Art Deco Lady.

Good evening Lovelies,

Hope you've all had a good Friday, the weekend is here again, time to chill out and relax lol!     Did my domestic goddess work this morning and managed to fit in some crafting time before going to pick up our Grandson and bring him back home.

As you may know I just love anything to do with fairies lol!   but I also adore anything to do with Art Deco and Imagination Craft's  gorgeous Art Dec stencils are no exception lol !   I just love them   Tonight's card is made with the Art Deco Lady stencil.   

    
Fold the white card down the crease line making a 7"x7" base card.   Cover the whole of the front of the card with a piece of cream linen card.

Matt a slightly smaller piece of gold mirror card onto the cream and then a slightly smaller piece of navy card, onto the gold.

Take a piece of light green card cut smaller then the navy and lay the Art Deco Lady stencil onto it.   Spread the black star Sparkle Medium over the design using the metal spatula  but not doing the flowers, necklace and earrings.   Remove the stencil and leave the image to dry.

       
When dry, replace the stencil in the correct position and spread the gold shine Sparkle Medium over the  flowers, necklace and earring.   Remove stencil and leave image to dry.

      
Matt the lady onto the base card.  

    

   
Glue the large silk flower to the bottom left of the card and glue the three cream flowers onto the silk flower.   Colour the top of her dress and hat with the Lime paint from the pearly paint palette.

   
That is this card finished, hope you like it.   Have a good Saturday and I'll be back again tomorrow night.   I would just like to thank you all for your commwnts, visits to my blog and your constant support, it does mean a great deal to me.   I do hope you get some inspiration from my cards.   See you soon.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                              Crafty Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Another card made for Imagination Craft's show on Create & Craft T.V. last Friday.

Hi there Lovelies,

After a dull wet start this morning, the afternoon turned out to be quite nice with some sunshine !   Thought it had gone forever lol!   The card I would like to share with you,  was the last of the cards   made for the Create & Craft T.V. show, last Friday.   I am really a stamper at heart, although I do enjoy using all kinds of techniques, stamping is still my passion, so I have used Imagination Craft's 'Lilies' decoupage stamp set.  

Fold the ready creased white  card down the centre crease line, making a 7"x7" base card.

Put some orange oxidation Starlight paint onto a work mat and paint a piece of white card with the paint, or use a brayer to spread the paint (if using a brayer, you will have to work quite quickly, as this paint dries almost instantly).  

When this is dry, stamp the main lily image onto it, using a black ink       Matt this onto a square of white card, then onto  a square of black card, each time leaving a small border showing.

    
Take the main white base card and stamp the scroll stamp from the lilies set, across the card, leaving a border of white card showing around all the edges.   Spread some of the orange oxidation paint onto a work matt and dab the scroll stamp into it, then stamp onto the card.  

   
Using a black pen, draw a square around the stamped images, using squiggly lines and zig zags.   Die-cut the contempo circles strip from black card and glue down the inside left-hand of the square.

   
Die-cut another strip and from  this, cut out two triangles and glue inside the top and bottom right-hand corners of the square.

   

     
Fix the main lily image on an angle, to the centre of the base card.   Glue three small black circles to the top and bottom borders, ( left over after die-cutting the contempo circles).

Stamp the lily again onto black card using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.   Cut out the lilies only and glue to the original stamped image.

   

   
This photograph shows the effect of light on this fabulous Starlight paint, just gorgeous.   Finally, glue a gold bow to the right of the main image.

That's this card finished.   I'm off to do a little commenting, then it's the land of nod for me, as it is going on for midnight again lol!    Catch you all soon.   Have a good Friday all.

                                                                Love and rainbows,

                                                           Big hugs,       Jennifer xx

'The Simple Things in Life,

Good evening Fellow Bloggers, Friends and Visitors,

Hi there, how are you all?   well I hope,  we're halfway through the working week, weekend not too far away. It has been dull and dreary here today, with the odd heavy shower, such a shame for the first week of the school holidays.   I've had a quiet day as I predicted, although I haven't achieved very much lol! one of those days!   Never mind, tomorrow is a whole new day.

The card I have to share with you tonight, was again, made for Imagination Craft's show on Create & Craft T.V.   last Friday. 

Fold the white card down the crease line, making a 7"x7" base card.   Matt a piece of teal card onto the base card, leaving a border of white showing.

        
Take a slightly smaller piece of white card and lay the dandelion stencil onto the left hand side.   Using a piece of cut n' dry foam, dab the White Gold and Blue Starlight paints through the design.   Remove the stencil and leave the image to dry.

        

Using the Nelly Snellen corner die, die-cut all four corners.   Gently rub the Inca Gold Alchemy Wax over each corner die-cut.   Add some Distress inks around the edges, getting lighter towards the centre.  

     
Rub some gold wax around the edges.   Matt this onto the base card.   Glue two gems to each corner.

Stamp the 'Make time' stamp onto a piece of teal card, using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with 
 turquoise embossing powder.   Round the corners with the corner rounder punch and rub a little gold Alchemy Wax  around the edges.      Fix this to the right of the dandelion using sticky foam pads.   Glue a gem  on each corner and add a white ribbon bow.

The card is now finished.   See you all again soon, have a good Thursday, looks like the weather is on the up, maybe we will get some sunshine again lol!

                                                                  Love and rainbows,

                                                        Happy Crafting,   Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Butterfly Flourish card made for Imagination Craft's show on Create & Craft T.V.

Good evening Peeps,

Hope you've all had a wonderful day.   I'm just relaxing now after a very busy day.   Shopping, then we took our grandson out for lunch at a garden centre and I managed to fit in visits to two craft shops, brilliant!   I bought a few craft goodies and I can't wait to have a play with them tomorrow lol!  when I hope I will have a quieter day, crafting and chilling out, listening to my music cds.   Thank you to those of you who visited and commented on last night's post.   It means a great deal to me.

Tonight I am sharing another card which I made for Imagination Craft's show on Create & Craft T.V. last Friday.    For this I have used Imagination Craft's fabulous new  Starlight Paints, which are turning out to be a firm favourite of mine and by all accounts, yours too, as they sold out very quickly, not to worry though as I'm told they will be back in stock by the end of this week.

Fold the ready creased white card down the centre, making a 7"x7" base card.   Matt a smaller piece of black card on the white, then cut a smaller piece of white card and paint all the edges with the White gold Starlight Paint, ( no need to waste paint on the whole card, as only the edges will be seen.)   Matt this onto the black.

    
Paint a piece of white card approximately five and a half inches by two and three quarter inches and paint with the orange oxidation Starlight paint.

Cut a piece of black card five and a half inches by two and a quarter inches.   Glue the orange card to the left hand side of the gold card, nearer to the bottom of the gold card and glue  the black card nearer to the top right, leaving some gold card showing.

             

Cut a piece of black card and lay the daisy curl stencil onto it and spread the golden green Sparkle Medium over the design, using the metal spatula.   Remove the stencil and leave the image to dry.   Matt this onto the base card.

   
Colour the Art Cutz butterfly and flourishes with the white gold Starlight Paint/   Lay the butterfly onto some black card and draw around the shape.   Cut this out and paint with the orange oxidation paint..   When dry glue the butterfly onto the painted card so the orange paint shows through the wings.   Glue the butterfly to the top right of the base card.

  

    

Glue the flourishes to the bottom left corner, adding some small black, punched circles, which have been painted with the orange oxidation paint..Paint some black card with the orange oxidation paint and die-cut 2 large, 2 medium, and 2 small flowers from it, using the Spellbinders dies.

   
Add three green gems to the top left and bottom right and two to the body of the butterfly and there we have it, one finished card.   Hope you like this one.   Take care of yourselves and I will be back soon.

Thanks again for following my blog.   See you soon.

                                                                  Love and rainbows,

                                                               Crafty hugs    Jennifer xx.

Daisy Curls Flower, card made for Imagination Craft's show on Create & Craft T.V.

Hi there, happy Monday All,

What has happened to the weather lol! it's more like Autumn than Summer.   We've had a very dull day all day here,  with drizzle and spells of heavy rain, certainly doesn't feel like Summer.

Indoor activities today!  so Grandson and I had a sort out of his toys, the ones he has  grown  out of, so they have been packed away, just in case anymore grandchildren come along lol!   and if they don't, we will give them to a charity in the future.    No crafting today, too  busy sorting toys!  cooking meals and housework, a woman's work is never done lol!   ha ha.

I have used the lovely daisy curl stencil, which makes a super background and the gorgeous new orange oxidation Starlight Paint.    These lovely paints from Imagination Craft's  sold out on Create & Craft's show last Friday but fear not,  Sue assures me,  new stocks are on their way, so by the end of the week they will be back in stock.!    get them whilst you can lol!

Fold the white card in half down the crease line, making  a  7"x7" base card.   Matt a smaller piece of turquoise card onto the base card.

