Roses with love.

Hi there   Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Hope you've all enjoyed your weekend despite the changeable weather lol!   Tonight I have another card to share with you.   This card was made for Imagination Craft's  last Create & Craft show earlier this month.   I have made the background by using stencil paint and crackle medium.

Begin by folding the white card in half along the crease line, making a 7"x7" square card.   Matt a smaller piece of cerise coloured card onto the base card, leaving a small border of white showing.

Take a piece of white card  smaller than the cerise and paint all over with the pink lace Silkie.

When dry, paint with the crackle medium.   When that is dry,  paint with white Gesso and it should begin to crack.   The thicker the layer of crackle medium, the bigger the cracks will be.

  
When this is dry, lay the rose duo panel stencil on the left-hand side and stipple the rose stencil paint through the design, adding small amounts of white Gesso to highlight certain parts.

    
When this is dry, draw around the rose using the Gold Gilt Detail Sparkle and leave to dry.   In the meantime,  take a piece of white card and stamp 'with love'  onto it   using a Versamark pad  and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.

    
Take a piece of white card and colour it with the rose stencil paint and when dry, die cut the shape using the Spellbinder's die.   Take the white card stamped with gold embossing powder and cut out a circle around the  'with love'   to  fit  the centre of the rose pink shape, using the Nellie Snellen circle die.

 Punch out six small hearts from the coloured card and fit in the slits around the white circle and glue the  white circle onto the pink shape.   Glue this  to the right-hand side of the card.

  
Well that's all for tonight, hope you like this card.   Thank you again for taking the time to visit and comment on my blog.   See you all soon.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                                     Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Tangled Roses.

Hello everyone,

I'm back again with another card to share with you.   I've had a lovely afternoon in my craft room, preparing samples for Imagination Craft's  next show on Create & Craft TV next month, and listening to one of my favourite singers,  Dido.   Well enough chit chat, on with tonight's card lol.

Make a base card from a piece of A4 black  card folded in half.   Onto this, matt a smaller piece of white card.

        
Take another piece of white card and put through an embossing machine along with the Crafter's Workshop 'Mini Eternity. stencil.   Colour with distress inks and matt onto the white card, wrapping the black/white spotted ribbon, across the centre and secure on the back of the card.

    
Take the patterned panel card and lay the rose duo stencil onto it and with a black pen, draw through the stencil, outlining the design.   Remove the stencil and fill the spaces with tangle patterns, using a white pen in places to add a contrast next to the black.

  
Draw a small hillside and fill sections with tangle patterns using black and white pens.   Matt this onto black card, then onto white, then matt this onto the black base card.   Last of all, add a ribbon bow to the right hand side of the card.

A little tip for you,  the ink from the pens take a long time to dry on this lovely card, as the surface is coated, so be careful not to smudge your work as you fill in the design.

Hope you like it.   Thanks for visting my blog and I;ll be back again soon.

                                                                Love and rainbows,

                                                                  Hugs, Jennifer xx.

Carousel Ride.

Hi there Peeps,

I'm back to share another card with you all tonight.   Hope you've  all had a fabulous Bank Holiday weekend and  a  good day today.  The weather has been very mixed here again.   Never two days alike lol!     Tonight's card was made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts.   and was made for the last Create and Craft TV. show on Thursday 21st.   I have used Imagination Craft's newest shades of stencil paints, ' Lime green'  and the gorgeous, rich ' Rose.'  

    
Fold the white card in half alomg the crease line, making a 7"x7" square card.   Die-cut ten corners using the Memory Box corner die from light green card.   Cut a piece of light green card approximately six inches  by five and three quarter inches and glue the corner die-cuts to the back of the card, making sure the die-cuts  will not protrude beyond the edges of the white  base card.   Matt this onto the white base card.

Matt a smaller piece of purple card onto the green, leaving a small border of the green showing.   Cut a piece of white paper, slightly smaller than the purple card and colour with Inkadinks diluted with water and a piece of cling film, pressed onto the painted paper and scrunched up in places.   Leave until paint is dry.   Remove the clingfilm which leaves a marbled effect on the painted paper.

    
Lay the 'carousel' stencil on top of the coloured paper and using stencil brushes, dab the rose and the lime green stencil paints through the design.  

  
Highlight parts of the design with white Gesso.   Remove stencil and leave image to dry.   Matt this onto the base card using double sided sticky tape.   That's it finished folks, a very quick and easy card to make.   Thanks ever so much for visiting my blog and for your lovely comments, I really do appreciate each and every one.   See you all again soon.

                                                                     Love and rainbows,

                                                                       Hugs   Jennifer xx.

      

In the Blue.

Good evening  Peeps,

Hope you are all having a lovely holiday  weekend.   What a glorious day it has been here, blue skies and warm sunshine.   I did some weeding  today, too nice to be indoors lol!   Thanks to all who stopped by my blog, hope you enjoyed your visit.

Tonight I would like to share another card with you, which I made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts show on Create and Craft last Thursday.   You may have just caught a glimpse of it, as it was standing in front of the demonstration  table.   Hope you like it. 

Fold your white card in half, down the crease line, to make  7"x7" square card.   Matt a piece of dark green card onto your base card, leaving a half inch border of white showing.

       
Take a smaller piece of white card and lay the 'vine leaf' stencil onto it and spread with the beautiful new 'Spearmint' Sparkle Medium, using the metal spatula.   Remove the stencil and leave the image to dry.

When dry, take some white ribbon and colour it using the 'blue brocade' Silkie and a paint brush.   Fix the
ribbon across the centre of the Sparkle Mediumed card and secure on the reverse of the card.   Matt this onto the base card.   

 

    
Die-cut the flower using the Sizzix die, from a piece of white card painted with the 'blue brocade' Silkie and another from card covered with the 'spearmint' Sparkle Medium.   Layer up the flower and glue to the right-hand side of the ribbon, adding some silicone glue under the petals, to raise them up slightly.

    
Take a piece of white card, the size of the panel 'topiary tree' stencil.   Paint the stencil with 'blue brocade' then spritz it with water and lay the card on top of the wet stencil and smooth across it with the side of your hand or a brayer.   Remove the card and leave the image to dry.   Lay the stencil back on the image and spread the 'spearmint' Sparkle Medium over the leaves only.   Remove stencil and leave image to dry. 

Once dry,  add more 'blue brocade' to the design to  create shape and shadows.   Add small amounts of the Sparkle Medium to the stem of the tree and the plant pot.  

    
Add a ribbon bow, coloured with the 'blue brocade' Silkie.   Matt this image onto a piece of dark green card,

     
leaving a small border of green showing, then fix this to the base card and that is your card finished.   Many thanks for stopping by my blog, hope you've enjoyed your visit.   See you all again in three days time, when I will have another creastion for you.   Until then, stay safe , be happy and enjoy your Bank Holiday weekend.

                                                             Love and rainbows,.

                                                          Crafty Hugs    Jennifer xx

Flower Circle.

Good evening All,

Hope you managed to watch Sue from Imagination Crafts on  Create & Craft TV. today.    Lots of great tips and demos, not to mention the fabulous products.   Tonight I'd like to share another card with you that I made for the show but did not get shown.   This card uses the bubble cloud stencil and as Sue mentioned this stencil can be turned over to make a larger pattern.   This is what I did on this card.

Fold the white card in half down the crease line to make a 7"x7" square card., matt some pink paper, slightly smaller than the white base card., leaving a small border of white showing.   Matt a white square onto the pink, leaving a bigger  border of pink showing.

   
Take a smaller piece of white card and paint it with the rose and lime green stencil paints.   Do not make the painting  'perfect' some white and/or brush strokes showing is just fine, this adds to the card.

When dry, lay the bubbles stencil onto the right-hand side of the coloured card and dab the rose stencil paint through the design.   Remove the stencil and wash and dry it, then 'flip' it over and lay on the left-hand side.  

   
Repeat as before with the rose stencil paint.   Fix a piece of ribbon down the centre and glue the edges to the back of the card.   Matt this onto the base card.

Take some white card and lay the topiary flower stencil onto it (masking out the stems and pot)    and dab Versamark through the stencil,   Remove the stencil  and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.   On another piece of white card, do the same, but this time dab the rose stencil paint through the design.   Repeat the gold, twice more and the rose paint, once more.

