Christmas at last!!!

Well well well here I am ....LONG overdue and muchly sorry!!

It's been a crazy few weeks at Casa Fairefoxes and sadly the poor bloggage has taken a back seat BUT I have just about made it in to show some final Christmas orders!

These are some Plaques I was asked to complete all bespoke and as you can see varied lol!!

Some simple mixed media, paints, gel mediums, texture pastes, stamping, stencilling and embossing went into these....

Hope they go down well with the recipients .....

Right off to finish the rest of the orders and my remaining Christmas presents while Fe heads off in search of a Christmas mousey

Have a good Sunday everyone!!

Crafty Christmas Cheers for now

Hugs

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

Tim Holtz Tag time....

Good morning everyone :-)

Hope it is as nice a day with you as it is here in Cheshire!

Just stopping by with a quick post this morning as I have a Doc's appt and then magazine work to be on with.

Today I am sharing this Tim Holtz tag I made for a lovely swap group I belong too...

Our theme was Male so I took my Dad as inspiration, incorporating some of what he meant to me.

This tag used the works, embossing folders, dies, stamps (my signed set that I won from AFTH ;-) ), acrylic paint, ink gilding wax, enamalling and the tissue technique plus the embellies

Don't forget my little tag challenge - you can enter HERE

Thanks for taking the time to stop by.....

Have a great Thursday :-)

Crafty Cheers for now

love

Rae

xxx

All that glitters is .............. Gold.

Good morning everyone!

Welcome to Tuesday! Brew is on n Fe is out on patrolling duties, so thought I would grab 5 and share a quick card with you!

Mum sprung a need for a Golden wedding card on me last night with 20 mins warning......

.......so I grabbed my Tim Holtz stamps and created this. 

Thanks  for stopping by! Hope you like....

Have a great day n stay safe

crafty cheers for now

love

Rae

xxx

Happy 50th from Ireland....and exciting news!!!!

Good evening from Blog world!!

It's been SUCH an exciting week here at Fairefox towers!! 

Many of you will have seen the news that I have added Crafter's Companion to my Demonstrator portfolio - and I am not hanging around. I am out on the road with them just next SAT 29th. I will post all the details on my FB page at the beginning of next week. I hope to see you out and about really soon!

Anyway tonight it's a commission for a friend's 50th birthday today - he's from a huge Irish family and they all have a roadsign of their hometown - So I used that as the basis......

.....Hope you like :-) 

Now for the second piece of EXCITING NEWS - it's been a while coming BUT.....

I have been invited to start teaching classes at not 1, but 2 fabulous craft shops in Cheshire (and there are more ongoing discussions so watch this space!!) AND I will also be starting back with my own classes too!!

I will have more details available next week so keep checking back :-D 

I can't wait! I LOVE getting out and teaching so it's fantastic to get back to it - I really hope you will come along and join me on this next phase!! 

Thanks for stopping by

Take care 

Crafty cheers for now

Love 

Rae

xxx

Hels Sheridan weekend....

Good evening all :-) Hope Monday's been ok?

As many of you know I have just had a fabulous weekend in the North East with Hels. So today I thought I would share one of the makes from there.

We were working on an altered box canvas and we started off by paper piecing a canvas in Tim Holtz papers 

Then we got all painty n Inky and added some dimension and stampy detail.....

.......next was the "fun" part ......as you well know me n making flowers....well doesnt go well lol.....

BUT.........

.....WE GOT ON!!!! (for 1 day only lol!!!) and then they got "blitzed" with lots of spray inky and along with lots of embellies.......this was the final piece!!!

We had a fab time with fab ladies and I can't wait to do it all again.......The techniques we used are so versatile they can be used for ahnything.......and I am sure they will!!

Thanks for stopping by - hope you liked the project!!

Crafty cheers for now

love

Rae

xxx 

Revisiting Creative Chemistry 101/102

Good evening everyone!!

Popping back again with a quick share for the weekend.

I am currently enjoying revisiting the Creative Chemistry Classes I took last year courtesey of Mr Tim Holtz

This card uses the marbled distress paint technique. Also on this card I have used the fab Studio 490 Modeling film which is a big trend right now

This is it coloured with.........nail polish!!! Yep its agreat fun medium for acetate n film I will revisit this soon.

Have a great weekend guys I am off celebrating turning 40 tomorrow!!!

Crafty cheers for now

Luv 

Rae

xxx

Christmas is coming.....

Hi there folks - Happy Hump Day!!

Hope you are all well?

Sorry for the extended absence, had a few things on this last week. Now they are out of the way It's time to dust off the tinsel and role out the baubles for the festivities. I love this time of year - Only wish we had the big snow like Canada!

Over the next few days/weeks I will be sharing lots of short posts for christmas ideas for cards, gifts and decorations. I hope you find some fextive inspiration!! :-)

So here it goes.....

I thought I'd start with my fave colours and my own personal trend for CAS

Christmas this year

This uses die cutting waste as a centre piece and a background made from Tim Holtz stamps 

This one uses a panel that was a reject from the Winter Wonderland Printer tray from a few weeks ago.....Nothing ever needs to go to waste!!

Hope there's some inspiration there - thanks for stopping by :-)

Crafty Cheers for now

Love 

Rae

xxx

Splodgeaway Summer Lovin'

Good Morning everyone!

Well we had the rain last night but no storm :-( boo hoo hoo!! I do love storm watchin!!

