Crafty Challenge Blog Hop

 

Welcome to this months challenge with the Crafty Collaborations team.  This month is a colour challenge and look how pretty this combination is!  I struggled to choose which stamp set to use because I had so many ideas!

Here is my projects, a farewell card for a work colleague.  I chose the Country Flowers stamp set and focused more on the two colours Bubble Bath and Azure Afternoon.  

Main Products I've used in this project include:

• Country Flowers Stamp Set
• Eyelet Embossing Folder
• Spotlight on Nature dies
• Cardstock and Stampin Blends from the challenge colours

Please take the time to pop over to the other wonderful posts from the team - their blogs are full of inspiration!

Happy Stamping,

Rach xx

Crafty Challenge for May

 

Welcome to May's Crafty Challenge with the Crafty Collaborations Team.  This month we have a fabulous sketch to inspire us.  Here is my interpretation using some of the newly released stamps from the Annual Catalogue.  

The combination of orange and green in the vibrant tones was a no-brainer for me.  I think I've used the same colours with this image a few times now and I try to gravitate to something else but it just makes sense to pair these up!

Products Used in today's project include:

• Citrus Blooms Stamp Bundle
• Simply Said Stamp Set
• Cardstock: Basic White, Basic Black, Granny Apple Green, Pumpkin Pie, Watercolour Fluid paper

Please join our hop, follow the links below and don't forget to leave some love for everyone who participated!  I've also jumped on the same challenge for an instahop, so be sure to go to my instagram because there are links to even more fabulous versions of the sketch over there.

Happy creating,

Rach xx

Fandom Blog hop

 Welcome to another blog hop with the Crafty Collaboration Design Team! 

I was really keen to be joining this one, after taking a break from the team blog hops for a while. 

The theme for this hop is one of fandom; it was one that really intrigued me and spoke strongly for ideas. I immediately thought of Marvel comics; my brother as a child loved these, so they have been a part of my life for what seems forever. Captain Marvel, Iron Man, Black Widow.... all the big names were ones that I knew growing up and now have become a quiet fan of as an adult.  My own kids have seen all the Marvel movies (and know NOT to leave the theatre until after the trailer credits - if you know, you know!).  This is what inspired the comic strip colour blocked panels on the front of my card. 

But of course there’s other fandom themes that are considered iconic in pop culture, including the timeless hype of Beatlemania!  Whilst I’m a little bit too young to be a traditional Beatles fan, I do remember the cartoon style music clips on TV when I was young. So much fun and so much colour!  A firm favourite of mine was Yellow Submarine. It’s one of those songs that just gets in your head and loops! 

Of course this meant a natural choice of combining the comic strip idea with our yellow Submarine. Naturally, the submarine life stamps is perfect for this theme! 

I've created a series of backgrounds on each colour block with all the fun small background making stamps from a variety of stamp sets.  This gave the card a little more interest.  To keep it more subtle, these were done using watermarking (Versamark ink)

This is a hop, so please be sure to jump over to the other team members and leave them some love for their projects:

The main products featured in this card include the following:

• real red cardstock
• pumpkin pie cardstock
• azure afternoon cardstock
• daffodil delight cardstock and ink
• basic grey ink
• versamark ink
• basic white embossing powder
• black resin dots
• Submarine Life stamp bundle
• basic white and basic black cardstock

Thanks for taking the time to pop by my blog!

Rach xx

Colour Inspiration with Crafty Collaborations

 My apologies for posting my project late for anyone who had to come back… 

I love this colour combo, such a pretty palette! This card came together easily using the new stamp set “flowing flowers. 

Not only are the images lovely in this set but also the sentiments… their meaning and their font are perfect for a range of cards to show you care. I chose to combine two of them on my tasteful label. 

I’m really happy with how it all came together and hope I’ve inspired you to use this colour combination with very vanilla, an often overlooked neutral in our cardstock collection. 

Thanks for popping by. Don’t forget to join the hop and leave comments for all the other wonder participants. 

Happy stamping,

Rachael xx

Valentines Day Blog Hop

Welcome to another fun Crafty Collaboration Blog hop with demonstrators from around the world.  Todays theme is Valentines Day. I went through my current stash and don't have many stamp sets that lend themselves to the idea of valentines but I did find several die sets to use for my card.  

Supplies:

Pattern Party DSP

Cardstock - Granny Apple Green, Flirty Flamingo, Pool Party, Poppy Parade and Petal Pink

Dies - Floral Gallery, Give it a Whirl, Tailor Made Tags

Stamp - Hydrangea Haven

The finished card is bright and fun, with very minimal stamping but uses some die sets that may not have been designed with Valentines day in mind.  

Thanks for popping along to our hop, don't forget to check in on the other projects and leave some comments.  

Happy Stamping,

Rachael xx

Zero Waste challenge

 I was so excited to see this as a challenge for our blog hop - the challenge was to either showcase how we can eliminate or minimise waste in our crafting or to recycle something in our project.  YAY!!! 

I had so many ideas that I actually started more than one project however this was my final piece.  

I guess this was the ultimate in zero waste, because everything I used is pretty much leftovers. The jar is an old olive jar that we emptied at Christmas. The dried citrus was left over blood orange and lime from my trees this year that I had dehydrated and they are perfect for adding to drinks. The confetti I hand cut with scissors from scraps of paper. In fact all the card stock in this project was scraps I had sitting on my desk.

 Finally the twine, was really old stuff that I had in a drawer somewhere and I pulled it out just to use. Of course any leftover ribbon or twine would do the same job.

I hope this has given you some inspiration and food for thought about how we can reduce, reuse and recycle in our daily crafting.  Noone likes to throw things away and I think papercrafters are great at using as much as they possibly can...

Happy Stamping,

Rachael xxx

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Vintage inspired Blog hop

 Welcome to our Vintage inspired blog hop.  I have to admit, it took me a bit of searching through my stash before i got my head around what it was I wanted to use for my card.  

I've used ink sponging on most of the card and created a collage using a collection of images and sentiments from the following stamp sets:

 Queen Anne's Lace

Artistically Inked

Elegantly Said

I also used copper foil sheets to match the Simply Elegant DSP.  I added Sahara Sand and Crumb cake sponging over the DSP to avoid the 'white'.  Vintage also meant a lot of inks from the Neutrals collection, all paired with Vanilla Cardstock.  

Don't forget to jump over to the other blogs and check out the wonderful projects the other demonstrators have created.

Happy Stamping,

Rachael xx