'Serenity.'

Good evening Lovelies,

Hope you were able to tune in to Create & Craft this afternoon and this evening, to see  Mandy launch Imagination Craft's  new USB vol 3 rice paper designs.   Wow! such a fabulous variety of designs and as usual Mandy's demonstrations were great.   Hope you enjoyed the shows.

Tonight I would like to share one of my card samples with you which was shown on the programme.

Cut the design from the rice paper and using the Cadence decoupage glue, fix it to a 7" square of white card.

When dry matt and layer this onto a slightly larger square of brown card and then fix this to an 8" square ivory base card.

Add the word 'Serene' using one of the stencils from the 'Destiny' Collection, by laying the word 'Serene' over the  rice paper background, near to the top and stippling some Cadence Mediterranean Sky metallic paint through the word, using a stencil brush.

 

From the second sheet of rice paper of the same design, cut out the barrels, flower and the sailing boat.   Fix these to some white card using the decoupage glue.   When dry, cut them out.

Decoupage  (3D) them onto the original images using sticky foam pads.

Die-cut some ivy using the die from the 'Secret Garden Collection.  from white card.   Colour this with the Cadence Dora metallic green paint, adding a little rich gold paint on top of the green.

Glue this to the bottom left of the card, placing some ivy on top of the barrels, using Sue Baker's mixed media glue.

Add some watered down Cadence platinum metallic paint to the flower, sun and the sunlight on the ripples of water.

The photo below shows the dimension of the card.

Thank you all as ever, for your lovely comments and all your visits to my blog, I do so appreciate each and every one.

Well that is all from me for now, take care and  stay safe.   Happy crafting.

                                                               Love and rainbows,

                                                               Hugs   Jennifer xx.

'Balcony View' Card from Imagination Craft's 'Masquerade' Collection.

 'Hello Lovelies,

Hope you have all enjoyed a peaceful relaxing weekend.    Tonight I have another of my cards, which was made for the Create & Craft T.V. shows on the 26th. Nov. 2020,  using Imagination Craft's beautiful 'Masquerade Collection.'

Take a 7" square of white card and lay the rice paper with the balcony on it, onto the white card and using a pencil , lightly mark where the edge of the cut  away rice paper is.   (This part of the rice paper was left- over from cutting out the mirror,  when I made my previous card  'Through the looking glass,'  I quite liked the shape of the edge, so decided to use it on this card).  

 

Next colour the section on the left, which will be showing, once the rice paper is fixed to the right-hand side,   using the Taffy, Purple and the Fuchsia Cadence Hybrid Acrylic paints.   Then lay the background design from the stencil on top of the painted card and dab  the ultramarine paint through the design, then go over the top with a little more Taffy, to tone down the colour a little.

 

Using the decoupage glue, fix the rice paper to this piece of card but not covering over the paint on the left side of the card.

Next lay the fireworks part of the stencil, including a few musical notes, to the left of the balcony and spread the black structure paste over the design using a metal spatula.   Remove the stencil and leave to dry. 

 

In the meanwhile, using the small feather,  small mask and handle and the harlequin dies from the collection, die cut them from some black card. 

  

 

Colour these with the rich gold finger wax

                 

Re-position the stencil over the firework images and using a stencil brush, stipple the rich gold metallic paint over the black images, adding a little wine paint in the centre of the images.   Remove the stencil.

Matt and layer this card onto a slightly larger piece of wine coloured card and then onto the 8" ivory base card.   

Fix the mask and handle in position in the bottom right corner using sticky foam pads.

The harlequin diamonds to the top right corner, again using sticky foam pads.

Glue the feather to the bottom left.

Phew lol!! nearly there if you're still with me lol!...... .10 out of 10  if you still are ha! ha!   The only thing left to do is to add a large red sequin to the centres of both fireworks, finishing off by adding a dot of the rich gold metallic paint to the sequin centres.

Thank you all for bearing with me, thankfully more photos than text lol!   Thank you also for your comments and visits to my last blog post,    Please take care and stay safe.   I will be back quite soon with another card to share with you.

                                                                    Love and rainbows,

                                                                    Hugs   Jennifer xx.

'Mardi Gras' card from Imagination Craft's 'Masquerade' Collection.

 Good evening Lovelies,

Hope you are all well.   Thank you so much for your lovely comments and visits to my last blog post, they mean a great deal to me and are what keeps me making more, so thank you again.

Tonight I have another card, made using the fabulous rice papers from Imagination Craft's 'Masquerade' collection, hope you like this one.

 Cover a 7" square of white card with the rice paper using the decoupage glue.

Lay the flourish design from the stencil onto the top left corner and spread thee black structure paste through the design, using a metal spatula.    Use either the blue masking tape as I have done or the Cadence stencil spray to secure the stencil to the card, whilst applying the structure paste.   Remove the stencil and leave the image to dry.

From the second piece of rice paper of the same design, cut out the section of the mask and glue this to a piece of white card, using the decoupage glue.   Whilst this is drying, lay the stencil back onto the 7" square background card, positioning the word 'Mardi'  over the bottom set of windows on the background and spread black structure paste through the word.    Remove the stencil and leave to dry.

Next reposition the word 'Mardi' over the original image and stipple the Cadence  rich gold, wine and vivid green  metallic paints over the top of the black structure paste using a stencil brush.

Take a square of black card slightly bigger than the background card and lay the background card on top and using the word 'Gras' from the stencil, judge where the 'Gras' should be positioned in the bottom left corner of the black card.   Tape the stencil in position and remove the background for the moment.   Using the stencil brush, stipple the three metallic paints through the stencil.  Remove stencil and leave to dry.   (I did not use the structure paste this time, just the metallic paints.)

Fix this black card to an 8" x 8" ivory base card.

Matt the background card onto the black matt, leaving the word 'Gras' showing in the bottom left.

Die-cut the large flourish and the small feather from black card and colour with the Cadence rich gold finger wax, not necessary to cover them completely, as a little black showing in the odd place gives an aged look to them.

Next colour a piece of white card with a mixture of the Cadence wine and champagne metallic paints

 

Cut out a circle, then cut round and round the inside of the circle, creating a spiral.   Roll this up using a quilling tool or your fingers and add some glue to stop it unwinding again.

   Glue the rose to the bottom left corner.

Glue the feather to the left side and the flourish to the bottom right.

Trim around the mask which was glued to white card and using sticky foam pads, fix to the original image on the background..

Well that's this card finished, hope you like it.   I'll be back again soon with another card.  In the meantime, be kind, be safe and keep well everyone.

                                                                      Love and rainbows,

                                                                      Hugs   Jennifer xx.