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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

Wednesday 30 December 2015

A Robin's Christmas

Christmas is behind us now and we are rapidly approaching the New Year, I have just one or two more Christmas cards to share with you before we get there.


Today's card features the Delicious Doodles image called 'A Robin's Christmas'.  I must apologise for the darkness of the photograph, but the lighting is not good at the moment.  I coloured the image with my F&C polychromos pencils and then mounted it on gold miri card and red coloured glitter card.  The background paper is from a Tim Holtz Paper stack and the sentiment stamp is from Stampin' Up. The snowflake die is from Memory Box.

The mirrored reindeer was one of my Christmas presents and the tiny candy canes are actually nail embellishments, but I thought that were perfect for cards.  I added a touch of sparkle to all the snow with a Wink of Stella clear Brush.

A quick reminder that there is a special Christmas challenge at Crafty Boots Challenges entitled 'Snow and Sparkle'.


Dionne

6 comments:

  1. Gorgeous Dionne! Love that image, and the diagonal plaid is so wonderful and unique!! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas, and I'm sending cheers for a Happy New Year! hugs :)

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    1. Salutations Pamellia. I hope that you had a fabulous Christmas and are looking forward to the New Year.

      Dionne xx

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  2. gorgeous card, love the little scene
    Hugs Jacee
    Simply Paper Card Design

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    1. Thank you Jacee. I love Teri Sherman's scenery images ..... and they are amazing easy to colour.

      Happy New Year.

      xx

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  3. I absolutely love this image and what you have done with it. So nostalgic - and of course perfect with the little Robin! I would like to live here:) xx

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    1. I suspect you could live there, a lot of Teri Sherman's views are of a place called Fochabers in Moray, Scotland. So this may be the same place or somewhere closeby.

      I adore those tiny candy cans, they are so sweet.

      Dionne

      PS I know someone who thinks every Christmas card should have a Robin!

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