Finally Crafting Again . . . And My First Challenge This Side Of My Break!

Hi all you lovelies out in blog-land, I hope you are all having a great weekend!  I have finally finished my mammoth task of indexing and cataloguing my stamp sets . . . well, that is to say, I have finished cataloguing my clear stamp sets!  I still have the cling stamps (mostly S.U.) and all my dies . . . yikes!!  But I promised myself a well deserved crafting break this weekend, so I have gotten through, just over 450 . . . 454, but who's counting? . . . ME, that's who!!

Anywho, my card today:

Is for the Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge - Poinsettias challenge.

Here are the rest of the pictures:

I used a Dreamweaver stencil to stencil my Poinsettia and layered it up on a gold, glitter paper by Stampin' Up, a gold embossed vellum, also by Stampin' Up and finished it off with a computer generated sentiment, using a free (for personal use) font called Impact Label and a few drops of Enamel Accents.

Why not pop on over to HLS and join in the fun, Kylie of Happy Little Stampers is generously donating a prize too!

Have a wonderful weekend my dear friends.  I will be popping by your blogs to say Hi . . . at long last!  Thank you for your continued patience!  Hazel xx

A Late WCMD & Missed Blogaversary Post

I must start with an apology for you, my faithful friends . . . for the delay in posting any cards since being back and I will explain why.

You can blame the very talented Kathleen Driggers for my delay, you see, if you click on her name here you will be taken to the very reason I haven't posted, it is a post about an amazing little program called Evernote (I won't explain it here as Kathleen does it so much better on You Tube HERE

So, I have been cataloguing my stamp sets and dies . . . I'm up to 361 stamp sets at present, with a load more to go and I haven't even started on the dies yet!  Lordy, what have I let myself in for?  I keep telling myself that it will be worth it in the end and save me £££'s in purchasing doubles of things (because I have lost track of what I already own) and do that a lot!

Anywho, back to the title of this post.  I realised - all too late - that it was World Card Making Day!   So, I dropped the mammoth task I had undertaken and rushed to make a card for our special day . . . then,  it was evening by now and I had . . . lost the light!!  Today, whilst preparing this post, I realised  . . . to my horror . . . I had forgotten my very own 1st Blogaversary!!  Which, according to my countdown widget was six days ago!  Sorry I'm rambling. 

Whilst I was away, as you all know, I was without internet and crafting goodies,  so again I just printed off some pictures to colour in and took some colouring pencils as well and practised my colouring technique.  So, I did cheat and use one of those pictures to make a quick card in honour of our special day (as I was running short of time)  and have taken the pictures today . . . here they are.

Thank you all so much for your infinite patience and understanding and normal service will be resumed as soon as possible!  Have a wonderful, wonderful Sunday!  Hazel xx

Happy Little Stampers CAS October Challenge - Paper Piecing

This post today has been created in advance.  As you all probably know I have been away again and it would have been far too much of a rush to get this In on time if I had waited until my return.  Welcome to the Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge for October, which calls for 'Paper Piecing'.

This one had me in a bit of a fluster, as I have not done a lot of paper piecing, so I wasn't sure how it would go, but in the end I found it to be fun.  This is the second one, I didn't like the first.

Here it is.

I used Altenew's 'Magnolias For Her' and stamped the large image three or four times and stamped the buds once each.  I coloured them with a mixture of watercolour markers and coloured pencils and fussy cut them all out.

For a couple or so of the images I just cut a few of the petals and layered them up on top of the whole flower - I hope you are still with me - with foam pads.  The sentiment was die cut using Reverse Confetti's 'Fancy Words' die.

The whole paper piecing thing can also be done by stamping an image onto patterned paper and then cutting them out, instead of colouring an image - a great way to use up scraps!

This is an example of this, see the vase!

Again, Happy Little Stampers are sponsoring the challenge and are giving away this great stamp set!

Why not come and give it a go and use up some of your scraps I know you all have and have some fun!

As always, I appreciate you stopping by and for any comments.  Have a lovely day!  Hazel xx