More Hexagons

Hello,
Today I am absolutely thrilled to be given an honourable mention in the Twofer August Challenge. In honour of that I have decided to share two more hexagon cards that I made out of the remainder hexagons that I had spent ages cutting from fabric for the twofer challenge and ended up not using.
Here they are:

Rather unusually I was actually quite pleased with these cards!

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog today, I really appreciate it.
Hilary
xx

Card Chain Challenge - August

Hello,
This month is the first time I have taken part in the card chain challenge and I really enjoyed making my card and posting it on to my recipient in the great USA. I have now had confirmation that she has received it so am able to post this blog.

Here is my card:

The technique option this month was stencils and it just so happened that I had been playing about with this squares stencil using Catherine Pooler inks fiesta blue and orange twist. I think orange and blue are one of my favourite colour combinations. I die cut the letters, heart and little flowers and filled the flower centres with enamel accents.

The good thing about this card is that it was not heavy and bulky so it easily went in the post. I hope you like it.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog today.
Happy Crafting
Hilary
xx

Hexagons

Hello,
Today I have 2 cards for Twofer #8 with the prompt geometric.

It has taken me ages to pull these cards together but my ideas eventually galvanised into 2 cards. I attended the Festival of quilts last week and was blown away by the skills showcased in the exhibition and, of course, I ended up adding to my stash of fabric. This led me to think about a quilt effect on a card, so after lots of false starts and many, many passes through the die cutting machine of the single hexagonal die that I chose, I managed to produce this card:

The hexagons are cut out of fabric, I have used my favourite Liberty Print tana lawn fabric from my stash to give a genuine quilt effect. The die cut sentiment is an alphabet set from Concord & 9th. Here is a close up:

For my second card I decided to use the die as a stamp, which I have seen done several times recently. Again, it took me several attempts before I got a look that I was vaguely happy with (I am never really happy as I always think I could do better). I then masked the hexagons and stamped an image inside, which I simply coloured. What do you think?:

Here are my 2 cards together:

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog today, I really appreciate it.
Happy crafting
Hilary
xx