Ian's card - a clean start!

Hello there lovely blogland people - I'm hoping you're having a good day so far - I'm feeling quite relaxed because although its my rainbows session later we have a promise party tonight and these really tend to run themselves - usually anyway!

Today I've got a card to show you made from some house mouse decoupage from Joanna Sheen - I've made the card for my friend Ian who keeps several rather large greyhounds - so I thought a doggie card might go down well this year!

I made this card using the housemouse decoupage as I wanted to make a new begininings card for the joanna Sheen/ housemouse challenge - well I thought the card is for a birthday - that's often a new begining - and the image depicts a clean start! Well thats my logic anyway!

So I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

housemouse-challenge: New Beginings
joannasheenchallenge: New Beginings
CACBcraftyannschallengeblog: recipe
willowsketchiechallenge - theme - cute
MAWTT:movingalongwiththetimes happy birthday
tuesdaythrowdown: Furry friends
papertakeweekly: A bow.

Thanks for dropping by today and for any comments you choose to leave - it really is fabulous to read your thoughts!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

GDT for Crafty Sentiments: WOW (white on white)

Hi there lovelies - still enjoying the snow? It should get you in the mood for the challenge over at craftysentiments this week which is WOW - white on white - with a coloured image. I've used the stamp called Annabel Happy Days - she's just beautiful:

Isn't she just stunning? You can get her and many other beautiful stamps at the Crafty Sentiments shop - here. My backgound is an embossing folder from embossalicious called floral frenzy. The image has been coloured with promarkers and I used tumbled Glass DI around the outside after cutting out with a spellbinders die. Then I've added roses on ribbon from WOC and a flower and pearl.

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

kaboodledoodles: Ribbon
The Cutie Piescutiepiechallenge: 3 Different textures - embossed card, rose ribbon and flower)
addicted-to-stamps-challenge: Use material/texture
sweetstampinchallengeblog show us your frillies
allsortschallenge: Flower Power
A gem of a challengepinkgemchallengeblog: Emboss it
stampinfortheweekend: Something Girlie
ilovepromarkers: Layers

I hope you're managing to keep warm - we are but isn't it freezing? Thanks for popping by today and I hope to see you again soon!

Crafty Hugs

Rachel xx

DT for seems a little sketchy - sketch 31

Good morning all! I hope you are still keeping warm despite the continued weather - we're still waiting on snow - some arrived on Friday night but it was limited and short lived - maybe since I'm scheduling this on Sunday night we'll have some in the morning - its still mighty cold here though!!!

Over at seemsalittlesketchy they have a new sketch for you:

The sponsors are bugaboostamps and eurekastamps . You'll need to pop over to the site here to find out what the prize is.

Here's what I did with my Bugaboo image:

I think its such a funny image - the sentiments a bit on the risky side - but my district commissioner plays the harp - so I thought it might be useful as a birthday card for her husband!

I've coloured the image with promarkers and then distressed around the image using shabby shutters DI. The image was then cut out using a fancy circles grand die from spellbinders. The background paper is from the docrafts chronology range.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
herecometheboysblogchallenge - Tictac toe (patterned paper, distressing and image)
Docraftsdocraftsblog Colour challenge
Crafts and Mecraftsandmechallenges: Something new - the chronology paper
incywincydesigns: Make us laugh

Thanks for dropping by today and I hope you have a great Monday - I'm off to aerobics - weather permitting - then its cleaning time, blog time and then pick the girls up from school and take them to ballet time! Should be fun.

Happy Crafting

Hugs

Rachel xx

3rd GDT for Christmas Card Challenges

Good morning lovelies - I trust you are all keeping warm - we are although our snow is minimal - may be more will come today.....

Over at christmascardchallenges they have a sketch challenge today - I've used my favourite Christmas stamp from Stampendous for it - you'll see this a few times over the next year - this time I've gone for a more red and white colour scheme. What do you think?

