Vintage ladies

This card is for Sketchy colors 61:

It's also for Soartful: three young ladies - I changed the picture to black and white.

The card is also for the recipe on Stamp it crazy: vintage lady challenge - to use the colours black, brown and white and a red ribbon.

The main paper is Bo Bunny flutter butter burst and the other papers are My mind's eye, distressed with fired brick and brushed corduroy DIs.

This is also for:

Crazy challenge 57: lovely ladies
Paperminutes 156: women
Spoon full of sugar 142: anything with a vintage/shabby theme
Theme Thursday: hats

One layer - off the edge

This is for Less is more 6: one layer - off the edge.

I used my Stamps Happen keys to music stamp - this stamp is over 6 inches wide, so it's quite easy to use to stamp off the edge.

The sentiment is an Anna Griffin one stamped with blazing red stazon.

This is also for:

One stop craft 122: Clean and simple
Polka doodles 10: black and white + one colour
CES 27: men only (suitable for a man's birthday)
Moving along with the times 89: for a male
Aud sentiments 23: birthday cards
Top tip Tuesday 25: happy birthday

Easter bunnies

This Easter card is for the sketch on Card Patterns 105:

Papers are Forever Friends spring time and the pyramage bunnies, the scalloped border and the circle sentiment are from the QVC kit. The foiled edges are actually gold and there is quite a bit of glitter on the images.

There is some pink here, so this is for Res-Q 73: oh no, it's pink eye - use hints of pink. I used some stripes for Paper sundaes 59: stripes and also for Alphabet: S for stripes.



The pyramage layers are for Nadia's challenge 1: springtime card in 3D and also for Do you stack up 10: layers.

The bunnies are for Creative Belli 112: animals and it's Easter for Pals paper arts 84: Easter/spring, Lexi 35: Easter and Pixie cottage 60: Easter.

Happy Easter with love

This is for the sketch on Don't waste your Thursdays 75:

The background card, image and sentiments are from a recently purchased kit - I need to make quite a few Easter cards within the next couple of weeks, so will need to make some more cards similiar to this that are quick to put together.

This is also for:

Lexi 35: Easter
Pixie cottage 60: Easter
Paper players 37: spring has sprung

WOYWW 92

A quick post to show my workspace today for WOYWW 92 - if you don't know what that is, why not quick on the link and join in.

To my left, I have a pile of cards that now have labels on the back and inserts in them, but they still need to be bagged up ready for selling soon (selling at our WEF at church on 18 March and at home here on Saturday 26 March to raise funds for Tearfund).


I hate doing all the mundane bits of labelling, bagging etc but thought I ought to leave the piles out so that hopefully I'll get on with them.

To the right of me are boxes of inserts and envies, behind which are piles of Christmas cards - I obviously don't need to bother with bagging these up yet!


In front of me I've got the card, background paper and stamps ready for make the next card.

Thanks for coming to look at my workspace. I hope to get around to others as soon as I can, but time ticks by so quickly and there's so much to do.

A lovely surprise

I had such a lovely surprise in the post today - all the way from the States - and completely unexpected.

It was from Rosemary and Jana who run the Order of the Opus Gluei challenge blog with a card that said that they thought that this Christmas paper might be fun for m and my Christmas challenges. How kind is that?!


Thank you so much, Rosemary and Jana.

On a winning streak

I have been privileged to win quite a few challenge prizes recently - I've amassed quite a few digis as a result of being able to spend vouchers - you'll be seeing these from time to time on the cards I produce. You can see the challenges I've won recently in my sidebar.

I have also received 5 promarkers for winning challenge 48 on One stitch at a time.

I recently received a £10 voucher to spend at Lili of the Valley as the prize for winning a challenge on Kort o mania - I bought 3 stamps: together forever, destiny's moon and busy baking.

And I received a voucher for £10 to spend at Joanna Sheen's online shop for winning challenge 37 on I love promarkers - I bought some embossing folders (a girl can't have too many).

I am a very happy crafter.

And, as if that wasn't enough, I received a surprise gift today - I'll post about that in a while.

Blog candy draw result

Thank you to all those who joined in my blog candy draw and also to those who became followers for the first time - unfortunately, there is only one winner. I used random.org and this is the result:

Congratulations, Nasz Kolorowy Swiat. Please email me: hazelharris@ntlworld.com with your name and full address, including country and I will get the prize into the post.

Celebration Candy

As this post will be on top until 6 March,
please scroll down to see recent crafting.
Thank you.

I started this blog on 1 March 2007, so it's been going now for nearly four years.

During this time I have made many crafting friends in blogland and am so grateful for everyone who visits and for the many comments that are so appreciated.

I can't believe it that today (10 February) my visitors count has reached 100,000 - a cause for celebration (I didn't start the actual sitemeter counter until nearly the end of April 2007).

