A Starlit Night.

Hi there All,

Hope your week is going well so far.   Thought I would just slip in another blog post for you.   Today's card was made for one of Imagination Craft's T.V. shows in October 2014.   I have used one of their gorgeous Celtic Collection dies called Stargazing, I have to say this is my favourite, as I adore anything to do with fairies, elves, pixies etc.,   hope you like it.    I would just like to welcome my newest follower, Ameera Crafts,  I do hope you enjoy your visits and thank you for your comment on my last blog, much appreciated.

Make a base card from white card stock 6" square.   Onto this matt a slightly smaller square of black card.
Die cut the Stargazing die from white card.    

Cut out a hill shape from another piece of white card.   Fix the white hill to the bottom of the base card,  leaving a small border of black showing at the sides and the bottom.

   
Fix the pixies onto the top of the hill using Magi-bond glue.   Punch out some white stars and glue onto the base card.

   
Die cut the flowers from black card.   Die cut the stamen from white card.

  
Die cut a leaf stem from black card and cut into  two, then glue one to each side of the hill.

    
Glue the flowers around the hill.    Well that's this card finished my friends, quite a quick card to make.   Catch you all again soon.   In the meanwhile keep warm and snug during this cold spell, warmer weather is on its way for the end of the week, thank goodness!

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                                   Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Poppies and Fairy Dust.

Hi there Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Thanks for stopping by my blog once again and  I would also like to welcome my newest follower,  I do hope you all enjoy your visit.   I would love to hear your thoughts on my creations and if you leave me a comment I will try and reciprocate by visiting your blog.   I read each and every comment and I do try to reply to each one.    Wow! such a sudden change in the weather here lol!   it was so mild a day ago and now it has turned bitterly cold   brrr....   definitely log burner time lol!   We've not had any snow as of now but it certainly is cold enough for some !!

My card tonight was made in June 2014.   For this I have used Imagination Craft's stencils and my favourite product of theirs -  Sparkle Medium.   The fairy and orchids were stamped using a set of stamps which came free with one of the craft magazines some time ago and I believe, is a Lavinia stamps design.   I adore all of Tracey Dutton's stamps, as those of you who know me, know that I love anything to do with fairies lol!

      
Make a base card from black card.   Matt a smaller piece of red card onto the black.   Trim another piece of black card slightly smaller than the red.   Lay the daisy stencil onto the black card, masking off the oval and spread the Chartreuse Sparkle Medium over the four corners only,  using a metal spatula. 

     
Remove the stencil and leave the images to dry. 

Mask off the dragonflies on the poppy stencil as we only want the poppies.   Lay the stencil onto a piece of white card and rub the distress inks through the design, using a piece of cut ' n' dry foam  

Stamp the fairy onto the card, using a black ink pad.   Stamp some sprinkles from her hand and some
leaves/flowers at the top of the card.

 

      
Cut out using the Spellbinder's label die and glue the finished image to the centre of the base card.   Dab a little Sparkle Medium to her wings and to  the sprinkles of fairy dust.

Well that's all from me tonight my friends, I do hope you all have a relaxing, peaceful Sunday.   Take good care of yourselves and stay warm and snug and I will be back very soon.

                                                                  Love and rainbows,

                                                                    Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Autumn Leaves.

Good evening All,

What a glorious day it has been,.   blue skies and sunshine, the trees are such beautiful colours at the moment but I suspect they will fall from the trees rapidly, as a ground frost is forecast for us tonight lol!   Talking of Autumn leaves, leads me to my next card,   made in September 2015 for Imagination Crafts. 

Fold the white scalloped  card in half down the centre crease line, making a 6" square card.   Matt squares and  oblongs of black and turquoise card onto the front of the base card, leaving a a border of white showing.   Next matt a smaller square of pink card onto the black/turquoise card, again leaving a border showing.

  
Spread some Starlight paints onto a non-stick worksheet and leave to dry.   In the meanwhile, die-cut the lacy square, using the Marianne Design die, from pink card and colour, using the iced spruce distress ink pad.   Glue this to the centre of the pink card.      Die-cut the smaller square, using some black card and the Craftwell die, then glue that  to the centre of the lacy square.   Take the black square with the cut off corners and stamp the Lavinia leaf spray stamp onto the centre, using some gilding glue.

