Friday Sketch challenge 86

Hello everyone.

Its a new challenge over at Friday Sketch challenge, this time its a sketch by me.  I thought I'd go for a nice simple one, so no excuses ladies, why not stop over and have a go!

Today we are sponsored by Fitztown, who have some gorgeous stamps.  Please check them out!



Here's my take on the sketch

Fairy Fae has been coloured with promarkers and spectrum noir pencils over the top.  The papers are from a first edition pad called blank canvas (I adore this pad!!!) with flowers from my stash and a few die cut leaves.  The stamp is a LoTV one.

please stop by at Friday sketch challenge, check out the inspiration from the DT and give it a go.

I'd like to enter this into:


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gorjuss girl...

Hi everyone

A rare opportunity for an extra blog post this week.  I thought I'd share this pretty gorjuss girl.  I haven't used them for a while, and while having a tidy up found my folder with them all in.  They are so pretty so I dug one out and made this...

She's been coloured with distress markers and water on watercolour card.  Papers are from a Gorjuss set.  Die cut frames, and a LoTV sentiment.  The flowers I made using the spiral technique - its a shame the light doesn't show them properly but they look stunning close up.  Finished with a distressed butterfly and ribbon from my stash.

I'd like to enter this into:

Fairytale stampers - flowers
Lil patch of crafty friends - anything goes
sweet stampin challenge - girly but no pink
Polkadoodles - tic tac toe, entry 2 (middle line more than 2 layers, ribbon and stitching)
ABC challenge - anything goes

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Sentimental Sundays - Winter

Happy Sunday Bloggers!

It is Snday - and after a short Christmas break the amazing DT return with a wintery theme.

Very busy here at the moment, juggling work and a family is sooo tough, and to top it off we have just committed to buy two lovely puppies next week! eeekk!  Our lovely dog is sadly getting very old so to entertain Harrison and to fill a hole that is now almost inevitable we have picked out two fluffy German shepherd puppies.  So as of next Saturday I will be crafting with two bundles of fluff nipping at my feet, I must be mad!

Anyway back to the challenge, this week kindly sponsored by Scribbles designs



here's my wintery card

On shiny coated card I used frantage for snow fall, and then used several colours of distress ink for the background.  The image I decoupaged up and coloured with promarkers and glitter, finished with liquid pearls

The photo doesn't do it justice, unfortunately the light bounces off the coated card, but I tried in several different lights and with effects and sadly can't remove, so please forgive this...

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See you soon
Rachael
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All dressed up January release

Hello Bloggers

its is once again time to see what fabulous images Wendy has drawn over at all dressed up - they are just too gorgeous for words!

I love the sets of girls so for my card I chose the 3 chic city girls.

They're coloured with promarkers, and I've used an old Kanban kit for the embellishments and papers, and it's finished with ribbon and flowers from my stash.

I hope you like them - there are several other new images on the website.  why not hop over to All dressed up and check them out - along with our DT's fabulous creations.

Or if you can't wait to get your hands on them - they're available in the Etsy shop here




I'd like to enter this into:
Clear it out - anything goes
Through the craft room door - anything goes
Try it on Tuesday - my favourite things (flowers, and the ADU images)


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Wryn says Thank you!

Hello everyone

I'm posting today for the fun of it - well actually I'm posting to try and enter another fabulous design team.  Tiddly inks are having a DT over at their blog here

Another amazing digi stamp company, so it's got to be worth a go!

Here's my entry using Wryn grow a little love.  This is my favourite stamp - although I love the Christmas ones too, however I got a little tired of doing Christmas cards so I'll give it six months before I start with these again!

I used Wryn to say thank you to my friend for a lovely gift this year.

I coloured her with a combination of promarkers and Spectrum noir pencils )(that's why in places she looks a bit shiny, its the light reflecting of the pencil)  I used a wink of Stella on the flowers and shoes before coating with glossy accents which makes it look shimmery.

The papers are from a first edition pad called Adore.  distressed with walnut stain and a distressing tool.  flowers are die cut from Sue Wilson and the middles are a dab of hot glue covered with red glitter.  Butterflies are also die cut from a Tim Holtz die, layered up and string pearls added for their bodies

the stamp is a Simon says stamp sentiment set.  the mini heart stamps are from a LoTV set

I'd like to enter this into

tiddly inks DT call
Cards Galore encore - Anything Goes
CCC Digi creations - Digi/embellish
Polka doodles - tic tac toe (Right hand vertical column - die cut, faux stiching and polka dots)
As you like it - favourite shaped card (square - I just love 6 x 6 square cards as I like the symmetry.  Just big enough for the images and not so big you struggle to fill them!)
Cute card Thursday - anything goes
I Love Promarkers - Anything goes
moo -mania - Polka dots

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See you Soon
Love
Rachael

Friday Sketch challenge Sketch 85

Hello everyone

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

I hope you all had a fantastic time over the break - unfortunately I've had to work most of it, but that's they joys of retail I guess!

