Hazel - Girl Spy

Hazel - Girl Spy
Hazel - Girl Spy

Monday 28 February 2011

Just Magnolia Challenge #95 Mina's sketch.

I have to say that prior to entering challenges I had never realised the importance of sketches and the fun involved in using them. I made the following card for my young friend Lucy and her partner Chris who have just had a baby girl. I know that she was born on 18 Feb but no more as the team at Fir Tree did not know more! Lucy is the assistant chef at Fir Tree and one of the most friendly, caring, obliging  and hard working people I have ever met. Nice just doesn't say it properly! I followed the sketch from the new challenge over at the Just Magnolia site which was devised by the lovely Mina. Needless to say I am entering it for the challenge there.


Baby Tilda

The card was cut out of an A4 piece of white cardstock on which I had traced a scalloped border. I cut a square mat and two circles out of the same sheet of pink cardstock. Out of pale pink Mulberry paper I cut two lengths to act as wide ribbon and tore down one side of one of the strips to give it a softer, feathery look. On the vertical strip I used some pink organza ribbon down the middle and on the horizontal, a strip of vellum which had the New Baby motif already printed on it. I placed baby Tilda, coloured with Promarkers and Frosted Lace Stickles, on foam pads above the  larger circular panel matted with paper that had with her toys on it!

The smaller pink circle at the junction of the two ribbons had a smaller circle added to it, cut from pink heart printed card which was the recycled card from a Papermania embellishment. Two holes were prepunched in this card and I threaded some of the organza ribbon through to simulate a bow. Some flatbacked white pearls, ribbon rosebuds and a dome sticker donated by Bernadette were added to complete. The animal paper and the vellum are from a set of pretty papers that I got some time ago from the Paper Mill but I have not recorded the makers.

I managed to make this card on Saturday morning waiting for my family to arrive but only photographed it today to upload. I'm not sure if it's down to consumption of alcohol yesterday but the image looks slightly out of focus to me!

We are all going out to buy luggage now; our other cases may not survive a long haul trip and Sian and Dan have none! Cheerio for now,


9 comments:

  1. Hello Hazel. Thank you for living such a nice comment on my blog. Edinburgh is magic, so beautiful. And now, when spring is coming - it is flooded by flowers, this is sth I absolutely love here. I haven’t seen Mull or Iona, I will this summer, along with Isle of Sky and many other destinations. I have seen amazing places here in Scotland like: Stirling, Inverness, Forth Augusuts, Forth William, Peebles, North Berwick, Mallaig, Stonehaven or St Andrews. But Edinburgh is number one!! I hope you will have the chance to visit your birthplace soon. I miss this Scottish town myself whenever I am away.
    Best wishes,
    Sylvia

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  2. Hello Hazel, I love your card for this sketch challenge, its a beauty. Thank you for visiting my blog and leaving a comment. Hugs Teresa xx

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  3. gorgeous card Hazel, deliciously pretty xx

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  4. It is beautiful, Hazel, and doesn't look out of focus to me!! Happy suitcase hunting!

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  5. beautiful card Hazel,I hope you managed to get some nice case's
    Kevin xx

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  6. This is just beautiful dear. Thanks for joining us at JM

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  7. stunning Hazel, I love that bright pink...a perfect liuttle girl card...thanks for using my sketch and joining in with the Just Magnolia & hAnglar challenge
    Mina xxx

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  8. very pretty card .... ah, where would we be without sketches!!
    xxx

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