Inside the Lines GDP078 & CI05

I hope everyone is have a great night! I have spent the afternoon in my craft room colouring in the Stunning Inside the Lines paper from the Sale-A-Bration Catalog. Once again I am combining a few challenges together to bring you today's card. We have a mix of a beautiful sketch challenge from the amazing designers over at Global Design Project and a stunning colour challenge from Colour INKspiration.

I absolutely adore this beautiful soft colour scheme and when I saw the Global Design Projects Sketch I knew I wanted to team these two up! It took me a while to come up with an idea I was happy with but once I did I loved it and colouring in the beautiful Inside the Lines paper was so relaxing I lost track of the time.

     

     

I originally only wanted to colour in a few of the flowers to match the sketch more but I found the colouring so fun and relaxing that before I knew it the whole panel was coloured in. I love the way it turned out anyway though, and I hope you do too.

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Inside The Lines Designer Series Paper [143830] $0.00	Floral Phrases Clear-Mount Stamp Set [141767] $31.00	Butterflies Thinlits Dies [137360] $41.00
Blushing Bride 1/4" Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon [131209] $8.95	Subtles Stampin' Write Markers [131263] $51.00	Neutrals Stampin' Write Markers [131261] $40.75

I am doing my second facebook live video tomorrow at 1pm if your interested add yourself to my Facebook Live group, I would love to have you there.

Speaking of, I am off to bed so I can get up bright and early and get some crafting and prep work done before we go live, I hope everyone enjoys the rest of their night and has a fantastic Friday tomorrow. Happy Crafting.

1st Facebook Live Demonstration

Heya everyone! So last night I dove in the deep end and did my first ever Facebook Live Demonstration! I was absolutely terrified but it was a lot of fun and I loved being able to show the process of making my cards instead of just the finished product. So I intend to try and make it a regular thing, those who have joined my Sarahrious Crafts Live group over on Facebook are voting on what day suits them best for me to do these video's and I am excited to plan the next one!

In this first one I showed them how to make this card that I blogged about on the 24th of February.

As I had already given away the yellow version I posted that day I made a green version ahead of time and then during the video we made a pink and purple card as per one of my viewers request. I am so thrilled with how my first Facebook Live turned out, and while I definitely have room for improvement I felt good doing it and after so much fear over trying it and I am now so excited for the next one.

One issue I did have was my internet kept glitching resulting in some parts of the video being rather hard to see which is a shame. I was all ready to have a talk with my husband about organizing for him to maybe stay off the internet just while I do these videos, but then I walked out the where we keep our wifi modem and I saw the power cord that runs to it... turns out I needed to have a talk with my adorably naughty beagles. They had chewed the cord to the below extent, and had me wondering firstly, how are you two still alive and not hurt in any way? and secondly how did my internet still work at all!?

So I went to work at Bunnings today and picked myself up a new cord as well as some of those plastic cord tidy half circle tubes and our extension lead is now well out of reach of the puppies, so unless they learn to climb walls this technical issue hopefully wont be a reoccurring one. If your interested in joining in the next one be sure to head over to my Facebook group and add yourself into the fun! If you want to watch any on my Facebook Live video's back you can do so on the group or by checking out my Youtube.

Click on the products below to purchase them and make your own masterpieces.

Watercolor Wings Photopolymer Bundle [140232] $62.75	Awesomely Artistic Clear-Mount Stamp Set [139950] $35.00
Butterfly Basics Clear Bundle [139323] $88.25	Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush [141897] $11.50

I hope you all have an amazing Sunday night and I look forward to seeing you in the next blog post! Happy Crafting!

Watercolour Wings GDP075 & CI04

Good Evening! I hope you have all had an amazing week, I have been getting into exercise and my muscles are killing me, so after a busy day I was so happy to relax in my craft room and do a little creating. For today's project I decided to have a little fun and combine 2 challenges that I thought would go together beautifully. First off I drew inspiration from the Global Design Project and their Winged Creatures themed challenge. Now my automatic response was to reach for my Dragonfly Dreams set, however I decided to make myself use my more neglected Watercolour Wings set instead.

My second challenge I drew inspiration from was the Colour INKspiration challenge, they are a challenge group set up on facebook as apposed to the normal blog situations. When I saw their colour challenge for this week I knew I had to challenge myself to give it a try, firstly because it is a colour combination I would not usually think to use together and I wanted to give it a try, and secondly because I have Delightful Dijon card stock overflowing from my paper stack and I have never used it, so why not drag it out and give it a try.

Now you know the reasoning behind me trying out these challenges I think we should get onto showing you what I came up with. Throughout the process of making this card I was constantly thinking I didn't like it, that the way I was using the colours wasn't working and I was convinced it would turn out terrible.

     

     

By the time I glues it all together and started taking photo's of it I was finally beginning to like it and although it is out of my normal comfort zone I am very happy with the end results.

I decided to bling this card up a little bit with the amazing wink of stella! I am almost out of my first pen of this magical glimmery perfection and definitely need to get more! I also decided to use some pearls down the middle of my butterfly, just to add a little bit more to the card, I tossed up using rhinestones instead but I just love the look of the pearls so much and couldn't go past them.

Finally I added one of the smaller butterflies to the inside of the card just so it didn't feel neglected, I originally made a few of these smaller butterflies for the front until I realized it would look way too crowed if I was to put them on, so I decided to use them to jazz up the inside instead of just pushing them to the side and not using them.

Click on the products below to purchase them and make your own masterpieces.

Watercolor Wings Photopolymer Bundle [140232] $62.75	Awesomely Artistic Clear-Mount Stamp Set [139950] $35.00
Butterfly Basics Clear Bundle [139323] $88.25	Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush [141897] $11.50

That's all from me for today, however the morning promises a hot 40 degree day here in WA so I will be hiding out in the craft room with the air-con on all day so will hopefully have some finished pieces to share with you then.

I hope you all have an amazing weekend and happy creating

Detailed Dragonfly GDP074

Good afternoon! I am in LOVE with the Dragonfly Dreams set and couldn't help but use it for today's card. I spent most of the week pondering what other set to use for this Global Design Project but I kept coming back to Dragonfly Dreams, and once I gave in to that desire putting this card together was easy.

So as you can see today's Global Design Project challenge is a sketch and when I saw this sketch I instantly thought of something sweet soft and very feminine. I started this card by searching through my DSP after all as I said in my last post I haven't used any DSP in any cards this year so far and it was about time i got it out again. I chose one of the pieces from the Falling in Love set as it perfectly matched my idea of soft and feminine for this card.

     

Once the DSP was chosen, deciding on the colours was easy, I wanted to keep the dragonfly simple but I also wanted it to pop a little so I coloured it in with Wink of Stella before popping it up on a dimensional. I am in love with this card and those who know me will know I am not really a pink person, but here I think it just works so well and I hope you will agree.

I love this sketch from GDP and I think I will have to have a play with it again in the future, maybe try something without the beautiful Dragonfly Dreams Dies at some point. I wasn't sure what sentiment to use until I saw this one from he Feather Together set, it is such a beautiful saying in a gorgeous font and I knew it would suit this card.

Click on the products below to purchase them and make your own masterpieces.

Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits Dies [142749] $54.00	Layering Circle Framelits Dies [141705] $58.00	Feather Together Photopolymer Stamp Set [141597] $30.00
Falling In Love Designer Series Paper [142788] $19.25	Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush [141897] $11.50	Gold Metallic Thread [138401] $5.25

That's all from me for today, but come back tomorrow, the Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with a very special guest goes live in the morning and you are not going to want to miss it! I hope you all have an amazing, relaxing and crafty weekend.