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

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See you soon

Crafting hugs

Rachael 

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Monkey around

 Hey everyone

So glad to see you - sorry I haven't posted for a few weeks.  I started a brand new job on the 14th Feb and its been rather hectic.  I now have to travel more and have more responsibility so I find myself exhausted every evening!

I made this cutie using a mama elephant stamp set, with tropical leaves from lawn fawn and the back ground stamps from Tracey Het.

All coloured with Copics and fussy cut out.  I used the 'having it all' stamp set from Tracey Hey in the background and inked along the edge.  After die cutting the flowers and foliage, I coloured these with Copics too and layered the card together with glue and foam pads

I hope you like it!

I'd like to enter this into:

• Critter crazies - anyhting goes with a critter 
• Crafters Cafe - use some flowers
• Crafty animals - anything goes with an animal
• Girls rebel challenge - flowers and colours
• Love to craft - anything goes
• Cardz for gals - safari or zoo animals
• Time out challenge - cute

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See you soon

Rachael

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Last GDT post for colour crazy

 Hi everyone

Its my last GDT post for colour crazy challenge and I'm using the very lovely All dressed up images who are sponsoring the blog challenge here:

New year, new me is a great stamp, not just for new year, if you remove the sentiment from the stamp like I have then you can give it to any of your fitness girl friends, and colour it match their skin and hair tones.

Our challenge runs for two weeks and is anything goes as long as its coloured.

I made this by colouring her with Copics and Prismacolour pencils, before fussy cutting her out.

I die cut a circle to add her too with foam pads.  I used a Kanban paper pad for the Blue heart background, as well as a grey striped paper strip, matted and layered onto the card front, finished with three pearls and a mama elephant tiny sentiment stamp

I hope you like it!

Crafty hugs

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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You Rock!

Hello Everyone

Hope you're all doing well.  I'm just recovering from a really nasty cold/flu.  It started last week and today is the first day I've even been able to craft... that's how poorly I was with it!

 I'm stopping by with another cute dino card - I made loads of these and kept them in the bank for when I wouldn't be able to make something (or for those occasions when our mojo just ups and leaves!).

This one is using one of my favourite Mama elephant sets called me and my dinosaur.

Ingredients

• Stamps
• Mama elephant Me and my dinosaur
• Little Dino agenda
• Paper smooches Sentiment sampler
• coloured with Spectrum noir tri-blend brush markers
• Ink
• Memento Tuxedo black ink
• Prized Ribbon distress oxide
• Chipped Sapphire distress oxide
• Salvaged patina distress oxide
• Dark Navy card
• wow embossing powder 

I stamped a selection of images from the stamp sets and coloured them in.  I knew I wanted a splatter background but not across the whole card, so I cut a circle using a die and used this as a stencil so my splatter is only in one place.  I finished this CAS card with a heat embossed sentiment.  

Hope you like it!

I'd like to enter this into:

Lil patch of crafty friends  -anything goes

A bit more time to craft - anything goes

Your next stamp Friday fun - setting the scene 

Creative moments - Anything goes

Please leave me a comment if you land here - i love to read them.  And if you love other social media channels, I'm on them too - link on my home page.  Please click, like, share, follow etc.... I'd be so happy to see you there!

Back soon with more crafty goodness

Crafty hugs

Rachael 

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Dino rawr!

Hello again

I'm back with more from the desk of the glittery pink craft room.  This time its cute dinosaurs'.

I've always loved dinosaurs, and my son is like some super palaeontologist who knows the names of them all - some I have never even heard of!   These are from Mama elephant and there are two different stamp sets both dino based, and I cannot resist a cute boys dino card! I know the name of these - they are simply dino rawrs! ha ha 

Ingredients

• Stamps
• Mama elephant little dino agenda
• Mama elephant Me and my dinosaur
• inks
• Memento tuxedo black 
• Salvaged patina distress oxide
• twisted citron distress oxide
• mowed lawn distress oxide
• Tattered lace basic circle die
• Cloud stencil
• glossy accents
• Tonic glitter gloss

I stamped and coloured the images, before using my scan and cut to cut them all out.  I die cut a circle and using a cloud stencil I made a sky back ground.  I then cut a wavy line from some whit card stock and using my circle die cut I made grassy hills to add onto the background and ink blended them using the green distress inks

I then layered up the circle using the stamps.  There was still a bit too much white on the card, so I went through my scraps and found this black and white stripy paper to be cut into a strip on the left.  finished with a sentiment from the stamp set, and highlights of tonic shimmer and glossy accents. 

I'd like to enter this into:

Crafty Catz - Masculine birthday

Creative fingers - anything goes

Creative Knockouts - Anything goes

Sisterhood of crafters - cute and simple 

Thank you for your support so far, I just love reading your comments and every like and follower I get I am truly grateful for!  If you want to see more, or are on social media, please click open the links on my home page (top right) for more!

See you soon

Crafty hugs

Rachael 

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So Sweet

 Hello crafting friends, welcome back to my blog.

Todays card is another 3d pop up style, made with my MFT outside the box die-namics and mama elephant stamp set.

I just think these critters are so sweet and added to the sugary goodness cake and milkshakes its just too stinkin' cute! !  I could just devour one of these milkshakes right now calories don't count on a Monday - do they? 

Ingredient list

• Mama Elephant - Milkshake stamps
• MFT - outside the box level up die-namics
• Coloured with copics and Spectrum noir brush triblend markers
• Lawn fawn gingham paper pad and alcohol friendly ink pads 
• stickles and glossy accents to finish

I cut out the card using white card and then used the accompanying dies to cut out of a lawn fawn gingham paper pad.

I stamped the images  and coloured with my pens, before cutting them out on my scan and cut.

I then assembled the card, before adding sparkle and some glaze on the sweet treats to finish the look.

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See you all soon

Crafty Hugs

Rachael

 

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Thank you Teacher

Happy Friday everyone

Its almost the weekend, thank heavens, it's been a long week and I am certainly looking forward to some craft time over the weekend!

For my first project post, I thought I would share a card I made for my sons teacher to say thank you.  The list of things I used is listed below.

My colouring was with a combination of Copic markers and the new Spectrum noir tri-blend brush markers.  I highly recommend them!

I wanted it to be bright and stand out among her other cards so I used primary colours to make it pop.  It was a tricky shape to photograph as I wanted to get in all the detail as well as the dimension... 

I just adore all of those cute characters, they are simply perfect, and Harry's teacher loved it too!

Ingredient list 

Mama elephant Slim scenescape builder die and  bookworm stamps

Lawn fawn - Good apple

Copics and spectrum noir brush tip triblender pens

Memento ink 

cardstock from my stash

I'd like to enter this into

Aud Sentiments - add a sentiment 

Cute Card Thursday - Anything goes 

Crafty creations Challenge - anything goes 

Simon says stamp - anything goes optional slimline 

Polkadoodles digi Tuesday - anything goes 

Through the craft room door - Anything goes

Thank you so much for stopping by if you do - please sign up to follow me and leave me a comment.  It always makes my day to read them 

Crafty hugs

Rachael 

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