Let your imagination fly

Hello there! How are you? I hope you are well and happy! Well this is my final post for my guest design slot with Chocolate Baroque. I feel very happy to have had this opportunity and thank Lesley very much. I have made a 3D piece using a Tando Creative Birdhouse kit.

I started the piece by painting it with acrylic paint and once dry I used the chocolatebaroque rustic-fragments-rubber-stamps to add detail to the house and roof.

Next I stamped and fussy cut the birds from the chocolatebaroque fly-away-with-me rubber-stamp-sheet - I had to use a brayer trick to reverse one of the smaller birds. I wanted it to look as though they were talking to each other. 

I stuck the birds on then added the foliage which was part of the original kit. I also stamped the flowers which were part of the chocolatebaroque birdcage-collage-stamp.

On the back I added part  of the sentiment from the Fly away with me rubber stamp sheet.

Here's a closer look at the flowers.

I hope you have enjoyed this post!

See you again soon!

Hugs

Rachel xx

A fishy bottle

Good morning lovelies! Well how are you today? We had a glorious day yesterday out in the sunshine in the Lakes - we took the girls on a shorter walk this time - only three miles around Rydal water near Grasmere.



Penny took this one!



As you can see it was very sunny and we all had a lovely day!!!! The girls said the walking was a bit better but I don't think they really comprehend our love of it yet! We'll keep trying!

Thanks for your comments on my canvas yesterday - you are very kind. I've got my entry for this months craft stamper challenge to share with you today - the theme is to use a bottle - well I've used a tando creative bottle from thatcraftplace and altered it to look like a fishbowl using Sheena Douglass stamps.

I started by mixing up some primary elements paints and painting the back layer of the bottle and the front layer - I used a combination of greens and blues and when dry I stamped the background seaweed images. 

Next I stamped the fish and seahorses onto heat proof acetate with versa and used yellow and blue wow powders then heat set. I painted the reverse of the images with more primary elements. I added the layers of acetate to the layers of the bottle and gradually buit the whole thing up.

Finally I covered the top of the bottles with versa and heat set with brass wow powders to give a metallic look to the top of the bottle. I did the same with the chain. Then I added the bubbles by stamping and the seashells. 

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

Wow powders:wowembossingpowder metal

Craft stampercraftstamper: bottles.

Crafty Catzcraftycatzweeklychallenge: B is for bottle

I've got a little Easter candy to offer to you - you must be a follower but all you need to do is leave a comment on this post and I will add your name to the draw -

The candy consists of:

a red pan pastel

2 packs of paper strips

Kanban butterfly stamps

sentiment stamps

Lindsay mason puppy stamps

silhouette tree stickers

I hope somebody can find a home for these items! I will draw a name from all comments left on this post by the 1st May.

Big Hugs to you and a Happy Easter.

Rachel xx