Home is Where the Heart is.

Good evening All,

Apologies for not blogging until now but we have been busy decorating and helping out with a Halloween party.    We are getting the house ready for Christmas,  still have some painting to do in the kitchen, then we're done lol!

Thank you all for your visits and your comments on my last blog, they are much appreciated.   Hope everyone is well, if not here's a big   (((Hug))). 

I had a sort through some of my stamp boxes and found one of my favourite stamps from some time ago.   This stamp is called 'Sleeping under flowers' and is a 'House Mouse' design and is from Stampabilities.   I bought this many years ago and it is a wooden stamp.   I do love these cute little mice, hope you like it too. 

I have also included a Halloween card I made for Imagination Craft's in October 2013.   Should you wish to see how I made it, please scroll back on my blog to 24th. October 2013 - to my blog headed 'Come fly with me on a broomstick made for two.'

   
Trim a half inch strip from one of the long sides of a piece of A4 cream hammered card and fold in half portrait style.

Matt a rectangle of black card onto the base card, leaving a border of the cream showing.   Cut a slightly smaller piece of white card and colour this by dropping tiny amounts of Brusho powders (ultramarine, purple, yellow and emerald green) onto it, then spritz with  water and leave to dry.   When dry, fix this to the black matt on the base card.

    
Colour a smaller piece of white card in the same way, using the Brusho's and leave to dry.   Stamp the mouse design onto this piece of card, using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with black embossing powder.   Die-cut this using the oval die.

    
Die-cut a black oval frame by using a large and a small die together.   Stamp 'Home is....' at the bottom of the card using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with black powder.

   
Fix the mouse oval to the card, then fix the black frame on top of the mouse oval.

   
Die-cut 2 large and 1 small flowers, colour with the blue Starlight paint adding a dusting of Imagination Craft's  'Glamour Dust.' 

  
Glue one large flower to the bottom right and the other large and the small flowers to the top of the black oval.

   
Glue 3 tiny cerise coloured gemstones to the centre of the left-hand edge of the card.

     
Glue a gemstone to the centre of each flower.   Well that's it finished lol!     I'd just like to wish you all a 'Very Happy, Spooky Halloween !!'     Take good care of yourselves and I will be back soon with another creation, made for Imagination Crafts.  

Below is the Halloween card I mentioned earlier in my blog.   The witch bobs about when the card is moved.

                                                                   Love and rainbows, 

                                                              Crafty Hugs,   Jennifer xx.


 

Butterfly Blues Tag.

Hi there Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Thank you so much for all your lovely comments and blog visits, they are much appreciated.  Nothing much to report today.  Been out food shopping this morning and I managed a little time in my craft room this afternoon.    I really must make a huge effort to tidy up my work space !!!   my working space on my table has shrunk from  twelve inches square to twelve inches by six inches lol!! ......not much room to work lol!!!

Tonight I would like to share another of my tags with you all.   This was made in January of this year for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts.   I have of course used their beautiful Starlight paints, Sparkle Mediums, Butterflies panel stencil, plus  other products of theirs.

  
Make a  tag shape from white card and put this into the daisies embossing folder and emboss.   Colour the tag using the Japanese Jade Alchemy Wax.   Matt this onto a slightly larger turquoise tag and then onto another slightly larger white tag.

Lay the butterfly panel stencil onto the embossed, coloured tag and dab the Starlight colours through the design using a stencil brush.    Remove the stencil and lay it on a piece of acetate and spread the Sparkle Medium colours through the butterflies only, using the metal spatula.

   
When dry, cut out the butterflies and glue them on top of the original images, using Magi-bond glue.   Adda little silicone glue under each wing, to raise them up a little.   Glue the large butterfly at the top of the design onto  a piece of white card, cut out and glue in position at the top, leaving the top half of the butterfly overhanging the top of the tag.

    
Colour a small piece of sequin waste with Starlight paints and glue it to the left-hand edge of the tag. 

  
Colour a piece of the Honeycomb Art Cutz with the gold Starlight paint and glue to the bottom right of the tag.

  
Die-cut a flower and stamen, using the Sizzix die, from white card.   Colour the flower with the Starlight paints and the stamen with the lilac mist Starlight.   Glue to the top left of the tag.

   
Thread some lavender organza ribbon through the hole in the top of the tag.

  
Make a stand and glue it to the back of the tag so it can be stood up if wished.

Well that is all from me for the moment, have a lovely Tuesday.   Thank you all once more  for visiting my blog.   Catch you all again soon.

                                                                  Love and rainbows,

                                                                   Hugs   Jennifer xx.






 

A Little Birdie Told Me.....

