bright hot colours at the Lavinia challenge and a crafternoon with my girls

Hello there! How are you? I hope you are well and happy! We're all good. I had a lovely evening on Saturday and I'm glad to report that the sticky toffee pudding was yum!!! A good recipe!

Today I've got a piece to share with you that I made for the lavinia challenge. Lets see what you think.

This is another item from everycraftsapound that I've altered. I started off using distress paints to make the background then used a mask from imagination crafts and black gloss embossing paste from dreamweaver to complete the background. The central area has been created using versamark and black wow powders and heat setting. Then I applied distress inks and pan pastels over the image. The letters were cut using cuttlebug dies and the flowers at the base of the image were cut using a crafty cutter die from Crafty sentiments.

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

Lavinia Challengelaviniastamps: Hot and bright colours
pan pastelpanpasteluk: Anything goes
Fab 'n' funkyfabnfunkychallenges: anything goes

Here's a little picture of what was going on in my little craft room yesterday afternoon - the girls were painting the boxes we're going to be giving to their teachers at christmas.

They did really well and even managed to look after my paint brushes well! When they've finished the decorating of the boxes I'll let you see them! We're thinking we'll put some choccies inside the boxes.

Thats all for today! I should be running this morning so I hope its not too cold! Thanks for dropping by and I hope to see you again soon!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx