Sarahrious Crafts

Thursday, 26 January 2017

Succulent Window Box GDP071

Happy Australia Day!

I hope everyone is having a fun and safe Australia Day and I hope no one is melting in this heat. I had to work this morning, and I made this little box for a work friend who is OBSESSED with Succulents, she wasn't looking forward to working today and I wanted to brighten her day a little bit.

As well as being a way to brighten to someone's day this is also my entry for the Global Design Project 071. You can follow the link in the challenge picture below to check out the other entries as well as the design teams projects, there are some amazing pieces up already.

With a theme of 3D or off the page I couldn't help but team the beautiful window box thinlits with the succulent thinlits to make this little trinket box.

I chose to keep the box itself rather simple as I wanted the beautiful succulent's to steal the show and didn't want them to be overpowered by embellishments down the side of the box.

Below I have included colour swatches of all the colours used in this project, below them you will find a list of which colours were used on each part of the project in case you want to try to recreate all or part of this project yourself.

Large Center Succulent

Cardstock - Garden Green
Inks - Always Artichoke, Rich Razzleberry and Whisper White

Small Green Succulent

Cardstock - Mint Macaron
Inks - Pear Pizzazz, Soft Suede and Whisper White

Small Purple Succulent

Cardstock - Sweet Sugarplum
Inks - Rich Razzleberry, Soft Suede and Whisper White

To create the effect sponge the first colour over the whole cut out, do not create a solid look with this it is just to add texture, then darken the tips of the petals with the second colour and finally apply the white to the center and use your finger to tap it and diffuse the colour for a more natural blended look

Box

Cardstock - Tip Top Taupe
Inks- Soft Suede

For the box I just sponged Soft Suede around the edges to tie the box in with the look of the succulents more then it did as a stark clean box.

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

Window Box Thinlits Dies

[142762]

$63.00

Succulent Framelits Dies

[142757]

$56.00

That's all from me for today, I hope you all have an amazing day and happy crafting.

Thursday, 19 January 2017

Update and cards

Long time no see! Yes I have been MIA for a little over a year, I have still been crafting, trying my hand at new things and neglecting some of my older passions but it's a new year and time to get back to what I love which includes Stampin' Up!

I intend to turn this blog into a bit more of a generalized craft sharing space then it was originally intened and therefore I will be uploading different project I complete whether they are Stampin' Up! Paintings, Clay Creations or some other crafty pursuit. I tend to craft best when I focus on whichever medium takes my fancy on any particular day therefore there will likely not be any ryhme or reason to the order in which I post, I hope this won't be an issue.

Now to kickstart this new year I would like to share with you a few of the cards I have made over the last few days.

First up is a card I made using the January sketch from The Sketch File

I found working off a sketch idea so helpful as I wanted to create something but with no one in mind I was finding it hard to find inspiration. After a little thinking and playing I came up with the below card using the Sheltering Tree and Hardwood stamp sets. You can see the colours I used below the image, if you have any questions on how I did this technique feel free to ask :)

Second and last up for today is a nice and clean simple card I decided to make as I wanted to show off the beauty of the So Detailed Thinlits without distracting from them. I fully intend to play with this set more and go into much more detail with it but I wanted to begin with keeping it simple and letting the beauty of this die do all the talking, again you can see the colours used under the card.

I also used Gold embossing powder for the above card however I haven't yet figured out how to make a colour splatter for it yet so I appologise for that one.

Well that is all from me today, I hope you enjoyed my little update post as well as the 2 cards I created, and now as the clock ticks away to 10:30pm I am off to find my pillows. Have a wonderful day. xx

Sunday, 20 December 2015

Crazy Crafters & Pootlers Blog Hop

Welcome to the Crazy Crafters & Pootlers Blog Hop for December. This month we are excited to show off our "2016 Occasions / Sale-a-bration Sneak Peeks". We hope you find great inspiration from the projects. You may just be starting the blog hop here at my blog or may have come from the person previous to me Rosalie Desmond. Be sure to click on the next button further down to continue your journey on this blog hop.
This month we have very exciting news that we have the famous Pootles - Sam Hammond Donald and her lovely team playing along with us! All the way from the UK. We are thrilled that they said yes to playing along with the Crazy Crafters this month as Sam is VERY talented and has a following all around the world. Thanks Sam and her team. x

When I saw the new Occasions catalog I fell in love immediately with the Rose Wonder stamp set and Rose Garden Thinlits and knew I just had to get that bundle. So these are the products I have chosen to showcase for you today.

