Bingo Anyone?

No, it's not a game of Bingo unfortunately, but I have altered a Bingo board I bought on Monday.

To start, I coated all the sides with a mix of brown, white and black acrylic paint and used a crumpled piece of kitchen tissue to sort of stipple it. Then, I added some red ribbon and tied a couple of short strands of brown fibre near the knot.

I used Karen's masking tutorial to stamp the images (Annie collection by Lou and Karen and exclusive to Charmed) onto 260gsm card. Thanks for the instructions Karen, it worked a treat. These were coloured using my Prisma pencils and blending pencil. Not sure what I think to it, but I still haven't made some of the paper stumps. After cutting the images I stuck them down using foam pads. To make sure they stuck well, I added a drop of PVA glue to the side that would be sticking to the paint.

The wording was cut on my ROBO, stuck with PVA and doodled on.

The only sad thing, is that some or all of it will be covered with the paper I clip there reminding me of things 'TO DO'.

Thanks for looking

New Stamp Range and Blog Celebrate With Awesome Blog Candy

Lou and Karen have been keeping very busy lately to bring us all a new range of stamps. These will be available soon. To celebrate, Karen is giving away some awesome blog candy

Hop over to the new Charmed Delectable Stamps blog to be in with a chance of winning and to keep up-to-date on these stamps that will only be available from Charmed Cards and Crafts.

Love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

It's A Recipe For Papertake Weekly

Papertake Weekly have given us this recipe to use to make a card week

1. circle

2. ribbons

3. stamps/images

Here's my card and I've used 1 large and 2 small flower stamps to make it.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah  C xoxo

Handcrafted stamps

I know I've already told you about the personalised stamps Sammi's doing for you, but here's one that I've actually used and I love it. It printed really clear and gave my card such a professional finish. Why not design your own, send a jpeg and sit patiently waiting for the postie?

Crafty Muse - challenges and stamps

Have you joined in with the latest challenge on Crafty Muse? If not and you like sketches, get on over there. The next challenge goes live on 30th January, so there's less than a week left. Here's a sneeky peek at something I've made for the next challenge.

Don't forget to go to Crafty Muse on 30th January to see what the challenge is and what the design team have all made to give you inspiration.

One last thing (but certainly not least)before I go from here. Sammi has started making stamps. She is offering to turn your works of art into stamps at a very reasonable cost. I took her up on the offer and had these turned into stamps which are simply brilliant.

Loads of love as always

Christmas at Crafty Muse

It's Christmas time at Crafty Muse and your challenge this week is to make a Christmas Card. If you do, you will be entered into the draw to win a pre-release stamp. If you use one of Sammi's downloads on your card (available to buy on the site), you will be entered twice. Here's my card for some inspiration:


At this time of the year, children change their minds so often about what they'd like, so I used that theme for my card. It's Christmas eve and the lad is e-mailing Santa with an updated list! Hmmm.......... I don't think Santa is quite able to perform that miracle unless he knew it was coming LOL

I printed the images and sentiment directly onto the card and watercoloured them using my brush markers. Images used are ~ comp boy and the yet to be available tree with fairy and the present. Keep an eye on the blog as Sammi's giving some Christmas images away next week.

Thanks for looking

Take care and stay safe in this frosty and snowy weather

Love and hugs

Blogging Our Art Out!

Over on Blogging Our Art Out, Karen has a competition to win a gorgeous set of stamps. All you have to do is make a Christmas card. It's as simple as that. So, heres my 'Rockin' around the Christmas tree' card:

The Dottie and George images are available to buy as downloads from Charmed. I've used loads of stickles as the tree is coloured in using those and gems, plus there's some on Dottie and George's outfits.

At this rate, my Christmas cards will be done in time for a change. No rushing at the last minute I hope.

Thanks for looking
Love and hugs