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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, 19 September 2016

We Plough the Fields and Scatter

When I was a girl 'We Plough the Fields and Scatter' was sung at this time of year in schools as we celebrated our Harvest Festival.  I remember taking into school my little package of fresh fruit and tinned goods to go on the stage with all of the other contributions.  Then afterwards the food was distributed to the local pensioners and disabled.  When I as older I even went with the head teacher to help take the food parcels round.

We would then do the same with the local church.  The alter was always beautifully decorated by the local ladies and the village baker would make a huge diamond shaped plaited loaf for the centre of the alter table.  (I often wondered what happened to that loaf afterwards.)  The thought of that old hymn really takes me back.  Do school still hold Harvest Festivals?

It is time for the Crafty Boots Challenges Mid Challenge Reminder.  The theme of the current challenge is 'All Squared Up'.  A very easy challenge, just use squares in your project or simply create a square shaped  card.


For my project today I used this nostalgic Delicious Doodles design called 'Working the Land'.  I coloured the image with my polychromos pencils and then mounted them on gold mirri and blue card (Pool Party).


The backing paper is also from Stampin' Up.  I created the sentiment on my computer.

We have two very talented Guest Designers at Crafty Boots Challenges this week Zoechaos and Papersniffer - known to their family and friends as Zoe and Wendy.  Don't forget to check out their fabulous square designs.


Dionne
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6 comments:

  1. Sue MacLean19 September 2016 at 23:18

    Hi Dionne, I absolutely love your card! The image is amazing and I love the way you coloured it. I am going to have to buy that stamp...it's calling my name!

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    1. Dee's Craft Room20 September 2016 at 00:53

      Thank you, that is a lovely thing to say. In return I shall give you a friendly warning, beware of Delicious Doodles, there are quite a lot of very addictive scenic and vintage images mixed in with the more Gothic ones. They are all a joy to colour (and quite easy really).

      Have fun colouring.

      Dionne

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  2. CdeBaca Crafts Gallery21 September 2016 at 03:36

    Amazing card! This is so lovely. You coloring work is wonderful! You always have shine to your cards!

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    1. Dee's Craft Room21 September 2016 at 23:17

      Thank you. I like sparkle, just you wait for the glitter to come out on the Christmas cards. The problem is, especially with the shinny card, photographing it, you get flair and reflection. Neither of them are a good look.

      I also think matting gives an image, and sometimes backing papers, a nice finish. Of course here I was trying to work as many squares into the deign as possible.

      Dionne x

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  3. crafty-stamper22 September 2016 at 21:14

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  4. crafty-stamper22 September 2016 at 21:17

    Brilliant vintage image and fabulous colouring-I remember singing that and the harvest festival collections-my little grandaughters have just brought a letter from school about havest festival collections too
    Carol x

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Dionne

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