Designer Watering Can

Hi there everyone,

I thought I would just pop an extra post in tonight for you.  What a beautiful day it has been again, hope it has been the same in your neck of the woods too!   It is amazing what a little sunshine can do isn't it.   Everything seems to look so much nicer.

The card I have for you tonight was made for Sue and Harvey way back in April of 2008.   Gosh it seems a long time ago lol !   The Imagination Craft's stamp I have used on this card is, unfortunately no longer available but you could use any large flower stamp instead.   The watering can shape was made using a Wendy Stenton template.   The flowers were painted with Twinkling H2 O s   and the clover leaf branch gold bead flowers were from Craft Creations.

Ok enough waffling, let's get started !

Cut out the watering can shape from duck egg blue card, using the template.   Using the teal Stazon pad, stamp the spirals randomly all over the watering can.   Using some cut 'n dry foam and the Stazon pad, rub around all the edges of the watering can.

 
Stamp one large flower and two medium flowers onto white card using a black Stazon pad and paint with the deep coral Twinkling H2o and the leaf of the larger flower in green.

   
When they are dry, cut them out.   Take the gold bead flowers and glue in position on the base card.   Fix the flowers in position using sticky foam pads.    Put some gold glitter glue on the flower centres.

 
Stamp and colour the inside back page the same as the front so when the card is stood up, you can see the same pattern and colour as the front of the card.

You can shape the flower petals by bending them around a pencil which makes them look more realistic.
Well that is that, hope you like it.   Hopefully we will all be needing watering cans soon to water our garden flowers when the weather gets warmer.  The sun has been really quite hot today, maybe we are in for a very hot summer lol !  we'll just have to wait and see won't we.   Well that's me, I'm logging off and going to bed lol !   as it is 11.15pm, which is early for me for a change.   Have to be up early in the morning, housework etc., to do then I'm off to the hairdresser's to get my hair cut,

So until my next post be healthy and happy and enjoy the sunshine.

                                                              Love and rainbows,

                                                                   Crafty Hugs,     Jennifer xx

Butterfly Frenzy

Good Monday evening All,

Well here we are again at the beginning of yet another week lol !  One week nearer to the Spring!   The weather here today has been absolutely glorious, warm, blue skies and lots of lovely sunshine.   It is amazing what a little sunshine can do for your mood lol !     Firstly I'd like to welcome my newest followers, Bernie Simmons, Hilary Depledge and Jane, thank you so much for following my blog.   I do hope you enjoy your visits, and to my exsting followers, thank you for your all your visits and lovely comments, I do appreciate you all.  I have spent a little time in the garden tidying up my pot plants outside the front of the house.   All the little crocuses were wide open in the sunlight,  looking very pretty.   Managed to fit in some crafting too.   I am making some cards for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Craft  for their next show on Create and Craft which I cannot show you yet,  I may give you a sneaky peak nearer the time of the next show.   Well, onto   today's  card which I made for Imagination Crafts  in May of 2011 I do hope you like it.    I used  Imagination mica powders and their lovely frilly butterfly stencil.  Let's begin shall we?

Make a base card from white card stock and onto this matt a smaller piece of purple card.   Next take a piece of white card, smaller than the purple and trim with a trimmer and the victorian blade.   Matt this onto the purple card.   Cut a piece of light green card and place the stencil on top.   Mix the white stencil paste with some Imagination Craft's Bluebell stencil paint and spread across the stencil.   Remove stencil and whilst the stencil  paste is still wet, sprinkle some light blue glitter over it, then leave to dry.

     
Wrap a piece of ribbon across the card from top to bottom on a slight angle and then fix this card to the base card,    Make a flower from different shades of purple, lilac and blue paper and glue the flower to the top left of the card.

Using some green card and the stencil, put through an embossing machine.   Remove stencil and cut out the large butterfly.    Go over the raised areas with an embossing pen and then brush over with mica powder.

   
Lay the butterfly on a piece of purple card and draw around the outside  of the butterfly, cutting slightly larger than the butterfly.   Matt the green butterfly onto the purple using sticky foam pads and fix to the base card, again with sticky foam pads.

   
Make another flower in the same way as for the main flower but this time make it much smaller and fix to the butterfly's body along with a small ribbon bow.   Lastly add some purple rhinestones to the background and add six tiny flowers to the butterfly's wings.

Well that's it finished.   Have a great week everyone and I hope this fabulous weather continues and you all get some of the lovely sunshine.   Take good care of yourselves until my next post in a few days time.

                                                                Love and rainbows,
                                           
                                                                       Big Hugs,

                                                                      Jennifer xx
 

Sweet Lilies

Good afternoon Followers, Friends and Visitors,
Well here we are again, another weekend.   Where does the time go lol!   As I have done all my housework and lunch is over, I thought I would write up my post this afternoon whilst I have a little peace and quiet !   The weather is so dull in our neck of the woods today.   I don't think the temperature is all that low but the wind chill factor is making it feel really cold !   Having just said that, it is now snowing lol !!

