New Home ~ Be Neighbourly

Hello bloggers today I have a new home card for you.

This card began as an A4 white card stock that I cut, scored and folded to make an A6 card.  First using some purple pearlescent paper I embossing it with Creative Expressions 'floral' embossing folder.  I then cut it down to size and adhered it to the card front.  Next I die cut two crowned circles using Spellbinders 'crowned circles' die set, silver holographic card stock and purple pearlescent paper.  The crowned circles I adhered together and then interlocked the crowns.  Using some purple patterned paper I stamped the house image onto it to form my topper, using Polka Doodles 'be neighbourly' stamp set and black soot distress ink.  This was then fussy cut and adhered into the center of the topper.  The sentiment was stamped onto purple pearlised card stock using staz-on ink pad and Clarity Stamps 'letterbox' stamp set.  Once stamped it was fussy cut and adhered to the card.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Back to Skool

Hello bloggers well Autumn feels like it is here to stay in the UK.  So I have a back to school card today.

This card began as an A4 sheet of silver pearlescent cardstock, that I cut and scored to make a DL card blank.   Next I cut a mat from some yellow pearlescent paper and randomly stamped it with two stamps from Crafter's Companion 'popcorn the bear kids school days' stamp set and black soot distress ink.  I then heat set the ink with a heat tool and then adhered it to the card blank.  Next I cut a strip of gingham paper and a longer strip of vintage floral paper and adhered them to the card at different angles.  Using some more of the silver pearlescent cardstock I stamped my image using the same stamp set and staz-on black ink.  I then stamped the same image onto some green and red papers, some brown handmade paper and kraft cardstock.  I then cut out different elements from the stamped images so that I could use them to paper piece the topper image.  The bear was made using handmade paper, the apple was the green paper with a bit of colouring from  red ProMarker, his satchel was the kraft card and the blanket was the red card and a bit more colouring from a blue ProMarker.  Once it was all piece together I adhered the topper to the card.  Next I stamped my sentiment onto some silver pearlescent cardstock using staz-on black in and Clarity 'letterbox' stamp set.  The sentiment was then adhered to the bottom of the card.

This card is being entered into the following challenges

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 224 ~ Paper Piecing

You can check out the details here http://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-224-12th-of-september-paper.html

2 Sister Challenge ~ Sketch

You can check out the details here http://2sisterschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-161.html

Stampin for The Weekend ~ Back to School

You can check out the details here http://stampinfortheweekend.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/back-to-school.html

Alphabet Challenge ~ P for Paper Piecing

You can check out the details here http://alphabetchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/p-for-paper-piecing.html

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Christmas ~ Joy

Hello bloggers today I have a Christmas card for you!

This card began as a white DL card blank To the front I adhered some purple Christmas themed paper.  It has holly and berries on it if you can't tell from the photo.  Next I die cut 2 flourishes from some lilac paper and used Spellbinders fanciful holiday die set.   These were attached down the righthand side of the card.  Using pink cardstock I die cut 3 baubles with Spellbinders 'holiday tags' die set.  I also die cut 2 smaller baubles from the same set using some snowflake patterned paper.  I stamped the letters J and Y onto the patterned die cut baubles and O onto the plain pink one.  The top and bottom baubles were layered up and then all 3 were adhered to the card.  Using some cream ribbon I tied 3 small bows and attached them to the top of the 3 baubles.  Next using some scraps of purple Christmas paper I die cut several different snowflakes using Spellbinders 'snowflake wonder' die set. some of the snowflakes were coloured with a dark purple ProMarker to give a better colour definition.  The snowflakes were then layered up and a faux pearl added to the centres.

This card is being entered into the following challenges

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 223 ~ Christmas

You can check out the details here http://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-223-5th-of-september-christmas.html

Charisma Cardz Challenge 35  ~ Fancy flourishes

You can check out the details here http://charismacardz.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-35-fancy-flourishes.html

Daring Cards Challenge ~ September colour combo

You can check out the details here http://daringcardmakers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/september-colour-combo.html

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Get Well Soon - Looney Tunes

Hello bloggers, today's card is a get well soon card.

This card began as a DL card blank, to it I adhered some striped paper and then cut it to size.  I then added a strip of floral paper down the center of the card.  Next I printed off my topper using Crafting with Looney Tunes CD ROM.  This was then cut to size and adhered to the card.  Finally I stamped out the boxes and sentiment using evergreen bough distress ink and Clarity stamps 'letterbox' stamp set.  These were then hand cut and attached to the card using foam pads.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Snookered - Happy Birthday Son

Hello bloggers today we have a birthday card for a snooker/pool mad young man.

This card began as a white hammered 6x6 card blank.  I printed off my background paper from Crafter's Companion 'hobbies' CD, this was printed on to some white pearlised linen paper.  I cut the paper to size and adhered it to the card blank.  Next I printed off a sheet of diamond pyrimage and began the task of cutting it out and mounting it up with foam tape.  The topper was then adhered to the card with double sided tape.  The two sentiments were then created.  The 'happy birthday' sentiment was made using bundled sage distress ink and Polka Doodles 'sensational sentiments' stamp set.  I then die cut this out using Spellbinders 'scallop labels one' die set.  Once die cut I inked the edges with the same ink and adhered it with foam tape to the card.  The second sentiment 'son' was made using Clarity Stamps 'letterbox' stamp set and bundled sage distress ink.  This was die cut using Spellbinders 'scallop labels one' dies.  Once removed from the die the edges were inked with the same ink.  The sentiment was adhered to the card with foam tape.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

 

Our Heroes - Armed Forces Day

Hello bloggers today's card is one I made for Armed Forces Day which was yesterday in the UK.

This card began as a white 6x6 hammered card blank to which I adhered my background paper.  The background paper came from Crafter's Companion 'Occupations' CD and was printer onto some cream linen effect pearlised paper.  Next I printed out my two decoupage sheets also from the CD.  These were cut out by hand and mounted up using foam pads.  The army image is an off side pyrimage and the police image is an invertage.  These were then adhered to the card blank.  Finally the sentiment was stamped using ice spruce distress ink and Clarity Stamps 'letterbox' stamp set.  These were  cut out and the edges were inked up.  The sentiment was adhered to the card with foam pads.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Father's Day with Cadbury Dairy Milk

Hello blogger's today I have a card from yesterday (couldn't show it until it had been given).  It's a father's day card but could easily be used for a number of occasions by changing the sentiment.

This card began as a 6x6 white hammered card blank.  First using some navy blue card stock I embossed it  using That Special Touch Mask ' cogs'.  Whilst the mask was still in place I inked through it with faded jeans distress ink.  This was then adhered to the card blank.  Next from some blue pearlescent paper I cut a pocket shape out freehand.  With a blue pen I added faux stitching to the pocket and turned the top over.  Here I added some blue buttons.  Using Polka Doodles ' sensational sentiment' stamp set I stamped out the 'Day' text using faded jeans distress ink.  This was then punched out using a 1.5" circle punch and the edges were distressed with the same ink.  Next using Creative Expressions 'sentimental sayings' stamp set I stamped out the 'Happy' text with faded jeans distress ink, punched it out with the circle punch and distressed the edges.  These were then attached to the card using foam tape.  The 'Fathers' text was created using faded jeans distress ink and some pearlescent paper which was stamped with clarity 'Letterbox' stamp set.  This was then cut down to size and attached to the card using foam tape.  Finally a bar of chocolate was added to the pocket to create a card and gift in one.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel