Going for Gold

 Morning all.  I'm afraid that I'm a day late but better late than never. Over at Sparkles Christmas Challenge we are looking for Gold on your projects please.  This gave me the ideal opportunity to try a technique I'd seen recently on You Tube.  I don't have a foiling machine and, since I've moved onto the boat, I've got no room for one either.  I was always going to be interested in a 'Faux Foiling' technique and I've link the tutorial I used here.

I tried a couple of my dies for this and this one was the most successful. Unfortunately the photo doesn't really do it justice. I finished it off with some gems and then, because it needed something, I added the peel offs in the two corners.

Why don't you give it a try, or at least join in the challenge.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

G for Green

 Morning all.  Over at The Alphabet Challenge today we have reach 'G' and that G is for 'Green'.  It must be the predominant colour on your project.  For my card I used a die I've bought recently from Spellbinders.  It fell into my basket - as they do - when I was ordering a really pretty bird die.  Unfortunately, the bird die went out of stock and they just sent this gorgeous shaped die.

I dare not go back to re-order the bird in case something else leapt into the basket.  

For my card I inked up three different green distress inks and cut loads of the panels.  I then covered a card piece in the different layers and added my banner.  I'm really pleased with the result. 

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

 

A 'cheeky' tribute to Mamma's budgie

 Morning all.  Over at Cardz4galz this morning we are looking for projects with more than one fold.  I chose to do a z fold card and use some gorgeous papers my husband bought me.  

I love the colours on the papers and there's one sheet with a cute pattern of budgies.  I really wish I'd had this paper before my grandma died.  She had a lovely blue budgie called Cheeky.  I'm not sure he was any more cheeky than my mamma was but she would have loved this card.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Keep it Clean Guyz

 Morning all.  Things are fairly chaotic on the boat at the moment.  We've spent the week painting the outside a gorgeous blue colour.  Well...when I say we I mean Will and his mate Rob.  I cleared off to mums for the week out of the way.  Now I'm back I just need to keep it clean.  Speaking of keeping it clean, we are after clean and simple for your Cardz4guyz projects this week.  Probably a good job as I've had to pack all my craft stuff away so we could turn the dinette into a spare bed for Rob.

It may look clean and simple but it took me a couple of attempts to line up that background image.  They're always harder to make than they look.  Why not have a go and join in the fun.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Flying by to say hi

 Hi!  Over at The Alphabet Challenge this morning we are flying about looking for projects that include 'F for Flying'.  Anything that flies will be lovely please.  

Obviously, I chose butterflies for my project.  I've got a bit of an ink blending thing going off at the moment.  This time I cut the butterflies first and added the ink to some of them later.  I was a bit heavy handed  towards the end.  Unintentially, I used the brighter coloured butterflies towards the bottom which created an ombre effect towards the top.  A little bit of serendipity there I think.  I stamped the sentiment and layered it and the square panel onto card stock that I'd inked with the same colours.  I'm really pleased with the result.

OK, over to you.  Let's see your 'f for flying' projects.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Stamping - Oh no you don't

 Me again.  As it's the 15th of the month we have a brand new challenge - and it was a challenge for me - over at Sparkles Monthly.  I don't really class myself as a stamper but when someone says 'no stamping allowed' I realise that, even if it's just a sentiment, I do stamp on a lot of projects.  It may be only a digital stamp but they aren't allowed either.  So off to see what I've got lurking in the boxes I've not unpacked yet.

These papers and the decoupage topper are the last remains of a paper pad I've had forever.  I think it's probably the first paper pad I've actually finished completely (yes, that's why most of my stash is still in the store room at work).  I very rarely do this style of card anymore.  When you first start card making you try everything and then find your style.  I think mine is still evolving but I'm not really a decoupage person anymore.  Anyway, this fit the bill for the challenge so I have to be grateful that I hung onto it.

Why not pop over and check out the challenge.  We do love to see your creations.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Dies and punches for the Galz

 Morning all.  Today, over at Cardz4galz, we are looking for projects using dies and punches. I do love my dies.  I never really use punches much so, when I moved, I got rid of them.  I had several DT projects to catch up on - having just returned from my holidays so I chose to case this card from Pinterest for my project.  

Although the balloons were a nightmare to glue without squidging, I'm really chuffed with it. I added a few gems and some left over circles from my balloons to try and hide the worst of the mess and spritzed it with my shimmer pen to make it look like I meant to active the distress ink background. There are so many cover up tricks when you've been card making as long as I have.  

Please pop over and have a look at the amazing DT inspiration and we'd love it if you'd join in too.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x