Rachel's Cards and Crafts

This card is for another order request. The recipient is turning 21 and is a singer. I found this image on photobucket and thought it was perfect as it is very girly but not too young. I have used coordinating purple pearl and silver holographic cards for the based card and matts. The papers are from either pink petticoat or funky fairy can't remember which. The ribbon and sentiment peel off are from my stash. I have added some stickles glitter as highlights. The 2 and 1 are printed from a Crafter's Companion CD and I have matted these onto silver holographic card cut with my nestabilities and cuttlebug. I love how this card turned out. Rachel xx

This card was for another regular customer. Her Granddaughter was turning two and she loves pepper pig. I obtained this backing paper and decoupage image and this is what I came up with. I am not overall happy with the card I wish I had put some sort of border on now when I look at it again.

This card I have made using the Crafter's Companion Tom Kitten CD. The backing papers and borders were printed onto pearl card and the decoupage topper glossy photo paper. I have used a white pearl card for the base and silver holographic card for the matts. The buttons are from my stash and I have added some ribbon to these from my stash too. Sorry the photo isn't the best but the holographic card and photo paper were causing alot of reflection. Hugs Rachel xx

This one I was asked to make again for a regular customer. He supplied me with the sepia coloured photos and asked me to include the 4 photos on a sepia themed card. I used brown matts and coordinating papers, buttons and ribbon to fit the theme. The sentiment again printed on my PC with the customers own wording. The finished card is 8x8" in size.

This is a money wallet which I have made for a customer to send some Euro's in.  He requested a picture of the Union Jack. Simple but does the job.

This is another Thank You card to send to Italy. The recipient likes dogs so I thought what better than to use the dog from my new Jemima Puddleduck stamp collection from Crafter's Companion. I again coloured this using copics. I then used my nestibilities as a matt. The papers are from the Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddleduck coordinating papers section on the CD. I have used the bronze pearl card from Crafter's Companion as the base which I have folded the A4 sheet on the short side. The ribbon is by BasicBasic which I picked up from a craft show. Again the sentiment is printed on my PC. 

This is a card I have made for the sugar bowl challenge no.33 . I have used my new Sugar Nellie Blossom stamp which I bought a few months back. I know it's one of their older stamps but it's new to me lol. I have coloured using my Copics which I am getting slightly better at using! Taking time but getting there. I had run out of paper for my printer so dived into my bits box (which generally has full A4 sheets in, because I click and print with the intension of making a card with it to then not. I'm sure alot of us do!!) and came across these. I think they were originally printed from my Barely Mine Extreme Cd's. These have been matted and layered using cold mirror card. I have printed the sentiment which as you can see is thank you in Italian. I then cut this using my nestabilities and cuttlebug. Then have added brads for decoration. I have distressed the edges of the white card with some red ink. The ribbon is from the celebration range. Flowers are petaloo which ...

This is a card I have made for an order. The customer wanted me to include a picture of the wedding venue on the front of the card. The colours were black, white and fusia pink. The couple liked simple things so I hope this is simple enough. Thanks for looking xxxx Rachel xxxx

Today's WOYWW (What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday?) This was my room this morning after making yesterday's card. Why not pop over to Stamping ground to check out everyone else's desks. Hugs Rachel

This is the card I made yesterday as my entry to the Mojo Monday 133 Sketch Challenge this week. It is also a card for an order I have received. The Gentleman wanted a VW Campervan on the front as this is going to be his sisters weddding transport on her special day. Her colour scheme is burgandy and cream too. Inside is decorated to match the front of the card Card Recipe Backing Paper - Bearly Mine Extreme Vol2 Gold Mirror Card - Every Crafts a Pound Cream Pearl - Crafters Companion Embossed Sentiment - Crafters Companion Cute Companion Ribbon - Dovecraft Bow - Stash Embossed backing Paper - Cuttlebug Script Folder The coordinating box   I loved working with this sketch. I knew it was right for the card as soon as I saw it.   Thanks as always for stopping by Hugs xxxxxxx Rachel xxxxxxx 

Well eventually managed to get my craft room sorted out. New fittings and fixtures from IKEA installed and filled. It still needs painted when we get around to doing the rest of the painting upstairs but it will do for now. I took these picture on Wednesday night with the intension of uploading to my blog and WOYWW but didn't get around to it sorry. So here goes This picture shows my punches, I have used an IKEA pan lid storage rack which I attached onto the wall instead of lying flat. Here is the section with my shelf which houses all of my ribbons, flowers, gems, brads and eyelets. The baskets underneath have my punches, glues and glitters!!!. This one shows my spooled ribbons and bows. The boxes underneath have all of my scrap card and papers (I know I need to use some of them lol) This picture shows all of my pens, pencils and tools This picture shows one of my work areas, nice and light infromt of the window. Then finally my computer area (excuse the bags undernea...

