Pink Clematis.

Good evening Lovelies,

How are you all tonight, well I hope.   If not here's a hug.   I would like to welcome my two newest followers, Emma and Lisa.   Thank you for following my blog, I really appreciate your visits.   I have a card to share with you tonight which I made using Imagination Craft's  fantastic products.   I have used their products for over ten years now and have never been disappointed !   I made this card in March 2014.   This is a quick and easy card to make if you are short of time.

Make a base card from white card stock.   Take some peach coloured paper, cut smaller than the base card.   Put the peach paper and the woodgrain stencil through an embossing machine and emboss it.

Lay the stencil back on the peach paper and rub peach chalk pastels through the design.

      
Cut a piece of grey card, smaller than the white and punch each corner using the EK Success corner punch.   Cut the peach paper so it fits into the cut, punched corners of the grey card.   Stamp the leaves around the edges using a black ink pad and a second stamping, so the image is not too black.   Wrap a piece of green ribbon across the centre of the peach  paper, securing on the reverse.      Fix this to the white base card and add a green ribbon bow to the left-hand side.

   
Stamp the clematis image five times using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with black embossing powder.   Cut out the leaves and flowers only.   Colour with the chalk pastels.   Cut a white oblong and matt a smaller grey oblong onto the white and 3D the flower  onto the grey oblong using silicone glue, adding a small piece of white die-cut panel to the bottom right hand corner.

   
Cut a grey oval and matt a smaller white oval onto the grey.   Stamp 'Happy Birthday' onto the white oval, using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with black embossing powder.   Fix this to the bottom left of the base card.   Tha's it finished my friends, hope you like it.

Thank you so much for visiting and leaving me some lovely comments.   I would love you to be a follower of my blog, I love making new crafty friends.   See you  all again soon.

                                                                   Love and rainbows,

                                                                Crafty hugs    Jennifer xx.

Stargazing MDF Clock.

Hi there everyone,  

I think it is time  (excuse the pun lol ! )    to show you another  MDF clock.   This was made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts  for their Create & Craft T.V. show at the beginning of January this year.   For this clock I have used my favourite die from Imagination Craft's Celtic Die Collection - 'Stargazing.'

I began by painting the back and front of the MDF clock with Chalk white MDF paint.   When dry, I painted it again with the very pretty Cornflower Chalkies paint.

   
When  dry,  I  masked  off the inner circle on the clock face stencil, using masking tape.   I then laid  the stencil onto, what would  be the front of the clock.    I  spread the golden green Sparkle Medium over the stencil using the metal spatula.

   
I removed the stencil and left the image to dry.   In the meantime, I took a piece of green card, large enough for the fabulous Stargazing die to fit onto.   Using a brayer I then brayered the diamond Sparkle Medium over the card and left it to dry.

When this was dry, I then die - cut the pixies using the stargazing die.   I glued this to the centre of the clock face, cutting out the hole in the centre for the clock pointers.

All that remained to be done was to fit the pointers and the clock mechanism which is supplied with the kit,  add a battery and hey presto ! your beautiful clock is going !  to keep you informed of the time.

 

Thank you so much for visiting and I hope you have enjoyed your visit.   See you all again soon.

                                                             Love and rainbows,

                                                   Happy crafting,   Hugs   Jennifer xx.

The pinks and Blues.

Good evening Lovelies,

I'm back again with another card, not a Christmas card this time but a card made with Imagination Craft's  sunburst decoupage stamp set.     I made this card for Sue and Harvey in September 2014.

Make a base card from white card.   Matt a smaller piece of blue card onto the white card, leaving a small border of white showing.   Onto this, matt a piece of white card down the left-hand side of the card, approximately five inches by two and a half inches.

   
Take a piece of white paper and colour with the royal blue Silkie, only a small amount of the blue, then dilute it until it is very pale.   Brush this over the white paper.

When the paper is dry, randomly stamp the different sized flowers from the stamp set, over the paper until it is completely covered, using a black ink pad, stamping it onto some spare paper before stamping onto your coloured paper, so the image is much paler in colour.    We don't want the  background to stand out too much, or it will detract from our main images, which will be flowers.

   
Stamp one large and one small flower from blue card, using the Versamark pad and heat emboss with black embossing powder. 

Stamp one large and one small flower from white card using the black ink pad.  Stamp two large and one small flowers using the Versamark pad, onto white card and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.   Colour these with the Silkies.

 
Draw patterns on the petals of one  large pink flower with a black pen.   Cut out the flowers.   Die cut the leaves from white card,  using the Tattered Lace die.     Layer the flowers and leaves down the left-hand side of the card.

       
Emboss some white card using the  Cuttlebug diamond embossing folder  and cut part of it out by hand, glue this to the right side of the card.

Well that's it finished.   Thanks for stopping by, hope you have enjoyed your visit,   Take care of yourselves and I'll be back soon.

                                                                Love and rainbows,


                                                      Happy crafting.   Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Three Wise men.

Hi there Peeps,

Hope you've all enjoyed your weekend.   Mine has been a quiet one with a little crafting time.   Spent some prime time with our grandson which was lovely.   Tonight's card was made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts for their Create & Craft T.V. show at the end of June 2014.   Hope you like it.

Make a base card from white card.   Matt a slightly smaller piece of white card onto the black, leaving a border of white showing.

    
Take another piece of white card and using the scalloped edge die and a die-cutting machine, cut out and emboss the oblong.   Lay the stencil on top and draw around the stencil design, then remove the stencil. 

