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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

Tuesday, 24 December 2019

The Twelve Days of Christmas

I am back again with some more of the cards I have made this year by using Hunkydory toppers with matching papers and inserts.

I love the theme for this set, I just adore all of the things you can get to do with this song - I have a fabulous set of Christmas tree decorations.


I have to be careful when I make cards for this sister,  She likes to put her cards up on her wall, out of the way, and she says that one of these days I am going to be the death of her ....  Picture this, a nice peaceful evening, my sister stretched out on her sofa chilaxing, the central heating turned up, a nice mug of tea in her hand and the cat on her lap.  When out of the blue a loud crash makes her jump out of skin and the cat flies across the room - scolding tea everywhere!

The heat has softened the glue on her card and the front had dropped off the card blank and crashed to the floor.  Apparently this happens most years, opps!  Sorry baby sister.



Yes, that is a bulldog clip the mistletoe image is hanging from.  It was part of  a little gift I got from my Stampin' Up demonstrator, she is such a lovely girl.

It looks like Arlen and Rowena elf are heading back to the North Pole ....


Bye bye, see you next year.



Dionne

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4 comments:

  1. Mrs Beez26 December 2019 at 07:37

    I love anything that has the Twelve Days of Christmas so these tick all the boxes for me. That partridge image is particularly stunning. I live in dread of bits falling off my cards but what can you do?! Xx

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    1. Dee's Craft Room26 December 2019 at 15:36

      The trouble is, when you go all out to make something very special, you pile up the layers and add your best trimmings and then the double sided tape can't cope. I put on so much I get through tons of it and, to be honest, those tape runners are just not sticky enough!

      Dionne xx

      PS Knew you would love this set.

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  2. crafty-stamper27 December 2019 at 17:47

    Beautiful cards and papers love the vintage look to the first one and the little bulldog clip.I always use wet glue for special cards as found some dst not always reliable
    Carol x

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    1. Dee's Craft Room27 December 2019 at 19:46

      Thank you. I have tried wet glue but I tend to put too much wet glue on and end up warping my card blanks. But you are right about dst - and tape runners are the worse.

      Dionne xx

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