Teenage 'Chill Out.'

Hello  Lovelies,

Thank you for your visits and comments on my last blog post, much appreciated.   It is time again for another card, these days seem to be flying by lol!

My card tonight has been made using a set of stamps by Woodware, which I saw in a craft shop and just had to buy, I just love the images!  so  cool lol!   brilliant for a teenager.   I have used some patterned paper and coloured the images with watercolour pencils.

       

 Make a five and three quarter inch square base card from white linen effect cardstock.   Take a 3 inch square of white card and stamp the teenage boy sitting on the bean bag, in the centre, using a black inkpad.

Stamp the image on the patterned paper.   (This is paper I have had in my stash for some time and is by Sharon Ann - Baby Safari Collection),   Cut out the bean bag and glue this onto the original stamped image on the white card.

   
Stamp him again, 3 times, onto white card   Colour these images using the watercolour pencils, cut out and 3D him onto the main image, using silicone glue.

Stamp 'Boy Zone' in the top right and 'Chill Out' in the bottom left corners of the piece of white card, using a black inkpad

Stamp the stars, skateboard, can etc., onto some spare white card and colour.   Cut out and put to one side for the moment.

In the meanwhile, matt and layer the main image onto some turquoise blue card, leaving a small border of the turquoise  showing.     Next, matt this onto some patterned paper and then onto more  turquoise card, each time leaving a border showing.   (leave a larger border of the patterned paper showing between both the turquoise matts).    Glue this to the base card.

Stamp 'Cool Dude' on the top left of the base card, using black ink

  
Stamp the headphones on the bottom left of the base card.     Stamp the musical notes around the edges of the base card and stamp and colour the stars on white card,  then cut out and glue between the musical notes.

 
Stamp the  skateboard, can and both  appliances onto spare white card, colour, then cut out and 3D onto the base card, using silicone glue.

      

                                 
                 

             
          

Hope you like my card.    Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by my blog to have a look.   I know time is precious to us all, so I really appreciate it.   Take good care of yourselves until my next blog post.    Happy crafting.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,
                                                            
                                                                 Hugs   Jennifer xx.

A Little Sophistication.

Hi there All,

Hope everyone is well and enjoying this fabulous weather.    why is it, that the weeds grow so well and my plants don't lol!  I've been weeding in the garden today, whilst the weather is dry  but  still so much waiting to be done  lol!     This beautiful weather is bound to break soon and when it rains it may pour down, so must take advantage whilst I can,   so no crafting done today at all, most unlike me lol.

Thank you all for taking the time to visit and comment on my last blog, I really appreciate it.   My card tonight was made in January this year.   I came across this wooden stamp when having a tidy up in my craft room.  This is quite an old stamp,   it reminds me of Audrey Hepburn, I always thought she was very beautiful and very sophisticated.    I have also used  Imagination Craft's scalloped shell stencil and their sentiment stamps.   I used Distress inks to colour the card.

Take an A4 sheet of white card and trime half an inch from one long edge, fold in half to make a portrait style base card.   Cut a piece of black card approximately 5" square and matt and layer onto the base card, leaving room at the top and bottom for the greetings.

Take a slightly smaller square of white card and lay the scalloped shell stencil onto it.   Using a blending tool, rub the Peacock feathers, Seedless preserves & Dried marigold  distress inks through the design, blending the colours together.

  
Remove the stencil.   Matt the background onto the black matt.

   
Stamp 'To My Friend' at the top of the base card and 'Thank You' to the bottom, using a black inkpad.

 

  

  
Using a black inkpad, stamp Audrey Hepburn onto another piece of   card,  coloured,  using the dried marigold & peacock feathers.    Colour her lips with seedless preserves D.I.

  
Cut out the stamped image and glue to a piece of black card.   Trim around the image, leaving a small border of the black showing.

Glue this to the 1" black strip on the base card, using silicone glue to add a little dimension to the card.

    
Colour some white card with the distress inks, then make 3 roses from it.   I cut 3 different sized circles then cut each one into a spiral, rolled them up and  glued the ends.   I then glued these to the bottom left of the scalloped shell matt.

 
Well my lovelies that's this card finished, hope you like it.    Thats all from me for the moment but
I will be back again soon.   In the meanwhile, take good care of yourselves and be happy.

                                                               Love and rainbows,

                                                               Hugs   Jennifer xx.

        

'Ice Skater's Paradise.'

