I is for Insects

 Morning all.  I had to pick a subject for the letter 'I'over at The Alphabet Challenge and the only thing I could think of at the time was 'insects'.  Well, it'll make for interesting projects to judge.  I just hope we don't get too many spiders - yuk!

My card is a little different from my normal style.  I picked up a couple of stamp sets that I absolutely had to have from Aall and Create. It must have been a fit of madness as their images make beautiful mixed media type work - which I've never mastered. My set had some lovely hexagon shapes which I thought would work well with some bee stamps from a magazine freebie.  

My plan was to use yellow and grey but it just looked mucky so I threw in some purple and I liked it better.  Look!  I even stenciled some texture paste on. That's as near to mixed media as I'm ever going to get.

Please pop over and join in the fun.  I'll even forgive you if you use spiders.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

To die for

 Morning all.  We would like to see you use 'dies or punches' on your Cardz4galz this time. I chose to use a die from The Works for my Christmas card.  Yes, I know Christmas in July was the last theme but I'm on a roll.

Once again I cut all the pieces from white card and coloured them to give them a bit of dimension.

The snowman's body was cut from some cardstock that has small sparkly bits in it so that's why he looks a bit gritty on the picture. I also need to find another pad of Christmas papers.  This one is taking a battering at the moment.  If you haven't noticed so far, keep your eye out.  You'll be fed up of seeing it soon enough.

Please pop over and join in the fun and thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Blue is the Colour

 Morning all.  My turn to choose today's theme over at  Cardz4guyz and, once again, I have no clue what I was thinking when I chose 'Shades of Blue'.  For my card I just used various ink shades to create a background for my silhouette image. 

The image was from a magazine freebie and I love how it turned out. I used a coupe of pieces of blue card to go behind the middle and, although you can't tell on this picture, the main panel is covered in sparkly dotted vellum.

Please pop over and join in the fun.  If you don't I won't have anything to comment on.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Can't see the wood for the trees

 Time for a new challenge over at Make My Monday, and I hope we get as many stunning entries as we did for my 'airbourne' challenge.  I was amazed by all the different and beautiful projects using my theme.  Today's new theme is 'Trees'.  Plenty of scope for this one.

I will admit that I coloured this image last year and it didn't get as far as a card front.  I love the Christmas images at The Lovely Studio and I will print pages of them to colour when I am in the mood.  That way, come silly season, I can make a few quick cards that look like I made an effort.

Please pop over and join in the fun.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

I'm H.A.P.P.Y.

 Morning all.  Time for a new letter over at The Alphabet Challenge.  We are at H, and H is for 'Happy'.  I reverted, once again, to the Cricut for my card.

I love black and gold together - I'm a New Orleans Saints fan and they play in black and gold.  I think they look so classy. The colours, not the Saints!  I'm really pleased with this one.

OK, there are lots of 'Happy' occasions for you to choose from so please pop over and join the fun.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Outdoor fun

 Morning all, again.  A new challenge starts today over at Sparkles Monthly Challenge.  'Outdoor fun' is our new theme so you can guarantee that it will start to rain.  I've mentioned before that, due to my wrists being in splits, I have been using my cricut more often.  I found a brilliant cut file of a guy with a barbecue.  It should have been easy to cut and assemble.  However, in my wisdom I chose to cut all the pieces in white and colour them.  So much for keeping it simple to save the pain.

I am pretty chuffed with how he came out though.  It was worth putting a little more effort in.  It's a sort of blessing in disguise really as, before my wrist problems, I would never have tried a cut file like this. I tend to use just words or backgrounds.  I might get a bit more value from my cricut access subscription now I can see what I'm capable of doing with these sorts of files.

Please pop over to the blog and show us your ideas of outdoor fun.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Christmas already!

 I have to admit the I never start my Christmas cards early enough.  Really, January wouldn't be early enough!  As today's new theme at Cardz4galz is 'Christmas in July' it does give me a hint to get on with them.  

I used these adorable Mini Rudolphs from The Lovely Studio on a simple layout using some scraps of Christmas backing paper.  These guys are so easy to colour.  I just print sheets of them and colour them anywhere.  These three were left over from some I coloured last year.

Now I'm in the mood for some Christmas cards I need you to join in so I can nick your ideas.  Please pop over and have a go.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x