Where is Santa?

 Hi there.  Dawn here to share my card for the  October Challenge - Anything Goes! 

We have the wonderful Brass & Bliss (formerly Rubbernecker) as our sponsor.

 

They've donated a fabulous $50 gift card

for our random winner.

Please note that challenge winner must have an US address.

Where's Santa.... oh dear - he's got himself stuck in the chimney! I've used the very cute Brass & Bliss "Stuck Santa"   For more details on how I made this one... hop over to my blog post. 

Thanks for visiting and we hope to see you in the October gallery!
As a reminder - be sure to use a die cut &/or an embossing folder.

Dawn and the Divas

Happy Birthday Floral Cluster

 Hi all.  Dawn here to share my card for our June challenge.

 Our challenge this month is a color challenge. We'd like you to use at least three of these colors, as well as black and white and skin tones, for people.

Our Sponsor this month is Poppystamps who will be giving our winner a $20 gift card. Thank you Poppystamps for your generosity.

My card uses an older Poppystamps die - called Floral Cluster. 

I made my own coloured cardstock using Altenew inks and my gel plate - I used Canyon Clay, Burnt Red and Mahogany Bark inks direct to my gel plate and brayed to combine.   The colours become more muted and softer then direct to paper or ink blending.  I used some green inks and did the same for my branches and a very light version with Silver Sage and Jade inks for my background.  I embossed that with Altenew's Organic Linen embossing folder.  I die cut two layers of the green branches and then the separate flowers from the various blending I did  I added three over the flowers on the branch and three for around the edge of the die cut oval.  Sentiment was stamped in Gray Denim ink - to keep with the soft muted theme.  The matting layer is actually an olive green ( not as dark looking as the photo)

Do come and join us, using your die cut machine and the colour palette for the challenge. 

Dawn and the Divas.  

Hello You Floral

 Hi Dawn here to share my sample for this month's challenge.  It's a challenge that warms my heart... my favourite theme and sponsored by my favourite company....

FLOWERS

Our sponsor this month is Altenew. They will be giving our winner a $50 gift certificate to their online store. Thank you Altenew for this very generous gift.

Here's what I came up with.

I used Altenew Perfect Gift set - stamps, stencils, dies and embossing folder to make this one.  I used the embossing folder to add the embossed background.  It embosses the frame and the flower.. but I chose to stamp the flower separately and used the stencil to add the colour before die cutting it.   I used purples from Altenew Enchanted Garden set and greens from Tropical Forest set. The centre was Fresh Lemon but I added some Spectrum Noir clear glitter pen.   For my sentiment I die cut two from Altenew Versatile Greetings set from purple card.   I also made the little purple embellishments by cutting some paler purple card with a tiny circle background die - not sure where I got it as it is unbranded.  Made a LOT of dots!  I added a few here and there and added some glossy accents to them so they look like enamel dots. 

We'd love to see your gorgeous FLOWER projects here . 

Dawn and the Divas

Wishing you Joy this Christmas

Hi all -Dawn here with inspiration for our October Diva Challenge. We're celebrating World Card Making Day all month long!! You just need to make a card including die cuts &/or use an embossing folder and enter it into the gallery by 9pm Pacific Time on October 31st.

I've been doing a few Christmas cards during this month so I'm keeping with that theme for my today's card.    I don't have a lot of My Favorite Things products - mostly older stuff from when I first started card making.  So today my Christmas card uses an older (discontinued) die called Hexagons.  

The die set has two dies - one that cuts a border and then separate hexagons.   The separate hexagons are two sizes... one the exact size of the border and one slightly smaller.    I chose to make the border in black and then used a variety of Christmas papers for the separate ones and layered together.  I've pair this border with an embossed panel and a die cut sentiment and some stamped sub-sentiments. 

Hope you will join us for our challenge.

Dawn & the Divas.

Santa's Workshop

 Hi there.   Dawn here to share my card today. 

and our challenge is 

to Add Some Glitter.

I don't have any Scrappy Tails dies or stamps, so my lovely team-mate Arlene, sent me some stamped and die cut images. 

Here's my card for today. 

This is from "Santa's Workshop" set.   I coloured the die cut images with alcohol markers and added Glitter Glue to act as the snow on the workshop.  The sentiment is from Altenew - a free set from a magazine a few years back. 

Do come and joint us with your Glitter projects HERE ... just remember to use your Die Cut machine in some way...

