Love You To The Moon FMS #133

I have three of my grandchildren staying this weekend while their parents are involved with a wedding a couple of hours drive from here. We had a fun crafting session this morning with drawing and stickers and after one of the boys had drawn Saturn, it inspired me to make this Love You To The Moon card during the little one's nap. I've seen a number of  cards made with the big circle 'moon' and another layer with circles punched for craters, and then the wee mouse from Life In The Forest, a new favourite of mine, is popping out of one of those craters. I wonder if he's been nibbling away at the moon?

I have been really enjoying water colouring with the Aquapainter, so I did a little of that today too. I coloured with Coastal Cabana, what I guess to be the moon really, to try to make it look more like Earth. The Framelits Circle collection helped cut the 'moons' and a variety of smaller circle punches the craters. I've used sponge daubers to ink around all the edges.

Freshly Made Sketches gave me  the starting point with this sketch provided by Cindy this week. It's well worth checking out the design teams' cards and all the other submissions - they're bound to inspire you!

And here is the little miss who is giving me the biggest run for my money this weekend, her older brothers are easily amused, but Alice only wants to be with Grandma, bless her! She seems to like this photo from earlier today the best, as she helps me type. I have to admit I'm lovingbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb the help. Love them all to the moon and back!

Hope your weekend is fun-filled too

Rachel

Cupcake birthday FMS130

There's not much stamping on this card, mainly because I can't find my Create a Cupcake stamp set ANYWHERE! I can't imagine why not. It's been a while since I used it, and I have cleaned up recently, so I don't understand why it isn't in it's spot. Fortunately, you can still make a great little cupcake with just the Cupcake Builder Punch. So with that and some Watercolor Wonder Designer Series Paper ( yes even the pale grey spot is from that pack), I've put together this cheerful little birthday card. The greeting comes from Just the Ticket and even that stamp set has a matching punch, the Ticket Duo Builder.

I made it quite late at night, which isn't always the best conditions, but in the morning light, I'm so pleased with these bright colours on the soft, spotted paper.The Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder added some texture to the 'icing' and I scored the paper patty base.

The sketch is from Linda at Freshly Made Sketches. As usual a great one, I want to CASE so many of the design team's samples, go on over to their site and check them out!

Looking forward to a lovely crafty weekend here, are you?

Rachel

Wild Things PP170 & RS88

Today in Melbourne we have a day off work for a horse race! It is billed as "the race that stops a nation" . Anyway, I won't argue with a day off at anytime, and have enjoyed breakfast in the garden in the spring sunshine, tidied my craft space and promptly messed it up again!
Oh, what joy!

 I saw the challenge at The Paper Players for "wildlife" and then searched for a sketch or colour inspiration and decided the RetroSketch sketch would fit really well.

In 2007 I (reluctantly) accompanied my mother, an intrepid traveller, to Zambia and Kenya. Needless to say, it was a marvellous experience, and one treasured moment was visiting a sanctuary for orphaned rhino. There was a mature rhino there who had been hand-reared after being orphaned by poachers who was tame enough for us to be photographed with. Of course, we could stroke his leathery hide as well, and I still get newsletters from the sanctuary in Kenya.

Now to tell you about the card. I've stamped the World Map (130342) onto Whisper White card, using a circular mask to keep the centre panel clear. I then used Zoo Babies, and a freshly inked black stamp pad to stamp a solitary rhinoceros into that blank circle, the congratulations is also from Zoo Babies (130453) and has been easily cut with Itty Bitty Banners Framelit (129267). The black circular frame was cut using the two largest circles from Framelits Circle Collection (130911). The wooden button (127554) and Linen Thread (104199) are the finishing touches. If you want to purchase any of these items, pop over to my online store or click on the names and you will go directly to them.




Enjoy your week, no matter what you are doing,
Rachel