Christmas Sparkles.

Hi there Lovelies,

Hope you are all having a relaxing weekend.   Tonight I would like to share a card with you which I made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts  in October 2013.  This is a very simple card to make  and it uses their very pretty 'Sparkles' stencil and of course some Sparkle Medium.   Hope you like it.

Ok,   begin by making a base card from white card stock.   Onto this, matt some turquoise card, leaving a narrow border showing.

Take a further piece of white card and lay the sparkles stencil on top.   Using a piece of cut n' dry foam, dab some milled  lavender distress ink through the design on the stencil.   Remove the stencil and leave to dry.   Wash the stencil and dry it.

   
Next, lay the stencil back in position over the inked design but, move the stencil slightly to one side of the inked design, so as to create a shadow effect.

Spread the silver sparkle medium over the stencil using a metal spatula which can be purchased from  the Imagination Craft's website.   Remove the stencil,  wash and dry it.     Leave the image to dry.   Place the stencil back onto the card and spread the jade sparkle medium over the largest snowflake.    Remove stencil and leave image to dry.

Colour around the edges with distress ink and cut to fit the turquoise  card, leaving a small border of the turquoise card showing and fix to the base card.

   
Lastly, add a turquoise ribbon bow to the top left corner.

Well, that's it my friends, quite a quick and easy card to make.   Until my next blog in a couple of days, take good care of yourselves and enjoy your weekend.

                                                                    Love and rainbows,

                                                                    Big Hugs Jennifer xx.

A Full View of ny Sneaky Peek for the Imagination Craft's Blog.

Evening Peeps,
Just  a quick post to show you the full picture of my tutorial  project for the Imagination Craft's Blog.   If you would like to see how I made it and which products I used,  please pop across to the Imagination Craft's Blog.

Hope you have all had a good day and are looking forward to the weekend.   See you all soon.

     

                                                                 Love and Rainbows,

                                                                   Hugs   Jennifer xx.

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

Hi there Lovelies,

Here is a sneaky peek at my MDF project for the Imagination Craft's Blog   if you would like to see the whole picture, please pop across to the Imagination Craft's Blog where I explain how it was made with step by step pictures and of course, which Imagination Craft's products I used.  

Enjoy your day my Friends, it's a beautiful sunny morning here today.   See you all soon when I will have another project to share with you.

                                                               Love and Rainbows,,

                                                                Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Heart Leaves and Butterflies

Good afternoon Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Thank you for stopping by my blog, I hope you enjoy your visit.      Seeing as I was a little late with my last blog,  I have decided to post this one this afternoon instead of late this evening, which I hope will make up for my lateness last time lol!

The card I would like to share with you today, was made for Sue and Harvey,  my lovely friends  who  have the fabulous craft business - Imagination Crafts.   I made this card for them,  way back in July 2011, my goodness, where have all those years disappeared too lol!!   doesn't time just fly by?   OK, hope you like this one.

I began by making a base card  from white card stock.   I then took a slightly larger piece of black card and trimmed all four edges with a trimmer, using a scalloped blade.   This was then fixed to the base card so no white was showing.   Onto this, I matted a slightly smaller piece of pale orange card.   I took some white card and trimmed it again, using the scalloped blade.   I then coloured the card using the Chalkies and then with the Glitzies.   The Glitzies are really beautiful as they leave a tiny amount of glitter on the card, just enough to catch your eye but not over the top lol!   Unfortunately this doesn't show up on the photo but it does give a lovely subtle effect.

   
When the background was dry, I dabbed the stencil paints, copper, along with a touch of the gold, through
the design on the stencil, then  removed the stencil and left it to dry.

When dry, I replaced the stencil onto the design and dabbed some Versamark on top of the copper and gold paint, then heat embossed using clear embossing powder.

  
I then removed the stencil and using a pricking tool, scored  each heart leaf (except the very small ones) and rubbed  some black ink into the score lines.   I    fastened some copper coloured fibre around the main panel, before matting onto a piece of black straight edged card.    This panel was then matted onto the pale orange card.     Next I glued  three left-over strips of black  scalloped card to the card front.

 
Next were  the butterflies.    I   Stamped the butterfly three times onto some black card using a Versmark pad and heat embossed  with a mixture of copper and gold embossing powders.

 The butterflies were cut out,  leaving  a tiny black border around each, then  glued to the fibres and  some silicone glue was put  under each wing to raise the wings up slightly to give a little dimension to the card.

Well that is that my Friends, hope you like it,   it is just a little bit different.   Take good care of yourselves and I'll be back soon (hopefully on time next time lol!)

                                                                   Love and Rainbows,

                                                                      Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Poppies and Butterflies.

Good Saturday evening Peeps,

Sorry to be a little late with my blog, should have posted it last night but the best laid plans of mice and men, (woman in this case just did not work out lol!!)    Hope you think it is worth the wait !   The card I am sharing with you tonight, I made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts in Dec. 2012 ready for the QVC TV show in Jan 2013.   It uses one of my all time favourite stamp sets, The Decoupage Stamp Range - Poppies.   I think most people like poppies and butterflies and both are in this set.   Just so pretty.   OK off we go, let's get started shall we?

Make a base card from white card stock.   Onto this matt some blue shiny card.   Take a piece of white card, slightly smaller than the blue and using the vine trellis stencil, emboss by putting through an embossing machine.   Remove the stencil and fix this white embossed card to the blue card.

Take a piece of white card and colour using the mica powders, brush and water.   Stamp the main image onto the now coloured white card, using a Versamark pad and heat emboss using black embossing powder.

  
Paint the poppies with the mica powders.    Tear around the edges and fix onto a slightly larger piece of black card.   Trim around the main image leaving a tiny black border showing.   Glue this onto square of blue shiny card,  Next, on white card, stamp out two large and one small butterflies, again using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with black embossing powder.   Colour with the mica powders and fussy cut each one out.  3D these onto the main image using silicone glue.  

  
Using a die-cutting machine, die-cut two elegant scrolls (Memorybox Die) from white card.   Paint them with the mica powders.   Glue them to the back of the blue square, leaving some scroll showing beyond the blue card,  one to the top left and the other to the bottom right.   Glue the square and the scrolls to the base card.  

Well that's it my friends.   Hope you like it.  I would just like to say " thank you" for taking the time to visit my blog, I really do love to hear what you think of my creations.   Please feel free to leave a comment.   (only nice ones allowed lol!!)    I would also love it if you were to be a follower of my blog.  I love to meet new followers with the same interests as myself.  Until my next blog.  I'll try to be on time next time lol!   Hope you all have a fabulous weekend.   I'll be back soon.

                                                                  Love and rainbows,

                                                              Big Crafty Hugs  Jennifer xx

A Letter to Santa.

Hi there Peeps,

Hope everyone is well and happy, at least the weather has cheered up here, the sun keeps popping out today, still a little breezy but not going to complain about that lol!!  definitely a touch of Autumn in the air.  That will be the next job in the garden - raking up all the leaves, as we are surrounded by trees here.

Well enough chit chat, let's get down to the business of card making.   The card I have for you today was made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts   in October 2013.   This cute stamp set was shown on Sue's latest Create & Craft TV show a couple of days ago.   I just love this, it reminds me of my little Grandson.    This little boy just couldn't reach the post box to post his letter to Santa, so he stood on his sledge !   so cute.   OK let's get started.

Make a base card from white card stock.   Onto this I matted a piece of gold card down the left side and some red paper which I stamped with the snow dots stamp from the set, using a Versmark pad and then I heat embossed with white embossing powder.

      
I then stamped the main image onto some white card  seven times using a black ink pad.     Next I coloured the images with Promarker pens, cut them out and 3D them onto the original image.   I ran a gold pen around the outside edges of the frame.

I added the snowflakes die-cuts (Memory Box) to the gold card, then glued the 3D image to the centre of the card.

