DT Card for The Crafty Pad: Summer Vacation

Morning all - I do hope you are well and happy - amazing what a bit of sunshine does for us all isn't it? Well its time for another challenge over at the craftypad. This week its my choice and I've gone for the theme of Summer Vacation. Its at the forefront of my mind because we go on our family holiday soon - to Cornwall - will the weather be able to last I hear you cry!!!!

Anyway - so we're looking for things associated with a traditional summer vacation. The prize this week is a fab one from craftyindividuals - looks brilliant.

 Prize is 1 A4 sheet Glossy Nostalagia Toppers,
1 Set of Red Rubber Stamps
1 6x6 Book of Backing Papers


So if you're stuck for an image and fancy trying to win this fab prize, why not  hop over to the crafty Pad here - and chose one of the images my wonderful teamies have displayed in their cards.

My card for today is this:

I've used three images from the crafty pad - patch flying, beach hut and life's a beach sentiment. They are all available here. I've coloured them all with promarkers. The background to patch is watercolour card that I've coloured with pan pastel and then added some 'flying birds'. The bottom part of the card has some photographic paper featuring a beach - I got it from QVC a million years ago and I don't know who made it - sorry! The happy holidays is echo park from some christmas papers!

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

craftpunked: Beside the seaside
scrapitwithasong: Leaving on a jet plane
digidoodleshopsbest: things with wings (my aeroplane)
Passion for promarkerspromarkerchallenge: At the beach
willowsketchiechallengee: Warm colours theme
sweetstampinchallengeblog: Things with wings (aeroplane again!)

That's all for today - its Lucy's birthday tomorrow - so I'm going to schedule a post if I get the chance - but if not I'll be back with something on Tuesday!

Enjoy the rest of the weekend and have lots of fun!

Big crafty hugs

Rachel xx

Moorag the Moo

Morning all! Welcome to my old and new followers alike - its great to have you here! Are you enjoying the sunshine? Hasn't it been fabulous - really how summer should be! Had another lovely day out at a park in Lancaster with my girls and some of Lucy's school friends yesterday - it was just fabby! Hopefully it'll be as good today!

On with my post - got a card to share with you today featuring Moorag the Moo from the Crafty Pad - ever since we got them as the new releases in July I've been itching to have a play with some of them. This is the one I chose to print out and this is what I did:

I've printed out my digi onto neenah crest card and coloured her using promarkers. Then I've added twine to the centre of the flowers and in the top corner by going around and around. I've matted my cut out image onto kite paper and then onto a round doily and finally the card. Oh yes and there was more twine wrapped around the fence near the sentiment.

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

craftingforallseasons: Bright colours
thepapershelter: going around and around
anythingchallenge: summer days
papertakeweekly: Anything goes
craftyourpassionchallengesCYPC: anything goes
doyoustackupDYSU: 4 legged friend


That's all for today - I hope you have a fantastic Saturday - back in the morning with a new challenge from the Crafty Pad!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

Lucy's makes

Well good morning to you - a post dedicated to my oldest daughter Lucy today - she has been like a girl possessed since Jo (a piece of me) and her daughter Rebecca sent some crafty things through the post to us. Since she made a stack of cards in a week she's slowed down a bit but has started to really find what she's enjoying - and she's taking herself off and doing exactly what she wants to do without interference from mummy - which is just brilliant to see.

Anyway - she wanted to enter the childrens challenge on Simon says so here's what she has done.

First of all she's made a crown - this was one of the things that she just went off and did!

 and secondly she's made this fab card - she's discovered that mummy has lots of digital images on the computer and she has taken to this image from the crafty pad which is fairy chloe. She wants my promarkers but I've said we'll get her some of her own pens - not promarkers!!!! - soon!!!

She's 5 at the moment but will be 6 on Monday! I think she's pretty amazing - but then I am her mum and must think so!!!!!

So Lucy would like to enter these makes into the simonsaysstampschallenge: childrens challenge.

On another note - take a look here to see the latest piece of work/book available from sherribaldy.

Big Hugs

Rachel xxx

Congratulations!

Wow - blogger is working - I can't believe it! I've been trying to sort this problem out all day and now it is working but only if I use the mozilla firefox browser - how odd is that - its like learning to walk all over again!

Anyway - wasn't it a gorgeous day? Its been stunning here - I took the girls to visit my mum and this afternoon we popped up to some fountains and a series of parks in Morecambe at a place called the Battery. It was fab - the girls had a lovely time running in and out of the fountains in their cossies - then we spent a litle time on the park too! Fab! More please!

I've got a card to share with you this evening that I made for Alice - who is my helper at Rainbows - she did her GCSE's this summer and her results should be here soon - about two weeks now I think.

