Tie it up at Creative Inspirations

Hello lovelies! How are you today? Are you enjoying the good weather? Its been fabulous here - a bit hot for running which is whats on the agenda for this morning - but I'm not complaining lol!!!!

I have my DT card to share with you today for Creative Inspirations. The new challenge which starts today is called 'tie it up'. Here's what I did:

The image is by the paper shelter who is the sponsor this week. I've coloured her using promarkers and then cut with a spellbinders die. The papers are from LOTV. The flower was made using my cornflower die from tonic. Here's some more details of the challenge and the sponsor.

This week's challenge is Tie It Up!

All you have to do is include a bow on your creations!

This week's prize is from THE PAPER SHELTER and is a $20 GIFT CERTIFICATE!

"If you are looking for fun, cute and lovely digi stamps for your paper-crafting or web design projects, The Paper Shelter is your one-stop boutique! This growing catalog of high-quality digi stamps with many different kind of options offers a multitude of themes such as everyday items, holidays, special occasions, children, adorable characters and creatures. Stamps are available in standard black and white line art, as well as in pre-coloured format. Images are wonderful for colouring and make perfect additions to greeting cards and scrapbook albums. In "The Paper Shelter" you'll also find great other resources for all crafts (or digital) projects, like Paper Packs, Printables, Accessory sheet, etc."

Check out what lush makes the others have created and enter the challenge here. 

I hope you have a good Wednesday - I've got my rainbows again tonight - I'm going to be mostly indoors tonight as I don't want a repeat of last week - far too scary! Although maybe I'll be brave and try to repeat the activity with safeguards in place.... that would be the best thing to do I think but I'm not sure that I'm ready for that yet!

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

Rachel xx  

faux block bleaching technique for craft stamper magazine

Morning all! I hope you are well and happy! I've got more red and butterflies to share with you today - I seem to be in that sort of a mood. This is a card I made with the craft stamper take it make it challenge in mind - and also the wings and things challenge at AVJ. Here's what I did:

I started by laying down the colours of distress ink - festive berries, spiced marmalade, mustard seed and ripe persimmon - then I attacked the ink with a cut and dry foam pad loaded with water and mopped off the colour as I went along. I love this technique and hope to try it again very soon - its fab.

Next I did some stamping using stamps from the dylusions on the edge range  and also Tim Holtz stamps - from the Mariposa set and also a sentiments set.

I fussycut the Mariposa image and added it to the card.

I would like to enter the following challenges with this card.

A vintage Journeyvintagejourney: Wings and things

Craft Stamper:craftstamper Take it make it challenge June: Faux bleach blocking

My mums craft shopmymumscraftshop: ink it up

Pan pastel ukpanpasteluk: Flora and fauna

Hope you all have a great Tuesday - I'm off for a swim this morning then will be heading to see my mum and dad.

Thanks for dropping by and hope to see you again soon! 

Hugs

rachel xx

Red at the artistic stamper

Hello Lovelies - well thanks for all of your well wishes for the moonlight walk - I managed the 25km in 4 hours and 9 minutes - and ached all of Sunday!!!! Raised a little money for the St Johns Hospice - this is the same charity I will be running the Great North run for in September. Here's me and my friend Emma at the start of the walk:



We weren't smiling quite the same 4 hours later but we finished it in good spirits! I definitely paid for it on Sunday though ..... I hope todays run goes okay lol!!! I think maybe at this point you will be thinking I'm a bit of a nut case - but believe me I'm not as crazy as Emma - would you believe she cycled 75 miles on Saturday before doing the walk in the evening? And then she was having to leave the house at 10am on Sunday - as she was teaching the sunday school lesson. Now thats pushing it!!!

I want to share my card for the artistic stamper challenge this month - the theme is all about the colour red and I've used some artisic stamper stamps to make this card:

I used distress stains and inks and the flick and spritz technique to create the background. I also used the garden greens die fromTH so this card has a strong TH influence. The background stamps are from a plate called insects and butterflies from Artistic stamper. 

