Monday 19 November 2012

Lesson 24 - Complete Promarker Colour Chart

Today I have a free download for you, this is a complete Promarker colour chart including the new seasonal colours!

Thanks so much for dropping by today!
Sarah x

Monday 29 October 2012

Lesson 23 - A Trick or Treat Bag SVG File

Today I have a free SVG Silhouette cutting file for you all! This time a Halloween Trick or Treat Bag ...

You can see more of my Silhouette designs here in the Silhouette online store or here in my own store (where you can also see my other designs and craft products)

Thanks so much for dropping by today!
Sarah x

Thursday 27 September 2012

Lesson 22 - A Free Silhouette SVG Cut File

Today I have a free SVG Silhouette cutting file for you all! This time a Star Lantern... I made this as a prop for some photography I'm doing, and loved them so much I thought I'd share!

I made two, one actual size and then I reduced it to around 75% to make a second, I cut them from premium copy paper - around 90gsm - you don't want anything too thick or the light won't shine through, but not too thin or it won't be sturdy enough to stand up! I then popped a battery operated tealight in each to give them a lovely glow, they would make gorgeous Christmas decorations or table centrepieces. I also used the cut out stars as confetti - I love stars and couldnt just throw them away!

You can see more of my Silhouette designs here in the Silhouette online store or here in my own store (where you can also see my other designs and craft products)

Thanks so much for dropping by today!
Sarah x

Friday 10 August 2012

Lesson 21 - A Free Olympic Digi Stamp!

This week we're joining the Olympic excitement and bringing you a free Digi Stamp, a set of Winners blocks! Add any character stamps to make a fab Olympic or sports themed card or embellishment.

The download is black and white for you to colour. If you'd like the colour version, just let me know! If you're looking for more Olympic crafty papers and stamps, you can get hold of my Britannia CD here in my shop which has a 'Sporting Pride' collection on it, full of papers, digi stamps and embellishments.


Thank you for joining us for this weeks lesson, if you would like to share your projects with the stamp please leave us your links or post them over on my Facebook page, we'd love to see, and we will share some of them in a future inspiration post :o)

We hope you'll pop back next time when I will have Lesson 22 for you. 

Sarah x

Thursday 28 June 2012

Lesson 20 - Creating Custom Papers with Derwent - Part One

For this lesson I'm sharing a technique post I recently done for Derwent using their Inktense blocks to make my own custom woodgrain paper... here is a sneak peek...
To see the full post and step by step please click here to head over to the Derwent blog

Thank you for joining us for this weeks lesson, if you would like to share your Derwent projects please leave us your links or post them over on my Facebook page, we'd love to see, and we will share some of them in a future inspiration post :o)


We hope you'll pop back next time when I will have Lesson 21 for you. Don't forget the Crafty Kids Academy lesson will be up tomorrow, just in time for the weekend! 
 
Sarah x

Friday 15 June 2012

Lesson 19 - Introduction to Art Journaling

Todays lesson is brought to you by Jaine, who will be giving you an Introduction to Art Journaling!

Thank you for joining us for this weeks lesson, if you would like to share your Art Journaling projects please leave us your links or post them over on my Facebook page, we'd love to see, and we will share some of them in a future inspiration post :o)

We hope you'll pop back next time when I will have Lesson 20 for you. Don't forget the Crafty Kids Academy lesson will be up tomorrow, just in time for the weekend! 
Sarah x


Thursday 31 May 2012

Lesson 18 - Free Printable Jubilee Union Jack Bunting!

With the Jubilee this weekend in the UK I know lots of you will be making decorations and having parties at home, for that I thought this printable Union Jack Bunting might be helpful - just print and cut out and string together!

Thank you for joining us for this weeks lesson, if you would like to sharepictures of your Jubilee projects  please leave us your links or post them over on my Facebook page, we'd love to see, and we will share some of them in a future inspiration post :o)

We hope you'll pop back next week when I will have Lesson 19 for you. Don't forget the Crafty Kids Academy lesson will be up tomorrow, just in time for the weekend! 
Sarah x

Thursday 24 May 2012

Lesson 17 - Ribbon Pleating

This week we are sharing our first video tutorial - how to pleat ribbon...

Thank you for joining us for this weeks lesson, if you would like to share your ribbon pleating projects please leave us your links or post them over on my Facebook page, we'd love to see, and we will share some of them in a future inspiration post :o)

We hope you'll pop back next week when I will have Lesson 18 for you. Don't forget the Crafty Kids Academy lesson will be up tomorrow, just in time for the weekend! 
Sarah x

Thursday 10 May 2012

Lesson 16 - Make a Felt Owl Softie

This week I am sharing a pattern and instructions to make a Felt Owl Softie! You can find the original post on my blog here.

Thank you for joining us for this weeks lesson, if you would like to share your Owl Softies please leave us your links or post them over on my Facebook page, we'd love to see, and we will share some of them in a future inspiration post :o)

We hope you'll pop back next week when I will have Lesson 17 for you. Don't forget the Crafty Kids Academy lesson will be up tomorrow, just in time for the weekend! 
Sarah x

*please note, this pattern is for personal use only - thank you for respecting my copyright*

Thursday 26 April 2012

Lesson 15 - Promarker Blender Pen Tips & Tricks!

This week we are sharing our top three Promarker Blender Pen tips and tricks!


Thank you for joining us for this weeks lesson, if you would like to share your Promarker projects please leave us your links or post them over on my Facebook page, we'd love to see, and we will share some of them in a future inspiration post :o)

We hope you'll pop back next week when I will have Lesson 16 for you. Don't forget the Crafty Kids Academy lesson will be up tomorrow, just in time for the weekend! 
Sarah x

Thursday 19 April 2012

Schools Out!

Craft Academy is on holiday this week but there are lots of previous tutorials for you to browse through while we have a break.

We'll be back next week!

Sarah x

Thursday 12 April 2012

Lesson 14 - Make a Fairy Jar

Todays lesson is brought to you by ClaireLiz, who will be showing us how to make this fantastic Fairy Jar!

You can get the Fairy Stamp Claire used here and the toadstools are from my Woodland Whimsies CD available here.
Thank you for joining us for this weeks lesson, if you would like to share your Fairy Jars please leave us your links or post them over on my Facebook page, we'd love to see, and we will share some of them in a future inspiration post :o)

We hope you'll pop back next week when I will have Lesson 15 for you. Don't forget the Crafty Kids Academy lesson will be up tomorrow, just in time for the weekend! 

Sarah x

Thursday 5 April 2012

Lesson 13 - Make an Easter Bunny Egg Holder

Todays lesson is brought to you by Jaine, who will be showing you how to make a fun Easter Bunny Egg Holder!

Thank you for joining us for this weeks lesson, if you would like to share your Easter projects please leave us your links or post them over on my Facebook page, we'd love to see, and we will share some of them in a future inspiration post :o)

We hope you'll pop back next week when I will have Lesson 14 for you. Don't forget the Crafty Kids Academy lesson will be up tomorrow, just in time for the weekend! 

Sarah x

Thursday 29 March 2012

Lesson 12 - Creating Texture with Promarkers

Todays lesson is brought to you by Lisa, who will be showing us how to create texture with Promarkers! This weeks lesson is sponsored by Letraset.

Thank you for joining us for this weeks lesson, if you would like to share your Promarker texture projects please leave us your links or post them over on my Facebook page, we'd love to see, and we will share some of them in a future inspiration post :o)

We hope you'll pop back next week when I will have Lesson 13 for you. Don't forget the Crafty Kids Academy lesson will be up tomorrow, just in time for the weekend! 

Sarah x

Thursday 22 March 2012

Lesson 11 - An Easter Digi Stamp

This week we're bringing you a free Digi Stamp, a basket of eggs, perfect for your Easter projects!

The download is black and white for you to colour. If you'd like the colour version, just let me know! If you're looking for more Easter crafty papers and stamps, you can get hold of my Easter Tea Party kit here in my shop.

Thank you for joining us for this weeks lesson, if you would like to share your projects with the stamp please leave us your links or post them over on my Facebook page, we'd love to see, and we will share some of them in a future inspiration post :o)

We hope you'll pop back next week when I will have Lesson 12 for you. Don't forget the Crafty Kids Academy lesson will be up tomorrow, just in time for the weekend! 

Sarah x

Thursday 15 March 2012

Lesson 10 - Introduction to Aquamarkers

Todays lesson is brought to you by Elaine, who will be introducing us to Aquamarkers and making a fun brooch! This weeks lesson is sponsored by Letraset.

