Bee Happy

 Sorry, I'm late again.  Over at The Alphabet Challenge we are up to 'I for Insects'.  I almost forgot what I had created for this one as I was so far in advance with my DT cards.  I've gone for the bees as we have a bee keeping group on the marina and hives hidden away amongst the wild flowers.

I was following a set of sketches when I created this one.  I think I would have preferred the banner to be a rectangle.  I'm not a fan of fishtailing.  Oh well, it's too late now.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Feeling Krafty and a bit Blue

 Morning all.  I've just about got my new craft space organised.  I'll never find anything now it's all neatly stored away.  In the meantime, over at Cardz4galz the new theme is 'Kraft and any Shade of Blue'.  

As the boat looks totally different with my new craft space, and different flooring and a new sofa in the living area, it's like being in a new home.  So here's a new home card to celebrate it.

Please pop over and join in the fun.  

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Animal Magic

 Morning all.  I know this is late but I have a fabulous excuse. Some of you will know that I live on a narrowboat.  I've usually used our dinette setup for my crafting but it was far from ideal and storage was practically none existent.  So, over the weekend my fabulous O/H and his friend Danny removed the dinette and made me a custom craft space.  I just popped on to post this - now I have the internet back - before trying to organise the stuff I've got piled up at the front of the boat.

This month, over at Sparkles Monthly Challenge, is 'Animals'.  Time to go through my clipart folders again.

I'm so in love with these highland cow images.  They are so cute.  The images are from Hampton and Morgan on Etsy.

Thanks for reading - I'm off to play with all the stuff I'd forgotten I'd got.

Love Dawn x

Take the Coastal Path Less Travelled

 Morning all. We have a lovely summery theme for you today over at Make My Monday.  Think 'Boardwalk/Coastal Path', so anything seaside.  Ice creams, beach volleyball, sandcastles etc.  I like my coastal walks to be a little more peaceful these days.  Just walking barefoot in the sea along the beach would be wonderful.  That's what I imagined doing when I chose my image.  

I thought it might make a nice 'thank you for watering my plants/feeding my cat' kind of card so that's what I've gone for.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Vincent

 Morning all.  Sorry this is a bit late.  My week has been upside down and I don't know what day it is.

Over at Cardz4galz  we would like 'blue skies' on your projects please.  A little while ago someone sent me a slide show showing Van Gough's paintings set to Don McClean's Vincent.  The words and the pictures put together made so much sense and made the pictures so much more appealing to me.  I wish I still had the slide show.  When I found some clip art on Etsy in the same style as Van Gough's Starry Night I thought it would be perfect for this.

The pictures are by 2artprints and I thought they would be lovely behind this new die from Kokorosa.

Only one day late, I also have a card for The Alphabet Challenge.  We are up to 'H for Horticulture'.  A perfect opportunity to use another of the sweet gardening image from Whimsyclipgarden.

I'm not sure how much gardening he's doing but he looks happy enough.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Simply Angelic

 Morning all.  How is it the 1st of August already.  It'll be Christmas before you know it.  Quite apt then that we have another Sparkles Christmas Challenge where we are looking for 'CAS Christmas' projects please.

Last year a friend was bemoaning the fact that religious imagery on Christmas cards was very hard to find these days.  Since then, and as a committed Christian, I've been looking for Christian images to use this year. I don't send many Christmas cards.  I only send to family and close friends and thought it would be good to send these types of cards to my Church family and other Christian friends.  I picked up some cute Nativity images from Dotwit on Etsy and I've used this sweet little angel for my card.

I'm not really very good with CAS cards.  They take me longer to do than fussy ones.  I am, however, quite chuffed with this one.  I used this image as I'd already got it printed and cut out but I think I could make a set of these with other images from the download.

Please pop over and show us your CAS.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Mr and Mrs

 Afternoon all.  I apologise for missing a couple of DT posts recently.  I had several migraines on consecutive days and was pretty much useless until I had fully recovered.  I'm back on it today with a card for the 'Wedding/Love' challenge over at Make My Monday.  I have a simple card with pretty papers and a couple of hearts I had in my project tub.  I keep odds and ends that I've cut out of scraps when I'm cutting other things on my Grand Caliber. I figure I may as well get as much cut with one pass and keep the extras in a tub to be used at some point in the future.

Not bad for a bunch of scraps really.

Please pop over and join in the fun.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x