Petite petals and Betsy's blossom

Here I have a very clean and simple styled card. I started with a card blank and measured a mat slightly smaller, with a promarker, using the fat end I drew a border all around and doodled a black round twice for added interest.

I stamped my branch from betsys blossom twice, one either side along the central line, I then used the tiny stamp with three flowers to follow my imaginary line, filling in the gaps. I punched two bird punch branches from green card. I stamped six flowers from my petite petals stamp set and cut them out with the matching punch, adding a tiny pearl to each centre. I stamped my simple greeting on to a small piece of whisper white card, adding the same promarker and doodle border, I fixed this on with foam pads to add some depth. This card is not very dimensional so perfect if you need to post.

Until next time, happy crafting, Dawn x

Best wishes

I made this card for a friend who was recovering from an operation and decided on the greeting of best wishes rather than get well soon.

Here's a close up of the simple greeting, with the cute floral corner stamp.

I shaped the super cute petite petals for a more natural feel and added a simple pearl to the centres, I think this adds to the overall depth of the card. 

My colour palette is crumb cake and very vanilla.

What do you think? Is this your style of card or not? Leave a message to let me know. 

Thank you for visiting, until next time happy crafting Dawn x

Workshop cards, June

This month we used the hexagon sampler stamp set, these cards were designed by the fabby Kel, we hope you enjoyed yourselves ladies.

This is one of the cards we made.

Here is the other card we made. 

I hope you like these cards, if you would like to join us next month contact me for further details.

All for now, Dawn x

Birthday

On Tuesday it was my birthday and I was blessed to receive many good wishes, Facebook messages and beautiful birthday cards from my family and friends. I loved all my cards, some I found the words and verses very uplifting, others made me laugh and all of them made me smile knowing how many wonderful people I'm so lucky to call my friends. Here are pics of the handmade ones........thank you everyone x

Birthday

On Tuesday it was my birthday and I was blessed to receive many good wishes, Facebook messages and beautiful birthday cards from my family and friends. I loved all my cards, some I found the words and verses very uplifting, others made me laugh and all of them made me smile knowing how many wonderful people I'm so lucky to call my friends. Here are pics of the handmade ones........thank you everyone x

Exploding box card

This is what we made at our last workshop, it was designed by my lovely crafty friend Kel. Fabulous bright colours, perfect for the summer.

 

A close up of the Fabulous flowers.

Kel kept the back panel fixed so you have room to write your message.

Best of all it folds completely flat and fits in an ordinary envelope, although with something this special we made our envelopes out of matching dsp.

What do you think, is this your style? Leave a comment below. 

All for now, Dawn x

Summer is on it's way!

A fresh summery design for you tonight, after experiencing a fabulous sunny day. 

Using my doll stamp along with petite petals, a simple background using the flowers, a few punched flowers with rhinestones and voila. 

What do you think?

All for now, Dawn x

New Home

I needed to make a card for someone special who is moving house and for something really different I went for a butterfly, symbolising flying or in my head moving away. 

I started with my favourite square card base, after deciding on the size of my mat and layer I pierced around the edge. I cut a 15 cm square whisper white layer and a 15.5 cm square crumb cake mat. I stamped the small word stamp from a long retired stamp set called strength & hope, many times all over the whisper white layer in crumb cake ink, the stamp is small so this took a little while but I love the words, I also inked the edges. I cut a strip of crumb cake for the band and punched this with my scallop border punch, I added a small strip of champagne glimmer card, this stuff is so sparkly you only need a little.

I cut a pink pirouette circle and a slightly smaller whisper white circle. I stamped a butterfly from papillion potpourri onto the white circle in crumb cake ink and gentle coloured with the pink ink and a blender pen. I punched lots of branches using my bird punch and crumb cake card. I stamped flowers from my petite petals stamp set onto whisper white with pink pirouette ink, I used the flower that looks like a watercolour flower, I punched the flowers out with the coordinating punch. Then I assembled the butterfly circles, leaves and flowers, sticking them down when I was happy. To finish I added a tiny pearl to the centre of all the flowers. What do you think? I think it's feminine and pretty. 

All for now, Dawn x

Regarding dahlias

Here is a clean and simple card I made a while a go. I cut a band of whisper white card and a melon mambo mat, I stamped a regarding dahlia flower to the right of the band, I stamped a couple of the flowers on masking paper, I covered the stamped image with a mask and stamped either side, I added another mask to the flower on the left and stamped a final flower, I removed all the masks, matted the panel onto the melon mambo mat. I stamped my greeting in the lower right corner and then stuck down the panel. Lots of clean white space on this card. Is that your thing? 

All for now, Dawn 

Very Vanilla

I looked at my last card and I wasn't quite as happy as I could be so I thought for a while and decided it needed to be a little warmer in colour tone so I made another one this time using very vanilla card, much better, I think, I added a fab little flower from stash to tweak it slightly.

What do you think? Which do you prefer?

 

         Cute flower, don't you think?

Do you like the pierced edge? I think visually it adds another layer to the card and a little texture too.

I love the hello doily stamp, I wish I had seen it before.

 

A few close ups today, I'm trying to remember to take more pics.

All for now, Dawn x

Mixed media doll stamp

I had this doll stamp for Christmas from a friend of mine and I absolutely love it, it's from prima (I know it's not stampin up!) I coloured the skin and hair with alcohol pens and paper pieced the dress, I do enjoy fussy cutting out. I cut two window dies, cutting the central cross out of the front window to make room for the greeting, I added the second to the back to add strength. The feathers are die cuts. The tiny flowers are punched with one of my tiny itty bitty punches, the white border is also a punch layered on to melon mambo card. A few gems to finish my easel card, I don't make this style very often. What do you think? 

All for now, Dawn x

Hello, doily

I've just had a quick play this morning and this is what I came up with. I stamped hello doily and my greeting from  sincere salutations (I love this set) onto whisper white card using crumb cake on ink, I matted this onto crumb cake card. I die cut a dress form and stamped using the corner stamp from so very grateful with versamark ink and heat embossed with clear powder. I punched flowers using one of my itty bitty punches, the leaves are from the bird punch, all out of whisper white card. I pierced a decorative border onto my base card and assembled all the pieces, I added rhinestones to the centre of the flowers and the dot of the greeting. Another simple card. I have added some close up pics to show the detail. What do you think?

All for now Dawn

Look at the detail of the hello doily stamp.

The stamped flowers on the die cut don't look like a corner stamp now.

I like the look of the rhinestone as part of the greeting and that simple pierced border.