Dawn & The Divas

Pop up Christmas Bird House

 Hi there.   Dawn here to share my card for this month's Pop Up challenge.  

Our lovely sponsor is Poppy Stamps and the team are using products from them.  However you can use any products provided you use your die cut machine to cut a die or use some embossing on your creations. 

A big thanks to my teamie, Arlene, who sent me some lovely Poppy Stamps die cuts to make this cute as Bird House easel card 

Here it is opened up.   I used the Poppy Stamps Bird House dies  and added a foil sentiment to the card and a foiled sentiment for the easel stopper.   I stamped a Kaisercraft sentiment on the base. 

And here it is closed...

Do come and join us with your pop up creations  - August Challenge Pop-Up-

Dawn

Christmas Coffee with STAMPlorations

 Hi there - Time for me to share a card with you today ...We have a new sponsor and we're so happy to be working with STAMPlorations.  

California-based STAMPlorations™ is owned and managed by husband-and-wife team, David & Shery Russ. STAMPlorations offers clear stamps, stencils, thin metal dies, clear stickers, coloring pages, chipboard & MDF, and paper goods for stampers, card makers, scrapbookers, mixed media artists, and all other kinds of crafters. Through their product lines, they hope to encourage crafters of all ages and experience levels to "Stamp with all your ART!"

At this time, the shop is limited due to Shery's illness.

The Theme for the month of September is 

"Anything Goes with optional Autumn"

STAMPlorations has a fabulous selection of digital images.  

 STAMPlorations is donating a prize of a $20 code on digital images for the winner. 

My card today is a Christmas one... using one of the coffee cups from Holiday Lattes set 

For more details - pop over to my Blog for more details. 

We'd love to see your creations, using at least, one die cut, in our gallery.

Christmas Reindeer

 Hi there.... Dawn here to share my card for our July challenge . our sponsor is Elizabeth Crafts Design

Our challenge is "Christmas in July"

For my card today, I have used ECD - Reindeer.  

I die cut out all the pieces and then used Copics to colour it in.   It is an adorable die cut.  There is a wreath with it - but I found it quite difficult to work out what went where so decided not to use it.  I found some lovely gold star paper for the background.  I used a Pretty Pink Posh edge die to cut a snow bank and added it over the PP.  I used Gina K Master Layouts 1 to trim the panel down.  I matted it onto black card.  I stamped a sentiment from a magazine freebie.  I love how the little reindeer turned out.  He is just so cute.

Do come and join us at Die Cut Divas with your Christmas projects.  

Love Ya - no matter what.

Hi, Dawn here with some inspiration for you.  Cas-ual Fridays Stamps is our sponsor

Our theme - Anything Goes!! 

(Just remember to include a die cut &/or use an embossing folder.)

Prize - $20 gift card to their store (USA or Canadian resident only), randomly picked from eligible May entries 

My card today uses older Cas-ual Fridays stamp and die... but there are lots of great product on the website (Here)

For my card I have used a Cas-ual Fridays "Catherine's Background" stamped in 4 purple inks from Altenew.  I inked it up and lightly spritzed with water and stamped onto some white cardstock.  I trimmed the panel down so it would fit onto the purple die cut panel.  The scalloped panel is from Gina K Master Layout #4.  I added dimension to the stamped panel with some cheap card stock.   The sentiment is Cas-ual Fri Dies - Girlfriend was die cut from the same purple as scalloped die and layered up with 3 layers.  The sub-sentiment is from the Girlfriend stamp set.  I added a few die cut flowers (left over from the other days die cutting) for embellishment. 

Thanks for stopping and we hope to see you in our May Gallery!

Dawn and the Divas.

 

With Sympathy -

 Hi.  Dawn here to share a card today. 

 Our sponsor this month is Joy Clair Designs

and we have a Tic Tac Toe challenge

I chose to use the right hand side - at least 2 layers, colour yellow. flowers

I have 3 layers (not including the base) - my first layer is the yellow matting...on top of this is  a white embossed layer.  I printed the Joy Clair image and used a used a Spellbinder die to cut it out.  For my colour yellow - my little bird and the flower - was the one the bird's mouth.  The heartfelt sentiment is also from the Joy Clair set which is "Refresh the Soul"  I printed it before doing the embossing. 

