Mock Orange

This is a delightful flower to make even tho it's so tiny, I used my cuttlebug largest scalloped circle to cut the card so it will make a nice notecard. I got the idea of this from Ikki's cuttlebug, she has some great ideas for the bug!! She is also giving a great candy at the moment, so here is the link!!
http://ikkiscuttlebugcupboard.blogspot.com/

Granddaughters birthday

My eldest granddaughter is seven today.....wow, where did that time go? she is a darling girl who constantly makes me laugh with the things she says....my Mum would have loved her, and would have said "she has an old head on young shoulders" and she would have been right........love you Chloe Rose!!

The colouring leaves a lot to be desired, but at least it is better than Chloe's lol, only just tho!!

Camellia Japonica

Thanks for all the concern and positive thoughts for my son in Japan, he has decided that there is no threat to him from the radiation so has made the decision to stay, I have to abide by that although I would have preferred them to come home....We had a real success yesterday, our local newspaper reported last Weds that 25 students were here on an exchange trip and their home town was right where the Tsunami hit......only 15 of the girls had contact with family members over there, my son got in contact thru a lot of searching and scouring "people missing" web pages and found an Uncle of one of the girls.  He contacted me and asked me to phone the school where they were staying, I did but they had already closed for the day, then I phoned the newspaper that ran the article, they put me in touch with the consular generals department in Sydney, after a lot of phone calls, emails and txt messages they finally got back to me to let me know that the young lady was arriving in Tokyo that evening and that they had arranged for her Uncle to meet her there........a happy ending for one more of them........some of the others are going back to complete devastion, no food, freezing temperatures, nothing at all.....it breaks my heart.......
Here is the Camillia Japonica for this weeks lesson, not a difficult flower compared to some we have done but a little bit "fiddly" I am sure you will be pleased with the results
Love Jenni

Poppies

Here is the card for this week's lesson......sorry to be so late but I have been really busy and very worried about my son in Japan........he and his family are fine thank God they live a long long way from the epicentre, but now of course we are worried about the nuclear reactors, some tv reports have said that if they go, half of Japan will be contaminated, others say it is under control and no need to worry, but of course that is what we Mum's do best isn't it? I have been overwhelmed with the amount of messages, phone calls from interstate and from England, plus text messages and emails, I didn't realise I had so many good friends that would show their concern......My son has asked that we send him small clip on Koalas so that he can send them to day care centres in the worst hit areas, some of these children were in daycare at the time and are safe but have lost all their family in one sad blow, it breaks my heart to think of it.

Anyway here is this weeks card, poppies, an easy flower to make but difficult to display I found

See you tomorrow
Jenni xxxx

Update on Gift box with blooms

This is the finished project so you will have two more types of flower to make to finish, plus display them on your card.......hope you enjoy!!

Jenni
The colours look so different this time, must be the light!!

A birthday card, plus leftovers

Its my middle Granddaughters birthday today, here is the card I quickly made for her, I am not as good at colouring as most of you ladies that follow, but I did my best, I coloured the image which is a Mo Manning image......Penelope's party wagon...........with copics, I painted the number and covered it with dimensional magic and small pearls.  The vase of flowers below are leftover flowers from previous classes, long rolled stems added as I end up with too many cards.  I have tried numerous times to try and make the birthday card fit properly by resizing but it just won't have it, so forgive my poor editing skills too!!!

Love Jenni

A gift box with blooms

Here is another project for the classes this week, I don't  think we will manage to get it all finished in one lesson, it took me four hours! and there are still two more types of flower to add, there is a box underneath and the flowers are on the lid, this card is ideal if you want to give someone a really special gift, the box is about 2" x 2" so is perfect for earrings, bracelet, necklace etc. The paper I used was all shimmer paper, moonbeam was one and gold another, it hasn't photographed very well, it is a lot more delicate IRL.  We will finish it next week and add the other flowers, the trick is to get them in a position that you can still lift off the lid without damaging the flowers, hope you enjoy!!!

On a footnote, my hubby was fine after his tests, but they found a bacteria in his stomach which had given him an ulcer ( see I wasn't to blame after all ha ha) but I did say "well maybe they really didn't wash the tube!!!" ???????? Last night he went for a sleep study for sleep apnoea, neither of us slept very well, it was soooo quiet in our room without his snoring!! and he had too many wires attached for a comfy night, I suppose I complain too much about the noise but I won't again, as I can't sleep without it, after nearly forty years together it's no wonder really is it?
Love Jenni

Off the page

I am going to a friends baby shower on Sunday and the invitation asked for no presents but for information that we could share with the new Mum to let her know we were thinking about her and her new baby, this is what I came up with after a lot of deep thinking LOL, it was supposed to be a letter or some advice but I thought if it's something worth doing it is worth crafting!!

 The card for next weeks lesson is a pretty flower that looks like an open rose, here I have displayed it as a candle holder, but we will be putting it on a card.  I hope you will enjoy it!!

I have been able to spend a little time crafting this morning as hubby is in day surgery for a colonoscopy and gastroscopy..........I left him with the message to tell the nurses to make sure that they washed the tube between procedures!!!..............ha ha
Love Jenni

Blog awards

I was thrilled today to accept this blog award from two of my special followers, thank you so much Avril and Cassie
In accepting the award I've had to agree to the following conditions:
1) You have been tagged, do you want to accept? YES! then create a post on your blog and post the love blog photo.
2) Link back to the person who gave you the award and say if you accept.
3) Choose 3-5 of your favourite blogs to tag, link these in your post too and tell the lucky people they have been tagged.

The aim of this award is to bring unknown good blogs to light, so we're asked not to tag somebody "with 3000 followers". I would love to pass on the award to these wonderfully talented ladies some of whose blogs I have followed for a while, some I have just found, but they have given me hours of enjoyment and inspiration.

I don't have many people that don't have masses of followers!! but here are a few
Love Jenni

Baujke

Lynne

Sy

 Mazza

Daffodils

For next weeks lesson we are doing Daffodils,  even now in our hot hot hot summer, they make me feel like spring.   I have two types you can choose from, the mini one is one that is in the FPC book, it always seems a little small to me, the other is using same method but a different punch.  I am not sure yet what day we will be meeting, it depends on the lady on holiday but as soon as I have contacted her I will let you know...........happy crafting!!
Love Jenni