Lay the daisy curl stencil onto some spare white card and spread the blue moonstone Sparkle Medium over the design.   Remove the the stencil and leave the image to dry.   When dry cut in half and put to one side.

      
Take some cream ribbon and colour it with the oxidation Starlight paint.   This will stiffen the ribbon slightly but that is fine as it makes a lovely firm bow.

Fix the two halves of the  daisy curl stencilled card, onto the card front, one to the top and the other to the bottom but not sealing down at each side immediately but glue the ribbon across the card, then seal down, leaving a gap between the two,  so the turquoise card below shows through the gap.

     

    
Die-cut a large and a small scalloped circle from white card and one medium circle from turquoise card.   Matt the circles onto each other, using silicone glue, to give dimension to your card.

Take the Art Cutz flower and put through an embossing machine along with the daisy curl stencil and emboss.

       
Colour the flower with blue and orange oxidation Starlight paints.   Put a circle of the blue moonstone Sparkle Medium onto the smallest white scalloped circle and press the flower onto it whilst  Sparkle Medium is still wet and the Sparkle Medium will squeeze through the holes in the flower centre. 

      
Take seven pieces of candy circles and paint with the orange oxidation paint.   Glue one to the flower centre and the others to each side of the card.   Glue the scalloped circles and the flower on top of the ribbon.   Glue two small loops of coloured  ribbon under the edges og the large scalloped circle.   Well that's it finished, I do hope you like it.   Take care of yourselves and I'll  be back with another card soon.    Have a good week.

                                                                    Love and rainbows,

                                                                 Crafty Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Flowers and Starlight Paints.

Hi again Lovelies,

Hope you've all had a lovely weekend.   It's well seeing it is the school Summer holidays lol! it's raining! Looks like indoor games are on the agenda until the sun comes out again!

I have another card for you tonight which was again made for Imagination Craft's  latest Create & Craft show last Friday.       Some of you may have seen  this card, as it was shown on the programme.   I have used Imagination Craft's gorgeous new Art Cutz toppers and their very luscious new Starlight Paints.  These paints give such an amazing effect as they have a certain amount of gold flakes in them.

   
Fold the ready creased white card down the centre crease line, making a 7"x7" base card.   Matt a smaller piece of blue paper onto the white base card.   Next matt a slightly smaller piece of white card onto the blue, leaving wider borders on the left and right.

     
Cut a piece of  dark green card slightly smaller than the white and punch all four corners using the flower corner punch.   Matt this onto the white card.  

Take the Art Cutz flowers and paint with the Starlight Paints and leave to dry, which will take all of a couple of minutes lol!  very quick drying.  

   

    
Cut a strip of white card and matt across the centre of the green card.   Matt a piece of blue paper onto the white card, leaving a narrow border at the top and bottom.

   
Arrange the flowers in a circle and glue in position using Imagination Craft's Magi-bond glue.

   
This is such an easy card to make, no cutting out the flowers as they are  cut out and ready to use and the Starlight Paints are a dream to use.   Hope you like my card.   If you haven't tried card making before, I urge you to give it a go lol!   This is a very satisfying hobby,  friends and relatives love to receive handmade cards, made with love,  especially for them.

See you all very soon and many thanks for your visits and lovely comments.      Have a good week, despite the weather forcast lol.

                                                                   Love and rainbows,

                                                                  Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Butterfly time.

Good evening Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Hope you've all had a good Saturday.   Mine has been quite quiet, as Grandson is away for a few days, he is back tomorrow morning, so I  took the opportunity to do some crafting.   A friend has asked  me if I could make a few cards for her charity, so of course  I said yes.  As I don't  know what samples I have to make for the next  Create & Craft show yet,  I am using this time to make these cards.   I will share them in the near future, I'm still working on them.

Tonight I have a very quick and easy card to share with you.  It was made for Imagination Craft's  show on Create & Craft T.V.  on 24th July but did not get shown.

    
Fold the ready creased white card down the crease line, making a 7"x7" base card.   Using the butterfly stamp and a black ink  pad, stamp out five butterflies, masking  as you go, on the bottom left of the base card.

Take some teal card and stamp the butterflies a further ten times, using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with black embossing powder.   Paint the wings with the white gold and blue Starlight paints.   Cut them out and glue some flat on the card and then 3D the others, using silicone glue.

Die-cut four corners from teal card, using the Tattered Lace corner die and glue one in each corner.

   
Take the Art Cutz toppers and paint with the white gold Starlight Paint.   Paint the blossoms with the blue paint and leave to dry, which will only take a few moments, as this paint dries almost immediately.

Glue these to the top right of the base card.   Add a teal gem where the two branches meet.

 
That's it for tonight my friends, hope you like it.   I'll see you all soon.   Have a peaceful, relaxing Sunday.

                                                                     Love and rainbows,

                                                                 Crafty Hugs,   Jennifer xx.

A Card for that Special Friend.

Good evening Peeps,

Well what a brilliant show it was on Create & Craft !   Sue from Imagination Crafts  managed to fit in so....many demonstrations in that hour!  and weren't all the Santa sleighs fabulous and all so different!   Tonight I have a card to share with you, I hope it may inspire you to have a go.   I have used Imagination Craft's  lovely new Art Cutz flower & leaves sets along with their new Alchemy wax.

       
Fold the white base card in half down the crease line, making a 7"x7" base card.   Matt a smaller square of black card onto the white, then a smaller piece of pink card onto the black.

Glue another piece of black card 3"x6" to the left hand side of the base card, leaving a narrow border showing around three sides.

Using a black ink pad, stamp the 'Friendship' stamp to the top right of the card and the 'Blossom by blossom' stamp to the bottom right.

    
                                     Glue three black rhinestones to the bottom right of the pink card.

 Paint the flourish from the Art Cutz butterflies set and a flower from the flower set and  a leaf from the leaves set, with black Gesso.   When dry, put the flower and the leaf through an embossing machine along with the daisy curl stencil and emboss.   Leave the flourish plain black and glue between the words 'Friendship' and 'Blossom by blossom.'   Glue a small pink ribbon bow to the centre of the flourish.

                                   
Take the flower and leaf and gently rub some silver Alchemy wax over the surface.   This gives them a metallic look.     Glue these onto the black panel.

              

                         Card finished, hope you like it.   I'll be back again soon, hope you will too.

                                                             Love and rainbows,

                                                        Happy Crafting,    Hugs  Jennifer xx.

'Sneaky Peek' at my MDF Sleigh for Imagination Craft's Show on Create & Craft T.V..

Good evening Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Hope you've had a good day whatever you have been doing.   Hubby and I have spent the day weeding in our fruit garden.  When we went into the garden we were greeted by a half a dozen blackbirds, flying out from inbetween the strawberries and gooseberries lol!   Time to put up our fruit nets me thinks lol!  and that was a bundle of fun, with the wind lol!!!    Never mind, we managed in the end, after a frustrating couple of hours.  

On to tonight's creation, another Santa sleigh.   Paint all MDF parts with two layers of blue Starlight Paint.   Take some white card and the snowflake embossing folder and emboss.   Paint this with Moss Green MDF Paint, then a thin layer of the Lagoon MDF Paint.   Rub some Blue Moonstone Sparkle Medium over the raised design.   Leave to dry.   From this, cut out two side shapes for the sleigh and glue in place,   Add more Sparkle Medium around the edges.

   
Cover some white card with Diamond Sparkle Medium and leave to dry.  When dry ,die-cut two of each
snowflake using the Tattered Lace dies.    Glue these to both sides of the sleigh.   Glue some pearls to the top edges of the back and front of the sleigh, using Magi-bond glue.

  
Fix a piece of silk ivy and silver ribbon to the inside of the sleigh.   Make some boxes and lids from white card, coloured with  Blue, White gold, Menthol and Orange oxidation Starlight Paints.   Colour one piece of card using the hessian stencil, colouring with the Lagoon and Cyclone MDF Paints and Orange oxidation Starlight Paint and make another box and lid.

 
                                        Make another box using snowflake flurry patterned card.

 
Paint a piece of white card and paint with the White gold Starlight Paint.   Using the X-cut alphabet die, die-cut HO HO HO and glue these letters to the back of the sleigh.

Spread silver Sparkle Medium over a flourish from the Art Cutz Butterfly set and leave to dry.   When dry, paint over the top of the Sparkle Medium with the Menthol Starlight Paint.   Glue this to the front of the sleigh.

Well, that's it finished.   This will make a lovely Christmas decoration or could be a focal point of your  Christmas dinner table.   Before we know it, it will be Christmas lol!     Please do not forget to tune in to Create & Craft T.V. at 11am tomorrow, Friday the 24th. July, to see our lovely Sue demonstrating and telling us all about her new products.

                                                  See you all soon.   Take care of yourselves.

                                                                    Love and rainbows,

                                                                     Hugs   Jennifer xx.