Good Morning! I trust you're all enjoying the weather? Hasn't it been fantastic - a bit hot for my run this morning - but other than that I'm loving it! I have got a cool and frosty Christmas card to share with you today though so hopefully that will help to cool you down!

Good morning all! Its time for another challenge over atlejdesignschallengeblog today - but first of all - thankyou for all the projects you uploaded for last weeks challenge - they were brilliant! You'll find the winners here: lejdesignschallengeblog

There will be three prizes this week:
1st prize will be three digis from lejdesigns LEJ Designs


2nd Prize will be 2 digis from goonergirl-craftingheavenChristines Digis

3rd prize will be a selection of stick pins made by our very own Lyndsay.




So anything but a card - I used the Rapunzel digi from over at LEJ Designs and created a gift box for my daughter Lucy who will be 6 all too soon!




I've covered my box in papers from Prima: meadow lark and added a bow from my stash - I've coloured the LEJ Designs Digi using promarkers and added a princess charm.

I'd like to enter this box into the following challenges:
totallygorjuss: Charmed
papermakeupstamps Digi makeover challenge: Recycle - I recycled the gift box!
panpasteluk: Pastel shades

I think that's everything - I'll be back later with something Christmassy - I hope!!!!

Hugs Rachel x

Evening all - I know - I know I said I'd be back with something Christmassy - well I'm sorry to disappoint you but hubbie emailed and asked me to make a card for a colleague of his who is very poorly - so that's what I've got to show you this evening:


I've used a hunkydory card blank that I've distressed with forest moss around the edges and added a decoupaged gruffie from Joanna Sheen on top. I've torn then distressed a sentiment - it may be kanban - then inked up some wooden leaves and added them.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
sparklesforumchallenges: get well soon
For the boys:chocolatecoffeecards
Lets get Inky: rainbowladyschallengeblog
Destruction: Distressing and tearing: paperplaychallenges.

Just hoping my card does the trick and makes the gentleman in question feel a little better.

Must go now - back in the morning with some DT work!

Hugs

Rachel xx

good morning! Wow its ages since I've been here! I've just been so busy with Rainbows and family that I'm afraid time had run away with me - now finally I've got chance to sit down and do a post! Hope you're all well out there in blogland!




Today's card is one that I've made just because! Its an old LOTV stamp - but the first time I've inked it up! I've also used tree stamps from Sheena Douglass when she was at Creative Expressions (trees2).  I've followed a sketch from the cutiepiechallengeCutie Pies and also added the buttons and bows for the challenge over at allsortschallenge. I've coloured the image in using promarkers and got colour inspiration from their photo inspiration challenge over atpromarkerchallenge. I'd also like to enter this card into the thecraftypadTCP bingo challenge where I've used ribbon, flowers and bling, the thesecretcraftersaturdaychallenge for in the garden and the doyoustackupDYSU Landscapes challenge and also, of course the bear essentials challenge over at liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge this week!

Hope you enjoy looking at this card - I think its fun and I certainly had fun making it!

Hope to see you again tomorrow!

Love and hugs

Rachel xx

Good morning - I'm starting this post on Thursday morning but it may take a while to complete - for no reason other than I've got to grab minutes where I can today!!!

wow - this is my thrid post today - I must have been going a bit crazy - just a quick post for a clean and simple card using only three stamps:

All stamps are clarity and I've coloured the central image using promarkers. Very different from my usual cards - but I did enjoy making it!
I'd like to enter this into the challenge over at LIM simplylessismoore: 3 stamps, one layer, the challenge at PIO pileitonchallenge: clean and simple, and finally the challenge over at simonsaysstampschallenge  clean and simple.

Must catch up with blogger now - night night!

Rachel x

Morning all - my second post of the day - and I've been for a run - amazing!!!!! First post was scheduled though - I don't have that much time to play with!!! LOL!!!
So onto my card - I've got a male themed card to show you this morning - I've made it for my youngest daughter to give to her daddy on his birthday or father's day - they're only separated by a week - he gets loads of cards - both daughters make one at school and nursery, both daughters make one at nanny's and I make one for each of them to send! Madness - but we're all card making junkies I think!!!


