bright and bold colours at creative Inspiration

Good morning lovelies - how are you today? I am well and happy - and ready for a new day! We have a new theme at Creative Inspirations - when I saw this theme I was very happy and excited - Bright and Bold colours - right up my street - anyway - out came the sheena stamps and the distress paints and this is what I made:

The background was made using distress paints which I mushed onto my glass mat, flicked with water and mushed into two sheets of card. Then I used distress inks and a layering stencil from Tim Holtz.

The flowers, branch and leaves are all stamps by sheena and the sentiment is from Indigo blu. I have stamped them on the preprepared card and then fussy cut. The flowers have been pinched and bent to give them some life.

The challenge this week is sponsored by crafty ribbons:

This week's prize is this bundle of ribbons!

Why not pop along to the challenge here and see what my teamies have done. 

I should like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Simon says stamp Mondaysimonsaysstampblog: paint

SFTWstampinfortheweekend: AG

OCCourcreativecorner Flaming june

Hope you have a great day today - I'm off to do a class at the gym then I have to plan rainbows for tonights session! After that its the BFG rehersals - the latest play that the girls are rehearsing for! So plenty to keep me busy!

Big Hugs and thanks for visiting!

Rachel xx

coffee pot and get some texture at A Vintage Journey

Good morning lovelies! How are you today? I had a busy one yesterday - coffee pot in the morning then two meetings in the evening - its no wonder I'm always chasing my tail? As I said to my mum 'I'm just the girl who can't say no!' Its an old song for those of you out there that are too young to remember it!!! Well I'm jolly well going to have to embrace the word I think!!!!!

Anyway first of all my piece for the challenge 'get some texture' at A vintage Journey.

This was made starting with TH distress paints swooshed onto my craft mat, water added and a tag some card swoosed through and then dried and DI added for the background. Next I stamped the text - a TH stamp - in sepia archival and then added some cosmic shimmer texture paste through a TH layering stencil.

Next I added the lace and the photograph from a TH paper pad and then set about altering the surface of the TH numbers by adding distress paints.

Here's the numbers close up - no real significance I'm afraid - just the numbers I had left!!! I added the faux tea roses too!

I'd like to enter this into the get-some-texture challenge at A Vintage Journey.

Now onto coffee pot - here my ladies are getting messy:

We were using chocolate baroque stamps, distress inks and making one layer cards by masking. Here's two of mine (green plus purple) plus a lady called Catherines'. They all made great attempts at this and the results were fabulous - Catherine was just a little quicker then the rest.

I would like to enter this card into the one layer card over at allsortschallenge-one-layer-cards.

Finally I wanted to show you all the lovely handmade cards I was lucky enough to receive for my birthday - thankyou to mum, rebecca, jo, sue, karen, Natalie, Linda, Anne, Sue, Jennifer, Mags, Hazel, Penny and Lucy! They're all wonderful cards from such lovely people!!! There's also a mahoosive tryptych in there from Jo and rebecca - can't wait to have a play with that and a really big thankyou!!!!

Hope you have a great Tuesday - I'm swimming this morning then I'll be off to my mums and we're finishing off another sheena card today. 

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

Big hugs

Rachel xx

masculine at clarity

Good morning lovelies - how are you today? I'm feeling good and am quite excited as I have my crafty ladies to visit today - it seems an absolute age since I've seen them - I hope they've got themselves braced for some inky fun - lol!!!!!

Today I want to show you my entry for this months clarity challenge - the theme is masculine and I've made a card for my bil who's birthday is in July. He's a keen cyclist and cycles a lot in the mountains near austria - he lives in Germany.

to make this card I've used 4 clarity stamps and two clarity masks - I also used adirondack inks and also distress inks and applied them with a brush.

I started by stamping the sport word with versamark and adding black wow powders then heat setting. Next I did the same for the cyclist. Then I built up the mountains in the background using antique linen DI and a brush and clarity mask. I wanted to get the feel of the mountains. Finally I built up the sky using a clarity mask and first cloudy blue followed by faded jeans. Must get some of the clarity brushes - mine are quite old brushes and they shed bristles verily!!!! 