Thank you for joining us for this weeks lesson, if you would like to share your Aquamarker projects please leave us your links or post them over on my Facebook page, we'd love to see, and we will share some of them in a future inspiration post :o)

We hope you'll pop back next week when I will have Lesson 11 for you. Don't forget the Crafty Kids Academy lesson will be up tomorrow, just in time for the weekend! 

Sarah x

Thursday 8 March 2012

Lesson 9 - A Free Digi Stamp!

This week we're bringing you a free Digi Stamp, perfect for Mothers Day cards or any other spring projects you may have in mind!

For my card (above), I used papers from my Easter Tea Party kit which you can find here in my shop.


Thank you for joining us for this weeks lesson, if you would like to share your projects with the stamp please leave us your links or post them over on my Facebook page, we'd love to see, and we will share some of them in a future inspiration post :o)

We hope you'll pop back next week when I will have Lesson 10 for you. Don't forget the Crafty Kids Academy lesson will be up tomorrow, just in time for the weekend! 

Sarah x

Thursday 1 March 2012

Lesson 8 - Handmade Flowers

Todays lesson is brought to you by Claire, who will be showing you how to make handmade flower embellishments to use in your craft projects.

Thank you for joining us for this weeks lesson, if you would like to share your handmade flowers please leave us your links or post them over on my Facebook page, we'd love to see, and we will share some of them in a future inspiration post :o)

We hope you'll pop back next week when I will have Lesson 9 for you. Don't forget the Crafty Kids Academy lesson will be up tomorrow, just in time for the weekend! 

Sarah x

Thursday 23 February 2012

Lesson 7 - Introduction to Colouring Pencils

Todays lesson is is using one of my favourite products - an introduction to Colouring Pencils. For the purposes of this lesson I have used Derwent Coloursoft Pencils as they are my favourite colouring pencils (after much trial and error!). A big 'Thank You' to our sponsor Derwent who provided the pencils for this tutorial.


Thank you for joining us for this weeks lesson, if you would like to share your Colouring Pencil projects please leave us your links or post them over on my Facebook page, we'd love to see, and we will share some of them in a future inspiration post :o)

We hope you'll pop back next week when we will have Lesson 8 for you. Don't forget the Crafty Kids Academy lesson will be up tomorrow, just in time for the weekend! 

Sarah x

Thursday 16 February 2012

Lesson 6 - Introduction to Alcohol Inks

Todays lesson is brought to you by Jaine, who will be showing you how to get started with Alcohol Inks. A big 'Thank You' to our sponsor Kuretake who provided the inks for this tutorial.

Thank you for joining us for this weeks lesson, if you would like to share your Alcohol Ink projects please leave us your links or post them over on my Facebook page, we'd love to see, and we will share some of them in a future inspiration post :o)

We hope you'll pop back next week when I will have Lesson 7 for you. Don't forget the Crafty Kids Academy lesson will be up tomorrow, just in time for the weekend! 

Sarah x

Thursday 9 February 2012

Lesson 5 - Introduction to Promarkers

Todays lesson is brought to you by Clare, who will be showing you how to get started with Promarkers. A big 'Thank You' to our sponsor Letraset who provided the pens for this tutorial.


To get hold of the Valentine Digi Kit please click here - the digi stamp can be downloaded free from my blog here.


Thank you for joining us for this weeks lesson, if you would like to share your Promarker projects please leave us your links or post them over on my Facebook page, we'd love to see, and we will share some of them in a future inspiration post :o)

We hope you'll pop back next week when I will have Lesson 6 for you. Don't forget the Crafty Kids Academy lesson will be up tomorrow, just in time for the weekend! 

Sarah x

Thursday 2 February 2012

Lesson 4 - Resist Embossing

Todays lesson is a technique thats fun to use on cards and tags, Resist Embossing, I hope you'll join us and give it a go!


Thank you for joining us for this weeks lesson, if you would like to share your Resist Embossed projects please leave us your links or post them over on my Facebook page, we'd love to see, and we will share some of them in a future inspiration post :o)

We hope you'll pop back next week when I will have Lesson 5 for you. Don't forget the Crafty Kids Academy lesson will be up tomorrow, just in time for the weekend! 

Sarah x

Thursday 26 January 2012

Lesson 3 - Tag Album Inspiration

Todays lesson is all about Tag Albums, with lots of inspiration to make your own!

A few weeks ago I posted my own 'New Years Resolution' Tag Album on my blog and got a ton of comments and messages about it, so I hunted down some of the best Albums I could find, made you a template and put them all together here to inspire you!

Tag Albums are great for scrapbooking days out, scraps of memoribilia, passport and instax pictures or using as part of a full size layout or album.


Using the template in the download I made another Tag Album from scraps left over from previous projects, I used this to put lots of my favourite quotes in, I'll keep this with my Resolutions Album on my desk to keep me motivated!

Here are some close ups...


 
 

 And here is my original 'New Years Resolution' Tag Album...

You can see more details of this one here on my blog.

And here are some cute albums I found on Pinterest...


Thank you for joining us for this weeks lesson, if you would like to share your Tag Albums please leave us your links or post them over on my Facebook page, we'd love to see, and we will share some of them in a future inspiration post :o)

We hope you'll pop back next week when I will have Lesson 4 for you. Don't forget the Crafty Kids Academy lesson will be up tomorrow, just in time for the weekend! 
Sarah x

Thursday 19 January 2012

Lesson 2 - Introduction to Watercolour Pens

Todays lesson is brought to you by Jaine, who will be showing you some great tips and techniques with Watercolour Pens. A big 'Thank You' to our sponsor Kuretake who provided the pens for this tutorial.

Jaine is a complete expert with these and has shown a complete card as well as tips and tricks to get the most from your pens, I can't wait to have a go myself!


And here are a few more cards from Jaine to give you even more inspiration!

This card has been stamped with a Versafine Ink Pad, colour was added to the edges and then pulled out with a waterbrush


This one has been coloured directly onto the stamp and spritzed lightly with water before stamping - the background paper is made using the background effect technique shown in the tutorial


This one has also been coloured directly onto the stamp before being spritzed lightly with water and stamped, some colour was also added to the edge of the paper and sponged out with some damp blending foam



Thank you for joining us for this weeks lesson, if you would like to share your Watercolour Pen projects please leave us your links or post them over on my Facebook page, we'd love to see, and we will share some of them in a future inspiration post :o)

We hope you'll pop back next week when I will have Lesson 3 for you. Don't forget the Crafty Kids Academy lesson will be up tomorrow, just in time for the weekend! 
Sarah x

Thursday 12 January 2012

Lesson 1 - Paper Piecing

Todays lesson is one of my favourite techniques - Paper Piecing.

Paper Piecing is a great way to add pattern and texture to your papercraft projects, get extra mileage from your stamps and use up all your tiny paper scraps! It's also a great way to get professional looking coloured images if you aren't very confident with Markers or Pencils or even just to get a different look.

This is the card I made for this weeks lesson...

My lovely Design Team have also contributed some paper pieced cards to give you some more ideas, so here is some more inspiration...
Thank you for joining us for this weeks lesson, if you would like to share your paper pieced projects please leave us your links or post them over on my Facebook page, we'd love to see, and we will share some of them in a future inspiration post :o)

We hope you'll pop back next week when Jaine will have Lesson 2 for you. Don't forget the Crafty Kids Academy lesson will be up tomorrow, just in time for the weekend! 

Sarah x

Tuesday 3 January 2012

Introducing Craft Academy & Crafty Kids Academy!

Craft Academy is a brand new concept from me and my talented design team!

We will be bringing you a whole host of inspiration, projects and tutorials over a number of crafty disciplines including card making, scrapbooking, altered art and stitching, to name a few! They will also be at all levels of difficulty, from beginner to advanced.

This is to be an interactive experience so we encourage you to give us feedback, ask questions, show us your projects and suggest things you would like to see - we will be glad to take them on board!

We have also created Crafty Kids Academy - I believe its very important to start young and encourage creativity in everyone no matter what their age. I was lucky enough to come from a creative family and am truly grateful for that experience, its also a great way to have your little ones work alongside you while you try to fit in some much needed crafty time!

We have some fantastic sponsors on board and there are a few more exciting additions and other things to come and we will be announcing them over the next few weeks - we hope you'll pop back next Thursday for the first 'lesson'! :o)

Sarah x

p.s. we know some of the links above are re-directing wrongly at the moment, this is a blogger glitch and will hopefully be rectified soon, in the meantime, you can find my blog here.