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

Teardrop flower

Last week we decided at class that you ladies could all take a turn at choosing the following weeks flowers for us to do, this was Sue's choice, and a good one too, it turned out really well I was pleased with it, I used the maidenhair fern to go with it.

Love Jenni xx

Frangipani

Hello friends, here is the lesson for Monday nights class, the Frangipani, it is a very popular tree in Australia, you can cut a branch off, stick it into the ground and it just grows, mind you it takes years!! but the flowers and perfume are worth the wait.  It is created with the large balloon punch and the large heart. 
I have my two lovely Granddaughters here today, they are having a sleepover so I will have fun
Love Jenni..........
Hope you all have a great weekend too

I am going to enter into the Papertake weekly challenge, I don't often get to take part in challenges, but this one calls for the use of punches!! the challenge name is "fancy a punch?"' and you can find it here:

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/2011/05/fancy-punch.html

and also in the ABC DT CHALLENGE

Here: http://abcdtchallenge.blogspot.com/

Lilac

Here is the Lilac we will be doing on Monday.....it is a great flower to make, I did make one earlier in the week, then decided it was the wrong colour so had to start again, but that's okay....:-)
Happy Mothers Day to all the Mums out there, if you still have yours...treasure the time with her, you don't know how long you will be lucky enough to have her with you and remember......your Mum is your best friend
Love Jenni xx