Flying High

Hi All,

Well it's not long to wait now and we will be into another new year,  2014.    Have  you  something planned for New Year's Eve or you opting to stay indoors and watch the television where it is snug and warm to see the New Year in ?     Whatever you plan to do, I hope you enjoy your evening.

The card I would like to show you this evening was made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Craft's in April 2011 and uses their 'Birds and Leaves' Stamp Set  from the Stencil Stamp Range.    I also used their Leaf Spray Stencil which is vey pretty.   The colours I chose for this card were turquoise,  silver, dark blue and white.   Well let's get started.

       
Make a base card from white card stock.  Onto this matt some silver mirror card leaving a border of white showing and then matt some turquoise card onto the silver, again leaving a border of the silver showing.   Next matt a piece of dark blue card onto the turquoise card.   Trim another piece of turquoise card smaller than the dark blue and lay the stencil onto it and dab some Versamark through the design.  Remove the stencil and brush with some green, blue and a little silver mica powders.   Remove the excess powder.   Wrap some ribbon along the bottom of this card and secure on the reverse, then fix this to the base card.

      
Take a piece of white card and  using the Spellbinder's Peony Die and  a die cutting machine, cut out and emboss.   Whilst the die is still in place, colour the card with Weathered Wood and Broken China Distress Inks.  Remove die and lay the leaf stencil on it and dab some Versamark as before and dust with th mica powders.   Die cut a slightly larger peony shape and glue the stencilled piece onto it and fix this to the base card using sticky foam pads to give a little dimension to the card.   Make a small narrow strip in the same manner as before using the leaf stencil and mica powders, then glue this along the centre of   the ribbon.    Gather up a small piece of ribbon and glue to the bottom left corner and add a ribbon bow to the centre.  Glue six clear gemstones to the bottom right of the card.

        
Make nine roses varying in size from dark blue card and rub some silver metallic pigment ink onto the tips and heat emboss with silver embossing powder.   Glue them around the bottom and up the right- hand side of the peony die- cut  but on the leaf stem as though they were growing there.


We are nearly there now, just the beautiful bird to make..   Stamp the bird onto a piece of firm white card and fussy cut around it.

Cover the bird with pink, blue and purple pigment inks  and cover with Magi-Boss Chunky -' Diamond Clear Water' embossing powder.  This is a fabulous product and comes in other colours but because I'm using coloured ink pads, I use the clear powder.  Heat this until it softens and whilst the embossing is still hot add more powder and heat again.    Before doing the next layer add some silver embossing powder to the tips of the wings, add more embossing powder  and heat until you achieve a smooth,  glossy effect.    Once dried pop it into the fridge to harden for a little while, then bring it out and twist it slightly until it begins to crack all over but not deep cracks.  This gives quite a nice effect.   The last thing to do is to glue the bird to the centre of the peony die-cut.   That's it finished.   Thank heavens I hear you say !   It is a bit time consuming but I feel well worth it lol.   Take care of yourselves and enjoy your New Year celebrations whatever you are doing.   I'll be back in 2014 with more cards.
                                                                      Crafty Hugs,

                                                                       Jennifer  xx

Butterfly Sparkle

Hi Folks,

Hope you've all enjoyed the Christmas festivities.  We have had a couple of days of just chilling out, mind you the weather has been appalling here,  very, very windy and has not stopped raining.   We are counting ourselves lucky that we still have our electricity.      Had a wonderful  family Christmas.   Before we know it it will be 2014 lol and time to party again !!

Tonight's card was Made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Craft's in September 2012 and uses their fabulous Sparkle Medium and Daisy Dots Embossable.   I really like this combination of Sparkle Medium colours.

    
Make a base card from black card stock.   Matt a piece of cream card onto the black leaving a border of black showing.

Take a piece of white card the same size as the stencil and mix the Ochre Inkadink with some Copper Mica Powder and water.   Mix the Avocado and Aubergine Inkadinks with water and spray all the colours onto the white card until you are happy with the background.   Leave to dry.

Lay the stencil on the now coloured card and using the spatula, spread the Sparkle Mediums over the stencil.
Remove stencil and when dry fix this to the base card.

Cut out the oval from cream card and a smaller one from black card.   Glue the black oval to the centre of the cream oval.   Cut out and emboss the small flowers from black card  and glue to the cream oval.

 Cut out and emboss the leaf stem and glue to the right hand side of the base card.   Colour some white card as before.   Cut out and emboss the two butterflies.    Cover with the Sparkle Mediums.   Glue them to the base card.

Cut out and emboss the Ironworks Border from black card and glue a small piece to the top left and another to the bottom right of the base card.

Well that's it finished folks, have a good evening and thanks for stopping by my blog.   I'll be back soon.

                                                                            Hugs,

                                                                         Jennifer xx    

Irresistible Irises

Good evening All,

Just a quick post from me tonight as it's nearly Christmas !! yeah.     All little children should be tucked up in bed dreaming of Santa Claus, sleigh bells and Christmas stockings lol.   The one night in the year when they are willing to go to bed early !!

I would like to say welcome to my newest follower Eileen ,  thank you for following me and I hope you enjoy your visits and to my earlier followers,  thank you for your visits and your lovely comments, they make me a very happy bunny lol.     Well on to the card I am featuring in tonight' post.

 

   

Make a base card from silver mirror card and matt some black card onto this leaving a border of the silver showing.   Cut a piece of lavender card just slightly smaller than the black and lay the stencil over it.   Using cut n' dry foam, cover stencil design with Versamark.   Remove stencil and brush with silver mica powder.

    
Return the stencil to the card again and cover the small hearts only with the Lavender Sparkle Medium.   When dry matt the lavender card onto the black.

Stamp the irises onto some white card using Versamark and heat emboss with black embossing powder.   Colour the design with mica powders, using a paintbrush and water.

   
Stamp the irises a further three times, cut out the irises and 3D them using silicone glue.   Trim the whole image and fix to the  centre of the lavender card.   Add a bow to the top left of the card.

Well that's it folks, hope you like it.   I would just like to wish you and your families a Wonderful Christmas and a Happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.   Have a lovely time and I'll be back in a few days.

                                                          Love and best wishes to you all,

                                                                    Hugs  Jennifer xx

 

Presents at Christmas

Hi there,  hope everyone is snug and warm, as I sit here I can hear the wind lashing the rain on the windows,  I'm so pleased to be in the house snug and warm in front of the log fire.  Are you all ready for Christmas ?  I just have my cake to ice and I'm finished  !   whoopee.   Well onto tonight's card,  I just love this cute little stamp,  I received it free with a craft magazine.   The stamp is a Holly Hobby Stamp.  The background of this card was made using  Imagination Craft's  Christmas Scrolls Border Stencil,   I love the design of this stencil.  OK on with the card.

       
Make a base card from red card stock.   Cut a piece of white card slightly smaller than the red and lay the stencil on it.   Dab the distress inks through the design, remove the stencil and leave to dry.

Stamp the girl onto some white card four times.   Stamp the girl again in the centre of the stencilled  oval using black ink.   Colour the images using Promarker Pens and cut out.   3D the images onto the image in the centre of the oval using silicone glue.

Wrap some ribbon down the left-hand edge of the white card and secure on the reverse.   Glue this to the red base card.

    
Die-cut a Tattered Lace snowflake using white card.   Rub with  a Versamark Pad and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.   Glue this to the top of the ribbon.   Colour some white card the same as the girl's hat and make one large, one medium and one small flower.   Glue the small flower to a ribbon bow and glue to the top of the ribbon.

   
Die-cut a tag using a Spellbinders tag die, from green card.   Stamp 'Happy Christmas' on the top of the tag and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.  Spread some Imagination Craft's red Sparkle Medium over the top of the tag  and on the bottom of the tag using part of an image from a stencil.   Fix the tag just under the flower.   Glue the medium and the large flowers to the bottom of the oval.

Well that's it guys !   Thanks so much for dropping by my blog, if you're not already a cardmaker, I do hope that this card may have encouraged you to take up this wonderful creative hobby.   See you again soon.

                                                                Love and rainbows,

                                                                  Hugs  Jennifer xx

Joy at Christmas Time

Good evening  Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Where has this month gone !! not long now before we celebrate Christmas and all it means.  Hope all your preparations are well under way or finished.   I still have one or two things to do such as ice my cake and wrap a couple more presents, then I'll be done !  whoopee, when they are done I'll feel ready to enjoy Christmas,  bring it on !!

I have another Christmas card to share with you tonight which I made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts in September 2010.  I have  used their beautiful 'Snow Globe' Stamp and is coloured with their  'Inkadinks'   They come in a large variety of colours and last for a long time.   I'm not sure that this stamp is still available as it was made 3 years ago.  So let's begin making the card below.   Hope you like it.

     
Make a base card, landscape style from black card.   Onto this matt some pale green card, just slightly smaller than the black card.   Next matt a piece of  black card onto the green leaving a small border of green showing.

Take a piece of white card just smaller than the black and using the black inkpad, stamp a row of poinsettias along the top and bottom of the white card.   Fix this to the black card.

    
Take a piece of black ribbed card and matt onto the white card.   Next using  a Cricut machine or similar, cut out the letters JOY  three and a half inches high.   Colour with the inkadinks.   Stamp the poinsettia over each letter and paint with the Inkadinks.

Stamp the 'Snow Globe' onto some white card with the black ink pad and colour with the Inkadinks.   Place the 'Snow Globe' behind the letter 'O' then fix the word 'JOY'to the base card.

   
Onto some spare white card, stamp the poinsettias a further 25 times,   paint them with the Inkadinks, cut them out and glue them to the front of the card, fixing 4 of them only to the black and white borders.

Add some glitter glue to the 'Snow Globe' and the flower centres.   Well that's it finished, it does take a little time to cut out the small poinsettias but I feel it is worth it as they add some dimension to the card.

Take care until I return in a few days with another card.   Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and
leave your comments they mean a lot to me, thank you.

                                                                Love and rainbows,

                                                               Big Hugs   Jennifer xx

Waiting for Santa.

Good evening Followers,Friends and Visitors,

Hope everyone is feeling well,  there seems to be a lot of coughs and colds around at the moment, so hope you all steer clear of those.   Boy has it been  windy here today !  very wet and dull.    Well onto a happier subject - crafting lol!   just the sort of day to do some crafting  with no guilt feelings that I should be out in the garden cutting  down the dead plants  or clearing up the fallen leaves !   Tonight's card was made in June 2012 for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Craft's.   This is just such a cute image of the two owls, I think most people like owls don't they ?  well I certainly like these two lol.   So, let's get cracking ! 

                                       
Make a base card using red cardstock.   Matt some white and then some blue card onto the red base card, each time leaving a small border.

Take a piece of white card approximately  one quarter of an inch smaller than the blue card and matt this onto the blue card.   Put this base card to one side for the moment.

Stamp the main owl image six times onto another piece white card using the black inkpad.   Colour them with Promarker pens cut them out and 3D them.   Fix  the base image onto some blue card and trim around the edges leaving a tiny border of the blue showing.

Stamp the Santa hat ten times, colour them  and cut them out.   Glue one to each corner of the base card.   Stamp the holly scroll and the text onto the white card using a black inkpad., putting the greeting across the bottom.     Colour the holly in using Promarkers.

Make a border using the Santa hats by glueing two hats on the left and four on the right,  alternate the hats ie.,  one up then one down and so on across the centre of the card.   Fix the 3D owls to the left-hand side of the base card on top of the hat border.

Add three red star gemstones to the top right of the card.   That's this card finished.   Thank you so much for visiting my blog,  I do hope you will visit again soon.

                                                                Love and rainbows,

                                                                      Jennifer xx
                                                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                          

 

Snowy Mountain Sunset

Hi All,

An early post from me today for a change.   Once our beautiful Grandson arrives home from school  the peace and quiet  is in short supply lol   but we don't mind that in fact we love it!   so I thought I'd get it done early today.   This card I made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts in October 2010 and as you have probably  noticed from my previous cards,  I just adore cards with deer on, so having said that,  here's another one !   

  
Make a white card  landscape style and onto this matt a piece of black card, leaving a border of white showing.   Next take a piece of white card and trim to size, just smaller than the black card,   colour it with the Inkadinks and some cut n' dry foam.   When dry, ink up the roller stamp with black ink and roll across the centre of the coloured card.   Punch out a 1" circle from each corner and matt this onto the black card. 

Colour a small piece of white card to look like a sunset ie.,  Ochre, Coco and Cherry Pie Inkadinks.   Take one of the punched out circles and add some Cherry Pink Inkadink to it.   Tear three pieces of white card to look like snowy mountains/hills and fix to the bottom of the card you have just coloured and set the setting sun down behind the mountains. 

Next using black card, stamp the 'Snow on Snow' stamp onto it using a Versamark pad and heat emboss using white powder.   Cut out the centre picture with a craft knife, leaving the border only.   Fix the border over the snowy mountains using sticky foam pads.

 
Stamp the deer using black ink onto some white card slightly coloured with the same inks that you used for the sky.   Cut out the stag only and fix him to the snowy scene, leaving a little sky colour around hs ears and antlers.

Punch out one large snowflake and seven small ones and fix to the card front.   Add adhesive topaz gemstones to the centres of the top left and bottom right snowflakes.    Lastly fix the snowy scene with the border to the card front.    Well thats another card  finished.   Hope you've been inspired by my card and give it a go! you still have time before Christmas.    Until my next post, be good and above all, be happy !
I'll be back soon with another card, hope you will be too and if you would like to leave me a comment, I would be delighted.

                                                           Big Hugs     Jennifer   xx

Wishing You Joy and Peace at Christmas

Good afternoon my lovely Followers, Crafty Friends and Visitors,

Hope everyone is fit and well at the beginning of another new week   The older I get, the faster they seem to go lols !!!   they should be slowing down as I get older, not speeding up lols!!.   Well an early blog from me today.   Housework all done, lunch over and no distractions, so onto today's card.  This card was made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts in June 2012 ready for the Christmas shows, hope you like it.

Now this is one of my favourite Christmas stamps,  I know, I have lots of favourites lols !   but it is such a lovely dove isn't it?   I chose not to use the traditional colours for this project but to use pastel shades and if I say so myself, it has worked quite well.  I hope you think so too.   Ok off we go, let's get started shall we?

Make a base card from pink card stock.   Matt some navy card onto the pink, leaving a small border of pink showing.   Take a piece of white card again slightly smaller than the navy and stamp the words 'Joy'  and 'Peace' plus the olive branch, using the Versamark pad, around the edges of the white card.   Then heat emboss using silver embossing powder.   Fix this to the navy card.

Take another piece of white card and stamp the main image of the dove onto it using the Versamark pad and heat emboss with white embossing powder.   Using a paintbrush,  a little water and the Chalkies,  colour over the white embossing.   Stamp 'Love' onto the top of the dove image with the Versamark pad and heat emboss with silver powder.   Cut out the stamped image and matt onto some silver mirror card, then matt onto some navy card, leaving small borders each time.

   
Take more white card and stamp the image a further four times, again using the Versamark pad and heat emboss with silver powder.   Cut out and 3D the dove and the branch and fix to the original image with silicone glue.   Do the same with the small image of the dove but do not 3D this.   Fix it to the top of the main image with a sticky foam pad.   Add four square holographic  mosaics to the white border.  Well that's all folks, card is finished.   Must go now, have to meet my beautiful Grandson from the school bus.    Take good care of yourselves until my next blog.    Remember! crafting is fun, so.....have some fun !

                                                                Love and rainbows,

                                                                  Hugs  Jennifer xx

The Clearing.

Hi there Followers,  Crafty Friends and Visitors,

First of all I would just like to say welcome to my new followers Linda and Pauline and the existing ones too of course.   It is nice to know there are many enthusiastic,  like minded people out there who just like to make cards and enjoy doing it too.   It is a great hobby.   I hope  I may  inspire you in some small way.