   
Using the Sizzix scalloped circle dies, cut out alternate colours, going down in size, finishing with the smallest size, being done in gold.  

         
3D these onto the card front, using silicone glue.   Die-cut a narrow pink circle by using the two largest  dies together, which makes a narrow ring.    Glue this around the white/gold circles.   Add a ribbon bow to the centre top and bottom.

I'll be back again in a few days.   In the meanwhile, enjoy your holiday weekend.     Thank you so much for visiting my blog.

                                                                 Love and rainbows.                                     
                                                             Crafty Hugs   xx   Jennifer.

A Beautiful Boquet. Another sneaky peek.

Good morning Peeps,

Hope you are all set ready to watch (or record) Imagination Craft;s show on Create & Craft today at 1pm.   I know I am lol!   My lunch and a lovely cuppa  and Imagination Crafts on TV, what more could a girl (well old lady lol!!) want!    Today I have another sneaky peek to share with you all.   When I had finished this card, I felt it looked a bit Victorian.   Hope you like this one.

Fold the white card down the crease line to make a 7"x7" square card.   Put the front of the card into the

Tattered Lace embossing folder and emboss.   Colour the front of the card with the blender and the seedless preserves Distress Ink.

    
Cut an oblong piece of black card and glue to the right-hand side of the base card.    Using the oblong scalloped die,  die-cut an oblong from cream card and colour with a little black soot Distress Ink.   Glue this to the black card.

Take another piece of black card and lay the 'rose bouquet'  stencil onto it and dab the rose and vanilla stencil paints over the roses and the lime green over the stems and leaves.   Use the rose and vanilla on the ribbon around the stems of the roses.

Remove stencil and leave the image to dry.  Die-cut a scalloped oval from black card, around the image.   Add three gem stones to the bottom right of the oval, then glue the oval to the cream card.

Take some white ribbon and colour it, using the rose stencil paint so you get an exact match to the rest of the card.   (This does stiffen the ribbon slightly but looks fine.) 

   
Glue the strip of brown diamond wrap down the left-hand side of the base card and glue the ribbon bow onto it.

That's all from me for now.   I will get my domestic goddess jobs done, then it will be time to tune in to Create & Craft.   Enjoy the show.   See you all again soon.

                                                                    Love and Rainbows,

                                                                       Hugs   Jennifer xx.

'Garden Thoughts'. Another Sneaky Peak.

Good evening again,

Hope I'm not boring you all with so many posts today lol!!   This will be the last one for today you'll be pleased to hear lol!   I have made this card for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts for their show tomorrow on Create and |Craft T.V. at 1pm.   For this card I have used some Imagination Craft's gilding flakes.

Fold the white card in half down the crease line to make a 7"x7" square card.   Onto this matt a piece of purple card, leaving a half inch border of the white showing.

  
Take the 'gathering thoughts' patterned card and cut out a round shape using Spellbinder's 'blossom two' die, third size up, into the bottom left corner of the patterned card.   Matt this onto the purple card.

Next, using the Tonic border die, die-cut the border from the 'summer script' patterned card.   Glue this to the centre of the base card.

      
Die-cut the butterflies from purple card and two using Sparkle Mediumed card  (made by brayering Sparkle Medium onto a piece of card)   and glue to the base card,  except for the smallest butterfly.   Add two flowers from the tree onto the wings using some lavender Sparkle Medium.

   
                                      
Lay the 'topiary flower'  stencil onto a piece of lilac card and dab the gilding glue through the design on the stencil, using a piece  of cut n' dry foam.   Remove the stencil and cover with the  'frosty morning' gilding flakes.   Brush away the excess flakes, (which can be used again.)  

Trim around  the edge of the  design and fix to the right-hand edge of the base card, using sticky foam pads.   Glue the smallest butterfly to the top of the plant pot.   Add some Detail Sparkle to the dots on the topiary tree and glue a small purple ribbon bow to the top of the tree.

Lastly, add a piece of paper lace to the top of the plant pot.   Well that's all from me for today.   Hope you've enjoyed your visits to my blog.   Please pop back again when I will have another 'sneaky peek' to share with you tomorrow and please don't forget to tune into Create and Craft at 1pm.

                                                             Love and rainbows,

                                                           Big Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Summer Blossom Butterflies. Another Sneaky Peek.

Good evening All,

I'm back again with another 'sneaky peek.'    This one is all about butterflies and sparkle.    Butterflies are lovely additions to any card, just so pretty and beautiful colours.

Fold your white card in half down the crease line to make a 7"x7" square card.   Matt a smaller piece of blue card onto the white, then a purple matt, slightly smaller than the blue.   Cut a smaller piece of white card and lay the 'summer blossom border' stencil onto it and spread the 'spearmint' Sparkle Medium over it. using the metal spatula.   Leave the image to dry and wash off the stencil.

     
When dry, matt onto the base card.   Die-cut a Spellbinder's corner four times from white card  and layer them on top of each other.   Glue this to the centre of the square on the base card.

   
Die-cut four butterflies from white card, and colour with  evergreen bough, seedless preserves and milled lavender Distress Inks.

    
Glue the butterflies to the base card using silicone glue to lift up their wings.   The card is now finished.   Thank you for visiting my blog.   Please don't forget to tune into Create & Craft tv tomorrow at 1pm. to see Sue from Imagination Crafts, some great products and faulous demos.

                                                               Love and Rainbows,

                                                                 Hugs    Jennifer xx.

Butterfly Blues. Another Sneaky Peek !

Hi there, it's me back again with another sneaky peek for you before the Create and Craft Show tomorrow.
Quite a lot of sparkle on this one.    Nothing like a bit of sparkle on your cards lol!!

Make a base card 4"x8" from navy blue card.   Matt a smaller piece of white card onto the navy base card.   Take a smaller piece of white card and colour with Brusho paints.

When dry, lay the panel stencil on top and using the metal spatula, spread the ruby gold Sparkle Medium over the design.

  
Remove the stencil and leave the image to dry.   When dry, trim around the right-hand side of the design.

In the meanwhile, colour a piece of card with the Canadian blue Sparkle Medium, using the metal spatula or better still, a brayer.    Glue the butterfly card onto the blue sparkle mediumed card, then fix this to the base card.

Die-cut three butterflies from the left-ove sparkle mediumed card and glue to the left-hand side of the card.

   

   
Colour another piece of white card using the same Brusho paints and leave to dry.   From this card, die-cut a flower using a Sizzix die.   3D the flower and glue to the bottom right of the base card.

Well that's it finished, thanks for stopping by, I'll be back very soon with more sneaky peeks.

                                                                  Love and rainbows,

                                                                  Big Hugs   Jennifer xx.

A Splash of Colour and a Little Bit of Sparkle. Another Sneaky Peek.

Hi there,

I just thought I'd pop by with an extra post today, to share another card with you, as Sue from Imagination Craft's  will be on Create and Craft TV tomorrow at 1pm.   This card uses their very pretty 'woodland flower' stencil and of course their  very sparkly, Sparkle Medium, such an easy product to use and gives a professional finish every time.

   
Fold your white card down the score line to make a 7"x7" square card.   Matt a piece of navy blue card onto the base card,  leaving a half inch border of white showing.

Cut a square of white card approximately one quarter inch smaller than the navy card.    Using the Tonic corner die, die-cut each corner of the white card.   Colour this card with Brusho paints.   When dry, lay the 'woodland flower' stencil on  the centre of the coloured card.   Mask off a small amount of the stems at the bottom of the stencil.   Spread the 'spearmint' Sparkle Medium over the design, using the metal spatula.

   
Add small amounts of the 'hunter green' Sparkle Medium to the leaves and stems.   Next add a little of the 'Canadian blue' Sparkle Medium to the flowers.   Carefully remove the stencil and leave the image to dry.

In the meantime, colour a piece of card with the  'Canadian blue Sparkle Medium, using a brayer or just by spreading it onto the card with the spatula and leave this to dry.

Matt your flower design onto the now dry Sparkle Mediumed card, so the blue sparkle shows through the die-cut corners.   (use Magi-bond glue to matt the image onto the glittered card, as double sided sticky tape will not stick well to the glittered surface.)   Matt this onto the base card.

