Love Birds.

Good evening Lovelies,

What are you all doing today?   having a good time I hope, wherever or whatever you are doing.   We're having a quiet day, time to recharge our batteries.   Thank you for your comments and visits on my last blog post, much appreciated.

I have a card to share with you today, which I made for the Sue Baker Presents shows on the Create & Craft T.V. Channel recently.   I have made this using the gorgeous Birds & Blossoms Collection,  such beautiful designs.   I did enjoy using this collection, along with the fabulous Cadence metallic paints, a great combination lol!

    
Take a piece of white card approximately six and a quarter inches square.   Draw a heart shape in the centre and cut out, leaving a heart aperture.   (Or you could use a heart die, I cut my own as I do not have a large  heart die.)  

     
Stamp the flower around the heart aperture using a brown inkpad.

          

      
Colour a piece of white card with the Cadence green-blue metallic paint then, stamp the flower again 14 times onto this piece of card, I stamped a few extra flowers just in case some weren't as good as they should have been lol!

       

     
Cut out the flowers and glue each one to the stamped flowers around the heart aperture using silicone glue.

Take another square of white card and paint it with  the pink MDF paint and when dry, add some crackle medium with a paint brush and, whilst still wet, paint over with the green-blue metallic paint

                                                                                       
Dry this with a heat gun, it will 'bubble up' which gives, I think, a quite good effect.   Glue this to the centre of the 7" x 7" white base card.

                                            
Go back to the card with the heart aperture and stamp 'Smile' in the bottom left  and the sentiment in the bottom right   corners, using a brown ink pad.   Colour the edges of this card with the Brushed cordury Distress ink.

            
Matt the aperture card onto the white base card using sticky foam pads so the coloured card shows through the aperture.

Stamp the two love birds on the branch onto white card,  using a black ink pad and paint with the yellow, light blue and light purple Mixed Media Spray inks.   Paint the branch with watered down the Inca gold finger wax and the top stripe on the heads of both the birds.   Cut out.

    
Glue this in position, inside the heart using silicone glue.

   
Here are a couple of photos taken at an angle so the dimension can be seen.   Hope you like it. 

      

     
That's all from me for the moment although I will be back quite soon with a 'sneaky peek' at one of my samples, made for the Sue Baker Presents shows on the Create & Craft T.V. Channel, this coming Tuesday, on which she launches the fabulous new 'Dark Angel' Collection, so see you all again soon.

                                                             
                                                            Love and rainbows,

                                                             Hugs   Jennifer xx.





          

                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                                       

'A Bird of Beauty.'

Hello Lovelies,
Hope everyone is well.   Here we are again, another weekend nearly here lol!  which is good but these weeks are flying by a little too fast for my liking  lol!    I see our local shops already have some Christmas items on sale, gosh it will be here before we know it.
Tonight I have a card to share with you all, which was made for the Sue Baker Presents shows on the Create & Craft T.V. Channel  recently, using the 'Birds and Blossoms Collection.'   Thank you for your visits and comments on my last blog post, much appreciated.

     
Cut a six and a quarter inch square from dark wine red card and die-cut a four and a quarter inch. diameter circle from the centre.

From some white card, cut a slightly larger frame using the circle dies and glue this to the edge of the aperture.   Put this to one side for the moment.

Take some white card and colour it using the Abandoned coral, Spiced marmalade and Fossilized amber Distress Oxides and the Fired brick Distress Ink.

Stamp the bird  onto it using a black inkpad.

        
Stamp the flower stem onto it,  placing it so the bird is sitting on it.   As these are quite large dies, I used my stamping platform but you can obtain some large acrylic blocks now, which would also do the job lol.

         
Next stamp the hanging heart onto the top right corner.

        
Now to the colouring of the design.   Using a paintbrush and some water, add some water to the flowers and the bird, and using a piece of tissue or kitchen roll dab the flowers and bird with it, which lifts the paint from the images.

   
Mix some light blue and yellow Mixed Media Spray Inks in order to make the leaf green colour for the leaves.   Paint the flowers with the Abandoned coral Distress Oxide and Fired brick  Distress ink.   

