CHA Mega Show 2015 - Part Two

Following on from yesterday! After my first tour of the show, it was time to head off to a party! Create & Craft were launching Create & Craft USA with a cocktail night and I popped along to hear all about it and catch up with some friends!

As I had to be up early the following morning for the Designer Section Meeting I sneaked out a little bit early and head back to my room with a big bottle of Gatorade (all the aircon and talking means you pretty soon lose your voice!) I had to take a picture of the label of my bottle of Gatorade fruit punch - notice NO actual fruit juice in that giant bottle of Fruit Punch - I LOVE America!

The following morning I headed off to the Designer Section meeting with Craig from CHA UK to see what the Designers from CHA do in America, I met some great people and it was so interesting to see how it works in the US - we're only just starting to implement our Designer section here in the UK - exciting times!! 

*exciting news alert* I then had a meeting with one of my favourite companies in the scrapbooking industry, this has been planned for a while and I was super nervous and excited - I can't say anything just yet as it's very early days but what I will tell you is that the people I met with said that they thought I was 'extremely talented' and have asked me to put together some sample ranges for them!!! It's super early days but I'm so excited to have this opportunity - watch this space!! I was then a tiny bit naughty and before my next meeting of the day I decided to celebrate this good news, I headed back to my hotel room, put my PJ's on, turned the aircon up full blast (did I mention I like VERY cold rooms?) and ordered myself a proper American burger, fries and a shake from room service... 

 

I then spent the next hour in bed watching a basketball game and devouring it - and YES, it was AMAZE!!! I'd fly back just for that burger... 

Anywhoo... after making myself look human again, I head back to the show and my next meeting of the day with DCWV, we spent some time going through the new products before I was gifted a lovely box of goodies (so lucky!) My absolute fave was these mirror icons, expect to see them on my blog very soon!!

I then managed a quick trip to get some cheesy souvenirs before afternoon tea at the CHA International pavilion - it's very difficult to get a good cup of Earl Grey in the US so I made sure I was at that pavilion every afternoon at 3pm sharp for my two cups of earl grey! and some networking of course...

After the excitement of the day I took a minute, as it was my last night in L.A., to spend some time sitting in the warm evening breeze watching the waterfall outside the convention centre...

That was where my friend, mentor and fellow CHA UK Board Director, Carolyn, found me half an hour later, she invited me to dinner with some fabulous girls and we hit a wonderful restaurant just up the road from our hotels that had the most wonderful pie! (and spicy shrimp and avocado salad - yum!) I almost finished this one - it's so hard to finish a meal there!

Then came probably the BEST bit of my whole trip (and I'm only half joking) the girls, all Americans, couldn't believe I'd never been to Target, so they took me across the parking lot to this huge Target store, it was AMAZE! I did go a bit 'supermarket sweep' in there, put it this way, the giant suitcase I bought especially for the trip was overweight on the way home and I only JUST had room for everything I brought back - it was love!

The following morning I had just enough time to go and do my seminar on Creative Blogging, it was so fun to get to speak to an amazing group of ladies and I got SO much fabulous feedback on my talk that I was over the moon, one lady even said it was the best seminar she had been too - and it was only my second time! eeek! so fun! Then I had just enough time to go and say a quick goodbye to everyone before hopping on a shuttle back to the airport and another 11 hour flight back to London.

I so LOVED my trip, I can't wait to go back and until then, I brought back this little piece of America...

Thank you for dropping by today!

Sarah x

Create & Craft Easter Shows

I'm super excited to tell you that I've been asked to present some shows for Create & Craft's big easter giveaway this weekend (whoop!) I hope you'll be able to tune in:

Saturday 19th April

1pm & 3pm

Sunday 20th April

1pm

I shared this sneak peek of what I'll be demoing earlier on my Facebook page...

and I shouldn't really! but here is another little one...

I hope you'll be able to tune in, don't forget to send in your emails, I'll be giving away some cards if I can :o)

Thank you for dropping by today!
Sarah x

La Fourmi Coaster Book

Hi Everyone

Big thank you to everyone that tuned in to the La Fourmi Create & Craft shows at the weekend, I've had so much great feedback from them and some questions that I will try my best to answer over the next week or so.

The most popular thing people have been asking me for is pictures of the Memory Book (The Adventures of Fuzzybutt) that I made from the coaster set, so here are a couple of pics for you...

The box is covered in Kaisercraft paper (also from the show) and I attached one of the coasters to the front (once they were embellished, there wasn't room for all of them in the box) the coasters were all painted white and had circles of paper from the same Kaisercraft collection on each side before being embellished.

The coasters were all decorated with Instagram pictures front and back to tell a story.

I'm so glad you liked this little sample, I tried to look for an alternative way to use them and make them a little more interesting!