    
Well, that's all for now folks, I will be back very soon with another 'sneaky peek.'   Cheerio for now and thanks for stopping by.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                                    Hugs   Jennifer xx.

     



  

A 'Sneaky Peek at another of my cards for the Imagination Craft's TV Show on Create & Craft.

Good evening Lovelies,

What a funny day it has been today lol!  one minute bright sunshine the next,  heavy rain showers!    thunder and lightening!!      Never mind, it appears the weather is getting better towards the weekend.    Tonight I would like to share another of my makes for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Craft's next TV show this Thursday,  the 21st. May at 1pm. on Create & Craft.   I do hope you can tune in.

Fold your white base card in half down the crease line to make a 7"x7" square card.   Matt a piece of purple card onto the base card, leaving a narrow border of the white card showing.

    
Take two pieces of the patterned panel card and trim to size to fit to the purple border top and bottom of the base card.   Die-cut two flourishes from purple card, using the Tim Holtz die, then glue these to the panel.   Next glue the panel to the left-hand side of the base card.

  
Take the second piece of patterned panel card and lay the 'flourish fountain' stencil onto it and dab Versamark through the design using a piece of cut n' dry foam.   Remove the stencil and brush with the lemon yellow, purple and orange mica powders  from Imagination Craft's   'moonlight' set.   Brush away the excess powder and polish gently with a soft brush.   Glue this panel to the right-hand side of the base card.

      
Take a piece of light green card and cut a panel, again, to fit up to the purple border around the base card.   Lay the stencil onto it and repeat what you did on the second patterned panel.   Colour around the edges of the green card with  seedless preserves and chipped sapphire distress inks.

   
Add purple velvet Detail Sparkle  to all the dots on the design.   Matt this onto the purple card, so the border shows only down the left and right edges.

     
Glue this to the base card and add a purple ribbon bow to the top right of the card.    One little tip for you, to stop the mica powder being rubbed off the card, spray, at a distance, some cheap hairspray onto the design.   This sets the powders so they don't rub off.      Well this card is now finished, I do hope you like it.   Thank you once again for visiting my blog, If you are not a card maker, I hope I may have inspired you to give this great hobby a go lol!!

See you again tomorrow night with another 'sneaky peek.'  

                                                                  Love and rainbows,

                                                                Crafty Hugs   Jennifer xx.

  

A Sneaky Peek at one of my Creations for Imagination Craft's T.V. show on Create & Craft.

Good evening Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Well it is not long now until Sue from Imagination Craft's   will be on Create & Craft T.V.   The programme will be televised on Thursday  21st May,  the time to be confirmed.   I do hope you will be able to tune in.

Tonight I would like to share one of my cards made for the show.   I would just like to say a 'big thank you' to you all for your continued support and encouragement, it really means a great deal to me.   Well, onto my card lol!

Take the white card and fold in half down the crease line to make a 7"x7" card.    I have to say, I just love working on the bigger 7" x 7" card.   Matt a piece of black card onto the white base card, leaving a narrow border of white showing.

     
Next, matt some terracotta card onto the black, again leaving a border of black showing.   Matt another piece of of black onto the terracotta.  

Take a smaller piece of black card and lay the  'flourish frame border' stencil on it and using the stencil brush, dab the bright bronze stencil paint through the design.   Remove the stencil and leave the image to dry.

   
In the meanwhile, die-cut four butterflies from black card using the  White Rose Studio butterfly die.   Colour some black card with 'Ruby Gold' Sparkle Medium, by either brayering it on or spreading it on using the metal spatula and leave to dry.    When dry, die-cut  four butterflies from this card, keeping the negative pieces after cutting.

     
Fix the stencilled card onto the base card, leaving  a black border showing.   Using the left-over negative pieces, find four of the same shapes and glue two to each corner.

   
Glue the 'Ruby Gold' butterflies onto the black ones and glue to the card.   Add a little silicone glue under each wing to raise them up a little.

   
Well that's this card finished, hope you like it.   I'll be back again very soon with another 'sneaky peek.'   Have a good week my friends.

                                                               Love and rainbows,

                                                                 Hugs   Jennifer xx.