One Day Deal!!

I've had such a fun, happy and exciting week that I wanted to 'share the love' so to speak... so for one day I will be offering one kit in my shop for just 30 cents (about 20p depending on the exchange rate!) yes, I must be crazy! lol.

If you pop over to my shop, it shouldn't take you too long to find it, especially if you like Steampunk *BIG HINT ALERT* this is not limited to any amount so please tell your friends, share on your blogs / twitter / facebook etc... and take your time to have a look around my shop at the other crafty lovelines, especially if you haven't visited before!


Don't forget, to stay up to date with my newest products, work, news, offers and freebies, you can sign up to my Facebook page or Twitter or just join me here on my blog!

I hope you too will spread a little happiness and joy today, even if its only telling someone about this post.

Thanks for dropping by today!
Sarah x

DaisyTrail Steampunk Scrapbook Page

Just a quick post for me today, as usual I'm juggling eleventy billion things and I daren't drop even one! lol. But I wanted to quickly post up my very first layout made with my own Steampunk digi kit in Craft Artist...

You can get hold of the Steampunk kit here on the DaisyTrail website

I used the ledger paper (swoon!) made lots of layers and was even brave enough to break out the distress tool on the hot air balloon one. Of course I sneaked in a moustache as well - had to be done!

Thank you to everyone who has sent me messages in the last 24 hours telling me you've bought one or all of the kits, I so look forward to seeing your makes, I hope you'll share on the DaisyTrail website or my Facebook page, or both!

This afternoon I've been working on my Ancestry project and have made a bit of a breakthrough - I'll have an update for you soon!. This weekend I'm planning on some studio time, I have some magazine commissions to finish off, some samples to finish and I want to just colour in for the sake of it for a bit! lol.

I hope you have a lovely weekend!

Thanks for dropping by today 

Sarah x

Steampunk CD - In the News!!

More excitement - my Steampunk CD has featured in a couple of craft magazines this month which will be in the shops tomorrow!

Firstly in Lets Make Cards, which has had a fab redesign...

And in Crafts Beautiful who have a whole special feature on Steampunk this month and also featured two Scrapbook layouts using the CD made by the lovely Nat from my Design Team!

 

It's always exciting to have my work featured - I hope you'll pick up copies of them both and have a closer look! You can order the Steampunk CD from my shop here.

Now I must get back to those deadlines, it's super busy here at Hurley HQ but sunshine and Earl Grey are keeping me going! I'm pleased to say my face is now back to normal - yay! and the antibiotics have stopped making me feel sick, I just have one more day of them left thank goodness.

I hope you have a lovely weekend, thanks for stopping by.

Sarah x

A Steampunk Card!

Today I'm sharing my first card made with my new Steampunk CD!

I can't believe I didn't have chance to get crafty with this CD until just 2 days ago but now I'm hooked! so there will be lots more projects coming up next week :o)

For this card I used the grey circles backing paper, the pre-coloured digi stamp of the Steampunk Gentleman, a sentiment, a bingo card and the Hot Air Balloon pre-coloured digi stamp (everything is on the CD). I layered everything together with 3D foam for lots of dimension, I've just noticed that I didn't round the corners on the backing paper though, most unlike me! I love the colours on this and its great for mens cards and scrapbook pages. (Just to let you know, if you want to get the Steampunk CD this weekend, there is a 10% discount for this weekend only, just click here and use the code MARCH2012 at the checkout!)

For those of you that have asked, I print everything onto Rymans bleedproof paper, its nice and smooth for printing out backing papers, you can use your markers onto it without it bleeding and its thick enough to make all the embellishments etc... nice and sturdy so you can shape the paper, fold it and layer it without it buckling in like thinner printer paper would do. There are other types of card that have been mentioned to me which I believe are similar but I've not had chance to try them yet - I'll let you know when I do! I usually print everything off and cut out when I have some free time (when I'm tucked up watching a film with B usually) and then everything is ready to go when I want to use it.

Today has been a busy one juggling lots of design work and other projects and trying to get on top of my emails - one day I will catch up completely! This weekend I have some magazine commissions to do, including one for an international magazine - ooooooooooh! but I am going to try and have at least one afternoon off, I'm not sure whether to use it to curl up quietly with a library book or shoot zombies on my xbox, hmmmm....

Have a lovely weekend!

Sarah x

Steampunk and a Challenge!

Just a quick post from me today as I've been rushed off my tiny trotters and I need to go and sit in a dark room wirh a glass of wine! LOL.

Today my lovely DT have some more Steampunk projects to share with you, please pop over and see gorgeous creations from Elaine, Claireliz, Emma, Jaine and Lisa.

We also have a new challenge over on the Challenge Blog with lots of inspiration! We hope you will join in.

I have lots to share with you next week inlcluding a new kit and an exciting new project!

Have a lovely weekend

Sarah x

Scrapbooking on the Derwent Blog

Yesterday I was featured over on the Derwent Pencils blog showing how to use your colouring pencils in your Scrapbooking projects. Here is a tiny peek at the layout featured...

You can see the full post over on the Derwent blog here, it shows the complete step by step of putting the layout together.

I also meant to mention yesterday that Jaine has more pages in her fab Steampunk tag album over on her blog - you can see them here, I love what she's done with them! The CD has had such a fab response, you'll be seeing a lot more of it in craft magazines over the next few weeks - yay!


Thanks for popping by today!
Sarah x

More Steampunk Projects!

Today I'm sharing some more wonderful DT projects with the new Steampunk CD...

Clare

Clare made this lovely card...

Jaine

 Jaine has been working on this fab Tag Album, to see all the pages pop over to her blog, I love it!

Elaine

Elaine made this card using papers and elements from the CD with embossed card and distressing - gorgeous!

You can get hold of the Steampunk collection here in my shop!

I'm sure I'll have more projects to share with you soon, my DT seem to be loving this collection! I'm still waiting for my printer cartridge to turn up as I have no ink to print it out myself - I'm always the last to get to play with my new collections! lol.

Thanks so much for dropping by

Sarah x

The Big Reveal! - The New Steampunk CD!!

As promised, today is the BIG reveal - we have been working excitedly behind the scenes to get samples ready to show you today (a big thank you to my lovely DT who have come up with some fabulous projects!) and here are all the details...

 

You can get the CD on pre-order here or a download version straight away here

And here are a few of the DT projects for inspiration...

Nat made this gorgeous Scrapbook Layout...

 Claireliz made this gorgeous altered button tin...

 

Nikki made these gorgeous cards using the papers from the CD with her Tim Holtz Dies...

 

and Melly Made a Scrapbook page...

 and a card...

I hope you love it as much as we all do!

Unfortunately noone guessed the theme correctly in my little competition yesterday so there are no winners to announce :o( but I have made the mini kit available to buy here if you just want a little taster, here is a preview of the mini kit...

(Please don't buy both the mini kit and the CD as the elements in the mini kit are on the CD!)

Thanks so much for looking, I hope you all have a fabulous weekend. I'm hoping to get some time in my studio, I haven't had any time to craft for over a week and I'm missing it terribly! I will try to tuck myself away there for a few hours tomorrow with a cup of tea and an old film and get some pretties made to share with you next week.

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