Christmas Cards all year around: first GDT post: Anything Christmas goes

Morning all! I hope you are all well and happy? I'm feeling good and starting to feel much more like myself now things are back to the regular routine - which is handy!!!!

Today I've got another new design team - its a 6month GDT term for me with christmascardsallyearround - its a monthly blog challenge - so not too much stress - but perfect for those of you wanting to be organised for Christmas next year - go on - you know you love playing with Christmas crafty goodies. The challenge this week is nice and simple - anything goes - but its got to be Christmas! I've made a quick card using one of the Christmas images from Willow Designs - here it is:

Such a cute stamp - I've coloured with promarkers and teamed my card with poinsettia vellum, a bow and the sentiment which is an LOTV christmas grunge one.

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

inkychicks Anything goes
LEJlejdesignschallengeblog: Something new - a new stamp
papertakeweekly - happy new .....a new stamp
sweetstampinchallengeblog - white + 1 (okay I have brown too - hope its okay)
cutecardthursday: New
Pixiepixieduststudiopixiechallenge: New
willow sketchiewillowsketchiechallenge: anything goes
Charisma:charismacardz Monochrome
emmascardsuk: animals

Thankyou for dropping by today - hope you have a fabulous Wednesday!

Big Crafty Hugs

Rachel xx

First GDT Post for Crafty Sentiments: Sparkle and shine

Good morning all - I hope you are well and happy and enjoyed getting back to normality yesterday - if indeed you did!!!! My day went well thankfully - and there'll be more normality I hope today!

Today is my first post as GDT for Jan and Feb over at craftysentiments challenge blog. There's a new challenge starting over there today called 'Sparkle and Shine' - this is the card I made using Annabel the Mermaid that you can get here:

Isn't she just gorgeous? What a fabulous image - she's coloured with promarkers and I've added glitter here and there. The background is done using Sparkle medium (from Imagination crafts) pasted through a stencil. The bottom of the card was spritzed using dylusions and then the shells added to keep the easel card up. The fluorishes are from a sizzix sizzlet die. the thankyou sentiment is a grunge LOTV sentiment from the everyday selection.

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

incywincydesigns Something new - I've used a new stamp plus the card was thanking my parents for my new Christmas crafty goodies.
artisticinspirationscrafts: Add sparkle
Lexi'slexiscreations: Anything goes
OSAATonestitchatatimechallenge: New stash - new stamp
Totally papercraftstotallypapercrafts: Something new: new stamp
Delicious doodlesdeliciousdoodleschallenge: Sparkle and shine
Do craftsdocraftsblog: Shaped card

I hope you can pop along to the Crafty Sentiments website where the challenge details will be given in full. Thanks for popping along here today and I look forward to seeing you again soon.

Crafty Hugs

Rachel xx

First blogaversary candy

Hello there -well I can hardly believe it will soon be my first blogaversary - 7th January is the date and this sticky post will remain at the top of my blog until then - at around midday on the 7th I will draw a winner. Its really to celebrate this last year and to thank so many of you for all of your kind words over that time.

So what am I offering?:

There's a bit of a mixture - a set of promarkers and two embossing folders, some card blanks and some stickers, some diecut dresses and a neighbourwood owl stamp, there's a bit more I've put together - not much - but a stamp and ink pad that aren't shown in the photograph. So what do you have to do to win my candy:

1. Be or become a follower
2. Add my candy into your sidebar
3. Leave a comment below.

Thanks for visiting!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

I will post worldwide.

candy winner for first blogaversary

Hi there - Just done the random.org thing for my candy winner - it came up with number 2 - and so my bundle is going off to ............

Terriavidreader in USA.

If you could email me your details - I'll get the goodies off to you ASAP!

Hugs

Rachel xxx

DT for SALS: Sketch 30

Morning all! Well all should be back to normal today - girls back at school - running this morning and girls at dancing after school - Oh I do like routine!!! I know where I am! Fingers crossed all goes to plan.

My candy winner will be drawn later today too - thankyou so much everyone for your kind words and encouragement throughout the first year of blogging! Check back later to see if you win!

Onto my post today - its for seemsalittlesketchy where the new sketch looks like this:

We're sponsored by Sassy Studios -here - and the prize for the winner of this challenge will be provided by them. I have used the image called Lager Pinup to make my card that is for my Nephew Bryan who lives in the central belt of Scotland. He must be mid to late twenties now - you lose track don't you?

I think he'll approve! The image is coloured with promarkers and I've used tumbled glass DI around the outside of the image.

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

panpasteluk Anything goes
glitternsparklechallengeblog: Anything goes
IDICrobynsfetishchallengeblog: Anything goes
2sisterschallengeblog: Anything goes
totallygorjuss: Anything goes with ribbon
craftycatzweeklychallenge Anything goes
stampinfortheweekend: Anything goes
dccfriendschallenges: Button up

Thanks for dropping by today and remember to check back later to see if you got lucky!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

GDT for Christmas Card Challenges

Hello there - good morning to you lovelies out in blogland! I hope you are well and having a good weekend. Today sees the first of 4 Sundays of cards for me as a GDT member of the christmascardchallenges. Thanks for having me on board for January!

My brief for this week - and yours should you choose to take the challenge - is to rip it, tear it, sand it.

This is what I made:

I've used coordinations card stock and embossed it with a me to you folder then sanded to reveal the core colour. Then I've ripped and torn to create rough edges on my mat. The rest involves claritystamp verse and spellbinders dies plus two ribbons. 



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

CHNCcraftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge: AG wihout santa
Willow Sketchiewillowsketchiechallenge: Anything goes
cardmaniacardmaniachallenges: winter wonderland
creative momentscreativemomentsbloggersnetwork: AG
Card crafters Circle:cardcrafterscircle No business like snow business.

Thanks for dropping by and I hope to see you again soon - remember its the last day for my candy today - I'll draw a winner on Monday 7th at around midday!

Hugs one and all!

Rachel xx

A copy card

Hi there folks in blogland - I've been cheating today - I've made a card that is amost identical to the one that my good friend Anne (here) sent me for Christmas - its such a stunner - and I managed to get hold of the stamp the other day - so I had to have a go. Now this stamp may well be coming up quite a lot over the next year - its such a corker - if you haven't seen it before its from stampendous - if you have - you'll know what I mean - thanks for the inspiration Anne - you're a star!!!!

Oh I just adore it - what an amazing stamp! I've stamped directly onto the card using archival ink - then stamped onto stamping card - and used DI tumbled glass to add the blue in the background and the centre. I've coloured in the windows and holly using promarkers and added glitter to the roofs and snowy field - that's not showing up too well but its there. Finally I've added liquid pearls randomly to diagonally opposed corners. The central oval and holly have been decopaged ontop.

I'm not entering this card into any challenges - its too much of a copy - from a friend's inspired card - so thanks again Anne - I really do love it xxx

See you again soon and thanks for visiting!

Hugs

Rachel xx