Take another piece of white card and again, draw around the design on the stencil.   Remove  the stencil and fill in the design with patterns of your choice, using a fine  black pen.   Cut out each piece separately and glue in the correct positions on the scalloped card.   Glue this to the base card.

     
Spread silver Sparkle Medium into a piece of card and leave to dry.   When dry, punch out two large and one small snowflakes and glue to card.  

Draw a number three and draw patterns on it, cut it out,  then glue to a piece of white card approximately 1" deep and glue to the base card.

   
Cut out the words - 'Wise Men' from black card using the X-cut die and a die-cutting machine.   Glue these words to the strip of white card.   Lastly, add a little bit of shading with a pencil.

That's all for now folks, see you again soon.   Thanks again for visiting and leaving a comment on my blog, I really appreciate it.   Have a good week all.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                               Crafty Hugs  Jennifer xx.

Peace and Love at Christmas.

Good evening Followers, Friends and Visitors,
Hope you are enjoying your weekend so far.   I would like to share another Christmas card with you tonight.    The colours I have used on this card are my favourite combination.   Hope you like it too.

Make a base card from Navy card stock.   Onto this matt a smaller piece of purple paper.   Take the Imagination Craft's  patterned panel card and lay the stencil onto it and spread the diamond and amethyst Sparkle Mediums through the stencil design.   Remove the stencil and leave the image to dry.

   
Add dots of the amethyst Detail Sparkle around the edges of the card.   When dry, matt this onto a slightly larger piece of white card, leaving a small border of white showing, then matt this onto the right-hand side of the base card.

   
Die-cut a deer from white card using the Memory Box die and fix to the panel, using silicone glue, to give a little dimension to the card.

     
Die-cut a  scrolled Christmas tree  from white card, using the Memory Box die and fix to the left-hand side of the base card.   Die-cut a pine branch from another patterned card, so it matches the main panel and glue to the card on top of the white tree.

  

Die-cut a poinsettia from the same piece of panel card, using the Marianne design die and glue this on top of the tree and the pine branch.   Add some amethyst Detail Sparkle to the stamen on the flower.

That's all for now my friends, enjoy your weekend.   Until next time,  when I'll be back with another creation.   Thanks again for your continued support, it is really appreciated.

                                                                  Love and rainbows,  

                                                                    Hugs   Jennifer xx.
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Silver Sparkle Baubles.

Good evening Peeps,

I would like to share another Christmas card with you tonight.   This was made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts  in June 2014.   For this card I have used traditional Christmas colours and silver Sparkle Medium.    Thank you to all who have visited  since I first began my blog,     I really appreciate each and every one of you.   I do hope you enjoy your visits.   Well, on with tonight's card.

Make a base card from silver/grey card, folded in half, portrait style.   Die - cut a border from black card, using the Spellbinders die and glue down the right - hand side of the base card.

Take the red patterned card and lay the stencil on top and spread the silver Sparkle Medium over the baubles.   Remove the stencil and leave the images to dry.   Replace the stencil and spread the red and green Sparkle Mediums over the holly.   Remove the stencil and leave the image to dry.

   
When dry, add some small blobs of gold Detail Sparkle onto the baubles.   Glue two ribbons to the top of the design below the holly berries.

   
Take a piece of black card, larger than the panel card and die - cut the zigzag from it, down the right hand side.   Put the die - cut zigzag to one side for another project and use the negative left over, after cutting out the zigzag.   Matt the patterned panel card onto the larger piece of black card with the negative, down the right hand edge and fix to the white base card.

   
Now, match up the other piece of black negative card with the main panel and glue in position.   Add some dots of gold Detail Sparkle down the gap between the two negative pieces of card.     Well there we have it, the card is now finished.   This is a quick card to make if you are making a great many Christmas cards.   I'll be back very soon, in the meantime, have a fabulous weekend.   Take care of yourselves.

                                                               Love and rainbows,

                                                             Crafty Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Decoupaged Freesia's.

Good afternoon Peeps,

Hope you're not finding this weather too hot!   We have a mixture of cloudy and sunny spells here but it is quite warm.   Too hot to garden so I've spent a little time in my crafty space.   Today I'd like to share a card with you, that I made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts, back in March 2014.  This flourish stencil is such a useful background stencil, I use it a lot, along with the diamond stencil.    Lets get started !

Make a base card from white card stock.   Take a smaller piece of white  card and lay the flourishes stencil on top and dab Versamark through the design, using a piece of cut n' dry foam.   Remove the stencil and heat emboss using gold  embossing powder.

    
Place the stencil back on top of the gold embossing and move the stencil slightly to the right, just a little and then dab some black soot distress ink through the design.   Remove the stencil.

   
Rub the black soot distress ink around the edges of the card.   Matt this onto the base card, leaving a border of  white card showing.

Stamp the Freesia stamp six times onto white card using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with black embossing powder.

Colour the images with the paint from Imagination Craft's  pearly paint palette, a brush and water.

  
Cut out the main image, leaving a tiny white border of white around it, then 3D the  flowers using the other stamped images.   I used silicone glue, as I think you get a better result but you could also use sticky foam pads.   Fix this image to the centre of the base card.

Well that's it for today  folks, hope you like it.   See you again soon.   Thanks for visiting.

                                                               Love and rainbows, 

                                                             Crafty hugs  Jennifer xx.