Craft stamper card

Hello there! How are you? I hope you are fine and well. Its the middle of the school holibobs so things here are hectic - not much crafting going on! I have got a card to share with you though that is published in this months craft stamper - it should be out on Friday. The theme was 'en vacance' ...here's my card in the magazine...

Here's a closer pic...

I have used two sheena stencils and some stamps from Tim Holtz making this card. The background is made using distress oxides. There are more details in the mag!

Big hugs 

Rachel xx

Craft stamper - sparkle and shine!!!

Hello Lovelies! How are you today? Hope you are good! The man came yesterday about the blinds nice and early - so i was hoping to get out on the bike - however, high winds and rain stopped play! So I'm swimming first thing! well - once the chublets are in school anyway!

I was lucky enough to get another card in craft stamper magazine as a reader submission - for the Ready set stamp section. Here it is.

I used a couple of stencils - the girl image is an Andy skinner one - I used sparkle medium through that one - the larger one all over the background is one from Joggles and its a 9x12 inch stencil called Endless.

I also used a stamp from visible image too!

Need to get my act together and get another card submitted to see if i can be lucky again!! Why don't you give it a try - if i can be lucky I know you can too!  The latest call is here.

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

Swimming, Crafting and flower arranging!

Hello Lovelies! How are you? I hope you're okay and have had a good day! I've had a beautiful time today - I went for a swim and practiced some of the things I was taught yesterday - then I went to my mum and dads and had a crafternoon - we played with brushos - and followed a project from this months craft stamper - lots of fun - I will do a simpler version with the coffee pot ladies on monday I think. Here's the results:

I am very excited with this one - I think the techniques are brilliant - just follow them in craft stamper!

The stamps are paperartsy - i used  versa mark, white embossing powder, brushos, frantage, alcohol pens. My mum really enjoyed this too - I think I'll try applying it to my own version - altho' the design is so beautiful I daresay I won't get such fabulous results! 

Tonight me and my girls did some flower arranging - well they did it really - I just cut the flowers. We have a festival happening in the village at the moment - Lord Roger Montbegon was one of the 25 barons involved in the signing of the magna carta 800 years ago and he lived in Hornby. The play the girls did on Saturday was part of it and there is a flower arranging competition tomorrow - so the girls wanted to join in! The theme is Hornby. This is what they did.

I'll let you know tomorrow how they get on - but I'm very pleased with what they have done! And they had such fun!

Hope you have a good evening - its running away from me today - will be around to visit after I have done another post - I've got news!!! More of that soon!

Big Hugs

Rachel x

faux block bleaching technique for craft stamper magazine

Morning all! I hope you are well and happy! I've got more red and butterflies to share with you today - I seem to be in that sort of a mood. This is a card I made with the craft stamper take it make it challenge in mind - and also the wings and things challenge at AVJ. Here's what I did:

I started by laying down the colours of distress ink - festive berries, spiced marmalade, mustard seed and ripe persimmon - then I attacked the ink with a cut and dry foam pad loaded with water and mopped off the colour as I went along. I love this technique and hope to try it again very soon - its fab.

Next I did some stamping using stamps from the dylusions on the edge range  and also Tim Holtz stamps - from the Mariposa set and also a sentiments set.

I fussycut the Mariposa image and added it to the card.

I would like to enter the following challenges with this card.

A vintage Journeyvintagejourney: Wings and things

Craft Stamper:craftstamper Take it make it challenge June: Faux bleach blocking

My mums craft shopmymumscraftshop: ink it up

Pan pastel ukpanpasteluk: Flora and fauna

Hope you all have a great Tuesday - I'm off for a swim this morning then will be heading to see my mum and dad.

Thanks for dropping by and hope to see you again soon! 

Hugs

rachel xx

Sketch challenge at scrap 365 and some potato stamping

Good morning lovelies! how are you today? Thanks for all your concern - you are lovely! I'm fine though and not about to hurt my back intentionally - but I need to keep my fitness up - I still have the Great North Run to look forward to in September - I'm running it for a local hospice this year - more of that soon but not today!!

Today I have a little candy for you - just leave a comment on todays post, be a follower and I'll draw a winner on 1st June - what can you win - its a stamp and die set from sizzix:

Today I want to share with you a piece of messy art that i so enjoyed making - I got my distress paints and inks out and had lots of fun. I followed a sketch from Scrap 365 -

Here's what I did:

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I started out with a plain white piece of paper and added distress paints in blues and browns to a craft mat - spritzed with water and swooshed the paper through. Once dry I added festive berrie DI and filled in many of the white spaces. Next I used DI to create the other bars of paper and stamped one with CB honey bee stamps. Then I used my cut pieces of potato to stamp blue stars - in distress paint, and brown hexagons - in ink from an ink pad. Next I did some more stamping on the background to create the smaller hexagons and also the bees. I followed the sketch and put the layout together then fussy cut some flowers that I had stamped and added the title. Such fun! I loved making this! The picture is, of course, my Lucy - she was at the top of the hill at st Michaels mount in Cornwall - it was a very windy day and she was trying to be heard!!! Bless her!

I would like to enter this layout into the following challenges

scrap365 scrap365- June sketch

Craft stamper magazine:craftstamper Potato printing.

Thanks for dropping by today - remember if you leave a message you can go into the draw to win the stamp and die set!

