More brushos!

Hello lovelies - how are you today? Hope you are well and happy. We are good and ready for the weekend - we've got lots happening this weekend - I have tomorrow at Clarity Cumbria and the girls are off to my mums for the day. Then on Sunday they both have their ballet exams. They both feel ready so fingers crossed!

Tonight I have another brusho card to share with you - I have used some stamps from Indigo Blu - music-hall - stamp set - I  used flitterglu to stamp the images, added black wow powders and heat set. Then I added the brushos and spritzed with water.

I then added mermaid lagoon through a flourishes-stencil to two corners and stamped another sentiment also from the music hall set.

The background of the card was made using the same stamp set and mermaid lagoon ink.

I hope you like my make for tonight and aren't getting too cheesed off with brushos - I am enjoying playing!!!!

Have a great Friday evening! Don't forget to leave a comment on my previous post for a chance at winning my giveaway!

big hugs

Rachel xx

hello friends

Hi there my lovelies - I've got a bit of a prize for one of you lovely followers - you are all so kind - here's the prize:

This is my 1200 post!! Blimey - how did that happen! 

All you have to do is leave a comment here and I will pick a winner on the 1st July!

Looking forward to your comments. You must be a follower.

Hugs rachel xx

Happy Birthday Mum!

Evening all! Thanks for your kind words on yesterdays card - I really do appreciate it! Have you had a good day? Mine's been good - I had a good run then took mum and dad to The Fenwick for lunch. It was lovely - my dad was quite amusing - he had 3 half pints of beer - I think he was a bit tipsy! He did make me and mum chuckle! Then I took them to a garden centre - they bought some pots and I bought an obelisk and a clematis - I'm hoping it will all look good. It was quite interesting trying to get it all into the car! lol!!!!

I want to show you the card I made for my mum today - its the brushos again - and paperartsy stamps. I do like this - the sentiment is chocolate baroque. I used versa mark and the white opaque wow powders to stamp the image - this was then heat set.

I used frantage to finish off too.

Here's a closer look.

I 3d'd the flowers to add a little more texture to the card.

I would like to enter this card into craftstamper take-it-make-it-challenge-june

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Hope you have a great day tomorrow - big hugs rachel x

A lovely swim in Windermere!

Hello lovelies - its been a stunning day up here. Blue skies and sunshine - and I drove up to Windermere with a friend and we had a lovely swim at Fellfoot park. Naomi swam much further than me - but I certainly enjoyed it - I tried crawl this time and since my lesson last week it was so much easier. It meant I actually moved a little more quickly through the water. The water was lovely - but definitely shallower than the last time I swam there. But still lovely!

Tonight I want to show you the card i made for my dad to give to my mum - its her birthday tomorrow and I'm looking forward to going for lunch with her and my dad. She's such a sweetheart! Love you mum!

I created the background using distress inks and stamps from chocolate baroque. They include some stamps form the sunny sunflowers set and some from the nature fragments set.

The topper is made using another chocolate baroque stamp set - the sunny sunflowers - I coloured the flower with distress pens then masked and stamped the leaves. The sentiment is from a LOTV stamp stamped onto card coloured with ripe persimmon.

here's a closer look.

I added a heart from TH - thanks Mo! Love these hearts!

I hope you have a lovely evening and manage to have a good day tomorrow too!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Tims tag June and a coffee pot make

Hello Lovelies - have you had a good day? I've had a great one - a run then playing with brushos at coffee pot, a swim and then some housework - not so fond of that bit - lol!!!! But it feels good to be one more first down - yesterday was very emotional - but thankfully its passed - and I can get on with things again.

So Tims tag June - I wasn't sure about this one - but I enjoyed the process - not sure about my outcome either lol!!! You can find Tims original here.



Here's what I did:

I followed the tutorial - making up a custom pad using twisted citron, I used the tyre layering stencil - but didn't turn it through 90 degrees to get the plaid effect - and I used the alarm clock die.

I used a combination of chit chat stickers and the quote stickers to make a saying.

I cut the clock using the corrugated card and cork.

I would like to enter this into the timholtz12-tags-of-2015-june challenge.

I also wanted to show you what we all managed to do at coffee pot today too:

It wasn't quite the same as the original from craft stamper but I love it and the ladies loved it too - they think brushos are fabulous!!! Look out for more makes coming soon!

Hope you're having a good evening and thanks so very much for your kind words about my DT position - you're all really very kind! Thankyou!!!

Hugs rachel xx

Indigo Blu Challenge DT - woohoo - lucky me!!!!

Hello there! Well its time to reveal my wonderful news - I have managed to make it on to the DT for the Indigo Blu challenge Blog!!!! Woohoo! I'm so pleased and am looking forward to the next year and seeing what it brings.

Anyway - the new challenge is called 'Flutterby'. I hope you can join in...who doesn't like a good old flutterby?

The rules for joining in the challenge are here:

Rules & How to Enter

1. Entries must feature IndigoBlu stamps only.
2. To submit your entry you must use the link at the bottom of the new challenge blog post.
3. One entry per person.
4. The deadline for entry will close at 8pm on the 20th of the month.
5. Prizes must be claimed within 7 days of being announced.
6. Any entries that don't adhere to the rules or the theme will be deleted.
7. New entries only please. All entries must link back to the challenge blog
   and link up your blog post containing your entry rather than your whole blog.
8. The winner will be picked at random.

If you do not have a blog you can e-mail your entry to HQ at Challenge@IndigoBlu.com marking your subject as Challenge Entry and include your full name in your correspondence. This e-mail address is only answered Monday to Friday so make sure you have your entry e-mailed in with enough time for it to be added to the list.

Please check out what my amazing teamies have done here - and also join us!

Anyhoo - here's what I have done as inspiration for the challenge:

I used the recently released ink-splat-butterfly from Limor Webber. I stamped it in versa mark and added black wow powder and heat set. I then used distress inks to create the background colours and stamped in similar colours using limor-circles stamps and also script-background stamps. I also used the words from the plume set of stamps.

I used similar colours on the background card and also the background script stamp.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

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Have a really great Fathers Day - we are planning on a few things - saw my dad yesterday so today we're focusing on Shaun. Another first to get through but feeling strong!

Big hugs to you!

Rachel x

Pink and white at Christmas Card Club

Good morning lovelies! How are you today? I'm fine and feeling happy - I had a good run yesterday but then had a few wobbles - it was a day of peaks and troughs. But I 'm okay - a glass of red at the end of the day yesterday sorted me out!

Its Pink and white at Christmas card club tomorrow - but I have another post for tomorrow so I thought I'd post this a day early. Its the choice of the lovely Karen today - and posed a few problems for me - pink is not a colour that I use often - but I think I did okay in the end.

The die cut behind the sentiment is from memory box. The other die cuts are from Tim Holtz - I used an indigo blu stamp to stamp on the poinsettia. The centre of the poinsettia is a beautiful TH button - thanks Anne!!!

Thats all for today - some exciting news for you tomorrow!!!

Big hugs

Rachel xx