Inspired by Funkie Junkie week 6 from the 12 tags of Christmas

Hello there! How are you? Very good I hope and keeping wrapped up in this cold snap. I can't believe all the snow that has been flying around on pictures in blogland - we've not had any yet - thank goodness! Just to report that Lucy had a great day too - she loved the canoe raft and the tree climbing and was absolutely shattered by the time she came home! So she'll sleep tonight - not sure about the other one though - she's lost her first tooth so is lying in wait for the tooth fairy I think!!!!!

Todays card is inspired by the tag here from Linda Coughlin of the thefunkiejunkie 12-tags-of-christmas challenge sponsored by the thefunkiejunkie Boutique. I was inspired by the plaid and the number , the gold bow and the red cardinals and also the tree.

The paper is from LOTV - the winter wishes pad - and the birds are cut using spellbinders dies. The trees are cut using a die'sire die and then brayered with sparkle medium (diamond) from Imagination Crafts. The numbers have been cut using a cuttlebug die set and the banner is a spellbinders die - I stamped the diecut with a script stamp.Then just added the lace.

I'd like to enter this card into the Funkie Junkie challenge week 6 thefunkiejunkie and also
Fab n funky week 2fabnfunkychallenges: AG
Rhedd and rosiesrheddandrosies: Christmas is coming
TPSthepapershelter: Christmas is coming
Penny'spennyschallenges AG
Tuesday throwdowntuesdaythrowdown: Snowbirds

Now how's about a little candy - its just for you followers and is a commenters candy - its a few things some stamps and papers and a pan pastel that got duplicated in a recent win I had - but if you'd like to be in the running please leave a comment on this post and be a follower. I will draw a winner next Tuesday morning. Just a little thankyou to all you lovely people who comment so regularly!

Thanks for dropping by today and hope to see you again soon! before I go news from Crafty sentiments!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Mid month inspiration post for CCAYR: Winter wonderland

Good afternoon all! I do hope you are well! Did you see Sheena's new stamps - fabulous images - they're going to be a must have for me!!!

Back again with a midway reminder post for CCAYR where we're having a challenge for the whole month called winter wonderland - so get making those christmas cards and link up!

Here's what I did:

The card blank is one of the newish ones from Craftwork cards - my mum and I decided to have a pack and share them and this is the first thing I've done with them. The stamp is from stampendous - I chose this with a £10 voucher I won for my mums craft shop - love this image and I'm sure it won't be the last time I use it this Christmas. I've coloured the image with promarkers and added glitter and decoupaged it up. The papers and sentiment are LOTV. The trees were cut by die'sire dies and then brayered with sparkle medium.

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

CHNCcraftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge: Outdoors
CHNC extracraftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge2: AG
Ladybug Crafts Ink TLTladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog: Use kraft
LEJlejdesignschallengeblog: Seasons greetings
PTWpapertakeweekly: Snow and ice
Divasdivasbydesignchallenge: Something snowy
charismacharismacardz: vintage

I'd also like to show you another card I've made for the pink and white LOTV challenge - this image is just adorable - such cute little angels:

I'd like to enter this into the LOTV ideastoinspirepink and white challenge and also
cute card Thursdaycutecardthursday: so angelic
CLFcraftylittlefairieschallenge: Top of the pops - there must be an angel (playing with my heart)
Bearly minebearlymine-challenges: Christmas in  pink
Ribbon Girl:ribbongirls Add sparkle

Thanks for dropping by today and if this is your second visit - double thanks go out to you. I really do appreciate your visits and any comments you leave.

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

Midway post for Imagination Crafts: Glitter and sparkle

Hello there - this is the first of two posts for me today - midway inspiration for the Glitter and Sparkle Challenge at Imagination Crafts. Anybody can enter but if you want a shot at the prize you need to use something from Imagination Crafts.

Here's what I did:

The frame came from any crafts a pound and I started by giving it a coat of gesso followed by a coat of dark blue acrylic paint. Then I used an Imagination crafts stencil and white acrylic paint and did the swirly leaf design - once dry I repeated with the diamond sparkle medium. Finally I die cut some flowers and brayered with the sparkle medium to cover them then added them to the frame. The gems I added to the flower centres are from chloes.

I'd like to enter the following challenges with my frame:

Happy Campershappycamperscc: Glitter it
panpastelpanpasteluk-altered: altered media

Back later with another inspirational post for CCAYR. Thanks for dropping by and I hope to see you again soon.

Big Hugs Rachel xx