   
I then die - cut a circle (Marianne die) from white card, then cut it in half.   I  stamped the sentiments, one on each semi-circle, using the black ink pad,   and then I  overstamped the words with a Versamark pad and heat embossed using gold embossing powder.

Well that's it finished my Friends, hope you like it.   Take good care of yourselves until my next blog in a few days time.   I have plenty to keep me going until then, more samples to make and a tutorial for the Imagination Craft's Blog at the end of this month.  So cheerio for now.
 
                                                      
                                                                  Love and Rainbows,

                                                                     Hugs  Jennifer xx

My Mid August Inspiration for the Imagination Challenge Blog.

Good morning my Lovelies,

I'm afraid this will be a quick post this morning, as I have a very busy day ahead.  Here is my project for the Imagination Challenge Blog's mid month inspiration.   The theme this month is 'Summer Holiday.'  So, without further ado, we'll get started.   Hope you like it.

Make a base card from lavender card and onto this matt a smaller piece of white card, leaving a border of lavender showing.

   
Take the coloured card and lay the windmill stencil onto it and spread the sparkle medium over the design on the stencil, using the metal spatula.   Remove stencil and leave image to dry.

When  the image is dry, trim all four edges so it matts onto the white card and leaves a border of the white showing.

  
Using another piece of coloured card, repeat the process again.   Leave the image to dry.   When dry, die-cut a square from the centre of this second image.   Put the square aside for the moment and use the left-over frame and layer this onto the original image using sticky foam pads.

    
Cut out the buildings and the top of the windmill, from the square die-cut and fix in position using sticky foam pads.

   
Punch out six flowers using the Martha Stewart flower punch from the left over coloured card and glue to the card front.

  
Die-cut six stamen using a Marianne flower die set, from white card and glue to the flower centres.  Well that's it.   I do hope you join us in this challenge, you could win a voucher worth £40 to spend on Imagination Craft's products.   

Please pop across to the Imagination Challenge Blog to see the beautiful inspiration projects from the other Ladies in the Design Team.     See you all soon.

                                                               Love and Rainbows,

                                                                 Hugs   Jennifer xx

A Candle for Christmas.

Hi there Peeps,

Time seems to have gone so fast since my last blog.  Weather here has been, dull, wet and windy, the tail end of hurricane Bertha,   forecast says it's going to get better by the weekend, let's hope so lol!   just a little bit of sunshine would satisfy me after all these dreary days of late.

I  would like to welcome my newest follower from across the pond to my blog, Mary H.   Thank you for following and I hope you enjoy your visits.   I am now following your blog too.

OK my friends, tonight's card was made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts in October 2013 and is a Christmas card.   Hope you like this one.   I have used another of Imagination Craft's lovely decoupage stamp sets.

Make a base card from navy card stock.   Take a piece of pink card cut slightly smaller than the base card and using a navy blue ink pad, stamp the swirls stamp from the set, randomly over the pink card to create a background.   Fix a silver ribbon across the centre of the card and glue to the back of the card.   Fix this to the navy base card.

   
Die-cut and emboss the Nestability square by Spellbinders from white card and colour with distress ink before removing the die.

Stamp the main candle image onto a piece of white card and colour with Promarker Pens.   Cut away the text and cut a similar shape to the Nestability die,  down the left-hand side and glue to the white die-cut square.   Matt this onto a piece of navy card and glue on top of the ribbon, towards the left-hand edge of the base card.   Last of all, add a silver ribbon bow to the right-hand side of the card.

Well there we have it my friends, card finished.   Hope you like it.   Take good care of yourselves until my next blog in a couple of days.   Stay safe and above all be happy.

                                                                  Love and rainbows,

                                                                    Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Colourful Carnation

Good Sunday evening Followers Friends and Visitors,

Well, here we are again about to start another new week,   Where have the weeks and months gone?   Hope you are all safe and well.   This recent bad weather seems to have passed us by,  thank goodness, although it has been raining most of the day.   Others have not been so lucky I understand.   Hope all is well where you are.

