A spooky tag and another technique card

Well hello lovelies - how are you today? I'm good and feeling much better than yesterday when there was a powercut in the night - so no cuppa first thing and no warm milk for my kiddies before school! I hope I remain feeling good after my weigh in later - if I've lost I can have a glass of vino tonight - which may very well be needed since my big girl is going away for her first ever Brownie camp for two nights ----- boo hoo ---- don't worry I know she'll have sooooooo much fun!!!!

So onto today - I've got two makes to share with you - the first was made with My Creative Corner and Country View Crafts in mind. Its a tag using lots of different TH stuff - I had lots of fun doing this:

I started by making the background - I used punice stone and black soot distress inks and smooshed over to cover the tag. Then I applied purple radiant rain using a sponge and did some spritzing and flicking. Next I stamped the cobwebs with versamark and added black embossing powder and heat set then added the black texture paste using an Imagination crafts stencil. I added in the TH Remnant rubs and then stamped the chemist and bottles images, coloured with promarkers and fussy cut before adding them to the piece. Finally I painted the numbers with Distress paints and added them using their brads. Also added the ribbon.

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

Our Creative Corner: ourcreativecorner6Halloween tag with surface texture
Country View Crafts:countryviewchallenges Something Spooky
FSCfashionablestampingchallenges: Use a mask/stencil
LEJ:lejdesignschallengeblog Dark or gothic
PCJpaper-craftingjourney: Halloween colours


Next I want to show you another Sheena technique card - this one is bursting with techniques - but my favourite was making the coin - I melted clear UTEE in the melting pot and added some chunky gold WOW powders, stirred and poured onto a craft sheet. My coin stamp was mounted onto a flat block and I inked it up with black stazon and pressed this into the UTEE. After about 30s to 1 minute I removed the stamp and cut the excess away to reveal the coin embellishment - I think more of this sort of thing will be heading your way shortly!!!!

Have a great Friday! Thanks for dropping by and I hope to see you again soon!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

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Monochrome at Creative Inspirations

Morning all! Hope you are well - and if not here's a big hug xxx Feeling a bit shattered imyself if truth be known. Lucy had a lovely day yesterday though and thanks so much for all the well wishes you sent for her! Here's a picture of her at her birthday tea last night - with her shop bought 1D cake!!! Its what she wanted - who am I to argue?

At Creative Inspirations (cinspirations) this week's challenge is Monochrome!
Use the original black and white theme on your creations or just shades one colour with white!
You can also use Hair / Skin Tones but NO OTHER COLOURS. I have to confess - this was my choice of challenge! Just love monochrome!

This week we have 2 prizes to give away!
The first is from CRIMSON CLOUD who are offering 1 Winner
 3 DIE CUT PACKS OF THEIR CHOICE!

The second of our prizes is from KENNY K DOWNLOADS who are giving another winner

 4 DIGI IMAGES OF THEIR CHOICE!

We are sponsored by Kenny K and I used an image called Farmer's daughter and this is what I did:

Been using the meltpot again with those flowers - tee hee - love it - will need to get one of those ginormous pots of UTEE I think!!!!! The image was coloured with promarkers and fussy cut before sticking on to a spellbinders diecut. The papers are from the linen papermania colourcapsule collection and kraft. The leaves are crafty emblies and the words come from a dylusions samp set.

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

Totally Papercraftstotallypapercrafts: Summer fun

Fussy and fancyfussyandfancychallenge bingo - flowers, free and diecut

sweet stampin sweetstampinchallengeblog- kraft it

2 sisters2sisterschallengeblog: fave embellies - flowers dipped in UTEE

Card maniacardmaniachallenges: Fave embellies: flowers dipped in UTEE

simonsaysstampblog: Monochromatic

Thats all for today folks - thanks for visiting and for all of your wonderful comments which I enjoy reading so much! Hope to see you soon! Hugs Rachel xx

fun with the melt pot

Morning all. How're you doing? Hope you're okay! I'm having trouble with blogger - well its not blogger its my computer - when I try to load up pictures into a post it doesn't want to know and just doesn't do it - now luckily there is another computer in the house so I can save my pictures on my memory stick and go and use other said computer - but its very annoying!!!! I hope I find a way around it soon!!!!

Todays card has been made with a few challenges in mind. Over at the Sunday stamper the theme is diamonds - so I've used some sparkle medium and an Imagination crafts mask and added diamonds. At our creative corner  the theme is words - so I've got bookprint, stamped print and also the words at the top of the card (from a word stamp set by dylusions) . Countryview Crafts are also doing sayings - so I've got the words at the top of the page. And at the Fashionable stamping challenge the theme is bookprint/script so I've got that. Crafty Individuals also has an open theme this month - the focal stamp is from them.

The Crafty Individuals fairy was stamped with sepia Archival onto a background I created using antique linen distress stain and a spritz of water. The flowers were made using the 6 petal flower from the tattered florals die set via the method shown on Hels blog here. I also dipped them into hot UTEE in the meltpot to give the high shine faux porcelain look. The butterfly is a crafty emblie that got the sparkle medium treatment.

The back of the card was distressed with tea dye and then I used a script stamp and the tea dye again to overstamp. The sparkle medium is both antique bronze and diamond - although most of the diamond has been covered by the florals.

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

Sunday Stamperpinkleart: Diamonds
Our Creative Corner:ourcreativecorner6 Words Words Words
Countryview Craftscountryviewchallenges: Sayings
Fashinable stamping challengefashionablestampingchallenges: Script/bookprint
Crafty Individualscraftyindividualsblog: Open theme
Divasdivasbydesignchallenge: Bingo - distressing, lace, flowers.
PTWpapertakeweekly: AG with the option of vintage
LEJlejdesignschallengeblog: Lovely lace
Inky Chicksinkychicks: Lovely Lace
AIartisticinspirationschallenges Bingo - lace, pearls, layers
Stamping sensationssirstampalotchallenge: Wings and things with a touch of vintage

wow - thats a lot of challenges for me!

Anyway - hope you have a fab Friday and that whatever you've got planned goes well. My girls are on their final day of Jujitsu camp - they've had a blast - the smoothies they made yesterday were put into lolly moulds and they'll get a homemade ice lolly today - sounds good eh?  Me? Well I'm running again this morning - come rain or shine - and then it will be time for a little bit of blogging and housework before picking the kidlets up!!!

Big Hugs! Thanks for dropping by and I hope you like what you saw today!

Big Crafty hugs

Rachel xx