Thank you for all of your lovely support and feedback, I will get to everyones questions here on my blog (and maybe over on YouTube) if you have any others to add, please just leave them here in the comments and I'll add them in! Lots of you have asked when I'm back, I should have some more dates and times for you soon.

Thank you for dropping by today!
Sarah x

Create & Craft Shows - Date Change & Company Reveal!

Just a very quick note to let you all know that my shows will now be on Saturday 1st February (not Friday 31st as previously mentioned) the times are still 1, 3 and 6 - hope you can tune in!! :o)

I'm really excited to also tell you who the shows are for now... I can't wait to demo for the lovely Bramwells! I'll have some La Fourmi wooden items, some fab Viva Decor paints that you just HAVE to see, HOTP stamps and some bits from Kaisercraft as well as a few other things I'll leave as a surprise, here is a little peek at my prep...

Don't forget to get your emails ready, if you have any questions get them in and I'll try to answer them during the shows!

Sarah x

New Create & Craft Shows!

Just a quick post from me today, I'm super pleased to tell you that a new company have asked me to do some presenting for them on Create & Craft (eeek!) My first shows for them are on the 31st January at 1pm, 3pm and 6pm - I hope you can tune in and watch, it's something a little bit different to what I've done on the tellybox before but something I really love to in my own crafting so I'm really excited to have the opportunity to show what I can do and a just a little bit nervous! I'll be telling you more about who it is and popping up some peeks just as soon as I get my product samples to play with next week.

Thank you for dropping by today and have a lovely weekend!

Sarah x

New Create & Craft Show Dates & Times!

I'll be back at Create & Craft next week (yay!) guest presenting my first ever sale shows, I'm told they are fast and furious and very very fun so I'm super excited to see what happens! I have no idea what products will be on the show but I'll do my very best to give you lots of hints and tips as we go so I hope you can tune in and grab a bargain!! Dates and times are as follows:

Monday 23rd December

9am - Create & Craft Sale
4pm - Miss it Miss Out Sale
5pm - Create & Craft Sale
7pm - Create & Craft Sale

Tuesday 24th December

2pm - Miss Out Miss Out Sale
4pm - Create & Craft Sale

Thank you for dropping by today and I'll see you Monday! :o)
Sarah x

Create & Craft 'Craft Clinic' Scrapbook Page

As promised, today I'm posting a picture of the Scrapbook page I made on yesterdays Craft Clinic show, this was made following the sketch in my previous post...

 

Here is a little close up... For this I used the Graphic 45 Typography range (available on the Create & Craft website)

I generally don't scrap in such dark colours so I paired them with a white background to lift the colour and make the overall layout brighter and less vintage looking. As you saw on the show, I placed my first photo wrongly (the one on the right is too high) so I made up the lost space with the metallic banner. I still have to add my journaling which I will probably do on the bottoms of each picture.

Thank you to everyone who tuned in yesterday and for your fabulous feedback, I'm so glad you enjoyed the show!

Thank you for dropping by today
Sarah x

Create & Craft - Craft Clinic Scrapbook Sketch

If you're watching todays Craft Clinic show on Create & Craft, you'll see that I get to do some scrapbooking (yay!) and I will be following a sketch, as promised, here is the sketch I'm using for you...

You can download this simply by clicking on it and right clicking to save (it won't take you off anywhere to download it from another site!) If you pop back tomorrow I will pop up a picture of the page I made on the show that corresponds to this sketch/

I hope it helps! and thank you for tuning in today, I hope you enjoy / enjoyed the show :o)

Sarah x

A Little Sneak Peek...

I've been manically prepping all week for tomorrows Craft Clinic on Create & Craft and before I head off to bed (early start tomorrow!) I wanted to share a quick sneaky peek of my prep...

I've been asked to work with some different products for the show, some of which I'd never used before so that was very exciting! there will still be some things similar to my previous shows, all my faves are in there, colouring, scrapbooking and card making, I hope you can tune in!

Thank you for dropping by today.
Sarah x

New Create & Craft Show!

Just a quick update today, I have a date for you for a new Create & Craft show, I've been asked to work with some new brands and products and had a bigger hand in planning my show which is SO exciting! I'll be on for 2 hours doing a Craft Clinic, showing you something a little bit the same as what I've done before but some things that are quite new too - I'm super excited! I hope you can join me on the 11th November at 11am, I'll be cramming my two hours full of tips, techniques and projects, I'm prepping for it as we speak!

I'll have some more dates and times for you soon :o) 

See you then
Sarah x

New Stamps for Personal Impressions!

I had some very exciting happy mail this week, my new stamps for Personal Impressions!

These are now available from my website and all good Personal Impressions stockists.

