silver wedding card commission

Good morning all! I hope you had a great weekend? We had fun yesterday at Fell Foot Park on Lake Windermere - one of our favourite days out. Can I just say welcome to my new followers too - I hope you enjoy what you see!

Well usually on a Monday I'm showing you a Christmas card - but with the school holidays upon us I'm afraid all of my usual habits will be gone - I've just got to post what I can when I can! This morning I've got a silver wedding card to show you that a friend commissioned me to make.

I do hope my friend likes it and that the recipients do too! I find it hard to believe that 1987 is 25 years ago! I'm sure many of you know what I mean!

I've used card from hunkydory and flowers from WOC - the dies are sizzix and xcut.

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

CACBcraftyannschallengeblog: Easel card

Samuel Taylorssamueltaylors: Dies

Back tomorrow with my DT post for LEJ Designs! See you then - hopefully! Thanks for visiting and for any comments you choose to leave!

Hugs Rachel xx

Pucker up

Evening all! I hope you've all had a great Saturday? Mine has been good - the girls have been working through their crafty stash and then we made some cakes and took them to a friends house warming and now they're starting to think about bedtime and I've got a little time since its my husbands story time tonight!

I've got a card to share with you tonight with another Mo Manning image on it -

I've made this card for a little girl called Merridith who will be 6 in August. I may put a glittery pink 6 on it - will have to decide when I find it!!! So I've used kraft paper and paper from Kate Knight. The image is Mo Manning and it was coloured using promarkers. The Tag is a whimsy stamp and the flower is from WOC. The Ribbon is from Fantastic Ribbons.

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

Sue's sketch at the sketchandstashchallenge - the stash is the paper

CYPCcraftyourpassionchallenges: ribbon and Kraft

Whoopsi Daisycutedaisymay: Use up your stash - paper again!

divasbydesignchallenge: Anything goes

audsentimentschallengeblog: Tag it

Mo's Digitalmosdigitalchallenge: Hugs and kisses

MAWTTmovingalongwiththetimes: Pink, pearl and pretty

I'm hoping the weather is good again tomorrow - it'll be time for a family day out at Fell Foot Park if it is!

Big hugs and thanks for dropping by and for any comments you choose to leave!

Rachel xx

A big thankyou to Jo and Rebecca and a scrapbook page

Evening all -

well the first day of the holidays came and went - and it was thankfully made all the easier by a fabulous delivery from Jo (http://mycraftingcorner-jo.blogspot.co.uk/) and her daughter Rebecca. They sent my girls some fab card making stuff - and a stamp for me too! What wonderful people you are Rebecca and Jo - we can't thank you enough!  Here's a picture of Lucy and Penny with their stash - and one of them with their ATC's made by Rebecca.

In the first picture they're holding a beautiful card that Jo sent along with a lovely letter. As you can imagine they have been busy making thankyou cards - but they decided that they also want to make an ATC each to send back to you Rebecca so although the cards are ready - I don't think we'll make tomorrow's post with the ATC's!

Okay dokey - onto my other thing for tonight - the Happy Scrappers are having a challenge whereby you have to show a layout of a brithday celebration - this is mine from Penny's 4th birthday party back in February:

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

http://thehappyscrapperschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/ch-3-birthday-celebrations.html

That's all for now folks!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Christmas in July

Hello everybody,

Well I'm posting this card this evening because the school holidays begin tomorrow and where I would normally have bliss and peace - my world is going to be noisy and hectic - my gorgeous girls are off for the summer! woo hoo! Hence i thought I would try to get ahead of myself and do this now!

So, a Christmas card for your perusal:

The image is from the Scrapbook stamp society and the layout is following a sketch from christmas card challenges with sketches.

I've coloured the image using promarkers and added glitter. I've used a punch from martha stewart to create the snoflake border and the paper is from american crafts (I think - it was sitting in my scrap box).

