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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 19 April 2023

Birthday Bears

Have you ever sat down to make a card, knew exactly what you planned to do, and then made an entirely different card?  Well that is what happened to me the other day.

I started playing around with some dies I had recently purchased when I spotted these two bears.  I cut them out of some brown glitter card, which unfortunately obliterated all of their embossed features.  Undeterred I added some small black flat backed pearls for the eyes and noses.


I cut and layered several different colours of Crafter's Companion pearlescent card and a birthday sentiment from metallic gold card.

I hope you like my spontaneous creation!


Dionne


4 comments:

  1. I know just what you mean lol you have an idea go to look for something and find something completely different and go from there-usually ends up better than what you had in mind lol.Love all the layers and your sparkly bears,the pearls are perfect eyes-I wonder if adding a shim would help with the features?
    Carol x

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    1. Hi Carol. This is probably the most I have ever gone off track with my design, it has none of the elements I was planning to use. Not sure that a shim would help in this case, the glitter on the card is very thick, but one would definitely help with some cards.

      Dionne xx

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  2. I remember that and even though I only make a few cards these days, this happens most times! I love those glittery bears and using the pearls such a clever idea, they are just perfect x

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    1. Hi Lisette

      Thank you for your lovely comments. It was such a shame that the camera did not show the full colour of all of the backing card. It is also a little odd that the pearls I used are all the same size but both noses look so much smaller than the eyes.

      Have a lovely weekend and thanks for stopping by.

      Dionne xxx

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