Hi everyone.  

I'm back again sharing some inspiration from the bright and beautiful collection from @polkadoodles.

I love a CAS card, and this collection was made for this! 

Using the circle shutter die, and the dahlia flower die I was able to make this beautiful wedding card.  I just cut the dies from white card stock, colouring the flowers with alcohol markers.  

The great thing about these flower dies is they can be simple like this, or inked. layered and shaped for more realistic looking blooms! 

Once I have die cut the circle shutter, I then used a stencil to emboss the background for a bit of texture.

I glued and layered everything together with a sentiment from the tying the knot stamp set (also from Polkadoodles) which was white heat embossed onto black card for a bold look.

I hope you like it - please do check out this release over on the polkadoodles webstie.

I'd like to enter this into:

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See you all soon

Crafting hugs

Rachael 

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Patch puppy

 Hi everyone

there is a new challenge over on our All dressed up Facebook page - the theme this month is die cuts or punches.

The image for this is called patch puppy and he can be found here

I coloured him with copics and fussy cut him leaving a bigger white border than I usually do.

The sentiment is a Julie Hickey die and the wishes part is from a polkadoodles sentiment stamp set called birthday celebrations.

The background circle is die cut, as are the flowers which are MFT stitched flowers dienamic.  I wanted a monochrome look for this card so stuck with blues and whites.  

I am in love with this card, it is so so cute!

I'd like to enter this into:

Thank you so much for stopping by - please leave me a comment if you land here!

See you soon

Crafting hugs

Rachael

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Truly Dino-mite!

 Hello everyone

For everyone in the UK - I'm so glad that heat has dialled down.  Fore everyone not in the UK wondering why we are complaining - we don't have enough hot weather to justify getting aircon units as most of our weather is rain! We are rubbish at any extremes of hot or cold and a few days ago it reached the hottest it has ever been in the UK at 40 degrees Centigrade.  The British love a good moan about the weather!  Anyway onto the card...

I thought I'd revisit my stash and I made this using the Mam elephant little dino agenda and me and my dinosaur stamp sets 

Ingredients

• Stamps
• Me and my dinosaur
• Little dino agenda
• Coloured with spectrum noir tri-blend brush markers
• Inks
• Memento tuxedo black
• Prized ribbon distress oxide
• Twisted citron distress oxide  ink
• Sakura glitter gelly roll pen

I stamped all of the images out and cut them using my scan and cut.  I then coloured them using the spectrum noir tri blend brush markers.  I ink blended a background and laid the images on to create this super cute scene! matted and layered on black, onto a 5x7 card base.  

The final touch was a heat embossed sentiment and some sparkle pens for shine.

I hope you like it!

I'd like to enter this into:

Fab and funky - anything goes

Simon says stamp - for a child

The cutie pie challenge - little cuties

Lil patch of crafty friends - anything goes

Aud sentiments - anything goes

Double d's - purple, green and blue

Thanks for stopping by - if you're here please leave me a comment so I know you have visited! For my other social media pages, please see the top right of the page!

See you soon

Crafting hugs

Rachael 

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up, up and awayyyyy

 Hello crafting friends

Hope you are all OK.  I made a couple of cards this weekend, so I thought I'd share one of them...

I made this using MFT up and away stamp set, A Tracey Hey paper pad, distress oxides (scattered straw and abandoned coral).  Coloured with Copics and embellished with enamel dots.

After colouring the stamps, I fussy cut them out along with a patterned paper circle die cut, and white circle.  I coloured this by ink blending the scattered straw, at the same time as using a stencil for a bit of interest in the background.  The sentiment from the stamp set was heat embossed on a black strip of paper, and I added everything to the card

This teddy is so super cute!

I'd like to enter this into:

• We Love Stamping - Anything goes
• Get creative - Anything goes
• Pammies pinkie inkies - Anything goes
• A perfect time to craft - anything goes
• Classic design challenge - anything goes

Thanks so much for stopping by - if you'd like to leave a little love in the comment box I do read them all.  Alternatively follow me on on of my other social media pages (follow the links on the front page).

