Rhedd & Rosies Anything Goes Challenge Blog - Challenge 12 - Time

Hi everyone, just back from Summer Camp with our local Scout Group and I am knackered!  So glad to be back in my craft space, know what I am doing here lol.

Again we have had fabulous entries for our 11th Challenge - Anything Goes and the winner has been announced.  Congratulations, please visit Rhedd and Rosies Challenge Blog to see.

The theme for this fortnight is 'Time' and I hope we have as many fabulous entries this time too.

This is my DT project for 'Time'

Card Recipe

A6 Kraft Card

Black Card Stock

Papermania Chronology 8x8 Paper

Chronology Embossing Folder

Diamond Stickles

Gold Lace from my Stash

Cheery Lynn Fanciful Flourish Die

Recollection Bling on a Roll

Flowers from my Stash

I hope you like my card for this fortnight.  Please come over and join in with us over at Rhedd and Rosies Challenge Blog.  This fortnights challenge is Sponsored by Rosie this fantastic Stamp Set.

Come over and join in at Rhedd and Rosies Anything Goes Challenge Blog

Thank you all again for stopping past and I look forward to seeing your entries.

Great Big Huge Hugs

Becca xxx

Rhedd & Rosies Anything Goes Challenge Blog - 11th Challenge - 'Anything Goes'

Hello everyone, well that will be 2 weeks of the kids Summer Holidays past 

(not that I am counting lol)  

There has been great entries over on Rhedd & Rosies Challenge Blog for last fortnights theme of 'Here Comes Summer' and poor Tina has had a hard time choosing her winner, but choose she did, so Congratulations to our winner.

This fortnight our theme is 'Anything Goes' so no excuses for anyone this fortnight and I am really looking forward to seeing what marvelous creations we have to see.

I have made an Anniversary card for this Challenge

I made this easel style card from white cardstock and it measures 5"x5" Square.  I used TH Doily on the Edge Die to create the lovely scalloped doily.  I coloured it using TH DI in Victorian Velvet and Vintage Photo (my favourite colours) I just love these two shades used together and think they create a lovely Shabby Chic feel to the card.  I stamped out a border effect using a Prima Leave/Vine stamp in Memento Moca Brown and also the Birdcage from the same stamp collection.  I added some cream lace topped with cream flat backed pearls and then created a flower spray using WOC flowers and leaves with just a touch of Stickles for a little sparkle.  I then placed a bronze butterfly resting in the flower cluster.  I punched out a MS butterfly border punch and added some more Stickles to every other butterfly and popped up the wings.  Using some sticky backed foam I mounted up some patterned paper from my stash onto some white card stock and added the 'Happy Anniversary' sentiment.  In the inside of the easel card I used some coordinating patterned paper also edges with Vintage Photo and added a die cut label in white cardstock for a message to be written.

For a more detailed look at my card why not take a look at my YouTube video click here

I hope you like my card for this fortnight.  

This Challenge is sponsored by Sandie (AKA Rhedd) and our winner will win this gorgeous prize.  For your chance to win pop over and add your entry here.

I look forward to seeing all your lovely creations

I would like to enter this card in the following Challenges:

Emma's Crafty Challenge - Lace and Pearls

Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes with Simply Betty Stamps

Crafts and Me Challenges - #138 Anything Goes

Crafty Creations Challenges - #231 Time to Sparkle

Lady Annes Challenges - #10 Stamp Challenge

Whimsical Designs - Favorite Colors Challenge

Anything Goes Challenge Blog - #97 Anything Goes

Thank you once again for stopping by my blog and your lovely comments are greatly appreciated.

Great Big Huge Hugs

Becca xxx

Rhedd and Rosie Challenge Blog - 10th Challenge - Here Comes Summer

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well.  My kids have just started their 7 week Summer Holiday, heaven help us, will we manage to survive 7 weeks of the little darlings?  Sure we will and I do have our Summer Camp with the local Scout Group to look forward to in a few weeks time.

The winner has been announced for our 9th Challenge 'Take Flight' over on Rhedd and Rosie Challenge Blog, well done and congratulations to the winner.

It is time for the next Challenge to begin and this the 10th Challenge is 'Here Comes Summer' was chosen by my team mate Tina.  Well we can but hope that at some point we will experience some sort of summer weather but I am sure that you will feel summery when you take a look at all the fabulous DT makes for this Challenge.

This is my DT make for this fortnight.  I went for a Summer Themed Tag.

I used the Large Tag Tim Holtz die, added some beach scene paper from my stash and die cut images of Shells and a little tag attached at the top.  The bottom of the tag was finished off with some gem trim and I added some jute and blue shades and yellow fibers through the hole on the top.  I used a Papermania stamp for the postcard, cut it out and wrote 'Here Comes Summer, Wish You Were Here xx'  Tag and postcard were edged with TH Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  I also had some swirly bling in my stash which I added to the sea to give the effect of waves.  Topped off with a few bits of pearls and blue bling to add just that little bit more sparkle :-).

This Challenge is sponsored by our boss lady, owner and Head DT Sandie and she is offering this fabulous 'Cogs' Stamp and 'Metal Cogs' Embellishments by Papermania.

Come on over to Rhedd and Rosie's Anything Goes Challenge Blog and join in for your chance to win this fabulous prize.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I appreciate all your lovely comments so much.

Great Big Huge Hugs 

Becca xxx

Take Flight 9th Challenge

Oh my word, it is well over a month since my last blog post, where has the time gone?

I have some super exciting news to share with you all.  I am delighted to let you know that I have been asked to join Rhedd and Rosie Anything Goes Challenge Blog as a Design Team Member, a position I said yes straight away to.  Thank you so so much again Sandie for asking me, you really did make my month for me xxx

This is my first Challenge and the theme is 'Take Flight'.  I have really enjoyed creating this project and loved the messiness which was involved with it.  The messier the better for me hehe.

This is a 10" x 12" Mixed Media Canvas.  I have used an old dictionary to create the background cutting up pages and adhering them onto the canvas using Matt Medium.  Once dried I used Tattered Angel's Graphite spray and some Cosmic Shimmers to create a lovely shimmery background.  The cogs are of course from Mr Tim Holtz Cogs and Gears die, which I sprayed with Tattered Angels, rubbed with Inca Gold in 3 different colours, Green, Copper and Gold and edged off with Black Stazon Ink.  I then dipped them in UTEE using my very technical home made Melting Pot (a silver pie dish, one day I will treat myself to the real thing lol).  I cut the hot air balloon using a cereal packet covered in Papermania Chronology paper.  This was also sprayed using some masks and Tattered Angels again.  The works 'Let Your Dreams Take Flight' I printed off using a Word Document and mod podged them on.  I used Creative Expressions Steampunk stamp set for the Bees and also the Steampunk Dressform which was also embossed using gold embossing powder and the wings and body were coloured using some Artist Oil Pastels.  Using the same stamp set I stamped cogs on the balloon using Versamark Watermark ink and brushed over with various Pearl Ex mica powders.  I created the balloon basket by cutting a beer mat in half and covered it in papers from the same stack.  I broke up an old necklace and used the chain to form the ropes to attach the basket to the balloon and the main part of the necklace to decorate the basket.  I finished off with some metal cogs which I was kindly given by my good friend Jane adding a few flat backed black pearls to the centers on the dressform and used some white acrylic paint and bubble wrap to add a bit of texture to the background in random areas.  

I hope you like my creation, I am quite pleased with how it turned out and think it fits in with the current Challenge theme quite well.  I also have a YouTube video on my channel please click here to see my project in more detail please feel free to visit my channel and subscribe if you like and see my other creations.

Please come along and join in over at 

Rhedd and Rosie Anything Goes Challenge Blog

and also see the gorgeous makes by all the other Design Team Members.

The theme for this Challenge was chosen by one of our Teamies Zoe, who is also very generously offering this fantastic prize to the winner of this Challenge.  Isn't it a great prize!!

I look forward to seeing your creations.

Thank you so much for taking the time to come over and visit my blog, I am just so excited and ecstatically happy to be part of this Team and am relishing future Challenges ahead :-)

Great Big Huge Hugs

Becca xxx

First Scene Card

Hello everyone.  I haven't posted in a while and have been busy creating and producing Wedding Stationary over the last few months.  I have completed 1 set and I am currently working on my second order.

I took a break and have been shown by a very very good friend of mine how to use my Pro-Markers properly.  I won a giveaway on Facebook from Clearly Besotted Stamps and received 5 brilliant photopolymer stamps, they are great.  The image quality when stamped is one of the best I have seen and I thought I would make use of them along with my new knowledge of using Pro-Markers.  If you would like to check out other stamps and dies available Click Here

This is the card I came up with which I also used as my Challenge entry on YouTube for Jamie (Not2Shabby on Zibbet), ScrappinStampers on YT.  

This is nothing like my usual style but I have really enjoyed making this card.  I have a YT Video showing it in more detail and explaining how I made it.  I would love it if you popped over to my YT Channel to take a look.

Thank you for stopping by your comments are truly appreciated.

Great Big Huge Hugs

Becca xxx

I would like to add this card in to the Rhedd and Rosies Challenge Blog - Stitching (Real or Faux) 5th Challenge (I have used Faux stitching around the clouds)

Crafty-Emblies 10th Challenge - Anything Goes

Well that will be the Easter Break come to an end and kids will be back to school tomorrow again.  Hope you have all had a good one.  We have all been struck down with this blasted bug that has been doing the rounds and it seems to feel like we have had it for the past 2 weeks.

Anyhow, Crafty-Emblies 9th Challenge winner has been announced click here to see our winners.

Our 10th Challenge has gone live today and I have to say that I have really enjoyed creating this Altered Canvas 'Open Book Canvas'.  I took inspiration for this from Kelly.  She produces amazing projects and it was whilst watching her YouTube Video that I came up with the inspiration for this. Please pop over and take a look at Kelly's gorgeous creation here.  I also love watching and following Jane Velocityvette1 on YouTube and take great inspiration from her amazing creations too.  

So a big shout out and thank you has to go to these 2 marvelous ladies.

This is my DT Project for this Month on Crafty-Emblies

I hope you like my creation, please pop over to my YouTube Channel for a better look and to see how I created it

BexSwanson YouTube Channel - 'Open Book Canvas'

Thank you all so much for stopping by, I really do appreciate all your comments.

I hope you too come over and join in with our 10th Challenge over at Crafty Emblies

Visit Crafty-Emblies shop to see all the wonderful new creations that keep being added.

Great Big Huge Hugs

Becca xxx

I would like to enter this piece into the following Challenges

Crazy4Challenges - Wooden Accent C4C181
One Stop Craft Challenge - Pastel
Simply Create Too - Use Your Stash Challenge #35
Happy Campers Craft Collective - Challenge 14 'Flower Power'
Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything Goes

My Little Men's Birthday Cards 2013

Well it is coming to that time of year again and our wee boys will be turning 6 & 9.  I can't believe they are that age already, where has the time gone?  I can still remember being told by everyone that they aren't little long and to make the most of it.  I didn't agree with that when I was up through the night doing the night feeds and changing dirty nappies!!! But I have to agree now that they are sleeping all night and more or less manage quite well to look after themselves.

Well I have been busy today getting their Birthday Cards made and am quite impressed with the fact that I managed successfully without falling out with my Cricut and got everything cut in one go and right first time.  You never know, I think I might just have cracked how to use it properly lol.

Here are their cards.  I think I am safe enough posting them on here early as they are wee enough yet and won't find them on here anyway.  Mind you with saying that the things our eldest can manage to find on Ebay is quite something else so I better not lay any money on my previous statement.

Hope you like them

Thank you again for stopping past

Great Big Huge Hugs

Becca xxx