   
Go back to the Starlight paints that you spread on your work sheet and scrape the paint off the sheet, using the side edge of  the  metal spatula.    (a bit like scraping melted chocolate  from a board to make chocolate curls for decorating the top of a cake.)  

Spread these flaky bits onto the gilding glue and press down, then brush away any excess.   Matt this onto a slightly larger  piece of pink card and trim around the edges  to match the design of the black card and matt this onto the black square. 

   
Die-cut 2 leaves from black card, using the Marianne Design die.   Cover with the gilding  glue and spread the 'scraped up' Starlight paints over the gilding glue to cover the leaves, press onto the leaves, then brush away any excess.

   
                                        Glue a  leaf in the top left and the bottom right corners.

Draw an uneven, squiggly' line around the edges of the base card, using a fine line, black pen.   Add three dots of Jade Detail Sparkle in each corner.

Well that's all from me for the moment.   Enjoy your Wednesday and I will be back again soon.

                                                                Love and rainbows,

                                                            Crafty Hugs    Jennifer xx.

  

Fantasy Squirrel taken from 'Into the Wild.' coloured with fine liner pens.

Hi there Followers, Friends and Visitors,
Hope you have all had a good day.   The weekend is nearly with us once again !!  I thought I would show you something a little different  tonight,   a design taken from the 'Into the Wild' adult colouring book.

     
                                                   I coloured this with coloured fine liner pens.

     

      

      

     
I really enjoyed colouring this picture as we are  lucky enough to have many beautiful native red squirrels on our property, they are so cute, I could watch them all day lol!!   They do cost us an arm and a leg in peanuts lol!!     but boy are they worth it !!!

Have a good Friday and a restful weekend and I will be back quite soon.    Until then, take good care of yourselves.

                                                                 Love and Rainbows,

                                                                   Hugs   Jennifer xx.



    

Flower Bubbles Card.

Hello everyone,

Hope your week is going well, we're half way through the week.  The weather here has been rather cloudy and showery over the last couple of days and quite chilly.   Autumn is definitely here and there is a nip in the air on a morning now  and our driveway and lawns are covered with fallen leaves!   that will be our next job lol, raking them all up!

Tonight I would like to share a card with you  which I made in March 2016 for Imagination Crafts.    I used

Mixed Media Spray Inks, Detail Sparkle and the Bubble Background stencil.   The flower was made using a scoring board which was given free with one of the craft magazines, sorry cannot remember which magazine!

Begin by folding a ready crease white card down the centre line, making a 7"x7" base card on which to work.

Matt a smaller piece of teal card onto the base card.   Tale a smaller piece of smooth white card and colour with the spray inks.   When dry, lay the Bubble Background stencil onto it and using a brush, cover  the circles with plain  water and  then dab away the water and ink  using a piece of kitchen paper.   This takes away a little of the inks, making the circles  slightly lighter than the background colours.

   
Outline parts of the circles roughly, using a white pen.   Cut this card into 4 equal squares, and glue one in each corner of the teal card.

Cut 2 strips of  silver mirror card, one thinner than the other.      Glue the widest piece across the centre and the narrowest, from the centre top to the bottom, using Magi-Bond glue.

Colour some white paper with the Fuschia, Yellow amd Green inks.   Shape the flower on the scoring board and cut out, then score along each petal.   Fold along the score lines,   making  the lines on the petal centres, mountain folds and the  lines between each petal, valley folds.
  

        
Glue the flower to the centre of the base card.   Score the small flower, cut out and colour with the green ink,      Score down all the score lines, folding as for the larger flower.    Glue this flower to the larger flower.

Using another piece of white paper, which has been coloured with the inks, score all the lines along the strip. and  fold the score lines with alternate mountain and valley folds until you reach the end of the strip.   Cut a 'v' shape out of the end of each fold  along one long edge.   Glue the ends of the strip together, then glue to the flower centre.     Add a little gold Detail Sparkle to the flower centre.
  
That's all for now from me, so have a happy Thursday and I will be back again quite soon.   I'm off to add more creations to my Pinterest page and Imagination Craft's Pinterest   page.   Catch you all soon.

