autumn hedgies

Morning all! Well there's certainly an autumnal feel about the days now....is it the same where you are? The trees here are starting to shed plenty of golden leaves and its all very colourful! Fabulous for inspiration don't you think?

Well its going to be another busy morning for me - our PTA host a Macmillan Coffee morning at school between 10 and 12 so as soon as I've dropped the girls off I'll be hot footing it around to the front of school to help get tables and chairs set up for the coffee morning and get the cakes and biscuits put out for people to buy. We're having a raffle too and have got lots of fabulous prizes from the community - I'll let you know tomorrow how much we raise!

Today I'm sticking with the autumn theme and showing you a hanger I've made with a few challenges in mind.

The hedgie stamp is of course Penny Black and its been stamped onto sheena shapes and coloured with promarkers. The leaf stamp is also a sheena stamp. The bottom hearts have been coloured with distress stains and stamped with leaves. I've added the word autumn to the middle heart and a crafty emblie wooden leaf to the bottom heart.

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

Penny Black and Morepennyblackatallsorts: Autumn
Penny Black Saturday Challengepennybfriendssaturdaychallenge: ABAC
Crafty Little Fairiesliliofthevalleythursdaychallenge: Autumn colours


Thanks for your lovely comments yesterday and I hope you've enjoyed your visit today. Looking forward to seeing you again soon! Big Crafty Hugs

Rachel xx

Imagine green!

Good morning all! How are you? Hope you are well and happy! Me and my girlies had a fab evening yesterday - we went to see Robin Hood at Williamson Park in Lancaster. The weather was awful - but we still had a truely wonderful time. Brilliant production!

I've been having fun making this tag I want to show you today - the challenge over at the sunday stamper was Green - so thats the colour of choice for me today! Here's my tag!

The Crafty Individuals Imagine stamp was stamped first in black archival and I added a mask to her face. The tag was then  coloured with distress stains and inks and spritzed with water before overstamping with a music background stamp in forestmoss DI. Then I got busy with the embellies - the hat and bird were stained - they were from crafty emblies. The flowers and leaves were added as was the ribbon and finally the Tim word Bar.

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

Sunday stamper:pinkleart Green
Crafty Individualscraftyindividualsblog: Open theme
Simon says stampsimonsaysstampblog: Monochromatic

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

Rachel xx

fun with the melt pot

Morning all. How're you doing? Hope you're okay! I'm having trouble with blogger - well its not blogger its my computer - when I try to load up pictures into a post it doesn't want to know and just doesn't do it - now luckily there is another computer in the house so I can save my pictures on my memory stick and go and use other said computer - but its very annoying!!!! I hope I find a way around it soon!!!!

Todays card has been made with a few challenges in mind. Over at the Sunday stamper the theme is diamonds - so I've used some sparkle medium and an Imagination crafts mask and added diamonds. At our creative corner  the theme is words - so I've got bookprint, stamped print and also the words at the top of the card (from a word stamp set by dylusions) . Countryview Crafts are also doing sayings - so I've got the words at the top of the page. And at the Fashionable stamping challenge the theme is bookprint/script so I've got that. Crafty Individuals also has an open theme this month - the focal stamp is from them.

The Crafty Individuals fairy was stamped with sepia Archival onto a background I created using antique linen distress stain and a spritz of water. The flowers were made using the 6 petal flower from the tattered florals die set via the method shown on Hels blog here. I also dipped them into hot UTEE in the meltpot to give the high shine faux porcelain look. The butterfly is a crafty emblie that got the sparkle medium treatment.

The back of the card was distressed with tea dye and then I used a script stamp and the tea dye again to overstamp. The sparkle medium is both antique bronze and diamond - although most of the diamond has been covered by the florals.