Hope you've all had a good week and are looking forward to the weekend.    I understand from the weathermen that the weather is going to be so much calmer over the weekend, thank goodness.  Boy it was so....windy yesterday.  We have had a few flakes of snow today but nothing to write home about.

Tonight's card I made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Craft's and   I have used one of their many beautiful  Stamp Sets called  'The Clearing.'    Not sure if this stamp set is still available but it was one of my favourites back in September 2011.

     
Take some white card and make a card landscape style.   Onto this matt some black card leaving a border of white showing.   Onto this matt some rainbow coloured paper   Cut two squares of black card and cut each one in half diagonally, creating four triangles and put these aside until later.

Cut out a large circle using the Nellie's multi frame die.   Onto this, stamp the stag with Versamark and dust over with the gold mica powder.  Swipe the Versamark gently over one edge of the circle and again, dust with gold mica powder.   Glue this circle onto some rainbow paper and trim away excess and put this aside for the moment.

Dust some black card  with Versamark and mica powder.   Using the Nellie's  die set cut out the largest oblong.   Turn over the cut- out oblong so the black side is facing you and stamp the tree using the Versamark pad and dust with gold mica powder.   Take the left over negative after cutting out the oblong and glue this to the base card with the gold mica side facing towards you.   Next glue the oblong inside this with the black, stamped side facing you.

Cut a piece of acetate to fit over the rainbow paper and onto this stamp the Christmas Greeting, the snow and the stag using the black Stazon pad.   Lay this over the base card and fix with glue in each corner.   Next glue the four small black triangles in each corner (covering up the glue)

Glue the circle on top of the acetate with the gold edge overlapping the black oblong.   Cut out a flower from the left-over black card with mica on it,  do the same with the flourish and glue these to the base card.   Cut out a further flower from some pink patterned paper and glue to the centre of the flower.   Add some Glitz Gel to the flower.

Punch out some black and gold circles from the left-over card and glue a few onto the acetate beside the stag.   Phew!!   well you now have a finished card.   This does take a little time to make but I think the end result is worth the time  and patience.   I do hope you think so too.  Until my next blog, take care and have a lovely weekend.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                                    Hugs  Jennifer xx

                                                             

  

A Snowman get together.

Hi there my lovely Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Hope your week is going well.   I wonder if we will have a white Christmas this year?  Wet and very windy seems to be the way this week will end!!    As long as the white stuff stays away a little longer.   Here is the card we are going to make tonight.

Cut out and fold white card using the stepper template.Cover the three small steps with Christmas paper - Papermania 'Home for Christmas'.   Cover the larger step with more Christmas paper.

Punch out a piece of the red paper using the Martha Stewart 'Rings' punch into a narrow strip.   Glue this to the right-hand edge of the card.

Tear four pieces of white card to look like snow and glue to the steps on the card.   Punch out one large white snowflake using the Woodware punch and add to the top left of the large step, using sticky foam pads.   Punch another white snowflake but rub this one over the Versamark pad and heat emboss using the Claret embossing powder.   Fix this one in the same way to the top left of the back step of the card.

Stamp the snowman four times onto white card and heat emboss with the Claret embossing powder.   Cut them out and fix them to the card front using sticky foam pads.

 
Next take some white paper and the stencil and trace around the tree.   Cut the tree out and rub over the Versamark pad and heat emboss using the Claret embossing powder.   Fix this to the card front with Imagination Craft's Magi-Bond Glue.

Punch out five small white snowflakes and attach to the card front using sticky foam pads.   Punch out a two inch white circle and stamp 'Happy Christmas' and some snowflakes onto it using the Versamark pad and heat emboss with the Claret embossing powder.   Fix this circle to the top right of the card using sticky foam pads.   Well that's it folks, finished.  Hope you like it.   Thank you so much for visiting my blog and I hope I may have inspired you a little with my card.   Until next time I blog, be happy, stay warm and safe.

                                                               Love and Rainbows,

                                                                 Hugs   Jennifer xx