Bravo Jo Rice!!!

Hello Lovelies - well its been a fabulous day - I've been to Clarity Cumbria and the wonderful Jo Rice has come up trumps again with some amazing designs - here are my takes on her makes:

I love love love them all - but the second make - bottom left - has to be my fave .... a closer look:

This one was coloured using spectrum aqua markers ...

This one made up the background after stamping the geese and masking. The background was built up using adirondack inks, clarity stencil brushes and a moon mask and a piece of torn paper.

This one is a bit different from Jo's - I took the cockerel stamp set too so used that for the last two. 

The background on this one was a mop up from the aqua markers used on the first.

I think they're all amazing designs - thanks to Jo for a fabulous day of wonderful makes and to Lisa and Freda for lovely company today! 

Hope you all have had a wonderful Saturday!

Big huggles!

Rachel xx

Favourite technique at Craft a scene - week 2

Hello there and Happy Sunday to you! I hope you are well and happy and coping in this wild weather. The winds have been really bad up here this weekend. Still rather appropriately we went to the swimming pool in Kendal - had a great swim - I managed 24 lengths this week and my breathing just seemed to click - much much better I think!

Its the second Sunday of the month so its my second chance to tell you about the current challenge over at Craft a scene - the theme for february is to use your favourite technique to create a scene. I chose the technique of acetate overlay - and I've done the same again this week.

I used some of the sheena oriental stamps to create the main background scene - painting with distress inks. Then on the overlay I added the branches of the cherry blossom in versamark, heat set with black wow powders and painted on the reverse with silkies from Imagination Crafts. 

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

Kraftyhandskraftyhandschallenge: Spring Flowers

Twisted Tuesdaytwistedtuesdaychallenges - sky plus something that flies

Polkadoodles:polkadoodle AG

PTWpapertakeweekly: AG

fashionablestampingchallenges - build it up

Thanks for dropping by today and for any comments you choose to leave! Big Hugs and hope to see you again soon! 

Rachel xx

Any scene goes at craft-a-scene

Afternoon all! I hope you're well and happy and managing to avoid the dreadful weather we've been having - my heart goes out to you if you've been affected by the flooding - I do hope that things get back to normal for you soon.

Today sees the start of the new challenge over at Craft a scene - the theme this month is very open - any scene goes. When creating your scene you should try to use more than one stamp! For my card I've used a number of stamps from the set released recently by Sheena Douglass. I also used the ombre technique from last months craft stamper magazine to create the background.

To create the ombre I used faded jeans, tumbled glass and peacock feathers distress inks - then i stamped the silhouette images in black sometimes adding second generation ink to give a little depth. Then I added the bubbles in peacock feathers. You can see what my teamies have done and enter the challenge yourselves here.

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

Craft stamper craftstamper- Take it make it challenge
Alicraftali-craft: AG
Allsorts CBallsortschallenge: Free and easy
Heck of a challengeheckofachallenge - New  (new stamps)
simon says stamp:simonsaysstampblog New - new stamps
Totally papercraftstotallypapercrafts: New
A creative romanceacreativeromance - New


Thanks so much for dropping by today and I look forward to reading your comments! Thanks for any that they choose to leave! Big Hugs Rachel xx