Seasons Greetings ~ Makey Bakey Mice Christmas

Hello bloggers I hope you had a good day yesterday and are keeping well.  Today I am back to Christmas cards with the Makey Bakey Mice.

This card began as an A4 white card blank.  Using a patterned paper from English tea party collection paper pack, I added the paper to the front of the card.  Next using Crafter's Companion 'makey bakey mice Christmas' CD-ROM I printed off the topper.  This was then cut out and adhered to the top of the card.

The sentiment  and holly were printed using Polka Doodles 'paper boutique volume II creative Christmas' CD-ROM.  Once printed I cut out the holly piece and layered them up.  On the berries on the top holly I added glossy accents.   The sentiment was cut out and a corner rounder was used on the corner.   Finally I added the holly and sentiment to the bottom of the card.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Happy Grand Parents Day ~ Hunkydory Golden Oldies Life's Journey

Hello bloggers I hope that you enjoyed a good weekend and nice weather.  Today I have a card for Grand Parents Day, which isn't too far away.

This card began as a white 8x8 card blank that I die cut using Spellbinders 'grand labels one' die set to make a shaped card.  Next I die cut a patterned paper from  English tea party paper collection and also die cut that using the same die as for the card blank.  The paper was then adhered to the front of the card.  Next I stamped the topper onto white card stock using black soot distress ink and Hunkydory golden oldies 'life's journey' stamp set.  This was die cut using a smaller Spellbinders 'grand labels one' die.  Whilst still in the die I inked around the edges with mustard seed distress ink.  The image was coloured using a combination of Whispers brushmarkers and ProMarkers.  I then added glossy accents to the glasses and lights.

Next I used black soot distress ink and clarity stamps letterbox kit to stamp the boxes which the sentiment sit in.  I then used peeled paint distress ink and the same stamp set to stamp out the letters to make up the words.  These were fussy cut out.  I adhered the topper to the centre of the card and added the sentiment around it to complete the card.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Grandma's Happy Mother's Day Crafter's Companion s.w.a.l.k.

Hello bloggers today I have a grandma card for you again this has a Mother's Day theme.

This card began as a sheet of A4 blue Topsy Turvy card stock that I cut and scored to make a 5x7 card blank.   First I added a blue checked paper mat to the front of the card leaving a border to show of the coloured card stock used.  Next the topper was stamped using walnut stain distress ink and Crafter's Companion S.W.A.L.K. 'grandma' stamp set.  The topper was die cut using Spellbinders 'labels 14' die set and then coloured with pencil crayons and Whispers permanent markers.  I added some glossy accents to the glasses on the topper.  Next using Topsy Turvy card stock I die cut a mat for the topper using Spellbinders 'labels 20' die set.  The topper and mat were added together and adhered to the card.  The sentiments were stamped onto white card stock using the same stamp set as above and broken china distress ink  These were fussy cut out and then added to the card using foam pads.  Next I stamped the 'happy mother's day' sentiment using broken china distress ink and a stamp from my stash, this was then punched out using a circle punch.  The sentiment was then added to the top left of the card.  Finally I added 3 faux pearls to the top right of the card.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

You're Bloomin' Fabulous!

Hello bloggers today's card is another card made using a Whiff of Joy Stamp.

This card began as a 5 1/2" square kraft card blank.  First I cut a mat from some striped paper to 5" square,  this was then adhered to the card blank.  Using a scrap of green textured paper I cut another mat for the topper and adhered it to the card base.  Onto some white card stock I stamped the elf image using Whiff Of Joy stamp (sorry don;t know the name) and staz-on ink pad.  I then stamped it again onto some different patterned papers.  These were all cut out and the patterned pieces were pieced onto the white stamped image.  The flowers were coloured with brush markers.  Next the topper was adhered to the green mat.  The sentiment was stamped using black soot distress ink and Creative Expressions 'sentimental sayings' stamp set.  Finally three white candi's (faux brads) were coloured with a ProMarker and covered it with glossy accents before being adhered to the card.

Old Friend

Hello, today's card is a shaped easel card.

(entire board)

This card began as an A4 sheet of silver mirror board that I scored in half and then die cut using Spellbinders  'grand large scallop oval' dies.  Next I die cut a mat for the top and bottom parts of the card from glitter card using the same dies as the card base.  These were adhered to the card blank, taking care to only adhere the top one half way, which I did by adding the glue to the bottom half of the card only and adding the mat to it.  Using some patterned paper I die cut and embossed a mat for the bottom of the card using Spellbinders 'labels 14' die.  From the same patterned paper I die cut and embossed mat using Spellbinders 'grand large scallop' die for the top part of the card.    These were them adhered to the glitter card.  

Next on white card I stamped the sentiment and main image using Crafters Companion SWALK stamp set 'Old friend'.  These were cut out and embossed using Spellbinders die labels 14 for the sentiment and grand large scallop for the main image.   Whilst they were still in the dies I distressed the edges with evergreen bough distress ink. The sentiment was stamped with a flower stamp from the same stamp set and some ladybirds from a Country Companions stamp set.  These were coloured with promarkers as they were stamped with black soot distress ink.  The main image was again coloured with promarkers and glossy accents was added to the water to make it look real.  Gems were added to the centers of the largest 2 flowers.  Two butterflies from my stash were also added to finish off the card.  Finally the sentiment and topper were adhered to the card base.

Hope you like this one, I think everyone has someone they regard as an old friend. 

This card is being entered into the following challenges

2 sisters Challenge #142 ~ Bingo Bash

You can check it out here http://2sisterschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/

Crafty Boots  - Stamped Character Challenge

You can check it out here http://craftybootschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/use-stamped-character.htm

Anything Goes Challenge 92 - Shaped but not Square 

You can check it out here http://anythingchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/  

Country View Challenge # 3 - How Does Your Garden Grow

You can check it out here http://countryviewchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/challenge-3-may-2013.html

Creative Card Crew Challenge 35 - Bling

You can check out the details here http://creativecardcrew.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/challenge-35-bling.html

Allsorts Challenge week 205 - Add some Sparkle

You can check out the details here  http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/week-205-add-some-

sparkle.html

ABC Challenge - M for Make it Sparkle

You can check out the details herehttp://abc-challenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/m-for-make-it-sparkle.html

Happy Crafting xx Hazel