Having a great time

It is just soooo wonderful to see my son and my youngest granddaughter after a year of separation, she is a little girl now instead of a baby, and thank goodness for Skype, she actually knew us when she arrived at the airport and we didn't have that awful waste of a week getting to know her again, she is still a little reluctant at times and is very clingy to her Daddy, but she misses her Mummy of course, that will be rectified next Tuesday and we will all be together for another ten days.  The little one adores her two cousins, wish I could get them to stay with me until she leaves LOL, they all play so well together.

Cornflowers or Batchelors Buttons

I absolutely adore Cornflowers and have really enjoyed making these, unfortunately I just didn't feel like putting them on a card so displayed them in a vase so that I can keep making more and adding to them.  Interesting facts about cornflowers are:

In folklore, cornflowers were worn by young men in love; if the flower faded too quickly, it was taken as a sign that the man's love was not returned or wasn't true in the first place, so they always picked the brightest blue one that they could find.

In herbalism, a decoction of cornflower is effective in treating conjunctivitis, and as a wash for tired eyes

It was the favourite flower of John F. Kennedy and was worn by his son, John F. Kennedy, Jr. at his wedding as a tribute to his father.

Cornflowers were also used in the funeral wreath made for Pharaoh Tutankhamen.

This may be my last post for a couple of weeks as my Son and Grand daughter are coming home from Japan for a holiday, my DIL will join them for the last ten days.  As I don't see them often I have cancelled all lessons until the 15th August, whether or not I survive without any craft for that length of time will be decided later!!! lol

Moth Orchids

G'day girls this is the flower for Monday nights lesson, it is a good one to practice your painting on, you can make it plain white like this with a coloured head, or it comes in other colours like yellow or cerise
Myths and legends surround the sensuous orchid. The very name Orchid is derived from the Greek word-meaning testicle. Claimed to be an aphrodisiac, it was perhaps the first Viagra, when the testicle like roots were crushed and eaten to stimulate sexual activity. Don’t try this at home!!! Hope you enjoy the class!!
Love Jenni xx
I am entering this in the following challenges:
Scrappy Frogs challenge ..........use flowers   http://scrappyfrogschallenge.blogspot.com/
Papertake Weekly......anything goes with the optional use of buttonshttp://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com
Allsorts Challenge.....use of punches, my flowers are always made with punches.allsortschallenge.blogspot.com

Hyacinth

After all the plea bargaining of the last two weeks here is a very very easy card for you to make on Monday, you can choose which colours you do it in, all the same or different.........It is so easy I will be expecting an early mark LOL

Spots and Stripes

I made this card specifically to fit in with Crafty cardmakers challenge spots and stripes, you can find it here:
http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/2011/06/challenge-49-spots-stripes.html
I don't get chance to enter a lot of challenges as most of them seem to require stamping, but this one didn't LOL so here is mine, of course I can't make anything without flowers so here is the teardrop flower, the wording was digitally printed, the little frame was from Fern Gully stamps.

Love Jenni xx

Balloon Rose

This rose, although it has lots of layers, a little painting, and requires a little effort is always worth it when it's finished, would make a perfect flower for a special occasion card, hope you all enjoying making it as much as I do.  I must try and enter more challenges on here, it was so great to get 11 comments on my work instead of the usual 3 or 4
Jenni xx

CR84FN colour challenge

Hi everyone, todays inspiration came from CR84FN colour challenge, these are the colours to be used: you can check out the page here:
http://cr84fncolorchallenge.blogspot.com/

and here is the card I made using the colours Aqua, Green and Yellow........a fun set of colours eh?

Sorry it's a bit small, but when I enlarge it it goes out of the size of my column, I so wish my son were here he could help me out with this problem lol, but I am technologically challenged!!

Sweet peas

This was Pat's choice for this week, when she asked if we could do this one, I said "" sure, I haven't made this one before so that will be great"" what a dill I am, it was one of the biggest challenges I have had in a flower, the centre is made from facial tissue, folded, wet, then glue patted in with the fingers, it was supposed to be painted after it dried, but I thought this may make it too wet again to do on the night, I couldn't buy coloured facial tissues anywhere........do they even make them these days? certainly not in the supermarkets round here, so I had a brainwave and decided to soak them in water to which I added food colouring, patted the glue in.....what a mess!! then because of all this filthy rain we have had here the last week, they have taken over two days to dry....still I got there in the end!!!
Love Jenni xx

Pansies

Here is Monday nights lesson, chosen by Jenny........the pansy is a reasonably easy flower to create, there is a fair bit of painting to do on it, and a little shaping, but it comes together quite nicely, I am sure you will enjoy

Jenni xx

Waterlillies

Here is next weeks lesson, the flower that is, I am not capable of teaching the other stuff LOL, it is crafted in Vellum, painted with oil pastels and blended with Zippo lighter fluid! It's a lovely flower to make, comes together beautifully, I am sure you will enjoy.........the flower this week is Sally's choice.  I used a Mo Manning image "Finna the Fairy..you can find her here:  http://digitalpenciltoo.blogspot.com....I coloured her and the background with "( awww.....can't remember the name, the coloured paints in little pots.  The paints are glittery and are the ones from Luminart before Mica colour) Everything glitters on this card, I tried to make it look as tho Finna had floated down in a bubble to land on the waterlillies in the pond :-))
Love Jenni

I am entering it in the Papertake Weekly challenge, which calls for Pastel colours.http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com

ps. to answer the questions from the last flower, mostly I give the cards I make as gifts, but lately have just been using blue tac to attach the flowers to the cards, then once the lesson is over, I remove them, put them on a long stem and have them in a vase in my dining room, others I have displayed in "shadow boxes" with glass fronts......some are in a box in the wardrobe waiting for stems