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This page shows all of my blogs! Here, I announce new changes, demonstrate card-making and techniques, as well as showing off some water-colouring attempts.
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Christmas orders
Christmas orders open!
hazelbeauty
Nov 14, 20191 min read
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Halloween
Apart from making 46 chocolate crackles to give to the night's trick-or-treaters at my DS's request, I also painted a 'spooky'...
hazelbeauty
Nov 13, 20191 min read
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SpringENVY Sale!
Our buy 3 cash envelopes and get 1 free sale has almost ended! Get in now to redeem the offer! See https://hazelbeauty.wixsite.com/sandr...
hazelbeauty
Oct 28, 20191 min read
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Wedding Card with built-in gift card holder - September custom order
My September order was for a wedding card with a built-in gift card holder. Luckily, I'd recently seen a great design online, so I tried...
hazelbeauty
Oct 2, 20191 min read
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Christmas 2019!
I've been making Christmas cards for a while now, but I've just kicked off a whole heap of Christmas card posts for 2019! They are all in...
hazelbeauty
Sep 20, 20191 min read
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New Sale!
From Father's Day, 1 September 2019 to 1 November 2019, if you buy 3 gift card/cash envelopes you get a fourth envelope free! Use coupon...
hazelbeauty
Sep 1, 20191 min read
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Father's Day is coming!
1 September 2019 Want to celebrate a great dad? Check out my shop in the Father's Day category, or send me a message if you'd like a...
hazelbeauty
Jul 31, 20191 min read
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Dr Who custom cards!
Orders like these make card-making life bearable LOL! This May 2019 order was for two Dr Who themed cards. One dalek and one T.A.R.D.I.S....
hazelbeauty
Jun 11, 20191 min read
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2019 Hawkesbury Show win
After chatting with a friend, and being inspired by the idea of making a card set, I got working on four greeting cards for the...
hazelbeauty
May 15, 20192 min read
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Sydney Royal Easter Show 2019
My family and I went to The Show this year. On our long walk around the grounds we saw the giant fruit and veg displays, Jurassic world...
hazelbeauty
Apr 23, 20191 min read
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Easter craft
Not all of my crafting endeavours involve card-making and watercolour painting. Sometimes it branches out to other things, like making...
hazelbeauty
Apr 19, 20191 min read
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Butterfly Box Card
Due to popular demand, here is another lovely blue butterfly box card! This time it's for a custom order. As always, I'm happy to make...
hazelbeauty
Apr 16, 20191 min read
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New Zealand
I had an incredible time in New Zealand for the past two weeks! It is much cleaner and greener than Australia. LOL My family and I...
hazelbeauty
Apr 14, 20191 min read
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Rainbows
One thing I am really enjoying about card-making is distress oxide ink blending. There are so many brilliant colours! Given that my...
hazelbeauty
Mar 16, 20191 min read
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Fuschia
I recently made this lovely fuschia Thank You card. I absolutely LOVE how the green and pinkish purple blended together on the flower...
hazelbeauty
Feb 23, 20191 min read
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Out of action! :-(
While I may have been posting new cards recently, I have sadly been out of action. My shoulder has been very sore, possibly a pulled...
hazelbeauty
Feb 17, 20191 min read
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Bluejay
I'm really happy with how this watercolour painting turned out. I was asked to paint a Bluejay bird a long time ago, and I finally got...
hazelbeauty
Jan 30, 20191 min read
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Top 9 cards for 2018
It's so much fun to look back at a year of papercrafting and see what you made, how many you made, and to see the gradual growth that...
hazelbeauty
Dec 30, 20181 min read
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Teacher appreciation
I decided to make my son's preschool teachers a Thank you & Christmas card today. I didn't expect it to take 3 hours! This is a folding...
hazelbeauty
Dec 20, 20181 min read
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Watercolour successes so far
I had never really delved into watercolouring in the past. It seemed to be too hard, right? Wrong! With a huge case of watercolour...
hazelbeauty
Nov 28, 20181 min read
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