Here it is: as you can see I made an easel card for the challenge over at herecometheboysblogchallenge - I followed the  katherine's sketch from over at the pinkinksketchchallengessketchy challenges. To make the card I used three of my favourite tools - cuttlebug, martha stewart edge punch and distress ink applicator tool. This and the image should make this okay for the challenge over at liliofthevalleythursdaychallengeLili's little fairies. I've used the word dad so that should fit with audsentimentschallengeblog and used all blues to follow with the monochromatic theme over at thatcraftplaceblog. Finally I'd like to link my card up with desmetdtDesmet designs where they have a design call called tickets please. My tickets are along the base and signify the things both daughters associate with their dad!

I hope you like this card - I'm pleased with it!

Hugs

Rachel xxx

Morning All! I trust you all had a good sleep and feel rested and ready to take on a new challenge? Well over at dudetimedoodles this week there's an photo inspirational challenge: Happy Birthday!
I tried to put the image here but when it was big enough it was all fuzzy!
I chose one Hippy Rocker to feature on my dude time card - and here he is in his full glory:

Now I'm sure we all know somebody who would fit the bill to receive this card!!!!! You can buy this digi and many others over at dudetimedoodles - why not have a look around?

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
No pesky girls allowed: totallypapercraftsTotally papercrafts
Male cards:littleclairesdesigns

I'll be back later with another male card! Hope to see you then!

Hugs Rachel xx

Good morning all! Well if all has gone to plan you should be reading this around 8am uk time! The new challenge over at lejdesignschallengeblog has got me very excited - I've used my favourite Digi to make this card (Suzejo - the experiemnt) but before I share I must tell you about the challenge. Its called lots of layers and there will be two randomly chosen winners - the first will win their choice of three images from the lovely Lyndsay at lejdesigns and the second will win a £10 gift voucher for Joanna Sheen's website kindly donated by Vee Cassidy who you can find here.

Now - here's my card - I've made it for my friend and ex colleague Cheryl who is still a chemistry teacher!!!!




It will be for her birthday in September so I've got the pleasure of it sitting around in my craft room until then - a fact I'm very pleased about as I love the image so much!

I made the pop up card using bo bunny papers, the suzejo image which I coloured with promarkers and a bottles stamp from paperartsy. I've also added some goggles at the back hanging from the shelf - they should be on her face - but hey she's excited and we don't have the health and safety issues with paper that we have in a real chemistry lab!!!!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges: papermakeupstamps digi challenge where I've taken inspiration from the colours and also the anything goes challenge over at bunnyzoescrafts.

Back with more DT work tomorrow - hope to see you then! Hugs Rachel xx

Afternoon all you lovely crafty people out in blogland - I'm having a good day so far - hope you are too! I want to share with you mymake from the playbarn yesterday - its for my aunty Christine who has a birthday in June - its not what I usually make for her - she's very in to art deco so I usually go down that line - but I wanted to try something different for her!

Evening all! Hope you've had a great Sunday - we've had another busy one - we went to Sizergh Castle for a pcnic lunch - it was absolutely freezing - and then we went off to the local playbarn where my girls love to let off steam - and I get to craft - I'll upload my make tomorrow - but tonight I've got my make for the winter wonderland christmasblogchallenge this week - the theme is Frosty the snowman (a bit like me on my picnic!!!!). I also found out this afternoon when I got back that I'd made last weeks top 3! Yipee!!!!!

My new all over the page punch arrived one day last week from Martha Stewart and I'd been itching to use it - so when this challenge came up I really had to get using it!!!

Additionally I've used a spellbinders die, a lyndsay Mason stamp, promarkers, glitter and bling (from the Ribbon Girl). The bling is for the challenge over at letsinkitup this month!

Hope you like my little card - I think its cute! Those pins will be interesting to post - but I'll figure something out!

Time to zone out in front of the TV I think! Hope you all had a lovely weekend - and thanks for any comments you may leave - I really do appreciate them!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Evening all! I trust you've had a lovely day? Its been pretty glorious here - a bike ride, a kid's party, an afternoon in the garden and now time to blog last night's make! What a lucky lady I am!

Evening all! I trust you've has a lovely day? Just wanted to thank you for all the lovely comments you leave - they are all really appreciated!

