Dream Big: Sunday Stampers wk 289 - Tuesday 7th January 2014

Good Morning Friends!

How are you all doing? Yesterday was back to work after a two week break for the Holidays - we spent most of Sunday taking down the decorations...first the tree and then that Village...goodness it takes forever to box it all up and now the house looks so bare! I think I miss the lights most of all - most of us in our road had lights of some sort on our houses and it looked so pretty coming home on a dark, wet evening...oh well, we have next Christmas to look forward to!

I have left out my Polar Bears on the coffee table - I think they are as much for 'winter' as Christmas and as I only just finished them, it would seem a shame to put them away just yet!

Before getting to my card, I want to thank you for your visits and comments - especially recently on the bears and my vintage accordion card - both of them were just a pleasure to make! I am hopefully getting my sewing machine repaired on Friday, which I am excited about as I am eager to start some Spring sewing projects that aren't good for hand sewing. 

I also want to say a big welcome to my latest follow Helen Phillips...Helen has some lovely creations on her blog, so do take a look: http://at-helens.blogspot.co.uk

This now brings me up to 70 followers and I did say that there would be Candy when I got to this next milestone...so please bear with me whilst I get a very busy week ahead over with and I will do a draw for one of you to win a little something!

Today's simple card was born out of frustration! On Sunday, admittedly feeling pretty tired after all the decs removal, I tried a new technique with alcohol inks, die cuts and felt and I just couldn't get it right. I will try again and get there in the end, but it just wasn't to be on Sunday...so instead I made this quick card to ease me back into Hels Sheridan's Sunday Stampers weekly challenge, which I haven't managed to participate in for weeks! This week's theme is to include the word 'Dream'....

Using a 6x6 card blank, I cut a piece of white card slightly smaller and inked all around using  Spiced Marmalade Distress ink. I then stamped the images using a Jofy stamp on white card and coloured with distress inks mixed with water.

The Dream Big stamp is from a set by Sam Poole for Creative Expressions. I matted and layered and added a button tied with Bakers Twine to finish.

Well that's the beauty of crafting isn't it? From the Vintage Nicecrane Design Team card, which took quite a while to put together to a simple, bright contemporary design..all good fun! Talking of the Nicecrane card I made a few years ago, do hop over to Nicecrane's blog to see not only my card, but what the other DT members have been doing with the same designs - so really lovely projects and we all seemed to go for the same style of colouring! 
http://nicecranedesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/elfos-magical-names-cards-birds-calendar.html
Thanks for stopping by!

Love and Hugs,
Carole X

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