Well onto today's card.   This was made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts   in June of 2012 and uses  their Summer Decoupage Stamp Range - Lily , Poinsettia Stencil and  the Nature Set of Mica Powders,  all of which can be purchased from here.     I forgot to mention my most favourite Imagination Craft's product - Antique Bronze Sparkle Medium, how could I forget that lol !!!   Ok. let's make a start shall we?

Make a base card from brown card stock and onto this matt some light blue card, leaving a border of brown showing.   Next take a piece of medium blue card and using the corner rounder punch, round off all four corners, then matt onto the light blue card.   Take the light orange coloured card and lay the stencil over it and spread the antique bronze sparkle medium over it, using a spatula.   Remove stencil and leave the image to dry.   Wash the stencil as soon as you can or it will be difficult to clean it once the sparkle medium has dried on.

   
When the image is dry, trim to fit the medium blue card, leaving a narrow border of the blue showing.   Round off all four corners with the corner punch.

Using the tag die, cut out and emboss the tag from blue card.  stamp 'Well Done' using a Versamark Pad and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.   Thread some gold ribbon through the tag and fix the ribbon across the bottom of the card, securing on the reverse.   Matt this onto the base card.

  
Using some pale orange card, stamp the lilies three times using Versamark and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.   Paint the images with Mica powders and water and when dry, cut out and 3D the lilies, keeping the scroll border on one of the images only.   Next matt the scroll onto some medium blue card, then onto a smaller piece of light blue card and lastly onto a smaller piece of brown card., then glue this to the left of centre on the base card..

  
Well that's it folks, hope you like it.   Since I began writing this post, we now have blue skies and bright sunshine lol!    from one extreme to the other in a matter of 10 minutes lol !! what is going on with the weather?     Below is one more picture, a close up of the lilies.

  
Once again, many thanks for your visits and comments, I love to hear what you think.   Take care until
my next post in a few days time.

                                                                Love and rainbows,

                                                               Big Hugs    Jennifer xx

Summer Blossom Blues.

Hello Lovelies,

Hope you are all well and having a good day.   I thought I would do an early post today.   First I would like to say a big welcome to my newest blog follower, Debbie Fisher, hope you enjoy your visits to my blog.    The day started off really cold and damp but by lunch time the sun  came out.    Lovely to see the sunshine but it reminded me that my windows need a clean.   I have planters on my windowsills and our red squirrels are always burying nuts in them and by doing so, they scatter small particles of soil all over my windows lol !!   I don't mind too much as it is lovely to watch then at such close proximity.

Well onto today's card which I made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Craft's  in December 2011 and uses the summer blossom background stencil, Magi-Bond Glue and the Sentiments 'Thinking of You' stamp set.
This is a very quick card to make if you do not have much time to spare.   Let's get started shall we?

Cut a base card from some navy card stock and matt  a slightly smaller piece of light blue card onto the navy, leaving a narrow border of navy showing.    Take a piece of white card slightly smaller than the blue and place the stencil on top and using the distress inks, dusty concord and broken china, colour through the design using some cut n' dry foam.   Next go over the colours with some Versamark Ink.   Remove the stencil and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

     
Fold the gold and spotted ribbon around the panel securing the ribbon on the reverse, then fix this panel to the base card.   Using the tag die and a die-cutting machine, cut out and emboss the tag.   Colour the tag with the distress inks.

     
Stamp 'Thinking of you' onto the tag first using the blue distress ink, then with the black inkpad, moving the stamp slightly to the right of the first image.   Fix the tag to the base card using Magi-Bond Glue and sticky foam pads.

     
Using the Marianne die, cut out and emboss four shapes (two small and two large).   Glue these to the base card.   Add  a ribbon bow to the bottom right coner and glue on the rhinstones.

There we are, voila! one finished card.    Hope you like it.    Thank you all for your visits and lovely comments, I read every one and I really appreciate them.   Until ny next post in a few days time, take good care of yourselves.

                                                               Love and rainbows,

                                                              Big Hugs   Jennifer xx

My Inspiration for this month's Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog.

A very good morning to you All,

At last the weekend is here again.   The weather here has been beautiful and sunny, although a little chilly lol, don't mind the cold as long as we have some sunshine.   Hope a good week has been had by all.

This morning I would like to share my inspiration piece for the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog .   I hope it will give you some ideas for your creations.   The theme for this month's challenge is 'Imagination in Bloom.'

If you would like to join us in this challenge and you have some  Imagination Crafts  products, why not give it a go, you could be the winner of a £40 voucher to spend at  Imagination Crafts,  a fabulous prize, all those lovely crafty goodies to choose from !.     Remember you can check out my teamies inspirations too by  going to this link   here.      Well here is my inspiration piece.

 

     
Make a white base card.   Take some red shiny card along with the stencil and put through an embossing machine to emboss it.   Wrap a ribbon down the centre of this red card and secure on the reverse with sticky tape.   Fix this to the white base card.   Cut out four corners using white card and the Tattered Lace Corner Die and glue one in each corner of the red card.

Cut out a  tag shape from white card and colour this using distress inks.   Using a Versamark pad, stamp the main image of the stamp set onto the tag, at an angle.   Heat emboss with black embossing powder.