Well I didn't have to run gardening club at school today - so I got some extra crafting time - hence tonights post!

Morning all! Hope you're all feeling fit and well? I'm good - I took the car in to get MOT'd this morning and had to run the 4 and 1/2 miles back home - but I made it! Yipee!!!!!

Now before I share my post for today with you I'd like to tell you about my good friend Kaz's candy - donemark - she's looking to get 100 followers and is offering a candy package as an incentive to get a few people over there - go and have a look - I'm sure you'll not regret it - she makes some gorgeous cards!

Also some of you may know that I'm GDT for dudetimedoodles this month - and over at their site there is the opportunity of a freebie image to use to try and win the GDT spot for June - why not give it a go! I've really enjoyed the experience so far - and I'm sure you would too!

Now then onto my post - something a little different - but very frilly and fancy:



I've made this card with the fussyandfancychallenge in mind that is butterflies, ribbons and punches but wanted to use my new Tilda stamp too so I've linked it with the bingo challenge over at officialmagnoliainspirationchallengeTOMIC this week (embossing, shaped card, butterflies). The papers I've used are meadowlark from prima and I've coloured my image with some promarkers. I'd also like to enter this card into the challenge over at guylousinimitabilityGuylou's which is punches, dies and diamonds this time and also magnolia-liciouschallengeblog which is a colour challenge this time (pink, green and yellow/ecru).Finally with my flowers added it would be rude not to enter this in thedoyoustackup DYSU challenge: use a flower!

Hope you all have a good Friday!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Evening all! Phew that was a lovely evening with my rainbows but now I need to chill out and upload this second post of the day. Its for my mums birthday - I've told her not to look at my blog - we'll have to see if she can manage it!


Its obviously a saturated canary digi - I saw it first on Wendy's blog (papersniffer) and just fell in love with this image - and I just know my mums going to love her to bits - she's a proper sea and beach baby!

Morning all! Well I had a lovely day yesterday - I found out that the scarecrow that my girls made at Rainbows won a prize in the Wray scarecrow festival - so I'm very excited to tell them all about it this evening! And then I opened up the new CMPC magazine and there was a lovely letter in there about me from my mum - and a crazy picture of me and my cuttlebug in an article about what crafting item you couldn't live without. And then - I tuned into blogland and found I've won a couple of saturated canary digis from a passion for promarkers! So all in all it was a very lucky day!

Today's been good too - but onto my post for now!

Good morning all! Well it was a fabulous launch week at lejdesignschallenge blog  last week - thanks so much to everyone who got involved - and hopefully you'll join in again this week too. The theme this week is things with wings. There will be two prizes again - the first name out of the random hat will win their

 choice of three digi's from the LEJ digi shop http://www.lejdesigns.co.uk/ and the second name will win a bag of charms from I'm charmed http://im-charmed.blogspot.co.uk/ .

Hello there - well its time for post number 2 for today - I don't know whether its a good idea - but my girls are now creating with their play dough in the dining room - I wish I hadn't cleaned up there already today!!!! Bless them though - Gramps's cards are already made and they still want to create!




This is a scrapbook page of my good friend Danielle and her daughter Daisy - the photo was taken in February when Daisy was only 12 days old - we were at the christening of another baby Joseph who had been born in October!

I've used the layout from the thesecretcraftersaturdaychallenge - I'm not sure if I can enter a scrapbook page but I will if I can! I'd also like to enter it into the rainbowladyschallengeblog where the topic this week is memories and the first challenge over at scrapbooking only site  thehappyscrapperschallenges where anything goes this month! If I'm able to I'll also enter it into Girly Girl at jellyparkchallenges and Girly Girls at thecraftypad.

See you all bright and early tomorrow for the new challenge over at LEJ Designs! Probably take me until then to tidy up the mess I'm about to find!

Love and hugs!

Rachel xx

Good morning all! Thankyou so much for all of your kind comments and ongoing support - they really do mean alot to me - especially on a grey bank holiday Monday - what else would it be hey??? I've set my two girls off crafting - they've both got a birthday card to make for their gramps so hopefully I'll be able to get this done.

