'Happiness Is....'

Hello Friends, Followers and  Visitors,

Hope you are all well, if not, here's a big hug lol!     I think we all have days where we feel we need a big hug lol.   The weather is definitely on the turn lol!   The chances of an Indian summer have probably passed I feel.   I just hope we don't have a bad winter.    Ok I have another  card sample made for the Sue Baker Presents  shows on the Create & Craft  T.V Channel recently and uses her beautiful 'Birds & Blossoms Collection.'    I would like to welcome my newest follower Karen, hope you enjoy your visits.

 
Cut a rectangle six  and a quarter inches by two and a half inches, from black card.   Matt a slightly smaller piece of lime green card onto the black.   Stamp the hanging birdhouse in the top right corner of the lime green card, using a black inkpad.

    
Matt this onto the right-hand side of the 7" x 7" white base card,

Cut a smaller rectangle from black card and  another smaller from the lime green card, glue the green on top og the black, then glue to the front of the base card.

       

 

Stamp 'Happiness is...'   at the top of the base card, using a black inkpad.

Colour some white card using the light blue, yellow and light purple Mixed Media spray inks.   When dry,  die-cut a scalloped square from it.

 
Next, using a black inkpad, stamp the two birds sitting on the branch onto it.

Colour the image with watered down spray inks.    Colour the branch and birds heads with watered down Inca Gold Finger Wax.

 

Add some dots of watered down Inca Gold Finger Wax to the centres of the small blossoms on the main image.

Stamp the image once again onto some spare white card and colour with the inks as previously.   Cut this out and 3D onto the original image using silicone glue.   Colour the edges of the scalloped die-cut with some Cadence Inca Gold Finger Wax.   Matt this onto a plain square piece of black card.  

     

Matt this onto the centre of the base card, on top of the two rectangles.

Colour another piece of white card with the spray inks and stamp 8 flowers using a black inkpad.   (This small flower stamp was given free with a craft magazine some time ago and  I cannot remember which one, sorry...I buy so many lol!   -  note to self - must cut down lol!)   but hey! I do love to read them!      Cut out the flowers.

 
Add some dots of gold to the stamen using a gold pen.   Glue two,  to  the top left and three to

each of the bottom corners, using silicone glue.  

The card is now finished.   I know this is quite a long tutorial, so thanks for reading to the end.    Below I have shown the card photographed at an angle so you can see the 3D effect and the beautiful sheen of the finger wax around the scalloped square, when the light shines on it.

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog to visit, much appreciated as always.

                                                             Love and rainbows,

                                                              Hugs    Jennifer xx.

  

'Dream Bird' card.

Good afternoon Lovelies and a good one it is lol!  Wall to wall sunshine and blue skies, long may it last, although I see the trees surrounding us are all beginning to change colour lol!   I do love the Autumn, particularly for the colours but not the early morning mists lol!  can't have it all ways.   Our red squirrels are busy collecting their food for the Winter, scurrying around our garden and burying their nuts in the lawn and my window boxes lol!   We are so....lucky to have them.    Thank you once again for visiting my blog and commenting, I do love to hear what you think.   Time for me to share another card, made for the Sue Baker Presents' shows on Create & Craft T.V. recently, made using the gorgeous   'Birds & Blossoms Collection.'    I also used some stunning paints by Cadence, such beautiful delicate colours.   Hope you like it.   Please bear with me to the end of this blog as there are quite a lot of photos but as usual, you'll be please to know...not a great deal of reading to be done.   O.K. let's get started

      
Take a piece of white card approximately six & a quarter inches by five & a half inches and gently colour the centre with the milled lavender distress ink,   Then some dusty concord and finally, some shabby shutters distress inks.

    
Punch all four corners of this coloured card, using the decorative corner punch by Woodware.   Colour the edges of this card with some forest moss distress ink.

Colour a small piece of white card with the light purple Mixed Media spray ink and when dry, place behind each flower in the four corners, so the purple card shows through the open flowers.

    
Matt this onto a slightly larger piece of gold mirror card.   Using the black ink pad, stamp the flourish down the left-hand edge of the white 7" x 7" base card.   Matt the gold mirror card onto the white base card.

Stamp the bird and fuchsia images onto the coloured card using the gold metallic ink pad and heat emboss with gold powder.

    
Paint the images - the tops of the fuchsias with the Cadence gold rose, the lower petals with the light purple Mixed Media spray ink and water.

The 2 leaves and flourishes with watered down with Cadence  green finger wax.

The bird with the Cadence green blue paint for the wings and the gold finger wax and water for the breast.

Paint some spare white card with the same colours as above.   When dry, stamp the fuchsias, leaves, wings and breast, again with the gold pigment pad and heat emboss with gold powder.

  
Colour a small piece of white card with the light purple spray ink and when dry, stamp with the gold pad and heat emboss with gold powder, the lower petals of the fuchsias.

                                  

      

      

        
Cut out and gently shape with your fingers, all the fuchsia parts and leaves and 3D them onto the original images, using silicone glue.

Cut out the blue wings of the bird and glue to the original image, again using silicone glue.

     

    

     

      
Colour the tiny hearts and drops with the light purple spray ink  and glue three topaz gemstones to the flourishes on the main image.

        
Stamp the word 'Dream' on the bottom right of the card, using the gold pigment pad and heat emboss with gold powder

    
Glue a pale turquoise blue satin bow to the left-hand side of the base card.

   

Well that's all from me for the moment, hope you enjoy your visit to my blog and you've managed to persevere to the end lol!     I began writing this blog this afternoon and now it is 6.30pm.   where did that time go to lol!   I suppose it does take time cropping the photos lol!     So, I must stop and get our evening meal prepared.

Catch you all again very soon with another card using this beautiful Birds  Blossoms Collection.  

                                                                   Love and rainbows.

                                                                   Hugs   Jennifer xx.



  

     

                 

    

                      

   

 

'Use Your Smile.' From 'Birds & Blossoms Collection' by Sue Baker Presents.

 Hi there Friends, Followers and Visitors,

Hope you're all having a good week so far, whatever you are doing.     The weather here has been  dry over the last few days thank goodness but I think this cannot last for much longer lol!  we are into the Autumn now, the season of  mists and mellow fruitfulness.    Thank you for your comments and visits on my last blog post, I do appreciate them.   Tonight I would like to share another card with you, which I made for the Sue  Baker Presents shows on the Create & Craft T.V, Channel last Saturday, using the gorgeous 'Birds & Blossoms  Collection.'     When I had finished this card I had it sitting on our dresser in the  lounge, as I just liked looking at it lol,  it just made me feel happy when the sun shone in the room as it really   sparkled.   The flowers are painted with the stunning Cadence Metallic paints.   O.K. now onto my tutorial on how  I made it lol!

 Take a square of white card, slightly smaller than the 7" x 7" white base card.   Using a black ink pad, stamp the 'Smile' sentiment in the centre'

             
                                          

Draw a 4" diameter circle around the sentiment as a guide, using a pencil so this can be erased later.   Stamp the small dragonfly around the outside of the circle, using a black ink pad.

    

   
Using a blending tool and the Tumbled Glass Distress ink, colour around the edges of the stamped card, keeping the centre white.   Matt this onto the base card.

   
Colour a piece of card, big enough to punch out eleven flowers, with the  Cadence Twin Magic Gold Aqua, Blue Rose and Green Blue  Metallic paints, blending the colours together.

   
When dry, punch out eleven flowers using the Martha Stewart flower punch.   Gently shape them using an embossing tool on a embossing pad or piece of foam.

 
Glue the flowers, varying the colours around the pencilled circle.   When the glue has dried, rub away any pencil lines which can be seen.

             
Glue a large pink gemstone in the centre of each flower.

                  
Glue three smaller pink gemstones just above the sentiment and three below.

                                                                

        
The card is now finished, this is quite a quick, easy card to make if you do not have much time.
Thanks for visiting my blog, hope you've enjoyed your visit.    Take care of yourselves until my next blog post, when I will be sharing another card, made using this beautiful Birds & Blossoms Collection.    See you all then.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                                   Hugs   Jennifer xx.