Die'sire samples and More news.

Helloo All..

Hope everyone has had a good start to their week?

I am still showing samples from the Die'sire team shows On this post so then we will be moving on to some other creations , I am finishing off another baby blanket and Have been honoured to make it to semi- final for the Heartfelt Creations team so I am working hard on that plus some commissions I need to finish before the end of next week when I leave my job for pastures new.

I would love to do some magazine work so this will be my next challenge I think to be accepted by some mags and work hard on that with them.
I am still dreaming of a job in this industry  and hope that one day this will come true... whats your dreams?

This was the first card I made for the Die'sire samples, it was an embossing folder from Craftwell who make the Ebosser die cutter which is really a fabulous piece of kit.

I also had this background to use from Craftwell and couldn't decide for the longest time how to make it stand out so I did some stamping with the owls and masked the branch before adding the owls so they perching. Some clouds used as a stopper to the easel card finished it nicely. Pretty  kiddy card I thought., what doesn't come over on this picture is the glorious sparkle throughout the moon and stars area , so pretty.

Here is a close up of the main flower  on the card photo'd below, I made them all with a quilling dye for Dahlia's. Die'sire.

This one looks wonky lol i promise it isn't lol its just way pic came out but I love the colours and I embossed the pattern from Embossilicious for Crafter's companion into the prettiest paper that already had a lace like pattern into it. Of course all the flowers are made using their quilling dies in matching paper from Kanban.

These ones aren't so stampy , vintage and grungy which is my favourite style all inky, or paint and clay etc but these I enjoyed making with the team too. And making a new Pal ( you know who you are lol) All of these samples were shown on Ideal world and Create and Craft on the 20/21st of this month and I had a blast making them.

Sooo now I have 2 Birthday cards and boxes to make and my 2 pieces for entering into the Heartfelt Creations DT ... Heartfelt have announced we are in the semi finals so wish me luck and why not peak at their blog.. it has a lot of inspiration on it always.

It's the Aly Paly show again in 2 weeks and I am looking forward to this sooooo much for several reasons, firstly my son and his lovely lady are coming home to go with me to the show( this would be unheard of if Sons girly wasn't crafty like mumma) lol  so I get to see them and go to the awesome Big stamp and scrapbook show at our own Alexandra Palace  and see my fabulous crafty pals from Craftwork Cards which is always a huge treat. Anyone thinking of coming along would have a great time I loved it when I went last year and of course got to meet the lovely Emma Williams from the Craftwork DT there too.

Ok back to work.

Have a great week , Back soon

Kim 
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More from Die'sire

Hey every one

Well I wonder If you caught any of the shows on Ideal world/Create and Craft, they sold out on the 4th show so there certainly wasn't alt to tune in to see later in the day.. I managed to catch the shows last night though and see a few of my cards and Leann showed my teal wall hanging this a.m at 8.
Which was lovely, I am glad she had some good shows and managed all the sell outs .

 My favourite of her demo's on the show was when she went rogue lol and double embossed some roses with diff colours in a letter press technique.. very simple but so effective.

Heres my wall hanging.

This started one colour and ended up a totally different one lol , I primed a Daler board Canvas and covered it in a dark colour and dried , added some paperartsy (love love love) crackle glaze and then dried then a light colour and dried lol then...
 that's when it happened.. my mind just went off on a tangent and I found my air dry clay.... squiggled it in an embossing folder from the shows today.. the fabulous 6x6 Lattice then stuck it onto my painted crackled canvas and painted it all over to match etc.
After sanding back I added Treasure gold wax to make the golden lights. I made the word from the clay moulds. I added the crochet , buttons leaves and then made lots of quilled flowers from the Die'sire range and added through out the centre. I then added 2 holes for the ribbon, threaded it twisted and voila.

 I love this Indigo Blu stamp. I love poppies but Even more if they are coloured with distress inks and added utee over the top then they reach out and grab the proverbial attention so well.

 As you can see , this is again one of the quilling dies from today's show.

Nextly I made this....

It was my little vintage treasure with a little book and scroll both made from left overs and with added Frantage embossing powders etc., Its al glimmery and shiny in real proper life lol but on this its just pretty.

I am really looking forward to the Aly Paly show next month and meeting up with my girls from Craftwork cards for our after show meet, hope lot's of the girls are able to come, would love to meet up with them all.

Also is anything else happening soon... hmm let me see after 12 years I have handed in my notice in and my last day at the hospital is April 5th. I must say it will be nice having the challenge of something completely different.

I have also to finish a baby blanket and 3 commissions plus more in the next week or so, yikes getting busy and I don't care.... I love it lol

Have a great evening?day folks back tomorrow with more from the shows..

Crafty Hugs

Kim 

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Die'sire Sneaky peak DT pieces.

Hi everyone

Hope you are all well. As you know I had the opportunity to become part of the Die'sire Design team and have been working hard to get the samples finished for next weeks show. I can now show you some sneaky peaks and say that the Fabulous Leann from Crafter's companion will be launching this lovely collection on Ideal world as the Pick of the day at 9pm and again 11pm on the 20th of March , then it will be through out the day on Ideal world and Create and craft.

Here is the first sneaky
This little box was made using the Perfect Paisley Embossing folder and also the Die'sire Camelia quilling flower it also has the Dahlia quilling flower and the Leaf 1 die on here too.
I added lots of lovely ribbon and a gorgeous sentiment to it and voila... My little box is complete.

The next item I would like to feature today is an Altered Art project which I am very happy with and  wanted to keep haha...

I love the techniques used in this Project with the acrylic paints and the crackle medium and the gold waxing.
All the flowers are again using the  gorgeous new Die'sire Die's all coming next week again here is the Camellia die in Large and Small and Dahlia die, I've used the Stamen die plus The Leaf 1 die.

If you would like to know how to do any of the techniques here leave me a comment and I Will do a tutorial blog, this post is really just to give you a sneak at the gorgeous products coming next week and hope you will support me by tuning in at some point on the 20th.

My last Item today is a card hope you like it.

 I love the colours here. This 8X8 card features The gorgeous papers of Craftwork Cards but has of course the Die'sire Range featured throughout.
This time I have used The lace flower Die but I have also used the negative side to the Die (so where The Lace flower is cut from on the paper the other side ) 
I have also used the Dahlia quill die to cut the black ribbon flowers and the Leaf 1 Die to cut pink and green leaves that are also stamped.
Lots of embossing with a Sheena Douglas stamp also featured on The Crafter's companion website.
I will be back tomorrow with more creations using this brilliant collection , I was so very pleased to get them all posted today and I hope you look forward to seeing them all go live on the 20th
Ideal world and the 21st on Create and Craft through out the day .

Crafty hugs and Best wishes

Kim xxxx