   
Add a touch of watered down Gold finger wax to each petal and  highlights and dots to each flower petal using a white pen.

        
Paint the head of the bird with the Fired brick D.I.   Mix together some Cadence  Green blue metallic paint and some Light green spray ink, then paint the bird with it.

Colour a small piece of white card with the Cadence Rose gold metallic paint and when dry, stamp the heart only onto it using a black inkpad.   Cut this out and 3D this onto the original image using silicone glue.    Colour a small piece of white card with the Green blue paint and stamp the bow only.   Cut out and glue to the original image.

          

Glue the wine coloured card with the aperture onto the coloured image, so the image shows nicely through the aperture and then matt onto the 7" x 7" white base card.

Stamp two more of each flower using black ink onto white card.  Colour as previously, then cut out and 3D onto the original images, one extra to the top right and another in the bottom right of the circle, using silicone glue.

   
Using the Woodware corner punch and a square of white card, punch each corner.   Keep this for another project and use the left-over waste and glue one in each corner of the wine coloured card.  

        
Punch out 12 tiny circles from white card and glue between the four corners.

    
That's this card finished, hope you like it.   I must say I have really enjoyed using this Birds & Blossoms Collection, such beautiful images.   Thanks again for taking the time to stop by and read  my blog, I know just  how precious time is lol.    That' s all from me, hope you have enjoyed your visit.   I will be back again very soon.   Look after yourselves.

                                                                Love and rainbows,

                                                                Hugs   Jennifer xx.  

'Catch Your Dreams, they Can Come True,'

Hi there Everyone,

Thank you so much for your comments and visits on my last blog post, I do appreciate each and every one.   There is definitely a touch of Autumn in the air  here in the hills.   The berries are turning red on the Rowan trees and the beech nuts are dropping from the trees, or it is the red squirrels knocking them off lol!   a sure sign of Autumn.

When I purchased a Simply Cards & Papercraft Magazine - Issue 190 recently giving a free stamp and die set, I knew I just had to get cracking and make a card using them.    Really enjoyed using these, so I hope you like what I have done with them.

   
Matt a slightly larger square of black card onto a 7" x 7" white base card.     Cut a smaller square of white card and colour it with the Distress Inks - Faded jeans, Fired brick, Chipped sapphire,  Seedless Preserves  and   Distress Oxide - Spiced marmalade.      Add some Hickory smoke around all four edges.

Stamp the corner flourish in all four corners of the now coloured card , using a black inkpad.

   
Stamp the long border four times  between the four corner flourishes again, using black ink.

    
Add some clouds and birds by adding Hickory smoke through the  'make a scene' stencil by Imagination Craft.

      
Stamp 'Dreams........' about one third of the way down the card, using black ink.

  
Die-cut one dream catcher from white card and one from black card.   Glue the black on top of the white dream catcher, off - setting them slightly.

  
Stamp a small section of the long border stamp from the top of the card and another piece where the bottom of the dream catcher will come to, again in black ink.

Glue the dream catcher between both short  borders, using silicone glue.

Colour some white card with Faded jeans D.I. and die - cut seven feathers from it and two feathers from white card.


Glue the feathers together and then glue them onto the bottom of the dream catcher. 

     
Punch a small heart from white card and add some platinum Stickles Glitter Glue to it.   Add this to the top of the centre bunch of feathers.
         

Add dots of the platinum glitter glue to the centre and around the centre of the dream catcher.     Add tiny dots of the glitter glue to the four long borders.

Matt this card onto the black matt on the base card and the card is finished.

        
Well, that's all from me for the moment my friends,   take care of yourselves, keep safe and snug during this cold wet  spell of weather and I'll be back again soon.   Thanks for popping in to read my blog, appreciate each and everyone of you.

                                                               Love and rainbows,

                                                                Hugs   Jennifer xx.

  

'Loved you Yesterday, Love you still.'

