Here fishy, fishy

So it's Sunday and I've found some quiet time to sit and get my blog updated and maybe even schedule some posts for the coming week.

Today I'm sharing the card I made for Niece's husbands birthday. He's an avid fisherman down in Devon so when I got the Best Fishes stamp and die set for Christmas I knew straight away I'd be using it to make John's birthday card.  This is the second time I've used it now and both times I've made shaker cards with it. It's so hard not to plus I am addicted to shaker cards at the mo. 

I also used these great dies called frames craft dies to create the glitter scallopped frame.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges :

Virginia's View Challenge who want to see your shaker cards,

Simon says stamp wednesday challenge who want to see all creatures great and small,

and finally

Crafty Catz weekly challenge who want to see cards for the boys.

Thanks for coming on by and checking up on me. If you'd like to become a follower or would like to leave a comment I'd be thrilled,

Hugs

H xx

Happy Valentines from your little monsters

Just a quick post to share my hubby's valentines card. I couldn't share it earlier for obvious reasons and need to post it before the challenge deadline over at Less is more challeneg who is celebrating their 4th anniversary.

The challenge is yo use pink and grey in your card.

Heres my take on the challenge

The heart was die cut and has then been inlaid as such with the die cut words Love in two shades of pink. With the glitter pink heart added to make the word dtand out.

The tree monsters from Tiddly Inks represent our three labswho at times can be little monsters.

On the inside I have done inlaid die cuts with a row along the bottom of tiny pink x's and a stamp from this months card kit from Simon Says Stamp which reads "WILL YOU BE MY VALENTINE?"  I will add a photo of this tomorrow.

Hugs

Hazel xxx

So many cards and yet not got em blogged!!

Hello, is there anybody out there??????

Yes I am still alive and finally getting some cards made. My mojo really took a beating with my health issues and some depression and it's taken me a long while to finally find a new style I love and feel happy with.

My card for today is a request off my Sister in law and I decided I'd have a go at a couple of challenges and maybe try and blog it.

The challenges I am entering are ;

Clean and simple on Sundays who want you to use a stencil which I have on the circle behind the image.

Colour Me who have this great colour palette 

And finally Freshly Made Sketches with this perfect sketch.

Here's my take on all three challenges

I have used Sk8tr from Tiddly Inks and coloured him with spectrum noir pens.  The pennants are by My Favourite things and the patterned paper is by Stampin Up.  I used Wendy Vechi paste with the stencil.

Thanks for popping by and any comments you may leave,

Hugs

Hazel xx 

Happy Anniversary

Good evening folks, tonight I have a card to share with you that I'e made based on the challenge over at Make the Day Special blog. I love this store and since finding it I have become a regular customer.

Their challenge this month is this sketch...

and here's my card.

As you can see I followed the sketch closely. 

The decorative circle was made by stamping the Persian Motif's by wPlus9 and then heat embossing. I then water coloured the image and die cut my favourite section out.  The circle is surrounded on one side with some gorgeous small sequins I got on eBay. I filled each sequin with glossy accents to make them look like gems.The card was finished with an embossed section using a Sheena Douglass embossing folder a piece of red ribbon and an old happy anniversary stamp.

I would also like to enter my card into the Dazzling Diva Challenge which uses this photo for inspiration, from which I used the beautiful colours.

Boy am I tired today, I even fell alseep on my desk!! Roll on the 26th september when we get our new bed and then hopefully I'll sleep better.

So thats all for now,

Hugs

H xx

You are my sunshine ......

This card has been finished for a few days now but it has taken til today for me to get it on my blog.

I decided last month that I would start making cards to send to my closest family and friends for no other reason other than to make them smile and let them know I love them.  I was making birthday cards, wedding cards etc and I needed a break and thought that making a card for reason in particular would be just the break I needed.

So on to today's card. This card is for my super hubby Mike who has started a new job and I wanted him to know just how proud I was of him.

I have used a free digi stamp from Paper Smooches as my first set of their stamps haven't arrived yet but hopefully they will be here soon as I really love their little critter stamps.

I started out by cutting the card base and the cloud layer with my Lawn Fawn stitched rectangle dies. The clouds were heat embossed with the clouds from the Into the woods stamps by Lawn Fawn. I then used distress inks to give a blended sky. Next I printed the sunshine onto watercolour card and coloured it with distress inks and a little bit of twinkling h2o's. After I cut it out on my trimmer I decided it needed to match the stitched rectangles so I popped it through the ebosser in a corner of a stitched rectangle, then turned it 180 degree's and did the other corner.

The little pennant was done by cutting on of the small stitched rectangles, stamping the diagonal stripes stamp from Clearly Besotted stamps, then putting it back through the ebosser with the corner of the die where I wanted the pointed pennent section to be.  The button is painted with twinkling h2o's and threaded with some jewellery cord my BFF Kath gave me.

Finally I wrapped more jewellery cord in a different shade around a piece of patterned paper from an old 6x6 pad I found in my cupboard.

I have followed the below sketch from Taylored Expressions

and here is my selfie 

On the Paper Smooches Sparks blog I have chosen to be inspired by the yellows, oranges and blues from the inspiration photo.  You can get your fix of Paper Smooches stamps by visiting their store here.

Thank you for visiting me today and I'd love it if you would like to become a follower or left a comment.

I have more cards to share so hopefully I'll be back tomorrow,

Hugs

Hazel xx

From the past to the present day

Good afternoon folks,

So today I thought I'd show you how my style has changed to so far.

I used to base my cards around a copic coloured image but as my fibro has taken it's toll on both my ability to do every day tasks it has also taken it's toll on my crafting ability. No longer can I sit for hours and colour. My copic's would not see the light of day for day's at the start to month's more recently and so I took the hard decision to sell them. So now I find myself looking for a new style. I know it will mainly be based on stamping and die cutting but as of yet I'm having fun playing with different styles and techniques and so haven't landed on one particular style.

So here is are two card's like I used to make, full of copic colouring and taking hours to complete.

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And now onto a card I've started to enjoy making.

This card uses a water colouring technique I saw on you tube (see video below)

I did make a card just like the one Jennifer does as my first attempt at water colouring and I will share that over the next couple of days. This card was my second attempt  and I was thrilled at how well it came it out.

It uses Altenew's stamp set Persian Motif's.

And now to enter my first challenge on my new blog.

Sketch Saturday - the sketch below 

 I put my sentiment on the die cut shape so it wasn't lost in the background.

Right off to go and tidy my desk and maybe even make a card, lol,

Hugs

H xx

Hi and welcome to my new blog. In the past my blog was Just Add Glitter but over the past year or so my craft style has changed quite alot and so I thought I'd start over with a brand new blog and here it is. It needs a lot of work but I have lot's of cards to share with you all and hopefully I'll also find the time to get back into entering challenges.
Hugs
H xx