Hugs rachel xx

A lovely weekend and a painty playtime for the Craft Stamper Challenge

Hello lovelies! How are you? I am very well and feeling happy after a lovely weekend in Nottingham - Bez loved her cake and had a great birthday - thanks to all of you who commented on the cake!



This is Bez with my two girls and their cousin Evie. All having a good time!



We visited an old haunt of mine from my youth on Sunday morning - Nottingham Castle. It was a beautiful day and we even managed a picnic in the sunshine - a great weekend was had by all!

Now then - the craft stamper challenge this month is to do some monoprinting using an acrylic block - now my biggest block seems to be MIA so I had to settle for one that is about 4 inches by 6 inches. I added acrylic paint of different colours and squelched it about using my finger. Then I took 4 prints and used them to make this card.

After taking the prints I used some dylusions stamps and some crafty individuals stamps to create the backgrounds. The crafty individuals crowned rabbits stamps were then stamped onto the other two prints and fussy cut before being stuck to prints one and two. I also stamped the Tim stamp from one of the recently released sets onto a piece of leftover print then matted and layered.

Here's a close up! I hope you like this as much as I do - I really enjoyed the technique and I think you would too - its great! Give it a go and join in the challenge!

the colours I have used are from this colour palette

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Craft stamper magazinecraftstamper - monoprinting from acrylic challenge

Pan pastel awash with colourcolour palette challenge.

pinkleart -sunday-stamper-week-299-happy

Thanks for visiting today and I hope you enjoyed your visit - I hope to see you again soon! Big Hugs rachel xx

Your favourite technique at Craft a scene

Hello there! Its late for me today - and this is a scheduled post too - I'm still off at Hel's workshop - I'll hopefully let you know tomorrow how it went!!!

Today there is a new challenge starting at Craft a scene and this month we'd like you to use your favourite technique to create a scene. My technique of the moment is using acetate overlays - I love them to bits - so thats what I have done today!

The background is created using primary elements and I used the ombre technique from Craft stamper magazine to influence my colour choice. The stamps are from sheena douglass and I stamped in versa onto heat resistant acetate - then added black opaque wow powders and heat set. 

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges: 

Craft stamper make and take 6

PCJ: Emboss it

Thanks for dropping by today and I hope to see you again soon!

Rachel x

splat: inky pinky pen and ink .....

Good morning lovelies! How are you? I'm feeling rested now after the madness of the pink sweatfest - probably won't still be after this mornings run though - lol!!!!!

Today I've got a bookmark to show you that I've made - it'll probably be for my husband as he's an avid reader - he reads what I call 'nasty books' - you know Stephen King, Dean Koontz and the like - the ones I've read have had good stories but I find them too disturbing! I must just be a delicate flower. Anyway - here it is.

I made this piece for the Craft stamper Challenge - they want you to use one/all of the techniques from the article in the November magazine - now having misplaced my magazine - it wouldn't have happened if I hadn't had a tidy up last week - I had to do this from memory. My tag includes two of the splatter techniques I think - the spritzing splatter and the ink stamp splatter. I started with a size 10 manilla tag and added the stamped images - these are from Sheena douglass's little bit magical set. I coloured the inkwell then masked it and stamped the feather in versa and added WOW powders(opaque white) before heat setting. Then I added dylusions sprays in turquoise and purple then distress ink iced spruce. I stamped a script stamp in grey stazon then added the blue splatter stamp using chipped sapphire Distress ink which I also added around the edges of the tag which I cut down a little too. Finally the ribbon!

I'd like to enter this bookmark into the following challenges:

Craft stamper: Take it make it challenge: craftstamperSplat
Pan pastel:panpastel uk AG
country view crafts:countryviewchallenges letters - I think my piece is suitable as it contains letters plus the image is the means for creating them.
C.R.A.F.Ttrimmiescraftchallenge. - for the boys
MAWTTmovingalongwiththetimes: no dp's
charismacharismacardz: ABAC

Thanks for joining me today and for any comments you choose to leave - I really do appreciate them! Hope to see you again soon! Big Hugs rachel x

Embossing fun!

Morning lovelies! I hope you are well and enjoyed another day of sunshine yesterday! It was rather warm here - not complaining though - bring it on!

Today I have a tag to show you - all of the colour on the tag is from heat embossing - the black is stamping with archival ink. Its following the method in this months craft stamper magazine - lots of fun and I think an interesting result:

To make my tag I started with a manilla tag and rubbed versa mark over the entire surface - then I added three different colours of embossing powder in different sections of the tag then heat set. Then I did a little backgrouns stamping. Then using a mask I added more versa mark to make the dotted pattern and added white embossing powder - also added some thunm prints of versa mark and powder too. Then heat set. Finally I did the last bit of stamping with the freebie stamp from Craft stamper this month (from visible image) and some from Imagination Crafts.  What do you think?

I'd like to enter this tag into the following challenges:

Craft StamperMagazine blog:take-it-make-it-challenge-three
IDICrobynsfetishchallengeblog: Tags
TPSthepapershelter: ABAC
LEJlejdesignschallengeblog: Add texture
Pan Pastelpanpasteluk: Male
ABACanythingbutacard: Masculine

Hope you have a wonderful Thursday! Thanks for dropping by and for any comments you choose to leave! Big Hugs! Rachel xx

Just incase you didn't see it - there's also another new Harriet Stamp out at craftysentimentsdesigns:


Isn't she lovely xxx