See you soon

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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Floral thanks

 Hi everyone

I recently went to the NEC craft show.  It felt so good to be back and be able to watch the demos and actually see the product.  I've ordered so much on line during the pandemic I'd forgotten the thrill (and how much it was going to cost me) seeing all the lovely show samples.

I brought a few new stamps (of course!!_) and some were the woodware ones.  I have had some in the past, and I had forgotten how good some of the designs are.  I decided for this card however to get some florals.  I have a few altenew florals but wanted something a bit different.

Ingredients

• Stamps
• Woodware Garden spray
• Woodware texture
• Waltzing mouse sentiment set (this is older than I can remember and I have no idea what is called the packaging is loooong gone!) 
• Coloured with watercolour - Windsor and Newton set
• Distress oxide inks for stamping texture
• picked raspberry
• black soot
• stamped with black Versafine ink and heat embossed with clear wow embossing powder 
• Sentiment stamped with Versamark ink and white wow embossing powder

I firstly stamped and coloured the image onto watercolour card stock.  I wanted a bold look for this one.  I did another card at the same time with a completely different soft feel that I'll show later but this I wanted to be bright and cheerful.

Once I'd stamped and embossed it, I added water to the petals and dropped in some watercolour paints onto the wet from the centre so the colour spread outwards.  I did the same for the leaves.  I then hit it with my heat tool to dry it and did the same again to add depth of colour.  To finish I used more intense colour and added the detail in.  

I then left this to dry while I worked on my background.

Using the same colour paint I'd used for the flowers, I watered it down and added blobs to my glass mat, and added some lawn fawn liquid sparkle to it for shimmer.  I then smooshed another piece of watercolour card into this, dried it and repeated for texture.  Once I was happy with this, I then used the texture stamps to add detail to the background around where I knew I wanted to place my stamp.

I fussy cut out the stamp, added the heat embossed sentiment and matted onto black card stock.  

I hope you like this -  change from the cutie stuff for sure, and a perfect stash filler in case I have to say thank you!

I'd like to enter this into:

Aud sentiments - anything goes with a sentiment

Crafty creation - Anything goes

Little red wagon - no patterned paper

Sisterhood of crafters - give thanks

Paperfunday challenge - Anything goes with twist of thanks

I'll back back soon with more makes, to make sure you don't miss out please follow me here on on any of my other social media channels.  

See you very soon

Rachael

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Lets stick together

 Hi crafty friends

Just a quick post today - I'm dropping in to share this anniversary card I made using MFT Stamps.

I really loved the frames I did on the card a few weeks ago, but wanted something thinner, so I used nesting dies together to create these frames.  I wanted it to be quite bold and geometric, and this is what I came up with

Ingredients

• MFT stamps - lets stick together
• Coloured papers from my stash
• Nesting basic rectangle dies from tattered lace
• Coloured with Copics
• Stamped with lawn fawn alcohol friendly ink
• Wow fine white embossing powder. 
• Dotty stencil (brought from The Range)
• squeezed lemonade distress oxide
• Black nuvo drops

I firstly stamped and coloured the images from the set, and stamped one of the sentiments on a strip of black card stock, embossing it with fine white wow powder.

I then set the images to cut out on my scan and cut while I started the background.  On the card blank I used a dotty stencil and lightly added squeezed lemonade for some interest in the background.  I then used two nesting dies that were one size apart, taped them so it would be even around the edge, and die cut these from black, orange and yellow card stock to create three frames.

I layered these up at jaunty angles, before adding the cactus in with a combination of glue and foam dots adding the sentiment across the middle.  I felt it was missing a little detail to balance the card out, so added one black nuvo drop to the bottom right corner.  Sometimes its the smallest thing that makes the difference.

