Jane's card

Hello there! How are you doing? Things here are good. I managed my first teaching day yesterday and although things could have been better, they could have been much worse too! Oh yes and on Sunday I passed my first 1/2 stone lost milestone with Slimming World. Much more to go but its a start!

I have a birthday card to share with you today for my sister in law, Jane. I do hope she likes it.

I created the background first using distress inks then added the stamping before doing some colouring to compliment the background.

I have coffeepot to do this morning - we're working with more Lavinia stamps so there'll be more see very soon!

Have a great day!

Big hugs

Rachel xx

Elephant Canvas

Good morning all! How are you today? I am on the Chocolate Baroque Design team blog today and have some elephants to share with you.

I made a canvas - it is actually just greyboard that I worked on but you know what I mean! I have used  lots of Chocolate Baroque stamps sets on this project - I just love the black and white against the colours...Full details are on the blog over here. Thanks for dropping by!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Yarn Bowl

Hello there! How are you? I do hope you are well. I have a bit of an ear infection so not brilliant - that'll teach me to use cotton buds! Still I did manage to get lots done yesterday - I had a successful run and spent a couple of hours in school trying to get organised for Monday - I have three 100 minute lessons to teach ...oh well. I suspect I am under prepared but its so very hard to tell until you have taught the kids once! I'll feel better once that first teaching day is over!!!

I've been doing a bit of pottery painting - this one has been on the go for a while but now it is finally done.

Its a yarn bowl - I have used stamps from Clarity and I used a bit of an ombre in the painting!

Here's the bowl further around - and the dobbing around the rim.

Here's the main feature of the yarn bowl - you can put your ball of wool in the bowl and the cat won't chase it! Result!!!! I wish I had done a few dots - but there it is!

Hugs

Rachel xx

ATC's at paperartsy

Hello there! How are you? Here's hoping you are well. Thanks so much for the lovely comments on yesterdays post - you are very kind. I've stuck with pperartsy characters today and made a set of ATCoins for the theme over at Paperartsy this fortnight. Love these quirky characters!

I started by painting the coins and adding detail using a JOFY stencil (PA83). I then used Darcy's stamp set EDY22 onto card and did a bit of fussy cutting! Hope you like them!

I'd like to enter these into paperartsy-topic-15-artist-trading-coins

I had a grand day out with my lovely mum yesterday - we went to the show at Event City near the Trafford Centre . I got myself a very large ball of wool and a pattern for a celtic knot shawl. It will take me forever so don't hold your breath! I also got a book on needle felted animals - looking forward to playing!

Big hugs

Rachel xx

Anything goes at Stamps and Stencils!

Hello there! Time for a new challenge at stamps and stencils today - and the theme is Anything Goes! As long as it includes stamps or stencils of course. Here's what Sue had to say ...
 It's been a while - Being creative often leads you in different directions and sometimes it isn't until you start that you know where you are heading. For this challenge I thought that as we've not done it for a while it would be good to let your creative spirit wander and have a theme of Anything Goes. Your project must be mixed media and include stamping and/or stencilling but apart from that it's up to you !

So here's how my spirit wandered ... it made a new ATC case ... I seem to need these at regular intervals!!!

I started by stencilling using two aalland create stencils using gesso ... one dry I added a coat of 

mint green paint and then some stamping ...

Next I got playing with some paperartsy stamps.... this is the back.

And this is the front!

Its nearly full already! I will need to get myself another!

Hope you can join us! You can find amazing inspiration and link up here.

Big hugs

Rachel x

Foliage at Christmas Card Club

Hi there! Running late today - to be honest I already thought I had done this one and it turns out I am less organised than I thought!!! Anyway, here I am eventually with my Christmas Card Club makes - 4 cards with one stamp set here.

Here I have used pixie powders and stamping in coloured inks plus a cut out trick I did at the Jane Gill class hwere I bought this woodware stamp.

More coloured inks but without the cutout.

This time using flitterglu and flakes...

and finally alcohol inks and lift ink!

Lots of fun with a foliage theme!

Big hugs

Rachel xx

Planes, trains and automobiles at Countryview Challenges

Hello there! First of the month and time for a new challenge at Countryview Challenges. This time the theme is planes, trains and automobiles! Great theme. I have dusted off an oldie, added a relative newbie stamp and done some drawing too for this challenge....here's what I did...

Okay firstly then the background - a rough covering of broken china distress ink incluing using a cloud mask. My draings of the planes were done with the help of you tube tutorials! 

This is the relative Newbie - a stamp from Mark Gould.

Here's the oldie - a stampers anonymous image from tim holtz time traveller set. 

I used some words from a couple of Tim Holtz sticker packs ... I think it was small talk and the one that are random book page quotes....

i hope you will be able to join us - there's a £20 voucher up for grabs! You can get more inspiration and enter here.

Big hugs

Rachel xx