Turtles Friend

Hi

Whatever happened to all the fabulous weather we had last weekend?  I am feeling distinctly chilly today.

I have been playing with some of the MelJen stamps which are available from the Crafty Boots store, this range of stamps are new to me but the images were just what I wanted for my young nephew's birthday card.

This particular stamp is called Turtles Friend.

I stamped the image on Crafty Boots Delux Crafter's paper and coloured it with Promarkers.  I then added some Glossy Accents to his spots.

I cut my nephew's name and age out with my recently acquired Sizzix Bigz alphabet dies and mounted everything on Stampin' Up papers.  I loved how all of my Stampin' Up papers coordinated.

Don't forget that the current Crafty Boots Challenge is used a stamped character, why not dust off your old stamps and enter one of your designs?

Have a great weekend.

Dionne

Bows and Roses

Hi

Crafty Boots Challenges have launched a new challenge today, Anything Goes - provided it includes a stamped image.

I have used one of the new Saturated Canary rubber stamp range from the Crafty Boots on-line store.  This lovely design is called Gardener Gayle and I could not resist including I whole hedge of roses.

The image is mounted on silver Glimmer Paper from Stampin' Up and the backing paper is from a Papermania stack.  The Happy Birthday sentiment is also from Stampin' Up as is the ribbon.  I am sure you have spotted that the roses are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I have been admiring the fabulous projects the rest of the Design Team have made, why not take a peek for yourself and don't forget to enter your own work into the Challenge.

Good luck.


Dionne

Ice Cream and Pickles

Hi

Today I want to share another card that I have made with one of the Saturated Canary rubber stamps from the Crafty Boots store.  I know that I am part of their Design Team and you would expect me to say this but I genuinely love working with these stamps, they are just so easy to colour.

I recently went to my very first Baby Shower and needed a suitable card, I am sure you will agree that this image was just perfect.  I have combined it with the 'Rain or Shine' stamp set from Stampin' Up and a lot of glimmer paper.

I coloured the Ice Cream and Pickles rubber stamp with Promarkers and, as we know it is a girl, I also coloured some of my Stampin' Up silver Glimmer Paper with a pink Promarker - doesn't it look fab?

I stamped the umbrellas from the Rain or Shine stamp set with various coloured inks and then cut them out, I curved the umbrellas and affixed them with Pinflair Glue Gel so they were supported.  Once the glue gel was dry I coated them with Glossy Accents.  The Baby Shower stamp is also from the Rain or Shine stamp set.

Have a great weekend.


Dionne

Happy Birthday Card

Hi

I knew I needed a card for a male friend for this week and, to be honest with you, I thought I had one.  But, when I checked the only male cards I had were for sportsmen, one of a lad playing football and the other one playing golf, and this friend is not into sport.

I had to get the my card into the post and did not have a lot of time to make a card.  So I set about making a very simple, quick card and this is it, not bad for the amount of time I spent making it!

The papers are by Papermainia and Stampin' Up and the stamped sentiment is also from Stampin' Up (I love this Happy Birthday stamp).  Both the gold mirri and the gold flat backed gems are from my stash.

Dionne

Wedding Scrapbook

Hi

I have been tidying my blog and discovered that I had forgotten to post these pages from a wedding scrapbook I made to celebrate the wedding of  the daughter of a dear friend.  How could I have forgotten to publish these pages?  Everything was completed but just sitting in draft, my apologies for the delay.

I did not want to publish any of the pages containing personal information, and there were quite a lot of those, so these are only a few of the pages from the album.

It was a fabulous wedding and a great day.


Dionne

Other scrapbook pages can be found Wedding Scrapbook and A Few More Scrapbook Pages. 

Queenie and Princess

Good morning

I am very excited today because this is my first project for the Crafty Boots store Design Team.  There are so many wonderfully talented ladies on this team and it is such a trill to join them.

As you can imagine, I wanted something really special for my first DT project but deciding just what to do was so hard, there are just so many stamps available from the Crafty Boots Store.

Between you and me, I actually made several projects before deciding on the stamp for my inaugural piece.   In the end I selected something from one of my favourite artists and chose Queenie and Princess from the Saturated Canary range.

I stamped the image on Crafty Boots Deluxe Crafter's Card and coloured it with Promarkers.  I then layered it on papers from Papermania and Stampin' Up Glimmer Paper.

The flowers and most of the hat pins are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

As this was my first project, I wanted to make it a little bit special, so I also made a matching candle.

I have never tried to colour the image for a candle before and was not sure whether it was possible to colour tissue with Promarkers, but as you can see, it worked really well.  I can assure you that this will not be my last coloured candle.


Dionne

The Key to my Heart

Good morning

I am back this morning with another altered matchbox.

This time it is a small matchbox and I got the idea of the theme around St Valentine's Day.

I covered the box with paper and distressed it with Wild Honey and a little glitter.  I added some silver net and a brad for a handle.  The tiny rose buds are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the key has been in my stash for some time and I am afraid I cannot remember where I got it from.

Inside I added another single rose and a wooden red heart along with the rest of the sentiment.

If you would like to see the other matchboxes I have altered you can find them at An Altered Matchbox and Recycled Matchbox.

Don't forget to check out the current challenge at Crafty Boots Challenges, it is all about recycling something.

Dionne