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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

Thursday 11 October 2012

Take Two

"Nanny Ogg had never believed it at the start, but Magrat Garlick, wet as a sponge though she was half the time, had been dead right about one thing.  Three was a natural number for witches."
Maskerade - Terry Pratchett  1995

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My apologies for not posting for a while, but I have been a bit under the weather, I'm feeling much better today and thought I would share some thoughts with you.

When I first saw the Saturated Canary image Witchkeys I knew exactly how I wanted to colour it, in my mind I could see  it in rich autumnal colours and that it how I made it for my DT piece for the current Crafty Boots Challenge.  

However, as I sat colouring the image I began to think about how I would set about colouring it if I were to dress them in the more traditional witches black and this started a whole process of thinking about alternative colours and if it were appropriate for a witch to wear, for instance, pastels.  I just had to find out .......

Same girls, same design, just different colours for comparison.  This is my modern take,



And the more traditional look,




I coloured the images with my Promarkers and mounted them twice.  The gorgeous cobweb papers are a freebie from Bearly Mine.  Finally I added a double bow, made from shimmery organza ribbon.


Dionne

3 comments:

  1. Hi Dionne
    Sorry to hear you have not been well. I hope you did not catch it from me (LOL).
    Both of your cards are very beautiful! I absolutely loved the paper you used last time and what a treat seeing it in different colours again. Love both traditional and your modern look, hard to decide which one wins for me. Every time I see 3 witches I think of Halliwell sisters from the TV series "Charmed".
    Michaela xx

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  2. Oh wow !! Your colouring is amazing on these gorgeous cards .
    Sorry to hear you've not been feeling well , hope you're getting better now . Take care and big hugs Emma xx

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  3. These look AMAZING. Can't decide which is my favourite now. How do you do those lovely bows? Hope you're feeling better. Lisette

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