Meet Rascog

I recently became the proud owner of a Rascog......yes seriously it's the name of a kitchen trolley sold by IKEA which is brilliant for storing craft materials. I have hankered after one for the last 2 years. Santa even had one on his list but obviously thought I had not been good enough...LOLOL. 2 weeks ago my Hb and I went to IKEA to look at some wardrobe storage and I remembered Rascog and looked him up.

We were really impressed by the size and quality that one slipped onto our trolley and came home. There are 3 colourways, black, cream and blue and I just had to have the duck egg blue...it's gorgeous,

However before I could use him it was the inevitable time for DIY...never my forte when presented with all these parts.

Bless his heart my darling Hb came to the rescue with his screwdriver.

And here is my Rascog in all his glory.

And his wheels move beautifully.

I will be taking Rastog down to my studio in the spring but for now I am using him indoors to store  in my temperature sensitive mediums. I have also put the stamps I am using for current projects there.

There is lots of space and in due course I will stack him up more efficiently.

I also bought a pair fo trainers recently for the summer in a not disimilar colour and I thought how brilliantly the raspberry colour goes with the blue on the box.

So yes these colours got me playing with blues and raspberry and pink. I brayered a background with Fresco paints.

There are some great challenges around at the moment I wanted to combine. For the Craft Stamper Take it make it challenge I needed use text. I stamped my Visible Image Bronte verse in pink and then in grey inks on top.

Out came my Tale of Two cities paperback and I stamped my new Wendy Vecchi floral set as well as a Visible Image butterfly to make a card.

and then it was time to put on my creative hat. This is what I came up with. My card is mounted on a Kraft card blank. I added some stencilling with archival ink. I think the Wendy Vecchi sentiment is perfect. I decided in the end not to add the butterfly, I often change things round when I am putting my projects together.

 I added some texture with crackle pasted to the die cut frame.

 I loved working with these colours.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Craft stamper take it make it  Text me
Pixie's snippets playground  #216 2/3 I used a snippet of card for my sentiment
Country View make your own background
Penny Black and More 2/3 anything goes with a stamp and a die
Ribbon Girl 2/3 any image card challenge
Simon says stamp Mondays 1/5 upcycle/recycle I have certainly upcycled my book pages..this tattered old paperback was destined for the recycling bin.
Creative Inspirations 1/3 anything goes with a sketch option
Addicted to stamps and More 1/3 anything goes
Emerald Creek Dares blogger scramble/anything goes 
Love to create 1/2 anything creative #4

It just shows how I can get inspiration from everywhere, even my new crafting trolley and trainers.

 I will be back on Friday with a Guest Designer piece for A Vintage Journey and it's very different for me. The theme for the challenge is industrial and I managed to add a love twist to it ;0)

Thanks for visiting, keep warm and carry on crafting.

Bye for now,

Jane x