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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!


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Dionne

Tuesday 21 April 2020

Lockdown Fairies

Most of my crafty friends are aware that following the suspension of Crafty Boots Challenges I took some time off from card making, I had a massive pile of unused cards which I neded to use up and I wanted time to concentrate on my knitting. However, my reserve of cards has gradually depleted and with lockdown in forced I cannot get out to the shops to buy birthday and anniversary cards.

Now, many, many years ago (before my time helping to organize Crafty Boots Challenges) I bought a lot of paper sets from Create and Craft - and I do mean a lot of these sets. I am sure many of you also bought them, they were very popular.  They are not quite the same as card kits, these sets consist of pre-coloured images, matching card blanks, papers, ribbons, peel-offs, stickers and charms, how you use them is entirely up to you. When I joined the Crafty Boots design team, I packed all of these sets away and have not looked at them since. However, they take up quite a lot of space in my craft room and I recently got them out and refreshed my memory as to what was in the boxes. I probably have enough in the boxes to make hundreds, if not a couple of thousand, cards.

I need a couple of birthday cards for later this month - so last weekend I raided one of the boxes and made a few cards.  The box I randomly pulled from the stack contained Flower Fairy papers. They have a lot of detail on all the papers and cards, so I felt that this a case where less is more.

Here are the first two off the blocks.


Every thing I used came from the set other than the card blank and the happy birthday sentiment (even the insert came from the set).


Between you and me, I wish I had discovered this set a few weeks ago when my small niece had a birthday.

More tomorrow.


Dionne

4 comments:

  1. Absolutely beautiful Dionne really love the images on the second card -yesterday I found some 12" papers I bought from QVC they were really cheap for about 325 sheets from K&Co don't have that many left but kept thinking ooh I like that one lol
    Carol x

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    1. I became a massive fan of K&Co, thanks to QVC. In the end I had to buy two of everything - one to use and one for me, trouble is it got expensive.

      Dionne xx

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  2. How wonderful to have such a great kit in your stash and this looks like a real beauty, these cards are gorgeous.I especially love the little tag x x

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    1. Thank you, the tag is about the only thing I made. These kits are aimed at beginners and contain everything you need .... they make you very lazy!

      Dionne xx

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