'Seeds of Friendship.'

Good evening  Friends, Followers and Visitors,

Hope the weather hasn't been too bad wherever you are.   We have been lucky, no torrential rain, just an   odd spot but quite misty, dull and dreary.

Thank you for taking the time to visit and comment on my last blog post.   I appreciate each and every one.   Tonight I have a card I made  in April 2018     This was made using a set of stamps   which were given free with a craft magazine....sorry cannot remember which one lol!

        
Using the small sunflower stamp from the set, plus a black inkpad, stamp  half sunflowers  around the outside edges of  a 7" x 7" ivory case card.

Die cut a large label from dark brown card, using the Spellbinders grand label die set and matt onto the centre of the base card.

Die cut a slightly smaller label  from white linen card and colour with spray inks of your choice.

Using the black inkpad, stamp the large sunflower on the right-hand side of the label.   Colour the sunflower with Promarker alcohol pens.   Glue the label to the brown label.

Stamp the large flower head twice, the front leaf twice and the back leaf once, colour these and cut out.   3D these to the original image using silicone glue.

Stamp the flowerpot, colour, shape and  cut it out.   Fix this to the bottom of the flower stem, using silicone glue.

      
Stamp some flower seeds  beside the flowerpot using a black inkpad.   Stamp the seed packet and sentiments onto some cream card, using a black inkpad.   Stamp the centre of the seed packet, colour and cut it out.   Glue this to the seed packet front.

    
Glue the seed packet to the coloured label, leaving one of the leaves from the large sunflower, on top of the seed packet.  

   
Add some dots of Topaz Starlight paint to the flower centres.    Stamp  the small sunflower  twice and 3d onto the centre of the seed packet, using silicone glue.

 
That's this card finished so, that's all from me for the moment.   Take care of yourselves until my next blog post, hopefully not too long away lol!

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                                 Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Santa's Sack.

Hi there Lovelies,

Hope this post finds you  all well, sending kind thoughts if you are not feeling up to the mark.   Today the weather here has been quite nice, sunny and bright with the odd dull spells.

Tonight I would like to share a Christmas card I made in August 2017 but has  never been shown,   This beautiful stamp is an Imagination Art stamp.   Hope you like what I have done with it.

       
Make a base card from a sheet of white A4 card,   trim away a half an inch from one long edge and fold in half portrait style.

Lay the 'Merry Christmas' part of the 'Season's Greetings' stencil onto the bottom front of the base card and blend some black soot distress ink through the words 'Merry Christmas,' using a piece of cut 'n' dry foam.   Remove the stencil and wash it, then lay it back in the same position , just off-setting it slightly.   Using a stencil brush, dab the gold Starlight paint through the ;Merry Christmas' again.   Remove the stencil.

  
Stamp Santa onto a spare piece of white card using a black ink pad. 

  
Blend the Mustard seed, Mowed lawn & Festive Berries distress inks around Santa, using a blending tool, keeping some areas free of colour.

  

  
Lay the 'Holly Corner'  stencil on the bottom left and dab some gold Starlight paint through the design, using the large stencil brush..

  
Matt this onto some black card, leaving a small border of the black showing, then matt this onto the white base card.

  
I have taken the photo on this angle, as it shows the beautiful sparkle of the Starlight paint.   Well that's all from me for the moment,  life seems to be extremely busy at the moment, so I hope it won't be quite so long again before my next post.   Thank you all so much, for taking the time to stop by my blog.   Take care of yourselves until then.

                                                            Love and rainbows,

                                                             Hugs   Jennifer xx.

   

'Quiet Moments.'

Hello Friends, Followers and Visitors,

A very happy Sunday to  you all, hope you are enjoying your day.   We had a much better start to the day this morning, quite a few sunny spells and no rain!    the odd dark cloud passed by but dropped no rain!  quite breezy but we're not complaining lol!

Today I have a card to share with you which I made for one of Imagination Craft's shows on the Hochanda T.V.  last April and I never put it on my blog at that time, so here it is.   One of the colours of Sparkle Medium we were asked to use, was bright copper, so I decided to use that for the fairy.

    
Cut a six and a half inch square of white card and colour it with the green and  navy blue Fashion Spray Inks and the yellow Mixed Media Ink.
Using the Art stamp from the 'Reflections' stamp set and the mowed lawn distress ink pad,  stamp along the bottom of the coloured card to look like blades of grass.   Matt this onto a 7"x7" white base card.

Take another piece of white card and lay the Rose fairy A4 stencil onto it.   Mask off all but the fairy and her wings with masking tape.   Using a metal spatula, spread the bright copper Sparkle Medium over the fairy and her wings.   Remove the stencil and leave the image to dry.

Take a piece of Magi-Cutz 'chicken wire' and colour it with the white gold Starlight paint.   Glue this to the bottom left corner of the coloured card. 

  
Fussy cut the fairy and her wings and glue in position, sitting on the chicken wire, using Magi-bond glue.

    
Stamp the sentiment onto a piece of white card, using a black inkpad.   Trim around the sentiment and punch each corner with a corner rounder punch.   Fix this to the right of the fairy image using silicone glue.

   
Next, lay the butterfly from the stencil onto some white card and using a stencil brush, white gold and pink sunset Starlight paints, stipple over the butterfly.   Remove the stencil  and when dry, cut out the butterfly.   Glue the butterfly to the top right of the card using silicone glue.

Add some dots of orange oxidized Starlight paint to the grass to look like small flowers.

Well my friends, that is this card finished,  hope you like it.   I adore this fairy stencil, it is called the 'Rose Fairy' A4 size but I chose to not use the rose part and sat her on the chicken wire instead.

Have a good week and I will be back quite soon.   Take good care of yourselves.

                                                                       Love and rainbows,

                                                                       Hugs   Jennifer xx.

'Friendship.'

Good evening Followers, Friends and Visitors,

Hope this post finds you well,  despite the dreary weather we are having at the moment lol!   It is not looking very promising for the next few days.   I keep telling myself that summer is just around the corner lol!     let's hope I'm right.   There are lots of flowers on the strawberry plants, the onions and potatoes continue to grow well.   In the greenhouse we have peas, carrots, parsnips, chilly  peppers, sweetcorn,  tomatoes, green beans, kohlrabi,  plus many more plants, all  just waiting to be put out in our veggie plot.    Enough about gardening, now to tonight's card.    I made this for a friend to give to her friend.    This card  is a very similar design to a  card I had on my blog on 13th. April 2019, which I called 'Friends are like stars.'   The difference is, I used totally different colours for this one and added some stamped images using gold Starlight paint on the background.   I also used a punch to make a pretty edge down one side.

 
Make a square base card from white linen effect card.   Matt and layer a piece of dark green card onto the base card, leaving a small border of the white showing.   Add a drop or two of the three inks onto a work surface and add a couple of sprays of water.

Take a smaller piece of plain white card and lay it face down onto the Fuchsia, green and yellow spray inks and drag the card across the inks then lift up.   Repeat this until you are happy with the results.   (One little tip, if you do this too often, the colours will mix too much,  giving a dull muddy colour.)     Leave this to air dry.   (You can use a heat gun but I prefer to air dry it).

Using a black inkpad, stamp the sentiment in the centre of the now coloured card.

   
Put a small amount of the  Rich Gold Starlight Paint onto your work surface and pick some of it up on a piece of cut 'n' dry foam, then dab onto the 'crackle' stamp from the Art stamps distress set, then stamp this four times around the sentiment.

 
Using a spare piece of white linen card, lay the stars stencil onto it, then dab the Rich Gold,  Emerald  and Dried Rose Starlight paints through the different sized stars on the stencil, using s stencil brush.

 
When dry, cut out each star and glue them to the card front using silicone glue to give some dimension to the card..

Using the Martha Stewart punch, punch down the right-hand edge and matt this onto the white base card.

 
Glue an emerald green satin ribbon bow to the bottom right corner and the card is finished.    Hope you like it.

Thank you all once again for visiting my last blog post.   I know everyone of you have busy lives, so I appreciate your visits and comments even more.   Enjoy the rest of your week, take good care of yourselves and above all, 'be happy.'     Catch you all again soon.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                                  Hugs   Jennifer xx.

Teenage 'Chill Out.'

Hello  Lovelies,

Thank you for your visits and comments on my last blog post, much appreciated.   It is time again for another card, these days seem to be flying by lol!

My card tonight has been made using a set of stamps by Woodware, which I saw in a craft shop and just had to buy, I just love the images!  so  cool lol!   brilliant for a teenager.   I have used some patterned paper and coloured the images with watercolour pencils.

       

 Make a five and three quarter inch square base card from white linen effect cardstock.   Take a 3 inch square of white card and stamp the teenage boy sitting on the bean bag, in the centre, using a black inkpad.

Stamp the image on the patterned paper.   (This is paper I have had in my stash for some time and is by Sharon Ann - Baby Safari Collection),   Cut out the bean bag and glue this onto the original stamped image on the white card.

   
Stamp him again, 3 times, onto white card   Colour these images using the watercolour pencils, cut out and 3D him onto the main image, using silicone glue.

Stamp 'Boy Zone' in the top right and 'Chill Out' in the bottom left corners of the piece of white card, using a black inkpad

Stamp the stars, skateboard, can etc., onto some spare white card and colour.   Cut out and put to one side for the moment.

In the meanwhile, matt and layer the main image onto some turquoise blue card, leaving a small border of the turquoise  showing.     Next, matt this onto some patterned paper and then onto more  turquoise card, each time leaving a border showing.   (leave a larger border of the patterned paper showing between both the turquoise matts).    Glue this to the base card.

Stamp 'Cool Dude' on the top left of the base card, using black ink

  
Stamp the headphones on the bottom left of the base card.     Stamp the musical notes around the edges of the base card and stamp and colour the stars on white card,  then cut out and glue between the musical notes.

 
Stamp the  skateboard, can and both  appliances onto spare white card, colour, then cut out and 3D onto the base card, using silicone glue.

      

                                 
                 

             
          

Hope you like my card.    Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by my blog to have a look.   I know time is precious to us all, so I really appreciate it.   Take good care of yourselves until my next blog post.    Happy crafting.

                                                                 Love and rainbows,
                                                            
                                                                 Hugs   Jennifer xx.

A Little Sophistication.

Hi there All,

Hope everyone is well and enjoying this fabulous weather.    why is it, that the weeds grow so well and my plants don't lol!  I've been weeding in the garden today, whilst the weather is dry  but  still so much waiting to be done  lol!     This beautiful weather is bound to break soon and when it rains it may pour down, so must take advantage whilst I can,   so no crafting done today at all, most unlike me lol.

Thank you all for taking the time to visit and comment on my last blog, I really appreciate it.   My card tonight was made in January this year.   I came across this wooden stamp when having a tidy up in my craft room.  This is quite an old stamp,   it reminds me of Audrey Hepburn, I always thought she was very beautiful and very sophisticated.    I have also used  Imagination Craft's scalloped shell stencil and their sentiment stamps.   I used Distress inks to colour the card.

Take an A4 sheet of white card and trime half an inch from one long edge, fold in half to make a portrait style base card.   Cut a piece of black card approximately 5" square and matt and layer onto the base card, leaving room at the top and bottom for the greetings.

Take a slightly smaller square of white card and lay the scalloped shell stencil onto it.   Using a blending tool, rub the Peacock feathers, Seedless preserves & Dried marigold  distress inks through the design, blending the colours together.

  
Remove the stencil.   Matt the background onto the black matt.

   
Stamp 'To My Friend' at the top of the base card and 'Thank You' to the bottom, using a black inkpad.

 

  

  
Using a black inkpad, stamp Audrey Hepburn onto another piece of   card,  coloured,  using the dried marigold & peacock feathers.    Colour her lips with seedless preserves D.I.

  
Cut out the stamped image and glue to a piece of black card.   Trim around the image, leaving a small border of the black showing.

Glue this to the 1" black strip on the base card, using silicone glue to add a little dimension to the card.

    
Colour some white card with the distress inks, then make 3 roses from it.   I cut 3 different sized circles then cut each one into a spiral, rolled them up and  glued the ends.   I then glued these to the bottom left of the scalloped shell matt.

 
Well my lovelies that's this card finished, hope you like it.    Thats all from me for the moment but
I will be back again soon.   In the meanwhile, take good care of yourselves and be happy.

                                                               Love and rainbows,

                                                               Hugs   Jennifer xx.

        

'Ice Skater's Paradise.'

Good evening Friends,  Followers  and  Visitors,

So sorry I haven't blogged for a while, not sure where the time has gone lol!   Lots of gardening to catch up with as everything seems to have just suddenly sprouted!   The potatoes are through,  the onions and  gooseberries  have now formed.   Hopefully we will have lots of plums this year, as the tree was full of blossom.   We have had a couple of frosty mornings, so just hoping it hasn't affected the formation of the plums.    Well, enough of the gardening lol, onto to tonight's card.

I know we are just coming into the beautiful summer weather ( well hopefully lol!!) so the last thing we are thinking about is Winter and Christmas!!    Tonight I have chosen to share a Christmas card with you, there are quite a few crafters out there who make Christmas cards all year, so when Christmas arrives, their cards are all made!   a very good idea lol!    This card is made using Imagination Craft's beautiful ice skaters Art stamp and their 'snowflakes'  embossable stencil.

  
Matt a square of blue paper onto a 7" x 7" white base card, leaving a border of the white card showing.

Take a smaller square of white card and colour with the  faded jeans,Tumbled glass and Stormy sky distress inks, using a blending tool  or similar.

Next, lay the stencil onto the coloured card and blend the Stormy sky ink through the snowflakes design  on the stencil.    Keeping the stencil in position, spread the Sparkle Gel through the stencil, on top of the blue inked snowflakes, using the metal spatula  and leave image to dry.  Remove the stencil

        
Fix a piece of one inch wide blue ribbon across this piece of  card, just above the centre point, then matt this onto the blue matt.

Stamp the skater's image onto some white card, using a black Versafine ink pad and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.   Colour this with the blue distress inks and trim to size.

     
Matt this onto a slightly larger piece of blue paper.   Fix this to the base card on a slight angle.   Add some touches of  'Just Pearls' pearl for the snow and add a dot in each corner of the image.

Stamp the greeting on a piece of white card, using the black ink pad and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.   Colour this, then cut out an oval  keeping the greeting in the centre.   Sorry I can't remember the make of the greetings stamp, possibly free with a craft magazine.

  
Add dots of pearl around the inner edge of the oval.   Matt this onto a slightly larger piece of blue paper, then fix to the bottom right of the main image, using sticky foam pads or silicone glue.

       
The card is now finished, hope you like it.   Thanks for taking the time to stop and look at my blog, it is much appreciated.    Take care of yourselves and enjoy your weekend.   Catch you all again soon.

                                                        
                                                                 Love and rainbows,

                                                              Crafty Hugs   Jennifer xx.