Playing with Luscious at stamps and stencils

Good morning all! Just a quick post from me on here today - I have a tutorial on stampsandstencils blog where I made pages using luscious powders... this is the result...

I hope you will pop over to see how I did this!

Hugs

Rachel x

15 minute post at Chocolate Baroque and a sneak peek

Hi there - my first of two posts today ... and a sneaky peak too... isn't it always the same - nothing for days then three come along at once!!!!

On the chocolatebaroque blog today there are more ideas for quick makes ... I have two cards to share...

This first one involves creating a quick distress crayon background - I added the colours gradually to the card and used my fingers to blend. The stamps are from the wild-meadowrubber-stamp-sheet. I stamped them in black archival.

This is a quick make using the Daisy centre flowerhead. I coloured this using distress inks and pens and a paint brush.

Finally a tag that I have on the fiskarettes facebook page ... here's a sneaky peek ...

I hope you can join me over there!

Thanks for looking today!

Big hugs

Rachel xx

coffee pot and colour run

Hello Lovelies ... how are you? I hope you are well. I have found a short window of time before we head off for swimming. I thought I would write this blog post now so I can save a bit of time for later!!! I have distress crayon playtime on my mind!!!!

Today was the first time coffeepot met this academic year and my mum came along so that was good. Diana was in charge and these are the cards I made using woodware stamps...

I love this teasels one - the yellow is wild honey and the brown is brushed corduroy onto kraft. I stamped the tesels in sepia.

Now this next one I think is called summer meadow but I could be wrong. The background is done with ripe persimmon distress plus wild honey. I have stamped the image in sepia archival and coloured the flowers in a combination of distress and watercolour pencils.

This one is not yet complete - its the teasels again with fired brick and ripe persimmon distress. I used flick and mop to get the splodges. I will hopefully complete this later.

Yesterday me and my girls did the colour run in Morecambe in aid of St Johns Hospice. The hospice at home team looked after my dad a lot in the last few weeks of his life. We raised over £500 for them - thanks to those of you that sponsored us ... here's some pics....

This was us before the race ...

during the run ...

and after the run.

It was a perfect day weatherwise. And a perfect day smiles wise!!!

Have a great Monday evening!

Big hugs

Rachel x

playtime distress crayon resist

Hello Lovelies! Well it was a funny old day yesterday! I had a lovely morning - swimming with my friends Rose and Alice and then lunch with another friend Catherine - then gardening at school. Sadly things went a bit wrong then - I got home from school to find my cat licking her tail madly and she had quite an oozy bloody tail when I investigated. Anyway, the vet put a cone of shame on her to prevent her from keep licking the wound so she feels proper sorry for herself. Then I found out I had managed to miss Jenny Marples demonstrating only 15 minutes from my house!

I have been carrying on with my Tim lessons from the summer - todays make involves the distress crayon resist technique. Its a great technique - I hope you like the results!

I used a Tim stencil to do this and distress inks.

Centrally I used a Tim Holtz quote and some tim holtz punched shapes. There are also some added flowers from my 'craft box' for this month too.

A closer look. The fabric behind is from the finnabhair range.

I hope you have a good Saturday. Lucy is starting climbing lessons today! Not sure what else we are doing!

Big hugs

Rachel x

Jakes Card

Hello there! How are you this morning? I hope you are ok. I had a lovely time yesterday with my mum - we went to the hobbycraft and stitches show at Manchester Event City. We had fun - looked at stalls, bought some goodies and did a workshop. My mum did the tonic workshop and I did a stained glass workshop and made a suncatcher. I will have to look up the stuff I used because I really did enjoy it.

Today I would like to share with you a card I have made for my sister in laws man - I made this using a technique from Tim Holtz Creative chemistry 103 called gesso fresco that involves distress crayons.

I used a few different stencils in this but the main one was from clarity. The stamp is by Tim Holtz.

Here's a close up of the stamp - I love it and think its perfect for male cards.

I would like to enter this into sirstampalotchallengeseptember-one-for-boys

I hope you have a great day and enjoy whatever you do.

Big hugs

Rachel xx

a bit of a tease

Hello there - here with a bit of a tease from the fiskarettes FB page today .....

can you see what it is yet???? Check it out here.

Janes card

Hello there - and its another good morning I hope? Things here are ok - I had to take my cat mischief in to see the vet yesterday - she has 2 lumps at the body end of her tail. The vet has taken samples for analysis but given missy's age she thinks tumours are the most likely outcome. So we have a few days to wait for the lab results. Poor puss. Hope she's going to be okay.

Today I have a card to share with you that I am very pleased with - its for my sister in law, Jane, who has a birthday coming up. I have been desparate to use my Leonie circle die and also my new JOFY stamps - this card has combined the two.

I started by stamping and colourising the flowers - I used distress inks and pens to do the colouring then fussy cut them. I also die cut the circles using my Leonie die.

Next I made the background - I started with fossilised amber DI around the edges then stamped and coloured in the leaves. Next I assembled the card.

I've added small gems and glossy accents to some of the centres of the flowers - then I made a few marks on the background using the smaller stamps from this set. I adore these stamps - I fear you may be seeing them again very soon!

I would like to enter this card into the current Paperartsy challenge which is making-marks and also simonsaysstampblog mondaychallenge - stamp it 

Big hugs to you and i hope you have a great day!

Hugs

Rachel x