Halloween at Imagination Crafts

Pinch punch its the first of the month!!!!! Good morning to you! I do hope you are well and happy -not sure where September went but its definitely October here!!!! The wind has been quite strong and I ran in swirling leaves yesterday - a big change from the weekend!!!

I've got three posts today - my first is for Imagination Crafts - they have a new challenge starting over at the imagination-craftschallenges where the theme for this month is Halloween!!!!! Here's what I did:

I had lots of inky fun creating the background with colorwash sprays and radiant rain sprays applied in a number of ways - mostly spritzing or applying with a sponge. Then I added a white circle and used my imaginationcrafts Stencil and sparkle medium to create the witch and bats. Looking at it I ought to have filled the stencil gap in on the witches body - but you get the idea!!!!
To enter the challenge you can produce anything to do with Halloween - however, you will only be eligible to win the £40 of Imagination craft goodies if you use some imagination craft goodies to enter the challenge.
Have a look here to see what the rest of the DT did!

I'd like to enter this card for the following challenges:

Pan pastelpanpasteluk: AG
ATSaddicted-to-stamps-challenge.: Create a scene
2 sisters CB2sisterschallengeblog: AG
AGOAC:pinkgemchallengeblog Use some black
CRAFT challengestrimmiescraftchallenge - inspired by a book -' the witches by roald dahl.

Thanks for looking - I'll be back in an hour with the latest challenge from Crafty Sentiments.
Big Hugs

Rachel xx

Tims tags of 2013: September - and a 40th birthday card

Good morning all! I hope you are well and happy! We're good - we had lots of fun at Rainbows last night - we made chocolate cake hedgehogs - lots of fun and super delicious too!!!!

Today I've got to show you my Tims tag for September - well mine is not quite like sir Tims - infact mine is a bit of a mess - but I really njoyed making said mess so thought I'd share it with you!!!

Here's sir Tims for this month:



Now mine followed the step by steps of tims that you can find here - 12-tags-of-2013-september but not having yet had the chance to purchase tims stencils I had to use what I had available - oh and I think I've discovered why tim only pasted up the top corner - because the stamps don't work so well onto of the embossing paste - lol - you live and learn!!!!

I did warn you! Oh but the fun factor was immense! I have to say I loved doing this!!! I'd like to enter it into timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2013-september challenge anyway!

Something else I've been having fun with is the making of my friend and ex chemistry teacher colleague  Cheyl's 40th birthday card/box. Her birthday was yesterday so its safe to show it now - and its all Tim Holtz stuff so I thought I'd show the two together.

This is the front of the card - I had lots of fun with distress inks, some sprays - colourwash and dylusions, and some stencils and pastes. The stamps are from the Tim Holtz set called The chemist. I coloured the images with promarkers.

 This is inside on the rhs - the book was part of my winnings from LEJ Designs CB where I got goodies from Mishelflo - the service was fabulous - thanks Michelle! I also got the Tim Holtz vials from that win too - they're brilliant.

 I've used the paperstash that accompanies the chemist stamp set - also Tim Holtz - and these letters are grungeboard sprayed up with dylusions.

This is the back of the 'card' - Cheryl loved the whole thing - I'm really glad as it took quite a lot of time!!!!

I'd like to enter Cheryl's card into the following challenges:

Rhedd and Rosies:something-for-men16th-challenge( I did send this to a girl I know but generally I think of this as being more masculine!!!)
Bearly Minebearlymine-challenges: AG
PFPpromarkerchallenge: One for the boys
Kaboodle doodleskaboodledoodles: Use orange
AI: artistic inspirationsBright colours
FSCfashionablestampingchallenges: Autumn colours
Pan pastelpanpasteluk: AG
simonsaysstampblog-anything-goes
charismacardzinside

Thats it for today folks - thanks for looking and I hope you have a great day today. Thanks for any comments you leave - I do love to read what you think!!!

Big Hugs to you!

Rachel xx