Exciting News!!! Lights, Camera, Action!

Today I finally get to share some exciting news (you may already know this if you follow my Facebook page) I have been asked to take part in the new Kirstie Allsopp craft series (Kirstie's Vintage Home) on Channel 4 - wooooooohooooooo!!

Filming started yesterday and I was able to take two friends with me to join in the fun and I was lucky enough that Emma and Diane (who I had met on Twitter and spoken to via email but not actually met in person!) were able to come with me (a big thank you to them both for holding my hand on the first day!) so we packed our giant bags of crafty goodies and set off for London to take part in lots of crafty activities - I won't be giving away any secrets but I can't wait to see this new series, its going to be fabulous! :o)

I actually came back from lunch to find Kirstie had discovered my promarkers and was gleefully colouring in all my stamped images! I gave her a quick run down on the pens and she was hooked - I'm determined to get everyone colouring in! She sent me this tweet shortly after... LOL

Here is one card I made yesterday while I was there, Kirstie admired this card and couldn't believe that I had coloured it in, she had thought it was printed!

 Supply List - Paper by Bo Bunny (contact Bramwells for stockists) Stamp & Rose embellishment by Kaisercraft (Contact Jones & Co for Stockists) Card Candi - Hardware & Fancy Square Card Blank by Craftwork Cards, Tattered Florals Die - Tim Holtz, Promarkers, Kraft Cardstock, Coated Cardstock (for stamping onto) from Rymans. Sentiment pinched from Diane as I forgot my sentiment stamps - thanks Di! :o)

We spent the whole day there crafting, chatting and having fun while they filmed and took lots of pictures (eeek, I hope my hair looked OK and my make up held up, lol) I have more days of filming booked in between now and June and this morning I was asked if I could go back tomorrow for some more filming, a bit last minute but how could I say no! So I have lots to finish off and my bag to pack before trying to get some sleep so I don't look like Uncle Fester  in the morning! hahaha

Thanks so much for dropping by today
Sarah x

Steampunk Bird Tag

This week Basically Bare featured my Steampunk Bird Tag on their blog, and I wanted to share it here too for anyone that may have missed it...

I made the base of the tag look like rusty metal using a copper paint dabber and the fab Letraset Alcohol Inks and used Basically Bare elements and Kuretake Pens to create my mechanical bird, there are also some Tim Holtz elements in there too - how I could I make a grungy project without them!

You can see the full details on how I made this here on the Basically Bare blog.

Thanks for looking!
Sarah x

Busy Busy!

Wow, what a busy few days it has been! I've been spending my days from around 7am at my desk, making plans for the year ahead, finishing off projects and illustrations and all my usual bits and pieces, and my evenings from around 9pm in my studio finishing off projects, prepping new things, getting organised and starting work on the samples I'm doing for CHA, its a fun but crazy manic time!

Yesterday I done some alcohol ink experiments with the new Letraset Alcohol Inks, here is a sneeky peek, I can't show the whole thing as its for my next DT project for Basically Bare (it will be on the blog on Sunday)

I completely ruined my manicure but it was totally worth it! the colours are gorgeous, they are the same ink as in your Promarkers so everything matches perfectly. The bottles take some getting used to though as the ink flow is quite quick (compared to others I've used) my advice is to use a big craft mat and expect to get messy initially! once I got used to them it was fine and I'm really pleased with the results!

Tonight I will be finishing off my Christmas Cards (B done his usual 'I need 20 cards by tomorrow, can you whip something up' thing - grrrr... it's lucky he's pretty! lol) and a couple of last minute Christmas projects I'll be sharing here on the blog over the next few days.

Thank you again to everyone who took time to leave comments on my last post and take the time to join mine and Fuji's facebook pages - I can't wait to start sharing :o)

Sarah x

Basically Bare Card

My first Basically Bare blog post was published yesterday showcasing one of my projects for them, so exciting!

I used the Paisley Pieces, altering them in a variety of ways to make this card....

To see all the details click here to read the full blog post.

If you are looking for my Design Team Tips and my current Design Team call please see the post below!

Sarah x

Alcohol Inks on Holographic Card!

I've been playing with my Kuretake Alcohol Inks again making lots of backgrounds for future projects - I was using up lots of old paper, coating it with acrylic paint first to seal it (a great way to use up old stash you'll never ever use) in with all my old stash was a whole stack of holographic card I bought about 10 years ago, it has a glossy surface so no need to prime it first, so I thought I'd give it a go!

 

The first is yellow and pink swirled with grey dripped into the edges. The second I layered on lots of yellow and pink with purple around the edges then I dripped purple into the middle and the blending solution on top which gave it this 'tie-dye' kind of effect.

I wouldn't recommend doing this in a brightly lit room, I nearly blinded myself! But it's definitely a great effect.

I had my silouhette Lavinia stamps to hand so i made a very quick card just to show off how striking it can be - literally this took about 5 minutes to make!

Sarah x