Monday 18 March 2024

Birthday Make...

 
Hi Everyone, 
Welcome back to my wee bit of blogland.  I hope you're all doing well this week. Its turned much more like spring here in Scotland although its still very cold at nights. My daffodils are starting to bloom. As long as Teddy and the ball dont go near them and knock the heads off!!!! 
I was making a card for a friends birthday and decided to try and push my comfort zone with this sketch. It did have me muttering under my breath. I love how the card turned out though. I had a HUGE cull of papers and am left with only "good" ones. So its a joy every time I make something. Although I am a bit loathed to cut them!!!! 

Card Recipe
A5 Card
Stampin Up Papers. 
Sentiment and Gold Dots - Craftwork Cards.
Faux Stitching - Black Posca Pen.

Im hoping to try and make at least 1 Christmas card a month now till December. I really dont want to end up doing them like I did last year in a rush and not enjoying myself. Mind you we are coming up to birthday season here!!!! Also its going to be fence painting season too. The last of the bad winter storms knocked all my fence down so the new one is up now. Its gonna take a while to paint it all.

Love and Sparkles,

  Hazel xx

Challenges I would love to enter are...
AAA Birthday Cards - Geometric Birthday.

As You Like it - Monochrome or Colourful and Why.
I love a splash of colours on my makes as it cheers you up seeing the bright colour schemes. I especially love a bit of purple!!
Tuesday 12 March 2024

March Already!!!!



Hi Everyone,

I hope this post finds you all well. This year is fair flying past. I was going to try and post a card every month to my blog but February ran away with me!!! 

Mum wanted a card this last week for an old school friend. So here is the one I did. Well actually this is the 3rd one I did as the other 2 ended up in the bin. I was overtired and over ambitious!!! 

Its a lovely wee CAS make. I did Mums mothers day card too but I forgot to take pics of it. My bloggy brain isnt what it used to be!!

Card Recipe.
5 x 5 Card
Creative Expressions Peony Dies.
Coloured with Promarkers and prismacolour pencils for highlights.
Stamp free from magazine
Gems from stash.  

Im off to visit some blogs and also enter a few challenges. I have another card to be made int he next week so hoping to get that up on here too!! 

Love and Sparkles,

Hazel xx

Challenges I would love to enter are...
Get Creative Challenge - Sing a Song. (Happy Birthday to you!) 
The Paper Players - Colour Theme. 

Saturday 6 January 2024

2 Posts in 1 Week!!!

 

Hi Everyone, 

WOW thats 2 posts in one week and 1 more than I had in 2023!!!  Im going to try and make the effort to do things for me this year and I love crafting and blogging so thats on my list. 

I decided at the start of December I would make a few wee cards!!! Bit late in the day!!!
I made some wee CAS makes as I knew they would be quick and easy to do. I didn't realise how much I need new glasses though as it was a bit sore on the old eyes with some of the tiny images. 


Card Recipe
4 x 4 Cards.
Snowman stamp from Stash.
 Coloured with Prismacolour pencils and Posca Pen for spotty scarf.
Stardust Stickles Glue.
Sentiment Stamp Clearly Besotted.
Lines on card made with a score board.

I dont know who this wee snowman stamp was by. I had a huge tidy and threw out lots of packaging and never thought at the time I would need to remember who my stamps were by!! Silly Cookie!!! 

I hope you have a super weekend. I dont know what we are up to. Ive got a few wee DIY projects on the go so will probably be doing part of one of those. Its either all or nothing here with tasks!!! 

Love and Sparkles,

Hazel xx

Challenges I would like to enter are...
Alphabet Challenge - T is for Texture.
Krafty Chicks - Use Stamps

Friday 5 January 2024

Creative Creases Guest Designer....

 Hi Everyone, 

Happy 2024!!! Wishing you all good health and happiness for the coming year. Its a wee January miracle!!! Ive actually posted on my blog!!!! Ive got another make too for later in the week!!! 


Im here today with a card I made a wee while back for a birthday and also as a Guest Designer for Creative Creases Challenge


I won the challenge at the start of January last year and unfortunately life threw some huge curveballs my way so Im just having my wee turn as the Guest Designer now. Was meant to be way back in June!!! Sorry to the Gang over on Creative Creases for my delay. 
 Here are a couple of different angle shots of my card. 
My make was for my bestie who turned 50 a couple of months back. I got the SVG file for this make over on SVG Cuts.  Its a great wee file as it folds so you can post the make. She loves sunflowers so this was perfect for her.  

I have  used a swiss dots embossing folder on the centres of the flowers to make them more dimensional and also a wood effect embossing folder on for the wood of the crate. I ended the creation with a bit of sparkle as you cant have a card from Didos without a bit of glitter on it!!!! 

Hope everyone is doing well. I will have to have a wee nosy round your blogs. 

Love Hazel xx

Challenges I would like to enter with my make are....
CRAFT Challenge - Anything goes. 
Wednesday 8 February 2023

Butterfly Birthday...


 Hi Everyone,

Ive been meaning to post this card here all week but I have no idea where the days vanish to!!!

I hope you have all had a decent start to 2023. Wishing you all a lovely year ahead. Im trying to craft a bit more as it really helps my mental health. Just now I am doing a Udemy Course with Gentleman Crafter and Cal Summers to learn how to make a scrapbook using my scan and cut. Im about half way through. The plan is to make it a Teddys first year book once its finished.  We have some fab pics from his first year. Cant believe he's 1 next month He is such a lovely wee doggy.
Card Recipe

 Hunkydory Set called Flight of the Butterflies Platinum Edition.
A5 Cardstock

I love the way the card has foiling on it. It makes it look extra special. I hope the colours look ok on your screens I have a new laptop and the colours look slightly off here but I dont want to mess about with it too much.

Thanks for taking the time to drop by my blog,

Love and Sparkles,

Hazel xx

Challenges I would like to enter are...
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes with Option of Female Birthday
Saturday 10 December 2022

Christmastime 2022...

 

Hi Everyone,

I hope this blog post finds you all well. Its been so long since I last used my blog and I had forgotten how to do things, so this post has taken a while to do!!! 

I thought I would come on and share one of my very few festive creations with you all. 
Ive not been crafting very much so I have only made a couple of festive cards. This is one of them. Its so sparkly and pretty I just wanted to share it.
Life and illness has really got in the way of crafting this year!!! Heres hoping 2023 is much more creative!!! 
I have just got a huge kallax unit from Ikea so everything in the craft room is in a real guddle!! Its guess where I put everything when I go to craft!!! Silly fibro brain fog makes me forget stuff lots just now!!! 
Ive also got a new little helper!!!! Or hindrance!!!!! Meet Teddy!!!
Teddy moved in in May. 
My beautiful Baby Belle pupper passed away in March after a brave battle with nasal cancer. 
Heres a wee pic of him just after he arrived. Hes a miniature Jack Russell. Hes not that much smaller than Belle was, about an inch littler. Still full of puppy naughty times!!! He will be 9 months old next week.  
What a cutie!! Shame he hated sleeping on his own to begin with!!! 

Anyways on to where I got my card items from...

Recipe
Off White Cardstock from Amazon.
Red Mirri Card
Crafts U Print Scan and Cut File
Modge Podge Glitter Effect on the flowers.
Pearls from stash

Thanks for dropping by today.  I will try to enter a few challenges. Again, Ive not done this for about a year so forgive me If I get it all mixed up!!! 

Hope you all have a lovely festive season,

Love Hazel xx

Challenges I would like to enter are...
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes with Option of Last Minute Christmas.
Winter Wonderland- Anything Christmas Goes. 
CRAFT Challenge - Christmas.
Krafty Chicks - Christmas
Creative Creases - Anything Goes with a Fun Fold. (Thank You Karen for the heads up about this challenge.)

Friday 7 January 2022

Happy New Year...

 Hi Everyone,

I have been meaning to do this post for almost a week now!!! Where do the days go???

Wishing Everyone a lovely 2022. I hope that it brings you all happiness and joy.

I am still not really making cards and stuff much. As if 2021 wasnt hard enough with Toms heart issues and hospital stay (see post below) my best furry friend in the whole world was diagnosed with nasal cancer on the 29th December. 

Im spending as much time with Belle as I can before the unimaginable happens. 
I did think that after all Toms trauma that 2021 couldn't get worse but it certainly did!!! 

Fezziwigs will still be on hold until things start to settle. I really struggled for festive cards this season and eventually bought some from The British Heart Foundations Shop in our town. I have used their website a fair few times over the last couple of months so felt it was a good trade for hand made makes.  

Ive been looking back at old pics of Belle and found this one the other day. It made me laugh lots. She certainly has been the perfect dog. Mind you 5 minutes after this pic was taken she had eaten half the book!!! 
Stay safe wherever you are,

Love Hazel xx

Monday 1 November 2021

Better Late than Never!!!

 

Hi Everyone,
I hope you are all doing ok and keeping safe during these weird times we are living in.
I thought I would pop on and share the make I did for Toms birthday way back at the start of August!!! He turned 17 and I gave him driving lessons for his birthday but as you will see from my post hes only had 1 and the rest have had to wait!!! 

Thank You to the folks who have reached out to me to see how I am doing.
Its been a stressful year with a couple of bereavement's and the last few months have been difficult as Tom has been seriously ill.
Tom was away at an Outward Bound Adventure of a lifetime at the start of the summer and when he came home he was under the weather. 
Initially put it down to not eating the food there as he didn't like it and he was really exerting himself with lots of outdoor adventures. (He even climbed Ben Nevis while feeling slightly unwell!!!) 
He just didnt pick up and his symptoms were all very vague. He tried to go back to school after the summer but he was so exhausted and by that stage was hardly able to eat so we went back to the Doctors. (We had already been). Thanks fully the second Doctor called the main hosp for the area and he was to go up the next day for investigations.

That was the 1st of September and he was admitted that day and was in for 3 weeks. He has had infective endocarditis. (An infection in the lining of his heart.) He has a small congenital heart defect (a little hole)  and the bug (Strep Mitis) got into his system and went to work. He had so many tests. Very brave lad!!!  He was on IV antibiotics for 6 weeks. 3 in hosp and 3 at home with me being trained up to do them at home for him. Our kitchen was like a wee medical room with all the drugs and stuff!!! 
He now has 2 appointments next week at the main hospital in Scotland for Congenital Heart issues. He will find out then if they want to do heart surgery as once you have had endocarditis you are more likely to get it again and it may be a safer option to have the hole closed. So its been a very stressful time all round for the poor boy. 

He feels much better now and has just about caught up on his school work! He is such an academic lad. 

My make was meant to be shared way back but as you can imagine I have been a tad distracted! I still havent really been in the craft room much. My mojo has well and truly hidden! Very stressed out worried Mum here!! 

The tent has a tealight in it so it lights up at night. I added some extra bits to it as one of the only days Tom went out over the summer after his adventure trip he went fishing with a friend. They caught mackerel but Toms ones were too wee so had to go back in the sea. Im quite relieved at that as I dont think I would be able to gut a fishy!!!


Thanks for dropping by today.

Love and Sparkles,
Hazel xx

Challenges I would like to enter are...
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes. 
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes. 
Alphabet Challenge - O for Outdoors.
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes. 
MAWTT - Anything but a card.

Wednesday 18 August 2021

Fezziwigs Hols continue.

 Morning Everyone.

I was meant to restart Fezziwigs Festive Frolics today for the winter season. Due to a number of wee bumps in the road in real life over the last couple of months I have decided not to resume at the moment. 

I hope everyone is doing well and has had a lovely summer. 

Fezziwigs will be back as some point in the future. I do have a huge pile of wedding stationary for Jake and Lynne that I need to start working on so I cant give a date at the moment. 

Stay Safe Folks,

Love and sparkles,

Hazel xx




Saturday 3 July 2021

Best Friends...

 

Evening Everyone,
Its gone from really hot here to freezing and raining tonight!!! Its really miserable. Least I dont have to water the garden tonight now!!! 
I have been playing in the crafty room and here is one of my makes I have done. I watched a  transparent water tutorial by Sandy Allnock and made my own card using the idea. 
Card Recipe
A6 Card
Stamps from Clearly Besotted.
Coloured with Promarkers and Copics.
Splashes Posca Pen
Doodling by Hand.
Transparent glue for bubbles. 

I hope you are enjoying the summer. I have been in the garden a bit. I cant do too much or I end up exhausted. Its lovely to just potter about though!!! 

Stay Safe,
Love and Sparkles,
Hazel xx

Challenges I would like to enter are...
Allsorts - Sun, Sea and Sand. 
Inkspirational - Maritime. 

Crafty Catz - Add Some Doodling. 
Krafty Chicks - Stamp Act. 
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes. 
(Inspired by the friendship between the wee fishy and the shark)