Wishing You A Reelly Happy Birthday ~ Son Fishing

Hello bloggers I hope that you are all keeping well and are in the best of health.  Today I have a card for a son's birthday who likes fishing.

This card began as a white 8x8 card blank.  First using  a 12x12 sheet of  black cat black card stock I cut a mat for the front of the card and adhered it in place.  Next using some 'son' patterned paper from my stash  I cut it to fit the card and adhered it onto place.  Using Crafter's Companion 'hobbies' CD-ROM I printed off a topper and sentiment sheet.  I fussy cut out the elements I wanted to use.  The main topper I ran a black ProMarkers around the edge to give a matted effect to the topper.  The topper was adhered to the centre of the card.  The top sentiment was matted with black card and I used a circle punch to get a perfect circle.  The bottom sentiment was also matted with black card.  The mat was die cut using Spellbinders 'back to basic tags' die set.  The sentiments were adhered to the card.  Finally the bottom sentiment had some Cosmic Shimmer 'black pearl' PVA  added to the tag holes.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Garden Babies - Down in the Garden

Hello bloggers, today's card is a fun garden card as this is just where I want to be.

This card began as an A6 white hammered card blank.  From some red mirror board I die cut  the largest die from Spellbinders 'Labels one'.  Next using some black mirror board that was decorated with silver leaves I die cut the largest of Spellbinders' scalloped labels one' and then embossed it as well to get the embossed detail from the die.  Using the next die down from the largest I die cut some white card stock and embossed it.  Using Woodware 'garden babies' stamp set I stamped the main image onto the white die cut using vintage photo distress ink.  This was then coloured using ProMarkers pens.  The die cut layers were then adhered together and attached to the card blank.  Onto some white card stock I stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set using peeled paint distress ink.  This was then die cut using Spellbinders 'back to basic tags' and then adhered to the card blank.  Finally I stamped another smaller image directly onto the card blank using vintage photo distress ink and coloured it with ProMarkers.

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Happy Crafting xx Hazel