Lemon and lime at Lavinia

Hello lovelies! Another sunny day? It was lovely here - it did make my 5 mile run a little on the warm side but hey - I think I can cope!!! Lol! Hoping for more tomorrow! More running tomorrow too - I need it - I feel huge at the moment - need to sort the eating regime out again too - things have been rather slack on that front! I needed the time but now I think I need to sort myself out!

I have a card to share with you today made with the Lavinia challenge in mind:

I made the background first using distress paints - mowed lawn and mustard seed - I spread them onto my craft sheet then spritzed with water and swiped my card through. Once dry I stamped with the Lavinia stamps after cutting into 6 pieces. Then I assembled the card onto mustard seed coordinations that had been run through a n embossing folder and swiped with cactus green staz-on.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

lavinia-stamps-challenge-4-lemon-and-lime

panpastelukchallenge-7-spring-colours

Thanks for popping in tonight - I'll catch you later!

Hugs

Rachel x

Fraser's card

Hello Lovelies! Thanks for your comments on my first attempt at Brushos - I think there will be more but not just yet! Did you have a good day? We have had good weather - it started misty and eventually turned out pretty gorgeous. The girls went to Mad Science for the day and I got to go swimming - it was lovely!

Today I would like to share Frasers birthday card with you - I've used stamps from Tim Holtz and a stencil from Imagination Crafts.

I stamped the background in weathered wood and the skater I did using black soot distress ink. The card front was coloured using weathered wood distress stain.

I hope you have a good evening - and thanks for dropping by!

Big hugs

Rachel x

First brusho play

Hello Lovelies! How are you today? I hope you are well and happy and have enjoyed the bank holiday! Me and my girls went to see Cinderella today - it is such a lovely film - I had a wee weep in the darkness at the begining - when Ella's mum died - so sad.... But the rest of the film was very uplifting!

Today  I have a very quick card to share with you - its my first play with brushos - I used a technique with wet paper sprinkling the brusho powders onto it. Here's the result.

Love this TH quote - it describes me quite well!!!!

I'd like to enter this into craftstamper -take-it-make-it-challenge-april and panpasteluk challenge-7-spring-colours. also incywincydesigns clean-simple

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

Big hugs

Rachel x

Happy Easter again!

Hello Lovelies! Have you had a good Easter Sunday. We did - when my car eventually decided to start - or should I say Shaun's car - I think the suspension went on mine on Good Friday!!Typical! Anyway, we had a lovely trip to my mum and dads and a fabulous dinner - thanks mum!!! We watched a Harry Potter Film in the afternoon too - we've watched a few since we got back from London - more about that soon!

Thought I'd better share the Easter card I made for my mum and dad today - infact its the only Easter card I made this year. I have been very slack! Here it is anyway - the stamp is the chocolate baroque stamp for March in their year of stamping series.

Here's the whole thing - I backed it with using a joggles mask and ripe persimmon distress ink.

I coloured the image with spectrum noir pencils.

I added the sentiment after colouring.

I would like to enter this card into allsortschallenge-easter.

Before I go here are a few more pictures - this time from our day at the Harry Potter Studios - its a fab place if you're a fan!

This was in an outside part of the studio - around the middle of the tour.

This was in the first half of the tour - close to where they have broom sticks and green screens and you can get videos made flying broomsticks!

This is a mock up of the inside of the hogwarts express.

Here's Lucy going through to platform 9 and 3/4.

We all enjoyed this day so very much!

Big huggles to you and I hope you have a great evening! Poldark is calling!

Rachel x

My favourite poem!

Hello Lovelies! Its been a great day! So spring like! I hope its been like that for you too! We started the day in the garden and then did a great Easter Egg hunt in the village and finished off at the park. A lovely day in the sunshine!

Today I'd like to share my next journal page with you - this is in response to the prompt for Journal Heart 15 which this week is Your Favourite Poem. I used my what I like to think of as my family poem - my dad always used to quote this one - and still does every now and then. Its Leisure by W.H. Davies.

I used aquatints to make the page background - I applied the colours, added water then applied some salt - unfortunately I didn't have any coarse salt so the effect wasn't brilliant. Then I used some  stencils - a TH lace stencil, two sheena douglass stencils and a Dina Wakley stencil - all with black soot distress ink. I also added some ryn stamps and some dylusions edge stamps.

I would like to enter my journal page into the craftstamper take-it-make-it-challenge-april..

also stampsandstencils- anything-goes

I have got some more London pictures to share with you now. When we got to the Tower of London we discovered there are many Shaun the Sheeps in different guises all around the capital - we followed one of the trails (there are 4) and also found some other sheep. Shaun the sheep has always been very dear to us - it was almost like having Shaun back with us - it certainly felt very special. Here are our favourites of the ones we found.

Hope you have a fun Saturday night! I'm off up into the attic again tonight - I really missed being creative whilst in London and am really enjoying getting back to my crafty space!!!

Take care and have a good Easter Sunday!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Happy Easter

Hello Lovelies! I hope you've had a good good Friday! Happy Easter to you all and thanks for comments on yesterdays journal page - I've got another one brewing at present but thats another days story.

Today I want to share with you my make for the chocolate baroque colour challenge. Here is the colour chart:



Beautiful colours that really put a frosty morning into my mind - but why I then reached for some flowers I don't know!!! Anyhoo - here's what I made:

I stamped the floral images first masking the spiny one before stamping the other two and masking all before stamping the foliage. Then I added the butterfly - all stamping was done in versa and then I added silver wow powders before heat setting. Finally I masked off the moon then made the background before painting over the flowers with distress inks.

I used a chocolate baroque sentiment too.

Finally here is a close up of the flowers.

I would like to enter this into chocolatebaroquechallenge-nine. 

and theartisticstampercreativeteam aprils-creative-challenge-flora-fauna

I hope you have a good evening - I am heading into the attic for a play!!! But before I go here are some more pictures from our London trip - these are all from our London Eye visit!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

Happy!

Evening all! How are you? I'm feeling good after having got back from a great trip to London with my girls. More of that later! Firstly I would like to share a journal page with you - its last weeks prompt - three things that make you happy - I have gone with flowers crafting and my daughters.

The flowers were painted at my class - I just finished them off as a page using distress markers, a TH stencil and a Clarity stencil. I also used a couple of paper artsy stamps.

Anyhoo - I'd like to share a few London pics from the first couple of days with you!

This was from the second day and our visit to the Tower of London - there was a thing going on with characters - this was the happy queen - Anne Boleyn! She wasn't happy for long was she?

This was also inside the tower - I don't think they're called beefeaters these days but you get the idea. The girls loved the tower - there was so much to see and do! A brilliant day indeed.

I hope you've all had a good few days! Thanks for any comments you have! Big hugs!

Rachel x