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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, 7 March 2016

60th Birthday Step Card

I hope you had a good weekend, it is still very cold here and we had sleet for a while yesterday.
It was Mothering Sunday yesterday and I hope you were spoilt by your family, even if you do not live in the UK, after all it does not have to be a special day to be treated by those who love us.

I still have the tail end of that cold and cough and will be so happy when it goes.  Unfortunately, I have not felt much like crafting over the last couple of weeks and I am very behind with things, I need to get busy.  A little bit of sunshine and a large portion of inspiration is what I need now.

I mentioned last week that I have a lot of 'big' birthday's coming up and I have been using the Stampin' Up Balloon Celebration bundle to make some of these cards, nothing seems to say party quite like balloons.  I made this card for one of my cousins, I have quite a large extended family, which is great when we all get together but it does mean lots of birthday and Christmas cards.

(Unfortunately, the lighting here has been so bad recently and this photo does not really do justice to the card.)

I used the balloon stamps in the bundle to make this card, all of the balloons are actually different colours but you cannot really see this from this photo - Cherry Cobbler, Raspberry Ripple, Real Red, Melon Mambo, Pool Party, Night of Navy, Midnight Muse and Perfect Plum.  There is a bow in the set but I did not like it so I glued this tiny yellow bows over the top.

I went to town with my Spellbinder dies to make the white and bronze glitter card mats and the glossy rose paper is from a Santoro paper stack.  I cheated with the '60' and used peel-offs.

It is time for our mid challenge reminder at Crafty Boots Challenges, the theme of this challenge is 'Something for the Lady'.  No male cards allowed for this challenge, we have had some gorgeous entries but there is still lots of time to add your projects.


Dionne

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4 comments:

  1. Pamellia7 March 2016 at 12:08

    Happy Mother's Day Dionne! I hope you had a wonderful weekend. This is splendid birthday card. I'm horrible with all these fancy fold type cards so I'm always amazed to see them so perfectly executed! Love the little yellow bows you used and your balloons are wonderful! hugs :)

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    1. Dee's Craft Room7 March 2016 at 13:17

      Thank you Pamellia, I wish I could take credit for the fancy fold, I forgot to mention that it was a pre-made card blank. All I did was cover it with my pretty paper.

      Dionne xx

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  2. Mrs Beez7 March 2016 at 14:18

    I absolutely love this, so effective with the fancy fold card. That balloon set is a real find and I love all your spellbinder mats. xx

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    1. Dee's Craft Room7 March 2016 at 17:07

      Thank you Mrs Beez, you are too kind. There are a lot more stamps in that set that I still have not tried yet.

      Dionne xx

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