New Products! and a Design Team Call...

Big post today! First up, lots of new products, I've done a massive update to the shop and you can see all the new products here, but I especially wanted to mention my favourites, firstly... the new stamps in my Journaled365 Art Journaling range, there are 3 sets plus some large (by demand from my lovely DT!) and small texture stamps, I'm totally in love and was playing with them last night, with some Pentel pens and watercolours, here is a sneak peek at what I made from my Instagram feed, I will share the full project next week...

 

Also in today, my new Day Books! Another project I've been working on and perfecting for a while these A5 size mini books make a perfect mini book / journal or day book and have 20 printed patterned pages inside for you to fill up and doodle on! Here is a little peek at those....

As I said, you can see all of the new products including the stamp sets and day books here (and snap up one of the last 2 kit places if you're signed up yet for this month!)

and now, the moment I know a lot of you have been waiting for... I haven't had a DT call for a long time now, almost a year again! but we are now rushed off our feet with lots of new products and projects and we are looking to welcome a couple of new people to our small friendly team!

Please do read the requirements carefully, due to the number of applications we receive we unfortunately won't be able to consider anyone whose application doesn't meet the criteria.

Our team is small, friendly and fun, like a little (slightly odd!) family... We are looking for one or two new members. You must be comfortable with at least one of the following - traditional paper crafting and / or digi scrapping and / or hybrid crafting (i.e. CD's and digi stamps) and / or stamping - card makers, scrapbookers, digi scrappers, altered artists, art journalers are all welcome! to work with my existing range of digi kits, stamps, CD's, paper and other products as well as all of the exciting new products being launched soon. (To view the product range and some samples you can check out my website or Facebook page) If you have other crafty skills in addition to those above, please do let us know, you may be just the person you are looking for for one of the new ranges or products not yet launched!

You will be required to join in our Challenge Blog every month and leave comments for entries as well as making samples for the quarterly Lookbook magazine, the 'A Few of My Favourite Things...' monthly kit club, product releases, marketing purposes, shows and exhibitions.There will also be the opportunity to get involved with tutorials for Craft Academy and other projects. You must have a regularly updated blog with clear photographs of your work and be able to commit to at least a 6 month term.

As I mentioned, we are a friendly team with many of the girls with me since I first launched back in 2010, those who weren't already friends have become so over that time! We regularly have DT blog hops, internal competitions and prizes and opportunities to work with the other companies I am in partnership with.

To apply, please send me an email here with your blog link, a little about you and 2-3 pictures of your favourite work. Please also let me know what your speciality is - cards / scrapbooking / altered and mixed media art and / or other crafts and if you belong to any forums, are on social media or have any galleries i.e. 2peas, flickr etc etc.... If you are a digi scrapper, please let me know what software you work with.

It may be helpful to you to read this post I wrote with my Design Team tips!

The call is open to UK and International applicants and will close at midnight GMT on 31st March - the new DT members will be notified approximately one week later. If you have any questions please feel free to ask me via email or my Facebook page. We are looking forward to seeing your work!!

Let the fun begin! :o)

Sarah x

Secret Rose Garden Launch!

Today was the day I had been preparing for, along with Phill Martin, for months now! the launch of our brand new craft range, Secret Rose Garden!

The new range includes a CD, digi kit, papers, stamps and embellishments and we are in love!

You can see the full range here on the website and we have a little giveaway running if you check out the blog!

I also must say a massive thank you to the lovely girls who made the beautiful samples for the inspiration gallery - Carol, Sharon, Nicole, Geraldine, Jess, Suzy and Irene, please check out their blogs to see the full reveal of each of their projects, we will be featuring them on the Secret Rose Garden blog in more detail over the next few days!

I'll be back tomorrow with something else new to share and details of my Design Team call so please do pop back!

Thank you for dropping by today!
Sarah x

Scrapbooking Again!

So, this week I completely reorganised my studio (with B's help of course!) and broke my finger in the process (boo!) which gave me some more space, a load of 'new' stuff I'd forgotten I had and a fresh desire to get back to scrapping - I'm not good at chaos and with the addition of all my stock and new products I'd started just closing the door and not wanting to go in there, sad really as it was my little haven, but now it is my haven of calm and creativity once again, I'm so happy!