Do come and play with out Tic Tac Toe challenge.  You can find the link up HERE 

Thanks \

Dawn and the Divas

Mini Slimline Floral with Diamond Wire and Woodgrain Frame.

 Hi there... Dawn here with my sample for this month's challenge.   Our sponsor for November is Kat Scrappiness and the Divas thought Slimline and Mini Slimline cards were perfect to make your holiday cards, no matter the content.  

 

Kat Scrappiness is offering a prize of a Kat Scrappiness Gift Pack valued at least $25.

The standard size of a slimline card is typically 3.5" X 8.5" (8.89 X 21.59 cm).  The card base for a mini slimline card is typically 3" X 6".   These are approximate sizes and we won't be checking to see if your card meets the exact standard for either size.    

I've gone with a mini slimline.   Thanks to Arlene, who sent me a Kat Scrappiness  Mini Slimline Diamond Wire and Woodgrain Frame in a lovely cream card stock and that was what I used for my background. 

I added the frame to cream card base that I made a similar size to the frame.  I paired the wire frame with and Altenew Lily.  I used some watercolour pencils to colour up my lily.  The sentiment is also from Altenew. I added some silver baubles on some of the diamonds.  

These Kat Scrappiness dies are the best!  Great mini slimline ones too.  

Come and join us with your Slimline projects.  Can't wait to see what you create.  

Faux Watercolouring with Altenew inks

 Hi there.  Dawn here again.  

Our theme for the month of August is "watercolor real or faux".

The Prize will be a $20 gift certificate to Altenew.

Today I'm sharing a Faux watercoloured card.   A great easy way to do watercolouring.

To make my watercoloured flowers I used the layers of Nature Blossoms flower. I inked up with the first colour and spritzed with water before stamping onto some watercolour paper . I dried with my heat gun and did the next layer in the same manner. And finally the last layer. I used the Red Sunset inks from Altenew - one using the first three inks and two using the 2nd - 4th inks. The centres are stamped using inks from the Warm and Cozy set. I die cut with the matching dies and then blended a little of the ink on the edges. For the leaves I used inks from the Green Meadow inks and did some smooshing onto wet watercolour paper. After it dried, I overstamped some leaves. I die cut the leaves and with some of the extra watercolour paper, I die cut some branches from the Branches and Berries Die set. My other faux watercolour technique used the Classy Stripe stencil - I inked it with the Crimson ink, spritzed with water and used it to "stamp" onto my card base. Loved how it looks. the sentiment is from the Engraved Flowers set.

Do come and join us for this month's challenge.

Dawn & The Divas

A Happy Birthday in Green

 Hi there.   Dawn here to share my card to inspire you today.   Our theme this month is tone-on-tone.   And our superb sponser is Birch Press Design  this month and they have donated a $20 gift card for our random winner (to be announced August 3rd). 

My card using the stunning Big Birthday Sugar Script die which the lovely Diva Cindy sent me a few precut.  I took the inner die and used some Dark green Altenew ink to colour up.... be warned though - keep an eye on the tiddle.... mine decided to run away and I couldn't find it.... I had some lovely green patterned paper but it wasn't quite the green I needed so I used the same dark ink to blend over it and the white layer.  Once the dark green die was added to the white shadow layer I added it to the blended background and stamped a little happy.  To finish a little dark green butterfly.  Loving this mini slimline size. 

Thanks for stopping by today.  You have till 9.00 pm Pacific Time on the 31st to join our challenge.  

Hey There Girlfriend

Hi there Dawn.  I'm back to inspire you for this month's challenge. 

                                             

Prize: $20 gift code

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This is a Tic Tac Toe challenge month using the grid below.

Please tell us which row you picked on your entry.

 

For today's card, I've gone for a diagonal line on our tic tac toe - Uneven edge, Friendship and Flowers.

I used a Spellbinders die to cut my uneven edge out of some lacy looking patterned paper.  My CAS-ual Friday's stamp set is unfortuneatly now retired.  It's called "Girlfriend" and I used it to add the sentiment and to stamp the flowers.  I used some ink blending on them and then fussy cut.  Added lots of bling to the centre of the flowers and some leaves from my "scrap" pile   

Just a couple more days to join the May challenge.  

Dawn and the Divas.

Leafy Window card with Poppystamps

 Hi there.  Dawn here to inspire you today.  

Our sponsor this month is Poppystamps.  Poppystamps is a line of stamps and craft dies from the creative people at Memory Box! Known for their popular floral patterns and whimsical designs, Poppy Stamp products could be the difference between your card being good or great! 

