My shining star

My shining star

Monday 13 January 2014

candy winner and playing with primary elements!

Hello there lovely people! I hope you had a great weekend - we certainly did - yesterday I made another big batch of soup to aid the diet then spent the afternoon at rehersals again painting trees for the scenery. Its starting to come together now and I think it might finally be ready for the opening night on the 23rd January.

Anyway - onto my first item today which is the drawing of my candy winner - thanks so much everybody for entering - I didn't take a screenshot of random.org. I assigned everybody a number in comment order apart from those people who expressed not to be added to the draw. That meant that my min was 1 and my max 27. The number that was drawn was 13 which corresponds to Brenda. Brenda - if you could reach out to me before this time next week I'll organise your candy for you! I know your off for some treatment this week so I hope you see this!

Onto todays post - me and my mum bought some primary elements in the create and craft sale and the two cards that I'm showing today resulted from a play with them.




The primary elements really are cool - the shine doesn't really come through on these pictures but its amazing. The colours in this card are from the set my mum bought - I think they were called tropical something. sorry been looking on the net for the name and failed miserably to find it. The stamps are from sheena douglass - the scrolls are early stamps from creative expressions  and the Hepburn quote is from a set you can get here at Crafters Companion. The extra fluorish is from fluorish with a Bling sent by the lovely Lucy - thanks hun!

I'd like to enter this card into the current crafterscompanion-january-2014-hearts Challenge.

I chose the set called Costa Rica and I used in to make the following card:


 The stamps are again by Sheena Douglass - here - I used the primary elements to create the background and then stamped in sepia onto this. Then I stamped the fish on acetate and painted on the reverse in silkies from Imagination Crafts.  I've made this card for my Joanna Sheen Craft Forum card swap! I hope my swap partner likes it!

I've got a busy day ahead - I'm doing backgrounds with my ladies at coffee pot this morning - thats after a run - then its time to get my rainbows plan together for wednesday and finally I have a PTA meeting in the evening! Hoping to get back in the attic after that to start some DT work!

Hope you have a great Monday!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

19 comments:

  1. These are brilliant, especially love your underwater card.
    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  2. Fabulous Cards Rachel the colours are amazing and love the Audrey Hepburn quote! Congratulations to Brenda and a big thank you to you for the chance! Susan x

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  3. I came along because I saw the beautiful fusion of inky colours on my dashboard Rachel and got quite a surprise !!

    I am loving the work on this post especially the beautiful underwater scenes.

    Off to mail you.

    B x

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  4. Tahiti Dreams Rachel the colours for the first card, can't believe how different it looks after you put the finishing touches to it, so gorgeous and the fishes are beautiful

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  5. Good morning sweetie, these are just gorgeous, hugs Pops x x x

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  6. These are gorgeous Rachel, your designs and colours are wonderful and I love the beautiful quote.
    I hope you have a good day.
    hugs Sue xx

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  7. Beautiful creations Rachel, in fact they are Stunning. The colours look so vibrant. Congratulations to Brenda on her win. Hugs Rita xxx

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  8. The richness of these colours is fab...wish I was braver with colour sometimes! Gosh you are a busy bee...hugs x trace x

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  9. Beautiful creations you have done here hun love the colours hugs cheryl

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  10. Hi Rachel, what beautiful cards, I love your colours and how you've used them, Fabulous designs and I love the sentiment.
    Congrats to Brenda, and thanks for the chance to win your lovely candy Rachel, have a great day, hugs Kate x

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  11. Both of these are gorgeous. Love the vibrant colors.

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  12. These cards are both fabulous Rachel. I couldn't choose a favourite one !! I love them both. I'm not in my comfort zone with bright colour but your cards really 'zing.' My goodness you are a busy lady, I don't know how you fit everything into your day lol !! Thanks for visiting my blog so regularly, it's much appreciated. Hugs Jennifer xx

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  13. Both cards are terrific and the backgrounds you inked are fabulous! Love the seahorse and fish!

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  14. Gorgeous colours and details on both cards Rachel, they're fab :o) Hugs, Lisa x

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  15. Beautiful cards Rachel, stunning colours, I especially love the water scene.
    Pauline
    x

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  16. both beautiful cards love the images and flourish and great background techniques
    Carol x

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  17. Two terrific projects Rachel. Gorgeous colours in them both.
    Mags
    x

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  18. Wow those are two beautiful cards. I love the backgrounds. Wonderful job for just learning to play :)

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  19. Love the nontraditional Valentine colors! Beautiful cards! Thanks for playing along with this month's Crafter's Companion challenge!

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