Rainbow Snowflakes.

Hello all my Crafty followers, Friends and Visitors,

How is your weekend going so far ?  good I hope.   The weather hasn't been too bad thank goodness but according to the weather men, we are in for some wintry weather at the end of next week, so get all your outside jobs done before then lols!!!   Well onto tonight's card.   This card I made in September 2012 for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Craft's and uses two of their many lovely Christmas stencils - the Snowflake Frenzy Background. and the Snowflake Embossable.   I also used the Chalkies - Sugared Almond Set and the Citrus Fresh Set.   These are fabulous to use and there are so many different  shades to choose from..  They give a chalky, matt finish which looks great.   OK enough waffling from me lols !!! let's get started shall we ?   Here is a picture of the card we are now going to make.

                       
Make a base card from cream cardstock and onto this matt some navy card, leaving a narrow border of cream card showing.

Take another piece of cream card and lay the Snowflake Frenzy Stencil over it and dab the Chalkies through the stencil design.   Remove the stencil.   When dry, lay the smaller Snowflakes Embossable over the card and spread the Diamond Sparkle Medium over it.   Remove stencil and whilst the Sparkle Medium is still wet, sprinkle some bright pink glitter over it.   When dry, cut out a semi-circle from the top left of the card.   Fix this to the base card using double sided sticky tape.

Using  a die cutting machine and cream card, cut out and emboss the large Spellbinder's snowflake and colour with the blue distress ink.   Stamp some small snowflakes around the edge using the blue distress ink.  Fix this to the top left of the base card.   Cut out and emboss the smaller snowflake using navy card.   Glue the navy snowflake to the centre of the larger white snowflake and add a gem to the centre.   

Cut out some snowflakes from the spare card, left over after cutting out the semi-circle (waste not, want not lols !!).   Glue these around the large snowflake.

Cut out and emboss a small scalloped circle from cream card, using a Sizzix Die and colour using the blue distress ink.   Stamp 'Warm Winter Wishes' onto the centre with the same ink pad and add some snowflakes around the edge.

Cut out a larger navy circle and glue the stamped circle to the navy circle.   Matt this onto another slightly larger cream, scalloped circle.   Add a pink bow and gem and glue to the bottom right of the base card.   There we are - all finished !!!      Hope you all like it.   Thank you all so....much for visiting my blog.   Until next time - have a good week and happy crafting.   See you all soon.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,  

                                                                    Hugs   Jennifer xx                            


                                       





  

Beautiful Butterflies.

Good evening Crafty Friends, Followers and Visitors,

How are you all?  good I hope and your week is going well  so far.     I would just like to say welcome to my new follower, Fiona and to all my older followers thank you for visiting my blog and for all your lovely comments, they really mean a great deal to me, thank you.

The card I would like to share tonight, I made in Dec 2012 for the QVC show in January 2012.  It is made using Imagination Craft's beautiful Butterfly and the Gerbera Stencils and of course my favourite product - Sparkle Medium lols!!   Well let's begin shall we?

Make a base card from lemon card.   Matt the lilac shiny card onto this leaving a narrow border showing.   Take a piece of the butterfly background card and lay the butterfly stencil onto it and spread the Sparkle Mediums over it using the spatula.   When dry, matt this onto the lilac card.

Lay the butterfly stencil onto some acetate and spread the Sparkle Medium over it.   Remove stencil, leave image to dry.   When dry,  cut the butterflies out and fix to the butterfly images on the base card, glueing down the centre of the butterflies.   Bend up the wings slightly.

   
Lay the Gerbera Stencil over some white card and spread the Amethyst Sparkle Medium over the flower heads and Hunter Green over the leaves and the stems.   Remove the stencil and leave image to dry.   When dry, carefully cut out the Gerberas and glue one to the bottom left and the other to the top right.

Cut out the corner die using a die cutting machine and some amethyst coloured card.   Cut the die cut in half and add one scroll to each gerbera.

Punch out fifteen tiny circles from amethyst card and glue in groups of three to the card front.   Cut out a small square of lemon card and cut in half diagonally.   Cut a slight curve in each and glue one to the top left and another to the bottom right corners.   Cut out two squares left over after punching out the small circles and glue one to each of the pieces of lemon card you have glued to the corners.   Well, that is it finished.   Hope you like this one.

Have a good week and until my next blog, take care.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                                   Hugs  Jennifer xx

Time and Motion

Good evening all,   hope you have all had a good weekend.  I thought I would do an early post tonight.   I would like to share a card I made a few days ago and it uses Imagination Craft's 'Time and Motion' Stencil which was designed by Kath Mucky Paws Halstead.  I really like this stencil.   I chose to make this card using blue, lilac and purple colours.   Hope you like it.  Well we'll get started shall we?

    
Make a base card from the blue cardstock.   Matt a piece of lavender card onto the blue, leaving a small border of blue showing.   Next cut a piece of blue card, smaller than the lavender and using the stencil, put through an embossing machine.   Emboss the left-hand side of the card only.   Put aside for the moment.

   
Take some white card and colour it using distress inks.   Lay the stencil on top of the card and spread the sparkle mediums over the stencil, remove stencil and leave the image to dry.   Using some circle dies, cut out four circles from the stencilled card.   Take a piece of blue card and lay the stencil onto it with one of the clock faces over the card and spread the  amethyst sparkle medium over it.   When dry, cut out the clock face and layer up all the circles onto the embossed blue card  which you put aside earlier, until you are satisfied with the way your card looks.    Die-cut the smallest circle with two slits in it and thread the ribbon through it.   Fix the ribbon down the right-hand side of the blue card..   Next fix the blue card with the circles on, to the base card.

  
Lastly, add a metal pointer to the small circle fixed to the ribbon and cut out a small amethyst circle from the left-over card, after spreading the sparkle medium and glue it to the rest of the circles.   Well that's it for now folks.   Have a good week   and take care of yourselves until my next post.    Thanks for visiting my blog and thank you for your lovely comments.

                                                                    Love and rainbows,

                                                                       Hugs  Jennifer xx.

A reminder of Springtime to come.

Good afternoon everyone,

An early post from me today for a change !   Hope all is well with you and yours and you are managing to keep snug and warm.  The weather here today is damp and dreary, with the odd flake of snow in amongst the rain.  To cheer us all up I thought I would share a card which reminds us of what is to come in the Spring of new year.  This card was made using an Imagination Craft's a  stamp, Crocus and was made in December 2011.   I have also used some Silkies and Sparkle Medium.  Let's get started shall we ?

Make a base card from some buff coloured card and onto this, matt a piece of brown, leaving a small border of the buff card showing.

Take a piece of white card and colour it with the Royal Satin Silky and edge with a small amount of the Purple Lace.   When dry, lay the stencil on top of the now blue card and dab the Royal Satin through it.   Carefully remove the stencil and let it dry.

Next lay the stencil in exactly the same place again and using the spatula, spread some of the Gold Shine Sparkle Medium through the stencil on the bottom right corner only, and leave to dry.

   
Punch each corner using the 'Rings' corner punch by Martha Stewart.   Fix this panel to the brown card using double s,s.tape.   Stamp the crocus stamp onto some white card and heat emboss using gold embossing powder.

  
Colour the image using a paint brush and the Silkies.   Cut out the crocuses leaving a tiny white border showing,   glue this to a square of brown card, again leaving a small border showing.

 
Add a blue ribbon bow to the top left of the card and  there we are that is this card finished.   A fairly quick card to make.   I do hope this cheerful card has lifted everyone's spirits with the thought of 'Spring is just around the corner.'    Take good care of yourselves.   Until I blog again.   See you soon and thanks for stopping by.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                                Big Hugs   Jennifer xxx

Sweet Music and Lilies

Good afternoon everyone, how are you all ?  well and happy I hope but maybe a little cold.  It is very cold here today, maybe snow is on its way, I do hope not lols.  A night by the television and the log fire is on the cards for us tonight, snug and warm.

Today's card is a reminder of the warmer weather we had earlier this year, although it now seems a long time ago lols.  I made this card using one of Imagination Craft's decoupage stamps, Lilies which I think is very pretty.   I decided not to decoupage this one and just did a stamped card.   I hope you think it looks ok,   I was quite pleased with the result, even if I say so myself !   OK let's  begin.   Below is a picture of the card we are going to make today.

