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Here you will find my latest designs and ideas,

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Love Di



Sunday 14 February 2010

This basket I put togther for my mum for her Christmas table in 2009. The cones I picked up when they fell from the trees in Autumn. I left them to dry out/open up and I then sprayed them with gold spray. Left to dry for 24hrs then they made excellent little gap fillers. All the decorations I just placed gently onto the basket which I had in my craft room . I add a little bit of red ribbon and Hey Presto !! job done and one very pleased mum.


This card is also a quick simple card, made as those below were made, but I then cut an extra strip of the heart paper placed it across the centre of the card, cut out some extra hearts and layered them up to create some hight. I added a simple insert and the card was finished.
I made this card the same way as the one below, its the very lovely cupcakes that are so popular at the moment. I should have taken the photo before I put it in the cello bag but never mind I think you should be able to see the image well enough.

Saturday 13 February 2010

I made this little valentine card from an image CD Rom that I picked up off e-bay
I basically just printed an A5 image off onto some photo paper and mounted it onto plain white card stock and added a little ribbon and an insert. I thought as the image was quite busy in itself that i didn't really need any more decoration.
At the moment the left hand wall is pretty free, I intend to put a large tall unit on this wall that I have seen in Ikea for a decent price. This will provide me with much need extra storage space for my ever growing stash.. I started crafting about 18 months ago so I think I'm doing ok for supplies and space. I do owe many thanks to Steve for being so very thoughtful and generous in helping me build my little dream. Thanks sweetie !!!
To the left of my work desk I have a lovely little set of drawers which I store all my special papers and card stock in. Each drawer is carefully labeled. Then we have the stacker drawers
I have my wooden stamps, inks and blending chalks. In the smaller drawers I have my clear bags for my samples to be stored in. And some of the space is taken up with punches, acrylic blocks, rocker blocks an the like.

Further along on the next shelf are all my CD roms and my glue sprays etc.. Then we have my printer with the drawers below containing my white card stock of all sizes and my envelopes. Then I store my water colour crayons, lyras and promarkers of which I have a vast collection. My Sakura, paint brushes and scissors are all in the wall hanging pots. I have a decent sized work area which has a wonderful light perspective (and i can also see whats going on outside ) In addition to the natural light I have a day light lamp on the window ledge which is amazing for night crafting.