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Sunday 6 October 2013

What a wonderful day - and a new challenge at Craft a scene

Good afternoon lovelies! How are you? I hope you're well and happy. I had a fabulous day with my lovely mum although I was in trouble when I got home - I took the kids car seats by accident! So sorry to my lovely hubby and girls - they were stuck at home all day!

Here's what I bought at the show:


Can't wait to get in the attic tonight and get started on this little lot. It was a lovely day - I managed to see the lovely Anne over at LOTV - and some of those lovely paper pads snuck into my basket. I also met the lovely Sue from Imagination Crafts - I was really chuffed to finally meet her and she was so lovely! I also got to watch Barbara Gray and her masks and gelli plate - one of them went in my basket too - but thats gone away for Christmas. And Lindsay Mason too - her demos are brilliant. So all in all a great show and a lovely day.

Now the reason for the late post is that there's a new challenge staring at Craft a scene where the theme is foul weather including a bird in flight. Here's what I did:



Its not my best scene - but it does give the impression of bad weather! The stamps are from Sheena Douglass - the sheltering tree set. I used a home made mask to create the clouds and the another sheena stamp to create the effect of rain.

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Stamping Sensationssirstampalotchallenge: All Creatures great and small
Glitternsparkleglitternsparklechallengeblog: Monochromatic


Hope you have a wonderful day! Hugs Rachel xx

25 comments:

  1. Rachel so glad you had a great day, oh you naughty mummy taking the car seats. My biggest nightmare so I have booster seat in both cars, mummy has in hers and same with daddy. I also made them buy for their horse lorry, you can't do with out them, when Anna was a very small baby and only one first car seat mummy went off with it to work, after that I had my own ones.
    Your card is wonderful you can feel the stormy weather.
    Hazel xxx

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  2. Loving the look of your stash :) Glad you had a good day - even if your husband and girls didn't ;)

    That scene is fabulous. I bow in admiration to you .

    Susan xx

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  3. Hey sweetie, this is really gorgeous, love it, hugs Pops x

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  4. Looks and sounds as if did have a fab day Rachel !! See a couple of Little Claire stamps jumped into your bag as well !!

    Really like your card ...

    hugs Diane xx

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  5. Hi Rachel, it really does look like you had a good day. Well done for getting the Gelli plate, look forward to seeing what you do with that. I think your scene looks great, would not want to be out in that weather though... Hugs, Anne x

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  6. Absolutely fantastic card Rachel! Definitely looks like foul weather!

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  7. Glad you enjoyed your day Rachel. Lovely goodies you have brought back too. Hugs Rita xxx

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  8. I love your scene Rachel. And all of those lovely goodies you bought at the show. Look forward to seing what you make with them.

    Sue x

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  9. Fabulous card Rachel. I love the design and beautiful sentiment.
    Glad you had a good time at the show. I really wish I didn't live so far away!
    Enjoy playing with your new goodies
    hugs Sue xx

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  10. Hi Rachel I love your card and it does really reflect bad weather, it's very atmospheric, love how you have created the stormy sky, it's a lovely scene.

    Glad to hear you had a fab day, and just look at all the new booty, hurry up and let's see what you make. I noticed you've bought the lovely little LC car set, I'm waiting for mine poping throught the letterbox, take care, hugs Kate x

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  11. Gorgeous card Rachel, I will try very hard to get an entry in for this challenge. Your goodies look fab! x

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  12. Your card looks great Rachel, very blustery, love the effect of your clouds and rain. Looks like you had a great time at the craft show. I'm going to one in a couple of weeks with my sister, it's great to see new things :) Cathy x

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  13. So glad you and your Mum had a good day at Harrogate ! Lucky you, nice new products to play with. I have fancied a gelli plate for a while now. Enjoy your new goodies. Looking forward to seeing what you make with the gelli plate !! Love your card, you can almost feel the wind and the rain lolls ! I just want to say thanks for stopping by my blog. I do appreciate your comments. Hugs Jennifer xx

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  14. It certainly looks like you had a great time with your Mum, can't wait to see your brilliant creations.
    Fabulous card, very effective clouds and rain.
    Pauline
    x

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  15. tut tut enjoying yourself while the family are stuck at home lol great goodies though and fantastic card -brilliant background I thought it was textured until i read your post really does give the impression of bad weather,fantastic
    carol x

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  16. Sounds like you had a lovely day and some nice crafty goodies bought too.
    Lovely card.
    Mags
    x

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  17. Fab stash there Rachel you have got lots to play with! Love your card it is very atmospheric and haunting! Susan x

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  18. Glad you had a good day, your new stash looks fabulous, I love the atmospheric feeling to your card, just beautiful
    Lindsay xx

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  19. Brilliant effective card Rachel. we really had a marvellous day

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  20. Lovely scene you created. Love the clouds.
    Thank you for joining GlitternSparkle.
    Olga DT GlitternSparkle

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  21. A stunning card for our them Rachel, thanks so much for sharing with us at Stamping Sensations challenge.

    B x

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  22. A lovely simple yet affective card, beautiful.
    Thank you for coming and joining us this week at Glitter n Sparkle Challenge.
    Good luck and all the best.
    Sammi xx DT xx

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  23. What a fabulous scene this is! Thanks for joining us at Stamping Sensations this month and Good Luck!

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  24. A stunning card , thanks for joining us at stamping sensations this month

    Francesca x

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  25. Love the birds in your scene. Thanks for joining in with us at Stamping Sensations this month. Maddy x

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Thankyou so much for leaving a comment - it really does mean a lot to me! Hugs Rachel xx