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Sunday 6 December 2009

Christmas flowers and flourish

I was asked by a friend to make this card, using a photo that she gave me, which I scanned. As these carol singers were dressed in deep purple - and a red hat - I decided to use that colour scheme - I know that it's unusual for Christmas, but it just seemed to go with the photo.

The background is a matt satin finish foil, such a beautiful rich purple, a bit of a pity to cover it with the music vellum, but that seemed to fit the theme of the card. For the red colour, I used two of the poinsettias that I received with one of my BF secret santa packages (read about it here). The flourish with snowflakes is a chipboard piece from Tando Creative (feast your eyes on the wonderful items on their blog), which was included in the Bubbly Funk October kit. It started off as naked chipboard - I coloured it with a purple Copic, Sakura metallic silver on the outer parts of the snowflakes and Sakura white glaze pen for the inner parts of the snowflakes. I then topped it all with glossy accents (as usual, you can see from the bottom picture that I was a little impatient for the GA to dry because you can just see a cloudy bit. I added the little sparkly snowflake with the silver gem (also part of the October kit) and added a few other silver gems, including the centres of the snowflakes.

This fits a few challenges:

Pile it on 26: flowers and flourishes
365 cards day 272: 'crossing the line' - let elements hang over the edge on at least tree sides
Saturday spotlight 10: 'Christmas flowers'
Sketchy colors (Norway) 1: 'color: purple/lilac'
Allsorts 30: purple
Kaboodle 19: 'snowflakes'
Sophisticat 13: 'snowflakes and sparkle'
Design Dollies elements challenge: 'Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow - snowflakes'
Creatalicious 4:'include snowflakes and lots of sparkle'
2 red bananas: 'Christmas/winter card'
Pollycraft: 29 'Ria's wonderful Christmas time'
Creative card crew 39: 'Christmas'
Spoon full of sugar 80: 'non-traditional Christmas colours' (I know that red is traditional, but purple isn't)
All that scraps: 'anything Christmas'
Stampavie and more 72: 'Christmas'
Crafty Calendar 3: 'winter sparkle'
My time to craft 68: 'winter pals!'
Artful inkables: 'chipboard'
Creative Belli 79: 'chipboard'






Don't forget: If you go to the top of my blog you will find the post about my celebration candy - you've got to be in it to win it! I now have 100 followers, so I'll be adding something more to the blog candy.

16 comments:

  1. Oh Hazel,
    This is just brilliant,
    Thanks for joining us at Kaboodledoodles.
    I love seeing your work
    Hugs
    Angie

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  2. great card - thank you for joining with MTTC challenge again x

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  3. Hi Hazel

    A brilliant card.

    Lots of great details.

    I love your snowflakes and backing paper.

    I know what you mean about waiting for the glossy accents to dry - mine usually ends up with a fingerprint in it and I have to start again.

    Patience is a virtue and all that!!! LOL!!! Perhaps Santa will bring me some.

    Thank you for bringing your purple along to Allsorts this week.

    Love Jules xx

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  4. Love the manuscript background!
    Thank you so much for joining in with the challenge from My Time to Craft this week!
    Chrissie

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  5. These are great Hazel. Love the Poinsettias.

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  6. Beautifull done hazel :) thanks for joining Pollycraft this time,
    hugs Ria

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  7. Those look like quite tricky photos to work with but you've done a fab job - particularly like the chippie snowflake swirl on this one!

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  8. Another great card, thanks for taking part in the MTTC challenge xx

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  9. oh wow hazel, love it... and yes, the purple was just a wonderful choice for the card!!!!

    Thanks for playing w/ us at Pile It on!

    -- dalis

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  10. GEEZ Hazel you are powering through the challenges this week, I wish you all the luck for them and thank you for playing along with us at Sophisticats this week. Hugs Avril xxxx

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  11. I love seeing how illustrators use their own set! And I love seeing such out of the ordinary ideas! Love this

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  12. WOW Hazel, this is just gorgeous hun!! I love how you've made this so personal with your photo!! Beautiful flowers and design for sure!! Thanks for joining us at Saturday Spotlight!! HUGS

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  13. Love it tons Hazel!!! Love the flourishes and flowers so much! Thanks for playin with us Dollies!

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  14. Great card.

    Thanks for joining us at Allsorts this week

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  15. Beautiful1 I love all the details thanks for plying in the Belli challenge

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  16. oh Hazel,this is gorgeous!!! Love the poinsettias & flourishes!
    Thanks for playing along in The Spotlight!
    Blessings, Maria

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