Butterflies and Bluebells

Good evening my Lovelies,

Firstly I'd like to welcome my newest Follower to my blog, Carol Bignall, welcome, I hope you enjoy your visits to my blog.

How are you all?  well I hope.   The weather continues to be warm and sunny here.   One five minute  shower of rain in many weeks,   not enough to do any good in the gardens,  so, I'm afraid it is out with the watering can for me again lol!    Did housework this morning and spent the afternoon with my lovely friend and her little daughter and our Grandson, picking gooseberries and strawberries.   Had a break  and we had strawberries with toffee and vanilla ice cream .....yummy lol!!   Well on to tonight's project,   this card is one of my latest cards, hope you  like it.

Make a base card from a piece of A4 purple card folded in half portrait style.   Take a piece of white card slightly smaller than the purple and   cut all four corners, using the Nellie's corner die.
   

    
Lay the Ivy Branch panel stencil onto the right-hand side of the white card and using the shaded lilac distress ink, colour the design using a piece of cut n' dry foam.   Turn the stencil over and up the other way and lay onto the left-hand side of the white card and colour in the same way.   Glue this to the base card.

   
Take the Bluebells patterned panel card and lay the woodland flower stencil onto it and spread the amethyst sparkle medium over the flowers only, using a metal spatula.   Add small patches of the silver sparkle medium to parts of the flowers.   Remove stencil and leave image to dry.

Replace the stencil back onto the card and spread the silver sparkle medium over the leaves and the stems   Colour a piece of white card with the silver sparkle medium and leave it to dry.

 

Matt the patterned panel card onto some silver holographic mirror card and glue down the centre of the base card.   Add a lilac flower to the bottom right of the patterned card.

    
Die-cut two butterflies using the Memory Box die from the silver sparkle-mediumed card and two from the purple card.   Lay the purple butterflies on top of the silver ones and glue to the base card.

  
Well there we have it my friends, card finished.   Hope you like it.    Once again I would just like to say a big thank you to you for taking the time to visit my blog.   If you gain just a little inspiration from my cards, I will be well happy lol!    Take good care of yourselves and above all, be happy my friends.   see you all in a couple of days.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                                  Big Hugs   Jennifer xx

Good afternoon All,

Wasn't Sue just brilliant on the first couple of shows on Create and Craft this morning, so many demos fitted in and Lisa B was great too.

Thought I'd just pop in a couple more of my cards before the 2pm. show gets underway lol!!

The first card uses their beautiful rose panel stencil.  I have coloured the background using Emerald Satin Silky which is such a beautiful rich colour.  I then drew around the stencil, removed the stencil and zentangled the design, using fine black liner pens and a white pen for added detail and to bring the design to life.

  
The second card is a Christmas card as you will see, done on one of the patterned panel cards and uses  red, green and gold  Sparkle medium.    .

That's all for now my Lovelies, nearly time for the Create and Craft show at 2pm and I don't want to miss a moment of it.   Hope you will tune in too to watch our lovely Sue.   See you all later.

                                                                Love and rainbows,

                                                                Big Hugs  Jennifer xx.

Another sneaky peek at some of my creations for Imagination Craft's Create & Craft TV show.

Hi there Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Just a couple more of my creations I made for Imagination Craft's   TV show on Create and Craft tomorrow.
I do hope you can tune in and see Sue and Lisa B doing lots of demos and showing you some great products.   The times are as follows:-  8am.   11am.   2pm.   4pm.   and    7pm.   Please don't forget to tune in as I think they will be great shows, fabulous products, great demos and lots of samples to see.

                              Here are my next creations.   This is my MDF Christmas tree.

   

     

     

      
My next card is not a Christmas card but uses Imagination Imagination Craft's    really beautiful rose panel stencil.   I have also used their pretty patterned background panel card and again, I have Zentamgled it, using fine black liner pens and a white pen.

   
I will in the future post this again on my blog and explain how I made it and which products I used.   That's all from me for now.   Enjoy your evening and please make a note in your diary to watch Create and Craft tomorrow at  the above times.   Take good care of yourselves until my next blog.

                                                             Love and Rainbows,

                                                               Hugs   Jennifer xx

More sneaky peeks at my cards for Imagination Craft's Create & Craft shows tomorrow

Hi Peeps,

                           Just a couple more cards to share with you.   Hope you like them.

         

  
                     The next card is also Zentangled but on Imagination Craft's patterned card.

      
                                       That's all for now folks, will be back with a few more.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                               Big Hugs     Jennifer   xx

Sneaky Peeks at some of my Creations for Imagination's Create & Craft shows

Good morning Lovelies,

A beautiful one it is too !  can't help thinking all this glorious weather will end up in one almighty thunder storm lol!    This is just a quick post  as I have lots to do this morning but  I'll be back later.

As some of you may know, I have been playing around with some ideas over this last couple of weeks or so, well now it's the day before the Create and Craft show, I can show you.   I was looking at some of the Imagination Craft's  fabulous Christmas stencils I have in my stash and  thought to myself, what else can I do with them, then an idea popped into my head and this is the result.  Hope you like it.  

I used  black fine liner pens 0.1 and 0.3.   I'll be back with another post this afternoon.   Must dash things to do and places to go lol!!      See you all later.

                                                            Love and Rainbows as always,

                                                                     Hugs   Jennifer xx

Sneaky peeks at my samples for Imagination Craft's Create and Craft TV show.

Hi my lovelies,

Just dropping by to let you know I will be posting some of my samples tomorrow, which will be shown on Imagination Craft's   TV show on Create and Craft on Friday 25th July.   The timings of the shows are as follows:-
8am.   11am.   2pm.   4pm.  and 7pm.   Not to be missed.   See you tomorrow with some samples.

                                                                  Love and Rainbows,

                                                                  Crafty Hugs to you all.

                                                                           Jennifer xx.

Golden Opulence

Good Tuesday evening my lovelies,

Hope you have all had a pleasant day, if not here's a hug  from me should you need one a hug always helps.
Tonight I'd like to share a card with you that I made in April 2009 for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts.
This card uses their Magi-Boss Chunky embossing powder, which comes in some beautiful colours.   OK are you ready to begin?  off we go then lol!

Fold some cream A4 card in half portrait style.   Take a piece of black card approx. 21/2" wide and trim
one long edge with the Woodware trimmer, fitted with the scalloped blade.    Leave the other long edge straight.   Put this into the  swirls cuttlebug folder or similar and put through an embossing machine.   Remove card from folder and rub some Versmark over the design and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.

 
Take some gold wire edged ribbon and cut off some of the wire edging and curl into a spring shape, put this to one side for the moment.   Cut and fix a piece of the gold mesh to the back of the straight edge of the black card.   Glue this panel approx. 1/4" in from the left hand edge of the base card.   Fix a piece of gold adhesive braid across the bottom of the black panel.   Do not glue down the mesh.    Tear some of the black marbled paper into triangular shapes and glue underneath the gold mesh, butting up to the embossed panel.   Using the off cuts of the gold embossed swirls, cut out two corner shapes   Cut a narrow strip of black card  using the trimmer with the scalloped edge and glue down the right hand side of the base card, 1/4" from the right hand edge of the base card.

Cut out two swirls from the off cuts and glue one to the top right and one to the bottom right.   Cut a piece of ribbon mesh and glue to the centre of the base card approx 3" in from the right edge.   Take the flower chippie and using a cropodile  (cuts through mdf like butter, a fabulous tool to own!) and punch  a small hole at the top of each flower petal.   Rub the Versamark pad over the flower chippie and heat emboss using the black Magi-Boss powder and sprinkle some of the purple and green Magi-Boss  onto it whilst still hot.   Repeat this once more using the clear Magi-Boss, heat again and whilst still hot, sprinkle some gold glitter over the flower.

 
When cool, thread some gold thread through the holes.   Fix a piece of gold mesh to the back of the flower.   Glue the flower onto some coloured paper and trim away any excess paper.   Fix the flower to the card, using sticky foam pads.   Stick a clear/gold  heart dome sticker to the centre of the flower and glue the gold wire spring that you made earlier,  over the top of the domed sticker.

Well that's it, this card does take quite a bit of time to make but I do hope you think the extra time spent making it, is worth while.

Take care of yourselves and have a good week.   See you all again in a couple of days.   Thanks for visiting my blog and your comments are greatly appreciated.

                                                                Love and rainbows,

                                                                Big Hugs   Jennifer xx

Gorgeous Geisha

Hi there  my lovely Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Hope you are all having a good weekend despite the rain and thunder storms.  We have a very little rain and no thunder or lightening - yet lol!   I had a busy week last week, our Grandson's last week of the school term.    Teddy Bears picnic and sports day to attend to mention a couple, which I thoroughly enjoyed.   Lovely to see the children racing around, having lots of fun, using all that energy, wish I had just a little of their energy lol!!

The card I would like to share with you tonight was made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts  way back in May 2009 and uses their Inkadinks for colouring the stamped image.     Seems so long ago lol!   OK off we go then.