Good evening Friends,  Followers  and  Visitors,

So sorry I haven't blogged for a while, not sure where the time has gone lol!   Lots of gardening to catch up with as everything seems to have just suddenly sprouted!   The potatoes are through,  the onions and  gooseberries  have now formed.   Hopefully we will have lots of plums this year, as the tree was full of blossom.   We have had a couple of frosty mornings, so just hoping it hasn't affected the formation of the plums.    Well, enough of the gardening lol, onto to tonight's card.

I know we are just coming into the beautiful summer weather ( well hopefully lol!!) so the last thing we are thinking about is Winter and Christmas!!    Tonight I have chosen to share a Christmas card with you, there are quite a few crafters out there who make Christmas cards all year, so when Christmas arrives, their cards are all made!   a very good idea lol!    This card is made using Imagination Craft's beautiful ice skaters Art stamp and their 'snowflakes'  embossable stencil.

  
Matt a square of blue paper onto a 7" x 7" white base card, leaving a border of the white card showing.

Take a smaller square of white card and colour with the  faded jeans,Tumbled glass and Stormy sky distress inks, using a blending tool  or similar.

Next, lay the stencil onto the coloured card and blend the Stormy sky ink through the snowflakes design  on the stencil.    Keeping the stencil in position, spread the Sparkle Gel through the stencil, on top of the blue inked snowflakes, using the metal spatula  and leave image to dry.  Remove the stencil

        
Fix a piece of one inch wide blue ribbon across this piece of  card, just above the centre point, then matt this onto the blue matt.

Stamp the skater's image onto some white card, using a black Versafine ink pad and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.   Colour this with the blue distress inks and trim to size.

     
Matt this onto a slightly larger piece of blue paper.   Fix this to the base card on a slight angle.   Add some touches of  'Just Pearls' pearl for the snow and add a dot in each corner of the image.

Stamp the greeting on a piece of white card, using the black ink pad and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.   Colour this, then cut out an oval  keeping the greeting in the centre.   Sorry I can't remember the make of the greetings stamp, possibly free with a craft magazine.

  
Add dots of pearl around the inner edge of the oval.   Matt this onto a slightly larger piece of blue paper, then fix to the bottom right of the main image, using sticky foam pads or silicone glue.

       
The card is now finished, hope you like it.   Thanks for taking the time to stop and look at my blog, it is much appreciated.    Take care of yourselves and enjoy your weekend.   Catch you all again soon.

                                                        
                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                              Crafty Hugs   Jennifer xx.

'Friendship.'

Good afternoon Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Just like to say thank you for visiting my last blog post.   I do like to hear what your thoughts are on my projects and I do like visiting your blogs to see your beautiful projects too.

Tonight I have a card I made, using pigmented bees wax and a hot iron.   For those of you who may not have heard of this technique, this is called ' encaustic art'   I first did this technique many years ago having purchased a book on this technique by Michael Bossom and I love it.   The good thing about this technique is, that you will never make two cards exactly alike.

Begin by trimming half an inch from one edge of a piece of A4 white linen  card, then fold in half, portrait style to make a base card.

Matt a piece of  lavender card onto it, leaving a quarter  inch border of the white card showing.  Matt a slightly smaller piece of white card onto the lavender.   Take a piece of smooth shiny card and lay on a piece of copy paper to protect your work surface from the iron and hot wax, using the encaustic iron, spread the white,  purple and blue waxes onto the base of the iron,  holding the base of the iron up over, leaving the waxes to melt.

Paint  across the smooth card with the iron, until you are satisfied with the results,  (if you work the waxes too many times with the iron, the colours tend to turn a muddy brown colour).    Leave to dry, then gently polish the surface  with a   soft tissue.   (A sealer can be painted over the surface if you would like to protect the wax from melting with the heat of fingers, sun or scratch marks etc.,)

Matt this onto the base card.

    

Punch out the flowers from some blue card and the paper you used to protect your work surface from the melted waxes, when you painted your piece of smooth card.    Waste not, want not lol!  besides, it blends in with the background.     Glue a flower to the top right corner and two to the bottom left corner.   Add a little Diamond Sparkle Medium to the petals.

Die-cut the oval frame (a Memory Box Die), from white card and stamp the friends sentiment by Dovecraft onto the left over piece from the oval centre, using a black ink pad.    Glue the frame and the sentiment to the waxed card.

    

  
Glue three clear diamond star gems to the card and the card is finished.

Well that's all from me for the moment.   Take care of yourselves and have a fabulous Bank Holiday weekend.


                                                               Love and rainbows,

                                                                Hugs   Jennifer xx.