I actually took the time out, after finishing up some magazine projects, to break open my own 'A Few of My Favourite Things...' kit and get scrapping! I made this layout using Instagram prints...

I also used a set of my 'Say Cheese' Stamps, a Hero Arts Neon ink pad and some glittery letters from Pink Paislee. Here are a few close ups...

The new subscription places I added for this months kits are nearly all gone now, so if you'd like to sign up, please do hurry! I'd hate you to miss out, you can get all the info and sign up here on my website.

Now, I must be off, as you may know, myself and my lovely friend Phill Martin, who also guest presents on Create & Craft, have a brand new range launching tomorrow, if you'd like to join us, you can get the info here on Facebook!

I know some of you are desperately waiting for the DT call info, I will be posting it Friday so I can get the launch sorted out first, so please check back then, we can't wait to see your applications!

Thank you so much for dropping by today!
Sarah x

Promarker Charts & Stamp, Kit Club and DT Call Updates!!

so, an epic post from me today basically! Thank you to everyone who watched the show on Create & Craft on Thursday, I had so many lovely messages and have now got round to replying to them all!

As promised, I'm posting here the updated complete Promarker chart with the new seasonal colours added, free to download, nothing to sign up for, no catch - I'm just nice like that ;o)

Download yours here!

Now, a few updates from me - firstly, I have been working with a fabbo new stamp manufacturer to make my stamps and as a result I've managed to bring the costs down, I'm passing the whole saving straight to you, so my A6 stamp sets are now £1 cheaper!

 

I now also have stock of my stamps for Personal Impressions which are also on my website for you.

Secondly, I've opened up some more subscription places for the next 'A Few of My Favourite Things...' kit club and I have a sneaky peek of the stamps that will be in that kit...

Please do be quick if you want to sign up, sub places went in just a few days last time and the extra kits sold out within 2 days!

Finally, the rumours are true! I will shortly be holding a Design Team call, details will be posted here on my blog next week. I'm so looking forward to adding a couple of people to our lovely friendly team! :o)

I hope you have fun colourful weekends!

Thank you for dropping by today
Sarah x

A (special!) New Range - All Sewn Up!

Today is the launch of a brand new range and something a bit different and a bit special!

The range is called 'All Sewn Up!' and I shared this preview earlier this week...

 

You may have noticed, that she is hand drawn! Most of my previous work I altered digitally from my hand drawn sketches, however after putting out my hand drawn roses stamps and receiving a fantastic response, I decided to be braver and share some more hand drawn artwork!

Here are the cover previews for the Digi Kit and Digi Stamp sets...

There is one other thing that is a bit special about this range - a little secret I shared earlier today over on my Facebook page... The range doesn't just have a Digi Kit and Digi Stamps - there are also 2 Clear Stamp Sets AND a Paper Pack - thats right, a real life, touchy feely strokey paper pack!!!!

You can get hold of the whole range here on my website!

You may notice a few other new bits and pieces on my website and I will be filling you in on those, kit club developments, a future DT Call and a new Promarker chart on Friday, its going to be another epic post - don't forget to pop back!

My lovely Design Team have been busily beavering away with this kit to whip up some fab samples to give you some inspiration...

Jess

 

Jaine

Carol

 Nicole

Please click through to their blogs to check out the full projects - they've done an amazing job (as usual!)

Now I must be off, I have a show to prep for - I hope you'll tune in to Create & Craft at 9am tomorrow where I will be showing off the fab Promarker limited edition pens that sold out last time I was on air!

Thank you for dropping by today!
Sarah x

Create & Craft Show

Just a quick post, to let you all know, I'll be back on your screens this Thursday (7th March) at 9am with the sold out Limited Edition Promarkers, I'm working on some samples and demos for you this weekend so if there is anything you'd like me to cover, please shout!

See you then!

Sarah x

A Sneak Peek!

