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Sunday 16 August 2015

Clairty cumbria step by step and other makes.

Hello lovelies - how are you this fine morning? I hope you are well and happy. We are good and looking forward to a short trip to Nottingham to take Bez home. We've not been to Nottingham for over a year - since before Shaun had his heart attack. It will be good to be there again and the girls will enjoy catching up with their cousins.  Fingers crossed it will be fun.

I did have fun yesterday - it was Clarity Cumbria August and we did a mixed media thermometer house - here's the steps:


To start with we masked off the thermometer then used whichever stencils we wanted to use with grunge paste - I used grunge paste for the non circles and wendy vecchi crackle paste for the jo's bubbles stencil. we left this to dry.


Next we added embellishments I chose to add some Tim Holtz diecuts - the dragonfly and garden greens. Also some wooden flowers.


Next it was time to cover entirely in black gesso and leave to dry.


Finally I added a variety of colours of inka gold to highlight the different areas and added two Tim Holtz diecut words.

I hope you like this make - I certainly do and would like to enter it into the following challenges:




I also made a few tags and a card whilst waiting for the drying processes:



I had a great day and thanks to Jo for all your hard work!  Thanks to all the lovely ladies who came along and brought cake too! 

Have a great Sunday!

Hugs

Rachel xx


26 comments:

  1. Hi Rachel, that is great... A wonderful idea and love the stencilling and colour. Enjoy your Nottingham trip! Nikki

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  2. WOW! Your thermometer house is stunning Rachel. I love the colours and gorgeous detailing. Beautiful tags and card too.
    I hope your Sunday is a good one!
    Take care, hugs Sue xx

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  3. I love your gorgeous thermometer house Rachel, the inka golds give such a wonderful effect (love using these). Your card and tagsare amazing as well, I can see you had a great day. Enjoy your trip to Nottingham.

    Hugs Sue xx

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  4. Stunning Rachel, enjoy Nottingham

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  5. Your thermometer turned out beautifully Rachel, I love how the colours look with the inka golds. Love your tags too. Hope you enjoy your trip to Nottingham.

    Thanks so much for joining in our challenge at A Vintage Journey too! Hugs, Anne xx

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  6. Gorgeous creations Rachel.xxx

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  7. Love all your makes Rachel, but do love the thermometer !!

    hugs Diane xx

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  8. Fabulous makes Rachel, I hope you have a good trip to Nottingham.
    Pauline
    x

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  9. These are all fabulous Rachel, love them all.
    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  10. Brilliant make love all the texture and the dragonfly-great card and tags too
    carol x

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  11. All of your pieces look fabulous Rachel. Hope the girls are enjoying the holidays and you are ok. Sorry for having been a bit absent again lately
    x catherine

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  12. Fabulous makes Rachel... Love the Black one....
    Hugs Sylvie xx

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  13. What beautiful makes Rachel...love the thermometer house. Enjoy your trip. Carol x

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  14. Gorgeous makes Rachel. Love the thermometer house.
    Mags
    x

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  15. Wow - looks like you did some amazing creating! The thermometer house is so cool with the shimmer against the black. Fabulous!
    Alison xx

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  16. Wow, it's lovely, have a great time away.x

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  17. hello Rachel, what wonderful makes, I love the thermometer, beautifully made, colours are gorgeous, pleased you had such a brilliant day, hugs Kate x

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  18. You always make such fabulous designs Rachel, and it is such a pleasure to craft alongside you..hope you and the girls have a brilliant time in Nottingham...big hugs....Jo. xxx

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  19. Love your thermometer Rachel & I love what you made while you were waiting too!
    Hugs
    Dawn xx

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  20. Great project! Love the contrast of the colors and the black gesso! Thank you so much for playing with us at The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge!

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  21. I'm not the only one having a very creative and inspiring summer Rachel - you are knocking the ball out of the park! I already have a loads of goodies ordered and some have arrived for this month. Hopefully next month I can get some more and Grunge Paste, Crackle Paste and Inka's are now on the list too! Stunning alteration, ooh I need more TH dies too lol! Love it Karen xx

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  22. What a lovely hanging - lwonderful colors against the black with you beautiful darning needle and flowers - and how nice to have it a practical item with the thermometer - a piece of art where you can look and see how hot/cold it is! Thanks so much for joining us in the AVJ Things with Wings challenge! Julia xx

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  23. That is a very cool project! Great tutorial. Thanks so much for joining us at The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge.

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  24. how creative! the thermometer is great! Thank you so much for playing with the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge!

    -Rachel
    rwkrafts.com

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  25. Oops, I should of course have said thanks so much for joining us on A Vintage Journey.
    Alison xx

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