Massey Lane Camellia

Can't believe it has been a month since I last posted! the lesson last fortnight had to be cancelled and it has been a help really as it gave me longer to do this weeks flower.  It is a Massey Lane Camellia and if you look them up on the web you will see that this is one of the flowers that really does look like its namesake, It is one of the more difficult flowers to create, there are 70 small balloon shapes in the centre, I shouldn't really say difficult, more that it is time consuming! I hope we manage to create it in one lesson!

 I am entering it in to the following challenge:
  http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/Anything goes!
http://atcswithattitude.blogspot.com.au/ Anything goes!
http://chocolatecoffeecards.blogspot.com.au/ Anything goes!
http://joyfulstamper.blogspot.com.au/search/label/Inspire%20Me%20Fridays Always anything goes
Love Jenni xxx

Autumn Blossom

Another busy two weeks for me, but I must admit I am enjoying it! Lilyan is a treasure, she is getting to know us so well now and is even picking up some of the Yorkshire accent LOL, it sounds so funny coming from her mouth! She is saying the cutest things now that we have no idea where she has picked them up from, it is as if someone switched a light bulb on and she realises that YES she knows that English language, it will be a good job when her Mummy arrives on Thursday as Daddy is having a hard time getting her to speak any Japanese! Yesterday in the car she was asked "" are you asleep Lily"" she answered ""not yet"" lol, and I said to her, have you finished with that and she said ""for the moment"" she amuses me so much.  Anyway, down to business! Mondays card is Autumn Blossom by Leone Em, I used water colour paints for the pink, the digi is a free download from Sliejke at sliekje.blogspot.com  I coloured it with Copics.  I am entering into the following challenges:
http://cardmakinmamas.blogspot.com.au/  Use Punches (my flowers)
http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com.au/ anything goes
http://frosteddesigns.blogspot.com.au/  Use Punches (my flowers)
http://joyfulstamper.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/inspire-me-fridays-61-anything-goes.html

Here we are again, we are doing our classes two weekly now, for the time being anyway, until I get used to being so busy all the time, I had forgotten how much work is involved with having a tiny tot in the house again, my day seems to consist of cooking cleaning and filling and emptying the dishwasher, along with a lot of games and sharing the love with my Granddaughter, last Wednesday my other one came over as well while her Daddy attended an appointment and her elder sister was in school, so I had two under three, that was a day and half and I was exhausted with all the play dough rolling, bead making and general playing of games, it was GREAT!!

Here is this fortnights card, one I found the pattern of on the web!! here is the addy for it: http://apassionforcards.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/card-igans.html

It is a wonderful pattern isn't it? I love it

Hope you enjoy.....I enjoyed it so much I made two LOL..............Jenni xx

Such a busy week for me but a fantastic one, my eldest son and youngest granddaughter arrived from Japan, they will live with me for the foreseeable future.  His wife got her citizenship on the day they arrived! if only it had been a week before she could have come too, but she will join them in three more weeks then the family will be complete.  My other son, his wife and my other two granddaughters are here for Sunday dinner today! it is terrific to see the girls playing together, the little one mixes up the languages, some Japanese and some English, she is going great guns!!  Todays flower is a sunflower
(it was very quickly put together) it is such an easy flower I am sure you will enjoy making it!!

Finally a card for tonight

Well lots of chaos here this morning, still moving things around, Gordy has the cleaning bug thank God!! as I didn't have time today! we tried to give a good fully working tv away this morning to a charity, but they don't accept electrical things these days even if they do work! I don't know what is happening in this world lately, you can't give matresses and now no electricals, all I can say is the poor can't be as poor as we think they are, I remember times when I would have been delighted to accept a handout of a free tele!! never mind, something else to dump. 

Tonights card is Big Guy Grilling image by Mo Manning, I have paper pieced his shirt and trousers and coloured in the rest with copics, I used a stampin up image lovely as a tree for the background and stenciled the clouds.  Hope you enjoy!!!

Jenni xx

There is a class this week

So sorry to be so late posting, I have had a very busy week, taking our Granddaughter to Melbourne for a few days, we had a great time even tho it was really wet and cold, we went to watch the Anzac Day parade, Chloe really enjoyed it, we also went to Science Works, and the Melbourne museum, which she loved as it was full of animals!

I haven't had time as yet to get a card ready for tonight, but hope to post one later, if not, don't worry there will be something happening this evening!! lol
Love Jenni xx

Apple Blossom

G'day everyone, what a busy week I seem to have had, I seem to have chased my tail all week and got absolutely knowhere so of course I am a little late again with this weeks card.  We are doing the Apple Blossom which is a new pattern from FPC, it comes together really well, we use balloon punches for this one and the Spellbinders label eight die as a backing.  Intoxicating by their very nature, apple blossoms are symbolic of heady love, peace, sensuality, and fertility. Apple blossoms (and trees) were honoured by the Ancient Celts and they would decorate their bedchambers with these blossoms to entice amorous nights, so maybe you will all be in for a treat next week?????? giggle!
I am entering this into a couple of challenges:

http://www.lilypad.inlinkz.com/2012/03/23/simon-says-stamp-presents-a-flower-challenge

http://craftuscrazy.blogspot.com.au/ flowers/mothers day

http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.com.au/ Flower power

Basic Rose

Hey everyone, this weeks flower is the basic rose, most of us have done this before, but I have two new ladies joining us this week, one is a visitor from interstate and as they haven't really done FPC before we will start them easy with a simple flower, the roses were basically white but I coloured them with copics.  The fan is just made the old fashioned way by folding paper, very simple but looks impressive eh?

Looking forward to seeing you all

Love Jenni x

Birthday card

This is a quick card I made for my Granddaughters birthday, she is eight today! In class on Monday we will be doing the Begonia from last week due to a late cancellation of last weeks class, see you all then xx

First flower for ages! the Begonia

Seems like such a long time since we did Floral Punch Craft, must have been before Christmas I think, I must admit to having quite a few memory blocks with this one LOL, but it turned out okay, the flower is a Begonia, there are lots of different types of this flower. The begonia flower is sometimes thought to represent fear, and when given to another person, some people believe that it is a warning to beware. On the other hand, it typically represents a person with a dreamy, almost innocent nature. As a gift, these are often presented to creative individuals and children because of their fanciful symbolism and their simple, unsullied beauty. These flowers can be given in the traditional bouquet, as a single flower, or within a hanging basket.

I am entering this in the papertake weekly challenge, one for the girls, or Mum, all girls like flowers I think? http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com.au/

And for this week

Sorry to be a little late with next weeks lesson, I have had my darling G'daughters here today and have done lots of playing instead of crafting!! they are having a sleep over, both of them have been very good, we get to do it all over again next weekend too!  for Monday night I have finished off the card holder that we made the cards for last week, It is a lovely gift and I am sure it will be well received.  Don't forget to bring back the cards you made so that we can get everything to match.

Love Jenni xx

Happy to be back

But I had an absolutely awesome time in Western Australia, it is a  terrific place and if it wasn't for family and friends in NSW I would move there, it was very hot but without the terrible humidity we get here, it was very flat for walking which was great for me, and  I absolutely loved the place.   It was terrific to see my friends again, what a shame its such a long way to go to catch up! I really enjoyed spending time with them and of course the crafting that was done!! they looked after us so well and we are ever grateful.

Here is the card(s) for this week, I want you to make at least three of these, they are very simple, but then the following week as long as my order from ebay gets here in time, we will make a holder to put them in.  My friends gave me lots of new ideas!!

Looking forward to seeing you all on Monday and catching up!!

Love Jenni xx

Envelope greeting card holder

Hi everyone, this week we are making a card holder made from two envelopes, a terrific gift for your
non-cardmaking friends, it is sooooo simple to make, but the ones I have given out have been very well received! you can decorated them in any way you wish, a digi image, flowers, rubber stamps, I will have lots of choices on the day.  I leave next Thursday for Perth, I am going to visit a couple of friends of mine that I met at different workshops with Floral Punchcraft, it is lovely to be able to go and visit them, and I am really looking forward to it, although not to the heatwave they are having at the moment! it has been over 40C there for a week or more, I am really hoping it will break either before we arrrive, or not long after LOL, but I suppose we will cope.........we think we get it hot in NSW but our maximum is usually about 35C and that is too hot for a delicate little English girl like me!!

Valentines card

A little early I know, but was requested by some of you ladies to teach you how to make the card with box that I made for your Christmas cards, couldn't really do another Christmas card so Valentines day is the next holiday coming up, of course you can decorate it how you want to, I got the pattern from
http://www.craftmad.com.au/cmforum/content.php/193-Chocolate-Box-Card and think it is such a great design for a few chocolates or a trinket to be given.  Hope you enjoy being back, but remember it is only two lessons, then I will be away all of February as I am going on my Jollies to Perth to visit friends. Happy New Year to all my lovely followers!! I know I have been sadly neglectful of visiting you all for the last month but I have just been sooo busy, we have had the wonderful news that my son and his family are really really coming home this year from Japan to live, I have always said, I hope they do but I won't hold my breath, but this time it is happening as he has booked the airfares, they arrive on the 3rd May.  I have been frantically sorting and donating and binning 30yrs worth of clutter to give them some space, they will live with me until they get settled and get jobs and their own home.  I am sooo thankful xxx

Christmas Baubles

These are Christmas baubles I have been in the process of making since about February this year, I have given them as gifts to the ladies in my craft class, they are very time consuming, but lots of fun once you get to the ribbon part and know you are nearly done!!

Love Jenni xx

Lazy Daisy and Holly

A last minute Chistmas card for me, will have to pop it in the post straight after class and hope it gets to its destination in time!  Lazy daisy are just what they sound like, very lazy and laid back, don't think you will have a problem with them at all.  The holly is a punched shape, so no cutting involved, a nice easy card to finish our year off..  I would like to take this opportunity of thanking the lovely ladies that come to my class, it has been a joy sharing time with you all, you are terrific people and I know we have become friends over the last couple of years!!! thanks girls and a Very Happy Christmas to you all.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

charismacardz.blogspot.com    last minute Xmas makes

4craftychicks.blogspot.com Christmas card

crimbo-crackers.blogspot.com  embossing

papertakeweekly.blogspot.com Im dreaming of .....fave colour christmas..........

Cineraria

A very easy flower this week, trying to make them easier in the build up to Christmas as we are all so busy..........I did a nice cheery flower as the weather in Australia has been very depressing for a while now, not much of our usual sunshine, a bit cool and lots and I do mean Lots of rain!!

I am entering this into the following challenges:

http://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/ anything goes

http://totallypapercrafts.blogspot.com/ anything but Christmas

http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/ anything goes

I had a challenging week this week, thought I had a fracture in my foot, but after a bone scan it showed severe arthritis, and that the cartilage between the small bones of the foot had snapped and in some places totally disintegrated, it has been very painful, but am on the mend now.....treatment is the same as for a fracture, wear the boot for a couple of weeks and take it off when it feels better, if it doesn't see a foot and ankle specialist........

On a good note, I had two of my Granddaughters here for the weekend, to help me put up the tree and to allow Mummy and Daddy, to go for a night out to the ""adult place"" as the two year old calls the pub!!  we had a great time, put up the tree, made Xmas cookies and generally enjoyed ourselves, it cheered me up no end!!

Love Jenni

Back in the land of the living

Sorry I had to cancel last weeks class ladies, but you woúldn't have wanted to catch the bug I have had, it really layed me low for a week, finally went to the Dr's yesterday and she gave me antibiotics (something she doesn't do without you being really sick) she took the oxygen levels of my blood and they were down to 92% and that is after a week of solid coughing, I have slept in the recliner chair for four nights, daredn't lay down, but enough!! I am starting to feel a little better now, still coughing well but not as violently. 

This card was put together quite quickly, Tulips!! they can be made in nearly any colour and are a fairly simple flower to make (yes I know I always say that, but ít's usually true eh?)

The symbolic meaning of tulips is fame and perfect love. The symbolic meanings also change with the color of the tulips. Red tulips mean "believe me" and are a declaration of love. Variegated tulips mean "you have beautiful eyes." Yellow tulips mean "there's sunshine in your smile." And cream colored tulips mean "I will love you forever." Tulips are the foremost national symbol of Holland, rivaling wooden shoes and windmills

I am entering into the following challenge

http://flutterbywednesdays.blogspot.com/ which is a recipe, the colour blue, lace, a butterfly and at least three flowers
and also http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com/2011/11/simon-says-anything-goes.html#links
Anything goes.

See you on Monday
Love Jenni

Table decoration

Seems ages and ages since I made a post on here, the last couple of weeks my class and I were doing christmas cards, and then last week we had a stamping up demo done for us by Rhonda
http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/rhondastatham/ and we all had a great time!! thanks Rhonda!!
This week we are back to punched flowers, here is a Xmas table decoration I made, the large red flowers are my version of the Tiger lily......all the others are just basic filler flowers, I had lots of fun making it and I hope you all do too
Love Jenni

mistletoe

A very simple card this week, made with punched leaves and pearls, we don't seem to get this kind of Mistletoe over here in Australia, but of course it brings back many happy memories of lots of kisses LOL

Love Jenni xx

I am entering this into the papertake weekly challenge which is anything goes plus a bit of bling if you want to
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/2011/11/anything-goes-plus-bit-of-bling-if-you.html