Hello there my blogging Friends, Followers and Visitors,

Thank you so much for your lovely comments and your visits to my blog.   I do hope you all enjoyed your visit.   It has been a quiet couple of days for me craft wise, as Hubby and I have been decorating.
I love the end results but I don't like all the preparation, mess and the painting lol!   The only painting I like is on my cards lol!   We still have more to do but maybe next week lol! as I must now concentrate once again on making my samples for Sue & Harvey of Imagination Crafts.   They have shows coming up during November,  I think, during the second week but I will let you know as soon as the dates are confirmed.   I will of course be sharing some 'sneaky peeks' a few days before, as I normally do.   Well onto tonight's card.   This was another card made for Jane's Macmillan Nurses coffee morning last month.   The bird, flowers and sentiment stamp used were given free with a craft magazine, sorry I cannot remember which one.

  
Begin by cutting a square of white card , just slightly smaller than the white  6" x 6" scalloped edged, base card.   Colour the outside edges of this piece of square card with the Antique Gold Starlight paint, (no need to paint the rest, as only the edges will be on show,  waste not want not lol!)   Next matt this onto the base card.

   
Matt a smaller rectangle of lavender paper onto the gold edged card, leaving a border of the gold showing.

Stamp the bird and the sentiment onto the  lavender paper, using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.

  
Take a piece of white card approximately three inches by five inches.  Drop a drop of light green and light blue Mixed Media Inks onto your work mat,  add some water to dilute the colour.   Lay your
piece of white card onto this and move it around a little, until you are happy with the results.     Leave this to dry, then spray with a little Shake and Gilt Gold.    Randomly stamp  feathers over this card, using a black ink pad.    Matt this onto the left-hand side of the  base card.
 

      
Die-cut two feathers from navy blue card and rub some Antique Gold Alchemy Wax over the embossed surface of the feathers, I used my finger but you could use a blending tool or a piece of cut 'n' dry foam.   Glue these to the left-hand side of the base card, bending the feathers slightly, using silicone glue.

  
Stamp the main bird image again onto some white card with Versamark and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.   Colour the flowers with the inks, then cut them out.   Glue them onto the original stamped image using silicone glue to give a 3D effect.

  
Make an insert for the card, stamp a  flower on the left of the insert with Versamark and heat emboss with gold as previously.   Colour this flower with diluted ink.   Stamp the sentiment 'It's Your Birthday' onto the right hand side of the insert, again embossing in gold.

  
Glue three blue gemstones to the top right and three to the bottom left of the lavender paper and that's this card finished!   Hope you like it.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog.   Please pop back as I will be back soon with another project.

                                                             Love and rainbows,

                                                        Crafty Hugs,   Jennifer xx.

Reach for the Stars Tag.

Hello Friends, Followers and Visitors,

Well here we are again, it's Friday!    these weeks are flying by.   Thank you all so much for visiting and commenting on my last blog, your visits and lovely  comments give me so much encouragement, which I really appreciate, so a big THANK YOU.

Today has also gone by so quickly, I don't seem to have got much of anything done today lol!!   I did manage a little time in my craft room making samples for Sue & Harvey of Imagination Crafts.   They have some shows coming up soon on Hochanda in November - yeah!   look forward to that lol!   I will let you know the date as soon as I know.

Tonight I would like to share another tag, made for the challenge Sue gave me some time ago.   This tag uses Imagination's beautifully elegant 'Star touch fairy' stencil.   I just adore her, such a gorgeous shape, wish I had a figure like her lol!!!    O.K. let's get started.

     
Make a large tag shape from white card.   Cut out a slightly smaller tag from white card.   Colour this with the distress inks - Milled lavender, Evergreen bough & Seedless preserves, adding the Rusty Patinas - Soot, Duck egg & Verdigris..   Rub over the surface with the White Gold Starlight Wax.   Add some Hunter Green Sparkle Medium in the odd place.   Pull a cocktail stick through the Rusty Patinas, whilst still wet.

    
Colour a small piece of white card with the Gold Shine Sparkle Medium and when dry, die-cut the corner shape from it, using the Tattered Lace corner die.   Glue this to the bottom left corner of the smaller tag.

    
Print out the words   'Reach for the Stars' on your computer,  trim  around each word and  glue onto some white card.   Glue in position on the tag.
  

     
Lay the fairy stencil onto a small piece of acetate and spread the Gold Shine Sparkle Medium over the stars only, using a metal spatula.   When dry, trim around the stars leaving a 'stalk' of acetate below the stars.   Glue this 'stalk' to the back of the coloured tag, then glue this tag to the larger white tag.

   

Lay the stencil onto some white card and colour the fairy with the distress inks, using a piece of cut 'n' dry foam.

     
Rub a small amount of the Antique Pink Alchemy Wax onto part of the fairy.   Trim around her, leaving a tiny white border showing, which will make her stand out from the dark background.   Fix her to the tag using sticky foam pads with a little Magi-bond glue on each sticky pad, as I feel this sticks better on top of all the different mediums.