  
Make a base card from cream cardstock.   Cut a piece of green card slightly smaller than the cream card and punch all four corners using the EK Success Corner Punch.   Matt this onto the cream base card using d.s.s.tape.   Cut another piece of cream card smaller than the green and again, punch all four corners with the corner punch.
Take a piece of white card snaller than the cream and colour it using Distress Inks and blending tool by Ranger.   Onto the centre of this card, stamp the main image of the lilies using a Versamark Pad and heat emboss using gold embossing powder and a heat gun

   
Colour with mica powders and brush using water.   Stamp around the edges of the stamped design using the swirl stamp from the set, using the Green Encore Metallic Stamp Pad.

Fix this panel into the corners of the cream card and fix to the base card.   That's it finished folks, hope you like this one.   Take care of yourselves until I blog again.   Thank you for visiting.

                                                                Love and Rainbows,

                                                                  Hugs Jennifer xx

Pink Flourishes

Good evening all,

Hope you have had a good weekend and are ready for another week.  The weather here has been quite damp, dull and dreary.   Here,  there is talk of snow coming this coming week!  not too much I hope!   The older I get the less I like the snow, it can be so disruptive.

For tonight's card I have decided to give Christmas cards a rest and I would like to share a card I made for Imagination Craft.s in April 2013.   It uses their very pretty  Petal Flourish Stencil and their Blush Satin Silkie  from the Tropical Paradise set.    Below is the card we are going to make.

            
Make a base card from black shiny card.   Take some pink satin card cut slightly smaller than the black and glue the gold border die-cut down the left-hand side of the card.   Fix some pink ribbon across the centre of the card and secure on the reverse.   Glue this pink card onto the black base card.   Cut out and emboss the scalloped oblong from gold card.   Matt this onto the pink card.

Cut out and emboss the smaller scalloped oblong from white card.   Cover this with the stencil.   Mix some  sparkle medium with the blush satin silkie and spread over the stencil.   Remove the stencil and leave image to dry but before it does, sprinkle some gold glitter over it and knock off the excess.

Matt this onto a piece of black card and then onto the gold scalloped oblong.   Colour around the edges of the white scalloped oblong with spun lipstick distress ink. Glue the oblong to the right-hand side of the base card and add a ribbon bow to the right-hand side of the ribbon.

Well this card is finished now, hope you like it.  Thank you for visiting my blog and for the lovely comments you leave.  I read and reply to every one.   Until my next post, take care of yourselves.

                                                                Love and rainbows,

                                                                  Hugs Jennifer xx

Woodland Delight

Hi all,

How are you today?  well I hope.  Very cold and windy here today, rain this evening.  It could be a lot worse I suppose,  like snow which may not be far away!!!   this time last year we had about four inches of snow, brrrr... makes me feel cold just talking about it.   I think we'll change the subject lolls !!!

Today I would like to share one of my favourite cards made with one of my most favourite stamps.   The stamp was an Imagination Craft's Stamp, not sure if it is still available though, if not there may be a similar stamp out there in the craft world you could use.  I made this card in October 2010.   Here we go then !

     
Make a base card from navy blue card and onto this matt a piece of white card.   Next matt another piece of navy card onto the white leaving a half inch border of the white showing.   Take a piece of white card, slightly smaller than the navy and colour with the Inkadinks (not too much of the lilac ) !   When dry, roll the Retro Star roller over the Stazon Midnight Blue Inkpad then roll across the centre of the now coloured card.  When dry, dab some silver pigment ink over the top but do not cover over all the blue.   Heat emboss using silver embossing powder.

Stamp the deer using the Stazon inkpad, onto a piece of vellum.  Die-cut a white border using a Spellbinders Nestability.   Glue the border to the vellum and trim away any excess vellum.   Fix this to the centre of the coloured card, then fix the coloured card to the centre of the base card.
  

    
Take the inch square Stampboard and colour it in the same way you coloured the blue/silver background card.   Stamp the stag's head only onto it using the Midnight Blue Stazon pad.   Glue this in position over the original stamped image using Magi-Bond Glue.

Add two square holographic  rhinestones to the top left and two to the bottom right of the base card.
Well that's it finished folks.  The vellum square gives almost a misty look which makes it stand out from the background,  hope you like it.  I'll be back again soon.   Until then, I hope what's left of the week turns out well for you.   I love to hear what you think, thank you for taking the time to visit my blog, it's much appreciated.

                                                                 Love and rainbows

                                                                   Hugs Jennifer xx