PaperArtsy 80th Birthday.......

Hi there Bloggers!!

Busy weekend here today I will be teaching the shadow box from the other eve's posting to some lovely ladies :-)

This morning I thought I would share a commission card ....

This is for a friend's Irish Mum's 80th Birthday - the party is today :-) I hope it goes brilliantly!! I've used Pan Pastels through a shamrock mask I cut. The stamps are both PaperArtsy - Hot Picks 1009 and 1010. They are a couple of my fave sets and here I layered them after colouring with Distress Markers and Wink of Stella's for some subtle sparkle

The numbers are from Splodgeboard and are gilded in Yorkshire Dales Megaflakes from Indigo Blu

I am really pleased with this one - I hope the recipient likes it too.

Right best be off!! enjoy your weekend guys and thanks so much for stopping by :-)

Crafty Cheers for now....

Love

Rae

xxx 

It's in the sentiment.....

Good afternoon Bloggers :-)

Hope you are all  having a lovely Saturday?

I have been busy with magazine work this last week but thought I better pop by and check in!!

It's a lovely afternoon here in Cheshire ..... the calm before the first of the Autumn storms it seems. I have just had half an hour battening down all my Gladioli in the garden in the hope they will survive the next 48 hrs as they are at their most beautiful just now - fingers crossed hey??  

 As you know I love my words/poetry/song writing as much as my crafting, so with these couple of cards I decided to combine the two :-)

I have had another play with the pan pastels with this first one, just using them to create a soft sky for the gorgeous bird from Sheena's A little bit Magical stamp range.

The sentiment from PaperArtsy for me fits perfectly with the fabulous wingspan of the Eagle.

For the second card I chose some lyrics from my favorite singer, the wonderful Thea Gilmore. This background is created using a combination of Luminarte Radiance Rain pourables and concentrates on water colour card. I adore the shimmer of these paints

The swirl on this card Is from the new Eclectic range from Darkroom Door - slowly but surely I am getting round to playing with all my new stash :-)

Well I hope you like today's cards. Thank you for stopping by

Have a great weekend and stay safe and dry

Crafty cheers for now

Love 

Rae

xxx

Darkroom Door CAS..........

Happy Wednesday Everyone !!

Thought I would drop by with the first of several posts using my new Darkroom Door goodies.

I had a couple of hours spare over the weekend so I wanted some quick and easy CAS cards to bolster my own heavily depleted stash of cards !!! I was almost at the point of committing the cardinal sin of having to go out and BUY cards !!!! Criminal lol.....

For this set of cards I dug out my much depleted stock of Pan Pastels. I have to be honest I am not the world's biggest fan of this medium (Hence why I sold most of mine off!!) But for these flashes of colour they are perfect. 

For these projects I used the following stamp sets Wilderness Vol 2; Montmarte and the Orchids. I source mine from the lovely Kim Humphreys (email her at info@thecraftytalbot.co.uk and she will happily help you)

I just used waste from die cutting and general crafting to mask off the shapes for the latter two cards

I am looking forward to seeing what people create with the new metallic Pan pastels - maybe they will be the thing to really win me over - ya can't beat a touch of sparkle!! lol

Well I hope these brighten your day and even inspire you a little

I am off to play with some more Christmas ideas - I may even allow myself to post one or two now it's September.....!!! Ha ha

Enjoy the rest of your day :-)

I will be back tomorrow with a tutorial for a super easy booklet card - until then take care

Crafty Cheers for now

Love

Rae

xxx

Snow day and Mothers Day.......

 

Howdy everyone. Just popping on for a quick post today.

 

Some of you will know that I spent a short while on the Indigo Blu DT last year so I came up with a little something bright and breezy for mothers day using their stamps and Pan pastels.

 

 

I am havin time away from crafting today so I am going to curl up on the sofa with Felix, a hot mug of chocolate (with a little extra!!) and my spanish novel and make the old brain cell work for a while - heres hoping I can manage to understand more than one page in an afternoon!! Perfect as its just begun snowing!!

 

Have a good monday, stay warm and safe

 

Crafty cheers for now

 

Love

 

Rae

 

xxx



Ready for the weekend.....

 

Happy Friday all. Woohoo !!!  What is everyone up too?

I thought I would share a quick post with you before it all goes hectic.....

 

 

Keeping it bright and cheerful while the rain and snow fell !!

This was a make for a friends birthday a few weeks ago. I used a mixture of pan pastels and distress inks. The stamps are clarity and a fabulous freebie from Craft stamper Magazine. I hope you like it !

 

Next week I am hoping to bring you a little giveaway / mini challenge just in time for the launch of the Clarity Challenge so keep checking back here.

 

Right I am off for round 2 of the NHS merry-go-round. Hope ou all have a great weekend and Here's hope to see you all back here soon!!

 

Crafty cheers for now have fun whatever you are doing !!

 

Love and hugs

 

Rae

xxx

 

 

 

 

Shivering with Pans.....

Good Morning All ....

 we are all dusted in the white stuff here. I do hope you are all safe and wrapped up warm.

 

Today I thought I would share my samples from a fantastic class I went to with my fellow Splodge DT member Eileen Godwin. Please visit the blog of this super talented lady!!

 

 

As a few of you know I have never been the biggest advocate of Pan Pastels. We just didnt "get on" lol ! So I challenged myself to see if the Queen of the PP's, our lovely Eileen, could not convince me otherwise!

 

Appropriately we kept it simple to start with the Splodge Shiver mask (available from www.splodgeaway.com) PP's and some Maimeri Irridescent paste (both available here www.yourcreativitystore.com )

We then progressed to messing with more techniques and modelling pastes to create some fabulous cards

 

 

 

Then to my personal fave our freetime play.......boy oh boy did I fall head over heals in love with this sadly discontinued running horse stamp of Eileens!!

 

All in all we had a fantastic day and I would thoroughly recommend to anyone one of Eileens classes - we really did have a hoot with a fantastic group of ladies! So lovely to catch up with several clarity workshop friends too - Yvonne, Jane, Karen, Hellen and Ann

 

 Well thats all for this morning! Felix is demanding ...... something lol! As I said have a safe day stay warm and see you all again soon !

 

Crafty hugs for now !!!

 

Love Rae xxx