Cut out a slightly larger tag from white card and glue the smaller tag to the larger tag.   Punch a hole at the top of the tag.   Fix the tag to to the base card using sticky foam pads to give a little dimension to the card.

 

      
Stamp the main image again onto white card a further six times.   Cut out the flowers and leaves and 3D onto the original stamped image on the tag using silicone glue.    

     
Add a ribbon bow to the top of the tag.   Well that's it finished friends, hope you like it.   Thank you all so much for your visits to my blog and your lovely comments, I read every one, they mean a great deal to me.
Take care of yourselves until my next post in a few days.

                                                                Love and rainbows,

                                                             Crafty Hugs   Jennifer xx




    

 

A Touch of Gold.

Hello Lovelies,

How are you all ?  well I hope, if not here's a big hug lol.  Hubby is watching the football, so I thought I would write up my blog post for tonight.   The card I have for you tonight was made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts    in February 2012 and uses their beautiful gold shine sparkle medium and their daisy flourish border stencil.   Hope you like it.   This is quite a quick card to make.   Ok. so let's get started.

Make a base card from some brown card stock, landscape style.   Take some patterned brown paper and lay the stencil on top and spread the gold sparkle medium over the stencil using a palette knife.   Remove the stencil and leave the image to dry naturally.   Matt this onto some white card and colour the edges with walnut stain distress ink using a blending tool.   Matt this onto the brown base card.

      
Cut out the flower using a die-cutting machine and the Marianne Die.   Glue to the centre of the stencilled image,  add some sparkle medium to the flower centre and add a pearl to the centre.   Next cut out six of the Spellbinders flourish dies from the patterned paper and glue around the flower.    

      
Put a strip of double sided sticky tape down the right-hand side of the card.   Remove the release paper and 'pleat' the ribbon from the top to the bottom of the card.   Add four ribbon bows.

Cut four of the Spellbinders square die shapes and colour with the walnut stain ink.   Cut each one in half and glue to each side of the pleated ribbon.   Add a  ribbon bow to the top left of the base card.

    
Well that's it folks, finished.    Thank you all for visiting my blog,   please feel free to be a follower by   clicking on the  Google Friend  Connect button at the top of my blog.    Have a great few days until my next post.    See you all then.

                                                               Love and rainbows,

                                                                Hugs    Jennifer xx

Oh! Hello, Who Are You ?

Hello Lovelies,

Hope everyone is well and happy despite the dull, wet, dreary weather.   I'm managing to fit in some crafting time today.  We took our little Grandson out a couple of days ago during his school hols and he had his photo taken with three different owls.   One was a tiny owl called Fluff and was from Africa, the second was a barn owl and his name was Bilbo and the third owl was the largest European owl and her name was Henrietta.   She was my favourite, she was huge and had such beautiful eyes.  Our Grandson had to wear a proper glove for protection when he held them but they were so calm,  he was delighted to get so close to the birds, he even stroked their chests,  we then had some lunch  and a  happy day was had by all.   Well onto today's card.   I made this card for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Craft's  in November of 2010.    At that time they sold this particular stamp set which I adore.  It was a  Kars Olliphant set art no. 180013/0906.   I don't think Imagination Crafts sell this anymore, or indeed if it is still available !     Well let's get started shall we.

   

       
This is just a cute stamp set, one of my favourite Olliphant sets.   Make a base card from green card stock.   Cut two triangles from the purple card and glue one to the top right and the other to the bottom left of the base card.   Take a piece of white card, slightly smaller than the purple and cut out a circle from the centre, about   three and three quarter inches in diameter.   Cover with patterned paper by Kate Knight and cut out the circle.   With a black pen, draw dots and dashes around the edge of the circle.   Stick some silver heart peel offs around the right hand edge of the circle.

  

      
Take a further piece of white card and stamp the girl twice, cut her out and paint her with the Imagination Craft's Inkadinks..   On another piece of white card, stamp the seat using black ink and again colour with the Inkadinks.   Colour the sky and the grass.   When dry, sit the girl on the seat and stick the second image on top of the first using sticky foam pads or silicone glue.  

      
Stamp the tree and colour with the Inkadinks.   Fix the tree to the right of the circle.   Stamp the grasshopper, colour and cut it out and glue to the left of the plant pot as though it had just appeared from behind the plant pot.

    
Fix a little silver peel off heart to the top of her dungarees.   Cut long half inch strips from white paper and fringe one long edge with scissors.   Curl the straight edge round and glue the end to stop it unwinding.   Frill out the petals and colour with the Inkadinks.       Glue the flowers to the card which you previously coverd with the patterned paper.  

   
Glue the stamped image of the girl to the centre of the base card  then glue the card with the apperture over the image.   Fix the fringed flowers to the front of the card and add a small amount of glitter glue to the flowers and just a little around the flowers.   There we are, that's it all finished.   I think she is so...cute, hope you like her.

Thank you for visiting my blog, I really love to hear what you think.   Take good care of yourselves until my next post.

                                                                  Love and rainbows,

                                                                  Big Hugs  Jennifer xx