Dovecraft Forget-me-not Collection

Have you already seen the beautiful new Forget-me-not collection by Dovecraft? The garden themed images in mainly pastel colours are so pretty and great for summer crafting sessions.

I started with the glitter decoupage pad. I just could not resist the gorgeous images with glitter effects. And I also just had to try out new items like the pockets and the adhesive garland flags. A full product list and step-by-step-instructions for this card can be found in my Trimcraft gallery.

This is only the first project of many. Other cards are already completed, but are still awaiting their project instructions. It would be great, if you could check back for more projects and inspiration over the next days.

Not just for Father's Day

Oh, I had so much work planned for last weekend only to do in my lower back on Saturday - and I do not even know how I managed to do that ... So instead of crafting I was in absolute agony, feeding on pain killers and trying to find a position that was half-way bearable. Standing, sitting and lying down was just horror. For a few days I even had to get out of bed (and even by doing that I often came close to screaming), if I just wanted to change my position. Turning round in bed was impossible.

But now the back is much better, the mobility is returning (I can even pick up things from the floor again!) and the beloved crafting is back on the agenda.

The card I would like to share with you today is one for dads, who deserve a thank-you now and again - and not only for Father's Day. To create it I used the brand-new Grace Taylor Modern Cabin products, which are distributed by Trimcraft.

I applied distress inks to the maritime posts and added coloured PVA glue around a day later only to discover that some of the ink started to creep up the tiny pearls a bit. But I actually quite like the look. Due to the impact of the sea water, algae, etc. nothing maritime stays nice, clean and shiny for too long anyway.

A product list and step-by-step instructions for this card can be found in my Trimcraft gallery.

And for those of you, who are interested in the dies I used: the posts are from the ocean set by Marianne Design and the sentiment is created using Britannia dies.

Celebrating Baby Girls

 
The focus of today's projects is the beautiful new First Edition paper pad 'It's a Girl!' by Trimcraft. It contains quality heavyweight papers in gorgeous designs including some sheets with glitter accents, some textured sheets, a foil design, tags that can be cut out and a sticker sheet with matching images. And half of the papers are also double-sided.

Product lists and instructions for both projects can be found in my gallery on the Trimcraft forum. But as I also know that many crafters are interested in the makes of the dies used, here are a few more details around those:

For the first card I used a lily die and a sentiment dies set by Britannia Dies and a heart die by Wild Rose Studio.

For the second card I used the carousel die from the Fun Fair collection by Trimcraft, a gift tag die by Tonic Studios as well as a leaf strip and a sentiment die set by Britannia Dies.