Coffee pot makes

Hello Lovelies - how are you? I hope you are well and happy. Its been another good day here - I took my mum and sister to Kirkby Lonsdale where we spent the day browsing in the lovely shops - and of course eating a lovely lunch! It was great to spend time together - lovely!

I have our makes from coffee pot on monday to share with you today - Diana was in charge - she brought along three stamps and we just went freestyle with the other goodies she had brought. Here's what I made:

I think diana said the stamps were woodware but don't quote me on that!

I think this one was daisy - i used spectrum noir pencils to colour this in.

I think this was  called summer grasses. I used distress inks in the background.

These are some flowers I got today - my sister bought me the chrysanths - and i bought the lisianthus. And so onto some cornish holiday pics - finally!!!

Of course we had to visit a tin mine - I had a little dream - lol!!!

then sent Penny down the pit ...

and got them both working hard on the surface too!!!

Big Huggles lovely peeps - hugs rachel xx

crazy christmas

hello lovelies - well its been a good day in the fisher household - I went to the gym with my sister and we hit the pool together. We both swam and then went into the hydrotherapy pool, sauna and steam room then had lunch! A lovely morning. Then i went to school and started my new role in the library on a Tuesday afternoon - it was lovely! Great fun - but i suspect next week when the children come in things will be a bit more hectic!!!

Later on the chublets came home along with Penny's friend Zara and they played nicely. At teatime the plasterer came along with the spark and they left about 8.40pm. Things are almost finished now and I feel quite optimistic. I also ordered Penny's new bed and storage for her room. Just need to decorate it now!!!!

Onto todays make - its something i did a while ago using the crazy birds and some of the extra bits too.

It was fun to make this card.

The colouring was done with distress pens.

I just love these characters - so very cute!

I hope you had a great day yesterday - I know we all did! And an even better one today!

big hugs rachel

I'm back! Review of a day at Kendal with Jo Rice!

Hello Lovelies! Well finally I'm at home writing a blog post - my neighbour came around earlier and quickly worked out that the telephone cable to my router was damaged - hence the lack of broadband. Although its not fixed I've just plugged my router in to another telephone socket and everything is working - thanks Jim! Things are also looking up on the rewiring front - I'm hoping that everything will be finished off tomorrow - including the plastering. Fingers crossed!!!

I had a lovely day yesterday - I went back to coffee pot - I'll share our makes soon - then cycled to the gym to start something called lean Body Systems. It was great fun and I did really enjoy it. Then I cycled home - all good stuff!!! Inthe evening i took the girls up to the university where they started a new block of swimming lessons - they found the transition from a 15m pool to a 25m pool quite tricky - but I'm glad we've moved classes as I think they'll really get stronger now they can be stretched so much more! They were happy too but I know they're going to sleep well tonight!

Last Thursday I took my lovely mum up to Kendal to a workshop with Jo Rice - we had a lovely day and this is what we made:

This is the first card we made - a lovely leafy wreath created using  repeat stamping.

This is the second card - using the lone tree stencil.

This next one also used the lone tree stencil but with such a different result.

This was my version of the final make - a simple case of masking and stamping.

Lovely originals Jo - and a great day out! Thankyou!

Hope to be back to visiting your blogs later!

Hugs

Rachel x

More Numbers at Countryview Crafts

Good morning all! I have my second inspirational piece to share with you for the numbers challenge over at Country View Challenges. This time I have been working with a stampers-anonymous-tim-holtz-cling-mounted-stamp-set---number-blocks. I also used dina-wakley-media---cling-stamps---silhouetted-women. Here's what I made:

I used a ranger-inkssentials-surfaces-manila-tag-10 and archival inks throughout. I randomly stamped up the numbers and then using a sharpie pen drew lines between the stamped images.

I then stamped the dina wakley image and fussy cut her and added her to the tag. I also used distress sprays to dye the ribbon and added a tim-holtz-idea-ology-philosophy-tag.

I hope you can join us in the countryviewchallenges and look forward to seeing what you do.

I'd like to enter this into craftstamper -take-it-make-it-challenge-september

Hugs

Rachel x

carols at christmas card club

Hello lovelies - sorry for being quiet - the rewiring is just about complete but no internet back as yet so I'm snatching a few minutes at my mums whilst dropping my sister off. She's over visiting from New Zealand and we've been for a fabulous walk up in Ingleton this morning - its been fabulous!

Its carol singing at the christmas card club this week - I managed to make two cards this time.

Hoping you have a great day!

Hugs

Rachel x

Zara's card

Hello there - how are you? I hope you are okay - thanks for your concern about my house - things are ongoing shall we say but the end is in sight - thankfully! I'm doing this at my mums because I still can't get on the internet at home - I have most of the lights and sockets now but still waiting for the shower and the plasterer needs to come and sort things out before I can get on with decorating! So please forgive me if I don't get around to comment - doing it on my phone is hard work!!!

Today I have the card I made for Penny's best friend. She'll be 8 on Monday next week and enjoys football!  I hope she likes this.

The background I made using distress stains and stamped with distress inks.  The topper is from LOTV art pad and has been cut with a spellbinders die.

I used an Indigo Blu stamp and also a small script stamp from papermania.

Hoping for the internet to have returned tonight!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Numbers at Country View Crafts

Hello there! Can't believe its the 1st September already! How did that happen? Well its time for a new challenge over at Country View Crafts and this time the theme is set by the lovely Nikki and is Numbers. For my first piece I made a card using lots of lovely TH goodies:

I started out using a stamp from the winged-things stamp set from stampers anonymous - I stamped in black archival and then coloured in the hat and wings using distress markers milled lavendar and peeled paint.

Next I applied tim-holtz-distress---micro-glaze and this protects the image - its like a sealant and is so very easy to use! Next I made the background - I used cracked-pistachio, peacock-feathers and -peeled-paint distress inks to create the background and also blossom, flourish and scribbles layering stencils from Tim Holtz.

After building up the background I also added white and black paint acrylic circles using a distress stain top and also stamped more numbers using a stamp from the typography stamp set.

I hope you can join us at countryviewchallenges this month - remember to read the rules and link up to be in with a chance of winning a £20 voucher to spend at countryviewcrafts. 

Big Hugs to you! Enjoy your day! 

Rachel xx