Thinking of you

Hello,
Today I am sharing a card at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Challenge #67 Anything Goes.

Here is my card:

The background was inked with distress inks, then splashed with water and splattered with black ink. I then stamped the seed heads repeatedly and spritzed the panel with cosmic shimmer once dry. The sentiment was stamped with StazOn black ink onto vellum. I added the coloured frames and mounted it on black paper. The 3 little dragon fly die cuts finish it off.

It took a while for this card to come together but I am quite pleased with the end result.



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

Stencils 1

Hello,
Today I am sharing this card at January CAS Stencil Challenge and CAS on Friday #149 Flowers. I have a growing collection of stencils but am not generally very good at using them, so the new stencil challenge is an ideal opportunity to try and correct that.

Here is my card:

The stencil is from Funky Fossil,  the rose and leaves where a free gift with issue 179 of Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine and the thanks is from Lawn Fawn. I sponged the stencil through an oval aperture with Dew Drop Pearlescent lavender ink so it has a rather nice shine to it.




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

Snowflake

Hello,
Today I am feeling slightly nervous as this is my first ever guest designer post. I was lucky enough to be chosen as CAS Perfectionist for this card at Addicted to CAS #148 so I now find myself trying to come up with a suitable CAS design for Challenge 150 with codeword Snowflake. Thankfully you do get several weeks to plan, I think I may have been lucky and got some extra time because of the Christmas Holidays.

 Anyway here is my card:

Products used:

• Snowflake die from The Works
• You die from My Favourite Things (bought with my prize)
• Matching sentiments from My Favourite Things (also bought with my prize)
• Alcohol inks

I created an alcohol ink background on yupo paper and added some blue foil whilst it was still wet to create some shine. The snowflake die was cut 3 times, the first from the front of my panel and then I turned the die round and cut it from the bottom part of the panel. This was to ensure the gap in the panel had the right curve on it. I then stuck the stacked dies on the edge of the top part of the panel and stamped the sentiment with pigment ink and heat embossed using clear embossing powder. The you is also cut 3 times and stacked. The 2 pieces of the panel were propped up with double sided sticky foam sheet to give the dimension.

Here are some more pictures:

I have to admit that I made this card several times before I got it right. I had a clear image of what I wanted in my head but somehow it didn't want to go right when I made it. I am quite pleased with the end result though.

I hope you like it, do please tell me what you think.

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

Thanks

Hello,
Today I am sharing a thank you card at All sorts week 499/500 the theme is 'thanks a bunch' and requires a thank you or a focal flower. I think my card has both:

This is a unusual card for me to make and I have decided that I like it so will have to have a go at this sort of thing more often.

The background was smooched with Distress Oxide Inks and left to dry. The flowers are layered stamps from JustRite Clear, and the thanks die is from Create a Smile as is the scalloped frame die. I was so pleased to find someone that makes frame dies to fit A6 cards. I wrote the sentiment on velum with my Scan 'n Cut.

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

A Special Christmas Card

Hello,
Today I am sharing the Christmas card I made for my husband. As usual I got all my other cards done and then remembered I needed a special one for my special husband. I used a stamp and die set from Crafters Companion.

Here is my card:

The 2 stamps were stamped with versamark and heat embossed in silver. The die cut was cut from silver holographic card, I then cut an aperture with the outline die from the panel and the underlying card front. I covered the hole inside the card with some vellum and then drew in the string for the stamped bauble and fixed the string and bow for the special bauble with silver thread. Here is a close up:

The sentiment was also heat embossed. You may be wondering why I made the hole in the card and put vellum behind it, well this is why:

I put a battery operated tea that changes colour inside the card and the light shines through. I think it enhances the effect of the 'special' bauble. What do you think?

I am quite pleased with how this turned out and am sharing it at the following challenges:

1. Time Out #125 Inspired by words

2. CAS on Friday #148 Make a Christmas Card #2

3.AAA Cards CAS Game #130 3 of something




My apologies for the slightly dark pictures.

Happy Christmas everyone.

Hilary
xx