Masculine Make for Fiskars

Hello there! How are you? I hope you are fine. We are certainly hurtling headlong towards Christmas now aren't we? It was our village ladies Christmas do last night - at a local pub - it was all very nice - I did enjoy myself. We were supposed to be out again tonight but that has sadly had to be cancelled. Still it does mean that we get to watch the strictly final so its not all bad!!!

When I was a guest designer for Fiskars I made a masculine card. I haven't seen it on their page yet so I'm not sure if I should be blogging it - but I am afraid I will forget it if I don't - and I really like it!!!

I made the background using the Fiskars big star mixed media punch plus some textured surfaces from Tim Holtz. I also used a cog stencil and some texture paste.

Once dry I added some raven black paint from indigoblu all over the card and when dry I highlighted parts with blue gilding wax. The topper is a stamp from Tim Holtz.

I do hope you have a good saturday.

Big hugs

Rachel x

star card

Hello there! How are you? I'm feeling a bit more positive - thanks for your kind comments about Missy - I really do miss her - the kids want us to have another pet but I'm not ready for any such thing - and won't be for a long time! They will just have to wait!

Our visit to santa was lovely - we went to some nearby caves and saw him there - here's some pictures ...

      

Oh I love my girls - they are a real tonic - even if they do drive me crackers!!!!

Onto todays card - this is one from my 3 months at Fiskars....

I used a circle punch and made a mask that I inked through. I also added the small punched stars/ The larger circle was cut using the fiskars shape cutter. The stamps on it were from Birgit koopson and Indigo Blu.

I am off to the girls nativity tomorrow - I look forward to it!

Have a good evening!

Hugs

Rachel x

Sparkly stars for fiskars/wow

Morning all! How are you? I do hope that you are okay and are not being too affected by storm Angus . What terrible weather indeed! We have been quite fortunate here for a change! 

Today I would like to share with you a card i made for a joint Fiskars/Wow venture last week. It was all on facebook and the winners will be announced very soon!

Here's the complete make ....and a step by step.

I used distress collage crackle medium through a TH stencil onto a card and left it to dry.

I then used distress crayons to colour the strip.

Next I punched the stars then used a wow embossing glue pad, heated to make it sticky then added the sparkles. I then reheated to set the glitter in place.

Here's a close up of the star plus that crackle - love that!!!

Have a great wednesday!

Hugs

Rachel x

Super star crazy dog!

Hi there! A bit of a late post from me today - I've been out cycling after dropping the girls off at school. Now, having made a quiche for tea I am ready to blog!!!

In the summer I was lucky enough to get a place on the Fiskarettes guest design team - Fiskars have sent me some wonderful goodies to play with and my first make using the goodies is being shown on the Fiskarettes facebook page today! Here's what I made:

I have used the following fiskars products to make this card :

Power punch - star

Small star punch

Tag maker

Guillotine

The power punch was brilliant - it cut through a variety of materials very easily - I have cut through corrugated card and cork on this project and there were no issues at all.

This little chap is of course a crazy dog!!!

The tag maker is very easy to use and makes small tags and adds metal reinforcers to the holes.

There is still a chance to enter a great competition on the fiskars FB page -  

Follow this link - and have a look at what you have got to do to be in with a chance to win! Go on - you know you want to and the prizes are amazing!

I would like to enter this into craftstamper take-it-make-it-challenge-september

Hugs

Rachel x