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Eastham, Wirral, United Kingdom
Welcome to Dottie about cards. I live on the Wirral and have been crafting for 10 years. I have a son and daughter and 6 grandchildren. I have been a craft tutor covering many aspects of cardmaking for 10 years. I was employed by a local craft company, sadly that came to an end so now I have now gone freelance.

Friday, 22 June 2012

This is one of the nestability cut and tuck dies, the corners have been cut using one of Nellie Snellen
corner dies, and the rose has been made using Marianne flower dies.  I have used small pearls on
every other fold.
  Thought I would use some of my dies on
this card so I have used Marianne butterfly and flowers, dynamics leaf flourish and nestability labels.  The message has been stamped with the small sentiment set from Dimension Stamps and the label and paper has beeninked with victorian velvet distress ink.

Thursday, 31 May 2012

Thought I would have a little fun with this diamond stamp from Dimension
stamps.  I think it makes a great hot air balloon.  Again I stamped the diamond on my card and again on masking tape, covered the diamond and used my brushes to do the sky and the mountains.  I used denim blue adirondak ink and black momento.  The trees at the bottom I used the spring tree from the 4 seasons stamp set and stamped with peeled paint distress ink.  The sentiments are from the small sentiments sheet
from Dimension Stamps.  The balloon has been coloured in with berry red and china blue promarkers.
This  poppy stamp is from the Touch of Summer Dimension Stamp set.  I stamped the poppy then stamped again on masking tape and covered the poppies. I have used denim distress ink and peeled paint with inkyliscious brushes to create the sky and grass.  I then removed the masking tape and coloured in the poppy with poppy promarker and marsh green for leaves.  The fence is from memory box. The bees and the sentiments are from Dimension Stamps.
This stepper shaped card I have used the  rose from the Touch of Summer stamp set from Dimension Stamps.  All I have used is the flower head and two of the leaves for each flower, coloured it with blossom and rose pink promarkers and pear green and marsh green for the leaves.  The butterfly is one of my old Anna Griffin punches and the circles are from Nestabilities and Nellie Snellen.

Wednesday, 30 May 2012


Hi folks This card has been designed using nestability romantic rectangle die and the message and flowerare from Dimension Stamps petal passion stamp set, then coloured in with promarkers

For this Jubilee card I have used Dimension Stamps. The flag, large and small alphabet and the banner stamp. Again I have coloured in with promarkers, decorated the large diamond with small bling and glittered  all the diamond shapes.