Any scene goes at Craft a scene - week 2

Good morning lovelies! How are you today? I hope you had the wonderful weather we had yesterday - blue sky and sunshine - very cold but dry! It was so nice to get out and about and see the world. We landed up at Blackpool Zoo - we always have a season ticket so this was the first visit of the year! It was lovely to be back.

Thanks for all your kind comments about yesterdays card. I do hope my uncle Bernard likes it as much as you did! I will be drawing my candy winner later today so there's still a final chance to join in if you want to. I'll let you know who won in tomorrows post.

So its the second Sunday in January already so I've got my second post from Craft a scene to share with you.

I've combined 4 stamps from Sheena Douglass and masked them to fit them together starting with the puffin stamp and then adding the flowers to the left and beach to the right. The sky was brayered in and then the birds added. The images were then coloured with speccies.

I hope you can join us at craftascene this month - its so much fun creating scenes from stamps - why not give it a try!

Big Hugs from me - hope you have a wonderful Sunday!

Rachel x

p.s there's a new release coming soon for Crafty Sentiments - the images are just adorable - look out for them on the inspirational blog soon!

2nd Blogaversary Candy

Rachel's 2nd blogaversary candy

£20 Gift Certificate - Imagination Crafts

Hello there all! This is a sticky post and will remain at the top of my blog until 12th January.  On the 7th January I will be celebrating my 2nd Blogaversary. To that end I would like to offer a candy for my followers. It is going to be a £20 gift certificate to spend at Imagination Crafts. I will draw the winner of my candy on Sunday 12th January. To be in with a chance of winning my blogaversary candy I would like you to do the following:

Be or become a follower of my blog.
Advertise my candy on your sidebar with a link back to this post.
Leave a comment underneath this post.

I will let you know the winner on Monday the 13th January 2014 but it will be up to the winner to contact me to claim the candy!

I hope you will join in this candy and thanks so much for all of your support over the last 2 years - its been a great learning curve and a wonderful journey! I hope 2014 is as much fun!

Hugs

Rachel x

Uncle Bernards Card

Hello lovelies! Well I was super excited yesterday - I went on the weigh in scales and would you believe it - I had managed to lose all my christmas weight and was back at the weight I was in October when I was last weighed! I'm well chuffed as I had a sneaky weigh in last week in an evening and I had gained rather a lot over christmas ..... now just need to keep things on track so I can lose the extra stone I'm carrying that I don't need!!! I hope you're all managing to banish that Christmas tummy too!!!!

Today I want to share with you a card I've made for my uncle Bernard - I know - two days in a row with mens cards - this one is using my lovely new steampunk birds I purchased from Chocolate Baroque in their fabulous sale! I think it might even still be on - 20% off everything!!!

I've used two stamps from the steampunk birds sheet - and coloured them with my speccies and fussy cut them. The background I created using a crafters companion embossing folder that I wiped over with a platinum ink pad and then used a mask and some black embossing paste to create the cogs etc.. Finally I added the words from dylusions. I mounted this onto a card made from centura pearl card swiped over with a silver ink pad.

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

Country View Crafts:countryviewchallenges Monochromatic
Fussy and Fancyfussyandfancychallenge: Monochromatic
Penny'spennyschallenges: AG
Inky Chicksinkychicks: AG
PTWpapertakeweekly: AG option of something new - my stamps
craftroom challengescraft-roomchallenge: Inspired by - steampunk feel and metallic elements.

Thanks so much for dropping by today - please check out my candy if you haven't already - that will be closing tomorrow.

Big Hugs to you and wishing you a great Saturday!

Rachel xx

Bryan's card

Good morning all! How are you? I hope you are well and happy! I'd like to thank you for all your lovely comments on my box yesterday - you are very kind! Thanks so much!

I'm off to get the horrible truth about the Christmas weight gain this morning. I've been on the diet for over a week now so I hope - since I've been very good - that the truth won't be quite as bad as it would have been without this week!!! This weight has to go - I lost about 2 and 1/2 stone 4 years ago and about a stone of that has crept back on again - time to do something about it!

Onto todays card - its for my nephew Bryan who lives in Scotland - he must be about mid twenties now - I lose track.

I went with a steam punk theme as you can see and mixed papermania products with some graphics 45 steampunk spells paper.

