aunty anne's card

Good morning all! I hope you had a lovely weekend - we certainly did and we have a busy week planned too - fingers crossed for some sunshine to wash it all down with!

I've got a card to show you today that I've made for my aunty anne's forthcoming birthday - she's a lady who loves a joke - hence the card! I've used one of the bugaboo stamps I was lucky enough to win in the draw over at Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas challenge the other week.

I used a sketch from over at Docrafts and fussy cut some Kate Knight papers. The other papers are basic grey 'life of the party' and the sentiment is papermania. I've added pearls for the Totallt Gorjuss challenge and the colour scheme is for the bright and cheerful theme at secret crafter and orange and yellow at totally papercrafts. I've used neenah crest card and coloured with promarkers. I've distressed the image and joke edges with DI spiced marmalade.

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

totallygorjuss: Pearls

thesecretcraftersaturdaychallenge: Bright and cheerful

totallypapercrafts: Orange and Yellow

divasbydesignchallenge: Happy Birthday

IDICrobynsfetishchallengeblog: Summer fun

Thankyou for visiting my corner of blogland and I hope to see you again soon! Big hugs

Rachel xx

DT post for The Crafty Pad.

Good morning all! I'm scheduling this post for Sunday morning so I hope everything works out ok. The week has rolled around again - where does the time go? - and its time for a new challenge over at The Crafty Pad here. If you entered last week be sure to check back around Thursday for the winners and top 5 - there weren't many entries last week but they were all really fabulous!

So this week we have the theme chosen by Debbi - as Things with Wings. If you check over at the Crafty Pad site there is lots of inspiration from the ladies on team B. Before I show you my card I should tell you that we're sponsored by Joanna Sheen's online site for this challenge to the tune of a £10 voucher!

                                                           £10 Voucher for the online shop

So here's what I've got for you today - its a telescopic card that I was inspired to make by Diane - a member of the Crafty Pad team A - she did one here and in her post she links you to a tutorial on telescopingcard here.

Its called a telescopic card and its got three parts - you don't need to use circles - but I think that works well with the idea of a telescope. The Crafty Pad image is Fairy Chloe that you can get here. I've also used some hunky dory papers, a LOTV circular sentiment stamp and some WOC roses.

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

http://fatpageswithattitude.blogspot.co.uk/: Anything goes

Poodles Parlourthepoodlesparlour: Anything Goes

southerngirlschallenge: Angels and Fantasy

deepoceanchallengeblog: Fantasy World.

disdigidesignschallenge: Mystical creatures

crafty-emblies: Flora and fauna

I hope you all have a wonderful Sunday and hopefully I'll be back tomorrow with something a little different!

Big Hugs and thanks for any comments you leave and also for visiting!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

a showery day and a card

Evening all! I hope you're all okay! Thanks for your feed back on yesterday's card and also Lucy's cards - she was thrilled to be given so many comments so thankyou! Today's been a funny one - after a fantastic sunny day yesterday it was back to crazy showers today! Boo Hoo - just in time for the weekend!

Before I carry on I must say thanks to Anne for the fabulous glassine paper you sent me - it arrived sometime today and I look forward to having some time to play with it very soon. Also, if you're a fan of pan pastels you must check out this months issue of Papercraft Inspirations (my subscriber copy arrived today) - there's a few familiar faces in there - won't say anymore but its a fab article - well done.

Onto todays rather late card! I've used the free Ava image from Saturated Canary and coloured her using promarkers. I've added flowers cut and made using the bitty blossoms dies from spellbinders. The card blank is a kanban one -I think - or it could be hunky dory - its the last one in the box and its been going for a while!

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

Saturated Canarysaturatedcanarychallenge: B+W +1

CYPCcraftyourpassionchallenges: B+W+1

Anyhting goes CBanythingchallenge: Not square

Papertake weeklypapertakeweekly: Make your own

Bearly Minebearlymine-challenges:Shaped card

My mum's craft shopmymumscraftshopchallenges: birthday girls.

Back bright and early in the morning with my DT crafty pad post that I'm just off to write!

Happy Saturday Evening!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

Its so quiet ... what is he up to?

Good morning - hope you are all well - and would you believe it - the sun has put in an appearance!!!! Yipee! I'm hoping to take the girls out to a local farm today - so fingers crossed! We did manage an hour at the splash park in Morecambe yesterday - but me and my mum were sitting under a towel for part of the time as the rain came down!!!!

Nevermind - before I show you my card my daughter Lucy has asked for me to put up a picture of her and all the cards she has been making this last week:

That's Penny's foot in the bottom one - she's a cheeky monkey!!!! Both girls have done very well - and yesterday we played with shrink plastic - they were both very excited by that!!!!

