My shining star

My shining star

Monday 20 January 2014

Cock a doodle doo

Goodly morning to you all! Can you believe its Monday again already - are you ready for another mad week? I don't know where time goes - do you? Its performance week this week - we've got dress rehersal tonight and performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. I suspect this week is going to go even faster than ever.

Today I've got a card to share with you that I made using the chocolate Baroque steampunk birds set. As soon as I saw the cockerel I thought of kelloggs cornflakes and this card is a bit of a trip down memory lane for me.




I started off by using a mask from That special touch - I used wild honey distress inks onto card and covered it - then stuck the mask on and applied spiced marmalade  and barn door distress inks into alternate stripes. I stuck this to black card and stuck this onto a card. Then I stamped the cockerel onto card and also onto TH metal tape. I coloured part of the cockerel with my speccies then fussy cut parts of the metal tape and applied is to the image. Finally I fussy cut the whole bird and stood him atop a large wooden cog from That Craft Place. The sentiment is another one from the dylusions word set that I use so often!
I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

AGOACpinkgemchallengeblog: For the boys
charismacharismacardz: A boy thing
sparklessparklesforumchallenges: Show us your new stash - stamp
tuesday throwdowntuesdaythrowdown: stripes

I hope you have a great day - and thanks for dropping by! Big Hugs from me! Oh and if I appear to have not been by for a week - I'm experiencing some difficulty with commenting on some sites - the side bar on the comment form freezes and I can't scroll down to publish my comment - its only a few of you that it has been affection - really sorry if I've been missing you - I only hope it sorts itself out soon!

Hugs

Rachel xxx




23 comments:

  1. Wow Rachel this is stunning, love the colours, just gorgeous

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  2. One very sunny card Rachel and just fantastic !!

    hugs Diane xx

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  3. A lovely bright card Rachel, fabulous background and I love your steampunk cockerel.
    Pauline
    x

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  4. Wow, I love this Rachel. Where do you find the time to create so much. I bought these stamps when they came out, and I've still not used them yet. (Maybe going away for a month was not a good idea, nice though!!).

    Sue x

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  5. This is gorgeous Rachel. The sunburst background looks stunning.
    It sounds like you have a busy week ahead, I hope it all goes to plan.
    hugs Sue xx

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  6. Brilliant card Rachel & the sentiment is great! Thanks also for joining us over at Sparkles Challenges, hope to see you next time!
    hugs Jo x

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  7. An amazing card Rachel, I just love your cockerel he's so...proud lol !! Hugs Jennifer xx

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  8. Wonderful and colourful card Rachel. I love that cockerel too. Hugs Rita xxx

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  9. Super card - love the background.
    Thanks for playing along at AGOAC this time.
    Good luck.
    Debs xx

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  10. Wonderful card Rachel, love the image, and your design, hugs Kate x

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  11. Before I started to read I thought to myself it's the Kelloggs cockerel! Wonderful warm colours and I love that bird xx

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  12. Brilliant card and it took me down memory lane too.
    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  13. I just love that fabulous background you created and the steampunk cockerel is fabulous - I have not seen that stamp set before, it looks amazing! Hugs, Anne x

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  14. Fabulous Rachel!! The background looks totally amazing and forms a brilliant back drop to that wonderful stamp! Great card and good luck with all the rehearsals!

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  15. This is such a cool card - love the background and the wooden cog - perfect!! Thanks so very much for joining us this time at the Pile it ON Challenge,

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  16. Fabulous card, absolutely love it!

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  17. beautiful! I like the background. but your whole card looks so great!!

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  18. Oh drat Rachel I think you have disappeared off my reading list! This is wonderful love the background and the cockerel! Susan x

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  19. A great card Rachel. Loving the sunburst background.
    Mags
    x

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  20. A great card and I love the fab sentiment.

    Thank you for joining us at Charisma Cardz in our Boy Thing challenge and good luck.

    Sarahxx

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  21. Beautiful card and very creative, love this rich orange color. Thank you for joining our challenge at Pile It On and I hope you will come back again.
    Hugs,
    Anna xxx

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  22. Fabulous card, great image and colours for a boy. Thanks for playing with Charisma
    xx Vee

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  23. What a great stamp! The card look fantastic too and I love the morning sun raise.

    Thank you for joining our Show ous your New Stash challenge at Sparkles Monthly Challenge. Good luck!
    Nick

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