thank you from Bella bear

Hi everyone

Just stopping by to share Bella bear saying thank you.  You can never have too many thank you cards in your stash, to show your gratitude towards others.

This was made for our latest Polkadoodles challenge over on the challenge blog.

 Each week there is a new challenge and the good news is that it's anything goes - with any image!

This is one of the latest daily deal releases from Nikky that is such good value.  You get a digi image and papers for such a tiny price, and they change regularly, new ones are added all the time!

I decided to have a white bear, that's what I love about digi images, you can colour in whatever you like, this type of bear could even be converted into a panda.

The papers behind are from Bob in the boat daily deal, so you can mix and match them.

I simply coloured in copics, added white gel pen dots and some glitter to her mug.  The hearts behind are from another polkadoodles stamp set just to add more interest behind her.

I'd like to enter this into:

Cutie pie challenge - something beginning with 'B'  Bella bear! 

Pammies pinkie inkies - anything goes

613 Avenue create - anything goes, option CAS

Lil patch of crafty friends - anything goes

Through the purple haze - anything goes

Thanks so much for stopping by - please follow me on other social media channels and leave me a comment.  I love to read them all!

See you again soon

Crafting hugs

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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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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