Autumn Colours - Oak House Studio Challenge

Hello there Bloggers!! Hope you are all well? Lovely to see you all again

Lynnda has very kindly invited me back to join in this month's Challenge as a Guest Designer so here is my make for you today....

I used sponges to create the sunset sky after cutting out a large circle from a post it to mask out the sun. Using torn paper as another mask I was able to add in the hills with the same sponging technique. I used Lemon Yellow, Daffodil, Valentine and a teeny touch of Yummy chocolate.

The sentiment is stamped in Chocolate and the tree is first inked up in Valentine before stamping off 1st generation onto scrap paper and randomly applying touches of Yummy Chocolate. English Garden Words available HERE, tree available HERE

The corner panels used the same mixed colour stamping but were heat embossed with clear this time before being masked over to colour the background. Clematis tower available HERE

The colour was added to the flowers using the inks and a water brush.

I hope you have found some inspiation in this month's DT samples - they are all wonderful!

Thank you Lynnda for asking me back and I cant wait to see all your entries

Take care

Crafty cheers for now

Love

Rae

xxx

Oak House Studios Challenge.....

Good Morning all!!!

So as I am catching up I thought I better tell you about our fantastic June challenge over at Oak House Studio!!

This month we are feeling Blue......the Blue summer skies, the crystal blue seas....(ok ok ok I have been looking at the holiday brochures ready for next year's roadtrip and not out the window!!!) 

So as many of you know I have a slight obsession with all the things (well certain things ;-) ) Hawaii at the mo.....so I took my inspiration from there.....

I have used Navy, Sea Blue and Powder Blue Pigment Inks on these two and kept it nice and simple with the layering. The inks are available here and the stamps are the Mountain Ash, the Harlequin Pattern and Script sentiments

All you need to do to be in with a chance of winning a fabulous £40 OHS vouchers is grab yourself some OHS goodies and get all Bluesey!!! 

Post your blog link or creation on the Oak House studio FB page here so we can see you wonderful work!!

Good luck!!

Crafty Cheers for now

Love

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

Its finally here...Clarity Challenge time...Anything goes !!!!

 

Well diddly doodly happily dancily - ITS TIME!!!!

 

The Clarity challenge blog launch is finally

here!!!!

Click on the link above and go take a look at the totally fantabulous offerings from the Design Team. We have all been beavering away to come up with a whole range of projects to hopefully inspire you - this months theme is Anything goes. Thats just it - anything at all whatever takes your fancy as long as its Clarity. (check out the full RULES here)

This is my offering the Poppy Heart Box....

 

I utilised the Tall wild poppies and the Wild poppies bottom stamps and a tissue stamping technique to decorate the sides of the box which I had painted out with a combination of cream/pink/brown acrylic paint.

 

The top of the box was direct stamped and coloured using copic markers before all being fixed and sealed with Glue 'n' Seal

 

Embellishments were kept simple - just a little lace some pale pink dew drops and some shell at the base.

 

The metal work was tinted gold with gilding wax - and that was that - a pretty delicate box for all your trinkets, nick nacks and secret sweetheart notes !!! (Ok ok ok who am I kidding - def not in this house - rofl !!!)

 

I hope you like my offering - myself and the rest of the Design Team canny wait to see your awesome projects - SO no dillydallying let your mojo run amok !!  The weekends here, grab a brew, ENJOY and get happy crafty!!!

 

I am off now to get my prep finished for tomorrow's demo day at Crab Apple Crafts. If you are in the Frodsham area why not pop along and say Howdy - lots of lurvely crafty things going on!!

 

Crafty cheers for now

 

Lots of Love

Rae

 

xxx