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Good morning everyone. Hope you are all ok.

I have been making the most of the good weather and getting out and about whilst I can. Also dabbling with some more samples for Mr L so its all good fun.

A very warm welcome to Caz who has joined the throng (that's Throng Maureen!!!) of merry followers. Caz is a new DT member at MAWTT so look forward to seeing your challenge makes.

Now, back to John's birdcage samples and the answer to the above question is, when its a hanging basket and planter.

Ingredients

Various colours of card

JND Birdcages dies (for hanging basket and planter)

JND Chains (on hanging basket)

SB Ivy Die D Lites

SB Fancy Lattice die

Joy! Foliage die

JND sentiment

Tonic and Hobbycraft punches (for teeny fuchsias and roses)

Crafts Too stamens 

I like to get good mileage out of dies.

I will try and get caught up with my blog visits this week as I know that I have fallen behind again but I have had to increase security patrols due to potential threats from WART and TART and I have been organising another workshop with John for the end of the month.............details on the sidebar.

Hope you all have a great week and that the Sun continues to shine.

TTFN

Ang x

This is a Bird Cage. . . . . . . . .

Good morning everyone. Hope everyone is doing fine.

Apologies if I made you concerned with my last post. It was just a jippy tum caused by very painful trapped wind. I didn't expand (except my tum) on it at the time as I didn't think that you would want all the gorey details and, the main reason, I thought it would give Maureen some real comedy material to work with lol!!!

A busy few days here with eye clinic (I now have ocular hypertension but no glaucoma, thankfully, and eye drops) having to do a last minute request for a baby shower card and gift box, updating my website with new goodies and my birthday. 

Had some lovely cards (thank you folks) and fabulous presents and would you believe, not one crafty pressie lol!!!

Mr D took me took me out for the day and I got treated to lunch. I even had a card and pressie from The Girls...........so clever of them and such neat paw writing lol!!!

Now, thank you for your lovely comments about my samples for John, Here is another where I actually used the bird cage as a bird cage!!!

Ingredients

White, pink, black and vintage gold card

First Edition Bird Song paper

JND Birds and Cages dies

JND Chain die

JND Bee Balm Frame (tag die)

JND sentiment

Diamante chain bling (available on my website)

Gold Krylon pen

To give the cage dimension, I cut the die out 10 times in vintage gold card and snipped out the innards and glued all of these together with a top layer of the complete cage. I had coloured the top layer with my Gold Krylon pen to give it a gilded look.

The design was supposed to look like a wall with blown vinyl and patterned paper separated by a border and the bird cage hanging in front of it................not sure if I achieved that lol!!!

Well, that's me for now except to say, thank you Mr Lockwood for my splendid birthday cake..............

It managed to survive being up ended by Lily off the worktop, still in its box thankfully, and is delicious!!!

Have a great week folks.

TTFN

Ang x

Ps.......Karen, there is a tutorial for the fuchsias at the top of the blog.

When Is a Birdcage Not a Birdcage?..............

When its a plant stand!!!

Good morning folks. Its another John Next Door launch on Hochanda today and John has stupidly kindly asked me to do some samples. I didn't have access to all of the dies in the launch so its made me be a bit more creative in how I used the ones that I had.

One of the sets I had was the bird cages and I decided to see what else I could do with them.

Now, you know me and my florals so I thought.............a plant stand!!!

I cut out the round birdcage and chopped the top off and backed it with brown card to look like a basket liner. I then added one of the chain dies for the support and the chopped off bit of the cage as the base. 

Then, just add flowers!!!

Ingredients

Various colours of Lime Tree card

JND Birds and Cages dies

JND Chains die

JND Bee Balm Swirl Leaves

Britannia Medium Rose die (for fuchsias)

Mixed other foliage and flower dies

Daisy's Brick mask (embossed)

Distress Inks for sky

JND sentiment

White 1mm pearlised stamens (available on my website)

I wanted to incorporate one of the birds so that's why I created the wall backdrop rather than just plonk it on the flowers.

The frilly edged black layer on the card was made by cutting the layer edges with the chain die placed half way over the edge. It just gave a more interesting look, I thought, and another use for the chain die.

Hope that you enjoy the shows tonight and tomorrow and look out for more "when is a birdcage not a birdcage" lol!!!

TTFN

Ang x

Ps........sorry this was late going on but I was not a well girlie last night (tummy jip, not all the other stuff that's falling off me lol!!!