Floral Gingham

Good evening Fellow Bloggers, Followers and Visitors,

Hope you have all had a good week.   At last the weekend is here, a time to relax and chill out I hope.
Tonight I have a card for you which I made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts  for a QVC show in
September 2013.  It was made using their very pretty 'sunburst'  embossing stamp set  and their glamour dust.   Hope you like it.

Make a base card from maroon coloured card stock.   Trim a smaller piece of white card with the Woodware trimmer and the scalloped blade.   Matt this onto the maroon base card.   Matt a piece of turquoise paper onto the white scalloped square.

       
Take a further piece of white card and trim the edges with the scalloped blade.   Colour this with distress inks.   Next stamp the smallest flower from the set onto the background using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with white embossing powder.  

Randomly stamp more flowers on the background usin distress inks.   Tie a piece of ribbpn across the centre of the card and secure on the reverse with double sided sticky tape.

   
Run the Versamark pad around the edges and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.   Matt this onto the turquoise paper.   ( add a little glamour dust whilst the embossing powder is still hot).   Using the scalloped die, cut out a circle from turquoise paper and fix to the centre of the base card.   Die-cut the Nellie's multi frame from white card.   Fold the diamonds back and glue onto the turquoise circle.

Stamp one large, one medium and one small flower onto some white card using the Versamark pad and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.   Colour with the distress inks, then 3D the flowers together and glue to the centre of the multi frame die-cut.

   
Add a ribbon bow to the left hand edge of the card.   That's it finished, quite a quick card to make.   Thank you for stopping by my blog, hope you have enjoyed your visit.    Please  leave me a comment. I really enjoy hearing your thoughts on my creations and I will in turn, visit your blog too, even better, I would love it if you were to join my blog as a follower, a girl can't have enough crafty friends lol!

Enjoy your weekend my friends and I will see you again soon.

                                                                    Love and rainbows,

                                                                       Hugs   Jennifer xx.

A Little Bit of Sparkle.

Good afternoon Fellow Bloggers, Friends and Visitors,

Sorry I'm a day late but I'm full of cold and I really did not feel like doing my post yesterday.  I'm pleased to say I feel somewhat better today thank goodness.  Today's card I made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts in January 2012 and it uses their beautiful gold shine Sparkle Medium and their lacey swirls stencil.   I decided to do it in cream, gold and black as I love this combination of colours, always looks classy I think.   Ok let's get started.

Make a landscape style card from black card and matt a smaller piece of cream card onto the base card.   Place the stencil onto some black paper and spread the gold shine sparkle medium over the stencil using the metal palette knife.   Remove the excess sparkle medium and return to the jar and wash the stencil and palette knife.

Repeat this again onto more black paper and leave both to dry.   in the meantime,  using cream card, die cut the large Spellbinder's label and the second smallest label.

   
Usimg black card this time, repeat as for the black paper using the lacey swirls stencil and the gold shine Sparkle Medium and leave to dry.   When dry die cut the second smallest and the largest labels.

Using the largest label die, trace around the outside edge of the die onto some black card.  Cut this out by hand.   Now layer all the labels using silicone glue or sticly foam pads.

   
Using the Nellie Snellen corner die, die cut two corners from black card and glue these in the centre at the top and bottom of the cream card.   Using the sticly foam pads, fix the layered labels to the centre of the base card.

  
Cut out four images from the black stencilled paper you prepared earlier and glue one in each corner of the base card.   Cut out two flower heads and glue these to the sides of the label stack.

Well that's all from me for now,  have a good week and I'll see you in a few days with another card.  Thanks so much for stopping by my blog, hope you enjoyed your visit.  Please pop back again.

                                                               Love and rainbows,

                                                             Crafty Hugs,  Jennifer xx.

My Inspiration Project for November 1st. 2014 for the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog.

Good morning Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Well it is that time again, the beginning of yet another month, which means it's time for my inspiration piece for the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog.   The theme is 'anything goes.'   If you would like to join us in this challenge and you own some Imagination Craft's  products, why not join us.  We love to see your makes.   You could be in with a chance of winning a £40 voucher to spend in the Imagination Craft's shop.  A great prize.   Please note that only projects using Imagination Craft's products are eligible for the £40 voucher, although non Imagination Craft's makes,  can get top three spots, plus there is a lovely badge for your blog.
Enough chit chat, let's get down to some card making lol!

Make a base card using white card stock.   Matt a slightly smaller piece of red card onto the white,  leaving a narrow border of white showing..   Next take a slightly smaller piece of black card and put through an embossing machine, along with the baubles embossable stencil and emboss.   Matt this onto the red card.

 Lay the ' baubles on a branch'  stencil onto some white card and spread the sparkle mediums over the design.   Large baubles green,  the medium ones red and the small ones, gold.      Remove stencil and leave image to dry.    This will need to be repeated until you have four of each bauble.

Cut out the baubles,  bend the gold and red baubles slightly, then 3D them, one green, one red and one gold, using silicone glue.   Cut some very narrow strips of red card and glue to the centre of the black card, criss-crossing them.   Glue the large green baubles flat, one at each corner of the criss-cross, covering over the ends.   Using silicone glue, to add dimension to the card,  add the red baubles and then the gold.

