work in progress and a lovely anglesey holiday

Hello lovelies! How are you? We are good - just back from a weeks holiday in Anglesey - its been beautiful - but more of that later! Whilst there I have been working on a needle felted picture that my friend Helen bought for me for my 50th - it was a kit and I have really enjoyed doing it - its all complete apart from the beading and embroidery... here are the steps I took...

I used unicorn wool to cover the back of a large canvas.....

Next I used green felting wool to add the grass and a combination of yarn and coloured wool to add the first flowers...

Next I added the two blue flowers....

I added the green leafy parts next - and then added more leaves and another flower in the front which I haven't pictured as yet... I am hoping to finish this soon!!

Its been a lovely week in Anglesey - here's a flavour ....

Its been fab!

Big hugs!

Rachel x

More cactus makes ...Chocolate baroque

Hello there! I don't have the chance to add my remaining samples to the Chocolate Baroque blog but I wanted to show them here so that I have a log of them. These are the remainder from the June shows using the cactus stamps...

An easel card - all images were coloured using pencils....

I love this image - and this card - coloured using sparkle pens....

Finally this exercise in pattern building .... again colouring was using pencils.

Hope you have a great day!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Anne's card

Hello there! How are you today? I hope you are well. I have a short post to share with you today...I'm showing the card I made for my lovely friend Anne for her birthday last Friday.... A special day indeed!

I used a gesso resist technique with distress oxides to create the background along with paint splashes...I added the stamped details along the bottom and fussy cut under the sea images from Tim Holtz. I know Anne loves Tim, these colours and seahorses so I am hoping she liked it!

Have a great day!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Carol singers at CCC

Hello there! How are you? I do hope you are well. Today its Christmas card Club again and the theme this time was Carol Singers.... well I had a bit of trouble with this theme .... so I have used a stamp I wanted to use - from Tracy Easson, and well I think they sort of look like Carol singers!!!

Such a pretty image - I have just simply stamped and coloured in sparkle pens and distress ink...

I made 4 in total!

Have a great day!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Lee's card

Hello all - wow - it was a good day yesterday ....I broke up from school for the summer - so school's officially out for me - whoop whoop!!! And I went to see Lucy's school music festival - it was brilliant! All the better for knowing that Lucy's house won overall! The standard was fabulous though.

Today I have a card to share that was made for my brother in law - he likes a vino or two!!!

I used a blueprint stamp set from Tim Holtz and a brusho background...

Here's the words...

Quick and simple! Hope you like it!

Hugs

Rachel xx

CB makes from June's shows.

Morning all! I'm over on the Chocolate Baroque DT blog today with these makes from last months TV shows...hope you can join me.....

Full details on the blog here.

Big hugs

Rachel xx

Journal class with Jenny and Elizabeth

Hello there! How are you? I hope you are well. We are good and rolling ever closer to the end of term on Thursday ....how exciting - since I've been working in the school where I was doing the invigilating 3-4 days a week for the past 4 weeks, I am so looking forward to the holidays with the girls. It will be good to do some relaxing but of course, typical of me we have got lots planned!

Last Saturday myself, my mum and Lucy and Penny all went to a class run by Jenny Marples and Elizabeth Robinson. It was organised by Sharon from Rowantree Crafts and took place in Carnforth. So lovely to see both Jenny and Elizabeth...both such lovely ladies. In the class we used Eileen Hulls wrap around journal die and all made a journal.

Here's a look at the completed album. We used distress oxides and 7 gypsies papers and allandcreate stamps. A great day ....

Here we are hard at work - you can just spy me on the far table!!!

Big hugs

Rachel x