Pretty Poinsettia.

Good afternoon my Lovelies,

How is your weekend going, well I hope, at least the sun is shinning a little here today !  so much nicer than the foggy damp days we have been having recently.   I would like to welcome my two newest followers of my blog Anjas and Brawny,  I do hope you enjoy your visits, I will be popping over to see your creations too.      Have you finished making your Christmas cards yet ?   if not here is another idea for you.    Today's card was made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts    and uses their pretty poinsettia decoupage stamp set.

                                          Here is the card we will be making, hope you like it.

    
Make a base card from white card.   Matt a piece of red card, cut slightly smaller than the white, onto the white base card.    Take another piece of white card and using the trimmer with the scalloped blade, trim all four edges.

Colour the background with peeled paint and weathered wood distress inks.   Stamp the swirl stamp from the set, randomly over the card using the green distress ink.   Cut two slits at either end of the stamped card, centrally.   Colour some white ribbon with the pear green Promarker pen and thread through the slits and secure on the reverse of the card.   This ensures that the ribbon matches the side panel perfectly.      Rub the edges of the scalloped card with a gold pigment ink pad and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.    Matt this onto the base card.

   
                                     Fix some white lace across the top edge of the green ribbon.

Take another piece of white card and stamp the main image of the poinsettia four times, using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.    Colour this with the Promarker pens and 3D the poinsettia and the side panel with the scrolls on.

  
Fix this to the centre of the base card using either silicone glue or sticky foam pads.   The last thing to be done is to glue some gold seed beads to the centre of the poinsettia.  The Promarker pen colours I used for this card were pear green, coral, crimson and gold.   

Hope you like it.    This is a very simple and easy card to make.   Well that's all my friends, stay happy and healthy.     See you all again very soon.

                                                               Love and rainbows,

                                                                 Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Butterfly Dreams.

Hi there Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Welcome to my blog, I hope you enjoy your visit.   Today I have a card for you which involves butterflies.   I think most people like butterflies as they are so delicate and pretty.  I definitely have not seen as many butterflies this year as I have in the past, which is a bit of a worry.

When out craft shopping a few days ago I bought a few things and amongst them were this butterfly die and a set of line painter pens, wasn't sure how I'd use the pens as I had not seen them before !   anyway, this is my first attempt at using them.   Now just to put you in the picture, I'm not in my comfort zone when using vibrant colours.   I much prefer to use the more subtle pastel shades lol!    I would love to hear what you think of my attempt, not really sure what I think of this one lol !   Ok enough chit chat, let's get started shall we !

                                                                This is the finished card.

 
Make a base card from black card stock and matt a slightly smaller piece of white card onto the black.   Take another piece of white card approximately 4" x 4" and colour with the pens, outlining the shapes with a black pen.

  
Matt this coloured card onto a slightly larger piece of black card.   Glue this to the centre of the base card.   Glue three sets of two tiny pearls to the coloured card.   Try to glue them to a darkish colour, so that they show up as they are quite small and may not be seen on a light colour.

Die-cut three butterflies from black card.   Take one of the butterflies and draw around it with a pencil and cut it out.   Do this twice more, then  glue the black butterflies to the white.   Add these to the base card.

   
                                                Glue two pearls to the bodies of each butterfly.

          
Last of all, glue three red 'nail heads' to the bottom left of the base card.   Well that's it finished folks, a quick and easy card to make.   Take care of yourselves and stay warm and snug in this chilly damp weather.   See you all again soon.   Happy Crafting !

                                                               Love and rainbows,

                                                              Crafty Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Blue and Silver Beauties.

Hi Folks,

I'm back again with another card for you.    Please note - another early post from  me.....again,  my goodness,  three in a row !    I do hope I can keep this up lol!! and not revert back to my midnight posts!

The card I am sharing tonight was made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Craft's in May of this year.   Anyone who knows me, knows I adore anything to do with fairies, pixies, angels,  deer and butterflies, so tonight it is butterflies.   I have made it so it looks like two of the butterflies are flying.     Hope you like it.

Make a base card from white cardstock   Take the patterned card and lay the stencil on top and spread the sparkle mediums over the stencil, using the metal spatula.

  
Remove the stencil and leave the image to dry.   Whilst that is drying,   use the small stencil and the sparkle mediums and make two small butterflies on white card.   Cut them out when dry and glue one above the other on a narrow strip of acetate.  Using the corner punch, punch out a butterfly circle in the bottom left corner and back with a piece of holographic card.

