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Hello, my name is Dionne and I have been crafting for a very long time. As a very young child my mother tried to teach me to knit, it was a disaster. However, it must have sparked an interest in making things and, partly to prove that I was not totally useless and partly because I really wanted to make things, I taught myself to crochet. Over the years I have developed a love of cross stitch and all types of paper craft ..... I eventually even taught myself to knit.


I am married to a very understanding man, thank goodness, because I spend all my time either crafting, thinking about crafting or talking about crafting. I am hopeless at housework and dinner is often late!


Thank you for visiting my blog.


Dionne

Monday 1 June 2015

Cabochon Parade

Welcome back, I hope that you had a wonderful weekend.  It was cold and wet here but I hope that the new month will bring a change in the weather.

I was reminded yesterday that 29 years ago a cousin married and the weather was much the same on that day.  The weather the day they married may have been a lot better but it must have been a good omen because they are still  very happy and recently became grandparents.  Congratulations to everyone concerned.


We have reached the mid point of the current challenge at Crafty Boots Challenges, which is a sketch challenge. There are one or two additional rules for our sketch challenge:
  • you can rotate the sketch and you can re size the elements if you wish. 
  • do not move the elements around too much, the original sketch layout should still be recognisable. 
  • you can use any materials you like to make anything you like, for example, a card, a box top, a gift bag, a scrapbook page, an ATC, an inchie, etc. Just as long as the original sketch design is obvious in whatever you make.


I have an Artist Trading Card to share with you today.  The base of the card is made from blue glitter card.  The cabochons are different sizes, different colours and some are clear whilst others pearl like, but they are all brads - the larger ones came from Wild Orchid Crafts (not sure where I got the smaller ones).  The remind me of polished stones on the bed of a flowing river, tossed about until the are smooth and shinny.  

There are two very talented Guest Designers joining the Crafty Boots team today, make sure you see their fabulous cards, along with those made by the rest of the team, and perhaps visit their blogs.


Dionne 






8 comments:

  1. Dee this is such a fun take on the sketch. Love the array of buttons.
    Hugs
    Desíre
    {Doing Life – my personal blog}

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    1. Hi Desire, I hope you are OK? Thank you, I thought they looked very pretty all grouped together.

      Dionne xx

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  2. Oh my gosh, this is awesome Dee!! LOVE that you used bling on this one, all the different sizes and styles, and that glitter paper is incredible! LOVE! hugs :)

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    1. This one was so simple to make - although I had to be very brave to put so many of my precious WOC brads on one project!

      xx

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  3. You just keep topping your last creation. Love this - the blue and bling together are perfect and such a great take on the sketch. xx

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    1. I have spent hours trying to think of suitable 'things' to use for this challenge. Last weeks flowers were an obvious choice but this week was a little harder to think of.

      xx

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    1. Thank you for making time to visit my blog, please come again.

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Thank you for visiting my blog, I look forward to reading your feedback on my work. I hope you will visit again.

Dionne