So much sunshine!

Hello!
Hasn't it been gorgeous of late, such a lot of sunshine! Although I am pleased to see it's going to be a little cooler for the rest of the week!

I've been a bit quiet on the blog for the past couple of weeks, and for that I can only apologise,  normality is resuming now!

I attended the wedding of one of my besties a couple of weekends ago, it was so beautiful and the bride was stunning (as always!).
This bank holiday weekend I took the trip to Reading festival and had an amazing time... now that I have caught up on sleep and rehydrated I am ready to get my craft on... and it helps that I took the week off from my day job! So much time to craft!

I have been working on my upcoming workshops. The Mini Album is first up this weekend,  I can't wait to show the group how to make such a gorgeous little book!

Up next will be my Autumn group where we will be making 2 cards and 1 tag using the Rooted in Nature set. I have been really enjoying myself coming up with designs for the workshop,  but I keep finding myself creating Christmas cards! Do you find that happens to you too?!

Here are a couple of the Christmas cards I made...

And then a couple of non Christmas...

This set really does make Simple Stamping look so pretty! I love that the set is so huge, full of leaves and trees, and the die set that matches the stamps can also embossed detail onto your die cuts...it's so worth it!

If you'd like to see more of this set then click the link on the right and it will show you what you get in each of the stamp and die sets.

I've also been having a little play with the Back on your Feet stamp set, I can see this one will be a lot of fun! (Link also on the side)

Here's a couple of simple stamping cards using watercolors to make them pretty and backed onto Night of Navy.  

Keep an eye out on Sunday as I get back to normal,  for my next blog post... I expect it will be full of pretty things after my few days of crafting!

Thanks for reading,

Dawn x

Getting Messy - Part 2

Happy August!

I hope you have all had a great weekend. Mine has been chaotic but fun weekend. 

On Saturday I held Messy Day part 2. This involved the little group of ladies who came to part 1, using all the wonderful backgrounds and bits and turning them into beautiful cards. It was a fantastic day and I really enjoyed seeing everyone's mind working hard to come up with something special... and come up with something special they did! 

Here's a few of the cards (some of them are not quite finished but still need showcasing!) 

These two I made just simply punching the butterflies out of one of my backgrounds and cutting the aperture using the Stitched Nested dies. 

An absolutely gorgeous effort by one of the ladies, using the Silhouette dies to cut from her background.  

One of the unfinished cards here, but by simply backing the laser cut card with one of the backgrounds... stunning don't you think?! 

The Stitched Nested dies featured a lot in our group (it's not hard to see why!). Thd background here was made using the shaving foam technique and topped with a stamp from the Magnolia Blooms set. 

Dinosaurs!!! What's not to love?! The crazy background worked perfectly with these Dinos! 

Love this cow card! Two of this ladies backgrounds featured here... the front one using elastic bands. 

Simple stamping at its finest. Just beautiful.  

Finally another of mine, a shaving foam background and of course I had to get a bird in somewhere! 

As you can see, the creations were amazing! I'm so chuffed with the ladies, such beautiful cards. 

If you would like any info on any of the techniques or sets used then please let me know! 

Have a great week.

Dawn x