  
Glue the top end of the acetate strip over the top of the card and secure at the top on the back of the card.   Matt this stencilled card onto the base card, cutting down slightly in order to fit the base card, leaving a narrow border of white showing.    That's it finished.   Thanks for stopping by my blog, hope you have enjoyed your visit.   Please pop back again, would love to see you.

See you all again soon, take good care of yourselves until my next post and stay warm.   Happy crafting.

                                                              Love and rainbows,

                                                           Crafty Hugs  Jennifer xx.

Berries for Tea.

Good Sunday afternoon Peeps,

Hope you are all having a restful weekend.   I just thought I'd pop in an extra post today.   I went craft shopping a couple of days ago and I found this gorgeous little robin stamp by Stampendous and I just could not resist buying it.  So here is the card I have made using it.

Make a base card from white card stock.   Take a slightly smaller piece of the red patterned paper by HOTP and glue a piece of the green paper on top of the red, leaving approx one third of the red paper visible.   Wrap a piece of ribbon across the centre of this paper and glue to the white base card.

   
Stamp the robin onto a piece of white card using a black ink pad, something like Stazon, which will not bleed when water is used to paint the image,   Colour using the distress ink pads and  the water brush.

Die-cut a scalloped circle from this card, with the robin in the centre and glue to the centre of the base card.   Add some detail sparkle to the bird's eye, the berries and the snow on the branch.   

   
Brayer some Sparkle Medium over a piece of white card and leave to dry.   When dry, die-cut two snowflakes from this card and glue one to the top left and the other to the bottom right of the base card.

                                                   Lastly, add a gingham  ribbon bow. 

      
Well that's it my friends, card all finished.   This really is a quick card to make.   Thanks for stopping by my blog once again, I really appreciate your visits and your lovely comments.

I think it is going to be very frosty tonight, so stay warm and cosy tonight.   See you all very soon.

                                                              Love and Rainbows,

                                                                Warm Winter hugs,

                                                                      Jennifer xx.

My Butterfly Tag.

Hello Everyone,
                 It's me back again I'm afraid lol.   Well aren't I the good girl ! another early in the day post for me,  I'm getting into the habit of this now, so hopefully no more posts at midnight, which I know will please my Hubby, who thinks I go to bed in the middle of the night lol!    Today I have something a little different for you, a tag I made for Sue and Harvey in February 2013.   I tried to keep the colours to  the warmer shades  of brown with some white.   I used Imagination Craft's    gorgeous  'Butterflies' Gilding Stamp Set.

Begin by making a tag shape from white card and punch a hole in the centre at the top of the tag.   Cut out another tag shape but slightly smaller than the base tag, again from white card.

     
Colour this card with the distress inks, Walnut stain, Frayed burlap, Tattered rose, Dried marigold and  Victorian velvet and stamp the main butterfly image onto the centre using  a black ink pad.   Stamp the flourish in black ink  at the top and bottom right of the card.   Overstamp this with Versamark and heat emboss using white embossing powder. 

   
Stamp the butterflies onto white card, colour and cut out and heat emboss the circles on the butterfy wings, with white embossing powder.   Glue the butterflies to the tag.

Die-cut one seed head (Memory Box)  from black satin card  and one from white card.   Cover the  white seed head with Versamark and heat emboss using copper embossing powder.   Glue the copper one on top of the black but, slightly off set the  copper one.   Rub Versamark around the edges of the tag and heat emboss with copper embossing powder.

    
Glue a white die-cut border strip, in this case Spellbinders, down each side of the tag.   Wrap a piece of white ribbon around the card.   Glue this to the larger white base tag and add  some ribbon to the hole in the top of the tag.

Well that's it finished folks, hope you like it.   Thank you for visiting my blog,    Please leave me a comment and I will visit your blog in return.   Would love it if you would join my blog, a girl can't have enough crafting friends lol!    and I will reciprocate by joining yours.

Hope you all have a great weekend, stay warm and cosy, see you soon.

                                                               Love and rainbows,

                                                                 Hugs   Jennifer xx.











          

Reindeer Christmas Tree Decoration

Good evening my Lovelies,

Just thought I'd pop by with a little extra post tonight.   Hope you like it.   I made these way back in the 1980s  I went through a phase of making Christmas tree decorations.   These two little guys do not have  red noses, so I can't call them Rudolph lol!!    but I'm sure Father Christmas loved them just the same !!

                                                   They are made with a foam like material.   

                                Just cannot remember where I got the pattern for the shapes from.

See you all again on Friday, when I'll have another card for you.   Take good care of yourselves until then.

                                                                 Love and Rainbows, 

                                                                   Hugs   Jennifer xx

Butterfly Dream.

Good morning Peeps,

An early post from me today, makes a change from my usual midnight posts lol!   Today the weather seems to be getting brighter by the hour so, hopefully we may see some that elusive sunshine lol!  hear's hoping.  Just hate these dark days before Christmas.

I would like to welcome my two latest followers to my blog, Anja and Tracey, thank you so much for following and I do hope you enjoy your visits.   Ok.  onto today's card.   This was made for my good friends Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts  in April of this year.    I have used the same technique as I did for my dragonfly card which I posted just recently.   Hope you like it.    Right, off we go then, let's get started!

Make a base card from navy card stock.   Onto this matt a slightly smaller piece of white card.   Take another piece of white card, again slightly smaller than the white matt, then colour with the Silkies using a brayer.   Using some cut n' dry foam, dab small amounts of the Glitzie across the surface of the card, which leaves a very pretty, subtle amount of coloured glitter on your coloured background.   Put this through an embossing machine, along with the Vine Trellis Stencil and emboss.

    
Lay the Nellie Snellen circle die with the cutting slits in it,  onto your now coloured, embossed card and put through the die-cutting machine.   Die cut 14 of the flower edges using the die which teams up with the circle die by Nellie Snellen, using white card.   Fix each flower into the slits around the circle and secure on the back of the card.   Fix this card to the base card.

                         Cut out a white circle to fit inside the circle of flowers and glue in position,

   
Die-cut a smaller circle from white card and colour with the Chalkies.   Stamp the main image in black ink, onto the now coloured circle, making sure that most of the butterflies are on the circle.  (it does not matter if part of the wings of the butterflies are not on the circle, as we will be decoupaging a whole butterfly on the circle a little later).   Glue this circle to the white circle on the base card.   Stamp the main image twice more using a Versamark pad and heat emboss using silver embossing powder.

Colour the butterflies with the Silkies and cut out.   Glue one large and one small butterfly, flat down onto the  original image.    Next glue one  large and one small butterfly on top of the flat image using silicone glue to give some dimension  to your card.

   
           Glue the stem of silver beads to the top right of the circle and add a purple ribbon bow on top.

Well that's all from me for now,   see you all again soon.   In the meantime,  have fun and happy crafting.

                                                                Love and Rainbows,

                                                                 Hugs    Jennifer xx

Flower Time- My November, Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog's mid Month Project.

Good morning, Followers, Friends and Visitors,

It is time again for me to share my Imagination Craft's challenge   mid month project.   I am afraid this will be my last project for the time being for the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog,  as I have quite a lot of comittments, which sadly means, I cannot devote the time to the challenge blog, that I feel is necessary..   Who knows what the future holds !!  I may be back, if Linda would have me that is lol!     I will of course still be making cards for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Craft's as I have done for over 10 years now.

I would just like to wish the new Design Team all the best and I know you will enjoy being part of a fabulous team of Ladies and using Imagination Craft's beautiful products.      I will still be logging in to see your fabulous creations and joining your blogs.

I would also like to welcome my newest follower to my blog, Wanda Bascombe, thank you for following me and I hope you enjoy your visits.  Ok, onto today's card.

Make a base card from white card stock.   Score around the four edges of the front of the card, using a scoring board and a bone folder.    Using the text stamp and green ink, stamp the text in the bottom right corner of the base card.     Colour another piece of white card using a piece of cut n' dry foam and the forest green distress ink.   Using the oval scalloped die, cut out an oval   from this coloured card.   Glue this to the centre of the base card.   Die-cut and emboss a further scalloped oval from white card, slightly smaller than the first, then glue to the larger oval.

    
Take another piece of white card then, using the Memory Box oval die, cut out the ornate oval.   Keep the piece which comes out of the centre of the die-cut and colour it in the same manner as the large oval, using the forest green distress ink.

   
Glue the oval die-cut to the smaller scalloped oval, then glue the inside of the oval back in the centre.
Add a ribbon bow to the right edge of the oval.

   
Stamp the three sizes of flowers onto a piece of white card, using the green distress ink pad.   Cut out and glue to the left side of the oval with silicone glue.

  
Add the white shimmer detail sparkle to the flower centres.   Well that's it, card finished, quite a quick, easy and effective card to make.

I do hope you will join in the challenge with us.   The theme this month is 'anything goes.'   There is still time to join in this month's challenge.   As usual you could win a very generous £40 voucher to spend on Imagination Craft's products.
Please note, only projects using Imagination Craft's products are eligible for the £40  but  none I.. C. makes can still get top 3 spots and there is a super badge for your blog.   Please don't forget to pop on over to the rest of the design team's blogs to see their amazing inspiration too.

