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Welcome to my blog where I post regular photographs of cards I have made. I hope you enjoy looking through my cards and I would like to thank you for taking the time to stop by and also for leaving any comments and following my blog. I shall also be posting a few of my knitting projects too.

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Friday 29 November 2013

Christmas Door

Hello crafters and followers, hope you are all well?  By the time this is posted I shall be on my way back from a relaxing week in Clawton just outside Holsworthy, getting back in time to put my tree up and christmas will start in our household - lovely.

Well Christmas is almost on us, yes honestly, it is on the countdown now and here is my first christmas card of the year.

I started with a C5 card in centura pearl and matted some black card onto that. I then took another piece of centura pearl card, embossed it using falling leaves A4 embossing folder and distressed it using fired brick distress inks.

I die cut a piece of black card using the 5x7 card creator die which fitted my topper perfectly.  My flowers were die cut with a marianne die using gold mirri and some red card topping them off with a dollop of silicone glue and covered it with gold glitter.  The leaves were also marianne die using mirri card.

Shopping List: -

Spellbinders 5x7 Card Creator Die
Marianne Dies for flowers and branches.
A4 Embossilicious embossing folder - falling leaves.
Fired Brick distress inks.
Hunkydory christmas set which was a freebie from Doncaster last year.

Hope you like today's christmas card and thank you for stopping by.

Take care and see you soon.

Challenges: -


Friday 22 November 2013

Autumn Has Arrived at SDD Challenge.

 

 
Hi crafters and followers.  Hope you all find yourself well and happy today.  Yes it is that wonderful time again, time for a new challenge over at Stampin with the Dragon.
 
My dt for this month is a hybrid one using serif craft artist professional.
 
Shopping List
 
Tree Frame Stamp - Stamping Dragon Designs
Penny's Apples - Stamping Dragon Designs
Copics - E11 | E15 | E18 | YR07 | YG91 | YG95 | YG00 | G05 | G07 | G17 | E77 | E74 | E79
Serif Craft Artists Professional 2

I began with the backing papers which I took into Serif Craft Artist.  I then inserted some branches and twigs fromone of the programmes.  The ribbon and bow is also from a digikit in the Serif Craft Artist.

Next I turned my attention to the frame which I too into the cutout studio cut some of the white parts on the outside off and converted it into an intelligent frame.    The verse I found from a free site on the internet.

I printed this part out and attached it to my card and then coloured in Penny's Apples Digi Stamp with my copics.  I do think this is the beauty of digi stamps, they can be used for normal crafting and also for digi crafting.

Thanks for checking out my blog and do pop over to the challenge here.

Don't forget to pop over to the shop and check out the beautiful digi stamp and papers at such brilliant prices - just follow the links.

The prize for the winner is a £5 voucher to the


You may want to check out the following too: -
Links:

STORE: Stamping Dragon Design: http://dragonslairdesigns.com/shop/

Challenge blog: Stamping with the Dragon: http://stampingwithdragon.blogspot.ie/

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/427447597324391/

Sister blog: The Dragons Den: http://stampingdragondesigns.blogspot.ie/

Take care. See you soon.
 
 

Friday 8 November 2013

Dragons-SDD Challenge


Good morning crafters and followers.  Friday is here and I love it as my weekend officially starts.  I don't work Friday's.  Shopping this morning first thing and then some crafting me thinks. 

Saturday is NEC day with major retail crafting therapy and a wonderful day with my friend Wendy.  Lots of catching up, lots of coffee stops, loads of shopping and lots of mooching.  Absolute heaven.

Well my post today is my DT entry for the latest challenge over at Stamping with the Dragon.

Ingredients Used: -

Digi Stamp Penny's Apples
Backing Papers - Gentle Waves
Copics used were - G21|G28|G29|YG03 = Penny
                                E53|E57|E59 = apple tub
                                R32|R35|R37 = apples
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Shabby Shutters | Tea Dye
Spellbinders - labels 23
Heartfelt Creations - classic leaf
Marianne Die - maple leaf
Desiree Leaf
150mm centura pearl card
red card
Creative Expression 4A Embossing Folder-Sea Garden.
Crafters Companion Silver Sparkle Spray.

Well it's a square card for this challenge.  I started with a plain white 6x6 card, matted some red card followed by my backing paper - Gentle Waves which I embossed with the sea garden embossing folder and then distressed around the edges with distress ink - tea dye.

I coloured my digi stamp, Penny's Apples, using my copics and die cut her out using spellbinders labels 23 which I distressed whilst in the die using shabby shutters.

Using another of the backing papers from Gentle Waves I die cut my leaves, distress inked with shabby shutters and then sprayed them with silver sparkle spray.

Thanks for checking out my blog and do pop over to the challenge here. 

Don't forget to pop over to the shop and check out the beautiful digi stamp and papers at such brilliant prices - just follow the links.

The prize for the winner is a £5 voucher to the
 


You may want to check out the following too: -
Links:

STORE: Stamping Dragon Design: http://dragonslairdesigns.com/shop/

Challenge blog: Stamping with the Dragon: http://stampingwithdragon.blogspot.ie/

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/427447597324391/

Sister blog: The Dragons Den: http://stampingdragondesigns.blogspot.ie/

Take care.  See you soon.







Sunday 3 November 2013

Hettie on Stage

Hi folks, hope you are having a fabulous Sunday and getting some crafting in.  Me, I am watching christmas movies, yes I  know, it's a bit early but I do like that feel good factor. 

My post today is another card I made for Hettie.  This one was from her grandmother.  As you can guess Hettie sings and I am told very well according to my mom.  I haven't heard her unfortunately.

The image is a digi stamp I found on Esty and coloured in with my copics.  The backing paper is centura pearl embossing using the swirl embossilicious folder- the8x8- which I do love.  So useful. The flower is a spellbinders and the leaves are from crafters companion dies I think.  Beautiful dies I have to admit, so useful.  Hettie is stamped with Clarity alphabet stamps, again such a useful stamp collection to have in your stamp stash.
I have put some glitter on the feather wrap using a glue stick and white glitter.

Hope you like this one.  Thanks for stopping by.  Until next time, take care.