12 days of Christmas gift box

Hi there - well I'm getting later - but at least I'm getting more organised on the Christmas front! Took the girls to see the new Tinkerbell film today - oh it was lovely - so pretty!!!!!A fabulous winter film!

Today I've got a new tradition that we're going to start this year to show you - I won this box about this time last year and finally I've got around to decorating it and filling the internal boxes with goodies - we'll start on Christmas day in the afternoon once everyone thinks gifts have all finished - and each of the twelve days of Christmas my girls will take it in turns to open a box and see whats inside. The opener will be the chooser if the things inside are different. I've just put a combination of things in there - nail polish and jewellery - hairbands and chocolate - once its the 6th January I'll put it away ready to fill for next year! Should keep the magic going for a bit longer I hope!

I'd like to enter my box of goodies into the following challenges:

Stampi ftwstampinfortheweekend: Anything goes
Willow sketchiewillowsketchiechallenge: Let's celebrate
Papercrafting Jpaper-craftingjourney: Anything goes
DYSUdoyoustackup: Anything goes
Tuesday alchemytuesdayalchemy: Anything but a card
SSSSsimonsaysstampandshow: Giftspiration
ABACanythingbutacard: Winter holiday!
winter wonderland:christmasblogchallenge Wish upon a star

Hope to be back again tomorrow - hope you are well and thanks for dropping by!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Lucy's Tag

Good mornng lovelies - I'm running late today so this is going to be a quick one! Hope you are well!

I've made a tag for Lucy's sack - I've used a background holly stamp that I stamped in versamark and heat set green wow powders - then coloured with a versa pen and heat set clear powder on the berries - I coloured the leaves with promarkers. I've added a stamped image from crafty Sentiments Designs called Santas Helper coloured with promarkers with added glitter and added a christmas tree cut from a spellbinders die.

Thats the tag in place and hiding in my wardrobe!!!! Woo hooo! Nearly time for santa now!

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

Fab and funkyfabnfunkychallenges: Add ribbon
Penny's:pennyschallenges Merry Christmas
CSDcraftysentiments: All that glitters
Twisted Tuesdaytwistedtuesdaychallenges: Tags - Lucy makes me smile!
Incy Wincyincywincydesigns: Holly
Sunday Stamperspinkleart: Holly

Hope to see you again soon - if not have a fabulous Christmas! Big Hugs

Rachel xx

More thankyou's and a reminder about the ribbon girl giveaway

hello there lovelies - Hope you're having a fine day! I'm well and good and getting more and more ready for Christmas - the final push has begun! On a more serious note I may have been hacked - so if you get a random email from 'me' don't follow the link xx

I've got another thankyou card to show you today - it includes an image from Crafts and me called 'janessa'  - just beautiful.

I've coloured the image with promarkers - the papers are docrafts - papermania colour collection.
I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Creative Inspirationscinspirations: Anything goes
I love promarkersilovepromarkers: Not square
Divasdivasbydesignchallenge: Anything goes
TPSthepapershelter: Anything goes
ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog: Anything goes
OSAATonestitchatatimechallenge: Use a digi

In case you didn't know, the ribbongirls are having a fabulous six of the best giveaway. This was the first days giveaway and yesterdays was a beautiful ivory set - check them out!

Thanks for visiting and I hope to see you again soon!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

CAS cards and some news

Good morning lovelies - I'm just bursting with excitement - I've been asked to GDT for Crafty Sentiments for January and February - I'm sooooo happy - just love their stamps - thanks guys you really made my day! You should check out their inspiration blog here too - if they reach 230 followers by new year there will be 2 prizes! Woo hoo xx

Hope you are all well - and getting into the festive spirit? I was out carol singing last night with my two girls and their nana and lots of other villagers - we do this every year to raise money for the homeless shelter in Lancaster. It was a good night last night - the first time Penny has been out with us. We'll be doing it again on Thursday and Sunday - all being well.

Onto my CAS cards - I was lucky enough to win a $15 voucher to Cropstop in the US - they have a fabulous selection of goodies and even with the postage - I got the Blueprint stampers anonymous stamps pretty cheaply! And the service was fabulous! I'll definitely be using them again!

The images were stamped in versa mark and I used snow white wow embossing powder and heat set. Then I used tumbled gladd and faded jeans DI to colour the card - bingo! So quick! I love these stamps - and will get plenty of use out of them making cards for next year!

I'd like to enter these cards into the following challenges:

cardmaniachallenges: snowflakes
IDICrobynsfetishchallengeblog: Snowmen
Willow Sketchiewillowsketchiechallenge: Quick makes
Kaboodle Doodleskaboodledoodles: Anything goes.

Thanks so much for visiting - I hope to see you again soon!

Lots of love and hugs

Rachel x

thankyou!

Hello lovelies - I hope you are all well and happy? I'm good and have got a card to show you today that I made yesterday afternoon - I was going to do some quick Christmas cards today - but they'll have to wait I think. Also I stepped down from the scrapbook stamp society DT yesterday - so I'm feeling very free and able to do what I want! Got some new DT work coming up in the new year - but all in good time!

My card has been made to have in just in case santa claus visits this year - don't know if I've been good enough yet!!!

The theme over at Lili's little fairies this week is something new - I've used this cupcake stamp and the sentiment stamp both which I recently purchased with a voucher I won for commenting on the inspiration blog. So thanks guys again - eveything will come in handy. The papers are bazzill basics from the candy I won over at NG Cards a while back.The cicular die is a spellbinders die and the fluorish is sizzix.

I'd like t enter my card into the following challenges:

Cupcakescupcakecraftchallenges: Cupcakes
Polka Doodles:polkadoodle Young Adult
LLFliliofthevalleythursdaychallenge: Something new
Simon says stampsimonsaysstampschallenge: use your favourite - I stamped my image in espresso adirondack - I love to stamp in brown as I think its less harsh than black!

Should be back with those quick Christmas cards tomorrow - don't forget I've got candy - here!

Big Hugs and thanks for visiting!

Rachel xx

Mum and dads card

Good morning lovelies - hope you had a good weekend? Mine was just fabulous - we picked up my MIL who is just such good company and brought her home for Christmas - and then yesterday we all did the long walk up the hill in Clapham, North Yorkshire to go and see santa in Ingleborough cave - a fabulous walk and a really magical visit - just lovely!

Today I've got the card I gave to my mum and dad for Christmas to show you - it features two stunning images from Mo Manning - I just adore them:

 It also includes that chocolate baroque snowflake stamp free with craft stamper that I just can't seem to get enough of! I used it to create the snowy background by using versa mark and snow white embossing powder and heat setting then covering with pan pastels. The images are both coloured with promarkers - I've used spellbinders snowflake diecuts and also a heart circle. In the middle is a verse to mum and dad but the light has meant it doesn't show - because of the flash! The blue roses were from Nat's candy - thanks again Nat - I've touched them up with glitter to add to the frosty effect.

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

Creative Inspirationscinspirations: Contemporary Christmas
thesisterhoodofcrafters: Handstamped backgrounds
Mo's Digitalmosdigitalchallenge: D is for diecuts
CHNCcraftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge: Anything goes Christmas
Totally Gorjusstotallygorjuss: For someone special
thesquirrelandthefox: Christmas
Pan Pastelpanpasteluk: Christmas time
Visible imagevisibleimage: Christmas
cardmaniachallenges-snowflakes

I've got some last minute quick cards to show you tomorrow - hope to see you then and thanks for visiting today!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Final challenge at The Crafty Pad

Morning all! Its the final challenge today over at the craftypad - it feels so sad to me - this has been such a lovely design team to be on - I've loved every minute of it - so thanks ladies - you've all been wonderful - and a special thanks to Debbie for inviting me onto the team in the first place!

The challenge is all about friendship and keeping in touch  - its sponsored by Joanna Sheen- here's my card:

The images are from the Crafty pad and can be found here for Moorag and here for Shelley the sheep. Remember you've only got until Jan 7th to get your images from the Crafty pad - and they're currently all on sale at 25% off - go here for the shop. The friendship verse is LOTV and the papers were free with a magazine in the summer. I've used sizzix sizzlit dies.

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

sparklesforumchallenges: Anything goes
fatpageswithattitude: anything goes

Got more Christmas for you tomorrow!!

Thanks for visiting today

Hugs

Rachel xx