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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

Friday, 21 July 2023

Plant a Seed of Friendship

Many years ago - and I really do mean many years ago, something in the region of ten or fifteen years ago!  I purchased a lot of card making kits from both QVC and C&C.  At the time I was relatively new to card making and the shopping channels made these kits sound so exciting and I bought so, so many of them.  However, my skill level soon improved and I stopped using the kits to make cards and these boxes got pushed the back of my craft room and more or less forgotten about.

However, now that I find myself without a functioning printer, I have been forced to seek out alternative ways to make cards and I have quite literally dug out a few of these long forgotten kits to see what they contain and what I can make from them.  I confess that I am no Dawn Bibby, Stephanie Weightman, Sara Davies or even Leonie Pujol.

This card comes from one of those kits, unfortunately it has been so long that I can not remember which shopping channel it came from or what make it is.

All of the elements came from the kit.  I confess that I find the sentiments rather corny but, as they match everything else so well, they balance the design quite nicely.


Dionne

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3 comments:

  1. crafty-stamper22 July 2023 at 15:25

    Beautiful monochrome card,love the papers and toppers the sentiment may be corny but it's lovely.I panicked when my printer first went -but-it pushed me into using my stamps and papers more and trying more things than just printing,colouring and sticking-I honestly don't think I will bother with another one and have you seen the price of inks now???
    Carol x

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  2. Mrs Beez24 July 2023 at 08:03

    How lovely to have rediscovered kits from times past. I used to do the same - buy kits full of good intentions but torn between saving for best and using up. When I downsized my stash I was quite sad that there were so many unused bits and bobs, which I then donated to a local community centre. Great that you are now able to put your kits to good use - this is such a pretty card. Xxx

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    1. Dee's Craft Room28 July 2023 at 04:01

      Thank you Mrs Beez. Well, with one eye to the possibility of one day moving, I am trying to declutter and it seemed so sad to get rid of them, so the alternative is to use them. But you are right about the one to use and one to save mentality, I have found several kits I have two of!

      Dionne xxx

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