I used pan pastels to colour the sky for the image and promarkers for the cottage windows - there's glitter on the ground but its not showing up too well. The papers behind are Tim Holtz and the flowers and leaves are WOC. The sentiment is from the LOTV grunge christmas sentiments. The ribbon and charm are ribbon girls. I've used a die to cut the shape of the card from pearlescent card and also to cut the mount from the Tim Holtz paper.

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

disdigidesignschallenge: Winter
jinglebellesrock: Red and White
Winterwonderlandchristmasblogchallenge: Vintage
papertakeweekly: Baby its cold outside
craftascene: snowy cottage 

Thanks for popping by today - hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend and I hope to see you again soon.

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

Ragged Angel

Good morning Lovelies - have you got snow? We have some - for a change!!! The girls are hoping for more so we can build a snowman - but we'll see!

I'm back in Christmas for todays card - before last Christmas I bought this image from Mo Mannings store and never managed to get around to colouring her up - so here she is now and I just adore her - she's gorgeous - I've used the sketch from the Friday Sketch challenge for the layout (Mariska's sketch).

 The papers are a mixtureof |Marianne papers free from a magazine and one  from my stash - the stipey geen one has been embossed with a dotty embossing folder. The image was coloured with a combination of promarkers and spectrum noir pens. The flowers are WOC.

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

OSAATonestitchatatimechallenge: Anything goes
Glitternsparkleglitternsparklechallengeblog: Use a digi
Papertake weeklypapertakeweekly: Baby its cold outside
DP2mosdigitalchallenge: Emboss it
Totally Papercraftstotallypapercrafts: Embossing
Delicious Doodlesdeliciousdoodleschallenge: Winter
Card Crafters Circlecardcrafterscircle: Layers.

I hope you have a wonderful day and enjoy the snow if you've got some - if you don't like it watch from the window - it looks so beautiful! Thanks for visiting and I hope to see you again soon!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

black and white cardswap

Morning lovelies - hope you're all well and more to the point warm! Wrap yourselves up if you have to go out there today!!!

Today I've got the card to show you that I've made for the Joanna Sheen Forum cardswap - the theme this month is black and white. I've been pondering for a while but I think you'll be able to see that I took the inspiration for this card from the Sarah McCrossan workshop I attended at the weekend. What do you think?

I've used the indigo blu stamp set bloomin great - and black paper - the stamping is with white staz-on. I've fussy cut and crumpled two of the flowers to give them dimension and added a button and bow in the centre. I've used the sketch and stash sketch 105 for the layout.

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

twistedtuesdaychallenges - stamping off the page plus crumple
Anything goes challenge bloganythingchallenge - Buttons and bows
Sketch and stash 105sketchandstashchallenge - sketch only
Kaboodle doodleskaboodledoodles: Buttons
Divasdivasbydesignchallenge: Make it girly

Southern Girlssoutherngirlschallenge: Thankyou
Happy Campershappycamperscc: Buttons, beads or bows.

Have a fabulous Friday and thanks for popping over - hope to see you again soon.

Big Crafty Hugs

Rachel xx

more playtime - alcohol inks and other fun

Morning lovelies - I do hope you are well and wrapped up warm. I've been playing again - more techniques from the Chemistry 101 course - its great fun and I'm learning all the time!!! First I want to show you a tag that I made using the alcohol ink agates technique - what fun!!!

It features 6 different alcohol inks - the stamp is paperartsy and its done in archival black , the dragonfly is, of course a crafty emblie. I'd like to enter this tag into the following challenges:

ABACanythingbutacard: things with wings
panpasteluk: Try something new
Sunday Stamperpinkleart: Dream
fatpageswithattitude: Add a tag/anything goes
Cupcakecupcakecraftchallenges: ABAC

Here's a card I've made using the same technique but this time using Little Claire stamps:

The stamped image doesn't show up as well in the photo as it does in real life - maybe I should take a photography course?
Finally I've got two more tags - the first using the archival resist technique and the second that involves stamping on an embossing folder - neither is really as I would want it to be but I feel blogging progress/dabbling as well successes is important to me.

So thats all from me today - not sure what tomorrow will bring - we'll all have to wait and see!!!

Thanks for visiting and big hugs from me!

Rachel xx