Egg-cited chick!

Hello everyone! 

Yay - Spring has finally arrived.  Outside is warm and sunny, with trees budding to life and flowers blooming!  this is my absolute favourite time of year....

To celebrate this, and the start of a new Polkadoodles challenge, here's this cute easter chick, re-purposed to celebrate spring.

This cutie is called egg-cited chick.  from the recent release.

I coloured him with copics adding lots of colour depth to the inside of the pot and adding white gel pen spots to the outside.  The sentiment is from the full bundle you can buy along with this chick.

The background is the square trellis one also from Polkadoodles with distress oxide ink in mustard seed.  The pink stamps are from the posy blooms stamps.  I then tore a strip of scrap pink paper to add interest around the sentiment

I hope you like this, and I also hope you'll check out our challenge blog for tonnes of inspiration from the talented DT!.

leave me some love if you stop here, or follow me on other social media platforms (links top right!)

I'd like to enter this into:

The alphabet challenge - adorable (anything cute)

Creative fingers - anything goes

lil red wagon - Spring

Passion for markers - animals

try it on Tuesday - anything Spring

See you all soon!

Crafting hugs

Rachael 

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Sparkle and shine

Hello everyone

Me again, back this time with the cutest new releases from All dressed up.

All of the images are available from etsy here the image I used is called Sparkle, and she is perfect for new years, or any other celebration.

She was coloured in copics and fussy cut.  I then used an old Anna Marie stamp set for the congrats in the background and a spotty stencil.  The papers are off cuts from my scrap box.  All layered together, finished with sparkle pens and glossy accents.

the full set of new release images are:

Cookie girl

Sparkle

Winter pups

Our Facebook and blog challenges are still running if you want a chance to win some of Wendy's gorgeous images 

I'd like to enter this into:

Simon says stamp - Party

Simon says stamp Monday - Party Time

Dragonfly dreams - anything but Christmas

Crafts galore encore - Anything goes

Thanks for stopping by - if you do land here I'd love to hear from you.  Please use either my comments below or my other social media platforms (top right) 

See you soon

Merry Christmas!
Rachael 

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lets get spooky...

 Hi fellow crafters (and craft appreciators!)

I'm afraid Summer is drawing to a close, and looking at the prices of gas and electric in the UK, come the winter, we will be too cold to craft, so I'd better get ahead!

Our challenge is on again over at Polkadoodles week 35 - anything goes, along with a chance to win some of Nikky's amazing images - your biggest challenge will be choosing which ones!

This image is called Frankenstein monster boo and I have also used the Halloween paper bundle 2

I firstly used scattered straw distress oxide in the background, blending from the middle outwards like a glow, then added ink on the edges to frame him. I then used black gouache paint to splatter all over the background too.

I tore two strips of different papers to place across the bottom to ground my image.  He was printed out then coloured using copic markers then fussy cut and popped on some foam squares for dimension

I added the image and the sentiment, and decided it need more, so I went back to the paper pack and enlarged some of the skulls and fussy cut them out.

To finish the spooky feel, I doodled around the edge, and added some hand drawn cobwebs in the top corners

there are loads of great Autumn/Halloween images over in the shop - Please check them out.  Also see the other DTs amazing inspiration on the blog too!

I'd like to enter this into:

Daring card makers - in the long run (DL sideways)

My time to craft - fantasy whimsical

613 Avenue Create - anything goes

I'll see you all again very soon!

Rachael

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Autumn vibe

 Hey everyone

So in case you hadn't noticed the Autumn releases are all on their way!  loads of new stamps from all companies for Autumn and Halloween.

I have a couple of cards in the next few days to share starting with this one I made for a create and craft show on behalf of Oakwood direct.

They have shows with Stampendous stamps, and I was sent this one to complete samples for.  Its a large slimline stamp called Harvest ride, but I liked the bicycle so didn't use the whole thing for this card.

I also though it would look great layered up, so I stamped it three times and coloured up sections before fussy cutting them so I could decoupage it.

It was coloured with a combo of copic markers and polychromos pencils, before I layered it, and added it to a card base with a beautiful yellow mat and layer.

The sentiment is from a Hunkydory pad with little strips you cut up.  i thought this one was perfect for the card.

