My Mid August Inspiration for the Imagination Challenge Blog.

Good morning my Lovelies,

I'm afraid this will be a quick post this morning, as I have a very busy day ahead.  Here is my project for the Imagination Challenge Blog's mid month inspiration.   The theme this month is 'Summer Holiday.'  So, without further ado, we'll get started.   Hope you like it.

Make a base card from lavender card and onto this matt a smaller piece of white card, leaving a border of lavender showing.

   
Take the coloured card and lay the windmill stencil onto it and spread the sparkle medium over the design on the stencil, using the metal spatula.   Remove stencil and leave image to dry.

When  the image is dry, trim all four edges so it matts onto the white card and leaves a border of the white showing.

  
Using another piece of coloured card, repeat the process again.   Leave the image to dry.   When dry, die-cut a square from the centre of this second image.   Put the square aside for the moment and use the left-over frame and layer this onto the original image using sticky foam pads.

    
Cut out the buildings and the top of the windmill, from the square die-cut and fix in position using sticky foam pads.

   
Punch out six flowers using the Martha Stewart flower punch from the left over coloured card and glue to the card front.

  
Die-cut six stamen using a Marianne flower die set, from white card and glue to the flower centres.  Well that's it.   I do hope you join us in this challenge, you could win a voucher worth £40 to spend on Imagination Craft's products.   

Please pop across to the Imagination Challenge Blog to see the beautiful inspiration projects from the other Ladies in the Design Team.     See you all soon.

                                                               Love and Rainbows,

                                                                 Hugs   Jennifer xx

A Candle for Christmas.

Hi there Peeps,

Time seems to have gone so fast since my last blog.  Weather here has been, dull, wet and windy, the tail end of hurricane Bertha,   forecast says it's going to get better by the weekend, let's hope so lol!   just a little bit of sunshine would satisfy me after all these dreary days of late.

I  would like to welcome my newest follower from across the pond to my blog, Mary H.   Thank you for following and I hope you enjoy your visits.   I am now following your blog too.

OK my friends, tonight's card was made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts in October 2013 and is a Christmas card.   Hope you like this one.   I have used another of Imagination Craft's lovely decoupage stamp sets.

Make a base card from navy card stock.   Take a piece of pink card cut slightly smaller than the base card and using a navy blue ink pad, stamp the swirls stamp from the set, randomly over the pink card to create a background.   Fix a silver ribbon across the centre of the card and glue to the back of the card.   Fix this to the navy base card.

   
Die-cut and emboss the Nestability square by Spellbinders from white card and colour with distress ink before removing the die.

Stamp the main candle image onto a piece of white card and colour with Promarker Pens.   Cut away the text and cut a similar shape to the Nestability die,  down the left-hand side and glue to the white die-cut square.   Matt this onto a piece of navy card and glue on top of the ribbon, towards the left-hand edge of the base card.   Last of all, add a silver ribbon bow to the right-hand side of the card.

Well there we have it my friends, card finished.   Hope you like it.   Take good care of yourselves until my next blog in a couple of days.   Stay safe and above all be happy.

                                                                  Love and rainbows,

                                                                    Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Colourful Carnation

Good Sunday evening Followers Friends and Visitors,

Well, here we are again about to start another new week,   Where have the weeks and months gone?   Hope you are all safe and well.   This recent bad weather seems to have passed us by,  thank goodness, although it has been raining most of the day.   Others have not been so lucky I understand.   Hope all is well where you are.

Tonight I would like to share with you, a card I made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts.  This card was made using their lovely carnation panel stencil,  Greek key stencil,  sparkle mediums and silkies.   Hope you like it.

Make a base card from white card stock.   Matt a slightly smaller piece of royal blue card onto the white,  leaving a small border of the white showing.

Take another piece of white card, smaller than the blue and colour with the silkies, using a piece of cut n' dry.

 
Next, put through an embossing machine along with the Greek key stencil and emboss.   Lay the stencil back onto the now coloured and embossed card and rub some sparkle medium through the design on the stencil, I used my finger to do this.      Remove the stencil and leave to dry.

Next, using the panel stencil, mask off all but the flower head and lay the stencil onto the centre of the coloured card.   Spread the two sparkle mediums over the flower head.    Add some red gilt sparkle medium to the flower centre.  Remove the stencil and leave the image to dry.   

 
Using only part of the flower head from the panel stencil, spread the sparkle mediums through the stencil, all around the edges of the card, using the metal spatula.   Remove the stencil and leave the images to dry.

Matt this card onto the base card and add a blue spotted ribbon bow to the bottom right - hand corner.   Well that's this card finished, quite a simple and quick card to make but quite effective.   I do hope you like it.

Until my next blog in a couple of days or so, please stay safe and well whilst this bad weather is here.  Thank you once again for visiting my blog, hope you have found some inspiration from my cards.   See you all soon.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                                Big Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Evening Sunset

Good evening Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Hope your week has got off to a good start.   Mine has been quiet so far,   did my usual housework this morning, even managed some quality crafting time too lol!    working on more samples for my lovely friends
Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts..    Went to the  hairdressers to get my hair cut,  and I feel like a new woman lol!   should have had it cut before now as it was quite long for me.   It's amazing how a visit to the hairdressers  can make you feel so much better lol!

Well onto more interesting things, like making cards!   Tonight's card was made for Sue and Harvey in February 2012 and uses their really pretty stencil  'birdsong'  and my favourite product of theirs,  black stars sparkle medium.    This is a very quick and easy card to make, really hope you like it.

Make a base card from white card stock and matt a piece of black card onto it, leaving a small border of white showing.   Onto the black card matt some green card, again leaving a small border of black showing.

   
                     Cut a piece of white card and colour it with distress inks, using a blending tool.