Well that's it finished folks, hope you like it.   Something a little different.  Another way of using the 'baubles on a branch' stencil.   Thinking outside  the box so to speak.

This post will be the last for the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog,    as I have a few commitments, which means I cannot devote the time necessary to the Challenge Blog.    I would just like to say that I have enjoyed working with Linda and the other DT Ladies and I hope we will all keep in touch.  Should things change in the future  and Linda would have me back,    I would be delighted to re-join the team once again.

I will of course still be designing cards etc.,   for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Craft's, as I have done for well over 10 years now and of course, my own blog.

Take good care of yourselves until we meet again in a few days.Remember you can check out my Teamies inspiration pieces by going to the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog.

                                                                  Love and Rainbows,

                                                                    Hugs    Jennifer  xx.

Peacock Perfection.

Hi there Lovelies,

Hope your week is going well so far, not long now until the weekend.   Today I would like to share a card with you I made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Craft's for their show on Create and Craft in January this year.   I have used their gorgeous peacock stencil, an acetate wrap and of course, the fabulous sparkle medium.   Hope you like it

Begin by making a base card from gold satin card and  take a  piece of black shiny card,  slightly smaller than the gold and put it through an embossing machine, along with the trellis stencil and emboss.  
Matt this onto the gold card.   Using the Memory Box corner die,  die-cut four corners from another piece of gold satin card.   Glue one in each corner of the black card.

     
Take a piece of acetate and lay the peacock stencil onto it and spread the sage green sparkle medium over the design, using the metal spatula.   Remove stencil and leave the image to dry.  

      
Cut the acetate to fit the base card and make a wrap, securing on the back of the card. 

   
Die-cut  the flower and leaf stem from gold satin card, using the Memory Box die and a die-cutting machine.   Glue these to the bottom right corner of the acetate wrap.

Apologies for the flash  spot on the card but, this card was very difficult to photograph, as the flash is reflected on the shiny card and the acetate.   That's all for today my Friends, hope you like it.   Many thanks for visiting my blog,  hope you have found it of interest and if you would like to leave a comment, I would be delighted.   See you all soon with my project for the Imagination Craft's Challenge Blog on the 1st. November.   See you then.


                                                                 Love and Rainbows,

                                                                   Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Christmas in the Forest.

Good morning Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Hope you are all well.   Autumn is definitely here,  our driveway is covered in Autumn leaves!   a job just waiting to be done.

Today I would like to share with you, a card I made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts   in October 2013.   Another idea for your Christmas card making.   There is still time.

Make a base card from navy card.   Take a piece of white card and die cut a deer using the Memory Box die, next lay the negative on the white card and dab distress ink through the image.   Do this twice.   Make 2 masks of the deer, using post it notes and put over the images you have just made of the deer.

Lay the Christmas swirl tree stencil over the masks and dab the distress ink through the stencil.

      
Add some gold shine sparkle medium to the swirls on the trees with your finger.   Put a piece of white card, along with the trees stencil into an embossing machine and emboss.   Then die cut two deer from the embossed card using the Memory Box die.   Colour these with distress inks and fix to the base card using silicone glue, as though they were leaping through the woodland.

  
Colour around the trees with distress inks and add some gold shine stars, using a stencil with stars on it.   Use the negative after die cutting a Spellbinders large labels die, from light blue card and fix it over the white card, to act as a frame.

Well that is it folks.   Many thanks for visiting my blog, hope you have enjoyed seeing my creations.    See
you all soon.

                                                              Love and Rainbows,

                                                                Hugs   Jennifer xx.

A Little Bit of Sparkle.

Hi there Peeps,

Hope you are all well and above all, happy.   Today I would like to share a card with you, that was made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts    for their Create and Craft show in July of this year.   I decided to make a set of six cards,   all made from cream hammered card, gold shine sparkle medium and black card.  This is one of the set of six.

Make a base card from the cream hammered card.   Die cut a three inch black square and fix to the centre of the cream card.

Take another piece of cream card and lay the mini flower stencil on it and spread the gold sparkle medium over the flower, using the metal spatula.    Remove stencil amd leave image to dry.

When dry, die cut this using s smaller square die and glue to the black square.

  
Make two more gold shine  flowers in the same manner, using spare cream card, spatula and sparkle medium.

    
When dry, cut out and 3D onto the original flower.   Cut out eight petals and glue to the corners of the black square.

                                   Cut out sixteen of the small circles and glue to the card front.

     
That's it finished, I do hope you like it.   Thank you for stopping by my blog and I hope you have enjoyed your visit.   I will be back again soon, in the meanwhile, have fun and stay safe and well.

                                                               Love and rainbows,

                                                                 Hugs   Jennifer xx.

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

Hello Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Well here we are again, time for my project for the Imagination Craft's Blog.  Where have these months gone to!     Autumn is definitely here and the weather the last few days has ensured many of the leaves have fallen.   Another job waiting to be done alas, not my most favourite job lol!  

This morning I would like to share with you, a sneaky peek at my project for the Imagination Craft's Blog.   If you would like to see the full  picture, please pop across  to the Imagination Craft's Blog     where I  give you a step by step with photos and where I explain how I made this card and which Imagination Craft's  products I used.

   
Hope you like it.   See you all very soon,  have a good day.

                                                                   Love and rainbows,

                                                                    Hugs   Jennifer xx.