I'd like to enter this into:

Krafty Chicks - all occasions

Double D - wheels/Mood board

Crafty Calender - anything goes

Taylor made cards 4 U - transport

A perfect time to craft - Anything goes

Creative crafters - Anything goes

I hope you like my card - if so please leave a bit of love either below or on on my other social media sites - to access these click on the link top right!

See you very soon

Rachael 

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Mermazing!

 Hi everyone

Its Saturday and therefore time for the latest Polkadoodles blog challenge. Its a chance to be in with winning three images of your choice from the Polkadoodles shop, or if you're chosen by the DT as top three, you get one image.

You can enter with anything goes, but the DT theme was ocean - a perfect opportunity to pay with the super cute mermaids.  There are loads of different ones on the website, but I chose this beauty! 

For this weeks challenge I used this cutie called is from the Winnie Mermazing collection called Octopus kisses.

I also used the matching digi papers for the torn strip in the background, a stencil called Land and sea  and finally the sentiment is from Winnie celebration sentiments

The image was coloured using copics and finished with white gel pen, sparkle pens and a drop of glossy accents to those sweet octopuses

I just love how this one turned out.  

I'd like to enter this into:

Simon says stamp - anything goes

Paper shelter - under the sea

Double D beach time

Through the purple haze - anything but square

Krafty chicks - anything goes

Craft rocket challenge - girls

As you like it - favourite - girls (I love pink and purple too much!)

Your next stamp - anything goes

Thanks so much from dropping by - please do check out our blog!  and if you want to see more inspiration from me, I have other social media links at the top right of the page.  Leave me some love - it always makes me smile.  See you soon

Rachael 

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Birthday beach fun!

 Hello friends

Welcome back to my blog and more ramblings from the glittery pink craft room.

Today I'm sharing this super cutie made to inspire you to enter our all dressed up challenge on Facebook.

Every month on the 1st, we try and inspire you to use an all dressed up image and enter this challenge to win three of Wendy's amazing images - including new releases!

Our theme for June is pick a colour... an guess my colours!  Yes raspberry and black.  I just love these colours!!!

I printed her out and coloured her with a combo of copics and Polychromos pencils.

The back ground is a stamp from stampendous called Pop dots available from @Oakwooddirect.  The sentiment is from Claire manning designs

I did an inky background using picked raspberry distress oxide and speckled some on the page along with some black gouache.

A bit of sticky foam and I finished my card!

Please do stop by the Facebook page and check out the other DT inspiration, and then enter our lovely challenge!

I'd like to enter this into:

Through the craft room door - anything goes

Crafty calendar - anything goes

Crafty Catz - anything goes - twist all about the girls

Daring card makers - flair not square

See you all soon

Rachael

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Spring wellies

Hello everyone

I've been on holiday this week, and had a few hours crafting time.  I decided to challenge myself to something different, and went to my Nitwit digi scrapbooks to create some cards that don't involve colouring.

I needed some Easter and spring cards to send out, and although I do have a lot of Easter stamps and digi stamps, I decided to do some mindful fussy cutting and layering instead. 

This is one of the cards I made - in the end I made about 10 cards using the same kit.  I find sometimes to limit the supplies helps bring back my mojo, and stretch my creative brain.  It was so much fun to do this for a change!

This kit is called Spring wellies

All I did was chose the images and lay them out in my craft artist software, then print them.  I spent a while fussy cutting everything, then printed some matching backing papers.  The using glue and foam pads, made my cards, in all different shapes and sizes. 

Thank you for stopping by - I really appreciate you taking the time to drop in.  If you want more inspiration please check out my Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest boards too.(link up above)

I'd like to enter this into:

Alphabet challenge  - A is for animal antics (that naughty cat is clearly up to no good!)

Crafty catz - AG but option April showers

C.R.A.F.T - Spring

Through the purple haze - add an animal

Crafty gals corner - Spring

See you soon

Crafting hugs

Rachael

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Clean and simple floral design

 Hi everyone

I thought I would today share a clean and simple floral card, that I absolutely love.  Happy yellows and blues, with lots of white space, it makes my heart very happy!

