Let's Scrap Sarah

My latest Sarah Hurley project, the challenge is "MUM's the word", you can enter the challenge over at Sarah Hurley's Challenge Blog. Window cards are one of my new favorite thing to create, so I started with a 6 x 6 card base made from some pretty red paper. I knew I would be putting a large print onto this card so I chose a subtle print for my base.

After trimming out a 4.5 x 4.5 square from the card front I inked the entire card as well as the 5 x 5 center square. Normally I would be using distress inks, but I wanted a more chocolate tone to my brown so I chose my studio G small square instead.

I had originally planned to add that pretty sparkly brown ribbon, but in the end it just didn't fit in, same with the bright green circle. That pretty red shape is from a Papertrey Ink limitless layers set.

I absolutely LOVE my cheapo Staples glitter pens, they last forever and the colors dry fast. I randomly filled in some of the apples on these trees with the red and traced the wood grain lines on the tree trunks with the pearlized brown. The doodles for the leaves are the brush end of my marker, you can do this same technique with Copics, but I am a scrapper on a budget and I don't have any yet.

After adhering the big green circle to the front of the card I stitched a few lines over the ribbon and pop dotted the other elements after inking them.

Like a fool I waited until the whole card to be done before adding my handwritten elements so they are a little wobbly. I keep saying to myself, DO THAT FIRST... someday I will start taking my own advice.

Arrrrgggg!

Sarah Hurley's new Pirate Collection dropped today! Here's my DT card:

Go here to get your piratey goodness: SARAH HURLEY

Now I love all Sarah's images, but I really wanted to have my pirates on a big ship and the collection included a really cool island but not a ship. So I drew one to add on my card. As always, I start with tracing paper. I find that it's easier to get the image on my paper if I create it on tracing paper, it saves the step later on. Here's my ship in the beginning sketch stage.

I transfered the image to plain white cardstock and colored it with colored pencils and Sharpie markers. I wanted the wood to have a really grainy feel that you just can't get with markers. Then I cut it out with my baby Cutter Bee scissors and an exacto knife. Finally I added pop dots to adhere it to a sheet of Sarah's sky background paper.

New Design Team!

I want to send a ginormic thank you to Sarah Hurley (link to the left) for choosing me for her new design team! Yay! I hope you will all go and check her out, and stop over to the challenge blog and join in! CLICK HERE to go to the challenge blog.

I have been checking out all the Design Team members blogs and there are some super talented girls over there, I will be posting up a link list on the left in the next couple of hours, so check them all out and tell them how talented they are!