Tims tag August and a visit to Clarity Cumbria

Hello Lovelies! Thanks for your comments on yesterdays post - you're very kind both to me and to the girls - thankyou!

Did you have all the rain yesterday? I thought it would never stop here - luckily we've got a better day forecast for today. I'm off to Clarity Cumbria today and its usually sunny when I'm there so fingers crossed.

I made my Tims tag for August the other day:



This is Tims make - I used most of the methods outlined here although my tag looks very different I think - the pink changes it all.

I loved this found relative - she looks like the ladyfriend of an explorer to me - in an ephemera pack i found a letter addressed to a lady called Fischer - I couldn't resist using it on this piece! 

The words I chose were very personal - mantras for everyday life!

I loved the main tag technique that Tim used to make the background but am a bit sad that I covered so much of it up. 

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

Thanks for looking today and i hope I've got something good to share with you today from Clarity Cumbria!!!

Big Hugs

rachel xx

Lucy's birthday

Hello all! Well it was a lovely day yesterday - my little girl Lucy had her 9th birthday - not so little now is she???? Here's some pictures:

There was a bit of a Harry Potter theme going on - I think she'd give Hermione Grainger a run for her money! My cake was appreciated - although we all had a giggle at my attempt at Harry Potter!!! 

So no time to make anything today - so I have my July ATC swaps to share with you:

I used a klimt panel from chocolate baroque to make mine this time - I was going to use black but got swayed towards the gold embossing powder - stampendous detail. 

I also used distress inks to make these.

These are the ones I received in return. Need to get Augusts made now - if you fancy joining us click on the bar in the sidebar - Jo hosts the challenge and I'm sure she would love to hear from you!

Big hugs and thanks for all your well wishes for Lucy!

Big Hugs

Rachel x

Lucy' birthday!

Hello Lovelies - well its Lucy's birthday today - my big girl has reached the heady heights of 9 years old! Well she does at 8.35 tonight - but hey - we'll celebrate all day! Actually she's off to the gym for most of the day but we have a family tea going on tonight and she's probably tearing packages open as this goes live!!!! I hope she has a really happy day!!! I made her cake yesterday - its okay - but my version of Harry Potter leaves alot to be desired - lol! I can bake but sugar craft aint my thing!!!! I'll post a picture tomorrow! What I can show you is her card!

Its those crazy birds!!!! ha ha - Lucy fell in love with these a while ago so I know she'll love it! I've used the bird stamps and dies and also the extra stamps - but I don't have the extra dies as yet so had to fussy cut the hats and flowers and parcels.

The background was made using distress inks and layering stencils from Tim Holtz.

I'm sure she will be happy with this card - I hope she likes her harry potter themed cake too!!!

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

vintagejourney things-with-wings

sirstampalotchallenge august-challenge-anything-goes-with stamp and die

I had a lovely day yesterday and went for a fabulous run with my friend Rose - we ran from Hornby to another local village - over some hills - it was amazing - the views were spectacular!

We did enjoy it!!!

Running with two other friends today - in Lancaster this time so the views will be quite different!

Have a great day! Big hugs to you!

Rachel xx

A just because tag!

Hello lovelies! How are you? I hope you are well. We're good - the girls are at the gym again today - later on there is going to be a Peter Pan party - which will include a treasure hunt and a huge inflatable to play on in the pool - sounds good to me. I'm hoping to go for a run with my friend Rose - then i have to bake Lucy's birthday cake - she will be 9 tomorrow!

Today I want to share a tag with you - I made it just because! I wanted to play with the dragonfly die and so I did!

The tag background was made using distress inks and layering stencils -

I diecut the dragonflies in both card and packaging acetate material - I kept the wing parts of this and coloured then with alcohol inks. I kept the card body parts and coloured with distress inks.

I also added some stamping too.

I would like to enter this into the challenge over at a vintage journey.

vintagejourney things-with-wings.

Hope you enjoy wednesday!

Big Hugs

Rachel x

ATC swap from June

Hello Lovelies! How are you? Thanks for you comments on my make yesterday - I did love making that one - love that stamp set - always good to have an excuse to get that one out!!! Today I want to share my Junes ATC swap with you - the theme was zentangle - well my ATCs were a bit of a wimp out - but the ones I received were fabulous!!!

These are mine - the zentangling was minimal - but I do still like them!

These are the ones I received - well done ladies - you all did brilliantly! Sadly diane's went missing - boo hoo. 

I did get a reminder yesterday about my Just giving page - this is the link justgiving.com/Rachel-Fisher15. If you can support me in my run for Shaun please do - thankyou to those of you that already have - I really do appreciate it! 

Hope you have a great day!

Hugs

Rachel x

a vintage card

Hello lovelies - how are you? I'm late today - it was too late to post this last night and this morning I have been getting some miles in - I did a 10 miler - slowly but I did it - starting to feel a little better about being able to do the Great North Run now - its only a few weeks away now - yikes!!!

Today I have a card to share with you that I made for the cardswap over at the Joanna sheen forum. The theme is vintage and this is my make!

I used a stamp set from craftyindividuals called beside the seaside. I started by stamping and masking the lady then stamped the beach huts, masked again and created the background. I used a clarity mask and salty ocean distress inks to create the sky and the same ink for the water then old paper to create the beach.

I then coloured the lady and the huts in using spectrum noir markers. Finally I added the extra stamping and then layered it onto kraft card that had been embossed with a pebbles texture folder from crafters companion - I swiped potting soil archival over the top of this before layering. 

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

eclecticellapu: by the sea

allsortschallenge. week-323-inspired-by-summer

I hope you have a good Monday - I have to do some present wrapping (Lucy's birthday on Thursday) now before I go and fetch the girls - they're both at the gym today having fun hopefully! 

Big Hugs

Rachel 

lots of layers at Christmas card club

Good morning all! How are you? I hope you are well - we're good - we went to a party yesterday and also did the new school shoes run! So a useful day! I've got Shaun's mum arriving tonight - really looking forward to seeing her - it feels like a long time since I last saw her!

Today the challenge over at the Christmas card club is lots of layers - as usual I have made three cards - I made them at my mums last week so had her crafty goodies to pay with - this is what I came up with:

Mum has a lot of embossing folders and dies so I thought I would use them - plus some garden bird images too.

In this one I used a tattered lace folder and die. I used a spellbinders die to cut the picture. I also used mustard seed and faded jeans distress inks.

Another tattered lace embossing folder, the same die plus a sue wilson die  and a spellbinders to cut the image out. I used mustard seed and ripe persimmon distress ink.

Another tattered lace embossing folder and the same die. I cut the image and mat with spellbinders die. The trees are cut with a sue wilson die.  I used faded jeans and broken china distress inks.

I would like to enter these into the following challenges:

craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge -241-something-beginning with s - snow on all cards!

craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge2extra-for-august-2015

I hope you have a great Sunday - we're off to my mums again and will hopefully be going to a hen harrier event later. Then I'll pick Bez up! 

Whatever you do have fun!

Hugs rachel x