Hi! Welcome to week four of our Dreamweaver Stencils July Challenge. All this month the Dream Team are featuring our newest toys.......our DIES. You'd be surprised at how many we have, and what fun things you can do with them..........especially when used in conjunction with their matching stencils. They are such a simple way to create an effective card. Having just returned from my holidays I must admit it feels good to get back to crafting, and using DIES makes card making and crafting so much quicker and in some ways easier. I decided to use the Stylised Dahlia Die, one of my favourites. This card is quick and easy, and can be made in a matter of minutes for those emergency cards that creep up on us all. This is what you will need:- Dreamweaver Stylised Dahlia DIE - DG743 Dreamweaver Metallic FX powders -Kiwi, Pixie Blush. Stencil brushes Scrap of card that has an embossed resist technique on it Dreamweaver Double Sided Mounting Paper (DWSTICK)Scrap of Pale Blue fairly plain card or paper Scrap of Kraft card C6 Cream card for base card About 1/2 yard of turquoise velvet ribbon (1/4'' wide) Versafine ink pads - Blue lagoon, Olive green Die cutting machine (Mines a Big Shot This is what you need to do:- 1 Take the stencil brush and lightly colour the scrap of resist paper with Blue lagoon at the top and Olive green at the bottom and in the centre blend the 2 colours. Remember you can always add colour but you cannot take it away. 2 Take the Stylised Dahlia Die and place centrally on the resist coloured card, run this through your choice of Die Cutting machine. 3 Take the adhesive sheet and remove on layer of protection and stick the die cut flower design to this. Trim any excess adhesive sheet off. Remove the remaining protection sheet from the back and stick this to the pale blue card. 4 Use a clean dry stencil brush to apply the metallic FX powders to the adhesive sheet this should be done on the front side of the panel. I used the Pixie Blush which is a delicate pink and the Kiwi for the leaves and stems, and also a small amount around the tips of the outer petals. 5 The rest of the card is put together, the ribbon is threaded through a slit I cut in the centre spine of the card and I wrapped the ribbon around the card twice. There is your card complete, its really quick and the end result is a subtle design. I hope you like it and enjoy having a go. This is what the rest of the B team have been doing Dream It Up! Lyn Bernatovich Louise Healy Alison Heikkila Kristine Reynolds Pam Hornschu Kristi Parker Van Doren TERRI SPROUL (Guest Designer) Thanks for stopping by Gill An InLinkz Link-up

The Woodware team are celebrating summertime birthdays this week. Since my own birthday is the 24th of June, I qualify. I never liked having a summer birthday growing up, as school was over, leaving me with no chance to treat my class to cupcakes, or to feel like a "big deal" to my classmates. On the other hand, our family vacations were usually right after school was out in June, so my birthday was celebrated on one of our holidays. On one of these, we met up with both sets of grandparents in Montana. My grandmother on my father's side somehow had baked me a chocolate cake, but there were no candles for the top. So my Gran (mother's side) used pink nail polish to paint some matches to stick on top of the cake. I had to blow them out really quick! It was one of my best birthday memories! Now that I've reminisced, I'll share with you this sweet House Mouse Designs' card that is perfect for a summertime birthday. No chocolate cake here, but there is plenty of icy cold ice cream to be shared! The image is the House Mouse Ice Cream Kitty, and has been colored with markers in yummy sherbet colors, that also happen to match some very bright tags and cording. For the fun of it, I placed the card in a translucent envelope so that the recipient gets a "sneak peek" at their lovely card. I happened to have the envelope on hand, but you can easily create your own with the Artemio Envelope Template and Vellum Paper. Yummy! I just had to add a few ice cream drips off the mouse, because...hey! Ice cream can be messy, especially in the summer! I added a very simple sentiment from the Stampendous Birthday Assortment clear stamps on a small part of tag for a unique styling to this card. Be sure to check the Woodware Witterings blog each day this week for more summertime fun!

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Dahlia floral inspiration from Shugborough and Calke Abbey National Trusts | Jessica Wilde Design © | www.jessicawilde.co.uk

Today we're highlighting Jessica Dell, member of the Novice Hybridizer Class of 2024 and the creator of PK Bloodshot. Jessica focuses her dahlia hybridizing efforts on collarette dahlias in the Hudson Valley of NY. She adopted “PK” in reference to her town of Poughkeepsie, NY. Jessica is also a lawyer. She lives with her two kids in a 100-year-old house surrounded by tall trees, with a steady parade of deer, foxes, and groundhogs—all frequent interlopers in the garden. Her gardening journey began after moving to Poughkeepsie from Brooklyn in 2017. Dahlias had been a favorite photo subject in her annual travels to regional gardens, and they were among the earliest casualties of the deer and groundhogs once she finally had a garden of her own. She tried again. In time, and with fencing, the dahlias flourished. Jessica began collecting seeds in 2020, inspired by Kristen Albrecht and Keith Hammett. She became a member of the American Dahlia Society and other assorted regional dahlia societies. She began crossing collarettes in the summer of 2021. She hoped to get one similar to Rhubarb and Custard (unobtainable stateside back then) and was happy with the fruits of those crosses, finding several “keepers,” including PK Bloodshot.

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