Ingredients

• Stamps
• Oakwood archer - distress texture back ground stamp
• Oakwood archer - distress type stamp
• Oakwood archer - distress circle background
• Dies
• Oakwood archer rose die set
• Oakwood archer ladybird die set
• Yellow Nuvo drops

I stamped the yellow distress background onto a piece of card slightly smaller than DL and then stamped the circle/dots in blue over it.  I then stamped the bigger circle and left he panel to dry.

I die cut the leaf from the rose set in green card stock and the flowers from the ladybird set in white, and added a bit of colour.  To add dimension I used my embossing tool to shape them. 

Finally I matted the DL card onto some pearlescent yellow card, and used the off cut strips to stamp my sentiment.  I then glued the whole thing together.

I hope you like it

I'd like to enter this into:

Dare to be Artsy - CAS

Double D's - lots of white

Classic design challenge - AG

Crafting happiness - Anything goes

If you like these stamps and dies, then there is an Oakwood archer show on the 19th December on The crat store, where you can buy these goodies. 

In the meantime, there will be more inspiration from the Glittery Pink Craft room on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.  if you want top check this out, please use the links on my home page to take you straight there.  Please like and follow me! 

See you soon

Crafting hugs

Rachael

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Alice in Crafting land

Hi everyone

Yesterday I was browsing Etsy for digi stamps. I wanted to find some new cute designs and as my craft room is rapidly filling up - I can always justify buying new digi's as they take up no room! 

I found this super cute set and brought it along with several others from a company called Caperuza sketch. they were really reasonably priced, and I adore the sketchy design.

Alice in Wonderland is one of my all-time favourite stories, and I knew they would have to be bright and bold and rainbow coloured.  I did colour them as close to the Disney film adaptation as possible.

ingredients

• Coloured with copics markers
• Digi stamps by Caperuza sketch on etsy here
• Die - Lawn fawn scalloped slimline die with hears
• Glittered with tonic shimmer pen and stickles Christmas berry red glitter
• Ink blending with distress oxide inks
• worn lipstick, 
• scattered straw, 
• broken china, 
• villainous potion

I printed all of my images first, coloured them and cut them out using my scan and cut.

I then cut out the die shape with some smooth white card stock, and blended distress inks to create a rainbow.

I blended the colours to create the secondary tones of orange and green and at the end added come more worn lipstick so it looks like it going back to red again.

This was then splattered with black water colour paint and lawn fawn liquid stardust.

I printed the quote and cut it up, then laid it along with my images onto the panel using glue and foam pads.  I used a slightly bigger card blank to put it on to finish the card.

I just love how colourful this is and how cute those characters are.  I can guarantee I'll be back for more images from here, There were so many to choose from!

I'd like to enter this into:

Lil patch of crafty friends -Anything goes

A gem of a challenge - anything goes

Di's digi's - use a digi stamp

Critter crazy - use a critter (hoping the white rabbit counts!) 

Crafters cafe - anything goes

Crafts galore encore - anything goes

Thanks for dropping in - if you could leave me a message I'd really appreciate it, or better still like and follow me on any of my social media channels.  The links are on the front blog page.

Crafting hugs

Rachael 

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I wish you a merry Merry Christmoose

Hello Crafting friends

Welcome back for more inspiration.  This time its another Christmas card but made in muted greys and blues using a MFT stamp set. 

Ingredients

• My favourite things Merry Christmoose
• Coloured with spectrum noir tri blend brush markers
• Scraps from my blue paper stash
• Tattered lace basic stitched circle die
• Clear embossing ink and white wow embossing powder

 I was lacking a bit of inspiration so did some searches on Pinterest for sketches.  I found this sketch originally for a square card, so I modified it and came up this idea.

I stamped the images, coloured with alcohol markers, and cut out with the matching dies.

I had some scraps of grey left from a previous project and wanted to team them with blue, so on digging through my scraps found some perfect paper to match.

I trimmed the banners by hand and cut them to size, and using a stitched die I cut out a circle, a scrap of grey to emboss my greeting on

I then layered everything together using foam pads, glue, and tape runner.

I love the CAS feel to this, it’s a great masculine Christmas card.

