Hi and welcome to cardsarus blog spot
My name is Jenny Lawrence and I live in Kent.
My dear and wonderful husband Tony passed away in March 2019
We had been married for 36 years. I also lost my first Husband to the big C when I was quite young. I have 3 children and 3 stepchildren. 12 Grandchildren and 5 Great Granddaughters and 3 Great Grandsons. I have been card making for about 25 years.
I have made things all my life as my Mum and Grand Mother taught me lots of hobbies.
I have made my own clothes, knitted garments, hand embroidered items of clothing, and crocheted items too.
I love to bake my own cakes as well.
Hi and welcome to my blog, all my craft loving friends and visitors. I do hope you have had a really good week.
Thank you for all your lovely comments on my last creation. I very much appreciate everyone the you make.
Today I have the box to go with the card. I ran out of the darker blue card so I improvised by colouring my white card with a Tria Marker. The blue card on the banner is the original colour card. So it wasn't a bad match, I think.
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Now to a couple of pictures for Bibiana who is celebrating her first year blogging this week. I promised on her blog to post this today.
This is my camellia.
This is my Orchid.
Thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to pay my blog this visit. Oh before I go did anybody notice, I had left a pearl off one of the points of the Baby Card yesterday. It's funny how you don't notice it till it's up on your blog. I have now rectified that. I do hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi and welcome to my blog all my craft loving friends and visitors. I do hope this week has been a great crafting week so far for all of you.
Thank you for all your wonderful comments on my last card. I really love to read all your opinions on my creations, and thank you for taking the time out of your busy lives to pay my blog a visit.
My card today is the last in a long list for my sister's grandchildren who have all had babies in the last year, this is the 6th one. This one is a boy and is due on the 9th of September. I am in the middle of the book card, as regular visitors to my blog have seen quite often now.
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Ingredients for this card. 8x8 size card made from an A3 card. The papers and card topper are from Joana Sheen's Baby Love CD. The doily circles are Martha Stewart Punches Floral Web, and Modern Lace . Marianne Creatable Corner Dies. Spellbinders Lacey Circle Die.
Thank you again for your visit. I do hop you all have a great rest of the week. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi and welcome to my blog, all my crafty friends and visitors. I hope everyone had a wonderful BH weekend. The weather turned quite nice here in the end. I do hope it did the same where ever you live.
Thank you soooooo much for all your last comments on my card. I very much appreciate everyone that you, take the time out of your busy day to make.
This time I have a card for my brother in law. He loves football and rugby so I have made him this card.
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INGREDIENTS FOR THIS. 8x8 Card. Distress Inks Peeled Paint and Victoria Velvet. Martha Stweart Punch. Spellbinders Grand Square Die. Embossing Folder from the E Bosser Machine. Topper printed from the Squeeze Cards, Give Him a Squeeze CD. Di-namics Corners.
Thank you again for your visit today. I do hope you all have a really wonderful crafty day. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi and welcome to my blog all you craft loving friends and visitors. Thank you for all your comments on my sister's jewelery. I will pass on your comments to her.
Well Christine's dancing did the trick we have had more rain today, lots of it. I just feel for the poor peeps who work, and were looking forward to the last Bank Holiday, till Christmas. I do hope it hasn't spoiled to much of their weekend, especially if they were going away.
My card today is one I was inspired to make yesterday. I hope you like it as I was quite pleased with the finished thing.
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This is my usual fav size of 8x8 card. I embossed the white card with my embossing folder I received with my E Bosser. The flower I made a while ago with the rose petals you get for bridal things. I added some beads in the middle of it. Then I folded a doily like you would for a teabag fold then I opened it back up and glued 2 under the flower. I used the Spellbinders Parisian Accents, glued together inside.
Thank you again for your time and visit. I do hope you all continue to have a wonderful BH weekend. To those of you under the weather or in pain, please accept my biggest get well wishes and hugs, and I do hope you will soon be feeling so much better. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi and welcome to my blog all my craft loving friends and visitors. I do hope you are all having a fab week so far. Thank you for all your comments on the butterfly magnets, I am so glad you liked them.
Well it still hasn't rained here so keep doing the Rain Dance Christine. lol. You are going to be mega fit by the time it rains in Ashford. Today I have a card to share with you called Megan as this is the name for the Pink Gem Digi Image.
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This is an 8x8 size card. I have not put a sentiment on it as it is not for anyone, so I will add it if and when I need to use it. The paper is Heartfelt Creations Burst of Splendor again, I do love this pad. The digi image is a Pink Gem one , coloured in with Promarkers, and I decoupaged the flowers at the bottom and added some leaves. I have rounded the corners and put a Promarker round the edges of the cards and paper. I die cut the Spellbinders Parisian Accents corners and the other die in the set round the edges of the card both inside and out.
Well that's my creation today. Thank you again for your visit. I do hope you like it. I hope you all have a very crafty day. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi and welcome to my blog my craft loving friends and visitors. Thank you for all the comments on the butterflies. Here is the pattern for those of you that wanted it. I'm no pattern expert so I do hope you can understand my ramblings as the great Sue P would say.