I decided to try and keep this card simple compared to my usual efforts, something I find a challenge but I love how it turned out. I used Mint Macaron and Blushing bride on this card and used the Perfectly Artistic designer series paper you can get free through Sale-a-bration when you order a qualifying amount to layer behind the rose.

I hope you enjoyed viewing my card and thank you so much for stopping by. Don't forget to keep hopping around and view all the other amazing projects by both teams, I know I will be.

Kathleen Rintoul-Waite

Saturday, 19 December 2015

Wedding

Hi everyone!! So I haven't been very active as of late and it is because I was very busy getting married :) I spend a lot of time making everything for my wedding, from the invitations to hundreds possibly thousands of ribbon roses for my bouquets and centerpieces.

However I am back now with a new name though if you are looking for my Stampin' Up! store it is still currently under Sarah Oakes as I haven't got around to changing that yet apologizes for any inconvenience this might cause.

I thought I would just share a quick post with you all showing a few photos of the big day and I look forward to sharing some more crafty projects with you soon xx

Ready and waiting to get this show on the road

I grew up around motorbikes especially vintage ones like
these so naturally they had to make an appearance at my wedding,
shown here with me and my handsome groom

Our amazing bridal party, they made the day just perfect

I wanted to keep the tables simple so there was more room for eating :)

Last but not least a shot off some of my crafting,
I even made the accents for the shoes :)

That's all from me today I hope to see you all back here soon.

Saturday, 27 September 2014

Outside the Box

So I was asked by my soon to be mother-in-law to create a "big" 60th birthday card for her husband for everyone to sign at his surprise birthday party. Now I looked over my supply of male supplies and thought to myself none of this will work on a big scale it is all designed for normal sized cards, I especially wanted to use the stamp set The Open Sea as Smiley "<--the birthday boy" used to be in the navy and the surprise birthday party was nautical themed.

So with my heart set on that stamp set and my mind set on making a card with a big enough signing space for 20+ people my mind began to wander to the in the box cards and how I could extend it beyond the box. So lets bring out the finished card.

So picture one is how the card looks when taken straight out of the envelope, I wanted to keep the outside quite simple and just jazzed it up with a simple belly band, you will see the importance of the belly band further down.

Here you see what it looks like opened up another in the box card still nice and simple I didn't want it too busy as that just wouldn't suit the birthday boy who loves books and the ocean. I loved the new typeset paper for this project it tied in so well with the birthday boys other passions and I felt still went with the nautical theme.

Ok time to show you the importance of the belly band, now remember this card needed to be lard enough for 20+ people to sign and so far this isn't as it only measures about 6inches by 5inches when closed off memory. So how did I solve my little delema, have a look at the picture below.

As you can see once the belly band is removed an accordion style section folds out from the back revealing 7 blank panels measuring 2 and a half inches x 6 inches each allowing plenty of room for special messages to the birthday boy while still keeping an aesthetically appealing size ratio to suit the stamp sets used.

So from my experience making this card never think I can't, because at first I did I thought I can't make a nice card big enough for 20+ people to sign with my tools. The reason I thought this was because I was thinking of the Giant cards you buy in the shops but then I thought to myself, if they wanted one of those giant sometimes tacky cards they would have just brought one. So I thought outside the box and came up with this in the box card with an outside twist to solve my issue. So don't be afraid to try something new and add your own flair or adjustments to a well known fold, it might just be a hit! This one sure was at the party!

Check out below to see what I used on this project and I will see you next time thanks for reading my blog