  
When dry, lay the 'birdsong' stencil onto the now coloured card and spread the black stars sparkle medium over the design on the stencil, using the metal spatula.

Remove the excess medium and return it to the jar, so nothing  is wasted but only do this if you have used a single colour, otherwise you will contaminate you black medium.   If you have used more than one colour, just return the excess to a spare  jar.   When there is enough in the jar, it can be used for another project.   All the colours mix really well together and can look amazing.   Remove the stencil and wash it.   Leave the image to dry naturally,  I prefer to do this but it can be dryed on a warm radiator if you are short of time..

  
When the image is dry, matt it onto the green card, leaving a small border of green card showing.   Well that's it folks, it's as easy as that.   I do hope you like it.   Please feel free to leave a comment, I really love to hear what you think.   Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog and if you have left a comment, I will reply to it.  

             Take good care of yourselves, have a good week and I'll  see you again in a couple of days.

                                                                   love and rainbows,

                                                                 Big Hugs   Jennifer xx

Beautiful Butterflies

Good evening Peeps,

Hope you are all well and having a good start to the week, if not, here is a big hug.   Before we get down to card making, I would just like to welcome my newest follower of my blog, Carol Bignall.   I do hope you enjoy your visits and hopefully get some inspiration for your card making Carol and thanks for following.

Ok here we go then.   The card I am sharing with you tonight uses Imagination Craft's  beautiful decoupage stamp - Butterfly Medley, Black Shiny Card and Mica Powders.   Hope you like it.

Make a  base card 6" x 6" from white card stock.     Matt a piece of black shiny card onto the base card.   Cut a piece of white card, slightly smaller than the black.   Colour this with distress inks using a blender tool.   Stamp the butterfly medley stamp onto this using a grey Stazon pad, rotating the stamp as you work around the card.   Colour the edges with gold mica powder and water, using a paintbrush.

   
Matt this onto the black card.   Next matt a strip of black card approx. 23/4" x 51/2" onto the base card.   Using a die - cutting machine, and the honeysuckle square die from Memorybox, cut out two honeysuckle squares and colour with the pink mica powder and water.   Glue this onto the black strip, one below the other.

   
Stamp the main image onto a piece of the textured card using the grey Stazon pad.   Colour this with the mica powders and water.   Matt this onto a piece of black card, leaving a tiny border of black showing.

   
Stamp the butterfly image onto another piece of  the textured white card, again using the grey Stazon pad.   Colour the butterflies using the mica powders mixed with water.

   
                                         Cut out the butterflies and 3D them using silicone glue.

   
Using the die - cutting machine, cut out and emboss the Spellbinder's flower from white card and colour with the pink mica powder mixed with water.

   
Cut out a circle from some of the black shiny card and glue to the centre of the flower and glue the flower to the bottom right of the main image.   The beautiful sheen of the mica powders, unfortunately don't show up so well on the photos.

Well that's it my friends, one finished card.   That's all from me for the moment, look forward to seeing you all again in a couple of days.   Take good care of yourselves and have a great week, see you soon.

                                                               Love and rainbows,

                                                                Hugs   Jennifer xx.

A Sneaky Peek at my project for the Imagination Craft's Blog.

Hello again Lovelies,

A second post from me this morning!   Here is a sneaky peek at my project for the Imagination Craft's Blog.   If you would like to see the whole card, please pop across to the Imagination Craft's Blog where I explain how it was made and which products I used to make it.   Hope you like it.

   
Have a lovely day everyone, a bit cloudy and a little rain here today but not cold.   See you all in a couple of days when I'll have another card to share with you.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                                  Hugs   Jennifer xx.


 

                                              

Tropical Sunset - My August Inspiration Project for the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog.

Good Morning Peeps,

How are you all today?   where did July go to lol!!!    this year seems to be going by faster than usual.  This morning I would like to share my project for the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog.   The theme this month is    'Summer  Holidays.'   Before we know it the children will be back to school for the Autumn term, so we must enjoy this beautiful weather we are having at the moment as the Autumn is not far away.

The card I have for you this morning uses Imagination Craft's    tropical sunset stencil.   Ok here we go, let's get started.   This is a quick and a simple card to make.

   
Make a base card from navy blue card stock.   take some white card slightly smaller than the navy blue and round off the corners with the corner rounder punch.   Matt this onto the navy blue base card.

Take some green card and the Memory Box circles die and put through a die - cutting machine, then glue down the right - hand side of the card.

  
Die - cut and emboss the border die  (Marianne Design)  and thread some yellow ribbon through the slots.   Glue this on top  of the green circles and add a ribbon bow.

   
Cut another piece of white card, again smaller than the previous white card and round off all four corners as before.   Lay the stencil on top and dab some Versamark through the design, using a piece of cut n' dry foam.   Remove the stencil and cover the design with white embossing powder.   Shake off the excess powder and heat emboss with a heat gun.   When dry, colour with the inks from the Kaliedacolour Ink pad -Riviera.   Rub off any excess ink from the white embossing with a tissue (the ink will not dry on the surface of the embossing, this is known as the resist technique).    Fix this to the base card.  Well we are finished.    

      
Would love you to join us in this challenge, you could win a  voucher for £40 to spend on Imagination Craft's  fabulous products.  NB. only projects using Imagination Craft's products are eligible for the top prize of the £40 voucher, although non-Imagination Craft makes can  get top 3 spots and there is a lovely badge for your blog.   You still have time to enter this month's challenge, so why not give it a go!  someone has to win, it could be you.

Please pop over to the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog   to see more inspiration from the other members of the design team.

Well, that's all from me for now my Lovelies.   Take care of yourselves until my next blog.

                                                                Love and Rainbows,

                                                                  Hugs    Jennifer xx