A Sporting Life!

Hello Lovelies! How are you? Thanks for your kind words on my tag yesterday - and from those of you on FB your kind words about mine and shauns wedding anniversary yesterday. Its good to have such wonderful memories! 

Today I am sharing a card with you that I made for the latest Joanna Sheen Card swap - the theme was a sporting life - I have to admit I struggled - but then I came across hedgie here and everything fell into place! As well as using a penny black stamp I used some Tim trees and some CB snowy stamps.

I also used a stencil from Tim and two tim dies for the words!

This image is supercute! Love him!!!

I'd like to enter this into the pennyblackatallsorts march-challenge-feature-creature

Have a great Tuesday!

Hugs

Rachel x

Pink green and yellow at Indigo Blu

Hello Lovelies! Well its time for a new challenge to start at Indigo Blu - the theme for this month is yellow, green and pink. For this challenge inspiration I had fun with indigo blu stamps and stencils and made a tag:

There's lots of layering in this tag - I started by making the main background. I used distress inks to cover the tag then inked through laurel-leavesstencil. I used several colours.

I added tasty-textures script in yellow archival ink. Next I moved on to the main image colour-me-daisy and stamped and coloured it.

Then I added the word-blocks-1-by-mike-deakin and coloured the background and edged it too.

Finally I added some blobs of pink and yellow.

I hope you will join us in the challenge which can be found here.

Big hugs 

Rachel xx

ccc - 2 or more patterned papers plus a parcel!

Hello lovelies! How are you today??? I do hope you are good and had a great Saturday - apologies for being MIA for a few days - nights out sure do play havoc with blogging - I should be back in force later this evening! Last night I was out enjoying the Hornby Occasionals version of Iolanthe - I went with my friend Helen - I don't think it was her thing but I really enjoyed it!!!! Today, palm Sunday, my girls are singing in church then Penny has a party and finally we have a drama rehearsal so its another busy day- its all good though!

Today it is a difficult theme for me at Christmas card Club - its 2 or more patterned papers. Its difficult because I don't use patterned paper much at all these days - I guess I could have made my own - but I thought I would dust off some from many years ago. I teamed them (from LOTV) with a stamp from Tim.

I look forward to seeing what the other ladies from our lovely club have come up with.

I got a lovely parcel arrive on Friday ... from oakhousestudio. The lovely Lynnda turned the order around remarkably quickly - thanks Lynnda - I'm looking forward to having a play with these goodies on Monday!

I'm particularly looking forward to playing with the pure colour chemistry inks - I'll let you see what I get up to - but you may have to wait until April!!!!

Have a great Sunday!

Big Hugs Rachel x

Tims tag March

Hello lovelies - how are you today? I am excited as I'm off to Clarity Cumbria today hosted by the lovely Jo Rice - Off to get inky and painty and play! And tonight I go to see the village production of Iolanthe. Should be good!

Yesterday I had a good day towards my triathalon training - I cycled nealy 12km to the gym - swam the 16 lengths I need to do for the distance then cycled back. I was going to run the 5km on the end but got distracted by a spinach protein shake - yum!!! Times were good for me - very slow for a proper triathelete - but hey - I just want to complete the course!

Today I have Tims tag to share with you - this has been my favourite technique combo so far. I really loved creating this - thanks Tim!!! Here's what Tim did:



I used exactly the same techniques but varied the dies I used plus I used a different wordband. All the techniques are listed here.

I wanted to use the umbrella man - I love this die and thought he would look good using this technique.

A close up!

This one shows the added enamelling that I did - its in the top - because the card was so thick it almost burned - ooops!!!!

And here's the band I chose - a great saying I think!

I would like to enter this into the timholtz12-tags-of-2016-march

See you tomorrow!

Hugs Rachel x

More Industrial at Countryview Challenges

Hello Lovelies! I'm here today with more inspiration for the Industrial challenge over at Countryview Challenges. This background I have used was created last month as part of a piece for stamps and stencils and can be found in detail here.

I have teamed the background up with a stamp from Chocolate Baroque. I coloured this stamp with distress markers from Countryview Crafts.

Here's a closer look!

I hope you have a great day and find the time to join us at the challenge which you will find here.

Hugs

Rachel x

Easter cards

Hello there! How are you? I hope you like my share for today - its my easter cards for this year - I did a batch!

I made a masterboard using distress stains and inks and stencils. I paper pieced the stamped images from Tim Holtz.

I really like the bunny - I think he's my favourite.

Big Hugs

Rachel x

coffee pot Monday

Hello lovelies! Well it was another trip for me to coffee pot this week on Monday and Diana brought some beautiful darkroom door stamps for us to play with. There was also an indigo blu stamp but its not one I recognise!  We were supposed to be going for pale and interesting - but as usual I had to be a bit of a rebel and try something brighter - once I had done the pale and interesting!

The main image is the indigoblu one.  The rest are from darkroom door.

Very pale and interesting...

Much more my colours!!!!

Which do you prefer???

Big hugs

Rachel x