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

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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 

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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

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Another flowering flourishes workshop sample.

A white A5 card blank, a paper doilie (cut in half), a top note die cut, a couple of swirl die cuts, a large circle punch-stamped with the flourish, some baker's twine wrapped around the top note die.

A close up of the detail.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Until next time, Happy crafting, Dawn x

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Butterflies....

An A5 pink pirouette card blank stamped with versamark ink and a flourish stamp.

I die cut a whisper white top note die and stamped using the smallest flourish and pink pirouette ink, I embossed a couple of the layers with embossing folders.

I cut a selection of butterflies using a die and punches.

A fold of ribbon added to the bottom layer of the butterflies.

A close up of the details.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Please leave me a comment below to let me know what you think.

Until next time Happy crafting, Dawn x

FF samples 14

A different style today.

An A5 lucky limeade card blank.

A strip of yellow spotty paper layered onto whisper white to make it pop.

My main image inked with lucky limeade and daffodil delight on to whisper white card, layered on to yellow with a ribbon tied near the bottom, I mounted this with foam pads. A few rhinestones to finish.

A close up of the main panel.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Until next time, Happy Crafting, Dawn x

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Happy Birthday or Happy Anniversary?

A square card blank stamped with a flourish stamp. I hand cut the birds and doodled around the edges. 

A simple border, an embellishment and button with white baker's twine to finish.

A close up of the detail.

This could be made in any colour combo to suit the occasion.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Until next time, happy crafting, Dawn x

FF samples 12

More samples from my flowering flourishes workshop.

This is a more subtle look still using my flowering flourishes stamp set.

I started with a square card blank. I punched a circle from some scrap card and used the waste part as a mask to ink through with a dauber, I did this three times along the bottom edge of my card.

I inked the smallest stamp from the set with lucky limeade and real red, I stamped this across two of my circles. I stamped my greeting inside the third circle.

I made a matching tag.

A close up of the tag.

What do you think?

Leave a comment below.

Until next time, thank you for visiting my blog today, Happy crafting, Dawn x

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Flowering flourishes stamp set.....so versatile.

I started with an A6 white card blank

I die cut my all time favourite top note shape in white and real red, I trimmed the white layer along the perforated lines so the red shows.

I stamped the middle sized flourish on to the die cut, tied some red bakers twine around the lower part of the die cut, added a small stamped greeting and finished.

A close up to see the details.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Until next time, Happy Crafting, Dawn x

FF samples 10

Another card using the fabulous Flowering Flourishes stamp set.

A couple of my recent cards have used this layout so I wont bore you with the details.

The flowers have tiny brad centres.

Thank you for visiting my blog today. Come back to see more samples using this stamp set.

Until next time, Happy Crafting, dawn x

FF samples 9

Here is one of the cards we made at my recent Flowering Flourishes workshop, otherwise known 

as the big one!

I started with an A5 lucky limeade card blank, with my fold at the top.

I stamped a flourish along the bottom using lucky limeade ink.

I die cut three tags. I stamped the smallest flourish onto each of them with lucky limeade and real red ink.

On the centre tag I punched a flower using my boho punch and real red card, I added silver glitter glue to the centre of the flower.

I stamped my ribbon with the same flourish and ink.

A close up of the stamped ribbon (thank you Coll for the inspiration to stamp the ribbon, I love it!)

What do you think? 

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Until next time, Happy Crafting, Dawn x

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Happy Anniversary

Here is a cute anniversary card I made using a flourish from my favourite stamp set (at the moment)

I started with a square card blank and stamped two flourishes near the lower part of the card. I stamped my greeting and doodled around the outside.

I drew and hand cut my bird design, on to spotty papers, inking around the edges and doodling to match the card base.

I tied a triple bow, this ribbon is gorgeous, its new from Stampin' Up! its called striped organdy ribbon, I couldn't decide which colour so I used all three!!! I added a couple of extra embellishments around the bow and its finished.

What do you think?

Here are a couple of close up photographs to show the details.

Do you love this ribbon?

My greeting

What do you think?

Is this your style of card?

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Until next time, Happy Crafting, Dawn x