I've also been working on a little bit of show prep, you may have seen these on Facebook already, but just in case, here is a little taster of what's to come...

 

I hope you're all having a lovely creative weekend, I'm working on some projects with my new Documented365 release which I will posting more about next time, but if your curiosity is getting the better of you, it's all over in the Documented365 section of my website!

Thank you for dropping by today!
Sarah x

Create & Craft Show Tomorrow!

Just a quick note to let you know, I'll be back on Create & Craft tomorrow morning at 10am with some Hot Foiling demos, if you have any questions, please do email them in to studio@createandcraft.tv during the hour and I'll do my best to answer them all on air (and just to let you know, stock is going FAST!)

See you tomorrow!
Sarah x

Hot Foiling with Letraset

Today I'm sharing one of the scrapbook pages you may have seen in my recent Create & Craft shows, this one features lots and lots of foiling!

I've foiled onto tracing paper (as an alternative to vellum, I ran out!) to create the chevron backing paper. The title scrabble tiles are also all foiled and attached with Pinflair so I could layer them over each other. I've used a splatter of My Hueys white ink spray on my background paper (from American Crafts) and accented with gold foiled stars, enamel dots and gold sequins. The gold journaling card is one of my own designs and also foiled (you can get this in the freebie kit I posted last week) here are a couple of close ups...

 

Now I'm off, I'm leaving the hairy peeps to their own devices for two days and paying a flying visit to my 'rents and sisters, I will of course be tweeting still - you don't get rid of me that easily! ;o)

Thank you for dropping by today!
Sarah x

p.s. if you'd like to see my latest stamp release, pop over to my Facebook page to see the full line up!

New Create & Craft Show Dates!

These are a bit short notice, but I will be back on Create & Craft with the Letraset Hot Foil Machine and the Limited Edition Promarkers...

Wednesday 26th June - 4pm

Friday28th June - 10am - for a 2 hour show!! 

Looking forward to the 2 hour show, my first (though I did once do consecutive hours on Ideal World and Create & Craft) lets hope I can think of enough to say and do, though knowing me I'm guessing running out of things to say won't be a problem! lol

I hope you can tune in and get your emails ready, I'm happy to answer any questions or demo things for you where I can on air.

Thank you for dropping by today!
Sarah x

Letraset Hot Foil machine FAQ's

Firstly, a massive thank you to everyone who tuned in to the shows on Ideal World and Create & Craft with the Hot Foil Machine as Pick of the Day, we had another great response to it and I've had lots and lots of emails during and since the shows, a lot of them are the same so I thought it would be easier to answer everything here in one post...

What Printer do you use?

I have a HP Laserjet 1020 - it's quite old now (though still works a treat!) and takes card up to 250gsm, I'm not sure if you can still find this model but there will probably be an updated version of it, I was lucky enough to find mine on sale for about £65 when I bought it a few years ago

What can I foil onto?

Anything smooth basically that will go through your printer! I've used a mixture of the Super Smooth paper and card that was on the show, some Craftwork Cards card and some printer paper. I also tried heat resistant acetate (Available from Crafters Companion and Cardcraft Plus) and Vellum (and then tracing paper when that ran out!)

What Type of Printer do I need?

You need a laser printer - one that takes toner rather than ink, you usually find these in offices (as the toner lasts much longer than ink, I only replace mine 2-3 times per year) or you can photocopy on a toner based photocopier (like those found in offices, repro places, libraries and some sweet shops etc...) the 3 in 1 type desktop printer / scanner / copiers will not work with this as your output would still be in ink and not toner

Can I find the machine elsewhere?

No, the machine is exclusive to Create & Craft / Ideal World and made specially for them at this time, once it sells out it takes a few months to bring it back for them

Can you use other foils in the machine?

I haven't tried to be honest with you, this was the first foiling machine I had, before that I only used the glue and foil type kits but I'm fairly sure (as was Leonie) that there is no reason why not as the make up should be fairly similar, either way - it can't hurt to try! and if you do, I'd love to know! :o)

How do I use Safmat?

The Safmat in your starter kit is a clear adhesive backed material for you to create your own stickers, particularly handy for adding things to patterned paper / 3D objects etc... just print with a laser printer as before and run through the filing machine exactly as you would with paper / acetate etc...

I hope that these answers help and if you have any other questions, please do leave them for me and I will do my very best to answer them for you. I hope if you got one on the day that you love it as much as I do!

I will also be posting up some of the projects I've made with the foiling machine later next week so keep an eye out for those.

Thank you for dropping by today!
Sarah x

Fantastic Foiling with Letraset

If you have been watching the shows or are watching one of the shows on Ideal World / Create & Craft then you have hopefully seen the brilliant Letraset Hot Foil machine in action and are here to download this free kit! I've put together some of the black and white images I'm using in my demos so you have a few to get you started...