The words are also from the Artistic stamper - I found some great stamps at the last show I went to. The flowers I made using the tonic cornflower die. I did have another picture but blogger keeps crashing so I'll leave it here for now!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Artistic stampertheartisticstampercreativeteam: colour it red

AVJvintagejourney: Wings and things

my mums craft shopmymumscraftshop: ink it up

I hope you have a good Monday and I thankyou for visiting me today. Look forward to seeing you again soon!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Mid month at Imagination Crafts: All that glitters

Hello Lovelies - its mid month again - how did that happen? I swear somebody is pressing fast forward on the time button. Anyway - being the 15th it means its time for me to give you a nudge to remind you about the imagination-craftschallenge.Its all about Glitter this month and if you use imagination crafts goodies in your make you will be entered into the draw to win a £40 voucher to spend at the store. Great prize!!!! Here's what I did:

This card heart was gifted to me by the lovely Kerry - I painted it with black gesso then used silver sparkle medium and tropical leaf stencil to do the glittery layer on top of the black.

Next I stamped the words sparkle and shine on some scrap card. Then I added the silver sparkle medium to some martha stewart moulds and left it to dry for 48 hours.

I removed the dried sparkle medium from the moulds and added my sparkly flower and leaves to the base of the heart. If you'd like more inspiration check out what my teamies have done here.

Thats all for today - I have scheduled this post so I hope that it publishes - I hope to still be in the land of nod after the moonlight walk last night - I'll tell you all about that in tomorrows post!

Hope you have a great Sunday! Big Hugs! Rachel xx

Penguins at the Christmas card Club

Good morning lovelies - how are you today? I hope you are well and happy. Did you have a good day yesterday? I had a great one - a personal training session followed by a half mile swim, gardening club then a bit of housework before picking the girls up from school. They did Jujitsu in the evening and I managed to wrap plenty of things for the lucky dip - its the school fair next weekend - its come around so quick! And today ..... well I'm hoping its going to be a quiet one - I'll be doing the Moonlight walk tonight - 25km starting at 10pm! I must be mad! Wish me luck!

Today my post for the Christmas card Club is one day early - but I thought it was better today than two posts tomorrow! The theme this fortnight is penguins - now I love penguins - and was thinking about that lovely delicious doodles image - but I couldn't find it - anyway, after searching my stamps I managed to find a wild rose studio stamp and this is the card I made:

I did have fun making the inky background for my card using a snowflake stamp from the front cover of an old craft stamper magazine and versamark plus clear embossing powder. Then I set to work with distress inks.

The image was coloured with spectrum noirs and then I added fine crystal glitter and cut with a spellbinders die.

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

CHNC challenge extracraftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge2

Penny'spennyschallenges: AG

CRAFT - trimmiescraftchallenge-christmas.

Thanks for dropping in today and for any comments you choose to leave! I hope you have a great Saturday and I hope to see you again soon!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Sheenas india cards 5 and 6

Good morning lovelies! I hope you're okay. Wow wasn't it a stunning day yesterday? It was beautiful here in the northwest and I even managed to get a run in it - fabulous!!!!

Today I have got my next couple of makes from Sheenas India DVD to share with you. I hope you like them.

This first one basically uses an embossing folder and distress inks and then some mica pigment paints.

This one involves lots of glitter and several techniques including brayering the embossing folder with glycerine before adding embossing powders and heat setting. I love this one - so clever. 

Thats all for now! Hope you have a great Friday! And thanks for visiting.

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

CC3 challenge 4: layering stencils and texture paste

Good morning all! How are you today? I'm recovering from a very busy day yesterday - I was rushing here and there trying to find a gypsophilia plant for my dad. I got one - but its not exactly what I wanted - still - beggars can't be choosers eh?

I also had a bit of a scare at Rainbows - we were playing hide and seek outside and thought I'd lost three of them! Its funny now because they were so good at hiding - but at the time I really was a bit worried! I guess we won't be playing hide and seek again!!

Today I've got my make for the current CC3 challenge - I'm not happy with this but time was short and it was necessary to get it made! This challenge is hosted by Linda Ledbetter - here - and Tim and Mario provide the prizes along this time with a prize from thefunkiejunkie Boutique. Here's what I made - its a small plaque only about 15cm high.

I've used the hearts layering stencil according to the method on page 49 of the compendium of curiosities 3.  I've also used a TH diecut - garden greens - a pinecone diecut faux tearose, two sets of TH stamps, distress stains, paints and inks.

On this bottom part of the plaque you can also see a little bit of the bubble stencil which I applied DI black soot through.

I would like to enter this into the CC3 challenge 4compendium-of-curiosities-3-challenge-4: layering stencils and texture paste.

Thanks for popping by today and thanks for your kind comments on yesterdays post - if \i haven't got around to your posts from yesterday yet I do apologise - I'm playing catch up!!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx