Time flies at AVJ

Morning all! Are you managing to keep your head above the rain waters? Blimey - it never stopped here yesterday - hope its a bit better today! I'm taking my mum and dad up to Kendal for a hospital appointment for dad. Fingers crossed it will go well. The girls are coming too - we're off to get school shoes and also aim to pop up to Lakeland at Windermere to get some icing - I have to make Lucy's birthday cake tomorrow .... Harry Potter is the theme!

Onto todays make - well its a canvas made with a number of challenges in mind - firstly A Vintage Journey where the theme is Time Flies... Well I believe very much that time flies and my canvas is a reaction in that we should all try to slow down .... and take time to smell the roses. I have used two TH dies in the making of this canvas and also used distress inks on the background plus TH grungeboard letters.

I made the canvas by firstly creating some texture on the background - I used grungepaste and a TH stencil and also some grungeboard letters that I stuck to the canvas. Then I painted over using distress paints and also some pebeo acrylic paint. Next I did some background stamping using small stamps from papermania and oakhouse studio.

Next I got busy with the melt pot and moulds from WOW, martha stewart and modgepodge. I made the roses and hearts and butterflies using UTEE clear mixed with some red and purple. Then I stamped my prima doll and paper pieced her dress using distress inks and a stamp from Oak house studio.  I also did some die cutting.

Finally I assembled all the pieces. I did have fun making this - I do hope you like it!

I'd like to enter my canvas into the following challenges:

AVJvintagejourney-time-flies: Time flies

CVCcountryviewchallenges: Word Play

Oakhouse Studiooakhousestudio: Alphabetica

Pan pastelpanpasteluk: Bold and bright

Thanks for dropping by today - I hope you had fun! My poor hubby didn't have fun yesterday - he had his pocket picked in Buenas Aires. He's been there since Tuesday night last week. Thankfully he didn't have his passport with him so at least we'll get him back as planned very soon! Bless him - it sounds like he was the victim of a distraction ruse. Very sad - but he seems okay - just a bit wiser.

Hope to see you soon.

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

4 legged animal at Craft a scene

Hiya there! Well did you have a good Saturday? I hope so. We did - it was Lucy's party. We all went to the climbing wall at Lancaster University - the group of 8 of them had a fabulous climb and lots of fun. We had a bit of a problem getting the food which wasn't good but in the end didn't have to pay and got lots of good food - so that wasn't so bad!

Today is the second sunday in the month and time for my second card for Craft a scene where the theme this month is to make a scene including a four legged animal. I was lucky enough to get top 5 at Allsorts last week for my tiger. Todays card features another of sheenas stamps - this time a Christmas card.

I've used three of the recently released Christmas stamps to create this card - they're all from the same plate.

I stamped the deer first then masked and added the trees. I used clarity masks to create the hills and sky. The deer were coloured using spectrum noir pens. I added the glitter last.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Simon says stamp:simonsaysstampblog Sparkle

PTWpapertakeweekly: AG

Thanks for dropping by today and I hope to see you again soon!

Hugs

Rachel x

CC3: Faded Layers

Hello lovelies - well I seem to be a little confused - I thought the new Little Claire challenge would start today so was all ready to post my GDT card when I was told it was going to be next week - I do hope I haven't mucked this up - anyway - I've decided to post my CC3: faded layers challenge card today - this was so simple but I adore how it turned out ... what do you think?

I cannot reveal the method for creating the background - thats part of the challenge and you need to check out the compendium of curiosities volume 3 to find that one out. I did use the Holiday knit stencil though - and the topper is a blueprints stamp that I stamped and painted with distress ink.

Here's about the prizes in the challenge.
As always, a “Curiosity Crew’s Choice” winner will be selected who will receive a fabulous assortment Tim’s products, courtesy of Tim himself and Mario Rossi. To be in with a chance of winning you must visit each of the team members’ blogs and leave a comment there. 

The Funkie Junkie Boutique is back to sponsor Challenge 8, and lovely owner Linda Coughlin has $25 shopping spree to one very lucky CC3Cer– just in time for those amazing new summer products that are hitting the market!

So I would like to enter this into the compendium-of-curiosities-3-challenge-8- faded layers and also thatscraftychallenges -stamping-ground-challenge

The tooth fairy has been at our house 3 nights in the past week - here's miss Penny!!!!

Oh she's a little rich miss just at the moment!!! Lol!!!!

Big Hugs to you and hope to see you again soon!

Rachel xx

a homemade christmas wreath for christmas card club.

