In All Things of Nature

Morning crafters, another weekend is upon us, I do hope its a good one for you and that you have lots of crafting time!

Now when I did my Autumn card that I posted on Sunday, I had used the stencil over the distress inks I had used, with today's card I used it straight onto White card, using again my Versamark Ink Pad and Cosmic Shimmer Precious Pigments, I quite liked the colour that this gave and it was even better when I found some Satin Card and Glitter that matched with it. I apologize now for the long post!!!

 Like my other card I thought this inked stencil was too nice to cover up so I decided on just a sentiment, looking through my stamps I found this sentiment from Sheena Douglass that fitted the bill nicely. I stamped it onto some White card with Vintage Photo, inked through the die again with Vintage photo and die cut using Delightful Circles.

I put some Double Adhesive Tape round the edge of the card and coated it with Glitter, like a Peach colour, then attached this to some Brown Corrugated card.  I made a Base card out of two sheets of Satin card, a Dusky Pink colour, this was double sided with a brighter Pink on the other side but I preferred this shade. I put more Double Sided tape round the edge of more White card and again coated it in Glitter before attaching this to my base Satin card. I then attached the Brown corrugated card on top so the Glitter formed a boarder round the sides.

I attached my sentiment with foam pads to give it some height and added interest then I wanted some leaves to go in the corner, now those of you who are regulars to my blog may remember the maple leaf I made last year, well I was going to make more of these for this card but then thought what about using real leaves from my Acer trees, they are turning lovely colours and yes you may be thinking they would go Brown and die off, well they just might still do that yet lol! I decided to experiment and completely coat each leaf & stem with Glaze in the hope of preserving them as they are. Has anyone else tried this or know of anyone who may have tried it and did it work? I am sure Top  Coat nail varnish will do the same! Perhaps some of you are thinking that's old school, been done before, after all you can press flowers, sorry if this is the case. When I took the photo of this card (Tuesday) the leaves had been on for a couple of days and still looked okay? I am hoping they stay that way as I think the natural leaves look great I have done the same with more of the leaves and leaves from another plant that has changed colour so if it does work I have a stash of them. Although I do not like stripping my Acers of their leaves they are due to be blown off by the wind very soon so I may as well make use of them!!!

I will add a bit on the end of this post before it goes 'live' to let you know how they are doing lol!

There you have the finished card, dimensions are 8" X 8".

Items Used:

Create and Craft Double Sided Satin Card

Create and Craft Glitters

White Card

Lidls Corrugated Card Brown

Joanna Sheen Signature Stencils Oak Leaves

Creative Expressions Cosmic Shimmer Pigments Precious Set 1.

Spellbinders Delightful Circles

Tim Holtz Distress inks Vintage Photo

Sheena Douglass Little Bit Scenic 'Silhouette Country Lane'

Leaves from my Acer Tree.
Pinflare Glaze


Here is a picture of my Acer tree, its now 20 years old and although it looks a bit bare its still going strong and its always been in a pot! I almost lost it last year, thankfully this year it turned a corner! I have another Acer that I have also had for 20 years with the fine feathery leaves that are turning yellow.

My Red Acer                                                                          My Yellow Acer   
                                                

Friday: I am happy to report the leaves are the same, they have not altered in anyway.     
                                                        

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Golden Angel

Morning crafters so nice to have you visit me today, hope this finds you all well? Well almost the end of another week, doesn't time fly? Soon be Christmas lol!

Please may I welcome my new followers, its great to have you on board Ladies.

Sorry about the photos on this one, I wanted to show the Diamond snow against the Cosmic Shimmer pigment but could not get the right light on it, the smaller image might show it better. I placed some Double Sided Adhesive onto some Black card and die cut the Angel out, I lifted the sections of adhesive off from the skirt and sprinkled with Diamond Snow, I then peeled back the adhesive from the body and brushed over the Enchanted Gold Cosmic Shimmer. Peeling off the remaining adhesive from the wings I covered them with Silver Embossing powder and heat set it. All that was left was the little stars on her body which I coated with a darker Gold cosmic shimmer. I die cut the dove out of some White Centura Pearl card.

For my base card I folded some White card in half to make a 5"X7" card, I then matted it up with some Blue card. With more White card I layered up with some Blue corrugated card and wrapped some White Crinkle ribbon around the bottom then matted this on top of my base card.

I attached the Angel on top with the dove as if it was flying out of her hands. I made a bow out of White ribbon and attached this in the bottom right corner. I made a little tag that I stamped the word 'Peace' onto and placed this just under the bow. There you have the finished card. I think it would have looked better had I used White card rather than Black for my Angel, especially as far as the wings are concerned.

Items used:

Create and Craft White Textured Card
Creative Expressions Foundation Card Cobalt Blue
Lidls Corrugated card
Sue Wilson Angel Die
Creative Expression White Silky Crushed Ribbon
White card
Spellbinders Basic Tags
Crafty Impressions Christmas Snowflake Sentiments


Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Autumn Owl

Hello crafters, hope this finds you safe and well. I am a bit late for posting today, but better late than never as they say! As I am typing this it is pouring down with rain and quite windy, hopefully it will calm down soon, my male cat is not happy as he likes to be outdoors lol! Thankfully I mowed both lawns this morning before it rained!

Now todays post is a card I made a while back but never posted as I was not sure whether I liked the finished look or not, the problem being I think I should have added a solid base under the Owl to make him stand out more, I just did not want to cover up the beautiful papers lol! Anyway I have decided to post it so I can enter the Allsorts Autumn challenge!!!

I started with my basic White card and matted it up with Brown & Green card.

I cut down the sheet of Autumn paper from Bearly-mine and matted this on top of the Green card, these are gorgeous papers, so pretty I don't want to use them lol!

I die cut my Owl using a light Brown card, adding his hat & scarf cut out of Green & Orange card.  For the background I die cut the Vienna die and Flourish two die out of Dark Brown card and attached these altogether as seen and placed on the top of my card just slightly off center. I die cut another flourish two die and cut into it to add the sides as accents in the top corners of the card.

There you have the finished card, I love this little Owl and intend on making a Christmas card with him on soon, watch this space lol!

Items Used:

Basic White card stock 6"X6"

Lidls card-all sorted colours

Bearly-mine Papers Fall Fancy

Spellbinders Winter Owl

Justrite Heirloom Flourish Two

Sue Wilson Austrian Collection Vienna

I would like to enter this into http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/week-279-autumn.html

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Thinking of You Flourish

Morning my crafting friends, thank you for joining me here again today I do appreciate it.

I have decided to keep my posts a bit more brief as it takes up so much time explaining what I have done it leaves little time to craft what with work, house and pets, if you know what I mean so please do ask if you ever want to know more detail, this way I may manage to get a few more cards done lol!

Thank you for all your wonderful comments for my last post.
Hazel & Suzie-thank you for your kind comments on my role as an LSA, much appreciated, its not always easy and we are sometimes used as doormats but then there are sometimes rewards such as appreciation from some kids.
Janice- You must get that Cd out lol!  Wonderful images on there.
Ang-Safari ooohh lucky you, I have always wanted to go on one of those, would love to stay in those huts high up where the Elephants come of an evening, I would never go to bed lol!

Now for todays card...

This card was made using scraps out of my scrap box apart from the Base card which was a sheet of Kraft card! Once I was happy with the colour of card it was quite a quick one to make.

Items used:

Create and Craft Kraft Card
Crafters Companion Centura Pearl Ivory Card & Pastel Blue Card
Creative Expressions Unmounted Stamps Classic Sentiments
Kanban Kandi Core Card Aqua
Lidls Orange card
Papermania Gold Embossing Powder
Tattered Lace Large Flourish
Spellbinders Labels Twenty-Five
Spellbinders Radiant Rectangles
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo
Sheena Douglass Embossing Folder Indian Ornate Screen

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Giraffe at the Water Hole

Morning my crafting friends, hope today finds you all safe and well? Thank you for visiting me today it is much appreciated.

Janice-No I am not a Teacher just an LSA, I help the children in the classroom, its nice having all the holidays but obviously we don't get paid for them.

Today's post is another from the Card Creations 'Brush Strokes in the Wild CD Rom that showing an image of a Giraffe at a waterhole, hence the title!

Once again I tried to keep the colours to match the image.

The items used are:

Card Creations Brush Strokes in the Wild CD Rom

Create and Craft Black Card

Lidls Peach card

Tattered Lace Purple Paper

Lidls Orange card

Spellbinders lables Twenty-Eight

Creative Expressions Unmounted Stamps-Kind Thoughts

Tim Holtz Distress Ink-Vintage Photo

I don't feel I need to explain what I have done but if you do want  to know anything then please e-mail me.

I do hope the colours are not too much for you, please let me know what you think?

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx