Hello denim card

For this months blog challenge on Let's Craft and Create I am sharing a card to say Hello"

As our theme, this month is paper strips instead of ribbon, I remembered that I had bought a  card kit from Hobby House called Mia Bella. As with all Hobby house kits, you can make so much from them and they have the best collection of embellishments if you are looking for an around kit to start off with.

This is just a selection of some of the card that I am using from the collection. I will still have enough left over to make another project.

Today I am really focusing on this sheet of denim card which will form the basis of my ribbon strips.

I used the Dreamees divine doily die on the denim daisy card stock.

For my flower I used some Fleurs flower forming foam with the Dreamees Sweet Sunflowers dies.

I inked the edges of the petals with an oil pastel, scrunched and shaped the petals a little before layering them up with a tiny drop of hot glue

In the centre of the flower I added a tiny drop of hot glue to stick the little white button down.

I used a rectangular stitched dies to cut my denim faux pocket out and used the card strips to edge the as ribbon. I did the same with the centre panel. The border strip along the base of the card worked really well as a stitched hem.

A few pale blue pearls and button to match my flower for the faux pocket with a "hello" sentiment to finish my card off.

Our design team have also been busy this month with projects of their own and there is always lots of fabulous inspiration shared by the crafters on our blog too. If you are interested,  there is a prize for the winning entry, following our theme and a badge for your blog for the top 3 runners up. Just click on the link below which will take you to our blog challenge. 

Happy Crafting!

Spring is in the Air with a bit of Hobby House

For this months challenge on Daisy Chains Blog, the theme is "Spring is in the Air" So I thought I would share with you my DT card for the month.

I have decided to make a daisy card using card and embellishments from The Hobby House Mia Bella collection.  This is such a sweet collection and particularly love the wood embellishment which forms the centrepiece to my card.

I love the backing paper I have used from this collection which actually looks like strips of material and I have added a string of their pearls to the coordinating ribbon from the kit.

For the centre panels, I have also used the Tattered Lace Essential Pindot Hexagon nesting die set to matt and layer the papers.

The flower stamps are Something Stitchy by The Dreamees along with the backing Pretty Pets backing papers.

This is such an adorable and fresh collection.  The cardstock is always good quality, as is the embellishments and Hobby House put a lot of thought into their collections ensuring that everything coordinated perfectly.

Have a look at what the rest of the design team have created this month.

Happy Crafting

Daisy Chain Designs DT Blog Challenge for February 2018 - Add a Heart Project 1

My card for Februarys Blog Challenge which is " Add a heart "

To make this card I used:-

• White linen card
• Hunkydory silver rainbow mirri board
• Hobby House pastel pink pearlescent card
• Hobby House raspberry pearlescent card
• Hobby House pearl strings
• Hobby House gems
• The Dreamees - A Charming Cascade stamp set
• pink organza ribbon
• X-cut nesting heart die set
• X-cut mini tag dies
• script embossing folder
• Wow silver superfine embossing powder

Hobby House pearlescent card has a rich colour and is fabulous quality. It doesn't crack when scored or embossed. I found this embossing folder in the sale in my little craft shop. Looks fabulous embossed onto the cardstock.

Next, I used my Stamping Up - I Love Lace background stamp to heat emboss with bright white fine Wow embossing powder onto the pastel pink pearlescent card. Then I die cut the heart out of it.

I absolutely love this lace background stamp, it actually looks like fine lace when embossed and the beautiful pearlescent card still shows through.

For the flowers, I stamped and heat embossed The Dreamees - A Charming Cascade flower stamp onto their sensational flowers backing paper from the cd using silver metallic Wow embossing powder. I then pinched the centre of the petals before layering them up and adding a pearl in the centre.

I layered up the linen cardstock with Hobby House pastel pink pearlescent card,  mirri board and then raspberry embossed pearlescent card.

I used Pinflair glue gel to stick the lace heart onto the card to give it dimension and then its just a case of placing all the other elements onto the card. I also used the glue gel for the flowers. Its a great adhesive for dimension and keeping elements in place. I dries clear with a rubbery finish. The embellishments are from the Hobby House Peach Raspberry Collection.

The main feature of this card being, of course, " add a heart ". My February birthday card for a friend.

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Hobby House - Mia Bella

Another fabulous kit by Hobby House is the Mia Bella kit which comes with a lovely selection of blue and cream patterned cardstock, embellishments and an embroidery hoop. Again there is a lot packed into this beautiful kit.

After watching a demo by Debbie Simpson using the embroidery hoop I decided this would be my next project. I particularly liked the little wooden girl embellishments.

First I drew around the outside of the embroidery hoop. Then using a Tattered Lace pearl circle die I die cut some coordinating circles to stick onto the largest circle.

Using a tacky glue that dries clear like cosmic shimmer, I glued the edge of the embroidery hoop and stuck my circle topper face down over the hoop, smoothing it down to make sure stuck smoothly.

Once dry I turned it over and glued the wooden embellishment in the centre along with two of the flower shaped buttons and the heart shaped one of the hat using the same glue.  I did tread a little of the twine through the buttons before sticking them down.

Using a Crafters Companion alphabet die I die cut the word friend using some of the coordinating cardstock

I used the pearl strings, which I glued (using the same glue) around the edge of the hoop. Finishing with a little more twine from the kit and a little ribbon from my stash that just happened to tie in nicely.

I still have a lot left to make more things with this kit.

Tattered Lace Pearl Circle Dies

I hope you like my friend hoop

Happy Crafting..

Hobby House

Hobby House make some beautiful card collections which are very well put together, colour coordinated with a selection of beautiful embellishments and ribbon to match. Again another family run craft business that produce good quality products that are inspirational and good value.

I especially love their embellishments which are quite unique and everything in their kits go together so well.  Debbie Simpson regularly demonstrates new collections on Create & Craft bringing lots of inspirational demos and great value for money kits from Hobby House.

These cards were made using the Cosy Christmas Kit.

I made this card into a shaker card using some acetate and glitter flakes by Debbi Moore. The pearl strings and all the embellishments you see are from the kit.


Using all the elements from the kit.

I made this card into an Easel card, adding some stickles clear glitter, also on the card above.

The toppers have lovely crisp images. I've just added some glossy accent and stickles clear glitter

 to them.

Another shaker card using all the elements from the kit and a little acetate and glitter flakes.

The charms are lovely and have some left over.

There is a good amount of ribbon in this kit and it goes far with some left over.

On this card I have added a cream scalloped card and embellished with Dreamees poinsettia flowers which have been heat embossed onto pearlescent paper, glittered some artificial flower stems and made a flower ring. The backing card and rest of the embellishments and sentiment are from the Hobby House.

I have done the same here and added a Dreamees doily die using Hobby House cardstock and papers, along with the embellishments and sentiment.

I still have card and lots of embellishments left over, which are so pretty. A lovely kit to make up.

The kit comes with a sample of cards you can make with this kit and this is what I made.

Happy Crafting