Friday 7 February 2014

LOC Challenge 24 - Cute Vs Creepy, sponsored by Meljens

Hello everyone! today I have a piece for you using Meljen's sugar skull....

I absolutely love the image I was given to create something with, and I tried to go all out with it. I actually coloured up several of the images with my promarkers then used parts of them to découpage up the first image. 

so as usual, I will give you a peek at my ingredients :
Promarkers in moss, pear, lime, magenta,cerise, pink carnation, marine ,duck egg, cool aqua, indigo, prussian, and bluebell
Metallic Promarker - Gold

half pearls in pink and green 
wide navy ribbon
10 mm black ribon
heart ribbon slider in pearl
turquoise green and purple coredinations cardstock
shimmery blue paper from my stash 
Samaflora blossoms 
Spellbinders Lacey circles and sizzix framelit circles
spellbinders interchangable edging strip dies
an embossing folder I was given recently 
pink mica powder on white paper 



so as already discussed, I coloured and decoupaged the image, and then framed it using a circle framelit and one of the spellbinders lacey circles. to create the background, I coloured a plain white paper with a mica misting spray with a few blossom shaped voids. 
I set it with hairspray..
I matted up the shimmery paper to just under half the size of the pink paper, and ran a small rectangle of coredinations in purple through an embossing folder using my big shot. this was tucked behind the shimmery paper, and overlapping into the pink area. 
to create the detail behind the sugar skull, I layered up an edging strip , a wide and a skinny piece of ribbon , the skinny also had a ribbon slider on it. 
I added another edging strip to the top edge of the card and added six pearls in pink and green.



Rachel



Tuesday 4 February 2014

Digi Chooseday 'anything goes'

Good morning /afternoon/evening, wherever you are! Here is my entry to the anything goes challenge over at Polkadoodles!
I'm using the 'Sleepyhead' Digi that was offered recently at a vastly reduced rate to celebrate the opening of their Etsy shop. as soon as I saw it, I KNEW my make would have to have PINK and lots of it!


My digi as ever, was coloured using promarkers, and I added some little heart shaped buttons to above the cup (as loveheart steam)
and layered up. The embossed card base is made using an A4 spellbinders embossing folder, on a piece of pale pink coredinations card, lightly sanded, and on top are some bright flowery and diamond papers (sorry, I cannot remember where they are from, I have so many!)
I did lots of faux stitching on this card, using my fineliner pen and added a doily and a few more buttons...


hope you like it!
Rachel

Sunday 2 February 2014

Samaflora 1000 likes giveaway promotion on facebook WELL worth a look!

Hello there everyone... as my blog is pretty quiet between pieces for the LOC challenge blog , I am going to try and remedy this, although I am not the best writer...I tend to write as i speak, which as sam of samaflora herself could tell you gets pretty interesting at times!

anyway, for you today, I wanted to let you all know about the GIVEAWAY over on Samaflora's facebook page once they reach one THOUSAND likes. and boy oh boy is it a fantastic prize!
the flowers being given away are to the value of £180 alone, and will be given out to one lucky person in a gorgeous decorated flower storage box for the cost of postage only....
These are the flowers that will be given away. all handmade with the utmost skill, and care to detail that samaflora always provides. I may be a little biased here, as I am one of the samaflora team, and have had the chance to be there whilst they are hard at flower production. 
who wouldn't want these to brighten up their creations? 
so why not go and pop over and have a look through her page, and whilst you are there, enter this fantastically generous give-away. I promise, you won't regret it!


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