Having a great time

One week gone already, we have had lots of fun, but lots of rain too, it is starting to fine up now these last couple of days, but because we are high we are feeling it very cool. I had to buy a couple of long sleeve shirts today.  We have travelled up and down the Waterfall Way and because of all the rain, the waterfalls have been tremendous, we have met some really nice people along the way, that is the beauty of caravanning.   On Weds of this week we will meet up with our good friends Barb and Darryl and are really looking forward to that, here are a couple of photos

Love Jenni xxx

Hydrangea

Here is the Hydrangea  which is this Mondays lesson, it is quite involved, but not too difficult :-) a bit fiddly maybe lol, hope you all enjoy it!! This will be the last lesson for two weeks as I am going on holiday, we are taking our caravan for a little road trip and meeting some good friends of ours, they are travelling down from Queensland and we are going up from here, meeting half way, we are taking the first week on a slow trip and then meeting them for a week on the 24th.  I arrive back on the 1st December, so next lesson on the 6th

Love Jenni

Christmas ornament

Hi everyone this is a Christmas ornament I made for the tree, I punched small flowers out of green acetate and pinned them to a styrofoam ball........IRL it catches the light beautifully and I think it will really shine on my tree this year....if you are looking for tomorrow nights class card please scroll down to previous post

Love Jenni

A simple flower

As I thought we ran out of time last week and didn't get to finish the Rhodendrum so we will finish it this next Monday. I don't think that it will take the full three hours so here is a simple flower for us to do as well........you can put it on a card or save it for "The Box" lol, I am sure you will have time to finish last weeks flower and do this as well it is soooo easy.
Love Jenni

explosion box

Here is an explosion box I made a while ago, there is a lot of room for improvement but I enjoyed making it!! The colours haven't photographed very true as there is a lot of pink in it, but I don't mind for a first try!!

Rhododendron

Had to get this card ready early for the class next week as this weekend I am looking after two of my darling Granddaughters while their parents have a bit of a break.  I will have a nearly two year old and a nearly seven year old, they are staying three nights, it will be a bit of a challenge as the youngest has never slept anywhere but home at night before.  Wish me luck LOL
Next weeks card is this Rhododendron, it is a nice flower to make, but is time consuming.......hope we get it all done in the one night but if not we will carry it over, it's just a matter of being methodical and doing each stage in turn, we will start with the stamens, then the leaves giving both a chance to dry while we do the flowers, I am sure you will enjoy the finished card, there are twelve flowers on this truss, each flower has 5 petals, so that is 60 petals per person, plus 12 stamens, 6 leaves and a stem..........imagine what my hands and arms feel like tonight, I have punched all the shapes out for you!! That is 79 shapes each person! wow!

Love Jenni

Tidy Tips

My ladies did a fantastic job of the roses last week, this week is a much easier flower, the Tidy Tips, a little bit of painting that is all.  It took four hours last week to do the roses, but they all persevered and did beautiful arrangements, I am enclosing a picture of some of them below this weeks flower for you to have a look at...I am soooo proud of you all!

Love Jenni

A treat for me this week

I am having a wonderful week this week, a good friend of mine is visiting from Melbourne, she is also a teacher of Floral Punchcraft and we are having a ball, sightseeing during the day and crafting at night, she will be here to join in the class next Monday and she is the "Queen of the roses" in my eyes, I downloaded photos of her roses for inspiration years ago even before I knew her, and it was she that taught me how to paint them to look natural........Jan I am glad you are here!!  We both made a rose card and this is what we will teach on Monday night, more for the painting and the displaying than the flowers. Jans are on the black card and mine on the purple
Hope you enjoy this as much as I did

Jenni

New Blog

Busy Becs Store has now started it's own blog, there is some terrific ideas plus some blog candy to win, see candy on my side bar................... for my card for this week please scroll down

Poinsettia for Xmas

Here is the Poinsettia Christmas card I made for next Monday's class I am early this week for a change!! I used a frame folder from Cuttlebug to frame this flower and I am pleased with the result, the flowers are two sizes one having less petals than the other, and of course my favourite maiden hair fern punched out of gold paper as a concession to Xmas............poetic licence LOL!!
Jenni