Quick makes for Chocolate Baroque

Hello all! I do hope you are all well and if not I send you big healing hugs! Today I have two cards on the chocolatebaroque blog where the post is all about quick makes - 15 minute cards. There are always lots of ideas on there so do pop over if you get chance.

My two makes are quite similar - I have used the same techniques in both cases.

In both cases I stamped then masked the main image. Next I added more masks to create the border strip and blank off most of the card. Next I added distress ink to the main border and then used seasonal fragments to overstamp. Finally I removed all masks and coloured the main image.

This is the second one using exactly the same techniques but different stamps and colours.

I don't know if you saw the giveaway on craftyindividualsblog here. check it out!

Big hugs

Rachel x

Tims tag november

Hello there! Thanks for your kind comments yesterday - I really do appreciate it! It was another busy day yesterday - coffeepot courtesy of Diana and then the gym and finally a little rehersal for our Christmas production on Friday. Its a small play for the main youth group but we're having open mic after it and Elaine, Helen and myself are doing a little play - a modern day take on a bible story! It only lasts a couple of minutes so I hope I can manage it!

Today I want to share with you my take on Tims tag this month.



This is Tims tag and I used the techniques he utilised here. Here's my tag....

I used all the techniques Tim suggested but went for a butterfly focus using the lovely perspectives butterfly as the main image and nature rub ons.

I had fun making the wishbone into the butterflies antennae ...

and used the word wishes to echo the wishbone.

I hope you like it - it was a much needed hour in the attic for me and with the addition of the wishbone I am now happy!!!

I would like to enter this into timholtz 12-tags-of-2016-november

Hope you have a great Tuesday!

Hugs

Rachel x

Mark Gould class at Ministry of mixology

Morning lovelies! How are you? I hope you are ok. We are all good and had a good weekend. I went to Jo Rice's class on Saturday and had a lovely time with my mum and girls - more about that another day ... Sunday the four of us went to see fantastic beasts and where to find them - that was good - Eddie Redmaine is such a sweetheart.

Today I want to share with you my make from Mark Gould's class at Ministry of mixology last weekend - what a lovely guy he was too - really kind!

my take on the class piece is a little different - I went brown where mark went blue and my central heart is different from the circle with the all seeing eye - the rest is pretty much the same though!

lots of techniques in the class - much of the texture on this place from tissue.

Lots of cracking too!

Great class Mark - loved it - thankyou!

I hope you like my piece and I'll see you soon!

Hugs

Rachel x

Mixed media at christmas card club

Hello there! How are you? I hope you are well. I thought I set up a post for yesterday but clearly not! Anyway - it will keep until tomorrow. Today I want to post my make for Christmas card club this week where the theme was mixed media....well being pushed for time I used a ready made painty background and stamped it up with a paperartsy stamp. I then coloured the stamp using pens....this is what it turned out like...

He's such a happy little fellow I just had to add the clarity word stamp 'joy'  to the card.

A closer look...

and closerstill...

I am sure he will come in useful when I finish writing my Christmas cards! Wish I could find my address book!!!!!

Hugs

Rachel x

Advent clock

Good Morning all! How are you today? Thanks so much for all of your help with the blogger problem I was experiencing yesterday - I wish they hadn't messed around with it - but at least I can now understand how to get to everything so thankyou one and all with your suggestions.

When I was in Coventry at the weekend I bought an advent clock kit in the shop run by the lovely Di.. I was very excited about it and set to getting it ready straight away. Here's my make ...

I used mostly decoart products throughout - the paints were quniaquanone gold, titan buff, light green, pyrol orange and raw umber.

I also used weathered wood to get the crackle on the frame.

The stencil I used is from indigo blu. 

Big hugs

Rachel x

Andy Skinner make

Hello all! How are you today? I hope you are good. Has anybody noticed changes on blogger? Whenever I try to get to my dashboard I just reach the indigoblu blog. Its really weird ...hopefully things will fix themselves as I have no idea why its happened! Any suggestions?

Anyway today I want to show you my make from the Andy Skinner Workshop I did at the weekend.

Obviously in fairness to Andy I can't reveal the techniques used - but there was plenty of them!!! Clearly I used the fossil stencil and the bubble stencil too. But there was lots to it!

Here's a close up of the stencil - Andy actually called me 'Fossil lady' as I was overheard talking about the way up in life of the ammonite. They're pretty amazing creatures! Or should I say they were!!

Closer still - I hope you can pick up all the details. 

I hope you have a good day! Please forgive me if I am absent from your blogs - unless you leave me a comment I won't be able to get back to you - unless my dashboard returns!

Big hugs

Rachel x

Sparkly stars for fiskars/wow

Morning all! How are you? I do hope that you are okay and are not being too affected by storm Angus . What terrible weather indeed! We have been quite fortunate here for a change! 

Today I would like to share with you a card i made for a joint Fiskars/Wow venture last week. It was all on facebook and the winners will be announced very soon!

Here's the complete make ....and a step by step.

I used distress collage crackle medium through a TH stencil onto a card and left it to dry.

I then used distress crayons to colour the strip.

Next I punched the stars then used a wow embossing glue pad, heated to make it sticky then added the sparkles. I then reheated to set the glitter in place.

Here's a close up of the star plus that crackle - love that!!!

Have a great wednesday!

Hugs

Rachel x