Pirates!

Today Crafty Ribbons launched their new range of Skull & Crossbones ribbons, I've had these for a few weeks and keep going back and making more projects with them!

For today, here is the launch card I made, using Kraft card (swoon) with a grungeboard skull (I love the smell of Grungeboard, it smells like new shoes!) which I rubbed over with a black inkpad before spraying with my Teal Ink Spray. The background stamp is from a Tim Holtz set, I inked it up then blotted with kitchen towel to remove some of the ink and give it a more distressed look. The ribbon of course is from Crafty Ribbons!

I have some more projects to show with this later in the week, love it! You can see more info and another project over on the Crafty Ribbons blog :o)

Sarah x

Ribbon Techniques

I've been promising for a while to show you the techniques used on these cards that I made for Crafty Ribbons

 So here we go!

Firstly, Ribbon Pleating, as shown on this card

You can view the video here or via my Facebook Page

And then the Ribbon Flower Technique as shown on this card

Again, you can view the video here or via my Facebook page

All ribbons (twill ribbon and seam binding) from Crafty Ribbons - big thanks to them!

These are the first videos I've made by myself, quite the Steven Spielberg aren't I... LOL ;o) 

Sarah x

Fun with Ribbon

A very very quick post from me today as I am SUPER tired, all of my CHA projects are done and gone though - woo! Pics as soon as I'm allowed, LOL

Today when I was finishing one of them up I added a bit of twill ribbon from Crafty Ribbons, as I mentioned previously it can be coloured with Promarkers and the colours even blend! Check this out....

White, Red, Red into orange and then yellow..... see how the colour bleeds in the red only picture - that helps the colours to blend perfectly, I just went slightly over each edge withthe lighter colour - lush! multi-coloured ribbons will be adorning every project from now on!!!

Today, as you can probably guess, I spent all day in my studio again (LOVE!) before a quickie trip to the library and a quick run into the supermarket for some food, thought us and the pooch should probably eat!! LOL. Now to catch up with all my e-mails and finish up an illustration proposal for a client, then maybe some sleep! I wonder what tomorrow will bring......

Sarah x

Some News... (Part 2)

The second part of my news today....

I am now also working with a fabulous company called Crafty Ribbons!

Please pop over and take a look at their online shop, there is so much variety - print, bling, dots... *sigh* I love ribbon and was so excited to have a big bag of it arrive!

I have so many ideas for projects but for the moment I'm content to just look at the pretty colours! LOL (seriously though, projects coming soon!) First up I'm having a go with the new cotton and twill ribbon selection, super quality and sooo many colours to choose from and you can recolour if necessary with your Promarkers etc... and stamp on it (demos soon) - gorgeous!

So thats all from me, no more excitement this week unless something wonderfully unexpected happens later in the week (I can hope, right? :o) ) Thank you for all the lovely comments yesterday.

I'll be back tomorrow with some crafty stuff - I actually managed to make something today - wooo!

Sarah x