I hope you like this design, there are many more on my blog or social media pages to scroll through (the link is on my home page in the top right corner)

I'd like to enter this into:

Allsorts Challenge - anything goes optional twist for the love of your life

Crafters castle - Anything goes 

Colour crazy - Anything goes 

Polkadoodles challenge - Anything goes 

Creative crafters challenge - Anything goes 

If you'd like to add a comment I love to read them it makes my day to get happy emails, rather than the usual junk that we get!!

See you soon

Crafty hugs

Rachael

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Cute critter birthday

 Hello everyone

It's me again,  sharing more inspiration from "The Glittery pink craft room" (although I have had a good tidy and vacuumed so there is a little less glitter than usual!)

I wanted to make something super bright and cheerful today, something that will make whoever receives it smile!  Its being added to the back up stash of emergency cards as I need to continue to rebuild my stash after donating everything I had.

Back to MFT stamps today to make this eye catching card.

Ingredients 

• MFT stamps - Birthday buds
• Coloured with Copics and Spectrum Noir triblend brush markers
• dies - Stamps by me frame dies
• white gel pen and tonic shimmer pen for embellishment
• ink - Lawn fawn alcohol friendly jet black ink 

I stamped the  images and coloured them using a variety of alcohol markers.  I then put them through my scan and cut with a 1mm border to cut them out.

I rummaged through my stash of pattered card and found this super bright pink spotty paper to match my colouring, but I couldn't find yellow or aqua paper that matched so when I cut out my frames I used white card and coloured it with my alcohol pens to match

I also added a white card mat layer with some black fine liner faux stitching.  

The sentiment is also in the stamp set, and I white heat embossed it onto black card.

I finally layered the whole thing together, sticking it with glue and foam tape, added shimmer and white gel pen for effect, making a super cute, fun birthday card.

I'd like to enter this into:

Aud sentiments - anything goes with a sentiment

Creative knockouts - Birthday wishes

Simon says stamp - add a sentiment 

Little red wagon - Animals

Paperfunday - anything goes (twist of cute critters)

Thank you for stopping in - if you land here (either intentionally or by mistake) please leave me a comment and become a follower.  If blogging isn't your preferred social media platform, then on the right side of my home page is a link to all social media sites I have.  Why not join me there!

See you again very soon for more inspiration

Crafty hugs

Rachael 

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Hello Sunshine

 Hello everyone

I made a card today reminding me of beaches, and sunshine and holidays!  Here in the UK we had a couple of weeks of sunshine, but now it is rainy and miserable again so I made a sweet card to cheer me up!

I used a cute MFT stamp set that is probably one of my all time favourites.  Its an old one, but I think you can still buy it.  I've had it for ages in my stash but I adore those tropical critters!

Ingredients list

My Favorite things stamps - Polynesian Paradise

Scan and cut for the scalloped shaped behind

Paper pad and leaf dies are from 'the works'

Coloured with Zig clean colour markers on multimedia paper from Daler Rowney 

I stamped and coloured the images and cut them out on my scan and cut.  At the same time I cut a scalloped circle from the library of shapes for the scene to be attached to.

I went into my green scraps folder and pulled out a few different plain green colours and used these to die cut out the tropical leaves.  using the scallop I layered everything together using glue and foam pads for a dimensional display.  The card is a 6x6 square card, so I trimmed the patterned paper to fit leaving a white border.  For finishing touches I added a tonic shimmer pen but being extra careful not to reactivate the zig ink and smudge the colouring... (my parrot only has highlights bless him!), as well as stamping the sentiment and white heat embossing on scrap of black card. 

Id like to enter this into:

Crafty creations challenge - anything goes

Creative moments - anything goes

Polkadoodles digichooseday - Anything goes 

Through the craft room door - anything goes

Unicorn Challenge - anything goes

Crafting Happiness - anything goes - top pick! 

Incy wincy designs - Summer/Beach

I hope this brings you sunshine too!

Crafty hugs

Rachael

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