My shining star

My shining star

Friday, 3 June 2016

knots!

Good morning lovelies! How are you? I do hope you are enjoying this weather - its been glorious here! I can cope with a few more weeks of this ..... its just blissful to see the sun shining! I went to see my dad today too - he seems in good spirits athough he's eating very little. He's smiling too - which is lovely to see. It sounds as though he'll be in until early next week. I hope by then my mum will be feeling better about things.

Well its time for a new post - todays card came from playtime last night - I have used a Katzelkraft stamp and made a sort of CAS card.


I stamped the giraffe then masked it and masked off the border on the card. Next I added mustard seed distress to the centre of the card and added a clarity stencil and through this inked ripe persimmon distress.


I then added the hand written words and the stamp from the wanderlust spring set.


Finally I coloured the giraffe in distress markers and finally added the line around the edge.

There are some wonderful characters on the stamp sheet - I suspect you'll be seeing more of them soon!

Big hugs

Have a great day!

Rachel x

13 comments:

  1. A really quick hello and peek at your work, internet problems most of week and grabbing a few moment while it's there.

    B x

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  2. A fun card, love the giraffe and great to be reminded of a technique I haven't used for a while, must have a go at masking soon.
    Lorraine

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  3. Oh what a sweet little Giraffe stamp Rachel and you have worked your magic on the background and made him look fabulous on this card. Please can you send a little of your sunshine our way, we have not seen it all week. Mo x

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  4. Lovely card from a great stamp! I love Katzelcraft too :-) I'm waiting to see your other cards with the Jungle Set! xxx

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  5. This is super Rachel, such a fun image and another of your fabulous backgrounds.
    Pauline
    x

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  6. That background is fab Rachel & I love that giraffe! No sunshine here, it's been like the middle of Winter all week!
    hugs Jo x

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  7. Tee hee - that poor giraffe! Love your bold background echoing his marking. And I'm glad to hear someone has some sunshine - definitely wintry here (have had the fire on, and hot water bottles again at night!). Happy to hear that your dad is in good spirits too.
    Alison x

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  8. It's good to hear your Dad is in good spirits now Rachel. I love your card. The background looks fabulous with the giraffe and I love the sentiment you've written. Barbxx

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  9. Pleased to hear that your dad is brighter Rachel and I hope your mum is well, it must be such a strain for her too.
    Brilliant card, fabulous background and a great image, love it, Kate x

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  10. Fab news about your Dad Rachel !! And adore your fun card, must have a look at these fun stamps me thinks !!

    Have a super weekend sweetie...

    hugs Diane xx

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  11. Great news about your Dad Rachel:))) Brill card and great background! and send us some sun pleaseeeeeee lol huggles Sue xx

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  12. Beautiful girrafes and brilliant design, love the colours. Hope your weekend is going well and lovely to read your dad is doing well.xx
    {aNNie}

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