So I'm offering this candy as a celebration:


Dovecraft Premium Embossed Cards (5 cards with envelopes) Sports
Dovecraft Premium Embossed Cards (5 cards with envelopes) Birthday
Dovecraft Premium Embossed Cards (5 cards with envelopes) Daisy Floral
Dovecraft 8 x 8 designer paper pack (48 sheets) - Retro floral prints
Black Magic Core'inations Hocus Pocus (20 sheets 6 x 6)
V & A 24 sheet 6 x 6 Linen Paper pack
Papermania Clear Stamps: Doodles, Clare Curd's signature range
Papermania Sparkling trims: baby pink
Papermania Sparkling trims: brown
American Crafts Elements Pearl brads

To be in with a chance to win, all you need to do is leave a link to your blog once you've linked back to me from your blog - either in a post, or by putting a link in your sidebar - telling others about my candy celebration.

The draw is open to anyone and everyone, whether you're a frequent visitor or here for the first time - and I'm willing to post worldwide, so distance is no problem.

If you're not already a follower of my blog I would love it if you became one.

I will keep this post on top until midnight UK time Sunday 6 March and will do the draw the next day, using random.org.

Please scroll down below this post for recent crafting.

Black, white and red

On 365 cards, Sunday is always a super sketchy day, so this is for today, day 6:

Papers are from my offcuts box and the chipboard embellishment with button is one from a pack of five from Poundland (another good bargain).

This is also for:

Shabby tea room 51: classic elegance - red, white and black
The play date cafe 71: colour splash player's choice - black and white with a limited use of colour
One stop craft 121: black, white and one other colour
Paper sundaes 59: stripes
Iris' spot 14: buttons

So far I've kept to my March resolution and am now up to date with the 365 cards challenges (but we're only up to day 6 ....)

Winter and summer collide

'Winter and summer collide' is the topic for 365 day 5.

I have a set of Whispers stamps for the four seasons, so I stamped the winter one with black ink on to white card and the summer one with light blue ink on to white card and then coloured in tree, blossom and leaves with copics. The 'winter' paper is a piece from my Christmas scraps box and the 'summer' is PM Honey & hugs. Why is it that irl the blossom matches the summer paper, but not on the scan?

I thought it went well with the verse from Ecclesiastes 3:1: 'There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens.'

CHNC challenge 10: embossing

It's hard to believe that we are already into March and today sees the launch of CHNC challeng 10 - you can read more about it here.

And this week there is a prize - one randomly selected crafter will win a Papermania snowflakes embossing folder and a Stampavie Rachelle Anne Miller clear Snowman stamp.

I've used one of these embossing folders and stamp on my card for this challenge (the winner will get unopened products, not the ones that I've used - lol!).

The card I used with the embossing folder has a sparkly sheen to it which isn't visible here. I used the same card to stamp the snowman and coloured with copics.

Having already chosen the topic of 'embossing' for my challenge 10 I was surprised to see that this week Bah! humbug 9 is also asking for embossing, so I'm linking my card there. And today's Die cut dreams Christmas 56 is 'inspired by a song' - so this is for 'Frosty the snowman' - also for Try it on Tuesday: inspired by a song. It's also for Winter wonderland: snowflakes.

Please click here to have a look at this my challenge 10 and, hopefully, join in - don't forget, there is a prize.

I'm also linking this to a new challenge on Stamping Vacation called: name the challenge challenge - so this is my challenge for my own CHNC challenge 10, which can also be found here.

I am celebrating with some candy - you can read about it and sign up here - only a couple of days to go now - you've got to be in it to win it!

A March resolution

New Year is usually the time for resolutions, but now I'm making a March resolution. When 365 cards first started I more or less kept up with every day's challenge, but last year I failed miserably. So I'm making a new start with their new year from 1 March (although, of course, I'm already three days behind - lol!).

So this card is for the white space sketch for 365 day 1 (I just turned it on its side):

As it's a 'white space' card it is, of course, clean and simple, using the lovely Leaping sheep border stamp by Inca, coloured with copics, and a PM sentiment stamp.



This is also for:

Stamp it crazy: spring beaver - use a spring animal
Crazy challenge 56: here comes spring
Incy wincy 83: spring is in the air
Crazy amigo: spring is in the air
Everybody art 131: spring
Oldie but goodie 13: spring is in the air (the oldie is the sentiment stamp)
Fab n funky 62: spring into action
Cute card Thursday 154: signs of spring
Delightful: welcoming spring

I am celebrating with some candy - you can read about it and sign up here - less than a week to go now - you've got to be in it to win it!

Salt: Attitude

It was Stacy's turn to choose the topic for today's new challenge on Salt - you can read what she wrote here.

My LO is simple, using a piece of K & Co Urban Rhapsody as the background, superimposed with some cut out birds from another of the Urban Rhapsody papers. 'Attitude' was stamped using PM alphabet stamps and coloured with burnt umber copic (the paper for this and the other wording came out of my scraps box - it's one of K & Co papers).

The self-portrait photo is terrible, but that's just right for this project - I used the computer's built-in webcam (had to have a few attempts).

The writing says:

My attitude should be respectful, cooperative, accountable, humble, helpful, encouraging, loyal. Not resentful, defiant or disrespectful. (Hebrews 13:17, 1 Peter 2:13-15)

Please go and have a look at what the rest of the DT has done for this topic - and we would love to see any crafting response you make - just leave us a comment so we can come and have a look.