Tonight I would like to share with you, a card I made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts.  This card was made using their lovely carnation panel stencil,  Greek key stencil,  sparkle mediums and silkies.   Hope you like it.

Make a base card from white card stock.   Matt a slightly smaller piece of royal blue card onto the white,  leaving a small border of the white showing.

Take another piece of white card, smaller than the blue and colour with the silkies, using a piece of cut n' dry.

 
Next, put through an embossing machine along with the Greek key stencil and emboss.   Lay the stencil back onto the now coloured and embossed card and rub some sparkle medium through the design on the stencil, I used my finger to do this.      Remove the stencil and leave to dry.

Next, using the panel stencil, mask off all but the flower head and lay the stencil onto the centre of the coloured card.   Spread the two sparkle mediums over the flower head.    Add some red gilt sparkle medium to the flower centre.  Remove the stencil and leave the image to dry.   

 
Using only part of the flower head from the panel stencil, spread the sparkle mediums through the stencil, all around the edges of the card, using the metal spatula.   Remove the stencil and leave the images to dry.

Matt this card onto the base card and add a blue spotted ribbon bow to the bottom right - hand corner.   Well that's this card finished, quite a simple and quick card to make but quite effective.   I do hope you like it.

Until my next blog in a couple of days or so, please stay safe and well whilst this bad weather is here.  Thank you once again for visiting my blog, hope you have found some inspiration from my cards.   See you all soon.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                                Big Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Evening Sunset

Good evening Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Hope your week has got off to a good start.   Mine has been quiet so far,   did my usual housework this morning, even managed some quality crafting time too lol!    working on more samples for my lovely friends
Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts..    Went to the  hairdressers to get my hair cut,  and I feel like a new woman lol!   should have had it cut before now as it was quite long for me.   It's amazing how a visit to the hairdressers  can make you feel so much better lol!

Well onto more interesting things, like making cards!   Tonight's card was made for Sue and Harvey in February 2012 and uses their really pretty stencil  'birdsong'  and my favourite product of theirs,  black stars sparkle medium.    This is a very quick and easy card to make, really hope you like it.

Make a base card from white card stock and matt a piece of black card onto it, leaving a small border of white showing.   Onto the black card matt some green card, again leaving a small border of black showing.

   
                     Cut a piece of white card and colour it with distress inks, using a blending tool.

  
When dry, lay the 'birdsong' stencil onto the now coloured card and spread the black stars sparkle medium over the design on the stencil, using the metal spatula.

Remove the excess medium and return it to the jar, so nothing  is wasted but only do this if you have used a single colour, otherwise you will contaminate you black medium.   If you have used more than one colour, just return the excess to a spare  jar.   When there is enough in the jar, it can be used for another project.   All the colours mix really well together and can look amazing.   Remove the stencil and wash it.   Leave the image to dry naturally,  I prefer to do this but it can be dryed on a warm radiator if you are short of time..

  
When the image is dry, matt it onto the green card, leaving a small border of green card showing.   Well that's it folks, it's as easy as that.   I do hope you like it.   Please feel free to leave a comment, I really love to hear what you think.   Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog and if you have left a comment, I will reply to it.  

             Take good care of yourselves, have a good week and I'll  see you again in a couple of days.

                                                                   love and rainbows,

                                                                 Big Hugs   Jennifer xx

Beautiful Butterflies

Good evening Peeps,

Hope you are all well and having a good start to the week, if not, here is a big hug.   Before we get down to card making, I would just like to welcome my newest follower of my blog, Carol Bignall.   I do hope you enjoy your visits and hopefully get some inspiration for your card making Carol and thanks for following.

Ok here we go then.   The card I am sharing with you tonight uses Imagination Craft's  beautiful decoupage stamp - Butterfly Medley, Black Shiny Card and Mica Powders.   Hope you like it.

Make a  base card 6" x 6" from white card stock.     Matt a piece of black shiny card onto the base card.   Cut a piece of white card, slightly smaller than the black.   Colour this with distress inks using a blender tool.   Stamp the butterfly medley stamp onto this using a grey Stazon pad, rotating the stamp as you work around the card.   Colour the edges with gold mica powder and water, using a paintbrush.