Okay - onto my card for today - it shows an image from Mo Manning - I think its called something like 'Sammy's quiet'. I think its an adorable image - I've teamed it with papers from a series called 'life of the party', I thought the sentiment said it all! The stars are cut using my mums spellbinders dies - thanks mum!!!!!

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

DP2mosdigitalchallenge: In the doghouse

simonsaysstampschallenge: anything goes

willowsketchiechallenge: anything goes - theme only

digidoodleshopsbest - stripes

digistampsfor joydigistamps4joy-sa: spots and stripes

Okay dokey - best make hay!

Have a good Friday!

Rachel xxx

p.s. thanks for any comments you may choose to leave - they do make my day! Hugs xx

Is that it?

Good morning my crafty friends and followers. I hope you are feeling well? Thankyou so much for all of your comments and well wishes yesterday - it really means so much to me!

Today I've gt a card I've put together for the Penny Black summertime challenge - I've called it 'is that it? Its a bit of a knee jerk reaction to the rubbish summer(?) we've been having. I'm hoping its at least going to be dry here today so I can take the girls out to the park in Morecambe this afternoon for a good run around!!!!

Here's my card:

Okay so here's what I've used:

penny black mouse and flower stamp

Kate Knight rose paper (tropical)

Marianne design roses (small) and WOC rose (large)

Memory box madera corner die

dreaming of summer days LOTV circular sentiment stamp.

I'm really chuffed with this one - I think the colours work well - and it certainly depicts my summer!!!

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

pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge: Summertime

joannasheenchallenge: Animal Antics

totallygorjuss: Leaf it in

Creative Inspirationscinspirations: Colour challenge

Whimsy stampswhimsyinspires: Summer fun

That's all for today - hopefully back with more tomorrow!

Big hugs and I hope you all have a wonderful Thursday!

Rachel xx

winter wonderland and some news

Good morning all! Great to be with you - and thanks in advance for any more comments you may choose to leave.

I've got some very exciting news to share with you - I've been asked to join the design team for the scrapbook stamp society! I'm very excited - its always good to get to know new people and work with different images. So thanks guys for the opportunity! I hope I don't let you down! I'm not starting until September but I suspect I will start sharing the odd card here and there with you using their images.

Talking of which! I've got a Christmas card to share with you today - using a scrapbook and stamp society image called ' Victorian Holly ragamuffin'. You can get her here.

I've used the sketch and inspiration from Willow sketchie challenge and the colours for the winter wonderland challenge. The dies are from spellbinders. Some of the papers are from the new christmas range from wild rose studios.

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

willowsketchiechallenge: Christmas in July
paperplaychallenges: Christmas in July
scrapbookstampsocietychallengeblog: Winter Wonderland
Winter wonderlandchristmasblogchallenge: Colour challenge
Stampin for the weekendstampinfortheweekend: photo insp (I've used the colours)
Crafters Companionccmonthlychallenge: Ho Ho Ho Christmas.

I hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday - I was hoping to take the girls on a scavenger hunt today - but it looks like rain might stop play - again! I thought summer was supposed to be here - well its forgotten the NW!!!!!

Big hugs and see ya'll tomorrow!

Rachel xx

LEJ Designs DT card: Bling Bling

Good morning! I'm here to show you my DT piece for the new challenge over at lejdesignschallengeblog LEJ Designs this week! Last week was such a fantastic response - thankyou all so much for entering! . Be sure to check out the challenge blog to see if you were lucky!

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 fabulous prize from our sponsors Letraset.http://www.letraset.com/

And don't forget - if you use an LEJ DEsigns digi you go into a draw to win more digis - currently the rolling jackpot stands at 7 digis - I think! This week the challenge is called Bling Bling and here is my card for your inspiration - I've gone for a Christmas theme as there's nothing much more blingy than the festive season!

I've gone for a WOW card as I also think they are blingy! The image is from LEJ designs - I've used a snowflake punch from martha stewart and some acetate from an old Dawn Bibby kit. The sentiment is hunkydory - I think! And I've used a spellbinders die to cut the beaded oval out.

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

cutiepiechallenge: Christmas in July

joannasheenchallenge: Animal Crackers

lexiscreations: Christmas in July

Whoopsi Daisycutedaisymay: Christmas in July.

That's it for today - back tomorrow with another Christmas card - I know - but I missed my one yesterday!!!! LOL!!!!

Thanks for visiting and for any comments you may choose to leave!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx