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Good evening, thanks for popping in.  Hope you are all well. 

I have had a few days under the weather lately but starting to feel better now so thought I would have an evening catching up in Blogland and checking out all the lovely creations on the blogs that I follow, there are some really talented crafters out there!

Here's a little card that I made a a week or two ago, I have used a stamp from the Paper Smooches set, Chubby Chums, he is a cute little character and I just couldn't resist giving him some googly eyes :)  I have used some papers that I have had for years, not sure but they could be Dovecraft.  I have used my Epiphany punch and made some little embellishments from the paper and die cut a 'Happy Birthday' sentiment using a Die-Versions alphabet die. 

Well I think it better be an early night for me, perhaps a little tv before bed.

Until next time...

Dawn x

I'm All Ears

Good evening everyone, hope you are keeping warm, dry and not being blown about too much.  We have had a little snow in the last couple of days but it's not lasted so that's good.  

Had a great day at work today demonstrating the We R Memory Keepers Envelope Punch board, if you get the chance, have a look at all the amazing projects you can make with this neat little board, it's not just for making envelopes! There are loads of brilliant videos on You Tube. I will pop some pictures on my blog at a later date, but until then, here's a little card I made using Darcie's stamps, they are so cute!  

I stamped out the image twice and coloured in with my Copic pens, I then cut out the image, the rabbit twice so that I could layer the rabbit on top.  I embossed some white card and mounted onto some sky blue card and popped them all onto a white card blank.  I have punched some little flowers and die cut a leafy flourish to decorate the edge of the card.  The sentiment was a stamp from the set. 

Take care and thanks for popping in.

Dawn x

May Your Day Run Like Clockwork....

....Sadly my day was not like clockwork today :( but at least I was able to forget all my troubles at the Make and Take and enjoy the company of fellow crafters :)

The card I am showing you today has been made using the Cheery Lynn 'Owls With Gears' from their steam punk series. I have cut them out of some brown pearlescent card and then sat them on the Tim Holtz on the edge die, 'Steam Punk Cogs' The backing paper is from a Kanban paper pad, not sure if it was the Industrial or Mechanical pack but it was one or the other :)  It doesn't show too well on the photo but I did emboss the paper with a clockwork embossing folder from Sizzix.  The sentiment was done on my PC and then cut out with a Spellbinders die.  I have added a row of card candi down the side and some metal mini cogs as embellishments.

Well here's hoping tomorrow is a better day :)

Love for now

Dawn x 

ATC Storage Box

Good evening, hope you are looking forward to the weekend. I am doing a 'make and take' session at Samuel Taylors, Embsay tomorrow and we will be using Pan Pastels and Memory Box dies to make a pretty silhouette card, so really looking forward to that :)

Today I am showing the lovely little ATC holder I made using a Sizzix Bigz die that I bought just before Christmas and have only just had chance to play with.  I die cut the shape using some 300 gsm white card and then cut out the papers to decorate it with from a Prima paper pad, 'Sunny Days'.  I used a white gel pen to add some faux stitching and then punched out some flowers using papers from the same pad and popped a little pearl into each centre.  I used a Velcro fastener to close the flap of the box. 

It's just the perfect size to hold a few ATCs

Now I need to make a few more to store all my ATCs.  

Thanks for popping by....until next time....

Dawn x

Say it with flowers

Good evening, I hope you have all had a good weekend and you're looking forward to the week ahead.  

We have had news from Amy to say that she has applied and been accepted for a scholarship in Thailand so she now won't be home until April not February as first expected.  We are both happy for her as she is really enjoying life out there and that's what's most important, even though we are missing her madly :(  At the moment she is on a break from her teacher training and has flown to Cambodia to do some site seeing around the temples at Angkor Wat, she then makes her way down through Thailand and back to Phuket to resume her scholarship.

Well onto something crafty now.  I have made this little birthday card for my sister in law as it was her birthday the other day.  I have used a Paper Smooches stamp set 'Friendly Flowers' and stamped them onto some BoBunny papers 'Hello Sunshine' collection then cut them out and mounted then onto a white card blank.  There is quite a lot of dimension on this card as I shaped the flowers before using pinflair glue gel to stick them to the card.  I cut a vase shape from my Cricut cartridge ' Walk in my Garden' and then added a cute little wooden ladybird.  The sentiment has been stamped directly to the card blank and then I have gone around the edge with a fine liner pen to frame the image.

Thanks for dropping by.

Hugs

Dawn x

'Busy Bee'

Afternoon all and thanks for dropping by, I really do appreciate you taking the time to check out my blog and for all the lovely comments I receive.  

I have had a wonderful time creating these little 'mini masterpieces' I have decided to take up Mel Heaton's challenge and make some 3 x 3 inch cards.  I made the card blanks with my Cricut Create using the Sentimentals cartridge, it includes lots of shaped card blanks so it was easy to pop in the size of 3x3 and away it went and cut out perfect 3 inch cards.  I then used my Paper Smooches stamp set 'Giddy Bugs' and some papers from BoBunny 'Hello Sunshine' collection.  I coloured the cute little bees with my copics and stamped and cut out some little flowers from another stamp set.  Both sentiments were cut out using my Cricut, from the 'Walk in my Garden' cartridge.  It's been a change to use my Cricut machine, it's always sat on my desk but it's very rarely that I use it, but I think that will change ;)  

Just need to make some little envelopes for my cards now...ooh guess what?...I can make them on my cricut too :)

Until next time...

Dawn x

Hi

Hi folks and thanks for popping by.  

I have a little card to show today that seems to have taken me an age to complete! I started it days ago and have only just got round to adding the finishing pieces.  I have used a cute little image from a Paper Smooches stamp set which we have just started to stock at Samuel Taylors, you can find them here  I love them :)  I coloured the image with my copic pens and then cut him out and mounted him onto a circle of card/paper stock from MME - Vanity Fair.  I have used a  stamp from Kaisercraft (Sweet Pea) for the bunting and cut out the letters for 'Hi' on my Cricut Create machine.  I have used a circle kraft card blank and gone round the edge with a white gel pen. 

Well that's all for now folks!  

Dawn x