Feathers

Hello,
Today I have made two cards in order to enter Darnell's Twofer challenge. When I first saw the theme was 'feathers' I felt a bit stumped, but I looked through my stamp collection and found 2 stamps that I had not used before. Eventually I came up with these cards:

The card on the left came first and as I was making it I realised it would fit 2 other challenges namely
Simply less is more 362 purples and Freshly Made Sketches 319. As I was making it I felt it needed something extra so I traced over the stamped images with a Gelly Roll sparkle pen. I also used the sparkle pen to write the sentiment.

I have tried to show the sparkle in the following photo:

My second card came about as I have recently seen cards made using stamping and colouring on black card, so this is my attempt to emulate that. I am not sure how successful I have been though. I have used metallic colouring pencils for the colour and again went over the stamping with a silver sparkle pen to add sparkle.

Entering these challenges has forced me to do something different, which has to be good for me. I hope you like them.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog today, I really appreciate it and if you can also take the time to leave me a comment it would be even better. I know how hard that can be though so don't worry if you don't.

Thank you
Happy crafting
Hilary
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Thanks

Hello,
Today I am sharing a thank you card. I have a number of cards to send after a very lovely Christmas but as ever I am happier making the cards than actually writing and sending them! Once I have done this post I will write them, I will.....

I am entering this card in the crazy for cas challenge 2, all colours of the rainbow and Time Out challenge 100, anything goes.

Here is my card, I hope you like it:

The daisy stamp is from Clarity Stamp, the thanks is cut using my Scan n Cut and backed with gold card, which has a nice sheen to it when the light catches it right. The panel is mounted with craft foam. I used my alcohol marker pens for the rainbow colours.





Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog today, I really appreciate it, and if you can also take the time to leave me a comment it would be even better. I know how hard that can be though so don't worry if you don't, it is just nice that you had a look.
Thank you
Hilary
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Freshly Made Sketches Challenge 318

Today I had an idea for the Freshly made sketches challenge 318 and after a bit of humming and haring I came up with this card:

The panel is a My Favourite Things background stamp which I heat embossed with gold embossing powder on hot pressed watercolour paper. I painted it using brusho paints and zig clean colour real brush pens. I decided to frame it in gold as it picked out the embossing nicely.

I hope you like it. Here is a close up:

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Thank you
Hilary
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Christmas Decoration

Every year I make some decorations to go on the presents that I give people that can then be hung on a christmas tree. I also make a tree decoration for my three grandchildren which I embroider with their name and year. I hope that I will continue to do this for the years to come, we will see how long I keep it up for. my eldest grand daughter is only 5 so I have a long way to go.

Unfortunately I left it a bit late this year so decided to do something straightforward and chose a stocking. I kept the stocking itself very simple and added embellishment by adding beads, bells and felt balls as tassels hanging from the stocking.

I felt quite pleased making these as everything I used I already had in my stash. I think it always feels good to find a use for the stuff that we collect.

Here they are added to presents, I added a little chocolate treat and a candy cane to the stocking to put it to use.

To create a label for the presents I cut a piece of shiny hologram card the same shape as the stocking and wrote my message on the back.

I thought I would enter the moving along with the times challenge 61, anything but a card.

Here are the tree decorations that I made for my grandchildren. They are a bit bigger than the present embellishments. I filled them up with sweets so I know they liked them!

Thanks for visiting me. It would be lovely if you left me a comment, but I know how hard that is so it is OK if you don't.

Christmas 4

I thought I would share this card on the Merry Monday 267 Colour combo Challenge as I realised my card matched the brief:


Here is my card:

The background is green and blue water colour, the die is cut from silver glitter card and the sentiment is printed on velum.

Here are a couple more versions in different colour ways just for interest:

Thank you very much for visiting my page. I really appreciate it.
Hilary
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