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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 29 August 2016

You Are My Sunshine

A new challenge starts today at Crafty Boots Challenges, the theme of this challenge was chosen by my good friend and design team mate Lisette (aka Mrs Beez).

Lisette has called this challenge 'You Are My Sunshine' and we are hoping to see lots of projects using sunny colours.  To me this means lots of yellow, however, there are some objects which also say sunshine to me, like sunflowers.  The other day I spotted a garden full of big, beautiful sunflowers, it was an amazing sight.


I used one of my Sherbet Pip rubber stamps for this card, 'Apple Pip' is one of the Sugar Nellie range from Funky Kits.  I coloured the stamp with Promarkers and then mounted it on gold mirri card with some lemon coloured card.  The fabulous sunflower paper is from a K & Co paper stack designed by Tim Coffey.


The adorable chrysanthemums are from Wild Orchid Crafts, as are the leaves.  The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards and the rosette die is from Sizzix.

The rest of the Design Team have made some amazing cards, please pop over the the Crafty Boots Challenge blog and take a look.

Wherever you are have a wonderful day


Dionne

10 comments:

  1. Gorgeous Dionne! Love the girl image, and I have to agree with you about yellow definitely being the first thought when you say sunshine. The sunflowers work really well took, and the WOC flowers are such a great accent. Hope you had a great weekend. hugs :)

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  2. Thank you Pamellia, I think this is one of my favourite rubber stamps (especially of my more recent purchases), it is a little tricky to colour but well work it.

    Our friends have literally just left, it was a lovely weekend but I am very tired now I have relaxed.

    Dionne xx

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  3. Beautiful sunshiny card, Dionne! Love the cute image, the gorgeous sunflower paper and the pretty flowers co-ordinate really well. x

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  4. Love the cute beautifully coloured stamp and fabulous sunflower B.paper and love the rosette
    Carol x

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    1. Many thanks Carol, some days it just all comes together!

      Dionne x

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  5. Wait! I spoke too soon! I am going backwards on your posts since I have been absent from the blogging world, and I said your previous post was my favorite, but I love this one too! Such a great image and love the flowers! Yellow is working and you make it work!

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    1. Thank you. I really enjoyed the yellow theme - and working with the sunny colours put me in a really cheerful mood.

      Dionne x

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  6. This is so pretty. Love the colour choices for her dress (I'd like a real life version of that!)and the sunflower paper is so effective - I would never have thought of using it in that way. xx

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    1. Thank you. That dress makes me sweat when I colour it, you have to really concentrate to keep withing the lines but it is a great feeling when it goes well. I was wondering what you meant by not thinking to use the paper that way - do you mean as a backing paper? It was very tempting not to cover it, but you can still see it despite all the embellishments.

      Dionne xx

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