Pinks and Reds at creative inspirations

Good morning to you! How are you today? I'm fine and well and looking forward to a nice run today - not sure what the weather will have in store for me though!!!!!

This week's challenge at creative inspirations is Pinks & Reds!
This week's theme was chosen by DT Member CAROLINE as it is her chosen month!

We ONLY want to see the colours Pink & Red on your creations,
of course you may also use Hair / Skin tones. 

This week we are joined by our brand new sponsor CRAFTIE-CHARLIE who are giving the Winner a £15 GIFT VOUCHER!

I've got some white on my creation too! And black - ooops!!! The dominant colours are pink and red though and thats what we're looking for!

I've used a die by heartfelt creations (thanks mum) to cut the flowers and have layered them up - some look a bit purply but trust me they are pink! The paper is from LOTV and the stamp is Tim Holtz.

Everytime I stamp this or see it it makes me sing the version of the song from the Moulin Rouge film - brilliant film - not seen that for ages!!!

Penny had a lovely day out yesterday - the weather was much kinder for her than it was the day before for Lucy. She had a lovely time and the best thing she did was climb a mountain (big hill) and drink hot chocolate at the top of it! Sounds pretty cool to me!

I got to see my dad yesterday too! He's looking well and is just about over the after effects of his procedure which is excellent. He's adamant he's not having it again though! 

Thats all for today - thanks for visiting and I hope to see you again soon! Hugs rachel xx

Winter Box for Bez - and candy winner

Hello there! Hope you are fit and well and if not here's a hug! Hope that might help! Its the last day of half term today so I'm busy frantically trying to get everything in place - time is always a premium when the kiddies are off on their holidays. And we're off on a jolly to Bristol next week too - from Weds to Saturday - really excited about that!

Before \I show you todays post I must tell you about my candy winner - I failed miserably to take a copy of the image of the mr random but my numbers were 1 -27 and the comment was number three which is hazelsbasketsofjoy! So Hazel - if you could email me your address I'll get the goodies in the post to you ASAP. I have another smaller candy that I didn't advertise too so I put the numbers in again and it came out with the number 16 - stampinginpink Karen. So Karen - I think I have your address but if you could email me then I won't have to look hard!!! Hope that lifts your day ladies!!!

Onto todays post. I've altered a small box (measures about 5" by 6") and will put some goodies in it for my mil for Christmas.

First of all I painted the box with gesso then blue acrylic paint. Next I used versa mark and added the snowflakes stamps and then added sparkling snow wow powders and heat set. Next I did the same with a small star stamp and then added silver wow powders and heat set. Then I added a layer of spray and sparkle from Crafters Companion the silver one. Whilst that dried I stamped the Crafty Individuals image with black archival and heat set before distressing with salty ocean DI. I added the lace around the back of the image then added this to the top of the box. Then I used my mums heartfelt creations die and poinsettia stamp and made the flowers - the image was stamped with versamark  and heat set with wow powders in silver. I stuck the flowers on and added the gems - then added a little frantage and finally the sentiment.

I'd like to enter this box into the following challenges:
Crafty Individualscraftyindividualsblog: October inspired - October is the month my Christmas prepartions reallyH get into full swing!!!!
Funkie Junkie 12 tags of Christmas sponsored by the funkie junkie boutique - week 2 thefunkiejunkie: I was inspired by the stars and the deer on your beautiful creation Linda.
Polkadoodlespolkadoodle: Christmas
Allsortsallsortschallenge: Ribbon and bow
The male room:themaleroomchallengeblog Nature - although this project is for a lady I think it would do for a male too x
Rhedd and Rosiesrheddandrosies: AG
Crafty Catzcraftycatzweeklychallenge: A gift to remember
craftyribbonschallenge-anything-but-card.

Thanks for visiting today - I've got another altered piece to share with you tomorrow - but until then have fun and be good - alright maybe you could be just a tinsey bit naughty!!!! Big Hugs

Rachel xx