Hazel's Happy House

Blog Candy Alert

2012-02-28T21:00:00.002Z

Well, it's coming up to my one year blogoversary and I promised some candy. Here is a photo of it all. It's going to one lucky winner chosen at the end of February. All the numbers will go in a hat and the winner will be picked by my husband, Eric. That means if you don't win, you can blame him!! I'm going to attempt to keep this as a sticky at the top of my blog until the end of the month, let's hope it doesn't slip down.

The instructions to enter are -

Become my follower if you aren't already
Post a photo of my candy on your sidebar
Comment below

Here are the items that are in the prize: a packet of five Vita papers, Papermania sticker letters, small gift cards to decorate, Kanban gold family title labels, 2 small brag albums in pink and blue, 2 3D photo frames, 2 packs of fabric tags, 3 bunches of flowers, 1 length of white satin ribbon and a $20 gift voucher for Stitchybear Digital Stamps Store. You can spend it at any time and you don't need spend it all at once. I hope you have as much fun choosing your digis as I do each week.

Love is in the Air

2012-02-20T21:42:00.003Z

This is the second card I've made today, very simple but OK, I'm not in love with it but as I'm not 100% I think it will do. I used a small square card blank by Craft UK. The backing paper is from a pad that I received free in a magazine. The red card is from Ross Paper and the red starry sticky paper was from a craft show that I visited a few months ago. I got one sheet each of most colours and this is the first time I've used any of them. The image is also from a freebie pack from a magazine. This was a cheap card! lol The red organza ribbon is from Joanna Sheen.

I'm entering this in to the following challenges:

Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog - Love is in the Air
Hookedoncraft challenges - Hearts
Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes
Scrappers Delights - Love

Get Well Soon

2012-02-20T14:26:00.001Z

I bought these stamps when I was at Bluewater Craft Show and I've been looking forward to using them. Stamped on to the cream card and then backed with yellow, leaf green and bottle green card makes them look very elegant. I added a small sentiment generated on the computer and backed it with the bottle green card. The bottle green and bright yellow card is by Ross Paper and the green is by Payper Box. The small card blank is by Craft UK. I've thrown away the packaging for the stamps and I cannot remember who made them so I must apologise for that - I love them too so I'm annoyed with myself for forgetting!

I'm adding my card to the following challenges:
Moving Along With the Times - Get Well Soon
Challenge up your life - Get Well Soon

#101 A Sign of Spring

2012-02-19T12:00:00.008Z

This week the theme of the challenge at One Stitch at a Time is Use a digi - no rubber stamps! I used an image by Donna at Stitchybear Digital Stamps and it's called 'A Sign of Spring'.

I used a Craft UK small square card blank. The bronze card is by Papermill and the backing paper is by My Mind's Eye. I coloured the image with my Promarkers and gave the centres of the flowers some bling with my Sakura stardust pen, before cutting it with a Spellbinders nestie. I coloured and cut out the flowers again and decoupaged them to give some depth to the image. I used three small pearls, from Wild Orchid Crafts, at each corner.

The sponsor this week is Joanna Sheen who wil be supplying a £10 gift certificate for her online store.

I'm entering my card in to the following challenges:

Stamps R Us - Anything Goes

Ladybug Crafts Ink - Spring is in the Air

I love Promarkers - Nature

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge - Anything Goes

Fairy Tale Challenge Blog - Spring

Allsorts Challenge - Anything Goes

Been Busy

2012-02-18T19:47:00.000Z

I'm still here but I've been busy. We visit my sister on a Thursday so that takes best part of the day and yesterday we had friends here for lunch. That meant best part of yesterday was out! I have been crafting but getting nowhere fast. I'm busy knitting and managed ten rows today! Considering that I used to knit for hours at a time when I was younger that wasn't a big deal today. Never mind a few months ago I couldn't knit at all wearing my varifocals and now I have some single lens specs and it's made all the difference. I'm also using some eye drops from my GP and things are looking much brighter. lol

Today I've also made one DT card and almost finished a second. We've had a quiet day so I've been really enjoying myself. Apart from making breakfast, lunch and dinner I haven't done any housework. Eric was quite happy watching the sport on TV. Tomorrow I'm going to be doing some ironing so I may not be crafting or blogging until later in the day. The joys of housework, ugh!

I hope you're all enjoying your weekend, here's to a peaceful Sunday for you all. Happy days.

L is for my favourite things

2012-02-15T19:50:00.001Z

My card is covering two challenges today and I've had a lot of fun making it. The challenge over at Whoopsie Daisy is a sketch and CD Sunday has L for.............. I've used Daisy and Friends CD by Joanna Sheen with drawings by Linnie. My L is for my favourite colour Lime Green with a lovely little boy and little boys are my favourites too. There's a lot of love gone into this card and Linnie is the artist! Lots of Ls.

My card blank is a small square by Craft UK. The lime green card is by Papermill and the checked backing paper was from a freebie pad given with a magazine a few months ago. The green band across the middle is by First Edition from their pad called Hideaway. I've used a Cuttlebug die to cut the photo corners and a brad by Wild Orchid Crafts is top right. The four Card Candi pieces complete the design.

Whoopsie Daisy Challenge

2012-02-12T14:55:00.000Z

This is the first time I've used my new Joanna Sheen CD - Daisy and Friends - all drawn by Linnie! I had to use Maisy because she is so cute.

I used a small Craft UK card blank and backing paper that I've had so long that I've completely forgotten where I bought it, sorry. The orange pearlised card is by Payper Box and I bought it at the Bluewater Craft Show last week. I coloured Maisy with my Promarkers and used Distress Ink in Spiced Marmalade on the edges. The doiley is from my candy win from Nataliya. I used a small aqua gem in each corner, they were from Create and Craft.. The orange ribbon was a freebie that I've had for ages.

This is to be entered in the Whoopsie Daisy Challenge.