Have a magical birthday

Hi again

This card is one i made just for fun, so no rules and i could go crazy with whatever i wanted :)

I've used 'Flying Tilda' coloured with distress inks, one of Caz's fab sentiment tickets, flowers made with blossom nesties, and sprayed with glimmer mists, papers from stash. The ribbon came with my pjs from primark lol, and is coloured with 'sandstone promarker'. Everything else is from my stash, and its all inked with antique linen distress ink, and glittered with glitz it gold and silver glitter glues.

I've coloured Tilda with distress inks:

Skin-antique linen and tattered roses

Dress, shoes, wand, wings, cheeks - spun sugar

Her hair is coloured with watercolour pencils

I'm entering it in these challenges:

Creative Inspirations - Distressed

Little Red Wagon - Birthday

Flutterby Wednesday - Anything goes

Stampavie - Birthday for a girl

Paperplay - Up in the air

Secret Crafter - buttons and blooms

Magnolia Down Under - Flowers

Thanks for looking
Rachel xx

Crafty Cardmakers Guest Designer ***big smiles**

Hello...me again!

I've got something else to show you after this too!...can you tell its school holidays? haha

I was sooooo happy when i was asked to be crafty cardmakers guest designer :D I've loved this challenge blog ever since it started, so it's such an honour for them to choose me...thanks Vix and Judie :)

I was given a gorgeous image to play with, which is from Stitchy Bear Stamps, and she is stunning! I tried doing a scene type card with my distress inks, but some idiot (ie me!) didn't let the background dry before trying to print the fairy on it. The ink ran everywhere, it was a right mess! Ah well...i've learnt my lesson, and made this instead :)

The challenge is 'Least and Most', so you have to use your least fave colour and your favourite colour. I chose 'tealy-blue' as my favourite colour, and brown as my least fave colour. The colours don't show properly on the pic, so you have to imagine it brighter :)

The image is edged with distress inks - broken china and antique linen. The flowers are made from my blossom nesties, papermania cardstock, ribbon, gems and brads from stash.

I'm entering it in the Quixotic challenge, which is 'emboss it'

Don't forget to hop over to Crafty Cardmakers to play along :)

Thanks for looking

Rachel xx

Lexi's creations - Buttons and bows

Hey lovelys!

Well, this should've been posted this morning, but i'm so confused because of the bank holiday, and thought it was Sunday. Just realised it's Monday...only taken all day lol Sorry Lexi.

Anyways, this is my card for the new challenge at Lexi's Creations, which is 'Buttons and Bows'. I've used one of Lexi's images, called 'Claudia', which you can buy from Lexi's Doodles. Isn't she gorgeous?! I love her :)

I've coloured the image with promarkers, the carstock is papermania, and the buttons, ribbon and gems are from my stash.

Thanks for looking

Rachel xx

Remember Me ???

Hello everyone :)

Do you remember me? I'm the person who hasn't updated my blog in about a week and a half!!! Tut tut tut! But i'm very happy that you liked the sentiment tutorial. I've seen some gorgeous sentiments about too :D

I'm not best pleased with this card, but i thought i'd better show my face around here, so here it is.

I've used papermania scallopped cardstock, flower stamp cut out (don't know make), and white sakura pen for the doodling. I went a bit ott with the pen, and thats the bit i don't like, but y'know! :)

Thanks for looking

Rachel xx

Seniment Tutorial

Hey!

I've had a couple of comments and emails about how i make my sentiments, and (in Sarah's words) how i get all the fonts in the right places. So i've made a quick tutorial which i hope will help some of you :)

I'm using Microsoft Word (the old version) but you can use pretty much any program that lets you put text in a text box. So...here goes!

(the picture goes with the instruction above)

1. Open a new document, and type each word into a seperate text box, using the text box tool (red ring)

2. Make the text boxes transparent, by clicking on the 'Fill' tool, and clicking 'No Fill'

3. Make the text boxes have no line, by clicking on the 'Line' tool, and clicking 'No Line'

4. Change the fonts, sizes and colours to whatever you want

(I've used scriptina (swirly one) in size 32, and Accord Light SF in size 14) 5. Then you can move them around, until you are happy...and print!

I hope i've explained it right, and you understand...I am half asleep and just about to go to bed!!! :D

Oh...and by the way...i think i did ok in my exam :) Thanks for the good lucks :D
Thanks for stopping by,
Rachel xx

Something Completely Different

Hi Bloggers!
I'm back again :D I should really be revising for an exam i've got tomorrow...but instead i'm sat on the sofa watching a film, typing this, with my gorgeous cat and a cuppa!!! But hey!...I'm happy :D

I felt like making something different from my norm today, and this is what i came up with. Even though it's so simple, there's tonnes of things i've never done before/havn't done in a while. I've never done a top-fold rectangle card, and havn't done a rectangle in ages and i've tried embossing the edges with the scoring tool on my cutter, which i think looks fab! (if i do say so myself lol) The sentiment is made in word and printed, but i think it should be a bit bigger really? I've used papermania scalloped cardstock, ribbon coloured with 'sandstone' promarker, and anitas gems, and everything is slightly edged with walnut stain distress ink.
I'm entering it in Tuesday Taggers, which is to 'step outside your comfort zone'

Thanks for looking
Rachel xx

Lexi's Creations Dt

Hey!

Its Lexi's Creations time again!!! And this time there's a fab sketch to follow and an amazing £10 voucher from One Stop Card Crafts for the lucky winner!

Here's the sketch...And here's my card...

I've kept it simple so that it can be posted without costing a bomb! I used the adorable Tessie Turtle from Lexi's Doodles, coloured with promarkers, Papermania capsule collection papers, my new x-cut border punch, and finished with faux stitching, gems, and glossy accents on his eyes.

I'm entering it in Practical Scrappers - patterned papers and My Time To Crafts - too cute

Thanks for looking, Rachel xx

Woops...tilda easel again...sorry!!!

Hiya

I've found Mr Mojo...yippeee! I must have left him at the craft shop a couple of weeks ago, and found him yesterday when i went shop shop shopping!!!

I bought some more nesties and just had to have a play! I've used them to make an easel card (again) and also worked out a way to make gorgeous flowers with them, so i'm happy :) For my card i've used the blossom nesties, Tilda again, coloured with distress inks, papermania cardstock (sanded), papermania brads, stamped sentiment, ribbon, glitter and gems.

Tilda is coloured with distress inks:

Skin - tattered rose and antique linen

Hair - walnut stain

Dress and shoes - broken china

I'm entering it in these challenges:

Papertake Weekly -shiny, sparkley and special, Creative Belli - hole punches, Lil Red Wagon - Brads, Quixotic Paperie - let your garden grow, Truly Scrumptious - sketch, Your Next Stamp - cut it out and pop it up, PaperPlay - brown and ???, Just Magnolia - one for the girls, Stamp Something - celebrate something, Allsorts - birthday, Crazy 4 Challenges - pocket. The Secret Crafter - metal

Thanks for looking

Rachel xx

A Digi For ME TOTAL, and candy WINNER

Hiya

Thankyou so so sooooooo much to everyone who bought the images, and for all the donations. We did fabulous! And raised £82 + about £9 gift aid for this amazing charity. There will be a bit more too, as my grandma was taking Tracey's cards to a coffee morning to sell for as much as she can get. And there's a few other bits going on too. I'll update you on that later.

You should have all recieved your images, and i hope you enjoy using them :)

The winner of the amazing prize draw is...

No. 13 which is Rachel who said this...

"Hi Rachel!I've just donated and will e-mail you in a mo'! This is a great idea- Ayme are an amazing charity who've helped me hugely in the last 10yrs, too- anyone who donates is really going to help them make a real difference!! :)I'd love to be included in the draw for the candy, if that's okay (I did buy all three gorgeous designs!! ;) ) but I'm not sure how to do the link thing as I don't have a blog myself!!Rachel x"

Well done hun, i'll email you in a sec.

Thankyou sooooooo much to everyone! And an extra special thankyou to Lexi and the Lexi's Creations DT!!!

Thank, Rachel xx

A Digi For ME

***This event is now over. Thanks everyone for your donations***

Hi everyone

I am sooooo excited about what i'm about to announce. This week, Saturday 8th until Sunday 16th, is ME awareness week, so i decided to do some fundraising for a charity who have helped and supported me, called AYME (Action for Young people with ME). I asked the lovely Lexi if she could draw me a couple of images, which i could sell for this amazing charity, and this is what she came up with:

This is the super cute 'Splashing Fun Ollie Duck'

This is the beautiful 'Christmas Night'

And this is the adorable 'Butterscotch'

Here's some gorgeous inspiration from the most amazing Lexi's Creations design team. They really are the best girls :)

Moshie - using 'Splashing Fun Ollie Duck'Rozzy - using 'Christmas Night' Rozzy - using 'Splashing Fun Ollie Duck'
Rozzy - using 'Butterscotch'
Maxine - using 'Butterscotch'
Maxine - using 'Splashing Fun Ollie Duck'
Lexi - using 'Butterscotch' Lalkygirl - using 'Butterscotch' Lalkygirl - Using 'Splashing Fun Ollie Duck' Lalkygirl - using 'Christmas Night'
Also, just to make it a little more exciting, WE HAVE CANDY!!!

If you buy all 3 of the gorgeous images, you can add your name to the links to be in with a chance of winning these gorgeous goodies + even more!!!

The winner will be drawn at 6pm on Sunday 16th May, so don't forget to pop back and see if you are that lucky person. Not everything arrived in time for the photo, but the candy includes:
Promarker stamping set -Donated by Lexi Velvet rub-ons, roses and tape - from Rozzy
Smirk papers, chipboard shapes and flowers - from Maxine
Pink gem designs stamp + £5 voucher at Thread Bare - from Clare (thread-bare)
Lots of little packages - from Claire
Wooden stamp, charms and buttons - from Cheryl
£10 Lexi's Doodles voucher - from Lalkygirl (Tracey)
£10 Joanna Sheen Voucher - from Farida
Daisy & Dandelion clear stamps, decoupage, rubons and sentiments, Anitas sentiment tags, 5 x papermania gems, 3d foam dots, sticky squares and a glue stick - from me aka Rachel

$5 coupon at Stitchy Bear Stamps - from Stitchy $5 girf certificate at Stamping Dragon - from Dragon

If the link doesn't work, leave a comment in the comment box, saying you've bought all 3 and you'll be entered

***Please post or advertise about this on your blogs, so that we can raise as much money and awareness for this worthy cause***

Thankyou soooooo much, Rachel xx