most between today 11th November and the day I reach 30,000 will also get some blog candy.
I will post worldwide
So there you go, 2 chances to win

Hugs sarah X

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Totally Gorjuss challenge #57 DT card

It's a new challenge at Totally Gorjuss this week. This week we want Non Traditional xmas colours.The sponsor is Crafters Companion.
I have chosen a snow scene in shades of blue. Hope it doesn't make you feel to cold looking at it!
Here is what I used:

• Kars winter stamps
• Copics
• Tim Holtz Vintage shabby paper stack
• "stamp" stamps from Kaleidescope
• Tim Holtz Ticket die
• Distress inks
• Paperartsey stamps
• Nesties

We are looking forward to your entries
Keep warm this weekend
hugs Sarah X

25th Anniversary card

 

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One of the girls who works with my husband and daughter is celebrating her 25th Wedding Anniversary. She asked me to make a card for her husband. Cards and no hearts I was told.
For a week I couldn't think what to do. Eventually I decided on this easel card. The cars are from Kanban, coloured with Promarkers and I put Glossy Accents on the windows and lights. The sentiment is computer generated and I used Black Soot Distress Inks around the edge.

It's difficult to do a commissioned card as you don't know what the person really has in mind.. I just hope that it will be okay.
Hugs Sarah X