Click here to download your kit!

The kit has PNG images and 2 JPEG papers all designed by me, in black and white to get you started including some of those you've probably seen in my demos (of course you get a CD with the machine too!)

I'll be posting up some of the projects I've been making when I get back home, so keep a look out for those.

Thank you for tuning in and dropping by today!

Sarah x

Sarah Hurley Designs comes to Bazzill Matchmaker!

Another piece of exciting news to share with you today, I'm thrilled to say that you can now find the Sarah Hurley range of papers on Bazzill Matchmaker!

This fab service from Bazzill matches up your favourite paper ranges with coordinating Bazzill cardstock, really handy if you order online like I do and can't actually see it in person. I love love love Bazzill! it's one of the first scrapbooking supplies I ever bought and you always know you're getting top quality (plus, they're lovely people!), so to have my products matched with theirs is fabulous!

The first of my paper ranges is up and matched and some more are following shortly, including my brand new not yet released ones (yay!) You can find all of the Sarah Hurley matches here on the Bazzill site (and of course you can pick up your paper packs here in my shop!)

Now I must get back to my studio, I'm caught up in lots of shiny prep for this weeks shows, I'm going to have some fun demos including some scrapbooking, and I've heard a whisper that some brand new pens will be also making an appearance - I've not even seen them yet, eeek!

Thank you for dropping by today!
Sarah x

New Create & Craft / Ideal World Show Dates and Times!

Exciting news! I will be back on your screens next week and I'm super thrilled to say I will be doing my very first (official) Pick of the Day! Dates and times are as follows:

Thursday 20th June

9pm - Letraset Pick of the Day

11pm - Letraset Pick of the Day

Friday 21st June

8am - Letraset Pick of the Day

10am - Letraset Pick of the Day

1pm - Letraset Pick of the Day

5pm - Letraset Pick of the Day

7pm - Letraset Pick of the Day

As far as I know, all of these will be on Ideal World, but please keep an eye on my blog / Facebook / Twitter for any updates or changes as well as some sneak peeks! 

Thanks for dropping by today!
Sarah x

Darker Hair & Skin Tones with Promarkers

Today I'm sharing another of my Create & Craft show makes, this time the little ladybug card where I showed how to do darker hair and skintones, for this I used the Skintones 2 and Neutrals Promarker and Flexmarker sets.

The stamp is another of the Little Darlings range I've been showing on Create & Craft. the backing paper was actually an old one I've had for about 8 years and was in my 'to recycle' pile I saved it just in the nick of time as it was perfect for this card! Here are a couple of close ups to show you the colouring in detail... (you can click to make them bigger)

I'm often asked how I stop my black hair colouring looking grey - the trick is to use a hint of brown in the shadowy areas, here I started with Walnut and then layered Black and Dark Grey 4 and 5 over the top.

I've been very busy here at Hurley HQ this week working on lots of new exciting products and some things I will be telling you about VERY soon! I have also been organising and photographing all my new kit packaging, now my sewing kits match my card making and memory journal kits, what do you think?

Thank you for dropping by today!
Sarah x

Create & Craft Show Recap - Flexmarker Denim Effect

Firstly, a big 'Thank You' to everyone who watched my Create & Craft show today and those that took the time to email in or leave me messages on Twitter / Facebook etc... it really does mean so much to get that feedback from you all so thank you!

I wanted to post a quick recap of todays demo so you had to hand the card as a reference and a list of the colours used, so firstly, here is the card I made using the Little Darlings Lili Anna Stamp and Flexmarkers to colour her in...

The flexmarkers I used are as follows:

For the Jeans - Navy Blue, Cadet Blue, Cool Grey 1, Soft Green and Linen (the soft green and linen are for adding the texture to the denim.

For the Hair and Boots - Burnt Sienna, Saddle Brown, Nutmeg, Light Fawn

For the Skintone - Nutmeg, Tea Rose, Light Fawn & Satin

For the Top - Red Violet, Vermillion, Cool Grey 5

For the Hair Bow & Eyes - Moss, Cool Grey 4

Here are a couple of close ups for you... (you can click on each one to make it bigger)

If you have a go of this technique, I'd love to see and maybe share some pics on a future show so please leave me your links here or over on my Facebook page.

I hope you have a fun crafty weekend planed, I have a lot of work to do - I'm working on some very exciting projects right now and I can't wait to share some more. Thank you to everyone who has ordered Stamp & Stitch! and Stitch & Doodle! (see previous post if you missed them!) - they have proved to be massively popular and I will have more designs for you soon :o)

Thank you for dropping by today!
Sarah x