Bye for now, see you all again in a few days with my next post for my blog.   Stay warm and safe and be happy, life is too short to be unhappy.

                                                                     Love and rainbows,

                                                                    Big Hugs   Jennifer xx.

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

Hi there Followers, Fellow Bloggers, Friends and Visitors,

It is time for my tutorial  project for the Imagination Craft's Blog.   This  alas.  will be my last project for the Imagination Craft's Blog, as my comittments are such that I feel I cannot devote the time needed.   Who  knows what the future holds, maybe I could  return, if Linda would have me, that is lol!   I have thoroughly enjoyed working with all the lovely Ladies of the DT.     I would like to wish the new members of the team, all the luck in the world.   I know they will have fun and get to use Imagination Craft's   fabulous products.    I will still be designing cards for Sue and Harvey of course, as I have done for over ten years now and enjoyed every moment of it.   Ok enough chit chat lol!!! here is my sneaky peek.   Please pop over to the Imagination Craft's Blog to see the full card.

   
That's all from me for now my Friends,  take care of yorselves and have a fabulous weekend.   See you all again in a few days.

                                                                  Love and rainbows,
                                                                 
                                                              Crafty Hugs    Jennifer xx  .

Dreamy Dragonflies.

Hi there my lovely crafty Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Hope you all enjoyed a restful and happy weekend.   Today's card was made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts  in April of this year and uses their beautiful dragonfly dreams stencil, their equally beautiful dragonfly decoupage stamp set and the gorgeous coloured silkies.

Begin by making a base card from navy card stock.    Matt a smaller piece of white card onto the navy, then  take another piece of white card  and colour using the silkies with a brayer.   When dry, lay the stencil onto the now coloured card, and put through an embossing machine.   Leave the stencil on the card as you take it out of the machine and dab the blue silky through the design, using a piece of cut n'dry foam.   Remove the stencil.   You will find that the silkies dry in a very short time.

    
Using the large Nellie Snellen oval die with slits in it,  die cut the oval from the stencilled card.   This will as you see, not fully cut out the oval but, will cut only the little slits in the card, which is what we want.  

Take the medium die and the next larger die and cut out two ovals from white card.   Glue the larger of the two ovals to the centre of the coloured card.   Colour the smaller oval  with distress inks and stamp the dragonfly image onto it, using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.   Glue this oval to the larger white oval.

Stamp the main image once more onto white card and heat emboss as before.   Cut out the dragonflies only and colour with the silkies.

     
3D the dragonflies onto the coloured oval using silicone glue.    Next, go back to the stencilled card and, using a piece of white card,   die cut the small flowers using the Nellie  Snellen die, until you have a total of 18 flowers.   Fix these flowers into the slits, securing on the reverse of the card.   Last but not least, fix the stencilled card to the base card and there we have it, one finished card.   I do hope you like this as much as I enjoyed making it.

Have a good week everyone and stay happy, healthy and warm.   Thank you so much for stopping by to have a look.   See you all again very soon.

                                                                Love and rainbows,

                                                             Crafty Hugs   Jennifer xx

                                                             

Floral Gingham

Good evening Fellow Bloggers, Followers and Visitors,

Hope you have all had a good week.   At last the weekend is here, a time to relax and chill out I hope.
Tonight I have a card for you which I made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts  for a QVC show in
September 2013.  It was made using their very pretty 'sunburst'  embossing stamp set  and their glamour dust.   Hope you like it.

Make a base card from maroon coloured card stock.   Trim a smaller piece of white card with the Woodware trimmer and the scalloped blade.   Matt this onto the maroon base card.   Matt a piece of turquoise paper onto the white scalloped square.

       
Take a further piece of white card and trim the edges with the scalloped blade.   Colour this with distress inks.   Next stamp the smallest flower from the set onto the background using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with white embossing powder.  

Randomly stamp more flowers on the background usin distress inks.   Tie a piece of ribbpn across the centre of the card and secure on the reverse with double sided sticky tape.

   
Run the Versamark pad around the edges and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.   Matt this onto the turquoise paper.   ( add a little glamour dust whilst the embossing powder is still hot).   Using the scalloped die, cut out a circle from turquoise paper and fix to the centre of the base card.   Die-cut the Nellie's multi frame from white card.   Fold the diamonds back and glue onto the turquoise circle.

Stamp one large, one medium and one small flower onto some white card using the Versamark pad and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.   Colour with the distress inks, then 3D the flowers together and glue to the centre of the multi frame die-cut.

   
Add a ribbon bow to the left hand edge of the card.   That's it finished, quite a quick card to make.   Thank you for stopping by my blog, hope you have enjoyed your visit.    Please  leave me a comment. I really enjoy hearing your thoughts on my creations and I will in turn, visit your blog too, even better, I would love it if you were to join my blog as a follower, a girl can't have enough crafty friends lol!

Enjoy your weekend my friends and I will see you again soon.

                                                                    Love and rainbows,

                                                                       Hugs   Jennifer xx.

A Little Bit of Sparkle.

Good afternoon Fellow Bloggers, Friends and Visitors,

Sorry I'm a day late but I'm full of cold and I really did not feel like doing my post yesterday.  I'm pleased to say I feel somewhat better today thank goodness.  Today's card I made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts in January 2012 and it uses their beautiful gold shine Sparkle Medium and their lacey swirls stencil.   I decided to do it in cream, gold and black as I love this combination of colours, always looks classy I think.   Ok let's get started.

Make a landscape style card from black card and matt a smaller piece of cream card onto the base card.   Place the stencil onto some black paper and spread the gold shine sparkle medium over the stencil using the metal palette knife.   Remove the excess sparkle medium and return to the jar and wash the stencil and palette knife.

Repeat this again onto more black paper and leave both to dry.   in the meantime,  using cream card, die cut the large Spellbinder's label and the second smallest label.

   
Usimg black card this time, repeat as for the black paper using the lacey swirls stencil and the gold shine Sparkle Medium and leave to dry.   When dry die cut the second smallest and the largest labels.

Using the largest label die, trace around the outside edge of the die onto some black card.  Cut this out by hand.   Now layer all the labels using silicone glue or sticly foam pads.

   
Using the Nellie Snellen corner die, die cut two corners from black card and glue these in the centre at the top and bottom of the cream card.   Using the sticly foam pads, fix the layered labels to the centre of the base card.

  
Cut out four images from the black stencilled paper you prepared earlier and glue one in each corner of the base card.   Cut out two flower heads and glue these to the sides of the label stack.

Well that's all from me for now,  have a good week and I'll see you in a few days with another card.  Thanks so much for stopping by my blog, hope you enjoyed your visit.  Please pop back again.

                                                               Love and rainbows,

                                                             Crafty Hugs,  Jennifer xx.

My Inspiration Project for November 1st. 2014 for the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog.

Good morning Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Well it is that time again, the beginning of yet another month, which means it's time for my inspiration piece for the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog.   The theme is 'anything goes.'   If you would like to join us in this challenge and you own some Imagination Craft's  products, why not join us.  We love to see your makes.   You could be in with a chance of winning a £40 voucher to spend in the Imagination Craft's shop.  A great prize.   Please note that only projects using Imagination Craft's products are eligible for the £40 voucher, although non Imagination Craft's makes,  can get top three spots, plus there is a lovely badge for your blog.
Enough chit chat, let's get down to some card making lol!

Make a base card using white card stock.   Matt a slightly smaller piece of red card onto the white,  leaving a narrow border of white showing..   Next take a slightly smaller piece of black card and put through an embossing machine, along with the baubles embossable stencil and emboss.   Matt this onto the red card.

 Lay the ' baubles on a branch'  stencil onto some white card and spread the sparkle mediums over the design.   Large baubles green,  the medium ones red and the small ones, gold.      Remove stencil and leave image to dry.    This will need to be repeated until you have four of each bauble.

Cut out the baubles,  bend the gold and red baubles slightly, then 3D them, one green, one red and one gold, using silicone glue.   Cut some very narrow strips of red card and glue to the centre of the black card, criss-crossing them.   Glue the large green baubles flat, one at each corner of the criss-cross, covering over the ends.   Using silicone glue, to add dimension to the card,  add the red baubles and then the gold.

Well that's it finished folks, hope you like it.   Something a little different.  Another way of using the 'baubles on a branch' stencil.   Thinking outside  the box so to speak.

This post will be the last for the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog,    as I have a few commitments, which means I cannot devote the time necessary to the Challenge Blog.    I would just like to say that I have enjoyed working with Linda and the other DT Ladies and I hope we will all keep in touch.  Should things change in the future  and Linda would have me back,    I would be delighted to re-join the team once again.

I will of course still be designing cards etc.,   for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Craft's, as I have done for well over 10 years now and of course, my own blog.

Take good care of yourselves until we meet again in a few days.Remember you can check out my Teamies inspiration pieces by going to the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog.

                                                                  Love and Rainbows,

                                                                    Hugs    Jennifer  xx.