I was up in my little attic last night crafting away  and so I've got two posts to share with you today and this first one is a Christmas card - I've had the stamp I used in this card for a long time now - it came in a TSV from QVC - stamps from Kanban - anyway - here is its maiden voyage out of the packet - and I'm wondering why I haven't used it before now!

Morning all! I hope Sunday's looking as good for you as it is for me?! I think we'd better make the most of it though - sounds like we'll have rain back tomorrow!!!

I'd like to share my patriotic beach hut with you today! Not literally you understand!!! Although if I had one you'd be more than welcome to come along for a cup of tea!!


I've loosely used a sketch from digi makeover challenge 34 and digital images from the crafty pad. I wanted to make a summery card with a british feel and using papermania papers (free with creativity magazine this issue) I think thats what I've achieved!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Cupcake Craft Challenge: The best of British: cupcakecraftchallenges
CYPC: Lots of Texture craftyourpassionchallenges
Digi Makeover Challenge 34: Sketch papermakeupstamps
The Crafty Pad: May Showcase thecraftypad may-tcp-showcase
Crafters Companion: Here comes Summer ccmonthlychallenge
DYSU #70 Circles. doyoustackup

Got to go and make the packed lunches now - we're off to Blackpool Zoo today!

Have a lovely Sunday

Rachel xx

Hello there all of my crafty friends - I've got that Friday feeling today - but I do have a blue card to share with you - hence the title of this post! Its a pretty girly one - so I hope you'll like it!

Morning all (just!)

I hope you are all well and happy - just a little thankyou for all the comments you have been leaving - I really do appreciate them!

Phew! Well the last two days have been a little hectic getting both of these DT posts out - but now I think I'm happy with the process I can relax and enjoy them!

I've got a card to share with you today that was generated last night - I has bought a new set of chocolate baroque stamps - I couldn't believe the service - it was amazing - anyway here's what I did with them:

Hi there! I was lucky enough to be asked to be the guest designer over at dudetimedoodles for May -and here's my first card. The challenge is called 'its sports day'.

Its such a fabulous image that I've used -this one is called John Jogger and you can buy this digi and may other fun images here from bonibleaux designs.

I coloured my digi using promarkers and and made the card using a kanban card blank which I partly covered in papers from a freebie stack in quick cards a few issues ago. I stamped the grass on the road verge using a sheena douglass stamp from when she was at creative expressions in cactus green staz-on. The road is just pearlescent grey paper and the sentiment was stamped in black staz on.

I've made this card for one of my neighbours birthdays - and would like to enter it into the following challenges:
On the street where you live: Rainbow lady challenge
http://rainbowladyschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/challenge-202-on-street-where-you-live.html
Hobbies: Here come the boys
http://herecometheboysblogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/challenge-26-hobbies.html
One for the Boys: That craft place.
http://thatcraftplaceblog.blogspot.co.uk/

Looking forward to seeing you all over at dudetime doodles - come and have a go!!! You know you want to!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Morning all! I'm setting this blog post to happen tomorrow morning when lejdesignschallengeblog goes Live.  Its the first week of the challenge so its an Anything goes challenge to get you all started. There are two prizes up for grabs - some images from LEJ Designs and an adhesive pack kindly donated by sponsor Mishelflo Challenge Blog here - which also launches on 1st May. This is the card I've made using one of the very talented Lyndsay's designs called Suzejo and her worms. You can buy the image at lejdesigns - pop over and have a browse!

Now my card:

I've called this one Mucky Kid because the image just reminded me of that old song from the sixties or seventies - I think it was Cilla Black - 'Oh you are a mucky Kid - dirty as a dustbin lid!!!!' My mum and dad used to sing it to me quite a lot when I was young - because I always was up to my eyes in mud!!!!
Anyway back to the card - the papers are from the current simply cards and papercraft, the flowers are prima flowers and the ribbon came from duck pond crafts ribbon and blooms kit. The buttons are from my stash. I've used a spellbinders die to cut out my suzejo image and coloured her with promarkers.

She is a DT card but I'd like to enter my mucky kid into the challenge over at Divas by design - Buttons and bows
http://divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/challenge-32-buttons-andor-bows.html

Pop along to LEJ Designs challenge blog http://lejdesignschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ and join in the fun! There are prizes - and I think I mentioned its an Anything goes theme this week.

Hugs

Rachel xx