Rachel's Cards and Crafts

Hi all I'm back again I've made my first card with the collection from Crafter's Companion designed by Stacey Barras. I have coloured the image using sparkle pens and added extra details with a white gel pen, glitter and gems. I'm really pleased with how it has turned out. That's it for this evening.  Hopefully will be back tomorrow to share something else with you. Thanks for popping by Hugs

Hi all This is a Canvas I have created. I've been working on it over a few weeks now. I initially decorated the base of the canvas with various papers, inks, paints, texture paste and script stamps; and painted the tree but was then stuck on what to add to it. I left it for a while whilst I came up with what I wanted to do. Then I decided I wanted some bigger flowers, and found some Prima flowers and added some additional mixed media elements and smaller flowers I already had in my stash. Along with glitters and diamante embellishments. I also die cut a fancy flourish for the corner (not that you can see much of it, oops) and a quote. I did two layers for the die cuts and glued them together so that they were thicker. Well here's a picture of it   I'm quite pleased with how it has turned out.  This is a video which shows some of the elements in more detail. You can even see the glitter sparkling. (Sorry it's a bit shaky I used my phone. It'...

Hi all well I had a break from crafting the beginning of the year and I have been concentrating on a new healthy and active lifestyle so have been spending most of my spare time in the gym. I have also given up making my plaques and things made to order on ebay and etsy and decided that I wanted to get my crafts back as more of a hobby and more enjoyable when I do have some spare time. I felt like I was working to much to deadlines and the fun and relaxation of crafting had just gone. Unfortunately I have been unwell with my chest this past week and have spent some time in hospital. Well I thought that as I am resting up at the minute I would do a spot of colouring/crafting. I have had loads of digital images in a box printed and waiting for colouring so they were ready to hand which was very convenient. I set myself up in front of the tv, with my tray and Spectrum Noir Pencils, feet up and set off colouring a range of images. Once I had coloured a few and felt in the mood, I dec...

Well as promised yesterday here are a few christmas cards I have made recently. They have all been made using Stamps from Chloe's Creative Cards. Hope You like Thank You For stopping by once again. Merry Christmas xxx Rachel xxx  

Hi all Today I have been busy making a 30th Birthday card for an order. One of the things the recipient likes is cocktails so I thought that Chloe's Creative Cards Cocktail stamp range and her glitter was perfect for the job. The card blank measure 8x8" and is very sparkly. You can see a bit of the sparkle in the photo but not as much as in real life.  I hope you like. Right now I best go get ready to pick up the hubby from his friends. Take care all. Thanks once again for stopping by.  

Hi all This is a card I have just finished for an order. It's a special 50th Birthday Mam card.  I've got to say I'm pleased with how it has turned out.  I have used Crafters Companion Spectrum Noir Pens and Pencils to colour the image.  Card Recipe Crafter's Companion Black and Purple Centura Pearl Card Sherri Baldy Bestie Image Barely Mine Extreme cd - backing papers and insert Gems and glitter White hammered card stock Embosillicious Regancy Swirls folder  Chipboard numbers Glossy accents Flower Lace Pink Gem Happy Birthday Mam Round Sentiment Digi Star Dust Stickles Dusty Concord Distress Ink Various Dies Crystal embelishments Feathers   Challenge Entries Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge - #108 Sketch   The Stamping Boutique Challenge - #5 Die or Punch Crafty Girls Challenge - #12 Anything Goes Delightful Challenges - Add a Flourish (on backing paper and embossed card) Crafty Ribbons ...

  Hi all I had a great night last night. We went out for a meal and few drinks to celebrate Gail and My 31st Birthdays. It was Gail’s birthday on the 7th and it’s mine on the 18th so we decided to have a combined celebration.   I made her a card and necklace and gave these to her last night. She loved them both.   This is the card I made using Katy Sue Designs and House of Zandra Fabulous Fashion CD .   This is the first card I have made using this cd. I have been wanting it for a while but eventually got it at The Great Northern Papercrafts Show last Sunday. I am really pleased with the results and Gail and the rest of the girls thought it was Fab too which I was pleased about.   Recipe   Papers and Topper – Katy Sue Designs and House of Zandra Fabulous Fashion CD Printing Card and Paper – House of Zandra Cream Paper and Card Pack Base Card - Cream Pearl Cardstock Mats – Burgundy Card From Paper Mill Direct Ribbon – Stash Glaze – Ranger G...

Hi all This week I have been having fun making cards with Sparkle Medium. It was a new buy at the Great Northern Papercrafts Extravaganza at Harrogate. Sparkle Medium is a glitter and paint mix which you can use with stencils, diecuts, or to create glitter paper and more. It’s made by Imagination Crafts . Here’s the cards I have been making. The products I have used to make these are: Sparkle Medium by Imagination Crafts Various Stencils by Imagination Crafts Crafter’s Companion Spray and Sparkle Crafter’s Companion Centura Pearl Card Silver and Gold Mirror Card Various Coloured Card Core’dinations Ribbon Ribbon Slider Snowflake Crafter’s Companion Die’sire Die – Magic Mirror Marianne Designs Snowflakes and Merry Christmas Dies Spellbinders Ponsettia Die set Distess Ink Gems Glitter Card Woodware Inverted Corner Punch Acetate   Hope you like these. Hope to blog again this weekend   Thanks for stopping by

Hi all back again, this time to share with you a Thank You card I have made using the Angelica and Friends Range from Crafter’s Companion . I have used the Mariella stamp and coloured using my Spectrum Noir Pens. The Colours I have used are: Dress - IB1, IB2, IB3, BT8, Blender Flowers and Grass - CT1, CT2, CT4, LG4, LG5 Skin - FS2, F4, TN2, FS8 Hair – TN2, TN4, TN7 Wings – IB1 Sky Outline – TB1 Card Recipe Core’dinations – Crafter’s Companion Scalloped 6x6 card base Spectrum Noir Pens – Crafter’s Companion Neenah Card – Crafter’s Companion Embossalicious 6x6 folder Floral Frenzy – Crafter’s Companion Snow White Centura Pearl Cardstock Silver – Crafter’s Companion Butterfly Embellishment - Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch Ribbon – Stash Gem’s – The Ribbon Box (coloured with Spectrum Noir BT8) Spray and Sparkle Iridescent – Crafter’s Companion Glammor Dust I also made another 7 cards using this stamp in various other colour ways...

Hi all I bet you thought I had vanished. Sorry for not blogging. As some of you may be aware I have not been myself of late and finding things a bit difficult. Well I have been trying to take my mind off it and have made this Christmas card today. I have used a Molly Bloom stamped image. I must admit I started to colour this image back in October but only got the hat coloured. I completed the colouring today using my Spectrum Noir Pens from Crafter’s Companion . I stamped onto Neenah Card Stock with Memento ink. I am pleased with the way the colouring has turned out. Practice and advice from wonderful people like Leann Chiver’s, Marcea Watkins, Louise Welsh and Co. has certainly helped improve my colouring technique. Here’s the card I have used the following products to complete my card Crafter’s Companion Neenah Card Stock Crafter’s Companion Spectrum Noir Molly Bloom Jolly Snowman Stamp Lili of the Valley Set 8 happy Circular Stamps WOW Black Glint Embossing Powder Lil...

Hi all Welcome to the Crafter’s Companion blog hop to celebrate the launch of the Toread papercrafting range! You could win the new Toread CD-ROM, simply by hopping around the Design Team's blogs and being inspired! Pop over to the Crafter's Companion News blog for the full list of Design Team members who are taking part. The Design team have loved crafting with the new range – “I personally love working with it as the characters are so cute!!! The cd is packed full of goodies to create with and you just don’t know where to start to be honest.” So we're celebrating the launch of this gorgeous new collection on Friday 28th September by giving you a chance to see some sneak peeks and have the chance to win a great prize! All you need to do to be in with a chance of winning is visit each of the Design Team members blogs. They will each be showing you some of their fabulous Toread creations. Once you've been inspired, simply head back over to the Crafter's Companion ...

Hi all as promised yesterday here’s another sneak peak of the wonderful Embossalicious Embossing Folders from Crafter’s Companion . I have used an element from the Morehead Rocker Card Kit and mounted it onto the Die’sire Waltz Frame which  I have cut out onto Core’dinations card stock. I have used Snow White Centura Pearl Card for the base card and to emboss the folder with. Finally added one of the sentiments from the kit and some ribbon and stickles glitter Glue. I am entering this into the Oldie but a goodie challenge – Show us your ribbons. My old item is by ribbon which I must have had for about 3 years!!!! Thanks for stopping by. Hugs Rachel xxxxxxx

Hi all, well the wonderful Crafter’s Companion are launching 6 more brand new stamps for the Christmas Mulberry Wood range. It will be POD on Tuesday over on Ideal World. I have made a few samples and here’s one of them. This first one is of the cute Santa going town the chimney. Isn’t he just adorable. I have coloured this with Spectrum Noir pens on Neenah card Stock. The base card is a scalloped 8x8 and I have used two papers from the Mulberry Wood CD taken into the colouriser and printed in this lovely blue tone. Next I matted all of the different layers onto the Core’dinations card stock. I finally added finishing touches with  a ribbon bow and some snowflakes, along with one of the sentiments from the stamp plate. Check back tomorrow for another sneak peak from me. Hugs Rachel

Have you seen that the Die’sire dies are now available on the Crafter’s Companion Website. Check out the wonderful offers Also until Sunday evening to celebrate their USA Birthday you can get double points on all purchases on the website and 25% off their USA product range. Crafter’s Companion are just Fab aren’t they?   Well onto another sneak peak from me. This one’s a hanging Christmas decoration. I have used the Mulberry wood CD for this one. I cut out three of the embellishments from the CD and sprayed them with Gold Spray and Sparkle . These were then matted onto some gold Glitter Card which I cut using the Ornamental Flower Frame Sorry for the poor photo on this one. Next I joined the three panels together with some ribbon. Finally I added some stickles glitter to the ribbon. Hope you like Hugs Rachel