My shining star

My shining star

Tuesday, 28 April 2015

flapper girl

Hello Lovelies! How are you? I hope you are well and happy! We are all good - got another few miles in my legs yesterday and coffee pot went well despite my die cutting disaster - thanks to those of you who shared your opinion - I'm going to try my mums large sizzix this afternoon and will decide from there. This morning I'm off to run with my friend Sue.

I have a card I made for the chocolate baroque colour challenge this month - here's the banner:



Great colours - I took it as a chance to ink up one of the fabulous flappers. Love them!


I coloured the lady with spectrum noir pencils then masked her off and masked off the edges leaving a horizontal strip showing. Using spun sugar distress ink I covered the strip then used picked raspberry to stamp over it using one of the other stamps from the flapper set. The sentiment is from chocolate baroque also.


Here's a closer look at the lady!

I should like to enter this into the following challenges:


I hope you have a great Tuesday and look forward to seeing what you've all been up to!

Hugs

Rachel x

23 comments:

  1. Wonderful colour palette today Rachel and such an elegant lady isn't she.

    Been back to yesterdays post as Blogger was on one when I tried to see it, you asked about die cutting machines. Here's my five penneth if it helps any (I am always accused of going through die machines like most people do a packet of sweets).

    I used to love my big shot express (that was the electronic version) two died on me so I went on to a big shot pro. That was far too heavy for me as that went of to Sally and then I went on to a grand calibur, that broke within a year so I got a second one, but when the e.bosser came out I bought that and kept the gc as backup. Best move I ever made and as you can guess the e.bosser gets one heck of a lot of use with all my TL work but is a dream.

    So there is the trilogy of my die cutting exploits !

    Bx

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  2. Good morning Rachel,
    Beauftiful card, love the colours and great colouring.
    Die Cutting Machines ........ Bain of my life!!! None are that good IMO however I am enjoying using my new Teal GC at the moment. Tomorrow is another day as they say so we will see.
    Have a fantastic day
    Patricia x

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  3. Beautiful card Rachel, gorgeous colours

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  4. What a beautiful card Rachel, I love how the lady appears to be pointing to the sentiment and I love the colours you have used. Good luck with your decision on the die cutting machine! Hugs, Anne xx

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  5. Such a beautiful card Rachel, I love the way she is standing in front of the band of colour.

    I realised after I had left my comment yesterday I did not leave my thoughts on die cutting machines. I have an e bosser and a grand calibre (the GC was a cuttlebug until I put something to thick through it and it took offence to it). The only problem I have with the GC is that you cannot put the sissix big dies through. I don't have many. but the ones I do have I do use.

    Hugs Sue xx

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  6. Rachel this is a gorgeous creation. Love these colours used and such a fab design.xxx{aNNie My Personal Blog}

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  7. A gorgeous card Rachel, great stamps and a beautiful colour combo. Well done with the running too :) Carol x

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  8. Beautiful....Lovely image and colours.xxx

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  9. Fabulous! Love these flapper girls too! Loving the background you have created!
    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  10. This is gorgeous Rachel. Love the colours you have used.

    Mags
    x

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  11. This is gorgeous Rachel, love the flapper girl and your design and colours are fabulous, hugs Kate x

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  12. Fabulous flapper girl Rachel!! and such gorgeous colours and design you have used lots of huggles Sue xx

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  13. Such an elegant card Rachel. Jenny x

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  14. A beautiful card and colouring is great, Rachel. I forgot to add my vote to your die cutting question yesterday but have now added my two bits! Vee xx

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  15. what a great card and love the almost rich and opulent colours x

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  16. Another fabulous card - love the stamped background and beautiful image.
    Thanks again for playing along at Sweet Stampin' this week.
    Good luck.
    Debs xx

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  17. A beautiful card Rachel, such an elegant image and design.
    Pauline
    x

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  18. Love the style of clothing for that era, fantastic card!

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  19. Oooh, what a good idea Rachel - I think I might use that idea!!

    Thanks also for sharing at Sweet Stampin'.

    Susan xx

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  20. Lovely card, and great job on the masking! Thank you for joining us at Sweet Stampin' this week. Sammy-x

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  21. Beautiful card Rachel. Great stamping and masking. Love the rose boarder. Thank you for playing along with the Chocolate Baroque Color Challenge.
    Hope you all are having a great weekend.
    Hugs Flo xx

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  22. Hi Rachel, a great card design and fab use of the challenge colours. Thanks for entering the Chocolate Baroque challenge.

    I am a Big Shot fan through and through, mine has lasted me for fifteen plus years of hard crafting plus running card making classes as well. I sold my Big Shot Pro, as it was just too big and heavy, using the proceeds to buy a Big Shot Plus, which is perfect, lighter, and allowing me to use the bigger dies. Everyone will have their own opinion, but for a non-electric machine, a Big Shot is a pure workhorse, allowing you to put any thickness of die through it. Hope this helps, Judith xx

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