A quick card and a quick post! Hope you have a fabulous day! Big Hugs! Rachel x

A little box - a new years resolution

Hello there -I do hope you are well!  I'd like to show you today a box I made inspired by the current Craft Stamper Magazine. One of my New Years Resolutions is to try more techniques/projects from Craft stamper to broaden my horizons and get more experience of different media. I just fell in love with the project by Trish latimer..... and wanted to try it but with a twist...I wanted to do a box rather than a hanger.

I started by finding some fabric that I liked and stick it to my studio 490 flexible film and left it to dry naturally. I then took a plain box from the MDF man and coated it with gesso - then when dry added gold paint from an adirondack dauber. when this was dry I stamped the Crafty Individuals script stamp on the lid and added the lapis blue sparkle medium from Imagination crafts through a stencil from that special touch. I left this to dry then did the bases of the box - using the same stencil and versa mark and brass regular wow powders. Then I worked on the butterflies - the stamp is one from an old Craft stamper magazine - I stamped in versa then heat set with brass regular  wow powders. I added the gems to the butterflies then cut the flowers from the fabric/film  using tattered florals dies from Tim Holtz. I heated the flowers to form the shapes you see and stuck the layers together using some brads from Creative Expressions. Finally I stamped the words using dylusions stamps and put the piece together. Hope you like it as much as I do!

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

Sunday Stamper pinkleart- Dream
Funkie Junkie frillyandfunkie - New Years Resolution
Simon says stamp Monday challengesimonsaysstampblog - Blue
Wow Powderswowembossingpowder - use fabric
sisterhood of craftersthesisterhoodofcrafters - something New (lapis sparkle medium, box, script stamp and stencil)
CFAScraftingforallseasons: All things bright and beautiful
PTW:papertakeweekly AG - option of something new
Inky Chicksinkychicks - AG
Incy wincyincywincydesigns - three fave embellies - flowers, brads, butterflies (gems).

I hope you have a wonderful day - I'll be at my mums and doing the food shopping but hope to get crafty later - we both bought some primary elements in the Create and Craft sale so will probably have a play with them! I'm so excited too - found out yesterday I won the Simon says stamp weds challenge so have a $50 spree to look forward to!! Woohoo!!!! What a lucky lady I am!

Thanks for dropping by today and big Hugs to you!

Rachel xx

Blooms and pearls at Creative Inspirations

Good morning all! I hope you are well and happy! I'm feeling happier today - my swimming lesson was good and I even swam with my face in the water something I never thought possible - I'm taking the rest of January to practice on my own before I have another lesson. So there'll be no crafting getting done at the swimming pool on Saurdays now!!!

This week's challenge  at Creative Inspirations is Blooms & Pearls! This week your creations should include both Flowers & Pearls.

This week's prize is from MY MUMS CRAFT SHOP and is a £10 GIFT CERTIFICATE!

I chose to use a flower image from an LOTV sketch pad and coloured it with speccies before making up the card using some papers from kanban.

The die that I used to cut out this image is a spellbinders die. 

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

LEJ January Challengelejdesignschallengeblog - AG

CYPCcraftyourpassionchallenge: Fancy borders/edges

PIOpileitonchallenge: Just because

Thanks for dropping by today - I hope you'll drop by tomorrow too - I've got a lovely box to show you! Big Hugs! Rachel xx

New at Crafty Sentiments

Hello lovelies - how are you today? I'm a bit apprehensive today - I have a swimming lesson! Now I can swim - but I'm not technically very good - I tend to stick my head as far out of the water as possible and it results in a sore back. So I'm having lessons to try to learn how to swim properly! My girls are wonderful in the water and I need to start catching up with them!!!! Wish me luck!

Crafty Sentiments are starting a new challenge today - the theme is New! That can be anything to do with new - new year, new home, new baby or even using new stash ......we've all got it! The prize is three digis of your choice! I used a digi called Henry on my card that you can get here. I also used my new gelli plate and this card actually has my first ever gelliplate print on it!!!

The image is coloured with speccies and diecut with a spellbinders die. I love the gelliplate - so much fun - really easy to use and easy to clean up too - great stuff! Long may it last!

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

Lexi'slexiscreations: Anything goes
IDICrobynsfetishchallengeblog: Use a digi
come and get it challengescomeandgetitchallenges: use something new.

Thankyou for all your comments yesterday - you're very kind! Don't forget my candy is still running!

Big Hugs and hope to see you again soon!

Rachel xx