It's time to welcome in the new year with a new sketch from FSC.

This one was designed by Claudia and looks like this:


This week we are sponsored by All dressed up and they will be giving away 2 fabulous digi stamps to the winner.

Mine looks like this:

The image was coloured with Promarkers.  The backing papers are from a forever friends pad called best of British and they are matted onto plain white card stock that I've edged with promarkers to match the image  the stars are punched and also coloured to match the image and edged with white gel pen for faux stitching.

Please drop over to our challenge and give it a go!

See you all soon
Rachael
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Sentimental Sundays - Anything goes

Hi Everyone

Hope your Christmas plans are all going well.  Last few bits to buy and few cards to write and send out, but otherwise I think I'm almost there!

It's Sunday - therefore time for our latest challenge at Sentimental Sundays - this week anything goes!

These cutie are from our lovely sponsor - Random fan.  Coloured with promarkers.

The papers are from a pad i had free from a magazine last year, with die cut holly, berries and the sentiment is a Tim Holtz die.

Why don't you hop on over to our challenge at Sentimental Sundays and check out the DT inspiration

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See you soon

Rachael

All Dressed up - NEW DT and December release

Hello everyone

I have been so excited I've barely been able to contain myself.  I found out earlier this week that I had made the cut for the All dressed up DT call!!  I happy danced around for a long while I cant tell you what this means to me and to be working with some extremely talented ladies makes my feel very honoured!

Here's my first post.  I only had a couple of days to make this.  The image is yet again so gorgeous I didn't want to over whelm her, I wanted her to be the main focus.

She's called 'little skater'  - Check out the blog and shop for details on how to get your hands on her here

She's been coloured with promarkers and then I've used distress inks and glitter to produce the shadows and ice effect.  The image was printed onto the background and I've then used copious amounts of frantage all around to make it look like its snowing!

please hop over to ADU to see our other new release and see some of Wendy's other gorgeous images too.  Our latest challenge is still on too if you fancy using one of the images (I know you wont' be able to resist!) all info on the blog too.

anyway - I'm off again to dance around a little bit more! 

I'd like to enter this into:

Brown Sugar - Winter

Crafts 4 eternity - Winter

Delicious Doodles - non traditional Christmas

Art impression stamps - Feeling frosty

Crafting by designs - Christmas

Please leave me some love if you drop by here - I love to read your lovely comments they always make my day x

See you soon

Rachael 

Sentimental Sundays - Embossing wet or dry

Hello bloggers.

I hope your Christmas planning is going well!  I'm currently nursing a rather sore head after my company Christmas party last night.  It involved lots of dancing, drinking and even  food fight well life's too short not to let your hair down at least once a year!!  

Anyway... our latest challenge over at Sentimental Sundays is Embossing.  so either wet using powders and inks, or dry with folders etc.

Our lovely sponsor today is bugaboo - so I used this uber cute image as it reminded me of my little boy!

My sentiment background is embossed with a bargain folder I picked up at the NEC.  I had it from 'every crafts a pound' so no prizes for guessing I paid £1 for it!

The background paper is a docrafts one called letter to Santa and the image has been coloured with promarkers.  The Ho Ho stamp is from a Crafters companion set .

Please hop on over to Sentimental Sundays and have a go at our challenge.  Bugaboo are giving away images for the winner, but even if you don't want to enter, our talented DT have some great inspiration for you.

See you soon

Rachael

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Friday sketch challenge 84

Hello fellow bloggers

its Friday - and our fortnightly release of a new sketch over at Friday sketch challenge.

This time by the lovely Maja.



And without further ado (I haven't got much to add today i'm too busy with Christmas prep to have a life!) here's my interpretation

Hes' a cute LoTV stamp (i purchased rather a lot from a lovely lady on Facebook who was giving up crafting... bargain too!).  Hes been colored with promarkers
For the background I used distress inks with my duster brushes and a torn piece of paper to create snow and sky, and edged this with glitter,

Please stop over at Friday sketch challenge and give it a go.  If you land here please leave me a comment as I'd love to hear from you!

I'd like to enter this into:
Through the craft room door - anything goes
Sweet Stamps - Christmas Spirit
Incy wincy designs - Christmas no red or green
Simon says stamp - Holiday cards
613 Avenue create - anything goes
Glitter and Sparkle - use some snow

hope you like it... off to do more shopping!

see you soon
Rachael
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