 I'd like to enter into the following challenges:

• Colour my heart colour dare - black, white and grey with one other colour (aqua)
• Just us girls - colour inspiration
• Passion for markers - Christmas
• Love to craft - anyhting goes
• Merry little Christmas - anything goes Christmas 

If you have found your way here, you might as well let me know and leave me a comment in the box below.  If you want more without all the blah, then maybe Instagram or Facebook is better.  All my links are on the page before.  I’d love to see you there!

 Thanks for stopping by! Pop back in a few days, there will be more from the desk of the glittery pink craft room!

 

Rachael

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Love roo

Hello everyone

I made this card for my sons birthday last month, but just haven't got around to blogging it yet.

When my son was a toddler he couldn't say wallaby, so he called them "wobbalies" and the name has stuck ever since, so when I spotted this roo set from clearly besotted, it had to land in my basket!

Ingredients

• Die -  
• Mama elephant slim line scene builder
• tattered lace basic circle
• Stamps –
• clearly besotted – Love roo
• MFT lets stick together
• Coloured with spectrum noir tri blend brush markers
• Ink blending distress oxide inks
• Chipped sapphire
• Prize ribbon
• Antique paper
• Vintage photo

 I cut out of the panels for the shaped card and ink blended them all.  For texture I splatted each one with the same colours I had used to blend as well as black and white, with some shimmer pen in there too. For the circle back panel i used a large circle and chopped it in half in my trimmer to make a different backdrop.

I put these aside to dry while stamping and colouring all of my images, that I then put through my scan and cut and cut them all out.  I also cut out the word ‘Son’ in two sizes, one in black and the other in white

Now the background panels were dry, I glued them all together to form the card base, and placed my critters around the card to create a scene.  In the sky I adhered the ‘son’ word and stamped the happy birthday to room on the front panel.

He absolutely adored this – its still in his bedroom now.  His very own set of wobbalies! 

I'd like to enter this into

• Through the purple haze - anything goes for him
• Little red wagon - For the boys
• Colour throw down - colour challenge
• Critter crazy - Anything goes with a critter 
• Crafty animals - Anything goes with an animal

Thanks so much for stopping by - it does mean a lot when people leave comments, or follow my on FB, Pinterest or IG.  I really appreciate it!

See you again soon for more makes from the desk of the glittery pink craft rooms

Rachael 

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Super exciting news!

 Hello everyone

I have some super exciting news to share... I'm back on the All dressed up design team... and I am totally thrilled and delighted to have an invite back. I cannot tell you how excited I am to be working with this talented team once again.  

My first post back on the design team is their new release, and OMG they are just amazing!!

Heres the card I made using dogs in shades. 

This image can be separated (which is what I did) I felt these doggies needed to be photographed! So with that in mind here' s what I made

Using a polaroid die I have ( I don't know what brand it is as it was from my moms stash when she died) but it also has this little 'smile' die with it.

I cut the frames out of white cardstock, and sized the images to fit in the photo part of the die using craft artist.  Once I had them the right size I cut these out too using the same die so it would slot back in the opening seamlessly.  The background was made using picked raspberry distress ink and black watercolour paint over a paw print stencilled also in picked raspberry.  Very subtle colour to make the images pop out.  The pawsome sentiment was also made on  craft artist and cut as a strip to add to the bottom.  Because of the size of the pictures a DL card was needed to fit them all in.  I then finished the card with some black Nuvo drops for shine and dimension, as well as  glitter and a black sakura gelly roll pens for the sunglasses and bling.

Here's the all of the new release images in full. All images are available on Etsy and you can buy them now!

Dogs in shades

Star

Dude

We have some challenges on going. On Facebook we have a challenge entitled 'with wing's' so any all dressed up image with wings can be entered, or on our blog there is a anything goes challenge (using an all dressed up image)  this closes on the 14th September.  All prizes are some of Wendy's gorgeous images, but if you don't win, please check out Etsy anyway.  You won't be able to resist!

I'd like to enter this into:

Colour crazy - anything goes (2nd entry) GDT

A gem of a challenge - Anything goes

Cards 4 galz - international dog day

Lil patch of crafty friends - anything goes

If you land here - I would love for you to leave me a comment as well as using the link on my home page and following me on Facebook, Instagram and/or pinterest. All followers greatly received! 

See you very soon

Crafty Hugs

Rachael 

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