Poppystamps is offering a $20 gift certificate to the winner!

   THEME: WINDOW or APERTURE CARD

We are so happy to have Poppystamps as our sponsor and have such fantastic products.

The die I used is Adriana Square Frame.  I cut it out of some Canson watercolour paper and then used a variety of greens and a splash of teal from Altenew's 36 pan watercolour paints.  Once it dry I add the stamped vellum behind the appeture. The sentiment is from a Catherine Pooler Designs set and I white embossed it onto some heavy vellum.  I then glued it to a dark grey panel.

Do come and join us at Die Cut Divas for this month's challenge. 

Merry Christmas Day from the Divas

 Merry Christmas Day from me and all the Divas.....

Thanks to Kat Scrappiness for being our sponsor for this month's Anything Goes challenge. 

Today I am sharing a Christmas card which is for all of you!

Thanks to my team mate Arlene, who send me some Kat Scrappiness slim line nesting die cuts.  I took one of the black ones and added some washi at the bottom to fit onto my slim line card base.  I die cut the big Christmas die(from Paper Roses)  cut form gold card and finished the sentiment from a Mama Elephant set called Alpine Carollers that my dear friend, Deirdre from Ireland, sent me this year.  

By the time you read this, Christmas Day will be nearly over at my house.  So hope that all of you have a special time this Christmas.  

Dawn and the Divas

Tiled Valentine

Hello everyone,

Cindy here to share another inspiration for this month's challenge:  Holidays!

Cheapo Dies is our sponsor this month.  They have increased their inventory with the addition of well  known die brands like Altenew, Elizabeth Craft Designs, Memory Box, Sizzix, Hero Arts, PoppyStamps, Lawn Fawn and a whole lot more.  Be sure to check Cheapo Dies out here.

Cheapo Dies offers a $15 gift certificate as the prize for our challenge winner.

Now about my card.  A few days ago I used Altenew Graden Trellis Cover Die (available at Cheapo Dies) for my project, and I am left with lots of the negative pieces.  Today I made use of them to create a Valentine card.

I used the same cover die along with a silicone mat to sandwich the card front and pass thru the die cut machine to created the embossed pattern/grid.  Then I glue the colored left over pieces on top and coated with Sprinkled Sugar for a bit of shine.  Lastly I stamped the sentiment in black.

For further details, hop over to my blog:  Escape To Stamping.

Thanks for stopping by!

July's Winner Sponsored by Cheapo Dies

 Announcing the Winner of a  $15 gift certificate:

The winner will be a very happy camper.  Be sure to check Cheapo Dies out here.

Our prize winner is # 53 - CimbacreativefunPlease contact Die Cut Divas at thedcdivas@gmail.com so we may send your email address to our sponsor.

DT Favorites follow:

Cindy certainly had a difficult time to choose a favorite, she had many!!  But finally picked #38 Linda W's 

classic watercolored poinsettia card.

Arlene had a hard time choosing a favorite as there were so many amazing cards, but finally chose this fun card from #108, 

Helen F at Moments of Crafting.  Arlene loved Santa in his shorts.

Dawn really loved this one by Meghan.  

Combining Coffee and Gnomes - what fun!   

 

 Michelle loved this awesome card by #20 sarascloset-

 

Have fun crafting - The Die Cut Divas 

Peace Love and Serendipi-tea

It's my day for sharing at Die Cut Divas today.... Our Sponsor is Cas-ual Fridays Stamps and our theme is "Make A Beverage"

Prize: $20 gift code

May is also time for the Spring | Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop:

 

Direct link to hop post:http://coffeelovingcardmakers.com/13360

 

Social media hashtag: ‪#springsummer2020clh

 

so be sure to add your coffee/tea/cocoa etc beverage cards there as well.

I am using some images from Cas-ual Fridays that my teamie, Cindy, had stamped and die cut for me. They are this set 

  

Cindy had stamped them on some sweet patterned paper.  I added Copic markers to the hearts,  I die cut a doily from Catherine Pooler Designs, to sit the teapot and cups on.  I used some fabulous grey and white coloured patterned paper which I used a Lil'Inker  die to cut out.  I took the stamped image and trimmed it with a fish tail banner, and layered onto some black card .  

Do come and join us with your Beverage project. We'd love to see what you create.