I am celebrating with some candy - you can read about it and sign up here - less than a week to go now - you've got to be in it to win it!

Another simple thank you

Another simple thank you card, this time using scraps and stitched ribbon - this time the colours are for Stampin' royalty 61: wild wasabi, sahara sand, garden green.

This is also for:


Creative craft: thank you
Fun at fairy knoll: feeling a little green
Mami doodles 21: make it monochromatic green

I am celebrating with some candy - you can read about it and sign up here

Moos and inchies

Postie has brought me the moos and inchies from the swaps for February on the BF forum.

Thank you, girls, for these lovely little works of art.

Love and romance inchies:

Sadly the love heart on Nicky's inchie got a bit worse for wear in the post - but perhaps it adds to the theme - sometimes, sadly, love and romance ends up with a broken heart!

Red for passion moos:

I am celebrating with some candy - you can read about it and sign up here

Less is more

This is for Less is More week 4: recipe: three squares. How come such a simple card took me so long?

I can't tell you the number of times I faffed around with this little Magenta stamp! It is inked with dusty concord.

I then discovered I'd got an Anna Griffin 'Hello!' stamp that I thought would be just right, but when I tried using it with the dusty concord DI I couldn't get a good impression, so I had to resort to using vibrant violet stazon. By this time I'd managed to get the squares right, otherwise I would have stamped the squares with the stazon.

All that for such a 'less is more' card (and the photo isn't up to much - it does actually look better irl) - the purple surround is my stamping mat, not part of the card.

This is also for:

Res-Q 72: boxes - use a square
If the shoe fits 68: let your purple shine!
I am celebrating with some candy - you can read about it and sign up here

DLO in Nicky's CJ

The month's go by quickly - it's time tomorrow to post the next CJ for the group on the BF forum and this time I had Nicky's to work on - 'view from my window'.

I used a snowy winter scene and a summery one, both taken from the window of my craft room. I used Laura Ashley contemporary papers because I have LA curtains in the same pattern as those I've used here. I pleated the paper and have only stuck it at the sides so that it can be lifted a bit to reveal a bit more of the photos.

I'm linking this for:

Let's craft and create 13: Anything but a card
I am celebrating with some candy - you can read about it and sign up here

BF February ATCs received

I received these fab ATCs from the group on the BF forum - the subject for February was 'stamping' - what a superb lot of ATCs - thank you, girls:


I am celebrating with some candy - you can read about it and sign up here

Bittersweet scraps

For Crafty Ho's challenge this week we could either choose to make a card from a photo inspiration and/or this sketch, which I chose:

This card is made with the scraps of BG bittersweet left from the cards I've been making earlier - this is for Delightful: use your scraps.

I used a nestie for the scalloped oval, stamped with a Stampin Up image and coloured with copics, distressing the edges of the scallops with a copic. So this is for:

Alota 53: using nestabilities
Creative inspirations 53: distress
Anything goes: distressing
CCEE 1108: distress
Pals paper arts 82: elements of style - scallops

It's also for:

Paper romance 39: anything goes
Flourishes timeless 106: birthday card
Spoon full of sugar 140: birthday wishes
Crafty Ann 35: birthday card
Stampin with the dragon: birthdays, birthdays, birthdays
The crafty pad 109: red, pink and black
Colour create 65: 3 fruits - strawberries, cherries and water melon
Stamp man 17: curls and swirls (plenty on the main paper)

I am celebrating with some candy - you can read about it and sign up here

Yay for the pound shop

When I saw this week's DCM challenge was 'Pound shop pretties' I thought I knew straight away what I would use - the other day I got some lovely chipboard flowers with buttons in the centres and also some felt flowers - I thought they were such a good find.

However, I had to go into Bromley this afternoon for something else, so I strayed into Poundland (I needed to get some envelopes anyway) and happened to see that they had packs of self-adhesive button embellishments.

So I've used these instead of the chippie flowers etc that I bought previously - perhaps I'll be back with thosee later.

I've not only used some of the black and white pack on this card, but also used the black patterned background that came in the packete (the 'buttons' were stuck to an acetate sheet so the black patterned card was unspoiled. Papers are BG bittersweet (yet again - the paper pad was still out so I thought I'd use it).

I used the sketch for Papertake 53:


The buttons have a small square of foam adhesive on the backs, but I took these off and poked out the holes to make them look more authentic.

The coffee latte stamp is Stamps Happen by Tara Reed - with just red bits coloured with coral copic.

This is also for:

The crafty pad 109: red, pink and black
Charisma cardz 8: black, white + one colour (hope it's OK that it's varying shades of pink/red)
Totally Gorjuss 69: black and one other colour (varying shades of!)
Tellen's place: buttons, buttons, let's see some buttons
Pink gem challenge 15: buttons, brads, beads, bows - use one, two, three or all
Raise the bar 55: mug shots - hot drinks
Colour create 65: 3 fruits - strawberries, cherries and water melon

I am celebrating with some candy - you can read about it and sign up here