New catalogue launch party

Summer is well and truly here and so is my Stampin' Up! new catalogue launch party. I hear you say new catalogue? Yes, we are now inline with the rest of the world, so lots of new goodies to chose from.

Here is how we started...

Of course with it being summer you have to have a cream tea and these tasty fruit scones were handmade by my fabulous Mum (Thank you Mum, they were delicious!) she even made the strawberry jam, mmm yummy!

Don't you wish you had come?

A selection of crafting goodies and of course the new catalogue were available to touch and stroke.

And a fabulous bundle of goodies made up the prizes, three, this year.

The drawer has taken place, three of my lovely crafting ladies chose the winning tickets,

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Third place, a clear stamp set and matching punch...Ali

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Second place, a clear stamp set and matching die set....Suzanne

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and First place, 

two clear stamp sets, a wood mount stamp set, coordinating designer series paper, card pack, buttons, ribbon, ink pad and marker pen  goes to

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Helen!

Well done ladies I will be in contact with you to arrange you having your prizes.

That's all for today, I hope to add some crafting photographs soon,

until next time, Happy Crafting, Dawn x

It's been a long time

Here I am, finally, I have been through a bit of a tough patch recently (with my family) and something had to give, sorry to say it was my blog, I am getting back on track with things a little better now, I have noticed life is moving fast around me and I need to get back in the swing of things. I have had a period with no crafting (yes things were that stressed) but that is changing. Today I made three cards on the same theme, using inspiration from the brand new Stampin' Up! catalogue, click on the catty icon to be whizzed to a catalogue exploding with lots of new loveliness!
I am hosting an open house next Saturday 13th July, 10am-12 noon for anyone wishing to see some fab new goodies in the flesh, from the new Stampin' Up! catalogue Although you can drop in, it would be good to know how many are coming so I can prepare the refreshments etc.
The cards I made today will be available to see on the day and will then appear on here shortly after that. I then have my last two workshops the following week, Thursday 18th July 7pm or Saturday 19th July 2pm, Saturday is fully booked but I do have a couple of places left on the Thursday evening if you are interested contact me for details. When I say my last two workshops, they are the last dates I have organised to date, I will be taking a look at my diary to sort dates through to next year very soon, watch this space for more details or contact me direct.
Anyway that's all for today, I hope to be posting again really soon, until then, Happy Crafting, Dawn x

Last Indigoblu...

Here are the last of my Indigoblu photographs to show you, I didn't think you would want to see all of them (there were quite a few!)

This was using 'Slap it on'

This tag used 'Gee-Sso Good'

The tissue technique and 'Slap it on'

Thank you Kay for all your inspiration, you were fabulous!

Until next time, Happy crafting, Dawn x

More Indigoblu...

Using fliterglue with stencils.

The finished result is stunning! (Unlike the detail of my photograph)

A few more photographs to come.

Thank you for visiting, Happy crafting, Dawn x

More Indigoblu...

A couple more Indigoblu photographs,

this time adding glitter to your stamped image.

My photograph does not do this justice, it looks gorgeous in real life!

I will put a couple more pics on soon.

Until then, Happy crafting, Dawn x

Indigoblu weekend

Well I have had a very busy weekend. 

It started on Friday evening with the second date of my April workshop, I will add photo's of those cards at some point. Then Saturday afternoon (for an hour) and Sunday morning (a whole three hours) was spent with a lovely group of friends (Kel, Chris and Janet) and fellow crafters at Craftasmic in Taunton, with the wonderful Kay from Indigoblu and wow my head is overfilling with ideas and inspiration (I'm just too tired to have a go, roll on next weekend!) And of course the essential craft retail therapy followed, oops, did all those things end up in my basket?

Here is Kay showing us one of the many techniques shown on the day, that poppy stamp is gorgeous!

A fun day was had by all!!!

Thank you Kay and everyone involved from Craftasmic, I can't imagine the hard work that went into the weekend to make things run as smoothly as they did, I for one had a fabulous time!!!

Thank you for visiting my blog, 

until next time, Happy crafting, Dawn x

Last FF sample

So finally my last sample from the flowering flourish workshop, I know there were a lot but, did you notice I managed to blog for at least two weeks every day!!!

So for my last sample I wanted something different, here is a simple tag.

You can see the 3D butterfly from this angle.

Thank you for visiting my blog,

I hope you have enjoyed seeing my flourish samples, I'm not sure what is coming next as I need to have a play but until then, Happy Crafting, Dawn x

FF samples 19

Last two samples from my flowering flourishes workshop then we move on to other things, although you may see the flourish stamp sneaking back in from time to time, so today and tomorrow left.

Here is today's card, I love this ribbon, it's super yummy, it's called striped organdy ribbon and is available from the new Stampin' Up! mini catalogue (available in a choice of three colours £8.95 for 9.1 metres)

Pop back tomorrow to see my last flourish sample.

Happy Crafting, Dawn x 

FF samples 18

This sample is very similar to a previous one but larger, this is for my ladies who like to make large cards, this card measures 8x8 inches.

These buttons are so yummy, they have been sitting in my stash a while, being stroked and looked at and now finally used!

Happy Crafting, Dawn x

FF samples 17

Are you getting fed up with seeing my flowering flourishes samples (there were rather a lot!)?

These are similar to other samples I have shown so I wont leave full details, just photographs.

What do you think? Is this your style or not really? Leave me a comment below.

Happy Crafting, Dawn x