With double knitting wool and a crochet hook make 15 chain sts. Join the chain together. 1st Row. Make 3 triple crochet sts and 4 chain sts between each of the 3 triple crochet sts. Continue like this till you have 8 sets of these in the circle. 2nd Row. Make 3 triple crochet sts into where you have the chan, then 4 chain sts, and 3 more triple crochet sts all in the same hole. Carry on like this till you have gone right round. 3rd Row. Into the chain if the last row, make 8 triple crochet sts then do one double crochet st between the chains. this gives you the scolloped edge. Now when you look at your finished circle it looks like a lovely doily or flower. Fold in half so you have 2 scollops either side. put you pipe cleaner round and twist for the antenna. I added a couple of beads for the end. I do hope you can follow my poor tutorial of this. These are the butterflies.
Thank you again for your visit. I hope you have a really great crafty day. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi and welcome to my blog all my craft loving friends and visitors. Thank you for all your comments on my last creation. I am so glad you liked it. I very much appreciate everyone of your opinions.
Today I have something slightly different. I have been making these Crochet Butterfly Magnets. My friend in our singing group let me have one to copy. So I thought I would share them with you.
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If any of you are interested in making these, Just let me know and I will try and write out the pattern for you and post it on a seperate post. They are very easy to make and very addictive too. lol. I bought the magnets to go on the back from E Bay quite cheaply and glued them on with Pinflair Glue Gel.
Thank you again for your visit. I hope you are all keeping well, and those of you that are under the weather, big crafty hugs coming you way to make you feel a lot better. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi to all my craft loving friends and visitor to my blog. I do hope you have all had a fabulous weekend. As I have traveled through most of your blogs today I see most of you have had some rain. Well I'm still waiting for the rain here, my poor old water butt is dying of thirst. lol. I really don't know why but we don't seem to get as much rain as the rest of you. I know this seems like I'm moaning but my grass is dying, and as I'm on a water meter it costs me money to use the hose, and I would rather spend that money on crafting goodies. lol.
My card today is another one I have made from The Heartfelt Creations Burst of Splendor Paper.
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This an 8x8 size card. I distressed the edge of my white card with Spun Sugar Distress Ink, I also distressed the pink card with Peeled Paint Distress Ink on two sides of the card and Spun Sugar again to the other two sides trying to copy the distressing on the paper. I'm not sure whether I like this or not, I think it makes the pink card look dirty. What do you think ? My design of the pyramid of die cuts were an idea of the lovely Linda Burrows from Creative Harmony blog a while back. Thank you for the inspiration Linda and I hope to see you back blogging again soon as I miss your lovely creations. The pyramid is done with your Spellbinders Parisian Accents Die, cutting the border bar off the 2nd,3rd and so on layers, and gluing together. I added some lace and seam binding I had coloured with Spun Sugar Distress Ink. A few AB pearls and some decoupaged flowers cut out of the paper.
Thank you for your visit, and comments, they mean so much to me. Sorry the explanation of the card was so long winded. I hope you all have great crafty insperations, always for all your personal creations. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi and welcome to my blog dear friends and visitors. Sorry I have been AWOL for a day or so, but I have had family staying with us for a few days, and also I had an appointment for my eye problem in Canterbury on Wednesday. I have been referred back to William Harvey Hospital in Ashford for a discussion on having eye surgery, which I'm not at all happy about. But hey if they can cure my problem with it then I suppose I should give it a try. I have not mentioned that my eyes have been getting steadily worse over the last 3 months. I now have to sit right in front of the TV, or peoples faces are distorted, to the right of their face, and as I had to have a new prescription for reading glasses within six months of the last one, it was suggested that I need to been seen by an eye surgeon. On a happier note it doesn't seem to affect my crafting yet, but when I visit your blogs I have to enlarge the print so I can read it.
Today I have a 3rd Mr Fix it card I made for my stepdaughter's husband. He is a builder by trade so was very pleased with it.
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This is an 8x8 size card. The image is a Mo Manning one coloured in with Promarkers. The papers used were from The Forever Friends The Good Life Pack. The embellishments were again buttons bought from the NEC in March. I added a washer and screw nut, this idea came from the lovely Sue Bearhouse's blog a while back. Thank you Sue for all your inspiration.
Thank you again for your visit, and comments, I do hope I haven't bored you with my eye problem. I do hope you all have a fabulous weekend. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi and good afternoon to all you talented craft loving friends and visitors to my blog. I do hope you are having a pleasant Sunday. Thank you for all your comments on my last card. I really do appreciate your time and comments. For a while I have been wanting the Burst of Splendor paper pad from Heartfelt Creations. So luckily my hubby said the other day I could buy it, and this is what I have made with it. The picture in the frame is of my mother when she was young.
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My mother was always decoupaging flowers from old Birthday cards onto photos before putting them in a frame. So as I was using a photo of my mother I thought I would follow her example. My card is an 8x8 size. As I didn't have quite the colour card I needed for this I distressed my card with Peeled Paint Distress Ink, I also did this to matt and layering card only this time I used Wild Honey Distress Ink. I'm not sure I think I should have used Antique Linen instead. What do you think ? I decoupaged the corner of the paper pad, and cut out the smaller flowers from elsewhere in the paper to go round my mother's photo. Thank you again for your visit. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi and good afternoon to all you talented crafty blog friends and visitors to my blog.
