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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

Friday, 17 April 2015

Little Red Tractor


It's the weekend and I am hoping it is a little better than last weekend.  After probably the warmest say of the year so far last Friday, we got up Saturday morning to sleet.  It was so heavy you could not see more that 20 or so meters.  Then on Sunday the wind was so strong it was hard to walk into it and it quite literally took my breath away, very strange weather.

So I am hoping that neither sleet nor wind put in an appearance this weekend.

A quick card to share with you today, it features on of my vintage stamps,  I find this stamp very difficult to colour, too many pipes and metalic bits, so this time I decided to put all of the colour into the card and backing paper.


I just added a few highlights of red on the tractor.  The sentiment stamp and card are from Stampin' Up and the faux pearls and backing paper came from my stash.


The current Challenge at Crafty Boots Challenges is 'Red, White or Blue', your projects can contain just one of the colours, all three colours or any combination of the three.

Use red, white or blue somewhere in your project, it is as simple as that, just as I have done here.


Dionne



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6 comments:

  1. Pamellia18 April 2015 at 11:15

    This is fabulous Dionne! Great stamp and I just love you popped sections up on layers, great dimensional effect! Love the hits of red, perfect for a tractor! hugs :)

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    1. Dee's Craft Room18 April 2015 at 14:33

      You are too kind. I am still not entirely happy that I have done this stamp justice, I'll keep trying though.

      xx

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  2. Jacee18 April 2015 at 19:28

    Fabulous design Dionne, great!
    hugs Jacee
    Simply Paper Card Design

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    1. Dee's Craft Room19 April 2015 at 15:51

      Thank you Jacee. I am not good at male cards, I need more practice.

      x

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  3. Mrs Beez19 April 2015 at 07:29

    What I great idea. I often wonder how to tackle images that I can't be bothered to colour. This looks fabulous xx

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    1. Dee's Craft Room19 April 2015 at 15:50

      Thank you but I think it was more luck than anything. It wasn't so much that I could not be bothered to colour it, I tried colouring it a couple of times but it looked so messy, the pipes etc are so narrow, I went over the lines and I could not decide which to so red and which brassy. Such a mess, so this is my solution.

      I don't like being defeated.

      xx

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