Good evening Lovelies,

Thought I would slip in a quick blog post before bedtime lol!   Hope everyone is well and enjoying a good week so far, despite the dreadful weather.   Feeling very sorry for those who have been flooded out with all this rain, must be absolutely devastating.       The weather here has not been too bad, we have been very fortunate but this evening is bitterly cold....maybe a frost in the morning lol!

Tonight I thought I would veer away from making my samples for Sue Baker Presents today and make a card, to hopefully, brighten up  what  has been a thoroughly dull few days,  with a bit of colour lol!     For this card, I have used a stamp set  from  my crafty stash.   This is so pretty and it is a Woodware Clear Magic stamp set.

     
Matt a square of light green card onto a 7" x 7" white base card, leaving a border of white showing.  

           
Next matt a smaller square of black satin card onto the green.

Take a slightly smaller square of white card and stamp the large image in the centre, using a black inkpad.    Colour the image with the  fine liner pens, adding a dot of  Cadence gold metallic paint  to each berry.
     

         

Punch each corner of this card using the Martha Stewart corner punch.   Matt this onto the black matt on the base card.

           
Stamp the sentiment onto a piece of white card using a black inkpad.      Trim to size.  

           
Matt the sentiment onto a slightly larger piece of black satin card.

                                        
Glue the sentiment to the bottom right corner and the card is finished.

Thank you for visiting my blog, hope you have enjoyed your visit.   I do hope you will pop back again.   I will be back with another project very soon.   Take care of yoursekves and  stay safe during this bad spell of very wet weather.

                                                                 Love & rainbows,

                                                                 Hugs   Jennifer xx.

'Happiness Is....'

Hello Friends, Followers and  Visitors,

Hope you are all well, if not, here's a big hug lol!     I think we all have days where we feel we need a big hug lol.   The weather is definitely on the turn lol!   The chances of an Indian summer have probably passed I feel.   I just hope we don't have a bad winter.    Ok I have another  card sample made for the Sue Baker Presents  shows on the Create & Craft  T.V Channel recently and uses her beautiful 'Birds & Blossoms Collection.'    I would like to welcome my newest follower Karen, hope you enjoy your visits.

 
Cut a rectangle six  and a quarter inches by two and a half inches, from black card.   Matt a slightly smaller piece of lime green card onto the black.   Stamp the hanging birdhouse in the top right corner of the lime green card, using a black inkpad.

    
Matt this onto the right-hand side of the 7" x 7" white base card,

Cut a smaller rectangle from black card and  another smaller from the lime green card, glue the green on top og the black, then glue to the front of the base card.

       

 

Stamp 'Happiness is...'   at the top of the base card, using a black inkpad.

Colour some white card using the light blue, yellow and light purple Mixed Media spray inks.   When dry,  die-cut a scalloped square from it.

 
Next, using a black inkpad, stamp the two birds sitting on the branch onto it.

Colour the image with watered down spray inks.    Colour the branch and birds heads with watered down Inca Gold Finger Wax.

 

Add some dots of watered down Inca Gold Finger Wax to the centres of the small blossoms on the main image.

Stamp the image once again onto some spare white card and colour with the inks as previously.   Cut this out and 3D onto the original image using silicone glue.   Colour the edges of the scalloped die-cut with some Cadence Inca Gold Finger Wax.   Matt this onto a plain square piece of black card.  

     

Matt this onto the centre of the base card, on top of the two rectangles.

Colour another piece of white card with the spray inks and stamp 8 flowers using a black inkpad.   (This small flower stamp was given free with a craft magazine some time ago and  I cannot remember which one, sorry...I buy so many lol!   -  note to self - must cut down lol!)   but hey! I do love to read them!      Cut out the flowers.

 
Add some dots of gold to the stamen using a gold pen.   Glue two,  to  the top left and three to

each of the bottom corners, using silicone glue.  

The card is now finished.   I know this is quite a long tutorial, so thanks for reading to the end.    Below I have shown the card photographed at an angle so you can see the 3D effect and the beautiful sheen of the finger wax around the scalloped square, when the light shines on it.

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog to visit, much appreciated as always.

                                                             Love and rainbows,

                                                              Hugs    Jennifer xx.