Magical news

Hello Lovelies! How are you? Did you manage to enjoy that lovely weather again yesterday? I enjoyed it - it was lovely to spend a couple of hours outside - and I managed a run in the morning too. All good stuff.

Today I want to share a card I made for a couple in the village - one of their daughters just gave birth to twins so I wanted to congratulate them!

I know its not a regular baby congrats card but I didn't want to make it anything other than magical - as that's what the news is.

I created the scene using distress inks and then black archival and lavinia stamps.

The diecut word is from tattered lace. I have entered this into Lavinia facebook challenge. They have changed things - I now have to get lots of likes to get be judged! If you don't mind liking on facebook I would appreciate it!

Big hugs to you and have a great Tuesday!

Rachel x

Alisons card

Hello Lovelies - I hope you had a wonderful day yesterday - it was just like Spring here - totally beautiful and apparently more is forecast for today! Fingers crossed. I even managed to get my mum and dad to Happy Mount Park in Morecambe which was great.



Its so good to see my dad out and about although he didn't go far - his legs are very weak. Shame his mind is so rambling - he's convinced my mum takes him to at least 3 other houses to sleep and that each one is identical. A funny thing is dementia.

Today I want to share a card I made for my friend Alison - she's Tawny owl at Brownies and gets married and moves away in April.

The main stamp is a creative expressions sam poole stamp - I've created the background using a paperartsy stamp and brushos and distress crayons. Its all on watercolour card. I coloured the owl in distress markers. The sentiment stamp is from Tim Holtz.

We all went out for a meal at the local pub in Hornby on Friday night - it was a lovely night - we will still see Alison at a couple more meets before she finishes for Easter.

Big huggles to you and I hope you have a great day - enjoy whatever you do.

Hugs

Rachel x

another wanderlust page - what do I see when I look in the mirror?

Hello Lovelies. How are you? I am good - and also very excited - I booked a place at Birgit Koopson (is that how I should spell it) workshop in May yesterday - now its going to be a residential so will cause a few difficulties - but I am determined to find a way - watch this space!!!!

So time for another journal page for wanderlust - the theme this time is 'what do you see when you look in the mirror?'. My page reflects that many people tell me I have been brave this past 18 months or so - but I really don't feel I have done any different from what others would have done put in the same circumstances.

that last line is a bit tricky to read - but its 'that sad little me shall be around no more'

Don't worry - I mean that I will truely be the brave lion!!!

Not much to say about this one - its all finger painting in acrylics!

Big hugs

Rachel x

playing with sheenas stuff

Good morning lovely people - I must start by saying thankyou for your kind words about my journal page - I didn't mean to make you cry - sorry - and I wasn't looking for sympathy - but thankyou anyway.

I have a card to share with you today - I enjoyed making this too - it coming up to what would have been mine and Shauns 11th wedding anniversary. I am going to stand the card up on that day - I think the words mean 'forever yours' but I could be wrong!!

The image was stamped in potting soil archival and coloured with distress markers, a paint brush and water. The background was created with distress ink - fired brick - then I stamped the rose in red archival, masking as I went along.

Here's a closer look ... love this image - she's fabulous!!!

Have a good Saturday!

Big Hugs

Rachel x

My bravest day - a journal page for Wanderlust

Hello lovelies ... How are you today? I hope you are good! I am good and hoping to go for a nice swim and cycle today so I hope the weather is good too!!

In the Wanderlust programme that I am following there are a number of activities - one of them is a journal and whilst I was ill this page prompt came up. 'What's the bravest thing you've ever done?' - well I thought long and hard about this - I went down the crazy brave route and came up with sky diving and back packing on my own, then I thought deeper and thought about the thing that I really had found hardest to do - sadly there were a few difficult memories to dredge through there - but in the end it came down to telling my girls that their beautiful and wonderful daddy had died. My page represents that day for me - the day the earth cried and the heavens gained an angel too soon.

Here's is the whole page - I used distress stains to quickly colour the page - and stencils from Clarity and Dina Wakely and Sheena to create the scene. I also used a cloud mask from clarity.

A close up - the lady is from Clarity, the fence and lampost sheena.

Representing my little girls....

And this is representing Shaun.....

I found this page very therapeutic - but also very difficult. 

Have a great Friday!

Lots of love and hugs

Rachel x

Inspirational post at Stamps and Stencils

Hello Lovelies - just a quick post here today to let you know I've written an inspirational post over at stampsandstencils today.

To see how I got from this ...

to this using stamps, brushos and distress crayons please pop over here.

Look forward to seeing you!

Hugs

Rachel x

Coffee Pot again!

Hello Lovelies! How are you today? Thanks for your kind words on my box yesterday and also my fabby weekend - not going to forget that one in a long time - I need to start to think about my own 50th - its not for a couple of years but I'm sure it will come around fast! I have vague ideas - I think it may involve crafting in the day and partying at night!

Today I want to share with you the makes I led at coffeepot yesterday - we used brushos to make the background and distress markers and crayons to complete the flowers. I love these makes - especially the orange one - and they're so quick and easy.

All paperartsy stamps on this one ..

More paperartsy stamps - a recent release by Kay Carley.

On these two the flowers are paperartsy and the text Tim Holtz.

I have details of the how in a very similar post coming up on Thursday!

Until then I would like to enter these into 

sirstampalot march-challenge-flower-power

djkardkreationnbus-challenge-6 - this is the first airing of my distress crayons!!

Big Hugs and hope to see you Thursday!

Rachel x