Addicted To CAS - Sparkle Challenge (Take Three)

 

Today's card is another for the ATCAS - Sparkle challenge . . .

. . . where there is a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to the Happy Little Stampers store!

I chose to use silver today and made a card with silver embossing powder, silver ribbon and sparkle medium through a distressed stencil and then sprinkled with silver glitter, finished with a few glittered dewdrops to balance the design.  Here it is.

 

Thank you for visiting today and making my day!  Have a great crafting day!  Hazel xx

Freshly Made Sketches #208 - A Sketch By Cindy H

Today's card is for Freshly Made Sketches #208 - A Sketch By Cindy H  and this is her fabulous sketch.

Now, this has always been one of my most favourite challenges, but I have neglected it of late, life has got in the way, holidays, internet problems, cataloguing and indexing over 450 stamp sets . . . you all know what it's like!

Now that I have all my clear stamps catalogued and out of the way, I decided to have a nice break from the grind and join in some challenges, so here is one for the ladies over at FMS, to say sorry for neglecting them!

I would also like to link this one to Addicted To CAS #74 Challenge where the code word is

I have turned the FMS sketch around and mixed it up a little and this is the card.

A lot of the card was elements I had made up previously and had been 'kicking around', so I thought it was about time I used some of it.

Thank you for visiting today and for all your comments!  I hope you are having a lovely weekend!  Until the next time!  Hazel xx

Addicted To CAS - Sparkle

I'm back!  Oh, my, goodness folks . . . what can I tell ya?  The new cataloguing and indexing system that I laboured over for over a week  . . . solid, is starting to pay off in dividends!  Thank you Kathleen Driggers . . . you have revolutionised my crafting!  I now know exactly where any given (clear) stamp that I own is at any given time!

Today in celebration, I decided to make this card

For the Addicted To CAS - Sparkle challenge

Where Kylie is generously donating a $20 certificate to her Happy Little Stampers Store

How cool is that?  Here are the rest of the pictures and I will outline what I used and how below.

 

 

 

First, I stamped the flourish tree from the Kirsty Wiseman 'Joy To The World' stamp set with 'Delicata' gold pigment ink and brushed over it with Perfect Pearls 'Perfect Gold' mica powder and sprayed lightly with water to set.

I knew that I didn't want the gold to completely overpower the design, so I opted to stamp the sentiment, a Crafty Impressions stamp from the 'Christmas Baubles Sentiments' stamp set with Versafine Onyx Black pigment ink.

Next, in order to balance the design, I rubbed the Delicata gold ink pad down the side of the card and added a black card-stock strip to balance the design and brushed that too with the Perfect Pearls powder.  Then I fussy cut the bottom of the stamped panel around the base of the tree for a little added interest.

Then I mounted the panel on top of the card base with craft foam for a little dimension and finished the whole thing off with some red gems, gold Stickles and some splatters of gold watercolour paints by Fine Tec which is a set of five different shades of gold and one silver.

That's it for today folks.  I hope you join in over at ATCAS for a chance to win the $20 HLS gift certificate and have a great day of crafting!  Thanks for sticking with me all this time.  Hazel xx

Two Challenges, One New To Me

Hello my lovelies!  Thank you all so very much for your well wishes on my blog yesterday, I was truly overwhelmed!  Thank you!

You will be pleased to know that Dr's Ben & Jerry has helped in my recovery a great deal ;)

But I will be going back once in a while for a top up of medication ;)  Anyway, the swelling is going down little by little, I am starting on solids now (nothing too hard to chew still) and the stitches will be coming out next week!

Well, on to today's post.  Today I am linking to two challenges, one of which I have only entered a few times and one I have never entered . . . there are only so many challenges one can do isn't there?

The challenges are:

Addicted To CAS Challenge - Chevron

And

Color Throwdown Challenge #351

With added sparkle - my added sparkle comes from the pearlised cardstock and sequins.


This is my card:

Those of you who kindly visited yesterday will know that I am trying to use more of my NBUS and I'm finding it quite exciting, finding stuff that I had even forgotten I had!  For today's card, I used, PTI, Linen EP (one I have used previously), Reverse Confetti, Chevrons Die (NBUS) and Clearly Besotted 'Say It In Style' (used before, but not for ages)

I am going to try and use at least one item of NBUS on every card I make for a while, until some new 'got to have' item comes along!

Thank you all again for visiting me, I'm off to make three more cards now with the 'left over' chevron die cuts!  have a wonderful, wonderful weekend my friends!  Hazel xx