Ariana Love card - Balloon Talk

I am having so much fun with this Stamp of the Month set - Balloon Talk.

It is so versatile - I have used it with so many different papers and it works with all.

Here I used the Ariana Workshop on the Go - the base is the Hollyhock cardstock

and I stamped in Hollyhock ink to give a Tone on Tone effect.

I used the same stamp ( from the Workshop on the Go) in Buttercup ink on the

squares so that they didn't look so plain.

I stamped the same image on the white Cricut heart shape.

I added Desert Sand cardstock which I scallop punched and then added holes made with

the piercing tool.

I then added a small strip of the Zipstrip along it.

I attached Bronze Shimmer trim either side of the patterned paper and 

3 Brown sparkles finished it off

Hope you like it - Love Sara xxx

Ballon Talk Stamp of the month Explosion Card

I have made lots of these explosion cards over the years so I will just show you the cover of this one.

I used the outline of the speech bubbles in Outdoor Denim and Sorbet inks to create a random geometric pattern - I know - WWWAAAYYYY out of my comfort zone hahaha. 

Not a swirl in sight !!!

I attached it to a slightly larger square of Sorbet cardstock.

A 1" piece of Outdoor Denim cardstock and a narrow piece of the Ariana paper and a scrap of the Ariana Green cardstock added more ribbon shapes and a piece of Bronze Shimmer Trim added sparkle and shine to it.

The sentiment was stamped in Outdoor Denim ink and popped up on 3D foam tape.

It didn't take me long to make this. 

the hardest thing for me was the geometric bit :O)

Hope you like it - Love Sara xxx

Balloon Talk Stamp of the month Card

This was a card which evolved as I went - you know sometimes it just works like that !!

It started off where I was going to cover the front of a card completely with the Ariana Paper 

but I caught the corner of the paper under my VersaMat and bent it over.

So I decided to just keep rolling the paper. 

Our beautiful B&T papers are lovely and thick so they keep their shape when you 

do a technique like this.

I did put a thin line of liquid glass to keep it in place.

I then attached it to the white card base along the left and bottom edges forming a pocket.

I used B1443 Hello wonderful from page 26 of the Spring/Summer 14 Idea Book 

on the pull out tag. I stamped the image in Sorbet using the 2nd Generation inking technique 

and then stamped it a 2nd time on a smaller piece of cardstock and cut out just the 

center of the image. I popped it up with some 3D foam tape.

I added a narrow piece of Outdoor Denim cardstock with a narrower piece of Skylark Paper. 

(Good grief I hear you say - Sara mixed the patterns from more than one paper pack ??????)

I know - crazy hey !! It doesn't happen very often lol.

I stamped the word Welcome in Crystal Blue and inked the edges in Outdoor Denim 

and then added a couple of sparkles.

Finally I made the flower from 3 x 1 1/4" circles which I stamped using the same image 

and then curled with the Quilling Tool.

Hope you like it - Love Sara xxx

Ariana Workshop on the Go Scrapbook Layout

I have to say that I absolutely love this layout - It is based on the layout in the 

Spring/Summer 2014 Idea book which only shows a single page - but it is so pretty.

My dear friend Victoria worked on this one too and this is my version of what we came up with.

I love the Dimensional Elements which match the paper and in the WOTG

 you get the cool Black and Grey Epoxy Bubbles as well as the pretty ribbon bows.

On the Dimensional Element Camera piece I used l the silvery grey one Epoxy bubbles to 

fill the center of the printed image and then liquid glassed them in place to make it look 

like a camera lens. This photo does not do it justice.

I did put 2 photo mats side by side on the left hand page which allows 2 photos of 4x6 

or you could put one photo 8 x 6 in that area.

Again just like the card which I posted on April 2nd, I have layered the paper pieces 

and it is such a pretty technique.

Hope you like it too - Love Sara xxx

Ariana Card.

Oh I was so very happy with this card - I based it on the scrapbook layout shown on 

page 30 of the Spring/Summer 2014 Idea Book. 

I loved the layered paper technique on the layout so decided to do the same thing on the card.

I cut the scalloped the circle and the smaller circles using the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge.

The words are from the Perfect Fit - Thanksgiving stamp set. 

I know it is hard to see but I have used the decorative tail of the turkey image to stamp 

along the bottom edge of the card in Buttercup ink - and again underneath the 

words on the small circle. 

(I hope you can zoom in and see it if the image is larger)

As the paper is so decorative and the scalloped edge of the Outdoor Denim piece and 

Scallop circle give even more design I have kept the embellishments to a minimum 

and just added 3 sparkles for a little shine.

Hope you like it - Love Sara xxx