'Believe, Achieve, Succeed.'

Happy Sunday afternoon Lovelies,

Hope you are all enjoying a lovely weekend, whatever you may be doing.   We are just having a quiet one, relaxing and chilling out.   The weather is dry here but really quite chilly.

Today I have a card to share with you which I have recently made, using a great set of stamps which were given free with the February 2019 issue of the 'Making Cards' magazine.   Just couldn't resist this set, just so different, love them.   This is one of the images from the set, hope you like what I have done with it.

  
Make a square white base card and cover the front with the pink/white spotted paper.   (I used paper from my craft stash), leaving a narrow border of the white base card showing. 

Die-cut the trellis using blue cardstock and the Spellbinder's 'Fancy Lattice' die.   Glue part of this die-cut down the left hand edge of the card. 

Stamp the girl onto a spare piece of white card, using a black ink pad and colour her with the watercolour pencils.   Water down a little of the Imagination Craft's Bright Gold Starlight paint and using a paintbrush, add a thin layer of the gold on top of her brown hair, which just adds a glow to her hair.

Trim the image and matt and layer onto a slightly larger piece of blue card.   Glue this to the centre of the base card, adding 3 red coloured punched hearts to the topper.

  
Stamp 'You go girl'   and   'believe  achieve   succeed' onto some white card,  again using a black ink pad and trim the edges, then matt onto some slightly larger blue card.

  
Glue one to the top right and the other to the bottom left of the base card.

  
Add a blue ribbon bow to the top left.

       
Glue some blue sequin stars to the right half of the card and the card is now finished.

  
Have a good week my friends and I will be back again soon.

                                                               Love and rainbows,

                                                                Hugs   Jennifer xx.



 

'Anemones.'

Hello Lovelies,

First of all, I must apologise for not blogging for a while but life has been so busy recently,  I just haven't had the time lol!  ah well, I suppose it is better than getting bored lol!    anyway, I'm back again.   Hope this blog finds you all well and that you have enjoyed the odd beautiful days we have had recently.  Today the weather is back to the usual.........drizzly rain and strong winds!   Our potatoes are 'chitting' and are really ready to go into the veggie garden, only the weather has not  been dry for more than one day at a time, unfortunately,  not long enough for our small field to dry out, so Hubby can  get in there with our mini tractor to plough  the manure crop into the soil, which adds nutrients and goodness so  hopefully, when we do get them planted,  we will get some good potatoes lol!

Today I'm sharing a card I made for Sue & Harvey  of Imagination Crafts way back in January 2008.   I used their beautiful Anemone stamp which was at that time, a grey rubber stamp.   I just love this design, so pretty.

 
I began by making a landscape style card from hammered cream card.  I took some watercolour paper and spritzed it with water, then ran my brayer over the red/green end of  a Vivid inkpad, called Indian Summer., then ran that over the watercolour paper.

 
I then took some acetate, the same size as the watercolour paper and stamped the Anemones onto it, using  Timber Brown Stazon Inkpad.    This was put  on top of the coloured paper so the colours  showed  through the design.

I punched each corner of a slightly larger piece of matt gold card, using the EK Success corner punch.

  
This was then matted and layered onto a piece of dark brown card, then onto a larger piece of gold mirri card and finally onto the cream base card.  The watercoloured paper and acetate was fixed into each punched corner of the matt gold card adding a dot of glue to hold in place,  (this is hidden by the coloured watercolour paper).

I then used the corner punch to punch out a small border from some leftover coloured paper and glued this down the right-hand side of the Anemones.

 
I coloured two oval wooden shapes with the Vivid ink pad and glued some small pieces of the punched corners (from the coloured watercolour paper) and glued them onto the ovals.

I punched a small hole in the top of each oval and threaded some brown fibre through each hole, then glued them to the top left of the base card using sticky pads.

I then added a pink satin bow to the top of the brown fibre.

 
The card is finished.   It seems so long ago that I made this card !  I am so pleased I kept a note of the products used and the technique back then, makes life much easier now lol!   as it was from quite a few years ago and the memory is not always as sharp as it used to be lol!    I do hope you like my 'blast from the past.'

 
Take good care of yourselves until my next blog post and I hope the sun shines on you all, wherever you may be.

                                                             Love and rainbows.


                                                              Hugs   Jennifer  xx.

'Maggie's Birthday Surprise.'

Good evening Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Hope all is well with you today.  Sending  (((Hugs))) if you are feeling under the weather for whatever reason and hope things improve for you soon.

I would like to welcome my newest follower -  Kelly   I do hope you enjoy your visits to my blog and thanks for following me.   Today I would like to share a card with you I made in January this year.   I just had to use this stamp once again, as she is so cute!    This is a Sugar Nellie stamp and is called 'Maggie with flowers.'    I think this dates back to about 2007 if my memory serves me right lol!   Not sure if it is still available?

      
Make a square base card from white cardstock.   Matt and layer a smaller square of navy card onto the base card.   Cut out two triangles, one smaller than the other, from the patterned paper.   Glue the smaller one to the top left and the larger one to the bottom right corner.   (I used patterned paper called 'floral papers' by Jennifer Ellory, which was given free with the Quick Cards Magazine some time ago.)

  
Die-cut a small circle from white card and colour around the edges  with faded jeans Distress Ink.   Stamp 'Happy Birthday' in the centre of the circle, using a black ink pad.   Glue this to the top left corner using sticky foam pads.   Add a pink gingham ribbon bow .

 
Die-cut a scalloped circle and colour the edges with the faded jeans Distress Ink.   Die-cut a smaller plain circle from white card and stamp Maggie in the centre, using black ink once again.   Glue this circle to the scalloped circle, having coloured the edges first as on previous circle.

  
Stamp Maggie once again onto a spare piece of white card, colour her with the watercolour pencils and water, then cut her out and 3D onto the original stamped image on the small circle, using silicone glue.

  
Fix the scalloped circle in the bottom right corner using sticky foam pads.

  
Glue the pink flower sequins onto the navy card and voila!  the card is finished.   Hope you like it.

   

 
Well that's all from me for the moment, catch you all again soon.    Take care of yourselves.

                                                                 Love &  Rainbows,

                                                                   Hugs   Jennifer xx.