Today Phill and I are sharing another sneaky peek of what we've been working on! The launch date is very very close now...

If you are on Facebook please come and join us here, if we get to 1000 attendees to our online launch event we'll be doing a very special giveaway!

Thank you for dropping by today!
Sarah x

Scrap365 & Silhouette / GraphtecUK

Today I was flicking through the latest issue of Scrap365 magazine and this caught my eye...

At the end of last year Karine at Graphtec had asked if she could use a pic of one of my scrapbook layouts for an ad she was doing, of course I said yes, and here it is!

This is the layout...

and a few close ups...

 

This was made using the Documented365 range and my instagram pictures along with a few other bits and pieces, I think it's one of my favourite recent layouts, it makes me realise how much I've missed scrapbooking these last few weeks when I've been too busy to do any - must make some studio time this week!

Today has been a very busy day, I had a visitor from a print company that I use who filmed a little behind the scenes video here at Hurley HQ and then I spent the afternoon working on lots of new things, there are so many exciting new things in the pipeline, it literally makes my tummy flip to think about it all!

Now I must be off, I'm going to have dinner with B tonight as due to C&C last week, my sister staying over the weekend and a very busy start to the week, I've barely seen him or Fuzzybutt, I will be back to the drawing board later though!

Thank you for dropping by today!
Sarah x

Create & Craft Show Update!

As you know, if you've been watching my Promarker 4 Day Deal shows on Create & Craft, stock was very limited when I left last night and I was told it was unlikely I would be back today, I've just had it confirmed this morning that there are only a handful of sets left which will probably all sell out before I could get there, so no shows for me today!

I'll be back soon, but in the meantime, if you were hanging on, now is definitely the time to get them!

If you were planning on emailing in to the show today with your questions etc... please leave them here in the comments and I will do a post in a couple of days answering them all and try to cover them on my next show.

Thank you to everyone who tuned in and emailed in, I've loved reading every single one of your lovely comments and looking at your work too.

Thanks for dropping by today!
Sarah x

p.s. I've updated the colour chart in my previous post!
p.p.s you still have a couple of days to enter the draw for a set of Flexmarkers (see 2 posts back!)

Spring / Summer 2013 Promarker Colour Chart *UPDATED*

Firstly, a BIG thank you to everyone who has been watching and emailing in to the Promarker shows on Create & Craft, just two more days to go so if you have any questions, please do email them into the studio during the hours and I'll try to answer as many of them as possible!

I promised I would put the colour chart up for you, so here it is...

Just click on the picture, right click, save and print! all ready to colour in when your pens show up :o) (this is now the correct chart!)


I'll be posting up pics of samples etc... when the shows are finished and I have them back home so you can get a closer look.

I know I have a lot of emails and facebook messages to reply to and I promise I will get to them over the weekend.

Thank you for dropping by today!
Sarah x

p.s. there is still time to win some flexmarkers (below) if you don't have a blog link to enter, just use my blog address with your name and you'll still be entered into the draw :o) x

Flexmarker Giveaway!

Today I'm on my way to the big trade show at Birmingham, so I've scheduled this post in my absence just to remind you that I will be on Create & Craft from Monday for the 4 day deal, my times are on the right, I hope you can tune in and maybe send an email for the spotty potty if you have chance!

I also have a little giveaway for you today, courtesy of the lovely peeps at Letraset! I can pick one lucky person to win a set of the Rich Tones Flexmarkers...

There are some gorgeous colours in this set, I think that green is my favourite... So to win this set, I need you to do two things for me, firstly, pop over to the Letraset blog and leave a comment on my last post here. The pop back and leave me your name in the linky thing below. You have until Sunday 24th February at midnight and then I will pick one person at random - good luck!

Thanks for dropping by today

Sarah x

A Few of My Favourite Things... Update!

For those of you who are kit club subscribers, it's almost reveal time - yay! Watch your inboxes this weekend...

Now I must be off, I have a million things to do before starting my prep for Create & Craft next week and a show to attend in Birmingham on Sunday - it's going to be a very busy few days!

Thank you for dropping by today!
Sarah x