memories are made of this! - and a torn gelli plate!

Hi there! How are you? I hope you are well! We had a good day at mum and dads yesterday and managed an hour in the park before the rain became too heavy! We're back there again today - got to take the parentals to do their shopping - I'm not very fond of this job when the kids are off school but its a necessity. Hopefully it won't take too long!!!

Today i have a scrapbook page to share with you - I am a lapsed scrapper - but really feel the need to start catching up a bit. I've also got a card to share with you following Barbara Grays Tuesday U tube torn gelli plate film - Cool!

First off- the scrapbook page - when the sunday stamper's theme this week was Memories I immediately thought of scrapbooking and the first photos that came to hand were from my eldest daughter Lucy's 6th birthday. I followed a sketch from scrap365 and this is what I did:

The pink card is from coordinations and I started by adding the diamond pattern on it using a mask from imagination crafts and some distress ink applied using cut and dry foam.  Next I added the photographs.

Then i turned to diecutting and used a TH fluorish die and a TH lattice framework die. 

Finally I stamped up the title bar then added the flowers - from moulds and Utee in the melt pot - and also the stars that I was sent when I won a candy from Heather from the House mouse challenge. Thanks heather xx.

I'd like to enter this layout into:

scrap365: Sketch

Sunday stamperpinkleart : Memories

Next up is my first attempt at Barbara Grays 3 layer torn gelli plate technique - this is a clever one and I like it - you can see it here.

its not quite up to barbaras' standard but not bad i think for a first effort! I shall be playing with this idea I think!!!

Hope you have enjoyed your visit - thanks for coming and please come back again soon! 

Big Hugs rachel xx

wishing you all the best for 2014

Hello lovelies - so its the last day of the year - hope its been a good one for you? If not or if it has  - I hope 2014 brings you health, wealth and happiness..... but most of all health and happiness - definitely the most important of the three!

Today I have my first card to show you that I made playing with the gelli plate - I have made more before this one - but this is the first I can show you - I had fun with the lettering - it didn't take me long to realise I needed to put the masks on in reverse for the printing process - doh!!!!!

The owl is from a stamp by Artemio - I have stamped it on many different papers and pieced it up. The same papers were cut with a spellbinders die and used to make the flower up.

I'd like to enter this in the sunday-stamper - wish challenge and the sweetstampinchallengeblog birds challenge. I'd also like to enter this into the New Challenge at totallygorjuss and also craftyourpassionchallengesCYPC - my gelli plate is new!!!!!

Thanks so much for looking - I do hope you've enjoyed your visit - and I hope you have a very happy new year!

Hugs

Rachel xx

String at the sunday stamper

Good morning lovelies! How are you today? I'm  feeling a bit housebound as we're having a condensation unit fitted at the moment and so I couldn't go out at all yesterday and today looks set to be a repeat! Still its useful in as much as I can get some much needed and neglected jobs done. Or I can craft!!!!! Lol!!!!

Today I want to show you a tag I made for the Sunday Stamper - the challenge this week is string - well as soon as I saw that I knew i wanted to do one of the string bows I keep seeing over on pieces by tracyevans - that was the starting point for this tag and everything else evolved around it.

I must tell you - I'm very happy with this piece - love that stamp from Crafty Individuals - thats going to be featured again very soon I should think! Okay - to make my tag I've firstly stamped the snowflake and swirly borders from a set of stamps by sheena douglass - in versamark and added sparkling white wow powders and heat set. Then I used distress inks - antique linen, tea dye, walnut stain and weathered wood and tumbled glass to complete the background. Once dry I stamped the words in versa again and added gold detail powder and heat set. The image was simply stamped on a piece of paper in sepia archival then the image was cut out and mounted on the tag.Then I added the string (twine with some DI added to grunge it up) and finally the jewel! This was from chloes.

I'd like to enter my tag into the challenges at the Sunday stamperpinkleart-283-string-of-pearls and also

Wow embossing powder challengewowembossingpowder: Christmas
rhedd and rosiesrheddandrosies: Christmas is coming
Divas:divasbydesignchallenge make it pretty
cute card Thursdaycutecardthursday: ABAC
PCJpaper-craftingjourney: Bling it up
glitter -n- sparkle - tag itglitternsparklechallengeblog

Thanks for popping by today and for any comments you choose to leave - I had a commenters candy yesterday if you missed it just go for the older post!

Big Hugs for a happy Friday!

Rachel x

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