Dawn's Craft Place & More

Do You Know How To Weave?

2012-01-27T06:00:00.000-06:00

Well of course you remember doing this simple basket weave with paper when you were little?

I just decided to do a project with ribbons from Really Reasonable Ribbon of course.
I finished a mini album and wanted a special cover to make it pretty.

Isn't this so soft and delicate looking?

I used the following ribbons

1" Satin with Grosgrain Edge Pink

3/8" White Satin

After weaving and fitting to the cover I adorned with a yummy double bow I made with my favorite

Loved accenting with those pearls and one small and sparkly flower.

Here is an angled view of the accordion album.

Here is a close up of the double matted pages. Those images were some red rubber images I got as a gift from my friend Steph.

This is the backside view

This would be the front side view.

I have had this mini chipboard accordion album in my stash forever-loved making this easy project with a little of my favorite ribbons from Really Reasonable Ribbon.

Thanks for your visit today.

Want A Chance To Win $100 Worth Of Crafter's Companion ???

2012-01-25T14:41:00.000-06:00

Crafter's Companion has challenged us designers to help get the word out about our blog and website.

From today 01/25/12 through 02/29/12 you can do a couple EASY steps to enter.

Here are the steps

You must become a follower of Crafter's Companion Blog (there is a box with all the followers you need to be NEW) USA only at this time
you must send an email to THIS LINK bindy(AT)crafterscompanion.com (if you have your pop up blocker on the link won't work)
Make sure you put YOUR NAME and MY NAME in the email

Now why should you enter?

How does $100 worth of merchandise sound to you?

Now That is not all, every time someone uses a designers name ,our name gets put in the drawing for a $100 credit .

So that means Two people are going to be very happy!!!

One Follower and one designer!!!

So I am asking you to help me out and get my name in the drawing for sending the most new followers.

Remember you get in the drawing for $100 credit also.

So you can use my name any way you want -there are two of us named Dawn!!!

Dawn L

Dawn LL

Dawnie Blonde girl

Dawn Lotharius

I would Love if you share this post

Link anywhere you can think of

send out emails to your friends

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The winners will be posted the beginning of March on the Crafter's Companion Blog!

If you have any questions let me know

THANK YOU for helping a girl out..your the best

Your In My Heart

2012-01-24T04:00:00.000-06:00

Our Challenge over at Sweet Stamps this week IS

LOVE

Each week we choose a winner from the challenge to win a $20 Shopping Spree at Sweet Stamps towards your purchase of rubber stamps. You can use any stamp for your card but if you use a Sweet stamp you receive two entries in the challenge.

Remember, you can only enter the challenge one time, those using Sweet Stamps images will get an extra drawing in the challenge. Please limit the amount of challenges to 10 (including ours) You must link back to us in your blog post.

Today I am sharing something completely different then I have done before ,for a design team assignment.

This is a canvas piece I made with several stamps from Sweet Stamps.

here is my list of supplies:

4" x 5" Acrylic Block

Foam Dots

Mini Glue Dots

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink
You Are Loved 3027

Butterfly Kisses 9110

Scalloped Heart Frame 434

Bold Butterfly Large 627

Copics

Wanted to share a couple views.
The canvas was covered with various sheets of dictionary pages,tissue sheets and fiber papers.
A lot of my inspiration has been coming from Tracy from Helmar. Almost every week she shares a project on Ustream that always motivates and inspires.
Recently one of my friends passed away and this was a piece I made to remember all the memories I had about her and our friendship.

I used some wonderful lace from Really Reasonable Ribbon
I used various colors of Creative Inspirations paint to give the base different shades.
I even got to use a charcoal pencil to outline the hand drawn heart.
I did use H2o's on the butterflies
I love how the butterflies are dimensional and many colors of the rainbows.

So this is my LOVE post this week, I would LOVE to have you join our challenge at SWEET STAMPS.