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

Clarityclaritystampchallenge: Masculine

Pan pastel:one-for-boys

Thanks for dropping by today and I hope to see you again soon! Big Hugs rachel xx

by the seaside at Craft a scene

Afternoon all - I hope you are well and happy - its my hubbies birthday today - so we have another day of celebrations! No more cake today though - Shaun is a very healthy man!!!!

Its the second week at craftascene for their challenge 'by the sea'. Here's what I've done for your inspiration:

All of the stamps I used are from Sheena Douglass and I used a clarity mask to create the sky using a brush rather than a makeup sponge. I quite like the effect and will try it again. I used pan pastels to do the colouring of the image. Here's a closer look:

I hope you will join us this month in this challenge!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

masculine/fathers day at That Craft Place

Hello Lovelies! How are you today? I'm good and recovering from my birthday - thanks to everyone who sent well wishes and cards - you're all very kind and I really do appreciate it. Thankyou. Thanks also for all the kind comments on my card yesterday. I hope you like todays offerings - this is the first of two posts.

This is for that craft place challenge blog - I've been working on the team involved with the inspiration side of things - but now we have swapped over and I am now involved in the challenges! This fortnight the challenge is masculine or for fathers day! I used the owl stamp set that I used earlier in the week - its by Sam Poole and I bought it from That Craft Place . They also have a selling page on facebook - thats where I usually shop!

My dad loves green and owls so I'm hoping he'll love this!!! The background was made by running some paper through an A4 sheena folder then dragging the cactus green staz-on pad over the top.

The 'tree' is made from webbing from TCP too. I coloured the bird with spectrum noir pens and used some of the same colours to do some plain card before stamping the sentiments on it!

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

Fantasy stampersfantasystampers: for the boys

SFTWstampinfortheweekend: AG

Polkadoodlespolkadoodle: men

MAWTTmovingalongwiththetimes: fathers day

CRAFTtrimmiescraftchallenge: Fathers day

simon says stampsimonsaysstampblog: masculine

Here's a picture from yesterday - before we headed out into the rain to our viking parade'

Here's a picture from the parade itself:

it was a girlguiding float and I think it looked fab!

And here's my lovely girls bringing me a birthday cake at tea time.

it was a lovely day!!!

Big hugs to you!

Rachel xx

Monochrome at Indigo Blu

Hello lovelies! I'm scheduling this post as its my birthday - I was out last night and will be out this morning too! Busy busy! Anyway - I had a stack of cards waiting to open so I hope they're all handmade ones!!! Lol!!! If you have sent one - thanks in advance - I will add a piccie of all the handmade ones I get to tomorrows post.

Todays post them - its all about monochrome at Indigo blue - I've used a couple of their stamps to make this:

I made the background using a combination of distress stains and inks - I chose reds as it was a monochrome challenge - some of them look fairly orange in the picture! I also used stencils from TH and imagination crafts.

The poppies were coloured with spectrum noirs and fussy cut.

I love this verse - it appeals to inner hippy!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

tuesday throwdowntuesdaythrowdown: use paint or mists

PTWpapertakeweekly: Ag with option of summer

mmcsmymumscraftshop: ink it up

artisitic stampertheartisticstampercreativeteam: colour it red

Indigo bluindigoblublogchallenge: monochrome

Thanks for looking today and I hope you all have a wonderful Saturday!

Hugs

Rachel x

Sneaky peek for Imagination Crafts

Good morning Lovelies! How are you today? I have a sneaky peek for you today showing part of my make for Imagination Crafts. You can see my full make over at the Imagination Crafts blog here plus a step by step.

hopefully you'll want to see the whole thing!

Big hugs and hopefully see you tomorrow - its my birthday tomorrow and I'll be dressing up as a viking for a float for a local gala!!! Ha ha - I do get involved in some things!!!! 

Big Hugs! And a Happy birthday to Kath and also Sue today! 

Hugs

Rachel xx