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