   
Matt this onto the black card.   Next matt a strip of black card approx. 23/4" x 51/2" onto the base card.   Using a die - cutting machine, and the honeysuckle square die from Memorybox, cut out two honeysuckle squares and colour with the pink mica powder and water.   Glue this onto the black strip, one below the other.

   
Stamp the main image onto a piece of the textured card using the grey Stazon pad.   Colour this with the mica powders and water.   Matt this onto a piece of black card, leaving a tiny border of black showing.

   
Stamp the butterfly image onto another piece of  the textured white card, again using the grey Stazon pad.   Colour the butterflies using the mica powders mixed with water.

   
                                         Cut out the butterflies and 3D them using silicone glue.

   
Using the die - cutting machine, cut out and emboss the Spellbinder's flower from white card and colour with the pink mica powder mixed with water.

   
Cut out a circle from some of the black shiny card and glue to the centre of the flower and glue the flower to the bottom right of the main image.   The beautiful sheen of the mica powders, unfortunately don't show up so well on the photos.

Well that's it my friends, one finished card.   That's all from me for the moment, look forward to seeing you all again in a couple of days.   Take good care of yourselves and have a great week, see you soon.

                                                               Love and rainbows,

                                                                Hugs   Jennifer xx.

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

Hello again Lovelies,

A second post from me this morning!   Here is a sneaky peek at my project for the Imagination Craft's Blog.   If you would like to see the whole card, please pop across to the Imagination Craft's Blog where I explain how it was made and which products I used to make it.   Hope you like it.

   
Have a lovely day everyone, a bit cloudy and a little rain here today but not cold.   See you all in a couple of days when I'll have another card to share with you.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                                  Hugs   Jennifer xx.


 

                                              

Tropical Sunset - My August Inspiration Project for the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog.

Good Morning Peeps,

How are you all today?   where did July go to lol!!!    this year seems to be going by faster than usual.  This morning I would like to share my project for the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog.   The theme this month is    'Summer  Holidays.'   Before we know it the children will be back to school for the Autumn term, so we must enjoy this beautiful weather we are having at the moment as the Autumn is not far away.

The card I have for you this morning uses Imagination Craft's    tropical sunset stencil.   Ok here we go, let's get started.   This is a quick and a simple card to make.

   
Make a base card from navy blue card stock.   take some white card slightly smaller than the navy blue and round off the corners with the corner rounder punch.   Matt this onto the navy blue base card.

Take some green card and the Memory Box circles die and put through a die - cutting machine, then glue down the right - hand side of the card.

  
Die - cut and emboss the border die  (Marianne Design)  and thread some yellow ribbon through the slots.   Glue this on top  of the green circles and add a ribbon bow.

   
Cut another piece of white card, again smaller than the previous white card and round off all four corners as before.   Lay the stencil on top and dab some Versamark through the design, using a piece of cut n' dry foam.   Remove the stencil and cover the design with white embossing powder.   Shake off the excess powder and heat emboss with a heat gun.   When dry, colour with the inks from the Kaliedacolour Ink pad -Riviera.   Rub off any excess ink from the white embossing with a tissue (the ink will not dry on the surface of the embossing, this is known as the resist technique).    Fix this to the base card.  Well we are finished.    

      
Would love you to join us in this challenge, you could win a  voucher for £40 to spend on Imagination Craft's  fabulous products.  NB. only projects using Imagination Craft's products are eligible for the top prize of the £40 voucher, although non-Imagination Craft makes can  get top 3 spots and there is a lovely badge for your blog.   You still have time to enter this month's challenge, so why not give it a go!  someone has to win, it could be you.

Please pop over to the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog   to see more inspiration from the other members of the design team.

Well, that's all from me for now my Lovelies.   Take care of yourselves until my next blog.

                                                                Love and Rainbows,

                                                                  Hugs    Jennifer xx