Craft Academy Promarker Project & a Free Valentine Digi Stamp!

Today is my first day back to work this week after spending a few days up north with my parents and little squishies - I had a meeting up that way and thought it would be fun to combine some family time, so we baked, crafted and had some fun :o) Now I'm back in very snowy Essex, and I think we have more on the way - brrrrr!

Today is also Craft Academy day and this weeks lesson (sponsored by Letraset) is from Clare, who has done a fantastic introduction to Promarkers - a complete step by step tutorial using my Valentine digi kit (you can get yours here) and this digi stamp which is free to download - just click here!

Here is my card following the tutorial...

 and a close up...

Thanks so much for dropping by - I look forward to seeing your projects with the digi stamp!

Sarah x

Tag Album Inspiration

Today is Craft Academy day! and this week post was all about Tag Albums - I love these because they're so quick to make and can be used as a complete project or part of a bigger layout / album / book/ They are the perfect size for Instax and passport pictures too :o)

I made another one for this post, filled with some of my favourite quotes...

You can see more details and pics of each page over on the Craft Academy website, you can also download the template to make one of your own if you don't have any tags to hand - I made this one using the template and some paper scraps.

Today I felt super inspired and spent pretty much the whole day writing (fuelled by cups of earl grey) love it when that happens!

Thanks for looking
Sarah x

First Craft Academy Lesson!

The first Craft Academy lesson is up - eeek!  

Paper Piecing is one of my favourite techniques so I had fun putting this together!

I hope you will pop over to take a look, and join in :o) and I look forward to seeing your projects.The first Crafy Kids Academy lesson will be posted tomorrow.

Sarah x

Mid Week Madness!

So this week has been kind of a crazy one so far (details another time!) but I'm so happy that today I got the last package of my CHA samples in the post - yay! I will be sharing them just as soon as I can, although as a little sneaky preview I will show you all of these cute Instagrams of Fuzzybutt that I used for one of them...

To celebrate finishing ahead of schedule, I treated myself by wearing my most impractical sparkly shoes today...

Now I just need to tidy my studio (I compromised today by just shutting the door, I couldn't face it! lol)

I've also been getting the last few bits ready for the first Craft Academy lesson tomorrow - excited!

Sarah x

My Basically Bare Resolution Tag Album

Yesterday my New Years resolution Tag Album mini was featured over on the Basically Bare blog (yay!) here are some pics...

The Front Cover

  

The Inside Pages

     

And in more detail...

     

       

    

To see all the details of how I made it please pop over to the Basically Bare blog - here! where I explain in more detail.

I also want to say a big 'Thank You' for all of the messages, comments, tweets etc... I've had regarding Craft Academy (the post below if you missed it!) we are all so excited to get started and we're so glad you all are too! :o)

This weekend I will be back working in my studio - my first proper craft session since before Christmas and I can't wait!

Have a fab weekend!

Sarah x

The Craft Academy launch!

I mentioned yesterday that today I would be telling you about something new and exciting, and today is the day, it's finally here! I've been working on this for ageeeeees with my Design Team, we've all been so excited and dying to tell!  but we had to make sure we were fully prepared first as this is a HUGE project!

Today we launch The Craft Academy! This is a brand new website that will provide weekly inspirational projects and tutorials for all kinds of crafts including card making, scrapbooking and altered art as well as introducing you to other crafts, these will range from beginners projects to advanced. We have a number of fab sponsors helping us along the way providing us with their expertise also and we have a couple of developments to still be announced in the next few weeks including a new product range to accompany this (eeek, too excited!), so keep an eye out for all the news over on Craft Academy or here on my blog!

Also running alongside Craft Academy is the Crafty Kids Academy the same concept but for your little (and not quite so little) ones, there will be projects for all ages from teeny weenys to teens, as well as competitions, challenges and giveaways so they can craft along with you. (These projects are fun for adults too so pop over and check them out!)

For more info please pop over to the Craft Academy and Crafty Kids Academy websites and take a look - the first 'lessons' will be posted next week and we hope you will come and join us!

Sarah x