THANK YOU for all your comments on my last creation. It was a quickie card, so sorry if today's post is a bit similar, as I didn't have the time to think up a new design, for either one as they were last minute makes. Today's card and box I made for my Son and his wife for a wedding they are attending tomorrow. The colours I used were very similar to their wedding invitation, so I based my card on this.
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This is an 8x8 size card. I made the box out of A3 card doubled up for strength. I used plain card as their invitation was on plain card. Then I used the Spellbinders Decorative Grand Circles again. Spellbinders Anemone Die for the flowers. Leaves were from the Cheryl Lynne Flower Die. The flourishes were from the Spellbinders Venetian set, and lastly the corners were the Marianne Creatables doubled up of a bit of colour. Thank you again for your visit , time, and comments. I do love reading what you have to say about my work. I hope you are all enjoying your Friday, and those of you feeling under the weather, I am sending big get well wishes your way. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi and good afternoon dear friends and visitors Well it's a little bit cooler in my part of the UK. A Tad windy but a girl needs to cool down now and then doesn't she so I'm a happy bunny. lol. I do hope the weather where you are, is to your liking.
This morning I suddenly remembered my step daughters anniversary is today, so I have been busy making this card to take over to her. Just waiting for the glue to dry a little more. I have also been making a wedding card and box for my Son to take to a wedding on Saturday.
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This is an 8x8 size card. I distress inked my embossing folder with Tumbled Glass Distress ink. My flowers and leaves are a Cheryl Lynne Floral Die C184, I had for my Birthday in March, and this is the first time I have used it. The lovely pearls in the center of the flowers were given me by my lovely little blogging matey SueJ. Thank you Sue. I have used the Spellbinders Grand Decorative Circles. I do love this die. Marianne Creatable Corner Die. The lovely cord I threaded through the grand circle die was from when my Dad used to do knitting on a knitting machine.
Thank you for your visit and wonderful comments. I do hope you are enjoying your Wednesday. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi and good morning dear blog friends and visitors. Well it's another glorious day in my part of the Uk. I do hope you are all keeping well, and for those who are not , I do hope you are soon feeling a lot better.
THANK YOU for all your recent comments. I very much appreciate them all.
Today I have another card I made with a Mo Manning digi image I bought.
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Ingredients of this card. An A5 scolloped edge card. A Mo Manning image coloured in with Promarkers. I used up bits of scrap paper left over from my Mr Fix it No 1 card. See Sue J, taking a leaf out of your recycle book. lol. The stepladder and the paint are buttons I bought at the NEC in March. The blue felt pieces round the frame of the image are some bought me by my sister, and I cut them up to go round.
Thank you again for your visit. I hope you all have a wonderful crafty day. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi and good morning to all you talented craft loving friends and visitors. THANK YOU soooooooo much for all your comments on my last creation. I really do appreciate your time spent visiting my blog and making your comments, as I know you all have your own very busy lives to lead.
At least the weather is a little cooler here today. Gives you time to get ready for another onslaught of hot weather. lol. You can tell I'm not very good with extremely hot weather, can't you. Today I have the box to go with the Baby Girl Card.
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The box was made with A3 Centura Snow White Pearl card. I used a Deep Pink Starstream Pearl Card for the die shape, corners, and the roses. The image is from The Joanna Sheen's Baby Love CD. The roses I made out of the Spellbinders Rose Creation Die. The corners are Di-namics doubled up. The bow I made out of some lovely lacy material that the lovely Sue P sent me thank you Sue.
Thank you again for your visit. I hope you all have a wonderful and crafty Sunday. Lots of crafty love. JENNY. I would like to enter this into the following challenges. http://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything Pearlecent.
Hi and good afternoon or early evening, dear blog friends and visitors. Wow is it HOT! HOT! HOT! where you are. Yesterday was very HOT and I had to go singing, and the venue was upstairs in this particular nursing home. I don't know about you but my brain gets all muddled in the HOT weather, well that's my excuse in any rate. Well you know that my little group of singers are all retired, and we do this to raise funds for The Dame Vera Lynn Charity for children with Cerebral Palsy. Well we had a letter thanking us and saying that we had raised over four thousand pounds so far. I am so glad I have joined them for such a worthy cause.
Thank you for your comments on my Baby Book Card. You all are so very kind to visit me and leave your wonderful comments.
Today I have another Baby Girl Card, both my book one and this one will be sent to Wales to my sister for her granddaughter, who is due her first baby on the 14th August. I just hope it cools a little by the time she goes into labour.
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This is an 8x8 size card. I have used the Joanna Sheen Baby Love CD again for the paper and image. The die is my newest one that doesn't have a name or make on it. I made the Roses and Fuchsia from the Britannia Rose Die the largest size, and changed the colour with Promarkers. The largest Rose I made with the Spellbinders Rose Creation Die. The corners are Di-namics Die.
Thank you again for sparing your precious time to visit my blog. I hope you all have a fabulous weekend, and try not to melt too much. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
