High Legh Class results.....

Good Afternoon everybody!!!

Firstly Apologies for my lack of blogging the last 10 days - I have had a few days away from crafting to recharge the batteries and have been working on commissions and projects I am unable to share just yet!! So Sorry :-)

Anyway on Saturday I took a class at High Legh Garden Centre nr Knutsford.

We were working on creating our own backgrounds and then making them into cards....

We started with something super easy.......

....Textured acrylic onto Kraft using natural sponge.

Then we moved onto acrylic resist on Pearl card with over stamping in Archival inks...

I love all the totally different effects everyone got just from the initial technique :-) We then got REALLY messy with some distress paint marblin and dry embossin followed by sandin.

Then...... WELL he he lol!! I took everyone out of their comfort zones he he! I made them wield a brayer with lots of neon paint.....

This technique is courtesey of Ellen Smith Vargo using her Stamps for PaperArtsy (cant wait for the new ones to land this week!!!) 

Then in the afternoon.......and avoiding the Monsoon that even the Indian continent would have been proud of we used our backgrounds to make lots of cards!!

We had a lovely day - was so nice to have my first "international" visitor to class - Scott, all the way from Vancouver :-)

I really hope you like what you see and you can join us for our next class at High Legh - Sunday 13th July 10 - 15.30 - we'd love to meet you!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by....

Have a great evening

Crafty cheers for now

Love

Rae

xxx

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 

Shadow Box class sample for High Legh.....

Good morning from Blogworld :-)

Just a quick post today to share the sample we will be making at High Legh, Knutsford this coming Saturday 10th May - so excited about this class

Needless to say I went BRIGHT.........

There are lots of masks n mediums on this.....

......and the fab Paper Artsy stamps to complete :-)

I really hope you like it, especially those ladies coming to class!!! I still have a few spaces so if this is tempting you please contact me via PM on Facebook or email raedalal@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks for stopping by :-)

Have a great Thursday

Crafty Cheers for Now

Love

Rae

xxx

Splodgeaway and Orrrrr Sheena......

Good Afternoon all and Happy Good Friday :-) 

Greetings from an absolutely glorious Cheshire, the sun has most definitely got his hat on this Bank Holiday!

I hope it is the same where you are and you are enjoying the start of the Easter weekend :-)

Today i am stopping by with this offering using this gorgeous Mask from SPLODGEAWAY and these stunning Dragonflies from Sheena's FLYING COLOURS stamp set. The sentiment is by Paper Artsy.

Last night wonderful sunset inspired the soft blended colour scheme for this card.

Have a lovely evening everyone - I am heading over to Anglesey this evening ready for a Crafter's Companion demo day at Holland Arms Garden Centre, nr Gaerwen. I hope all the traffic has got where it needs to be by the time I set off!!

Crafty Cheers for now

Love

Rae 

xxx

Chocolate.......

Good evening from Blogland!

Hope you have all had a good week?

Been busy week here at Fairefox towers as the Christmas orders have got into full swing. Also in full swing is my diet........................grrrrrrr. 

"Hunger" got my mind wandering n this PaperArtsy stamp was perfect so I came up with this quick make.... 

I love using foil on cards and here was another excuse - it's the old floristry crushed foil as a background texture. I do love the added interest it gives.

Felix decided to photobomb this particular session.......cheeky Madame!!

Today I am mostly visiting old aiport "friends" and then I am trailing the Metallic Pan Pastels which I have kindly been lent. 

I will post my creations later this week

Thanks for stopping by - Hope you have a great weekend :-)

Crafty cheers for now

Love

Rae

xxx

Samhain......and Happy Halloween

Good morning and a blessed Samhain to you all.

This is my offering today....using the lovely new PaperArtsy and Distress paints and PaperArtsy stamps :-)

Samhain is the ancient Pagan festival known as the End of Summer/ Feast of the Dead that since being adopted by Christianity has become known as All hallow's eve and then Halloween. It is celebrated from dusk on the 31st October to dusk on the 1st Nov.

It is a hugely important pagan festival - many pagan's adopt it as their New year and as we know it's the time when the veil between the living and the dead is at it's thinnest so they can mingle together.

Now it is often seen as a scarey, spooky time but in truth to pagans it is a celebratory occassion marked with a feast. :-)

It is a time for reflection, for welcoming new life, for wishing old life well on their next journey and for taking stock and looking to the future

So here is wishing you peace and wellness this Samhain

Love

Rae

xxx

Clarity Winter Challenge and Goodbye

Good morning everyone :-)

How are you enjoying this late Indian Summer we have been having? It's been glorious here in Cheshire the last few days and it seems set fair for a little while longer :-)

Well today brings the end of an "era" so to speak in my crafting life.

 This is my last DT piece for the Clarity Blog.

New challenges, new directions and new beginnings are calling :-)

Time is a very precious commodity and I have realised that I need to spend more time on things that are working for me, profiting my new business and offering me enjoyment. After all that is why I craft and why I set up this new venture. 

As a result adjustments were needed and one of them is an end to my Clarity Blog DT work. 

However I wanted to go out "in style" so to speak ...... and I hope this offering does just that :-) 

The theme this month is 

WINTER.

I have had this frame for a while and I knew that I wanted to do a winter "collage" for this project so it was perfect. I love scene building so I went to town creating these scenes from a limited colour palette of Adirondak Denim, Cranberry and Purple Twilight along with Distress Stormy Sky. 

The list of stamps used is rather a long one - so here goes :-)

Small Lone Spruce; Sprucescape ; Remountable Christmas Clear set, Remountable Sport set; miniature snowflake corner; Snowflake; snowflake 2010; Mistletoe Sprig; Christmas Window; Carriage as seen on TV; Large and medium lamp posts; Large naked birch tree; Large Naked Pine; Small ivy corner; Church and the Lesson 21 Trees

All bar the Lesson 21 trees are available HERE Lesson 21 for now are available here 

I knew I wanted a mix of winter scenes balanced with a selection of  patterns and a variety of background techniques. The first time I tried pattern building - my ol' head was in bits lol but its not as taxing as it seems with a little practice and patience. In the picture above It's almost as relaxin' as zentangle - honest :-)

I wanted to keep texture and interest with each piece and I love the softening effect of vellum (or you could use tracing paper) over the top of this skiing scene

Couldn't resist a nod to the cute with this "pile" of snowmen and Mr Robin :-)

The frame was decorated using PaperArtsy Fresco Paints (here) and Golden Glass bead Gel Medium. I used loads of crackle medium and iridescent paint with the glass bead medium to create lots and lots of texture on the frame. (Why doesn't texture photo so well!!!) All finished off with the FAB-U-LOUS Royal Amethyst Treasure gold.

Well that concludes my final "official" Clarity piece - though clarity will pop up in other future projects I am sure..

I do hope you like it :-)

Have fun creating for this month's winter challenge HERE

 Good Luck to you all :-)

Here's to exciting times ahead.

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