Anyway, today I am sharing My latest piece for the Splodgeaway Dt blog

Our theme this week has been Summer Lovin'

So I stuck right to the theme using the Grease song as my inspiration and long lazy days out.

The project is a canvas and I kept it all nice n bright of course!!! 

The details of everything used are over on the splodgeaway blog - here!!

While you are there don't forget to check on all of Tom's FABULOUS new masks in the SHOP. There are some fabulous ones I really cant wait for mine to arrive!! 

There are even more exciting developments over at Splodgey HQ - Tom has lots of new products in the pipieline!! Fun times ahead!!

Right I am off to unload Mr Sainsbury's shopping thats just been delivered and then today.....

........ITS CHRISTMAS!!!!! 

Have a great Sunday

Crafty cheers for now!!

Love 

Rae

xxx

Tim Holtz Distress inks.......

Hi de Hi campers!!

How are we all this evening? 

Well as i promised I have completed some cards from the fabulous workshop with Eileen Godwin on Tuesday this week!! 

We were using Distress inks and the Hero arts stamp (S5471 large flower pattern)

This was my result...

....the image was coloured in using Evergreen bough, Broken China, Weathered Wood and Black Soot.

Yesterday inspired by the class I had a quick play with another similar stamp. A Heartfelt Creations Flower stamp. I had to change up the colour technique slightly with this as the image is slightly more open.

This one I repeat stamped into a quad pattern before embossing.

The final card on the left is just a single stamped image like the original from class

I hope you like these offerings and if you get chance to pop along to this lovely ladies class do so!!!

Have a good evening

Be back soon :-)

Crafty cheers for now

Love

Rae

xxx

Splodge on the telly again.....

Well good morning everyone!!

Firstly apologies for the lack of posts recently. Most of you will know I was in hospital this week and my work has been focused on today's shows so was all under wraps!! 

As you have just seen we had some great goodies to work with I just ran out of time!!!

Its Create and Craft's 10th birthday so first up Happy Birthday......

....then I played with distress inks and Heartfelt Creations stamps

 ....Then it was time to get the medium out with Chloe's wedding stamps...

 ...then back to distress inks and gilding wax ....I promise !! this pic doesn't do that bit justice....

 ....Then some SUPERB new stamps from Art Journey (click for link) for this one....

  .....inspiration from a great film with Designs by Ryn water droplets (more awesome new raindrops designs available here)

....and then to finish up i used the new Clarity Lesson Kit... combined with the garden mask












Yet again the whole DT has done a fantastic job, I am sure you will agree and we hope you all enjoyed today's show !!

I am off to play with the masks I didn't get round to using for today's shows. Have a happy Friday and a great weekend!!

Crafty cheers for now

Love and hugs

Rae 

xxx

Its a NEW dawn its a NEW day......

 

Its a new dawn (ish!) its a new day (def!) its a new life (nah.....) and I'm feeling good...........(well I only creaked 11 times gettin up today lol!!)

 

Today's post comes to you courtesy of Hels Sheridan's Sunday Scrappers and one of my all time favourite songs......Its all about things New.....

 

 

Free to use any stash as long as it is new or unused (oh dear lord I'd of been crafting til the Apocalypse if I had to use the "unused" items in the craft room!!!! tut tut I know lol)  I decided on this tag....NEW technique - Pebbles to create an initial background (picture tutorial will follow hopefully next week!), NEW masks (Leaf It and Wrought Iron Gates from Splodgeaway) NEW die (Picture Wheel Bigz Die) AND finally a NEW set of stamps Timeless Sentiments from Heartfelt creations.  

 

 

I think that covers the criteria then for this challenge lol!! As usual it is just lots and lots of masking and spritzing and layers and texture etc. I REALLY luuuuuuuurved this tag and I soooooooooo didnt want to send it as part of my DT for last weekends TV show lol!! Ah well I will just have to make myself a duplicate ha ha .......

 

Anyway I have had a morning of insecurity and inspirationless hours staring at my ART JOURNAL but the lyrics to this song have given me what I need ..... (I am relatively new to journalling but have written poetry and lyrics for years so I am trying to combine the two!!)....so to to borrow more lines

 

....this old world is a new world and a bold world for me, for me..... 

 

and I am off to draw!!

 

Crafty cheers for now

 

love

 

Rae

 

xxx

Ornamental noel

Good morning everyone. Happy Friday. I thought I would share a quick card I played with yesterday.

 

 

 

The card uses the Splodgeaway Holly mask to create the background and a customised blend of adirondak Pesto and distress pine needles. On the toppper I used tea dye and vintage photo then the whole lot was spritzed with perfect pearls Blue smoke.

 

 

 



The stamped image is the Ornamental Fairy from the wonderful Ryn Tanaka at designs by Ryn (www.designsbyryn.com) She has the most wonderful range of stamps next on my purchase list are the really different origami animals!

 

This image was simply coloured in Copics and finished off with Glamour Dust and ice diamond on the cuffs.

To complete the card I used Tim Holtz Vintage Noel die and my trademark ribbon.

I have lots more ideas for this stamp so I am off to play some more......

 

I hope you like todays offering have a happy Friday and I will see you all over the weekend.....hopefully with a little offering using Sam Poole's steampunk Christmas!!

 

Crafty cheers for now!!!

 

Love Rae D xxx