Shabby Chic

Hello Lovelies - How are you? I hope you are okay! Thanks for your comments from yesterdays post - I really do appreciate it. You are very kind!

Today I have a card I have made for a card swap I am involved in - the theme is shabby chic. I have used distress inks and Tim Holtz products.

The distress inks i used are victorian velvet, tattered rose and teadye.I used them on the background before using an embossilicious folder and scraping over with a sepia archival pad. I also used tattered rose distress pen to tint the found relative photo.

The corrugated card is also from Tim Holtz and the lace from my stash.

I hope you have a good Friday - I am hoping to book a break today with some friends and their children and then go off to the gym! Whatever you do - enjoy!

Hugs

Rachel xx

smoosh, spritz and splatter

Good morning lovelies! I hope you are feeling good! If not sending hugs! I'm here today bringing you inspiration for the new challenge over at stampsandstencils. The new challenge is all about inky, painty loveliness and is called smoosh, spritz splat ....or is it spritz, splat smoosh.... anyway you get the idea! Here's what I did.

I'm very pleased with this one - hope you like it too! Here's my steps to making it.

Firstly using distress stains I bloobed them onto my craft sheet then spritzed with water ...then smooshed it over my stamping card.

Here's the result which I dried then applied distress ink to with a distress tool.

After further spritzing with water using spritz and flick methods this is the result.

Next I applied more ink through a cog stencil from the stencil girl. Then I added stamping and diecuts and flicks of white paint and voila - my card!

The stamps are from Ryn and Tim Holtz and the diecut is from Tim Holtz.

I love this saying - it really is an inner mantra for me - it helps get me through tricky times!

Big hugs to you and I hope you'll be able to join us!

Big hugs 

Rachel xx

be still my beating heart

Hello Lovelies! How are you today? I'm feeling good - I've been doing this lean in 15 diet for a few days - wow you get to eat so much - I really hope i lose a bit of weight because i think I could live with this way of eating! There is a lot of protein though! I'll let you know how it goes!

I have been playing with more heart images from paperartsy - I made a mega tag - the background was mega fun to make...

I used a variety of white and pink paperartsy fresco paints and brayered it on - then added some paperartsy crackle medium and once dry added more paint - the crackle wasn't quite as anticipated but I love the effect. I also added some small stamps to the background and also bottle top paint rings.

The hearts were stamped on white card and then painted with professor plum fresco paint. I fussy cut them then stamped on them in white snowflake paint and also black archival ink.

Here's a closer view.

I want to enter this tag into the following challenges:

paperartsy-topic-2-hearts-challenge

eclecticellapu: love actually

welove2create/challenge-3-anything-creative-mixed media

theartisticstampercreativeteam /february-creative-challenge-heart-art

My stamps are not new but seem to have been in the new paperartsy release - not sure how that happened! Maybe I just misread the post - probably!!!

Big Hugs - have a great Wednesday!

Rachelxx

Coffee pot water colouring

Hello Lovelies! I hope you are okay. I want to thank you for all your kind words on my last post - thanks so very much.

Today I have my cards from yesterdays coffee pot to share with you - they were all made by stamping the flowers in versamark and setting with white embossing powder. Then I created a wash with distress inks over the background and finally painted in the flowers with the same DIs.

They're all pretty I think! 

Just want to leave you with something else pretty - the sky over Lancaster last night!

Big hugs

Rachel x

Make your own background at Country View Challenges

Hello there! Well the new challenge over at countryviewchallenges starts today. We're asking you to make your own background. I had fun making a gelli plate background. Here's what I did:

First I loaded the A4 gelli plate with 3 colours of acrylic paint and spread them out with a brayer.

Next I applied a large stencil to the plate and also some paperartsy bits and bobs and then took a print using a mega mount.

I took two prints on adjacent pages and then cleaned up the gelli plate

Next I applied a stencil and distress ink to the top part of the page.

Then I did some stamping using paperartsy stamps (jofy13, -jofy30, jofy32) and coloured the images using fresco paint from paperartsy.

Finally I added the cut shapes from paperartsy and some text!

I had lots of fun making these pages - I hope I have inspired you to join us in the theme - there are so many different ways to make your own background! And remember a random winner gets the pleasure of a £20 voucher to spend in store!

Big hugs to you!

Rachel x

wanderlust challenge one - journal page

Hello lovelies! How are you today? I hope you are doing well. Did you have a good Saturday? Mine was fabulous - I had a great parkrun with my girlies - we managed to take 9 minutes off last weeks time and didn't come last either!!! woohoo!!! That feels much better! Hopefully next week we can skim another minute off! That would be good! To celebrate we went off to Giannis in Kendal for Pizza - yum!! Lovely!!

When I got home from kendal I managed a short time in the attic making a journal page - its my entry to the first Wanderlust challenge - wow you should see the work that was submitted - the standard was incredible - now I have no illusions that my piece is any good or going to win - but I did enjoy the process. The idea was to think about something that has frightened you but has actually set you free... when I lost Shaun I was absolutely terrified of being on my own - but now I find it quite liberating - don't get me wrong - I would share my life with Shaun again in the blink of an eye - but I guess my piece is about trying to find the positives in loss - if there are any and if that makes sense! I'm gibbering i think.

I heard this song on the way back from Kendal and it seemed to fit ...

From darkness of loss ....

into the light of positivity and the good in life.

I used the Kim Costello Paperbabe templates to help do the figure ... not perfect but I like it.

We were also supposed to reflect on a lesson on composition to make this piece - I have tried to apply the rule of thirds plus a none central focus point plus added darkness in a balanced way. Well I think so anyway!!! Lol!! Probably got all that wrong!! Nevermind!

I can't believe its February tomorrow - how did that happen???

Hugs

Rachel x

playtime

Hello Lovelies! How are you today? Hope you are okay and if not sending hugs! We are good. Hoping to do the park run again today but its all weather dependant. I'll let you know if we manage it!

Today I want to share the results od a quick play with two of the new sheena stamp and die sets. I think the card looks overcrowded but I wanted to post it anyway!

I must say the dies cut fabulously easily and then the stamping helped to give a realistic result.

I look forward to making more of these for my garden happy friends!!

Whatever you are doing today enjoy yourself! Also just a reminder that my 4th-blogaversary candy is here.

Big hugs

Rachel x