feminine at clarity

Hello lovelies! How are you? I hope you are well - and a very happy Easter to you! We are hoping to have a relaxed day together today - me and my girls - but there may be a bit of Easter Egg hunting going on I suspect!

Today I want to share with you the card I have made for the Clarity challenge - all about the girls.

I have used Clarity stamps and stencils to make this card ...

First I created the background using torn paper and adirondack inks applied with clarity brushes. Then I used the stencil to add the ladies...

I used parts of stamps plus full stamps to add vegetation details. Plus the word Faith.

I finally added a splash of white acrylic paint to add some precipitation onto the card. 

I would like to enter this into the claritystampchallenge 37 all about the girls.

Have a great Good Friday.

Hugs

Rachel xx

Together in Electric Dreams

Hello Lovelies! How are you today? I hope you are feeling fine? I am doing good - I was really pleased yesterday as I swam a mile for the first time ever! Brilliant! I'm going to see if I can repeat it today - woohoo!

Today I have a canvas to share with you - its A4 in size. Its done mostly with the FSC stamping challenge Lovers in mind.

I created the background using a stencil from clarity - I applied some wendy vecchi crackle paste through it then left it to dry. Once dry I painted it with black gesso and let that dry. Then I applied some silver pebeo gilding wax from pebeo and rubbed over this with a variety of alcohol inks.

The central stamp is from a christmas set by Sheena douglass - I coloured it in distress inks.

Here's a close up of the effect on the crackle paste of the gesso, gilding wax and alcohol ink.

I thought it looked dreamy - thats why I chose the song. It just came to me - then that got me thinking about my lovely Shaun - we'll always be together in electric dreams!! Quite fitting as he was a physicist!

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

fashionablestampingchallenges-96-lovers

simonsaysstampblog wednesdaychallengeanything-goes-15

inspiration emporium - everything goes

welove2create challenge-9-anything-creativemixed

Big Hugs!!

Rachel xx

Resist at Craft Stamper

Good morning lovelies! I hope you are fit and well this morning. We are all good - Penny has a trip today - Forest school.. this basically involves making dens in the local woodland - great stuff - I wish they had done that when I was at school!!!!

I'm off to the last Coffee pot this morning - I'm not on duty today - I'm just going as its the final one - Diana is in charge today - I wonder what we'll make!!

I have my first entry for the resist challenge at Craft stamper magazine this month. Here's what I did:

I used the clarity stencil and versa marked through it then randomly added blue and purple wow powders then heat set. Next I set about adding distress peacock feathers to the design and added some black soot too and finally the white gel pen dots. I then fussy cut the circle.

Then I made the background - I stamped the CB image in versa and added black wow powders then heat set. Then I added a combination of peacock feathers and black soot and highlighted with the white gel pen.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

craftstamper- take it make it July: Resist

Stencil itcountryviewchallenges: CVC

Thats Crafty:thatscraftychallenges Masks, stencils or templates

Thanks for dropping by today and for any comments you choose to leave!

Big hugs

Rachel xx

Chocolate Baroque Butterflies (again) and some monochrome male cards

Hello there! How are you? Thanks for your comments about my cards yesterday - I've got more cards today - three this time!!!! The first is one using stamps from Chocolate baroque plus a stencil from Clarity.

First of all I created an inky background with various pink/purple distress inks then stamped the moon/flower scene on top and the butterflies - \i reversed the second butterfly using my brayer. Then I applied the clarity stencil to some card and used the same DI colours to create the background,

Next I matted and layered and added the topper.

Finally I used the follow your passion stamp to add further background interest before adding the butterflies.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Charismacharismacardz:anything goes

crafty calendar challengescraftycalendarchallenge: things with wings

Next - my male cards - I keep trying to get something in craftstamper magazine - without success. These two cards were for a ready set stamp challenge where you had to make a male card in black white and grey. Here's my entries:

They are pretty simple but I was pleased with them - I sent the top one to my nephew for his 21st birthday.

 I'd like to enter my male cards into the without words challengewithoutwordschallenge - gentlemen only.

Simon says stamp: simonsaysstampbloghappy birthday.

Thats all for today folks - hope you're okay. Lucy had a fabulous day yesterday - the best thing she did was something called the skypole and the other thing she loved was the kayaking! Sounds brilliant - although it did rain for most of the day!  She also jumped in the lake - with a  wetsuit on! They didn;t do trips like that when I was at school! I wonder what peny will get up to today?

Big Hugs and thanks for visiting!

Rachel xx

monochrome at Clarity

Good morning all! How are you today? I'm super excited as yesterday I learned I won the stamping sensations challenge for March - I was so pleased - thankyou very much!

Now todays card I'm not so happy with - I adore the background using my new clarity stencil but I don't feel the card works overall - still - this is my warts and all blog so here goes:

I feel I need a butterfly on there and my clarity butterfly was not for coming out to play to I had to leave it!!!! Maybe I'll try something else later in the month if I get chance - I do love all three clarity stencils I bought last week though - they're just fabulous. All have been used - you'll have to wait to see them!!

The greens are all distress inks applied through the stencil using cut and dry foam - there's bundled sage, mowed lawn, crushed olive, shabby shutters, pine needles and forest moss. 

I'd like to enter this card into the claritystampchallenge which is Monochrome this month.

Hope you have a great Saturday - we've nothing planned - not sure what we'll be doing but the forecast looks rubbish!!! 

Thanks for popping by!

Big hugs 

Rachel xx