Little Butterfly Lucy

Good morning to you - I hope you are well. Thanks for your kind comments yesterday - I'm very excited about todays make - its very bright - but I love it to pieces - I hope you do too. Its a layout for the challenge over at Scrap 365 where you have to use their sketch. Here's my layout first then I'll show you the sketch later. Have you got those sunnies on?

Here's the sketch I followed:

I took a piece of A3 Centura pearl and cut it to 12x12 size - it was actually 11.75 x 11.75.  Next I added bright distress stains (to match the colours in the photo) to my craft mat and spritzed them with water - then I swooshed the card through the paints. I tried to cover as much of the card as possible then dried with a heat gun. Next I applied distress ink to fill any gaps and give even more impact.

Next came the stamping - I used black versafine and a fluorish stamp from sheena douglass and a butterfly stamp from chocolate baroque. I then did some stencilling using the TH bubble stencil and some black dreamweaver embossing paste.

Then I stamped the title - and left everything to dry. Finally I used a white pen to add highlights - - I think this is so effective! I wish to enter my layout into the following challenges:

scrap365: sketch

simonsaysstampblog - mondaychallenge - start from scratch

anythingbutacard - anything-goes-in-cre8time-for-week-one.html

thatscraftychallenges - masks-stencils-templates-challenge

countryviewchallenges- stencil it

Thats all for today - I hope you have a wonderful Friday and I look forwars to seeing you again soon! Hugs Rachel xx

texture at the sunday stamper

Morning all! I do hope you're well and happy! Thankyou so much for all your wonderful comments yesterday - I really do appreciate them. I hope you like what I've got to show you today. Its a book box that I've made for my husband Shaun.

So to start with I painted the book box with gesso then used the prima stencil and black embossing paste to add the texture to the front. Once dry I used London blue dylusions to spray parks of the front and back then whilst the dylusions was still wet chipped sapphire distress ink to the remaining spaces and smooshed it all together. I used urban stamps from papermania to add text and equations (hubbies a physicist so he'll love that). I also added paint splat stamps in chipped sapphire.  The umbrella man is a diecut that I added then the stamped letters (claritystamps) and the clock and bar sentiment. On the back I used a stencil from Imagination Crafts and black dreamweaver embossing paste and finally I used some apothecary papers to line the box.

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

Sunday stamper:pinkleart sunday-stamper-week-281-you-raise-me-up You raise me up - add texture
panpastel:panpasteluk Anything goes
Jellyparkjellyparkchallenges: ABAC
Fussy and Fancy:fussyandfancychallenge Black and Blue
C.R.A.F.Ttrimmiescraftchallenge: For the boys
charismacharismacardz: ABAC
simon says stamp weds challengesimonsaysstampblog: AG
Ccountryviewchallengeschallenge-9-november: letters
craftstamper/take-it-make-it-challenge-five

Thanks for dropping by today and I look forward to seeing you again soon!
Nearly forgot - there's a 48 hour sale going on at Crafty sentiments - check this out:

Big Hugs

Rachel xx