If The Scrap Fits

It's a new challenge at Sarah Hurley this week.  Thanks to all of our participants for last week's summer challenge.  Great job to everyone and the winners are posted on the blog.  This week, Ria has given us the challenge of adding handmade flowers to our projects.  A great challenge to be sure. I have used the DP and image from Sarah's new Oz collection which can be found here .  This collection is adorable!  I printed out the clip art version of Glinda rather than doing my own coloring this time.   I cut her out and added some stickles to her wings for a bit of sparkle.  I made my flowers using ribbon rather than paper for this challenge.  I really liked how they turned out and I just added a little pearl to the centre of each one.  I used my new MS punch that I picked up yesterday to add a bit of border to my card.  The sentiment came as part of a swap.  Enjoy and I look forward to seeing your projects this week....

ey everyone! This week on the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog we are lucky enough to be sponsored by GallimaufryUK digi kits. GallimaufryUK is the work of Penni Taylor, a fantastic scrapbook digi designer. She creates beautiful kits fthat are great for  digi and hybrid scrapping with papers, elements, alphabets, word art and so much more. Every kit is truly an inspiration. Please check out her blog and her store for lots of great products and inspiration! The Design Team was given her Bloomin' Lovely kit to work with and oh wow! The images on this are soooo pretty! Perfect for all your spring and summer layouts, whether you do digital projects or not~!  I don't make digital layouts but I had such fun printing off these elements to use for my cards and layouts. You need to stop by the SH blog to see all the great DT inspiration for you! Here is the card that I made for the summer themed challenge.  I know my card says Happy Spring, but believe me, here in Calgary S...

Wow..Thursdays are such a busy day for me!  Here is what's going on.  There is an embossing challenge going on right now on the Sarah Hurley Challenge blog .  Great sponsor Handy Hippo is providing some embossing folders as a prize..I'd love to win these.  So make sure you stop by! Over on the Lollipop Crafts challenge blog , it's our sponsor spotlight!  This week we are sponsored by DZ Doodles and the DT has some cute projects to share with you this week. Here's what my card looks like this week And last but not least..it's challenge day over at AIF and wow..the DT has some gorgeous projects this week for our Things with Wings challenge!  You don't want to miss out so make sure you check it out. My card was entered into the following challenges: charizma cards: die cuts digi doodle shop's best: anything goes southern girls challenge: flowers the paper shelter: spring fling scrapbook sisters: spring flowers by the cute and girly:...

It's a new challenge at Sarah Hurley this week, and we are excited because we are lucky enough to be sponsored by Handy Hippo! Handy Hippo is a friendly online craft supplies shop with a great range of rubber stamps and other card making goodies - including plenty of embossing folders and dies for the Cuttlebug. Their website has lots of information on crafting techniques, plus a great selection of free card project ideas to suit crafters of all abilities so please pop over and visit them! They chose a theme of Embossing this week and have given us some embossing folders as a prize! There will be 3 for the winner and one each for 2nd and 3rd place. You can see them on their website here Here is my card for this week's challenge I used some of Sarah's digital papers for the balloons (which can be found in the store here . I embossed the balloons using the Houndstooth Cuttlebug folder and then raised a few of them with pop dots. I added some thick twine to use...

So today's marks my debut as part of the Sarah Hurley DT.  Our theme this week is Flowers... Without further adieu here is mine... (shout out to Lori Padberg .  It was one of her creations that inspired mine.  I loved the simple look of it) I used some digital paper & sentiment from Sarah's line which can be found here . The flower is from my stash and I just inked it up a bit with some red ink.  I did some die cutting as well for the flowers and used the spellbinders to showcase the flower.  And of course some embossing using the fleur de lis embossing folder from Cuttlebug.  A really simple card but I quite like it.  Make sure you stop by the Sarah Hurley challenge blog to get your own flower entries in!  We can't wait to see them! I've entered into the following challenges: Anything Goes Challenge Blog : diecuts Creative Craft Challenge: thank you Desert Island Crafters: use 3 items from the itinerary ( 2PP, distressing, insp...

So today Sarah Hurley is releasing a new set of digi stamps...and it's all about the Pirates! These stamps are colored and plain for those that like to feel like a kid again and color your own. So the Design Team was asked to come up with some projects highlighting the new line (which by the way you can find here ). Now normally, I'm not really the type of person to create something digitally and then just print it off. I usually like to get my hands dirty, so I thought I would blend the two. I took some of the images and put a scene together that I would then make into an invitation. All the images on this are found in the new collection. I then printed it out onto some Kraft cardstock and then just proceeded to distress it...I ripped first then went over it with the distressing tool, and then I inked it with my ever loving Tim Holtz distress inks in Old Paper and Walnut Stain. I love how it turned out!! All the printing I did using a font on my computer. I hope you...

I am very excited to announce that I am on the new DT for Sarah Hurley Designs! As you remember I was her guest designer for February and I am excited that Sarah has accepted me to her team for the current term!  Thanks so much Sarah!  To celebrate, I've got a bit of candy to giveaway! Here's how you can win: 1.  If you aren't already, become a follower of my blog. 2.  Stop by Sarah's store and have a look around. 3.  Come back here and leave me a comment as to what products you liked in the store. I will pick a winner on Sunday March 6th. (this is also on my wordpress blog, so I will be combining the names to pick the winner, so you can sign up to either blog). International participants are welcome!  Don't forget to stop by the Sarah Hurley challenge blog to get in on this week's round card challenge. Thanks for stopping by!  Don't forget tomorrow is Thursday which means new challenges from AiF and the Crazy Challenge as well as a spon...