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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 13 June 2016

Vintage Spitfire

We have already reached the midway point of the current Crafty Boots Challenge.  I have spent the last couple of days happily tucked away with my box of pencils colouring the images for a few masculine cards.


Delicious Doodles have some fabulous images, which are just perfect for the men in your life.  This image is called 'Vintage Spitfire'.  I confess I had to do a bit of research for get the colours right for this image, but it was very satisfying to know that I had had not just made them up.  From the photos I looked on line the only variation is in the colour of the nose cone, this seems to come in a variety of colours - red, white, yellow, black.


I use polychromos pencils to colour the image and I mounted it on silver mirri and Pool Party card from Stampin' Up.  The backing paper is also from Stampin' Up ... I thought it looked a bit like a stormy sky.  

I kept this card fairly simple for two reasons.  The first is because I feel that men do not really want a lot of ribbon. gems or bunches of flowers on their cards and the second reason is that I am trying very hard to cut back on the amount of money I spend on postage.  I do not know what it is like in other countries, and I would be interested to hear what it is like, but in the UK postage is not only decided by the weight of a card, but also by size and thickness.  The vast majority of my cards exceed the thickness allowance and I have to pay additional postage.

I almost forgot to tell you that we have two lovely Guest Designers at Crafty Boots this week.  Jana and Cicci won our recent 'Use a Sentiment' challenge, please make sure you take a look at their fabulous work.  Also, the other ladies in the Design Team have been very industrious, they are a great bunch.


Dionne

4 comments:

  1. That backing paper with the image is absolute genius. I really did wonder if it was a photograph of an aerial shot. xx

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    1. My, thank you to much. That is one very big compliment.

      Dionne xx

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  2. Very nice card! Your coloring work is amazing! You have done such a great job for these masculine cards!

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    1. Thank you, my head is swelling right now!

      Dionne x

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