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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, 18 November 2015

Vintage Poppies and Peonies

Regular visitors will not have failed to have noticed that I am having a bit of a thing with poppy images at the moment. It does not take much to get me rushing for my pens and pencils to colour poppy images because they are so much fun but this set came pre-coloured and they were just perfect to make into Artist Trading Cards (ATCs).


This set of nine images of rich red poppies and peonies came from Pics and Paper. At first glance they looked as if they was very little to do to them, but once I got out my craft supplies I found lots of suitable embellishments.

I printed two sets and layered some of the flowers and mounted them on glitter card. I also added some ruby coloured flat backed gems to each card. I added pearls to some and ribbons to others. I also added butterflies and leaves to others, all from my stash.











Apologies for the poor quality photographs, they weather here has been dreadful this week and it is constantly dark and overcast, this does not lead to very good quality pictures.

Of course, there is another reason I have been playing with poppies, the current Crafty Boots Challenge is 'Remembrance' and/or 'Giving Thanks'.  There is still time for you to play along with this challenge.

Good luck.


Dionne
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4 comments:

  1. Pamellia18 November 2015 at 11:17

    What an amazing collection Dionne! I just love all the different images and the touches of bling and sparkle really jazz them up! hugs :)

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    1. Dee's Craft Room18 November 2015 at 20:38

      Thank you Pamellia. Most of the hard work had already been done for me, I just did the fun part!

      Dionne xx

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  2. Mrs Beez18 November 2015 at 19:47

    Love, love, love these. Nothing will ever top trump my favourite glittery set that you made but these come pretty close :) xx

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    1. Dee's Craft Room18 November 2015 at 20:40

      Thank you so much - to be honest the first ATCs I every made are still my favourites too.

      Dionne xx

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