Bright colours at Lavinia

Hello Lovelies - how are you today? I hope you are well and happy! This is another scheduled post - I am hoping that I will be able to use the computer on holiday but never having been where I'm going I'm not sure! Today I want to show you a card I made for a little girl who was 5 on Sunday!

I hope she liked it!  The stamps are all Lavinia and the background is made using distress.

I would like to enter this into the lavinia stamps-challenge-2-bright-and-beautiful

Big hugs and thanks for visiting.

Rachel xx

Snowy trees at christmas card club

Hello lovelies! How are you? This is a scheduled post so I'll keep it brief - on Sunday at our christmas card club the theme was snowy trees. Here's what I did:

The tree stamp is from Andy skinner and the sleigh stamp is clarity. I'm not sure who the sentiment is from - but I found it in my lovely mums draw!

Thanks for looking today!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

Sneaky peek at Imagination Crafts

Hello Lovelies - just a quick one for today - over at imagination-crafts blog I've got a tutorial running - follow the link if you'd like to see more from this sneak peek:

Hope to see you over there!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Mid month at Imagination Crafts

Morning Lovelies - How are you? I suspect I'l be starting to run around like a headless chicken by the time this post goes live - Penny's party day! Its time to be making sandwiches and cooking pizza and decorating cakes - wish me luck.

Its mid month already - how did that happen? Here's my mid month make I want to share with you. The challenge at Imagination Crafts challenge blog is always anything goes and if you use Imagination crafts goodies you can be in with a chance to win £40 worth of stuff from their shop! Great prize!!!

I've used the following imagination Crafts in the making of my card:

celtic-dreams-die-hidden-secrets

stencil-bubble-background

gilding-flakes - red-gilt

I used the flakes with a sticky sheet, die cut the houses and added them - then made the background using the stencils and distress inks!

I hope you can join us - the challenge details are here.

Big hugs and thanks for your visit!

Rachel xx

floral at Clarity - and some cakes

Hello Lovelies - how are you? I'm feeling good but drowning with stuff to do - its Penny's party on Sunday and then we go off on hols on Monday - so the pressure is on! Not sure I like pressure!!!
I've been in my attic for a little time today though after a run - here's one of the things I managed to make - its for the Clarity challenge which this month is Floral.

The central portion was made using a technique for making your own stamp pad for frequent stamping. The lovely Jo Rice taught me in one of her Clarity cumbria days. Looking forward to going there again a week tomorrow! I've also used a clarity phrase stamp and a stencil.

Here's a closer view:

So there you have it - just wanted to share a couple of cakes with you - the first are made by me for the Valentine cake sale we had at school today - we raised £50.10! Excellent:

The next one is not made by me but by the lovely Nicola from Lily pad bakery in Ingleton. Its for Penny's birthday party on Sunday:

Thanks Nicola - brilliant job!

So anyway - I'd like to enter the card into the claritystampchallenge 24

Thats all for today - take care and have fun!

Big hugs

Rachel xx

Tims tag february

Hello Lovelies - how are you? I'm good and have spent most of the day in my village - the village institute is in a bit of financial trouble and we had a meeting today to discuss a proposal to get more money via council tax. Most people seemed to be in favour which is good. I really hope we can manage to save the building - it really is a fabulous facility. I've also been for a walk and the vicar came around this afternoon - we had a chat about putting Shaun's ashes in the graveyard at the church. Then we discovered that Shaun and the vicar went up to Oxford at the same year! Small world isn't it!

This is my timholtz12 -tags-of-2015-february entry. I followed most of the instructions that you can see if you click the link although I chose to do a UTEE heart rather than a sewed one - personal preference!

I love this heart and rarely use it! The mould is a WOW powders mould and I used Cosmic shimmer UTEE.

I really enjoyed making this one and again have made reference to my lovely Shaun throughout.

I would like to enter this into timholtz 12-tags-of-2015-february.

I hope you have had a good day! Will be around soon to see what you've been up to!

Big Hugs

Rachel x

coffee pot cards

hello lovelies! Thanks for your kind words on my art journal pages - I really am enjoying this new interest and am finding it very therapeutic too! I promised yesterday to show you the coffee pot cards - we had a lovely morning working with the new crafters companion texture goodies - although some extra bits and bobs crept in there too. Here's my two inspiration cards plus the demo card that I made:

The one on the right is the demo card and on the left are the two inspiration cards.

To make this one I used weathered wood distress ink to colour the background then put the colour face down in the embossing folder so that I could then, once embossed, emphasise the bricks by wiping over with vintage photo distress ink. I used the same weathered wood on the smaller central piece of card then stamped onto it using the brickwall stamp from the set. The text stamps were also from the set. Finally I coloured a further piece of card with weathered wood and used the diesire ivy leaves die and cut them out. The whole thing is mounted onto an anna marie designs card blank.

The other two cards were made in a very similar way - the lighter blue one was done the same except for using the embossed rather than the debossed wall. The brown one includes a sentiment from Tim Holtz and also the bird die is from TH too.  The embossing folder used was the parquet floor one.

Hope you enjoyed your visit.

Big hugs and enjoy the rest of your day!!

Rachel xx