Hi everyone I thought I would join in this week for the first time. At the moment my house is upside down after having the heating done, the kitchen is ripped out and hubby has put our old kitchen wall units in my craft room. So I am in the middle of getting things sorted in my craft room again, as well as everything else I have going on. This is what it is looking like at the moment. As you can see from the above two piccys, I have loads of things lying around. The Ikea bag has in my new brackets waiting to go on the wayy and some jars. The bin is overflowing lol with stuff I have been throwing out. Why I didn't just get a black bin bag I don't know. I obviously didn't realise I had so much cr**p lying around like all us crafters do!!! This piccy below is of my pens, pencils and tools etc ready to go onto the bracket when hubby gets round to putting them up. The ribbon tin is waiting to get sorted into my jars etc. This one is my computer space which is a mess too as I a...

Well what can I say about this card. I love it, I am really pleased with how it has turned out. Again I have used the world of Beatrix Potter CD along with the Peter Rabbit CD from Crafter's Companion. I love the way that these style of cards have invertiage and decoupage. This card is for a very special recipient and I am sending it to show my appreciation and admiration towards her. Here are a few more images of the card. Another frontal view Showing the spine The inner page A close up of the decoupage of Peter Rabbit There is another section over the page which is where the verse is however I forgot to take the picture.

This is a card I have made using the Crafter's Companion Mrs Tiggy-Winkle CD Rom. Card Recipe Centura Pearl Card - Crafter's Companion Buttons & Bow - Stash Sentiment - Forever Friends - Pink Parfait Die-cut meaasges

This one is for my other Cousin's Son's first Birthday. I have used the World of Beartix Potter CD Rom from Crafter's Companion along with the Peter Rabbit CD Rom. I love these cd's and images they are exceptional quality and Sara and the team at Crafter's Companion have made an excellent job under such restrictive terms to bring all of us crafters such exceptional products to work with. I also have made a box to match printing onto centural pearl card. Another view showing the decoupage inside and on the frame section Card Recipe Crafter's Companion World of Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit CD Rom's Centural Pearl Card - Crafter's Companion Letter's - Accessories Ribbon - Dovecraft

This is my first Beatrix Potter Card, made with the download from the members Section on Crafter's Companion. I just love this image and style of card. A close up of the invertiage/decoupage.   Another view of the front This one is of the inside. I have made this card for my Cousin's Daughter's first birthday. Card Recipie Centura Pearl Cardstock - Crafter's Companion Bow - Stash Gem - Papermania Peel Offs - Stash Dufex Photo Glue Pinflaire Glue Gel I will follow with a few more Beatrix Potter Cards Hugs xxxx Rachel xxxx

This is the card I made for Challenge 4 over on It's A crafter's Companion. This time I decided to make it an inspirational challenge. Why not pop over and have a look and see what's going on here . There is also a DT Call running until 14th March if you fancy having a go. I made this card for my niece's 2nd Birthday and used my popcorn cd which is so cute!! I have used my Copic pens for colouring. I have used stickles, glammour dust and diamond glaze for decorating, along with a couple of buttons. Thanks for stopping by Hugs  xxx Rachel xxx

These are some samples I have been working on for an order of wedding invites and place settings. The happy couple wanted me to include pictures of VW Campervans on the items as they love them and a black and white theme. They didn't want 'traditional' invites as they said it was not their thing. These are what I have come up with to send to them. The first is an A6 card style with a printed invite inside. The second is what I am calling a 5x5" flop invite as it flops open when the ribbon band is removed to reveal the invite details. this is the front:   And the inside and ribbon band:  This one is a pocket tag style and is 6x6" The completed effect: The back of the tag and pocket: The front of the tag and pocket: Two place setting examples: Recipe silver holographic, black and white cardstock CD's for backing papers -bearly mine extreme & crafters companion Popcorn romance cd Ribbon - Dovecraft Gems - Stash Peel Offs - Stash Tools - Cuttl...

This is the card I have made for my hiusband for valentines day. I made it on wednesday but couldn't post it yesterday as my internet started playing up after posting my last posts. The card is for 4 challenges: Delightful Sketches and Challenges - love Simon Says stamp - what's love got to do with it? ABC - N is for.... new Truley Scrumptious - Sketch plus ingredients buttons & bows My something new is the popcorn romance cd rom which I have had since launch but haven't used yet. Card Recipe Card stock - red, gold and white Ribbon - Celebrate Buttons - stash Flowers - Petaloo Colouring medium - copics Rub on sentiment - papermania diamond glaze on eyes and nose I must admit I love this card. Finally feel my mojo is back lol. Hugs Rachel xxxx

This is a card I made last week for a valentines card order. I have used an image the gentleman supplied be with but have given it a red hue. The gentleman wanted to use the picture of the heart as his girlfriend lives in Italy. So he wanted to use the world globe to represent the world between them. This is what I came up with. I cut the heart out and added it as a second layer curving it to give the rounded effect. The backing paper came from my bearly mine extreme cd.