Thankyou thankyou thankyou!

Evening lovelies - well I have many things to be thankful for - not least the beautiful cards and gifts many of you have sent to me - I appreciate one and all and feel very much supported in the crafty sphere - so thankyou most sincerely! I will photograph my lovely cards from blog friends shortly but I have not had time just yet - but they are all sitting on my piano and bookshelves looking very beautiful! Thankyou!

Your support has been much appreciated today too - a day which would have been my beautiful Shaun's 48th birthday - his mum is with me and we two and my gorgeous girls went off for an evening at Gargrave near Skipton where we had tea at the anchor inn - its nothing special but Shaun always enjoyed the walk along the canal there then food - so thats what we did. I know he was with us and enjoyed it too!

Yesterday me and my girlies enjoyed our trip to the treetop trek at Brockhole - it was fabulous fun and we managed to do both the green and the blue circuit and the triple zip - excellent fun!







Big smiles all the way!!!!

Today I would like to share a 3D creation I have made using Sheena goodies plus an Eileen hull die.

I love this orchid stamp from Sheena - I've coloured it using spectrum noir pencils and fussy cut then stuck the image to stalks. I used hardboard and an eileen hull die to make the jar and covered it with black card embossed using a sheena folder, highlighted with renaissance gold gilding wax from paperartsy.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

sirstampalotchallenge june-challenge-dies-and-punches

Take care and have a wonderful evening!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

marbling at CC3 challenge

Hello there! How are you today? I hope you're well and happy and if not here's a hug! I had a busy old day with my girls yesterday - but today is going to be even busier I think - and they're back at school. Lol xx

Today I want to show you what I was doing with Anne and Mo on Friday - an ATB - I had first seen these on Anne's blog here and I really wanted to have a go. I've used another set of diecuts to make a set of blocks for the Compendium of Curiosities Vol III challenge 1 - the theme this first fortnight is marbling - the technique is on page 43 of the book and is great fun to do. This challenge is run by Linda Ledbetter and the prizes are amazing. Tim and Mario have donated prizes (thanks guys) and there's also a $50 voucher prize for the inspiration emporium.

First then the ATB I did on Friday - I used mostly stains and inks to create a masterboard that I then cut up and used to stamp TH (Nature walk) images on.

The smaller ones on the left were hurridly finished off last night - not very well! The larger ones I did at Mo's - I love them - and can see them becoming a firm favourite. They are made using dies from Eileen Hull at Sizzix. The largest box is on one die and the three smaller ones are on another die.

So the extra set I used to make this tower that I want to enter into the CC3 challenge - the masterboard this time was made up using the marbling technique from the book and the stamps I used were from the Mariposa set and also the words were from the random quotes set.

I love this set of stamps and I love the technique. The distress paints I used were mowed lawn, bundled sage, broken china and forest moss.

So the challenges I would like to enter my tower of ATB's into is:

CC3 Challengecc3c01: Marbling

Allsortsallsortschallenge: Butterflies

Totally Gorjuss:totallygorjuss Things with wings

Sunday stamper pinkleart- life

thats craftythatscraftychallenges: spring is in the air

CVCcountryviewchallenges: Natures Glories

Artistic stamper:theartisticstampercreativeteam In the garden

We had a great day yesterday - me and my girls walked to Wray for the annual fair - it was a nice walk and we had fun:

fairground rides

donkey rides

motorbiking

Thats all for today - thanks for dropping by and I hope you enjoyed you visit - thanks so much to Anne for bringing the ATB's to my attention and also to Mo for hosting our fabby craft day!

Big hugs

Rachel xx