Wee Spring Bringer

Hello! Hope you're all well!

I'm back with another 'fancy' card lol.

One of the ladies at work saw the card I made for Mams birthday HERE and asked for a 'special one like it' for a 50th birthday.

 

 

So I printed off Wee Spring Bringer and decided to treat myself to some new digital papers from Nitwits.

She is coloured with Promarker and Flexmarkers to match the gorgeous Romance and Roses papers using these colours:

 

I can't believe how many flowers I used! I just seemed to be pilling them on!! Lol.

 

 I didn't want the 50 to be huge because I don't know the recipient

and how pleased they are that they are turning that age so

(I know a few silly folk that are embarrassed that they are turning 50 next year!)

 I used two small number peel offs on some card candi.

A side view.

I was inspired by THIS gorgeous card to put something behind the image.

And I wish I hadn't cause it was such a pain! I'll leave the gorgeous cards to Bev lol.
 

 

and an inside peek

 

What I used:

6 x 6 white card blank

Wee Stamps - Spring Bringer Digi

Nitwits-FQB Romance and Roses

PTI - Sweet Blush cardstock

Flex and Promarkers

MS Butterfly punch

Ranger Liquid Pearls

Flowers from WOC and Mulberry Crafts UK

Lawn Fawn - Happy Everything sentiment

Card Candi, Stickles, Nesties

Pearls, silver peel offs and ribbon from stash   

 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Crafty Friends Challenge - Bling (glittery wings and flowers)

 

 

If you through all of that well done and thanks for reading!! Lol.

I coloured up another Wee cutie last weekend so may be back soon!

 

Happy Crafting

Hugs

 

Rachael xx

 

Almost made it!

Ive come to the conclusion that I'm not going to be able to enter

my cards/crafts into specific challenges anymore :(

Why?

Because the life I lead is just too darn busy!

This will be the third card in the last month that Ive made and

 missed the challenge deadline :(

And I suppose this is something I'm just gonna have to come to terms with!!

 Cos I can't see it slowing down anytime soon lol!

Anyway.....

 

 

It's taken almost a week to finish this CAS card for last weeks

 Less is More challenge to CASE either Jen's or Chrissie's card.

I choose Jen's as it reminded me of the

 Fillable Frames PTI stamp and I loved the colour combo.

 

I love the mix of fonts in the sentiment!

 

A bit of a side view.

As you can see its not a perfect CASE

 but I had to work with the supplies I have!

 

 

What I used:

PTI Hawaiian Shores cardstock,

PTI Filliable Frames 4 stamp and die,

Kraft card,

Versafine Black Ink,

Hobby House Black Pearls

 

And that's that!

 

We've had great weather here up North today!

 Hope you have seen some of the sun too :)

Enjoy the rest of you're weekend

and I'll be round whilst watching BGT (LOVE IT!!)!

 

Hugs

Rachael :)

Negative die cuts

Wooo two posts in a week what on earth is going on!!!

When I  posted my LOTV card yesterday I noticed I hadnt posted my Mothers Day cards.

 

So this is the first:

 

 

I got my first alpha dies from PTI and just had to have a try at negative die cutting.

 

 

I am super pleased with this card because it is all CAS! Lol.

Not sure whether Gran appreciated how many times I had to cut out her name

 because I kept getting it skew wif lol!

 

What I used:

PTI - Modern Alphabet dies

PTI - Hibiscus Burst cardstock and tampers select cardstock

Lawn Fawn sentiment

Doodlebug Designs pearls.

 

I would like to enter this into

A Passion For Papertrey - Negative die cutting.

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

So I'm still not packed oops! And I leave tomorrow double oops!!
Hope you all have a great Easter weekend!!!

Hugs
Rachael xx

LIM - OLC Foliage

Hi all!

I survived my first week teaching woop woop! And only one crier so far lol!

Hard work starts next week though as we begin the assessments O-O uh oh!

Anywhoo now I have the weekends off I can check out the LIM challenge a bit quicker and found a bit of time to join in.

Its One Layer Card week with the theme of

foliage.

I'm so thankful for this theme as it finally gave me a kick to try out an idea Ive had for ages for some Christmas cards!!!!

I think Ive seen a similar layout somewhere (forgive me for not remembering) but it used a birthday sentiment and ribbon and other bits but I wanted to keep it as simple as possible as I will be making quite a few of these if I decide I like it!

 I was colouring the leaves a few weeks ago and had the idea to colour them two tone and leave the tips white as if they were covered in snow.

I sprinkled glitter on the tips of the leaves. Not sure if I like it and I didn't take a photo to compare before glitter and after so will need to make another one to decide.

Anyway its a start I suppose!

Right I'm going to try and enjoy some sun and have a bit sit in the yard!

Hope you're all well!

And thanks for all the lovely comments left on recent posts!

Hugs

Rach xx

Stamps - PTI Lovely Leaves, PTI Signature Christmas

Card - stash

Ink - Versafine Oynx Black, Memento Cottage Ivy, Brilliance Coffee Bean.

Promarkers - Forest Green, Apple Green

Other - Glamour Dust, red pen (for berries) 

Papertrey Ink Haul no.2 video eeeeeeeeepa!

Helloooooooo!!

Well I decided at the beginning of the month because my mojo ran off and left me that I would treat myself to some new stamps to see if that would entice it back. And where did I decide to buy them from?!

 

Papertrey Ink of course!!!

 

So its taken aaaaaages to get here - it got stuck in the USA then in customs and then with the bank holiday it was taking forever so I convinced the bf to drive to the depot to go pick it up ha ha!

 

Anyhoo it was like my birthday had come a week early lol (well a week and a half as its the 7th lol) as I opened up all the stamp sets that get wrapped in white tissue paper and stroked them and smelled their delicious good quality acrylic smell (is it just me lol! Please say it isnt!).

 

So I though I'd make another haul video, not to show off just to make everybody aware of the PTI goodness that is available out there! And because I spend a good chunk of my spare time watching other crafters haul videos!

 

So this is it!

Is not a great quality :S a new camera is needed me thinks!

 

 

Thank you very much for watching! I'm off to go find new homes for everything (I feel more stamps will be getting sold!) and hopefully actually make a card!

 

Hope youre all well!

Hugs

 

Rachael xx

LIM - OLC 3

Hellooo!

Well we broke up today eeek! Not that I'm excited for the 6 weeks holiday or anything lol.

Anyhoo I needed a thank you card to give to my teaching assistant to say thanks for all of the help over the last few weeks.

I pulled out my Beautiful Butterflies set and my new pink ink pad and had a bash at the new LIM challenge which is a 'One Layer Card - Recipe 3'

I think the sentiment is a bit dark against the pale pink but when I tried it with a pink sentiment it was just naff.

Ive only used two pearls on each of the smaller butterflies as it looked really unbalanced when I had one in the middle.

The recipient liked it so I suppose that's all that matters lol.

 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Less is More - One Layer Card recipe '3'.

A passion for Papertrey - Anything Goes

Right well off to prepare for the INSET day tomorrow!

Before I go I want to say a big thank you for all of the lovely comments on my last few posts and I MUST try harder to comment on all your wonderful creations!

Hugs

Rachael xx

My very first PTI order and haul video!!!

Eeeeeeeek!!!

I finally took the plunge and placed my very first order with Papertrey Ink in the USA and it arrived yesterday!!!!!!!!!!

I have literally been stalking the Parcelforce tracking website to find out when it would arrive lol. It only took 12 days which I am mega impressed with as Ive heard many many times that it normally takes 3-4weeks!

Anyway I was soooo excited that I thought I'd attempt to make a haul video or unboxing as the bf called it yesterday which had me in absolute kinks ha ha!!

 I enjoy watching haul videos and have thought many times about making them myself so Ive bitten the bullet and had a go!

Its pretty rough so I do apologise and there are one or two mistakes but I cant for the life of me work out how to edit them lol.

Hope you enjoy it!

I'm off to stroke my new stamps he he!

Thanks for watching :)

Hugs

Rachael xx