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

scrapbookstampsocietychallengeblog: Sing a song of Christmas.

christmaschallenges: with sketches: 33

whimsyinspires: punches and edgers

papertakeweekly: all things girly

CHNCcraftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge: Twinkle Twinkle little star

jellyparkchallenges: Christmas in July

That's all folks! Might be back again tomorrow night! Big Hugs Rachel xxx

DT post for Desmet Designs: A day at the office

Good Morning - I hope you are all well! Today over at Desmet Designs Challenge Blog there is a new challenge starting. This fortnight the challenge is called 'a day at the office'. There will be a randomly chosen winner who will be able to choose two digis from the Desmet Designs store here

Marie is offering some freebies to use if you want - they can be found here freebies

 My offering today uses some of the digital papers made by Marie. I've made a pen holder and covered the parts that hold the pens in the digital papers.

My creation was made from an inner roll from some wrapping paper - I just cut the rolls to different sizes, covered them with papers that I'd printed out and stuck them all together - it certainly has made my craft 'office' a little tidier - and made a home for my spectrum noir pens and marbling inks!

I hope it might inspire you if you need to do some tidying!!!!

See you all tomorrow!

Hugs

Rachel xx

dancing with a song in my heart

Good morning all! Well I'm late today - would you believe it - I was at a BBQ last night and didn't get a chance to catch up with all the goings on in blogland in the evening - so its taken me a long time this morning! The BBQ was fab - we all sat indoors whilst my friend Sue's wonderful husband Geoff did the BBQ in the garage! A lovely evening spent with old friends and some new! And it was sure wonderful to not have to cook!

Anyway, onto todays card - over at the Mo manning site they have a GDT call on and whilst I know the chances are very slim, I thought I'd give it a whirl as I love the images so much. This week the challenge is to create something to do with dance - and since this also fits in with a few other challenges I thought I would go for it.

I followed a sketch from over at A gem of a challenge and followed the colour scheme from the ribbon girl and crafty sentiments design. The dance/music theme is current over at paperplay, mo manning and guylou Beland and the large bow works for digital tuesday's all tied up. I've used papers from echo park and flowers from WOC and some from my stash and coloured the image using promarkers.

This card will be sent to Lucy and Penny's nana along with photographs from the ballet show that she missed! They love their nana so much and always miss her!

So the challenges I would like to enter this card into are:
mosdigitalchallenge: let'sdance
A gem of a challengepinkgemchallengeblog: sketch
paperplaypaperplaychallenges: music
guylousinimitability:Music and dance
ribbongirls: aqua, blue and terracotta
CSDcraftysentiments: blue and orange
digitaltuesdaychallenge: all tied up.

That's all for today - back tomorrow with something useful - but something I'm not too sure about! Hope to see you then - thanks for dropping by today and for any comments you choose to leave!
Big crafty hugs

Rachel xxx

LEJ Designs DT: Challenge 12: Anything goes

Good morning! I'm here to show you my DT piece for the new challenge over at lejdesignschallengeblog LEJ Designs this week! Its everybody's favourite challenge - Anything Goes!

There  are two prizes this week. First prize winner will recieve their choice of three LEJ Design Digis - look here

the second prize winner will win this amazing bundle of goodies from mishelflocreativecrafting - I'm so jealous!

And remember - if you use an LEJ digi in your entry you automatically get entered into a draw to win more! Can't say fairer than that can we?

and so here is my offering - I did enjoy making this using the image of Ellen sunbathing from the LEJ design bank.

I've made this card for the teachers at Lucy's school as a thankyou card - Its a bit different I know but I think they'll like it!

I used a mask to make the clock and added it to kraft paper - i used DI I think it was milled lavendar - but it might have been a different purple shade - in order to get the image and then cut the clock out. I've used papermania linen papers on the card. The tag was made using a variety of d.i. all layered up and rubbed together. I've added roses and a charm and stamped the sentiment in back archival ink.

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

allsortschallenge inspiration challenge - I've used the colours and the clock mask

Little clairelittleclairesdesigns: summer holiday

PIOpileitonchallenge: kick back and relax

craftpunked: summertime

Pattie's creationspattiescreationschallenge: summertime

That's all for today - I look forward to seeing what you come up with!

Big hugs and thanks for stopping by and for any comments you may leave!

Rachel xx