                                                                Love and rainbows,

                                                        Happy Crafting,  Hugs   Jenifer xx.




 

Bird of Paradise, with Love.

Good evening, hope you've all had a good week and are looking forward to the weekend.    I think we will be having a quiet one, Hubby will be gardening and I will be crafting after my household chores are done.   At the moment, I'm hooked on decorating  tags, using Imagination Craft's products of course, what else lol!!!   

The card I would like to share with you tonight, was made in  February 2014.   Some of you may have seen this card before as it was on a Challenge Blog.       I have used Imagination's  'Bird of Paradise' Gilding Stamp set, which is very elegant.   This stamp is still available on the Imagination Craft's website and is in their sale, reduced from £7.99 to £2.00, wow! what a bargain!     This card could be made for Valentine's Day for that very special frien or Partner.

    
Make a square base card from black shiny card.   Cut a piece of tan coloured paper, slightly smaller than the black and stamp the flowers from the stamp set, around all four edges, using a black ink pad.   Matt this onto the black base card.   Using the square Spellbinder's  die and a die-cutting machine, cut out the square.   Put the square to one side for another project and use the negative.   Straighten up the outside edges and put to one side for the moment.

Cut a piece of tan paper the same size as the black frame and lay the' heart leaf' stencil on top.   Colour the design with Distress inks.   Add some gold and red Sparkle Medium, using your finger and rub through the design, then remove the stencil.   This will move the Sparkle Medium to the edges of the design.   This is called the 'foiling' technique.    

   
When dry, fix to the centre of the base card and fix the black frame on top using sticky foam pads to add some dimension to the card.

Die-cut the corners, using the Tattered Lace corner die, from gold satin card and glue one to each corner of the black frame.

           
Stamp the bird onto some black shiny card with a Versamark pad and heat emboss, using clear embossing powder.   Cut out the bird, punch out and stamp the flower, using the Tonic flower punch and stamp set.   Glue the flower to the card front.   Glue a red satin bow behind the flower.   Add a small amount of red Sparkle Medium to the centre of the flower, along with a round, red gemstone.   Glue the bird on the flower, using silicone glue.   Glue a red heart shape gemstone to the right-hand edge of the black frame.   Stamp two leaves from light green card and glue behind the flower.

Well that's all from me for tonight.   Have a fantastic weekend whatever you plan to do.   Thanks so much for visiting my blog, hope you have enjoyed your visit.

                                                            Love and Rainbows,

                                                             Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Ribbons and Stars Christnas Card.

Happy Wednesday to you all,  I thought I would surprise you by posting my blog now, instead of the usual midnight lol!!        Hope you have managed to tune in to Imagination Craft's shows on the Hochanda TV Channel so far today, to see our lovely Sue and Kerrie Anne demonstrating some fabulous new colours in the Starlight paints range, exclusive to Hochanda !  so you'd better be quick and order now, as they were being snapped up very quickly this morning!!

My card  today has been made using one of the stencils shown on Hochand TV , the Ribbons  and Stars panel stencil, plus  one of their  very pretty panel background cards.    I thought I would show you a slightly different way to use this stencil.

  
Make a base card from cream hammered card.   Matt a piece of black onto the front of the cream card, leaving a narrow border of the cream showing.

Take the patterned panel card and lay the stencil on top,  use masking tape to hold the stencil in position then, using a black fine liner pen, draw around the design.    As this card has a very smooth surface, please be careful not to smudge the ink, it will take some time to dry properly.   Carefully remove the stencil.

     
When this is dry fill in the design with some tangled patterns of your choice, again using the black fine liner pen.

     
Hand draw a line with circles in it,  down the left side of the card, (a) to balance the overall design of the card and (b) to frame the card.      No need for this to be a perfectly drawn line and perfect circles.   This technique could be used for many different stencils and can be very relaxing to do, time just flies by when tangling so just remember you have the evening meal in the oven  lol!!!  or you will have a burnt offering as I did, as I just got carried away !!!  

Hope you like this, it is just a different way to use this stencil.   Have a fabulous day and I will be back soon with another card to share with you.   Have fun and happy crafting.

                                                                Love and rainbows,

                                                                 Hugs    Jennifer xx.