The Flowers of Tomorrow ~ Fairy

Hello bloggers today's card is a lovely spring time card full of gorgeous warm colours to take our minds off the cold dark days we are now having here in the UK.

This card began as a white 5x7 card blank.  First I added some pale green paper decorated with a floral spray to one side. Sorry the photo does not do this paper justice.  Next I took a piece of 12" x 2" paper and score it at 1cm increments.  I then concertinaed these up and reinforced the fold lines with a bone folder.  The two ends were then adhered together and the whole thing was layered flat onto a small circle of card stock to make a rosette flower.  I added some Cosmic Shimmer pearl glue to the center.  Next using an off cut of fabric from a roller blind I die cut the fabric using Spellbinders 'daisy flower' die set  I then folded in the outer petals to the center and adhered them in place using a faux pearl to fill the center.  These two flowers were then adhered onto two of flowers in the patterned paper.   Next I added some stick on silhouette foliage to the bottom right of the card.  I also added a fairy to the center again using a stick on silhouette image.  Finally I stamped my sentiment using staz-on blank ink pad and Creative Expressions 'sentimental sayings' die set onto some floral green paper.  This was then die cut using Spellbinders 'back to basic tags' die set and adhered to the card.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Spellbinders nested hearts and holiday tree

Hello bloggers today's card features some of my favourite Spellbinders dies.

This card began as a white 5x7 card blank.  First I added a sheet of  floral  patterned paper to the front of the card.  Next from some  red waxed paper I die cut my hearts using Spellbinders 'nested hearts' die set cutting all three sizes and embossing them.  I adhered the smaller heart to the middle sized heart.  The middle sized heart was then attached to the larger heart using some foam tape around the bottom edge to form a pocket.  I added a tag to the pocket that was printed from My Craft Studio 'a walk in wonderland' cd-rom.  To the top of the tag I punched a hole using a hole punch and threaded some organza ribbon through it. The hearts were then added to the card.  Next I added a pink chipboard  topper and stamped it with a sentiment using staz-on black ink pad and Creative Expressions 'sentimental sayings' stamp set.    Using some pink Centura pearl card stock I die cut the flourish on the sentiment and the corner pieces using Spellbinders 

'fanciful holiday' die set.  I added these pieces to the card.     Next I die cut a tree using some green ribbed paper and Spellbinders 'holiday tree 2010'.  I then cut this up to make the leaves for my flower.  The flower was made using tulle and die cutting it using Spellbinders 'spiral blossom 3' die.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

   

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

Fairy ~ Marigold

Hello bloggers today's card is of a fairy who goes by the name of Marigold.

This card began as a white 8x8 card blank.  First I added a strip of orange vellum to the right hand side of the card.  Next I cut some floral patterned paper to size and added this to cover the rest of the card front.  The topper was stamped onto white card stock using Staz-on ink black and Crafter's Companion ' flower fairies friends marigold' stamp set.  The image was then coloured with ProMarkers and die cut using Spellbinders 'grand labels 11' die set.  Next a mat from black card stock was cut using the next size die in the set.  An orange mat was cut with the next size die.  The mats were added to the topper.  Using some faux stitched ribbon I added a strip down the join of the two papers.  The topper was then adhered over the top.  Using Spellbinders 'eyelet pendants' die set I die cut a piece of orange felt.  The pattern in the center has embossed into the felt.  I then stamped the sentiment 'magic' into the center of the felt die cut using staz-on ink black and the same stamp set.  I then stamped some floral sprigs around the sentiment.  The felt pendant was attached to the card in the bottom corner.  Finally I made a cross over using the same ribbon and adhere it into place. A genuine vintage orange button was then adhered at the cross over point.

This card is being entered into the following challenges

Cute Card Thursday ~ Fairy Nice

You can check out the details here http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-287-fairy-nice.html

Allsorts Challenge Week 225 ~ Button Up

You can check out the details here http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/week-225-button-up.html

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

21st birthday ~ music

Hello bloggers today's card is a card for a male 21st birthday.  The recipient is very much into his music and enjoys making his own remixes.

This card began as a piece of A4 white hammered card stock that I score and folded to make an A5 card. First before folding and scoring the card stock I printed the whole sheet with the snakes and ladders board design using my computer and printer.  This was printed from My Craft Studio 'back to basic 'CD-ROM.  I then score and folded the card.  The music topper was then printed in the same way from the same CD.  I then die cut it using Spellbinders 'grand labels 11' die set.  The topper was then adhered to the card.  Next I computer generated the 21 and cut it using a circle punch.  I then cut a mat from some silver holographic mirror board layered them up and placed them were the number 21 was on the snakes and ladders board. Finally I stamped the sentiment using staz-on ink black and Polka Doodles 'sensational sentiments' stamp set.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Celebrate! ~ wooly sheep

Hello bloggers today's card is a celebration card.

This card began as a cream 6x4 gate fold card blank. To the two front panels I adhered mats from pink gingham cardstock and then added a further mats of pink hearts.  The topper has a tactile balloon and fleece and was mounted onto a pink floral mat.  It was then attached to the card using the left side only so that the card can still be opened.  The sentiment was stamped onto pink gingham cardstock using Staz-on black ink and Polka Doodles 'sensational sentiments' stamp set.  It was then adhered to the bottom right hand corner of the card.

This card is being entered into the following challenge

My time to craft challenge 233 ~ Gate fold

You can check out the details here http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-233-gate-fold.html

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Happy birthday

Hello bloggers today's card is a simple happy birthday card.

This card began as a sheet of A4 pink cardstock that I cut down and scored to make a card  5.5" x 4".  First I cut a mat from gingham cardstock and adhered it to the card.  Next I cut another mat from some patterned paper and stamped a sentiment onto this paper using staz-on ink and a sentiment stamp.  Sorry but I don't know where the sentiment stamp came from.  The patterned paper was then adhered to the card.  Next I cut a strip of gingham cardstock to go vertically down the card.  This was matted with some pink cardstock which is the same as the card blank was made from.  The strips were then adhered to he cardstock.  Next I stamped the flower three times using staz-on ink pad and an unknown flower stamp.  The flowers were then coloured using pencil crayons and then fussy cut out.  They were then mounted up using foam pads.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel