In the Pink with Acetate

Good Saturday evening Followers, Friends and Visitors,

No more snow thank goodness but wet and very windy.  We took our Grandson out today for lunch, a little bit of shopping  and we took him to see a working train set which he loved.     I even managed to wangle a visit to two craft shops as well today lol!   I bought a few new crafty things for my stash, can't wait to have a play with them!   Maybe tomorrow after washing and ironing our Grandson's school uniform ready for Monday, making sure he does his homework and the lunch of course,  then hopefully I shall have some fun time in my craft room  lol!

Tonight I have a card for you which I made in June last year for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Craft's .  It was on the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog.   For this card I have used one of their many beautiful Decoupage Stamp Sets, Flourish stencil and Sparkle Medium. 

   
Make a base card using maroon card stock.   Take a piece of grey paper, cut slightly smaller than the base card and put through an embossing machine along with the Flourishes stencil and emboss.

Cut a piece of acetate to the same size as the grey paper and lay the stencil onto it and spread the Black Stars Sparkle Medium over the stencil, using a metal spatuls.

   
Remove stencil and leave the image to dry.   When dry, glue to the grey paper where you think the glue won't show.   Die-cut a corner from white card using  the Tattered Lace corner die and glue it to the bottom left corner.

                                               Glue a pink ribbon bow to the top left corner.

Stamp the decoupage daisy five times onto white card using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with black embossing powder.   Paint the larger and smaller flowers with a well diluted Red Satin  Silky.   When dry, 3D the flowers using silicone glue and fix to the right hand side of the card.

   
Well that's it finished, another quick and easy card to make.  I just love this 'Flourish'  stencil as it is so versatile and can be used as a background for many varied images.   Hope you all have a lovely Sunday.   Many thanks for stopping by my blog,  I hope you have enjoyed your visit and that you will pop back again.   See you all again very soon.

                                                                  Love and rainbows,

                                                               Crafty Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Daisy Delight.

Hi All,

Time again for me to share another creation with you.   I do hope you're week got off to a good start.   Today has been rather wet and dull here.   The only good thing about the rain is, that it has chased away the last of the snow, hopefully for this year lol!

I had some ' happy post ' arrive today from Imagination Crafts, products for Imagination Craft's next show on Create and Craft TV in April,  can't wait to get started, probably tomorrow, my craft room beckons me lol!    but back to tonight, a card made for  their TV show  earlier this month.   For this  card I have used their lovely 'sunburst' stamp set and their   'daisy dots' stencil, not forgetting my favourite product, sparkle medium in one of my favourite colours, jade.

Make a base card from teal card stock.  Take a smaller square of white card and colour it using distress inks, then, using a black ink pad, stamp the text over it.   Cut this in half diagonally and put to one side for the moment.

    
Go back to your teal base card and lay the daisy dots stencil on top and spread the teal sparkle medium through the design, using a metal spatula.   Remove stencil and leave the image to dry.

   
                         When dry, glue one triangle to the top left and the other to the bottom right.

Die-cut two corners from white card, using the Memory Box corner die and glue to the card front.   Stamp the flower onto white card and onto some turquoise card, using a black ink pad.   Cut away parts of the petals from both coloured flowers and glue the flowers together.

   
Stamp the small flower onto turquoise card and cut the same side of each petal away.   Glue this onto the centre of the large flower.

Glue the flower to the centre of the base card, covering where the corners of the two  die-cuts meet.

That's this card finished folks, a quick easy card.   Hope you like it.   Thank you for visiting and I hope you will pop back soon.

                                                                   Love and rainbows,

                                                                     Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Butterfly Garden.

Evening Peeps,

I do hope you've all enjoyed your weekend,   I have had a fairly quiet, relaxed weekend.   Tonight's card was made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts for their latest show on Create and Craft TV earlier this month.   For this card I have used their very pretty 'butterfly garden' stamp set and 'trellis' stencil, stencil paints and sage green sparkle medium.

   
Make a white base card.   Take a slightly smaller piece of white card and colour it, using the meadow green and white stencil paints.   Leave to dry.   Next, lay the trellis stencil on top and spread the sage green sparkle medium over the stencil using a spatula.   When dry, matt onto the base card.

Die-cut four corners from gold mirri card using the Tattered Lace die and glue one in each corner.      Die-cut a scalloped square, again from gold mirri card.   Trim the negative and glue to the card front in a diamond shape.   Next glue the die-cut square onto the diamond with magi-bond glue.

Stamp the text using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with gold embossing powder, onto white card.   Mask off the text with a post it note and lay the trellis stencil on top and spread the sparkle medium over the piece of white card.   Remove the stencil and mask and leave to dry.

   
Die-cut a smaller scalloped square from the stamped white card and glue onto the gold square.   Glue a gold heart onto this.

Stamp one large and one small butterfly onto white card using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.   Cut out and glue to the scalloped square with silicone glue.

    
Paint the bodies and dots on the wings with the meadow green stencil paint and add small amounts of the sage green sparkle medium on top of the paint.

Hope you like it, a little piece of spring to brighten these dull days.   Take care of yourselves and I'll see you all soon.   Thanks for visiting my blog, hope you enjoyed your visit and I hope you will pop back soon.

                                                                 Love and Rainbows,


                                                                    Hugs   Jennifer xx.

A Pocket Watch of Butterflies.

Good evening Folks,

Hope everyone is well, not long now and the weekend will be here.   The snow has gone at last lol! and it is now wet, dull and dreary!   hopefully that will change as we get nearer to the Spring.   Speaking of the Spring brings me to the lovely thoughts of butterflies and sunshine and my card for tonight.   This card was made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Craft's TV show on Create and Craft in January and uses the latest stamp set 'Time Flies.'   Hope you like it.

Make a base card from black card.   Take a piece of white card and die-cut a scalloped circle using the  Sizzix die.   Put the die-cut circle aside for another project and use the negative, left-over card.   Colour this with distress inks and a piece of sequin waste.

   
Cut two squares from orange card and glue one to the top right and one to the bottom left of the base  card.   Fix the scalloped circle aperture on top of the orange squares, leaving a small border showing on two edges.

Take more black card and stamp two of the pocket watches and six butterflies using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with white embossing powder.

    
Cut out the watches and cut each watch in half and arrange in the shape of a butterfly, in the centre of the card.   Glue one butterfly in each corner and glue one to the centre of the card.   Cut out the upper wings and body only of the sixth butterfly and 3D onto the centre butterfly.

       
Stamp 'Time Flies' onto a piece of black card, again using a Versamark pad and heat embossing with white powder.   Cut the words apart and glue 'Time' to the top,  inside the circle and the 'Flies' to the bottom, inside the circle.

Hope you like tonight's card.   See you all again very soon.  Thanks for stopping by my blog and take care of yourselves.

                                                                  Love and Rainbows,

                                                                Crafty Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Butterfly Garden.

Good evening Fellow bloggers, Friends and Visitors,

Hope you've all had a good weekend.   The weather here has been quite good for a change.   The last of the snow has only just melted!  hope we don't see anymore of the white stuff this year lol!

Tonight I have another card to share with you which was shown on Imagination Craft's  Create and Craft shows on 12th February this year and uses their Butterfly Garden stamp set, honeycombe stencil and stencil paints.

Make a base card from some coffee coloured card.   Take a slightly smaller piece of light  cream card and lay the honeycombe stencil on top and pounce a mixture of white and brown stencil paint through the design using the stencil brush.

    
When dry, tear into two seperate pieces and rub Versamark down each torn edge and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.      Stamp the flourish corner stamp in the top left and bottom right of each piece of card, using the Versamark pad and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.

Glue these pieces of  card to the base card, wrapping some gold ribbon across the centre, securing on the back of each piece of card.   Add a ribbon bow to the right-hand edge.  

     
Stamp out the text using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with gold embossing powder, onto cream card.   Trim and matt onto a slightly larger piece of  coffee coloured card.   Glue this onto the base card.

Stamp out the butterflies onto cream and the coffee coloured card, using a Versmark pad and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.

    
Cut out and 3D the butterflies.   Glue to the card front adding some silicone glue under the wings to give a bit of dimension to the card.

   
Add detail sparkle to the wings and bodies of the butterflies.   Well the card is now finished, I do hope you like it.   Take care of yourselves until my next blog.   Thank yo so much for your comments and visits.   Your support meand such a great deal to me.   See you all again soon.

                                                                Love and rainbows,


                                                             Crafty Hugs   Jennifer xx.

A Card Made for Imagination Craft's T.V Shows on 12th Feb. 2015

Hi there Peeps,

Hope you managed to watch   Imagination Craft's  shows  on Create and Craft today.   Great shows with lots of fabulous techniques and demonstrations as  always.

Tonight I have another card to share with you, which was shown on the show.   It uses the very pretty little bird house decoupage stamp set, diamond stencil ( which is one of my many favourite background stencils).   I have also used their stencil paints, brush and patterned card, all available from the Imagination Craft's website. 

Make a base card from white card stock.   Take a piece of lavender card and stamp some leafy stems down the right-hand side of the card, using a black ink pad.   Glue this to the right half of the base card.

    
Take a piece of black card and lay the diamond stencil onto it and using the stencil brush, dab the stencil paints through the design.   Remove the stencil and leave to dry.   Trim down to approximately three and a quarter by five and a quarter inches and glue to the left-hand side of the base card.

Take the lilac summer scripr patterned card and stamp the birdhouse onto it using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with black embossing powder.   Stamp the birdhouse again using the a black ink pad, onto white card.

 
Cut out the background of the image you stamped onto the patterned card.   Matt this on top of the black and white image, using sticky foam pads. 

Stamp the text 'Best Wishes' onto some lavender card using a black ink pad, then trim and matt onto  a piece of white card, then black.

 
Glue this onto the base card and glue the birdhouse image on top.   Colour the leaves, bird and parts of the birdhouse, using a white pen.

Add a white ribbon bow to the top chain of the birdhouse. 

Thank you all once again for your lovely comments on my last blog and thank you for stopping by my blog today.   I do hope you may have found some inspiration from my creations.   See you all again very soon.

                                                                Love and rainbows,

                                                             Crafty Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Sneaky Peek of one of my card for Imagination Craft's TV show on Create and Craft Thursday 12th February 2015.

Hi there Peeps,

It's me again lol,   just thought I'd show you a sneaky peek at one of the cards I have made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts TV show tomorrow on Create and Craft at 12 noon and 6pm, make a date in your diaries and don't forget to set your recorders if you are out at work.   There will be some fabulous demos as always.

Tonight's card is made using Imagination Craft's diamond stencil and the very pretty sunburst garden flower  stamp set and of course that special product I love to use, sparkle medium!

Make a base card from light blue card.   Matt a slightly smaller piece of dark green onto the blue.   Take a slightly smaller piece of white pearlised card and lay the diamond stencil on top.   Using the stencil brush and a 'pouncing' motion, colour with the bluebell stencil paint.   Remove stencil and leave the image to dry.

  
When dry, lay the stencil back on the card, but this time, move the stencil  to the right a little and spread the sparkle medium over the stencil, using a spatula.   Remove the stencil and leave the image to dry.

Wrap two pieces of narrow white ribbon around the card, securing on the reverse of the card, then matt onto the base card.

  
Die cut the larger of the two circle dies from Nellie Snellen, using some dark green card.   Cut the smaller die using white card.   Bend back each point on the die-cut, then glue to the green circle.   Glue the green circle to the base card.

Stamp each size of flower from the stamp set, onto white card using a Versamark Pad and heat emboss with silver embossing powder.   Colour with diluted bluebell stencil paint,  then cut them out.   Layer them onto the base card.

  
Add 2 white ribbon bows and 7 green gem stones to the centre of the flower.   Glue the other 12 gem stones around the inner circle.   Well that's it finished, hope you like it.    Thank you so much for visiting my blog, I do hope you've enjoyed your visit and that you will pop back again.

                                                                  Love and rainbows,  

                                                                Crafty Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Poppy Seed Heads.

Hi there Folks,

Just stopping by my blog with another card.    This was made as a thank you card for a dear friend in October 2012 and uses Imagination Craft's gorgeous poppy seed head stamp from their botanical stamp collection.   I just adore this stamp and always will, a very firm favourite of mine.   I'm not sure that it is still available, but you could use a similar stamp.   Well, let's get down to business, card making that is lol!

Begin by making a base card from buff couloured card, landscape style,  cutting three of the edges with a trimmer and a scalloped blade.    Then colour with black soot distress ink around the edges.

   
Stamp a flourish in each corner using a black ink pad.   Next, stamp the flourishes again using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with silver embossing powder, moving your stamp slightly to one side of the black stamped image, to create a shadow effect.

Cut out a scalloped black circle and glue this to the left-hand side.   Now, on a black piece of card, stamp the poppies using a Versamark pad and brush some pink and green mica powders over part of the poppies, then add some silver embossing powder and heat emboss.   Cut out the individual poppies and fix to the black circle.

   
Stamp the nearest poppy again and repeat, then 3d this onto the original stamped image to give a little dimension to the card.

Stamp 'Thank You' at the top and 'Best Wishes' in the bottom right corner using a black ink pad.

      

    
The next step is to punch out 2 of the large flowers  (Woodware) from shiny black card.   Rub over with a Versamark pad and colour with red and green mica powders.   Rub the Versamark pad around the edge of the petals and heat emboss with silver embossing powder.   Glue these together with Magi-bond glue.   Punch out a small flower (Martha Stewart) from black shiny card and glue to the large flower centre.   Glue some sequins and black beads to the flower centre.

Fix this to the card with glue and use silicone glue under the petals to lift them up a little, again to add some dimension to the card.

Rub some Versamark around the card, over the flourishes and brush with nica powder.    There you have it, finished except for the insert.   I do hope you like it.   I adore poppies, as do most  people I think.   Thank you to all of you who took the time to visit and leave me a comment on my last blog.    I appreciate each and every one.

See you soon with another creation,   Take care of yourselves until then.

                                                                   Love and rainbows,

                                                                Crafty Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Dragonflies and Poppies..

Good evening Lovelies,

It's me back again with another card.   This was made  for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Craft's in August 2012 and uses their very pretty dragonflies and poppies stencil, silkies and vellum.    Hope you like it.

Make a base card by folding a piece of red  A4  card landscape style.   Cut a piece of white card, slightly smaller than the red. and lay the stencil on top and using the blender tool and the 'spun sugar' distress ink, cover the card with dragonflies,  (mask out the poppies, leaving only the dragonflies) .   Remove the stencil.

  
Gently add some distress ink around the edges of the white card, using the blending tool and leave to dry.

Take a piece of plain vellum and lay the stencil onto it and run it through an embossing machine.   Remove the stencil and lay the vellum, wrong side up on an embossing pad, and dry emboss using an embossing tool.

 
Colour the poppies and dragonflies with   Imagination Craft's 'Firecracker Satin' Silky, on the reverse of the vellum.   When the vellum is turned to the right side, the colour is more muted than on the reverse, which gives a subtle effect.

 
Trim around the design and dry emboss some dots around the edges.   Fix the vellum to a piece of red card and trim around the edges, leaving a tiny border of the red showing.   Fix this to the white card with the pink stencilled dragonflies on which was done earlier.

Fix some ribbon down the left hand side and secure on the reverse, using double sided sticky tape.   Fix this panel onto the red base card.

 
Using the Spellbinders 'Ironwork Border' die, some red card and a die-cutting machine, cut out and emboss the border.   Glue this to each side of the ribbon using Magi-Bond glue.   Last of all, add a ribbon bow.

Well that's this card finished, I do hope you like it.   Take care of yourselves until my next blog.   thank you very much for visiting my blog and if you have left me a comment, 'thank you'  I appreciate  each and every one and I do reply to each comment.

A date for your diaries, Imagination Crafts are on Create and Craft TV on Thursday 12th February at 10am and 6pm  hope you have time to watch, there will be lots of lovely demonstrations.


                                                                   Love and rainbows,

                                                              Crafty Hugs   Jennifer xx

Daisy Delight.

Good evening Lovelies,

Hope you've all had a good start to the week.   We still have quite a bit of lying snow here but it is slowly thawing, I'm pleased to say.    Tonight I have a card I would like to share with you, which I made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts in September 2011.   This card was made using Imagination Craft's, stencil pastes and their lovely daisy delight stencil.   Quite a quick and simple card to make.

Take some white card and lay the stencil over it.   Spread some clover and bluebell stencil paste across the stencil, using the metal spatula.   Remove the excess paste and the stencil, then leave to dry naturally.

  
When this is dry, matt onto some dark blue card, then white and lastly onto a lilac base card, each time leaving a narrow border of the previous colour showing.

Using the flower and flourish die from Marianne Designs, cut flowers from lilac and dark blue paper.   Glue the dark blue flower on top of the lilac flower.   Punch a small flower (Woodware) from lilac paper and glue to the centre of the blue flower.   Glue this to the top left corner of the card.   Punch out four flourishes from the same die set using the dark blue paper.   Glue these to the card next to the flower.

   
Using the round Nellie's multi frame die, cut out one circle from dark blue paper and glue to the bottom right of the base card.   Next punch out another, but this time use the negative, left over after the die was cut out, using the light blue card.   Glue this on top of the dark blue circle.

   
Punch out four blue and four lilac paper flowers using the small flower punch (Woodware).   Glue these alternatively around the light blue ring.   Punch out some tiny circles for the centres of the small flowers.

Well that's this card finished, a quick card to make, the longest time is waiting for the stencil paste to dry, the rest is simple and  just takes a little time.   Take care of yourselves until my next blog in a few days.

                                                                   Love and rainbows,

                                                              Crafty Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Exquisite Echinacea.

Good evening Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Hope you've all had a good weekend and are ready for the beginning of a new week.   Here we are in February already, the days and weeks sure are flying by,  before we know it, it will be March lol!     Tonight I have a card to share with you which I made in August 2010 for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts.   The echinacea stamp I have used, was at the time my all time  favourite stamp.   This stamp is still available on the Imagination Craft's website  and to make it more enticing, it is in their sale, reduced from £5.99 to £3.00  !!!!   well worth £3.00.   It is from their beautiful botanical stamp collection and is a positive/negative stamp.   The Crafter's Workshop stencil I used for the background is also in their sale  reduced from £4.00 to an amazing £2.00 !!!   The name of the stencil is Bliss.

Below is the finished card,  I do hope you like it.

    
Take a piece of white card and paint with the Indian Spice Set of Silkies, whilst this is still wet, lay some cling film over it and scrunch it up a little to create some texture, then leave it to dry for a short while, then remove the cling film.    When this is completely dry, lay the Bliss stencil on it and using a stencil brush, dab some black ink through the design on the stencil.

Fix this panel onto a piece of white card approximately seven and a quarter inches x five and three quarter inches.   Punch out three hearts down the left-hand side of the white card.   Fix some black ribbon down the join between the white and coloured card.   Trim the left edge of the white card using a trimmer and the victorian blade.

        
Matt this whole panel onto some black card, leaving a wider border of black down the left-hand edge.   Use the negatives of the punched out hearts and glue them down the left-hand edge of the black card.

 Glue some red gemstones to the flourishes on the background and a small red heart gemstone in the centre of each punched out heart.

    
Using white card and a black ink pad, stamp the echinacea onto the card.   Cut around the edge of the  image.   Next, using a trimmer, trim around a piece of white card slightly bigger than the image and fix the image of the echinacea onto it..   Next matt this onto a square of black card and fix to the card front.

Well, that's all there is to it lol!    Thank you for visiting my blog, have a great week and look after yourselves.   I'll be back soon with another card.

                                                                  Love and rainbows,

                                                               Crafty Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Cherish Forever.

Hi there Peeps,

As it is getting near the time we all celebrate Valentine's Day, I thought my card for tonight would be  a Valentine's card.   There is still time to make your loved one a special handmade card.   We still have a lot of lying snow here in the hills, but it is very slowly melting thank goodness, I think it has out stayed its welcome lol!   Roll on the Spring!   We have had some sunshine during the past two days and the most beautiful sunsets.

Tonight's card was made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts  in January 2009 and uses their really beautiful flourish stamp, which may not be available now, but you could use a similar flourish stamp to make this card.   Below is the card we will be making.   Hope you like it.

   
Fold a piece of A4 cream card in half, landscape style.   Using the flourish stamp and the Versamark pad, stamp the image down each side of the base card, approximately 1" in from the outer edges, and heat emboss with  gold embossing powder, using a heat gun.   Reverse the stamp for the second side.

Using  a Cricut machine and the 'George and Basic Shapes' cartridge, cut out 2 x 1" hearts and 1 x 2" heart from red  pearlesent card, or you could use a heart die.      Stamp the flourish stamp onto the hearts using the Versamark pad and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.

Fix a piece of the cream ribbon with the word 'love' on it and fix it across the 2" heart.   Fix this to the base card using sticky foam pads.

Stamp the small cork key with the Versamark pad and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.   Tie a piece of narrow red ribbon through the hole in the top of the key and tie in a bow.   Glue the key to the base card, just below the 2" heart.

Fix the half inch red satin  ribbon across the bottom of the card,  approximately half an inch up from the bottom of the card.   Next fix the cream ribbon with the words 'cherish'  ' togetherness'  and   'forever' on top of the red satin ribbon, with the words evenly spread.  

       
Fix the 2 smaller hearts in between the words, using sticky foam pads.

     
Punch out 13 small circles and 7 tiny circles from the red pearlescent card and glue to the front of the card.   Last of all, glue the red heart gemstone to the 2" heart.

Well that is that my friends, the card is now finished.   I do hope you like it.   Thank you so much for stopping by my blog, hope you have enjoyed your visit and I would like to think that my card may have inspired you to get out those crafting goodies and make your loved one, a special Valentine's card.

Until my next blog, take care of yourselves.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                                   Hugs   Jennifer xx.



      

Leaves and Flowera.

Hi there Fellow Bloggers, Followers and Visitors,

Thought I'd sneak in an extra post tonight.   This is a card I made way back in December 2006 and was made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts.   It uses a stamp set called 'Leaves and flowers,'  which sadly is no longer available but you could use similar stamps to achieve a similar end result.   Hope you like  it.   It is a little different from my normal style, but when I first saw this stamp set,  I began thinking outside the box so to speak and came up with this design rather than a flower design.   Below is a picture of the stamp set I was given to work with, so you can see which stamps I decided to use for this card.

Trim half and inch from one long edge of an A4 piece of red card amd fold in half landscape style.   Cut an oblong panel from green card six and three quarter inches by three and a quarter inches and glue to the red card.   Next cut a black oblong five and a quarter by two and three quarter inches.   Glue this centrally onto the green card.

   
Cut out a cream oblong  five inches by two and a half inches and matt this onto the black card, leaving a small border of black showing.

Next stamp eight large leaves onto green card using a black ink pad and cut them out.   Glue them together in a fan shape and fix to the cream panel  using sticky foam pads, on a slight angle.

   
Next stamp seven large  leaves onto yellow patterned paper, using a black ink pad and cut out.   Place these in a fan shape also and glue together.   Fix these leaves to the green leaf fan with sticky pads, with the leaf tips, in between the green leaves.

   
Glue a gold sequin on the tip of each green leaf.   Next stamp the flower and stems a total of four times, (we will only use three of the flowers, but four of the leaf stems) with black ink onto white card.   Colour the stems green and carefully cut them out.   Cut out the flowers and glue them onto the yellow leaves.   Put some red glitter glue onto  the flower heads and glue sequins onto the tendrils.  

   
Attach some red and green fibres to the base of the fan shape and add a sequin.   Well that's all from me for now.   Look after yourselves.   I'll be back soon, thank you so much for stopping by my blog, hope you've enjoyed your visit.

                                                                   Love and rainbows,

                                                                Crafty Hugs   Jennifer xx.