Showing posts with label Jennifer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jennifer. Show all posts

Friday, 10 May 2013

Onwards and Upwards blog hop x

Hello and welcome to my post for Jennifer Grace's bloghop ''Onwards and upwards''. If you have arrived here from the hop then hello and if not, then you might like to go visit some old and new friends by visiting the blogs listed towards the end of my post. Jennifer is hosting a fab weekend not only of bloghopping but of challenges and giveaways so it will definately be well worth visiting all the bloggers joining in.


 

So what better way to celebrate crafting than to do some...........................scrapbooking. When Jennifer announced the title, I knew I had some photographs from The Bristol Balloon Fiesta somewhere and spent some time finding them. And this is the layout I made...........................


As the photos were 7 x 5 I decided to do a double page spread so it would make them stand out more. I shopped the stash and found a beautiful red vintage distressed patterned paper which luckily I had 2 sheets of. I then stuck down the photos. Knowing I would have a gap I looked for another patterned paper and found the beautiful lemon and white cloud design which fits in perfectly with the theme of flying onwards and upwards. I then picked out the blue from two of the balloons and used two colours of washi tape and some red, yellow and blue stickers.



Here is a closer look at the left-hand page..........................


....................and the right-hand page........................



I found this great balloon stamp which I think is by House of three and added the word sticker because the stamp had a phrase which didn't fit the theme and was too difficult not to ink. I added in some Studio Calico wood veneers in the shape of butterflies. I coloured these with some Glimmer mists and once dry I added Stickles over the top to add some glimmer.


To neaten the photo edges I added some patterned paper borders, washi tape and used a Fiskars punch


I also found some lovely gems in pale blue to make the butterfly trails.



 If you comment on all the blogs in the hop, finishing at www.jennifergracecreates.com to let Jennifer know you've been all the way around, then you'll be in with a chance to win a prize pack of cheerful Glitz Designs Color Me Happy and Simple Stories 24/7, worth over £25! All entries must be received by Monday the 13th of May at 10.59pm BST. Your next stop along the hop is at Jo B.



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Monday, 6 May 2013

Onwards and upwards bloghop x

Happy Mayday. I am off later to watch the children dancing around the Maypoles on the Cathedral Green. As I write this it is a lovely sunny day so I hope it will stay that way while they dance with their colourful ribbons.

I wanted to let you know that this Friday at 6pm I am taking part in Jennifer Grace's Onwards and upwards bloghop. It is only a small part of a weekend of fun and crafting on her blog. There will be tutorials, giveaways, guests and crafting galore. The last weekend she did was an enormous success and Jennifer always kindly makes up a pdf of all the things she and her guests have completed which she makes available after the weekend is over.



Over the weekend there will be hourly posts starting from 4pm Friday and starting again at 10am until 10pm both Saturday and Sunday. Phew that's alot of crafting.

So do come over and visit on Friday it will be worth your while I can assure you. Here is a picture of the fabulous giveaway Jennifer has on offer:

It includes supplies by Glitz designs and Simple Stories...................all wonderful creations. Yummy xxx

See you back here on Friday, if not before 



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Friday, 16 November 2012

Frosty Festivities Bloghop.


 
Hello and welcome to Frosty Festivities Bloghop which was the brainchild of Jennifer. So glad you could join us as we celebrate a variety of posts all linked to the idea of Winter and all it's amazing aspects. You should have arrived here from Jo B over at Buckingham's Palace, hope you were on your best behaviour and patted the corgis. If you've joined here then don't worry you won't miss a thing as the list of all the blogs taking part are at the end. There are also giveaways so make sure you go right to the end and see what Jennifer has to offer. The pictures are below:


If you comment on all the blogs in the hop, finishing at www.jennifersjumbles.blogspot.com to let Jennifer know you've been all the way around, then you'll be in with a chance to win a spectacular seasonal prize of Basic Grey Aspen Frost and Carta Bella Winter Fun items, worth over £25! All entries must be received by Monday the 19th of November at 10.59pm GMT.

OK so I decided for my blog post I would like to try something I have never made before so I have made some Salt Dough Ornaments. I have seen some lovely ideas in magazines and books over the years but still no tried it so here goes. I got the recipe and instructions from Katy's blog here. She clearly describes how to make the salt dough so I won't go into that part. Suffice to say if you a mixer it's easy, then you knead for all you're worth for 5-10 minutes and then go for the cutting out part. I decided to make a star shaped garland and then several Christmassy shapes including an angel, reindeer, bell etc. I made extras as I wasn't too sure how the shapes would turn out.

While they were cooking, I checked to make sure they weren't cremating in there and found that several of the holes I'd made had closed up. I tried re-making the holes but they still closed off so next time I will have to make them bigger I think. Also some of the shapes went puffy which I think gives them character but if you want them perfectly flat, making thinner shapes seemed to work best.

Anyway once they wer dried, I chose to try two finishes on the shapes: decopatch and paint.

Decopatch is brilliant as you use a special glue/sealer and that saves you having to use any varnish. I found a red Christmas design in my local shop and cut up the paper into tiny squares. Then you just glue and add shapes until the ornament is covered. And here are the five decorations which just need the hangers adding which will be gold ribbon. The material is from my fave fabric store Millie Moon.





The other shapes I firstly painted with white gesso. As the shapes are quite water absorbent I thought having a primed layer would help the paint adhere and also make the shapes more durable.Here they are all ready for the next stage...........................



And the next stage involves some of this..................

Sadly, the finished version will involve a second blog post as my local shops had no metallic paint intil today and there is no time to complete the project. Safe to say I hope it will be lovely once complete. The shapes will be painted gold and red and then the next part involves gold ribbons and a hoop plus some bells. So do come back for the second installment.

Next stop on the hop is Manchester, Tennessee where Julie is waiting to show you something exciting. Have a safe trip.


Here is the full list of blogs should you get a little lost....................


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