On your Travels at Country View Crafts

Good morning Lovelies!!! I hope you are well! Woo Hoo - finally I get to reveal that I have joined the design team at Countryview Crafts! I can hardly believe my luck - not only is it my favourite shop - I also get to be teamies with an uber talented bunch who's work I have admired for a very long time now! Thanks Chris for the chance - I will do my very best! I hope you will enjoy joining me on this particular part of my crafting journey.

So the theme for this months challenge is 'On your Travels' ... there's still a couple of weeks to join in and the randomly drawn winner of the challenge will receive £20 to spend in the shop - and trust me that won't be a hard task as Susan stocks so much wonderful crafty goodness ...and postage is free! There are also chances to win guest design spots on the blog too. So what are you waiting for?

I have been playing with my file folders again and have made a journey file folder using lots of yummy Tim Holtz goodies. As soon as I saw the theme I thought of the Tim Time traveller stamp set which features inside this piece.

Here's the front of the folder - for the main folder I used distress stains and inks to create the colour - salty ocean, mermaid lagoon, cracked pistachio, mustard seed, tea dye, walnut stain and  hickory smoke. I also used the cityscapes stamps and classics-1-stamp-set. plus the remnant rubs special-delivery

Inside I decorated the file folder using the time-travelers-travellers-stamp-set. I created tags using distress paints (evergreen bough and cracked pistachio), layering-stencil---treads, traveler and mesh.

I also used word-bands---observations.

This is the next page and tag.

I also added chit-chat stickers.

I will get more organised next time and produce a more detailed step by step post! But if you have any questions please ask!

I would like to enter my file folder into the stampsandstencils happy-holidays challenge..

eclecticellapu: Travel challenge

Thats all for today! Thanks for visiting and I'll be around to check out what you have been up to later.

Hugs

Rachel x

a card instead!

Morning lovelies! How are you? I do hope you are well! At the end of yesterdays post I said I was going to show you what we were doing at coffee pot today - but I need to keep that under wraps for something - so I've got a card for you instead.  This is the one I made for the lady who is leaving our guiding community - I went to her farewell meal on Friday.

She was a brown owl and amongst other brown owls so I I thought this clarity stamp was a great choice of images. I stamped the image and coloured it with spectrum noir pencils and then used the mask over the image so I could create the background. Finally I added the trefoil and the wording.

I hope you like my card - back tomorrow with some exciting news that I have been bursting to share with you!!!!

A crafty day with Lindsay Mason and Lucy's Birthday Party

Morning all! How are you today? I hope you are well and good! I have my make to share with you from Lindsay's class on Saturday - it was held in a room at Carnforth Station - it was a great venue - lovely day - we even had a steam train pass through. Here's what we made:

Its a fabulous hanger in three parts. We started by doing three types of what Lindsay calls flat texture - scrunched paper, texture paste through stencils and embossed paper. Next we added the letters and die cuts before covering in black paint and leaving to dry.

Then we painted the pieces with a dry brush in maya gold paints then added inca gold waxes.

I think the texture is fabulous - a big thanks to Lindsay - such a lovely day!

Lucy had her party yesterday - did you see her cake on facebook? It was amazing....

Lucy loves science and we were having a mad science party - her birthday's not until august but we though we would get the party in early this year. Here's some pics from the party itself.

Right at the start with rocket rebecca - I think that was her name!

Eating food after watching experiments and making goo.

Hover board ride.

sparklers on the cake.

candyfloss making right at the end!

She had a fabulous time! It feels funny having had the party - but we had to try it this way around! Good fun indeed.

I'm off to coffee pot today - the last one for the academic year - I'm in charge - we're making a different sort of hanger. More of that tomorrow.

Big hugs and I hope you have a great day!

Rachel x

Trees at Christmas card Club

Hello Lovelies - hope you had a good day yesterday! I had a lovely crafty day and made a sign at a craft event with Lindsay Mason - more of that later in the week once I have had time to photograph it properly. Then me and my beautiful daughters went to a friends leaving party at another friends house - it was great fun!

Today I would like to share with you my very different three makes for the current challenge at christmas card club which is trees.

This first one is using sheenas embossing folder and dyna paints and was done after a demo on Create on craft. I painted the black card -then embossed then sanded the trees back.

This one is using some of the new wee folk stamps from Clarity.

This one is another of the new sheena folders teamed up with sue wilsons new trees (thanks mum) and the clarity word chains.

Here's a close up - I love these trees.

I would like to enter these into sweetstampinchallengeblog christmas-in-july

Its another busy day here at Fisher Towers - we're off first of all to pick up Lucy's birthday cake from my friends house - its amazing - photos tomorrow I promise! Then this afternoon we've got Lucy's mad science birthday party - can't wait!!!

I do hope you have a fabulous day!!!

Big hugs and thanks for any comments!

Hugs

rachel x

Aarons cards and busy busy busy!!!

Hello Lovelies - how are you tonight? I'm just back in from a night out with the guiding team - its been a busy few days and I haven't had chance to blog anything until now!!! I had a day out on a school trip on Thursday - we went to a farm near Kendal and had a wonderful day - we all learned something!!!! Then last night we went the play in the park - it was Oliver twist this year - a fabulous production but I found it hard to believe in the setting - the park doesn't really lend itself to the story - but that aside it was excellent! Today I've been to the hairdressers and out for tea tonight! Phew! Busy busy!

So tonight I want to show you the two cards I have made for the boy who is sharing Lucy's birthday party - thats on Sunday although her birthday is not until August!

He's mad keen on camper vans so the stamp from this months craft stamper came in handy!

I love this one myself - those chickens are cool!

This is a penny black stamp simply coloured with spectrum noir pencils.

I'd like to enter this into pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge july- friendship.

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I hope you have had a good day and thanks for any comments you choose to leave!

Big hugs

Rachel x

Faces at Crafty Individuals

Hello Lovelies! How are you? I'm feeling a bit shattered but its been a good day really. My girls are currently playing with their barbies - they do love their dolls - its fabulous - I'm taking advantage of the peace and quiet!

Thanks for your kind words on my post yesterday - tonight I have a card I have made for the Crafty Individuals challenge. This time the theme is Face Value - you have to include a face in your make. It doesn't have to be human! I decided to use a fairy stamp and also a floral stamp in this make. Both are from Crafty Individuals.

I stamped the fairy image and coloured the flowers using distress markers. I added this to a piece of pink mirri board and trimmed the edges. On another piece of card I masked off the top and bottom and then stamped the floral images and coloured with distress marker.

I added the topper then matted the whole thing on the same pink mirri board. 

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

allsortschallenge week-318-how-does-your-garden-grow

craftyindividualsblog/face-value

I hope you have a good evening - I'll be around to visit soon! Big hugs rachel x

Add a flower at Lavinia plus new releases at Indigo Blu

Hello Lovelies! How are you today? I hope you are doing well and are happy. We are all well and good!!! Thanks for your comments on yesterdays post! You are very kind. Tonight I would like to share a quick make I have made for entering into the Lavinia Challenge which this time is 'add a flower'.

I have used the poppy seed head stamp embossed in white  and then used a stencil and added distress inks over the top. Finally I added the Lavinia fairies, the fairy dust words and some extra dust spots! Very quick and clean and simple. 

I would like to enter this into laviniastamps challenge 7. 

There was great excitement over at Indigo Blu earlier with the release of the new Christmas stamps - you can see them here.... they look fabulous - I know what I'll be ordering!!!

Hope you have a great evening! 

Hugs

Rachel xx