Christmas Sparkles.

Hi there Lovelies,

Hope you are all having a relaxing weekend.   Tonight I would like to share a card with you which I made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts  in October 2013.  This is a very simple card to make  and it uses their very pretty 'Sparkles' stencil and of course some Sparkle Medium.   Hope you like it.

Ok,   begin by making a base card from white card stock.   Onto this, matt some turquoise card, leaving a narrow border showing.

Take a further piece of white card and lay the sparkles stencil on top.   Using a piece of cut n' dry foam, dab some milled  lavender distress ink through the design on the stencil.   Remove the stencil and leave to dry.   Wash the stencil and dry it.

   
Next, lay the stencil back in position over the inked design but, move the stencil slightly to one side of the inked design, so as to create a shadow effect.

Spread the silver sparkle medium over the stencil using a metal spatula which can be purchased from  the Imagination Craft's website.   Remove the stencil,  wash and dry it.     Leave the image to dry.   Place the stencil back onto the card and spread the jade sparkle medium over the largest snowflake.    Remove stencil and leave image to dry.

Colour around the edges with distress ink and cut to fit the turquoise  card, leaving a small border of the turquoise card showing and fix to the base card.

   
Lastly, add a turquoise ribbon bow to the top left corner.

Well, that's it my friends, quite a quick and easy card to make.   Until my next blog in a couple of days, take good care of yourselves and enjoy your weekend.

                                                                    Love and rainbows,

                                                                    Big Hugs Jennifer xx.

A Full View of ny Sneaky Peek for the Imagination Craft's Blog.

Evening Peeps,
Just  a quick post to show you the full picture of my tutorial  project for the Imagination Craft's Blog.   If you would like to see how I made it and which products I used,  please pop across to the Imagination Craft's Blog.

Hope you have all had a good day and are looking forward to the weekend.   See you all soon.

     

                                                                 Love and Rainbows,

                                                                   Hugs   Jennifer xx.

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

Hi there Lovelies,

Here is a sneaky peek at my MDF project for the Imagination Craft's Blog   if you would like to see the whole picture, please pop across to the Imagination Craft's Blog where I explain how it was made with step by step pictures and of course, which Imagination Craft's products I used.  

Enjoy your day my Friends, it's a beautiful sunny morning here today.   See you all soon when I will have another project to share with you.

                                                               Love and Rainbows,,

                                                                Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Heart Leaves and Butterflies

Good afternoon Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Thank you for stopping by my blog, I hope you enjoy your visit.      Seeing as I was a little late with my last blog,  I have decided to post this one this afternoon instead of late this evening, which I hope will make up for my lateness last time lol!

The card I would like to share with you today, was made for Sue and Harvey,  my lovely friends  who  have the fabulous craft business - Imagination Crafts.   I made this card for them,  way back in July 2011, my goodness, where have all those years disappeared too lol!!   doesn't time just fly by?   OK, hope you like this one.

I began by making a base card  from white card stock.   I then took a slightly larger piece of black card and trimmed all four edges with a trimmer, using a scalloped blade.   This was then fixed to the base card so no white was showing.   Onto this, I matted a slightly smaller piece of pale orange card.   I took some white card and trimmed it again, using the scalloped blade.   I then coloured the card using the Chalkies and then with the Glitzies.   The Glitzies are really beautiful as they leave a tiny amount of glitter on the card, just enough to catch your eye but not over the top lol!   Unfortunately this doesn't show up on the photo but it does give a lovely subtle effect.

   
When the background was dry, I dabbed the stencil paints, copper, along with a touch of the gold, through
the design on the stencil, then  removed the stencil and left it to dry.

When dry, I replaced the stencil onto the design and dabbed some Versamark on top of the copper and gold paint, then heat embossed using clear embossing powder.

  
I then removed the stencil and using a pricking tool, scored  each heart leaf (except the very small ones) and rubbed  some black ink into the score lines.   I    fastened some copper coloured fibre around the main panel, before matting onto a piece of black straight edged card.    This panel was then matted onto the pale orange card.     Next I glued  three left-over strips of black  scalloped card to the card front.

 
Next were  the butterflies.    I   Stamped the butterfly three times onto some black card using a Versmark pad and heat embossed  with a mixture of copper and gold embossing powders.

 The butterflies were cut out,  leaving  a tiny black border around each, then  glued to the fibres and  some silicone glue was put  under each wing to raise the wings up slightly to give a little dimension to the card.

Well that is that my Friends, hope you like it,   it is just a little bit different.   Take good care of yourselves and I'll be back soon (hopefully on time next time lol!)

                                                                   Love and Rainbows,

                                                                      Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Poppies and Butterflies.

Good Saturday evening Peeps,

Sorry to be a little late with my blog, should have posted it last night but the best laid plans of mice and men, (woman in this case just did not work out lol!!)    Hope you think it is worth the wait !   The card I am sharing with you tonight, I made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts in Dec. 2012 ready for the QVC TV show in Jan 2013.   It uses one of my all time favourite stamp sets, The Decoupage Stamp Range - Poppies.   I think most people like poppies and butterflies and both are in this set.   Just so pretty.   OK off we go, let's get started shall we?

Make a base card from white card stock.   Onto this matt some blue shiny card.   Take a piece of white card, slightly smaller than the blue and using the vine trellis stencil, emboss by putting through an embossing machine.   Remove the stencil and fix this white embossed card to the blue card.

Take a piece of white card and colour using the mica powders, brush and water.   Stamp the main image onto the now coloured white card, using a Versamark pad and heat emboss using black embossing powder.

  
Paint the poppies with the mica powders.    Tear around the edges and fix onto a slightly larger piece of black card.   Trim around the main image leaving a tiny black border showing.   Glue this onto square of blue shiny card,  Next, on white card, stamp out two large and one small butterflies, again using a Versamark pad and heat emboss with black embossing powder.   Colour with the mica powders and fussy cut each one out.  3D these onto the main image using silicone glue.  

  
Using a die-cutting machine, die-cut two elegant scrolls (Memorybox Die) from white card.   Paint them with the mica powders.   Glue them to the back of the blue square, leaving some scroll showing beyond the blue card,  one to the top left and the other to the bottom right.   Glue the square and the scrolls to the base card.  

Well that's it my friends.   Hope you like it.  I would just like to say " thank you" for taking the time to visit my blog, I really do love to hear what you think of my creations.   Please feel free to leave a comment.   (only nice ones allowed lol!!)    I would also love it if you were to be a follower of my blog.  I love to meet new followers with the same interests as myself.  Until my next blog.  I'll try to be on time next time lol!   Hope you all have a fabulous weekend.   I'll be back soon.

                                                                  Love and rainbows,

                                                              Big Crafty Hugs  Jennifer xx

A Letter to Santa.

Hi there Peeps,

Hope everyone is well and happy, at least the weather has cheered up here, the sun keeps popping out today, still a little breezy but not going to complain about that lol!!  definitely a touch of Autumn in the air.  That will be the next job in the garden - raking up all the leaves, as we are surrounded by trees here.

Well enough chit chat, let's get down to the business of card making.   The card I have for you today was made for Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts   in October 2013.   This cute stamp set was shown on Sue's latest Create & Craft TV show a couple of days ago.   I just love this, it reminds me of my little Grandson.    This little boy just couldn't reach the post box to post his letter to Santa, so he stood on his sledge !   so cute.   OK let's get started.

Make a base card from white card stock.   Onto this I matted a piece of gold card down the left side and some red paper which I stamped with the snow dots stamp from the set, using a Versmark pad and then I heat embossed with white embossing powder.

      
I then stamped the main image onto some white card  seven times using a black ink pad.     Next I coloured the images with Promarker pens, cut them out and 3D them onto the original image.   I ran a gold pen around the outside edges of the frame.

I added the snowflakes die-cuts (Memory Box) to the gold card, then glued the 3D image to the centre of the card.

   
I then die - cut a circle (Marianne die) from white card, then cut it in half.   I  stamped the sentiments, one on each semi-circle, using the black ink pad,   and then I  overstamped the words with a Versamark pad and heat embossed using gold embossing powder.

Well that's it finished my Friends, hope you like it.   Take good care of yourselves until my next blog in a few days time.   I have plenty to keep me going until then, more samples to make and a tutorial for the Imagination Craft's Blog at the end of this month.  So cheerio for now.
 
                                                      
                                                                  Love and Rainbows,

                                                                     Hugs  Jennifer xx

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