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

Sunday Stamperpinkleart: Diamonds
Our Creative Corner:ourcreativecorner6 Words Words Words
Countryview Craftscountryviewchallenges: Sayings
Fashinable stamping challengefashionablestampingchallenges: Script/bookprint
Crafty Individualscraftyindividualsblog: Open theme
Divasdivasbydesignchallenge: Bingo - distressing, lace, flowers.
PTWpapertakeweekly: AG with the option of vintage
LEJlejdesignschallengeblog: Lovely lace
Inky Chicksinkychicks: Lovely Lace
AIartisticinspirationschallenges Bingo - lace, pearls, layers
Stamping sensationssirstampalotchallenge: Wings and things with a touch of vintage

wow - thats a lot of challenges for me!

Anyway - hope you have a fab Friday and that whatever you've got planned goes well. My girls are on their final day of Jujitsu camp - they've had a blast - the smoothies they made yesterday were put into lolly moulds and they'll get a homemade ice lolly today - sounds good eh?  Me? Well I'm running again this morning - come rain or shine - and then it will be time for a little bit of blogging and housework before picking the kidlets up!!!

Big Hugs! Thanks for dropping by and I hope you like what you saw today!

Big Crafty hugs

Rachel xx

Pretty in pink

Hello there! Well it was a gorgeous day yesterday up here - we had a wonderful day out at Stanley Park in Blackpool. I wonder if we'll be so lucky today - the forecast is pretty awful - looks like I'm in for a wet run!!!

Today I've gor a card I made using the pink (magenta twinkle) embossing powder that I bought at the show in Doncaster. Its fabulous - and makes my card really sparkle.

I used Sheena Douglass Hibiscu stamps and stamped them in versa mark onto centura pearl pink card from crafters companion - then I added the wow powders and heat set.  I used spectrum noir pens to add colour to the flowers centres - OR1 and BP2. The leaves were stamped in a similar way and embossed with wow holly green. The central stamp is from LOTV and I stamped this in archival black and cut it out with a spellbinders circular die. The backing paper is already pink - then I altered it with dylusions bubblegum spray and distress stain worn lipstick.

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

Krafty Handskraftyhandschallenge: Pretty in Pink
LOTV ideas to inspireideastoinspire.: Pretty in pink
Bearly minebearlymine-challenges: AG
In the pinkinthepinkchallenge: Hot Pink
wow embossing powder challengewowembossingpowder: summer and sunshine
stamping sensations july challengesirstampalotchallenge: summer colours
countryview crafts:countryviewchallenges Sizzling summer

Hope you have a great sunday - if I get back from my run early enough we're hoping to go off to Manchester - but that very much depends on me!!! Lol!!!

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

Hugs

Rachel xx

Tims Tags June 2013 and a WOW workshop

Hello there! Well I got around to making my Tims tag for June and finally there came a month where I had most things I needed! I don't have many distress markers yet but I managaed to choose an image that allowed me to utilise the few I have got. I really enjoyed using them too so will definitely be getting more.

Here's tims tag:


And here's mine:

the photographs don't show up the green too well - but its definitely there! I really enjoyed following the steps on this one and finally got to try out my distress paints - I used bundled sage and forest moss in distress paints and victorian velvet in distress stain swooshing them al together on the background. The pear image was stamped using archival ink on water colour card and I used ditress markers to colour the pear along with a water brush - again I used victorian velvet and also shabby shutters. I've also used the rubs from last month on the back of the tag and squidgey pins from the lovely kath to add the details of the cogs to the base of the tag. After tearing the base of the water colour card I also used cut and dry foam and tea dye distress ink to colour in the edges.

I'd like to enter this tag into the challenges Tims tags 2013june
and also the sunday stamper -pinkleart male.

Yesterday I also did a workshop with my ladies from the church - we did a WOW card this time - they enjoyed the embossing and diecutting - here's the card that they were trying to do.

Unfortunately I forgot my camera and although I took some pictures on my phone they don't look brilliant so I've not uploaded them here! I think the ladies had fun though and some followed the design whilst others did their own thing! I took lots of different dies along so they had choices!!

Thats all for today and thanks for your feedback - I do appreciate it! Big Crafty hugs!

Rachel xx