Hello lovelies! How are you? Well I'm super early today as this post is meant for Sunday - but since I have posts I can't move tomorrow and Sunday I thought I would do it today - I hope you Christmas card club ladies don't mind my being so early. Our theme this fortnight is anything but a card ..... well me and the girls and my mum were in Happy Mount Park in Morecambe the first day of the holibobs and we found oodles of pine cones .... I have been mulling over what to do with these and this was one of the ideas - my hubbie put a spanner in the works when he admitted he had dustbinned the wreath ring I had put by ....after a few choice words I retired to my attic with some of his garden wire by way of compensation - lol!!!! This is what I came up with.

First of all I sprayed the cones with silver spray and sparkle and left them to dry. I threaded the garden wire around the base of the pine cones then pulled them into a circle. I covered the wire with ribbon then added ribbon ties at 2 cone intervals. Then I stamped three sentiments four times each in versa mark and heat set them with gold detail powder.  I stuck these on and added a card ring behind to give the ring greater stability.

I hope you enjoyed my little experiment - I'll be using this at Christmastime - indoors of course!  I have lots of cones left so will be looking around for ideas! 

I hope you've enjoyed your visit today!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

Feminine at Clarity

Good morning lovelies! How are you today? I hope you are well and happy! We had such a good time at the BFG workshop yesterday - we managed to start making the giant heads, made the snozzcumbers, tie dyed the t-shirts, recorded some sound effects (including whizzpoppers) and even had some time to practice two of the scenes. It really was a great group effort - brilliant work by one and all!

Today I would like to share with you my make for the current Clarity Challenge. The challenge is feminine - well I'm not a handbags and shoes kind of girl - so I'm afraid I was a bit stuck with this challenge - anyway - I had a rummage in my drawer of clarity stamps and I found this mermaid stamp so I decided to go with this.

I started the card by using the mermaid hair to create a border - I stamped with versamark then heat set with green Wow powders. I repeated this process with the central mermaid then went on to create the background using distress stains. Once I had dried the stains off I lightened the central portion using a baby wipe. Then I made the Mermaid overlay.

I did this using angelina film and fibres - I put my stamp down, inked it up with black staz -on, then made a fil, fibre, film sandwich - then topped with greaseproof paper and used a craft iron over the top. Then I fussy cut the image and added to the background. I also added the word dream over the background and then stamped the main dream sentiment. I then added all this to a card!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Clarityclaritystampchallenge: feminine

WOWwowembossingpowder: Monochrome

Stamping sensationssirstampalotchallenge: AG

Inky Chicksinkychicks: Photo Inspiration

CVCcountryviewchallenges: Word Play

Thats all for today! Thanks for your visit! I hope you've enjoyed it!

Big Hugs

Rachel xx

Imagination Crafts TV samples

Good morning lovelies! How are you today? We have a busy day ahead - we're attending a workshop for the upcoming BFG show that the girls are in - we're tie dying t shirts for costumes, making papier mache masks and also making some dolls that are going to be the human beans in the play! Should be a fun day!

Today I'd like to share a few TV samples that I made for the Imagination Crafts show that was on whilst I was in Germany - the shows were great but I didn't see any of my samples :(. Nevermind! You can't win them all!

This is the first of two of the trees I made - I painted the trees with silkies then brayered on sparkle medium. The baubles were made using one of the snowflake cake stencils.

This was a card I made using silkies and another snowflake cake topper stencil. 

I hope you like the samples - I was pleased with them! There's more to come soon!

Just wanted to show you Pennys make for the simonsaysstampblog -wednesdaychallenge - simon-says-childrens-summer-vacation-challenge - she made some crafty icecreams - very summery I think!!!

She always has her own ideas - I think this one is very good!

Thanks for looking today and big hugs to you!

Rachel xx

Christmas in July at Indigo blu

Good morning lovelies! How are you today? I hope you are well and happy! We are all good - Shaun is getting organised for a trip to Argentina - and me and the girls are getting ready for Lucy's birthday party which is on Saturday - she's going to be 8 - but not until the following wednesday. Its all go though - its only a small party this year - just 8 of them going to the climbing wall at lancaster University. Sounds like fun.

Today I have my entry for the Indigo Blu challenge to share with you. The theme is Christmas in July - I've used three of their MDF baubles to make some simple decorations.

Here's the three together - they were all made by coating the MDF in silks paint and allowing to dry before stamping the Indigo blu snowflake image on in versa mark and adding embossing powders before heat setting. Here they all are individually.

Simple but I think effective!

I'd like to enter these into the indigoblublogchallenge-christmas-in-july.

Just wanted to show you Lucy's painting and her inspiration too - this is for the simonsaysstampblog -wednesdaychallenge -simon-says-childrens-summer-vacation-challenge

She bought this bird in Germany at the Medieval festival we went to! I had to buy a chicken - not a real one - I have quite a few chickens in my kitchen now lol!!!

Thats all for now!

Hope to see you again soon and thanks for dropping by today!

Hugs

Rachel x