Tuesday 29 May 2012

It's Our 1st Birthday


The Craft-Room-Challenge is one year old and we've decided to celebrate with you lovely people who have made our fortnightly challenges such a success by having a Blog Hop. We are joined in this by one of our Wonderful sponsors, Liz Welch of Rarebird, the main prize, a Bend it Shape it DVD, has been donated by Rarebird for one lucky winner and she has also donated her other DVD Bend It Makes Cards as a runner up prize.


The start of the blog hop is at the Craft Room Challenge site and
You should have arrived here from My Bird Flying Free
Your next stop should be NM Card Creations

Our hop has a little twist instead of looking for a letter at each stop there will be a very easy question to answer.

My question is
What technique can be done with a light box, a folder or with some powder and a heat gun. 

 Like all such events the rules are simple visit each blog in the hop, leave a comment and make a note of the question. When all the stops have been visited you will end up back at the challenge site, don't forget to leave a comment there! Send an email to Zoe with the answers to all the questions and have fun! There is a prize donated by each team member to be won. The prize for my question is a Tim Holtz/Alterations Springtime Background and Borders Set of embossing folders.

We have a regular challenge as well, the theme is Birthday's, naturally. It has been chosen by Julia and she is donating a mystery prize.
This is my DT piece for the challenge and it's also the card I made for my friend Alison's birthday last week.


I fell in love with this stamp as soon as I saw it at Ally Pally, it's made by Chapel Road Artstamps. I coloured some card with lemon zest, vibrant turquoise and squeezed orange Dylusions sprays, then I stamped the image with black Stazon and used bleach on her face, then I painted some Crackle Accents over the image. I layered two Gecko Galz background papers onto a card blank and then adhered the image. I embellished the card with some sari ribbon, a charm and some pearls.

Before I go I'd like to thank everyone that entered the last challenge, we had some outstanding entries and I don't envy Maria having to choose her top 3. Have fun with the blog hop and I look forward to seeing your birthday entries.

32 comments:

  1. Lovely card Hazel, those dylusions sprays look like fun. Happy Birthday to the Craft Room, cheers Linda

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  2. Hi Hazel, what a fantastic card, love the beautiful colours on that stunning stamp and how you have bleached out her face, bet your friend loved it. Congratulations on the craft rooms 1st birthday, enjoying the blog hop. XX

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  3. Fabulous card Hazel. I wondered whose stamp that was. tfs. Isn't it great. I can see why you fell in love with it.
    Regards Florence x

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  4. Lovely card and stamp! Valerie

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  5. What a beautiful stamp, Hazel (and a beautiful card) - I bet you will get lots of use from it.

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  6. WOW Gorgeous colours and card Hazel, love that stamp too, Gay xxx

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  7. What a great card - I love how you have used bleach on the image

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  8. Gorgeous arty card Hazel... I'm off now to look at Chapel Road Art Stamps!
    Jo x

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  9. Beautiful card, love the idea of using bleach on her face..hugs my friend. G.

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  10. Hi hazel happy 1st birthday x I absolutely love this card, I've just bought some dylusions sprays at the weekend and your card has just give me the incentive to go play with them thank you, keep up the good work x x

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  11. Gorgeous card Hazel and lucky Alison.

    Sam xxx

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  12. Great card Hazel. I've only just discovered Chapel Road Art stamps but I really like them too. The images are simple but very different and very versatile.

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  13. Hi Hazel, well all I can say is wow. I have fallen in love with this stamp and I wondered how you had done the face, your'e so clever. I love those Dylusions sprays, but last time I used them I had bright pink hands for a week lol. Julia xxxx

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  14. great card, the colours are fab, I have not got round to having a proper play with the sprays yet, but after seeing that im looking forward to it.

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  15. Hi Hazel - I can see why you fell in love with that stamp, think I would have too, and your card is just gorgeous...Happy Birthday ! Esther xx

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  16. Hazel your card is so stunning, love it, Debi x

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  17. Gorgeous card and the colouring is sensational. Time and again you show us something different, creative and exciting struck here by how perfect your bleaching is. Thank you for being part of Craft-Room Challenge XOXO

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  18. Hi Hazel,
    oh this is fabulous creation,
    happy birthday;-))m

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  19. This is beautiful! Love it! Glad I hopped by!
    Hugs,
    Karen C
    www.busybusyhoneybee.wordpress.com

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  20. What a gorgeous card...I love the stamp too. Congrats on the 1 yr challenge bday. take care, gerri

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  21. Hi Hazel, happy birthday! Such a stunning card, I love the combination of the inks and the bleaching. I discovered the beautiful Chapel Road stamps at Port Sunlight, and naturally I treated myself to a few :-).

    Maria x

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  22. I want that stamp !!!! Its amazing and you have used it with so much creativity , cant wait to get my Dylusions so I can have a go. Fabulous work Hazel just stunning.

    Marie

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  23. really gorgeous card Hazel ! :)
    Von x♥x

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  24. I've never seen bleach used like this before - do you have a tutorial on how to do it? The card looks amazing, really unusual. :-)

    Velvet at www.crafting-chaos.co.uk

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  25. Fabulous effect achieved....Suzanne x

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  26. What a lovely card and a beautiful stamp! Claire x

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  27. Absolutely gorgeous card. I love the image. Hugs!

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  28. Hazel
    I saw your stunning card over at Alison's blog.
    It is positively striking and love your use of the stamp.
    Wishes
    Lynne

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  29. A very beautiful card with a feeling of peace about it

    Love Chrissie xx

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  30. Beautiful card Hazel.....wonderful stamped image!

    Shell~Alaska♥

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  31. Lovely card Hazel, full of wonderful techniques I have yet to try.
    Thank you for the chance to win your generous Tim Holtz prize : )
    Happy 1st Birthday Craft Room Challenge!!

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