Roses at the Sunday Stamper

Hello there!

Well all being well we should be travelling home today after a great few days away!!!! Fingers crossed - as this is a scheduled post!

I want to show you what I made for the Sunday stamper this week - infact there isn't much in the way of stamping on it - just a little bit of script on the tub - other than that its largely made from the those beautiful secret garden papers that I had to use as soon as I saw the challenge was Roses.

The tin originally held Joules body wash souffle - have your tried it? Its fabulous stuff - highly recommend it - anyway once finished the tub was washed and dried and given a coating of gesso followed by pink pebeo acrylic paint. Once dry I used the script stamp then cut images of roses from the papers and stuck these at intervals around the side. I've used a crafty sentiments doily die to cover the lid then a chipboard piece and 3 roses I made using the tattered florals flower method from Hels and more graphics 45 papers. Once made they were dunked in UTEE in the meltpot and allowed to cool.The card is simply made from the graphic s 45 papers and a little lace - those papers are so pretty.

I'd like to enter this into the sunday-stamper-week-280 challenge.

Big Hugs and hopefully back to normal tomorrow!

Rachel x

A spooky tag and another technique card

Well hello lovelies - how are you today? I'm good and feeling much better than yesterday when there was a powercut in the night - so no cuppa first thing and no warm milk for my kiddies before school! I hope I remain feeling good after my weigh in later - if I've lost I can have a glass of vino tonight - which may very well be needed since my big girl is going away for her first ever Brownie camp for two nights ----- boo hoo ---- don't worry I know she'll have sooooooo much fun!!!!

So onto today - I've got two makes to share with you - the first was made with My Creative Corner and Country View Crafts in mind. Its a tag using lots of different TH stuff - I had lots of fun doing this:

I started by making the background - I used punice stone and black soot distress inks and smooshed over to cover the tag. Then I applied purple radiant rain using a sponge and did some spritzing and flicking. Next I stamped the cobwebs with versamark and added black embossing powder and heat set then added the black texture paste using an Imagination crafts stencil. I added in the TH Remnant rubs and then stamped the chemist and bottles images, coloured with promarkers and fussy cut before adding them to the piece. Finally I painted the numbers with Distress paints and added them using their brads. Also added the ribbon.

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

Our Creative Corner: ourcreativecorner6Halloween tag with surface texture
Country View Crafts:countryviewchallenges Something Spooky
FSCfashionablestampingchallenges: Use a mask/stencil
LEJ:lejdesignschallengeblog Dark or gothic
PCJpaper-craftingjourney: Halloween colours


Next I want to show you another Sheena technique card - this one is bursting with techniques - but my favourite was making the coin - I melted clear UTEE in the melting pot and added some chunky gold WOW powders, stirred and poured onto a craft sheet. My coin stamp was mounted onto a flat block and I inked it up with black stazon and pressed this into the UTEE. After about 30s to 1 minute I removed the stamp and cut the excess away to reveal the coin embellishment - I think more of this sort of thing will be heading your way shortly!!!!

Have a great Friday! Thanks for dropping by and I hope to see you again soon!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

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Monochrome at Creative Inspirations

Morning all! Hope you are well - and if not here's a big hug xxx Feeling a bit shattered imyself if truth be known. Lucy had a lovely day yesterday though and thanks so much for all the well wishes you sent for her! Here's a picture of her at her birthday tea last night - with her shop bought 1D cake!!! Its what she wanted - who am I to argue?

At Creative Inspirations (cinspirations) this week's challenge is Monochrome!
Use the original black and white theme on your creations or just shades one colour with white!
You can also use Hair / Skin Tones but NO OTHER COLOURS. I have to confess - this was my choice of challenge! Just love monochrome!

This week we have 2 prizes to give away!
The first is from CRIMSON CLOUD who are offering 1 Winner
 3 DIE CUT PACKS OF THEIR CHOICE!

The second of our prizes is from KENNY K DOWNLOADS who are giving another winner

 4 DIGI IMAGES OF THEIR CHOICE!

We are sponsored by Kenny K and I used an image called Farmer's daughter and this is what I did:

Been using the meltpot again with those flowers - tee hee - love it - will need to get one of those ginormous pots of UTEE I think!!!!! The image was coloured with promarkers and fussy cut before sticking on to a spellbinders diecut. The papers are from the linen papermania colourcapsule collection and kraft. The leaves are crafty emblies and the words come from a dylusions samp set.

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

Totally Papercraftstotallypapercrafts: Summer fun

Fussy and fancyfussyandfancychallenge bingo - flowers, free and diecut

sweet stampin sweetstampinchallengeblog- kraft it

2 sisters2sisterschallengeblog: fave embellies - flowers dipped in UTEE

Card maniacardmaniachallenges: Fave embellies: flowers dipped in UTEE

simonsaysstampblog: Monochromatic

Thats all for today folks - thanks for visiting and for all of your wonderful comments which I enjoy reading so much! Hope to see you soon! Hugs Rachel xx