I've used an image from Mo Manning, coloured with promarkers and layered onto a hexagonal card and mat. The flowers were from the lemon and grey bloom kit from Duck Pond Crafts and I've added pearls to the centre of each flower.

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

simonsaysstampschallenge: Bingo (ribbon, free, blooms)
fabnfunkychallenges: Pearls
divasbydesignchallenge: For a female
Creative Inspirationscinspirations: Anything goes
tuesdayalchemy: Bingo- Ribbon, flowers, pearls
Miss Muffetlittlemissmuffetchallenges:  Scallops

A couple of other things to tell you about before I go - they're doing a gold ribbon kit giveway at the ribbon girl here to mark the fantastic achievement of team GB! woo hoo!!!!

And the colour and create magazine from the scrapbook stamp society is now available to order here.

Thats all for now - back tomorrow without todays problems I hope!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Hugs

Rachel xxx

Lucy's 6th Birthday Card

Morning all - I'm trying to do a secret posting today of my daughter Lucy's 6th birthday card - I was all made up and ready to go with her card and she decided to announce that her favourite colour was no longer red - now it was blue!!!! So off I trotted into my craft attic last night and made a new one - ssshhhh - here it is!

The image is from Crafty sentiments Design and I think is called party girl - I loved her when she was released this year and finally got her a few weeks ago with a 15% off offer - thanks for the heads up Shelby!!! I've coloured her with promarkers and added some glitter. My sparkle and shine  is in the form of my added extras - metal flowers - pins with a pin holder - a heart charm and gem flower. I've followed the sketch from the totally gorjuss challenge and would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

bearlymine-challenges: Sparkle and shine

lexiscreations: sparkle and shine

The ribbon girl CBribbongirls: ribbon flower charm

PIOpileitonchallenge: Add some metal

One stitch at a timeonestitchatatimechallenge - white +1 (blue)

 totallygorjuss- sketch

I think I might have gotten away with it! Happy Wednesday - we're off to a pottery birthday party today then a freebie dance class - woohoo!!!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

August Sale at The Crafty Pad

This is my second post of the day - for my DT Post for LEJ Designs click here.


Back again! Just wanted to let you know about the special offers going on at the Crafty Pad this week. We usually have a new release to show you at this time in the month - but due to holidays etc.etc. Debbie has decided to be very kind and let the DT loose in store to choose some images - then she put the images chosen by the DT on special offer - I think for this week only - with a whacking 30% off! Check out the full details here - and check out the images the DT have used - you won't be sorry you did!

I chose Albert Digging for my image and this is what I did with him.

I made a pop up card for my husband for our next wedding anniversary - I must add that I've given albert a cup to hold - which doesn't come with the actual image - but I'm sure you're crafty enough to do that if you wanted to! I've coloured the image with promarkers and used glitter paper from craft-time to form the soil. I've cut shapes from funky foam for the soil and added a tree from a diecut by memory box behind Albert! The wall outer and the sentiment are both kanban. What do you think? I love him to bits!!!!

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

herecometheboysblogchallenge: Boys and their toys ( gardening tools)

paperplaychallenges: Layer it up

Creative Inspirationscinspirations: In the Garden

trulymadlycraftychallenges: summer fun

craft a scene challengescraftascene: Anything in the great outdoors.

That's all - I hope you have a wonderful Tuesday!

Big hugs

Rachel xx

DT Post for LEJ Designs: Shabby Chic

Good morning all - and welcome to Annie - my newest follower!  This morning I've got two posts for all you - the first is my DT post for LEJ Designs where there is a new challenge starting todaylejdesignschallengeblog

There are two prizes this week. First prize winner will recieve their choice of three LEJ Design Digis - look here - Lindsay's designs are fab - and there's an ever increasing catalogue to choose from.

The second prize winner will win a £10 voucher for the Joanna Sheen online site.

So the theme of today's challenge? Well its shabby chic and here's my card:

I made this for my crafty friend Anne (http://bollyanne.blogspot.co.uk/) whom I met at one of Hels Sheridan's workshops - anyway - she very kindly sent me some sheets of the glassine paper to play with and these flowers are the first play I had with them. So the card was a thankyou! You should check out her blog if you don't already go there - its fab!!!!

Anyway - the image was printed onto neenah crest card and coloured with promarkers - I've used Tim Holtz papers and DI tea dye. I've used several spellbinders dies including the bitty blossoms and the single large flower and I think that's about it!

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

thatcraftplaceblog - things with wings ( my dummy has wings!)

whoopsi Daisycutedaisymay :Diecuts and/or punches

CYPCcraftyourpassionchallenges: Anything goes

Songbird Challengessongbirdchallenges: Anything goes

Vintage Elusionsvintageelusionscardscrafts: Anything goes.

creativity club challenges at Do crafts: 'S'

I'll be back soon with a DT post for the crafty pad!

See you then!

Hugs

Rachel xx