Special Wishes Step Daughter With Love

Hello bloggers I hope you are all recovered from the excitement of Christmas and looking forward to the New Year.

Today's card is a sweet card for a little girl with a step daughter sentiment.

This card began as a sheet of lilac pearlescent cardstock that I cut and score to make a card 6x5.5".  Next I cut some purple patterned paper to make a mat for the card and adhered it in place.  The topper was die cut using Spellbinders 'labels 16' die set and an old birthday card that I recycled and upcycled.   Next I cut a mat from lilac pearlescent paper using the same die set but the next size up.  Using some purple textured paper I die cut another mat using the same die.  The mats and topper were layered up, the purple mat was twisted to add more details and bring your eye into the topper.  The sentiments were die cut next using a combination of Tattered Lace 'family sentiments for all occasions' and Tattered Lace 'sentiments blocks' die sets and lilac pearlescent paper.  Next I die cut from textured purple paper a mat for the sentiments using Spellbinders 'labels 33'.  I then moved the die down the die cut to shorten it and removed the detail on the top and bottom. The sentiments were then adhered to the mat and this was added to the bottom of the card.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Happy Birthday Sister - Tattered Lace

Hello bloggers today I have a cute birthday card for you.  I must say I am quite enjoying not making Christmas cards well at least for a while.

This card began as a white 5x7 card blank.  First I cut some pink gingham glitter card to 5x7.  I then wrapped some pink and silver ribbon around the gingham card and tied a bow towards the bottom.  The gingham mat was then adhered to the card front.   Next I cut my topper from a recycled card and upcycled it into a topper using Spellbinders 'labels D' die set.  I then die cut a mat for the topper using some silver mirror board and Spellbinders 'labels F' die set.  The mat and topper were then adhered together and attached to the card.  Next using Spellbinders Die D-lites 'frame two' die set and some pink pearlescent paper I cut a mat for my sentiment.  The sentiments were then die cut using some silver textured mirror board and Tattered Lace 'sentiment blocks' and Tattered Lace 'family sentiments for all occasions' die sets.  Once the text was die cut I added it to the frame two mat and adhered it to the card.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Happy Mother's Day

Hello bloggers as we approach the end of 2013 I hope that you all have had a good year and are looking forward to 2014.  Today's card is one I have made for a celebration in 2014.

This card began as a white 5x7 card blank.  First I cut some pearlescent green paper to 5x7.  I then randomly stamped over the paper with a flower stamp from Creative Expressions 'buttons' stamp set and black soot distress ink.   Once dried I adhered the paper to the card blank.  Next the topper was die cut using Spellbinders 'labels E' die set.  A mat was then cut from some textured gold mirror card using Spellbinders 'labels A' die set.  The mat and topper were then adhered together and attached to the card.    Finally I die cut some white cardstock using Spellbinders 'fancy tags two' die set to make a tag for the sentiment.  I then stamped the sentiment using black soot distress ink and a 'happy mother's day' stamp from my stash. Whilst still in the die I inked through with dried marigold and Victorian velvet distress inks.  The sentiment tag was then adhered to the bottom of the card.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Hello bloggers today I have an elegant lady card.

This card began as a white 5x7 card blank.  I made an extra score and fold line down the front of the card to give it a different look.  The image was stamped and coloured a while ago and was just in my stash so i'm sorry but I can't remember what the stamp is called as it was borrowed, i'm afraid the same goes for the sentiment.  The image was die cut using Spellbinders 'grand labels 4' die set.  A pink holographic patterned mirror board was adhered to the inside of the card.  I then adhered the topper to the centre.  A faux gem was then adhered to each corner.    On the front of the card I adhered some purple glitter card.  The sentiment was die cut using Spellbinders 'labels 33' die set and adhered to the front of the card.  I then added a faux gem to the top and bottom of the sentiment.  On the right hand side of the front, which when folded is on the inside I added some textured silver holographic card stock.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Floral Fairy

Hello bloggers today I have a card for the girls with this floral fairy card.

This card began as a sheet of A4 peach Centura card stock that I cut and scored to make a card 6x5.5".  First I cut a mat from some pink/orange glitter card slightly smaller than the card blank.  This was adhered to the center of the card.  Next I adhered the floral butterfly borders around the edges of the card.  Next I cut a smaller mat from peach glitter card and adhered it to the center of the card.     The topper was made up next from a fairy decoupage sheet.  I added the layers and built up my topper.  Once completed the topper was adhered to the right hand side of the card.  Finally I added three embossed embellishments from the topper sheet to finish off the card.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Decoupaged Marvel Spiderman Card with Spellbinder Spider

Hello bloggers as Christmas is now over for another year I have a card for those difficult to cater for boys in your life which features some decoupage.

This card began as a white 5x7 card blank.  First I added some black mirror board to the front of the card.  I then cut a mat from silver textured holographic card stock using Spellbinders 'grand labels 4' die set.  I then used the next size down in the set and cut a further mat from blue card stock.  The two mats were layered up onto the card front.  Next the topper was created out of Marvel Spiderman decoupage sheet.  The edges were inked up and then the layers were built up to created the finished topper which was then adhered to the mat.  From my stash I added a little sentiment to the bottom of the card.  Finally I die cut a spider from textured holographic mirror board using Spellbinders 'spider web' die set.  I adhered the spider to the top of the card and then added some Cosmic Shimmer 'black pearl' pva to form the eyes.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Merry Christmas

Hello bloggers I hope Santa brought you what you wished for.  I would like to wish you all a merry Christmas enjoy your day!

This card began as a white 5x7 card blank.  First I cut and adhered some traditional Christmas patterned paper to the front.  Next the topper was die cut from an old Christmas card using Spellbinders 'labels 17' die set.  The topper was then adhered to the centre of the card.   Using some green glitter card I die cut the holly border using Spellbinders 'holly accents' die set.  This was then adhered down the left hand side of the card and then cut to size.  The corner embellishments were die cut from green glitter card and used Spellbinders 'holly motifs' die set.  The corners were then adhered to the card.  Finally the sentiment was stamped at the bottom of the card using black soot distress ink and Justrite 'large merry christmas sentiments' stamp set.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel