LOTV Christmas penguins.

Hi everyone

I'm back with another Christmas card I managed to make on time!

This one was for my Mam and Stepdad:

I bought this cutie and the papers at the GNPE which meant that Mam had seen them both but I didn't really mind that. At least it showed her that I have used some of the mountain of stash that I brought home ha ha!

Close up to show how much glitter I managed to get on lol.

What I used:

LOTV - Merry Christmas penguins stamp

LOTV - Frosty Christmas paper pad

Promarkers and Flexmarkers

WOC cherry blossom

Dienamincs Let it snow dies

Glamour Dust

Lawn Fawn Jessies ABCs for sentiment

I would like to enter my card into

Lili of the Valley Thursday Challenge - Something New (my new stamp and paper pad).

Right well Ive just made a video of the wonderful craft goodies I received for Christmas so I'm off to try and upload it to Youtube and will post it later. I do love seeing what other people get at Christmas time  - the bf calls it being nosey - I call it research for what i need to put on my next shopping list ha ha !!

Hope you re all well - we saw some sun here today (shock of my life!) hope you have had some too.

Hugs

Rach xx

Sweet Christmas cards and Lawn Fawn haul.

A late Merry Christmas to you all!

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. Mine was spent with the family at my Aunts house who *quoting my 83 year old Gran* had been flapping about the turkey all morning he he he! We all ate far too much but had a wonderful day.

 

Well I just about managed to make enough Christmas cards! I got totally sick after the third one lol so I'm quite pleased to be seeing non-Christmas cards popping up in my blog reader :)

 

I thought I would share a few I made using my new Lawn Fawn stamps and have included a haul video I made of my Lawn Fawn splurge I had a few weeks ago.

 

 

This card was made using Lawn Fawn's Sweet Christmas set. I stamped each Gingerbread person and added the little details such as the bows, buttons and hearts etc. I then coloured them using PMs, cut them out and popped them on some foam pads. the sentiment is also from the set. I then decided some bling was needed and added tiny little gems to each Gingerbread person.

 

 

This took some doing lol as there is only one mini Gingerbread person in the set so it took some lining up. Again coloured with PMs. I added the button details to add interest and coated the sweets in stickles to make them look sugary.

 

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

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Totally Gorjuss - New (my new Lawn Fawn stamps).

 

This is my haul video of my Lawn Fawn stamps. I am obsessed with the sets that include characters with cute faces!! Lol.

 

 

 

So there you go. I have one more card Id like to share but Ill leave that for another day. Im off out to meet friends as we never get to see each other now we are all grown up with proper full time jobs lol!

 

I kinda went overboard with new stash buying so I might make another video to share all the goodies I have found!

 

Hope you enjoy the rest of the holidays and stay warm and dry where ever you are in the awful weather that is going on at the minute.

 

Hugs,

Rachael xx

 

LIM - OLC In a row

The challenge over at Less is More this week totally inspired me which is really what I need right now! However I was inspired to make more baby cards rather than the Christmas cards I desperately need lol oh well!

 

I used the rattle and sentiment from Lawn Fawn's Plus One set and the heart from their Silly Valentine collection.

 

I had the idea to use a star on the boy card but I don't have any :( an excuse for more stamps me thinks!

 

 

I used the same layout and stamps for a girl version but coloured the heart in a darker pink as when I tried red it just didn't work.

 

 

I also used a stardust pen to colour the little white sections of the rattle and wish I hadn't oh well I'll learn from my mistakes!

 

Sorry the photos arent great it was very difficult with the light and so much white!

 

I would like to enter my card into

Less Is More - OLC In a row

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

 

Right well only two weeks left at school with my Reception class than I will be unemployed as the maternity cover ends :( will defo miss the little monkeys!

 

Hope youre all well and staying safe and warm!

 

Hugs

Rach xx

 

 

Doodlebug Design Haul September 2012

 

Hi everyone!!

Well I've survived my first month of teaching woop woop :) so I decided to treat myself to some new Doodlebug Design Inc goodies from The Glitter Pot that have been recently released.

I LOVE LOVE Doodlebug!!

I literally collect everything they bring out lol!! They are my all time favourite papercrafting company so I went a little mad with this lot lol but decided I might as well after all the hard work Ive put in the last four weeks!

 

Hope you enjoy watching :)

 

 

 

I'll hopefully be back soon with something creative lol!!

Ive enjoyed looking at all your fantastic creations on my Google Reader App!!Sorry for the lack of comments - I must try harder!!

 

Hope youre all well

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) 

Forever Friends Monthly - Ribbon

Hello! Yes I am still alive! My mojo is starting to slowly come back and I managed to make a DT card for the Forever Friends Monthly challenge of

Ribbon

and we are sponsored by

who are offering this as a prize:

The very kind girlies over at FF have let me switch teams as I'm gonna be very very busy with my new job (which if this is has posted when scheduled I started yesterday!!).

Anyway this is my card.

I found this cutie in my box of wooden stamps and couldn't even remember when Id last used him/her tut tut!!

Ive only used a little bit of seam binding ribbon which I coloured using a Promarker. I had the intention of using more but I have come to realise that I cant tie a bow to save my life! Lol!

What I used:

Card/Paper - White card blank, PTI Lavender Moon CS, Lucy Cromwell pink 6 x 6.

Stamp - Forever Friends stamp, PTI Communique Curves Sentiments.

Ink - Memento black ink, Promarkers.

Other - MS small monarch butterfly punch, WOC flowers, Ribbon Girl seam binding coloured with PM, tiny pink pearls, Perfect Pearls Mist (on flowers).

So please pop over to the Forever Friends blog to see the wonderful creation by my fabby teamies! Ooh and one entrant will be chosen by the DT as the Forever Friends Favourite who will win $5 to spend in

Right well that's a long post lol! Its my birthday tomorrow woop woop! First birthday Ill have to teach on OMG I am soo grown up lol ha ha! So I might be back soon with a few cards made with some new stash maybe?!?! Lol.

Hope you're all well!

Rachael xx

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