First of all, fold an A4 piece of white linen card in half, portrait style.   Glue the Papermania floral paper to the front.   Glue a narrow strip of the lizard paper next to the edge of the floral paper.   Glue a strip of sequin waste approx. 3" x 1 1/4" to the white panel down the right hand side of the card.   Do not glue it down flat but leave it so it is slightly curved.

    
Cut a small piece of white card and stamp the Lavinia Japanese text stamp in silver and heat emboss with silver embossing powder.   Fix this to a small piece of purple fine mesh with sticky foam pads, leaving a border of the mesh showing..   Glue this to the top of the base card, on the floral paper.

  
Stamp the Hobbyart Geisha stamp twice onto some spare white card using the royal purple Stazon pad.   Colour her with the Inkadinks.   For the lilac kimono, I used a mixture of Cranberry Sorbet and Lilac Heaven, watered down.   For the rest of the kimono I mixed Bluebell, Beany Green and Blueberry Ice, again watered down.   For her skin I used a well watered down Cranberry Sorbet.   I then used a silver gel pen for the flowers on her kimono and the flowers in her hair.   Cut her out and 3D her.   Fix her to the left hand side of the card.

 
Take the style stone and cover with the silver pigment  pad and cover with the Imagination Craft's purple Magi Boss  and heat using a heat gun.   Repeat this once more.   When cool , stamp the head of the Geisha onto the stone using the Teal Stazon pad.   Add some Royal Purple Stazon to the flowers in her hair, using a cut n' dry pen nib.   Add some small amounts of the silver marker for highlights in her hair. 

  
Colour the edges of the stone with the Royal Purple Stazon pad and glue the stone on top of the sequin waste.

Well that's it finished.   I do hope you like it.   Enjoy your weekend and take good care of yourselves until my next blog.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                                   Hugs   Jennifer xx.

My tutorial for the Imagination Craft's Blog

Good morning  Peeps,

Just thought I'd pop in to show you the full version of my card for the Imagination Craft's Blog I did a couple of days ago.    If you would like to see how I made it and which products I used, please pop across to the Imagination Craft's Blog.    It is made with the outer edge only of one of their newer stencils and the lovely mica powders.

    
A beautiful sunny morning but as I speak the sun has disappeared and it is quite dull but still warm.   Today is the last day of the school term for our Grandson, so I hope the weather isn't going to change for the worst for the school holidays lol!!     He just loves to be playing outside.  

Have a fab weekend everyone and I'll be back soon with another card.    Have fun !

                                                                love and rainbows,

                                                                  Hugs Jennifer xx

A Sneaky Peek at my tutorial for the Imagination Craft's Blog.

Hi Followers Friends and Visitors,

Here is a sneaky peek at my tutorial I have done for the Imagination Craft's Blog.    I do hope you
like it.   If you would like to see the rest of the card and how I made it, please pop over to the
Imagination Craft's Blog.     

   
That's all from me for now my friends, see you soon with another creation.   Enjoy the rest of your week.

                                                                Love and rainbows,

                                                                       Jennifer xx

Trailing Ivy - My Mid Month Inspiration project for the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog.

Good morning my lovely followers, friends and visitors,

Here we are again, halfway through another month , this year is just flying by.   My project this month is a card made with  one of Imagination Craft's    panel stencils, the trailing ivy.  

Make a base card from cream hammered card.   Die-cut the Memorybox border using  dark blue card and
glue down the right-hand side of the base card.

 
Take the patterned panel card and lay the trailing ivy stencil on top.    Spread your mix of left over sparkle mediums across the stencil, then remove the excess medium and return to your left-over jar.   I use an empty jar to put any left over sparkle medium into, especially if I have been using more than one colour, as the individual colours can get contaminated and would no longer be pure colours.   This mix of sparkle mediums can make a lovely card, so never throw any away, waste no want not lol!!

  
Remove the stencil and leave the image to dry.   When dry,  matt this panel onto a piece of dark blue card using double-sided tape.    Lastly, matt this onto the base card. 

 

  
Well that's this card finished, quite a quick card to make if you don't have much time.  This is my inspiration piece for the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog .    The theme this month is 'Anything Goes,' so come on, give it a go !   and join us in this challenge, you could win a voucher worth £40 to spend on Imagination Craft's products.   A great prize, all those fabulous products to choose from.   NB.   Only projects made using Imagination Craft's products are eligible for the top prize of the  £40 voucher, there is a lovely badge  for your blog too.    I do hope you will join us.

Thanks for stopping by and if you would like more inspiration, please don't forget to pop over to the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog where the design team ladies have been very busy and have created some beautiful projects.    Until my next blog, take care and good luck if you enter the challenge.

                                                                Love and rainbows,

                                                                  Hugs   Jennifer xx.

                   

Colourful Clematis

Good Sunday evening my Lovelies,  
Hope this finds you all well, if not here's a few hugs for those who may need one for whatever reason.  I am half watching the football final whilst writing this post.   I'm not a footy fan but I do like to watch the World Cup.    At the moment I'm not sure who will win, I think it is anyone's game so far lol!

Well onto tonight's card.   I made this card in February 2014 for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts for one of their Create & Craft shows.   I used  their gorgeous clematis decoupage stamp set and their beautiful vintage pearly palette paints.   OK no more chit - chat, let's make a start shall we ?

Make a base card from white card stock.   Matt a slightly smaller piece of black card onto the base card.

   
Stamp the main  image using a black ink pad,  onto some white card and colour with distress inks.   Matt this onto some white card, leaving a tiny border of white showing and glue to the centre of the base card.

   
Stamp the image onto white card using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with black embossing powder, five more times.   Colour with the pearly palette paints.   Cut out and 3D onto the original stamped image, using silicone glue.   Add some black crushed glass to the flower centres.

   
Colour and cut out the tiny leaves only  from the leftover of one of the stamped images and glue to the original image in the centre of the base card.

   
Stamp out sixteen butterflies using a black ink pad,   Colour, then cut them out and glue around the main image on the card.

Well that's it for tonight folks, hope you like this one.   The football match is still on going, haven't a clue which team will win the match.   Please take good care of yourselves until my next post.

                                                           
                                                              Love and rainbows,

                                                               Hugs   Jennifer xx.

  

Pretty Posy.

Evening Lovelies,

Hope you've all had a good week so far, the weekend is nearly here !  whoopee.   The weather here the last couple of days has been really hot, blue skies, big fluffy white clouds and  beautiful blue skies.   Tonight I would like to share a card with you that I made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts   for their Create & Craft show, earlier this year.   I have used one of their beautiful decoupage stamps.  There are quite a few flower stamps in this decoupage stamp range and I have made quite a few up into cards, using the same style.   I did post the rose card a couple of posts ago.   Hope you like this one.

   
Make a base card from silver card stock.   Matt a smaller piece of black card onto the base card.   Take some white card and lay the stencil onto it, add Versamark through the design and heat emboss using silver embossing powder.

Lay the stencil back onto the card, moving the stencil slightly to one side and dab the distress inks through the design.   Next punch each corner with the Woodware corner punch.   Glue this to the base card.

   
Take more white card and stamp the main image onto it with Versamark and heat emboss with black embossing powder and colour using the vintage pearly palette paints.   Stamp the image twice more and   colour as before, then 3D onto the original image, using silicone glue.

Glue the main image to the centre of the base card.   Add a bow to the bottom right-hand corner of the base card.

   
Well that's it for tonight folks.   Hope you all have a fabulous weekend and you are able to chill out and relax after a busy week.   Take care until I see you again in a couple of days time.

                                                                  Love and rainbows,

                                                                 Big Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Little Donkey Christmas Plaque

Good Monday evening Peeps,

Hope you've all had a good day,  I have had quite an easy day today, still nursing a painful knee but I think it feels as though it's on the mend now, thank goodness.   I've managed to get some samples made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Craft's,  for their next Create and Craft show later this month.   I've been experimenting with something, which I cannot tell you about yet but I will put some sneaky peeks on here and on my fb page nearer the time of the show.  I'm quite pleased with the outcome and I hope you will like what I have done.   Right, onto tonight's project.  This is made using the Imagination Craft's MDF charm set-Christmas tree,  some sparkle medium and the Christmas donkey decoupage stamp set.  Let's get started.  

We will begin by painting the front and the back of the board, using the jet MDF paint and leave it to dry.    We will decorate the front of the board first.   Lay the Winter Wonderland stencil on top of the board and spread the silver gilt sparkle medium over the stencil using a spatula.   Remove the stencil and leave the image to dry.

In the meanwhile, stamp the beautiful donkey image onto white card using black ink, five times.   Colour the images with Promarker pens.   Cut out and 3D  using silicone glue, then glue this to the centre of MDF board.

Cover the tree and the star charms with the silver gilt sparkle medium and leave to dry.   Run a silver Promarker pen around the edges of the board.

   
Glue the sparkle medium tree to the right of the donkey and the star to the top left of the donkey.   Glue a green ribbon bow to the top left of the board and using the Cropodile, punch two holes in the centre top of the board and fix a green ribbon hanger.   That's the front finished, now for the back of the board.

Using the  fleur de lis stencil, lay it on the back of the board and spread the silver gilt sparkle medium over it as before, using a spatula.   Using the leaf stem, Love, Joy and Peace stamps from the set, stamp them around the corners of the diamond shape, using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with silver embossing powder.

   
Stamp the dove onto a piece of acetate with a  black Stazon pad.   When ink is dry, turn over the acetate and cover the back with the white shimmer sparkle medium and leave to dry.   When dry, cut out the dove and glue to the centre of the diamond.

    
Well that's this Christmas plaque finished.  I do hope you like it.   Take care until my next post,   stay safe and above all, be happy.

                                                               Love and rainbows,

                                                         Big crafty hugs   Jennifer xx.

Roses All the Way.

Good evening,  Followers, Friends and Visitors,

The weekend begins here,   How fast these weeks are going by !   Hope you've had a good one.   Time to relax now, weekend is here again.   Tonight I would like to share a card I made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts in March this year and uses one of their beautiful decoupage stamp sets, plus their beautiful vintage pearly palette paints.   I just love these paints as they have a touch of old gold in them, so beautiful and they seem to last forever lol!   Right! let's get  started shall we.

Make a white base card.   Take a smaller piece of white card and lay the flourishes stencil on top.   Using a piece of cut n' dry foam, dab some Versamark through the design on the stencil.   Remove the stencil and heat emboss using gold embossing powder.

    
Place the stencil back on top of the gold embossing and slightly off set the stencil to the right just a little and dab some black soot distress ink through the design, creating a shadow effect.   Remove the stencl and colour around the edges wuth the black soot distress ink.

    
Matt this onto the base card, leaving a border of the white card showing.   Stamp the rose image a total of eight times onto some white card, using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with black embossing powder.

Colour the images with the  vintage pearly palette, water and paintbrush.

   
Cut out the main image and use this as the base for your rose.   Cut out  the others and 3D onto the base image, using silicone glue shaping the petals as you go.   Fix this main image to the centre of the base card.

Well that's all from me for now, hope you like my card.   This card could do for many occasions, a very useful stamp set to own.   Take good care of yourselves and be happy.   I'll be back again in a few days.   Thank you so much for your continued suppot and encouragement , it does me a great deal to me.

                                                                Love and rainbows.      
                                        
                                                               Big Hugs,   Jennifer xx

In the Pink. My Inspiration Project for the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog.

Good morning  Lovelies,

Here we are again at the beginning of yet another month,  which means it's time for my inspiration  project for the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog.    The theme this month is 'Anything Goes'  so  I would like to share it with you and I hope it gives you some inspiration for your card making.

If you would like to join us in this challenge and you have some Imagination Craft's products, why not give it a go.   There is a prize of £40 to spend at Imagination Crafts.    I would like to mention that only entries using  Imagination Craft's products will go on to the prize draw (although non Imagination Craft  makes  can get top 3  spots and a lovely badge for your blog).    Ok then let's get started shall we.

Make a base card from maroon coloured card stock.   Take a piece of grey paper cut slightly smaller than the maroon card and put through an embossing machine, along with the 'flourishes' stencil to emboss it.

   
Fix the grey embossed paper to the base card.   Cut a piece of acetate to the same size as the grey paper and lay the 'flourishes' stencil onto it and spread the black stars sparkle medium over it with the metal spatula.   (I used the acetate from an old Christmas card box)   waste not want not !   yes lol!  I'm afraid I didn't make all my Christmas cards last year lol!   Shame on me!    Must get an earlier start this year.

  
Remove the stencil and leave the image to dry.   When dry glue the acetate to the grey paper on the base card, where you think the glue will not show.   Die-cut a corner from white card and glue to the bottom left corner.

 
Glue a pink bow to the top left corner.

  
Using white card, stamp the daisy five times, using a Versmark pad and heat emboss with black embossing powder.   Paint the larger and smaller flowers with a well diluted red satin silky.   When dry, cut out the flowers and 3D them using silicone glue.   Glue  them to the right-hand side of the acetate.

Thanks for popping by and if you have left a comment I would just like to say 'thank you,'   I do love to hear what you think of my projects.   A big 'thank you' to all my lovely followers,  I do appreciate your interest and your support.   If you would like more inspiration, please pop across to the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog, where  the design team ladies have been very busy and have created some beautiful projects for you.

Well that's all from me for now.   Have a good week.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                                   Hugs   Jennifer xx