Love Is ~ Engagement ~Hearts, Flowers, Butterflies

Hello bloggers I hope you are well and all prepared for the big day.  Today I have an engagement card to share.

This card began as an A4 sheet of red card stock that I cut and scored to make a 5x5.5 card blank.  Next I cut a piece of red vellum to the size of the card blank and adhered it into place.  Using a butterfly patterned paper from my stash I cut this to slightly smaller than the card blank to show off some of the red vellum.  Next I stamped the heart image onto the butterfly paper using barn door distress ink and IndigoBlu 'love is' stamp set.  The topper was then adhered to the card blank. The sentiment was  made using some sticky back vinyl from my stash and a pre-installed sentiment from the Brother Scan N Cut which I made to the size I wanted and then cut it out.  Finally the sentiment was adhered to the bottom of the card.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Merry Christmas ~ Penguins

Hello bloggers today's card is a Christmas card featuring some cute penguins.

This card began as a white 5x7 card blank that I chopped down to make a 4" square card blank.  First I adhered some snowflake patterned paper to the front leaving a slim mat  all the way around.  Next I added a chipboard penguin topper from my stash to the top of the card.  I then took another chipboard topper and used the back of it to add my Merry Christmas peel off sentiment.  I then inked it up using faded jeans distress ink.  Chipboard snowflake and snowman embellishments were added to the sentiment topper.  The topper was then adhered to the bottom of the card.   Finally I added a handmade snowflake made using some silver holographic card stock and Spellbinders 'create a flake 3' die set. I die cut two of the same flake and layered them up adding a faux pearl to finish off the center of the snowflake.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Merry Christmas - quick card

Hello bloggers a very quick card today as it has been a migraine day and not feeling up to doing much.

The card blank use was pre-made and decorated with the snow scene, not sure where I acquired these think it was another free magazine gift.  I then added a chipboard snowman using foam tape to give dimension. Finally the Merry Christmas peel-off was added at the top of the card.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Holly Poinsettia

Hello bloggers today's card is my first Christmas card.  Whoops I've said it now please don't shout at me, it will soon be upon us and as crafter you know as well as I do we have to start months in advance of the big day.

I began with an A4 card blank that I score and folded to make a 5.5" square card.  Next I cut some red card stock to make a mat for the base card.  Then I cut some more green card stock to make a further mat for the card.  The last mat to be cut was from white card stock.  These were all layered up and adhered together.   Using some more green  and red card stock I die cut the poinsettia using Spellbinders 'layered poinsettia' die set.   Whilst it was still in the die I inked through to pick up the stencilled details of the die.  This was then layered up and a faux pearl was adhered to the center.  With  more green card I die cut the central element using Spellbinders 'holly motif' die set.  Whilst the card stock was still in the die I inked through to pick up the stencilled details.  A bauble peel off was the attached the center of the motif.  Further peel offs were also added to the card corners and a sentiment was added to the top right side.

This card is being entered into the following challenges:

C.R.A.F.T  Challenge - challenge 207 christmas

You can check out the details herehttp://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/challenge-207-16th-of-may-christmas.html?showComment=1368707286513

My Time To Craft Challenge #222 - Christmas in May

You can check out the details here http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/challenge-222-christmas-in-may.html

Happy Crafting xx Hazel