Getting To Know You

Hello

Happy Friday!

It's a lovely day here today - feels as though Spring really is just around the corner at last.

I've had a lovely crafting week this week and managed to get a few things ticked off my to-do list. Today it's Daring Cardmakers Day and Dawn really let us have some fun with her challenge!

Here's what Dawn says:  

Getting To Know You

I want to get to know you as a crafter.  What are your favourite techniques and where do you like to craft?

I love to make shaker cards.  I think they are so much fun and I get to add another of my favourite crafting elements, glitter and sequins.  I also love to craft in front on the TV on the living room rug in the evenings when the children have gone to bed.

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Hubby and I share the study, a large part of which is my craft area.  I'm also lucky enough to have two desks, one for crafting the other for my pc.

I do all my crafting in this room, I don't craft in front of the tv and I don't tend to take stuff with me when we go away.  I like everything to be at hand!

For my card I chose a few of my favourite things, some old, some new.

I'm a relatively new convert to stencils and already have 2 folders full of them, plus a few in a box waiting for me to buy another folder.  

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I started my card by using a mask to create the peachy-pink panel across the card, then used my absolute favourite stencil and various different inks over most of the card.  There's pink, peach, fawn and several blues in there and I moved the stencil a couple of times to make it less uniform.

I admit to owning a lot of dies.  I've been hooked on die-cutting ever since I acquired my very first die cutter - do you remember the old QuicKutz thing with the handles you squeezed to cut the dies?  It was hard work, but I loved making those little shapes!  It didn't take long to progress to ever bigger machines and of course much bigger dies too.

I just can't resist flower die sets!  I love the way you can shape the petals and use the same die sets for several different flower shapes.  I decided to make some shabby chic flowers for this card - I damped the various sizes of petals with water, scrunched them up and left them to dry. once dry, open them carefully and fix them together to make lovely crumply flowers.  I added a little bit of Glamour Dust glitter to some of the petals and a sparkly gem in the centres

I'd already cut the three heart shapes for a project that didn't work out as planned, so decided to use them on this one as a background element for the matching flowers.  One of my other go-to 'filler' techniques is to use swirls, leaves and flourishes behind my flowers.  So I had to put some of those in too.

Finally, I used this fab swirly, loopy "with love" die cut sentiment to finish off my card.

Materials and Tools

The papers are all from a very old K&Co mini pad 

Stencil is "Mini Spinning Tops" (The Crafters Workshop)

Dies are all from Spellbinders

 Prim Hearts Etched Dies 

Happy Grams #4 Collection by Tammy Tutterow Shapeabilities

Succulent and Mum Flower  (Thoughtful Expressions by Marisa Job)

 Shapeabilities Etched Dies 

 Mosaic Vine (Thoughtful Expressions by Marisa Job)

 Shapeabilities Etched Dies

 Sentiments 3  

Die D-Lites Etched Dies

That's all from me today, I hope you will join in with us this week - it would be so lovely to hear about your crafting habits and favourite techniques!

Happy Crafting