   
Punch a hole in the top of the tag and thread some green and pink satin ribbon through the hole.   Make a stand and attach this to the back of the tag, so it can be stood up if wished.

  
Well that is this tag finished,  hope you like it, I did enjoy making this tag,  as I just love anything to do with fairies etc., as you already know lol!

   
Enjoy your weekend whatever you have planned, where ever you will be.   Take good care of yourselves until my next blog.

                                                                  Love and rainbows,

                                                                   Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Autumn Leaves on Your Birthday.

Hello everyone,

Hope your week has got off to a good start.   Thank you all for visiting and commenting on my last blog, I really appreciate your visits.   Not a lot to tell you about,  we visited the dentist and fortunately, had nothing to do thank goodness.   I spent all of yesterday morning having a little clear out, boxes mainly, which I have hung onto just in case I may need them to put my samples  in to send by post,    I had kept enough boxes to see me for many years lol!! so most of them  went into the recycle box!!!    I can now see my way to my large box of ribbons - yeah!!    Why do we crafters hang onto things we MIGHT use some day lol ?    I still have a lot of tidying up to do, slowly, slowly catch e monkey,  I will get there....it  could take some time lol!

Well my card tonight was made using one of my favourite dies by Trimcraft called 'Trellis' this is one of a set of three, so useful.   I have also used a Crafter's Companion leaf stamp & die which was given free with a craft magazine some time ago.   Imagination Craft's Starlight paints, Gilding Flakes, MDF Paint and their Rusty Patina.  

    
Begin by matting a square of black card onto the 7" x 7" white base card, leaving a border of the white base card showing.   Cut a smaller square of white card and paint with the Limestone MDF paint.

Rub streaks of the Cafe Creme and Rustique  Rusty Patina paints down the card, using a dry paint brush.

   
                      Add small amounts of gilding glue and rub over with gold gilding flakes.

    
Die-cut a white trellis using the Trimcraft die and glue down the right-hand side of the painted card.   Matt this card onto the black matt, leaving a small border of the black showing.

   
                        Stamp 'On Your Birthday' in the bottom left corner, using a black ink pad.

Take a piece of white card, the free leaf stamp and  stamp two leaves, using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with black embossing powder.    Die-cut these leaves with the free die which came with the set.  

   
Take some cream card and repeat the above three more times.   Colour two of these leaves with  Imagination Craft's watered down Orange Oxidized  and one with Dark Orchid Starlight paints.   Leave the  other two leaves white.   Glue these leaves in position using some silicone glue, to give some dimension to the card.

   
                                  Glue three pink gemstones to the bottom left of the base card.

   
Lastly, glue a pink ribbon bow to the top left of the card.    Well that's all from me for the moment.   I will be back again soon with another project.   Enjoy the rest of your week and take care of yourselves.

                                                               Love and rainbows,

                                                           Crafty Hugs,   Jennifer xx.

Orange Sunburst Tag.

Good evening Followers, Friends and Visitors,

First I would like to say thank you for your visits and lovely comments on my last post, they are all appreciated.

Yesterday's weather was not good, wet and very windy, today has been a little better but still windy.  I suppose it is now Autumn, so I shouldn't complain but a little sunshine goes a long way to making one feel so much better lol!

Tonight I have another tag to share with you.   This was made in April of this year for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts.   I have used their very useful 'sunburst'  6" x 6" stencil and their 'lily flourishes' stencil.   Of course I have used my favourite Imagination Craft's product.... !!  Silver Sparkle Medium and Orange Oxidized Starlight paint ( a close second lol!)

    
Cut out a large tag shape from white card, then cut out a slightly smaller tag shape from black card.   Lay the sunburst stencil on top of the black tag shape and spread the silver Sparkle Medium over the design, using a metal spatula.   Remove the stencil and leave the image to dry.

In the meantime, colour a piece of white card with the orange oxidized Starlight paint and from this, die-cut a flower using the Spellbinder's flower die.   Using the lily flourishes stencil, draw around one of the lilies onto some of the orange coloured card, then cut it out.

Glue the Spellbinder's die-cut flower on top of the cut out lily flower.   Shape the petals a little and glue to the centre of the silver sunburst.

    
Die-cut lots of little flower shapes using the Sizzix die, from black card.   Glue these to the flower centre.  Rub over the surface of these with a little silver Sparkle Medium, just enough to give a glint of silver on the black.   Glue the black tag to the large white tag.

    
Punch a hole in the top of the tag and thread some silver ribbon through it.

    
Stamp 'Happy Birthday' onto a piece of white card using a black ink pad.   Trim to shape and glue to the bottom of the tag using silicone glue to add a little dimension to the tag.   Last of all, make a stand and glue to the back of the tag, so it can be stood up if wished.

That's all from me for the moment, thank you for stopping by to visit my blog.   Take care of yourselves and I will be back again soon with another project.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                                  Hugs   Jennifer xx.