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. A big welcome to my newest follower, and thank you for choosing to follow me. I do hope you pop back often to see what I am posting.
I was overwhelmed by you wonderful comments on my last 2 creations. It was well worth all the hard work creating that word book. I forgot to say I didn't use a book template that you are able to buy, I made mine with some large Alphabet templates I own, and I did all the measurements for this my self, and cut out the letters by hand, as someone had asked about it. I made 7 of these such books in different colours about 4 years ago for my children for Christmas, but in my excitement I forgot to photograph them.
Now today I have a card I have made for the 2nd butterfly challenge for this fortnight which you will find HERE . In this fortnights challenge you have to use 3 bs Butterfly, Button, and a Bow, so here is my attempt.
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This is a 8"x8" size card. I made the organza flowers with ribbon, and added a button to the center. I added a button to the center of my bow too. Thank you for your visit and time. I do hope you are all keeping well. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi and welcome to my blog all my craft loving friends, and visitors. Thank you for all your wonderful comments on my last creation. I really do appreciate the time you spend visiting me, as I know time is precious to all of us. For my few loyal friends who visit nearly every time I post something, Thank You from the bottom of my heart for your very loyal support, because your support and visit makes blogging all worth while.
Now today I have 2 Christmas cards to show you for a wonderful challenge that starts today, and on the 25th of every month over at Sarns blog which you will find HERE This runs till the 28th of the month, and you need to create 2 Christmas creations to enter. So think this means by the end of the year you will have at least 24 Christmas cards already made. YAY this has to be a winner in my book, as I leave my cards till the last minute every year. lol. I can also join in the Snippets Playground as I have used some snippets in both of these. Sorry but there are a few photos in this post.
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I decided to make this word book which you may remember were very popular about 4 or 5 years ago.
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The papers for these were printed onto card, and from a Debbie Moore CD called The Crackerbox Mice. I do love the image of that mouse with the full tum after eating all that figgy pud. lol. Now I think we can all relate to this at sometime over the festive season. lol.
Thank you again for your visit and time. I do hope you like my work. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi and welcome to my blog, all my craft loving friends, and visitors. Well here we are again it's the weekend, I do hope you are all enjoying the Sunshine where ever you may live. It is wonderful in my part of Kent, lots of spring flowers poking their heads out of my pots. So maybe spring is on it's way, but don't hold your breath all could change as it snowed in late March last year. Oh no I have said the S word. lol.
Thank you for all your really great comments on my box.
Today I have a shabby chic card, now I don't very often make one of these, but I was watching C and C last week, as me and hubby do every morning while drinking our first cup of tea, and we saw Nancy demonstrating this lovely CD. So I was tempted into buying it, and here is the result.
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This is a 8"x8" size card. The papers and the image are from the My Craft Studio Shabby CDs. I distressed the edges with scissors as Nancy did, as I haven't a distress tool. I decoupaged the image and the flowers, then I added some peach leaves, and some die cut bitty blossoms made with a contrast printed card. I then added some string pearls from my stash, and lastly a stick pin I made last year. I do hope you like my effort.
Thank you again for sparing your precious time to visit me. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi and welcome yet again to my blog, all my talented craft friends, and visitors.
Thank you for all your lovely comments on my last card. I really do love hearing what you think of my creations.
Well today I thought I would make my 3rd entry for the Snippets Playground Challenge. So here is the box I made with lots out of my snippets box, including the lace.
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When I make my 8"x8" boxes out of A3 box board I have a 6" piece left over from the top, and bottom so I cut this down to 6"x6" square to make this box. I made the flower on top the other day, so this box took me just over an hour to make. I used my Tonic Diamond Swing punch to edge the box, with some card from my snippets box, and added some pearly bits from my stash. I die Cit 4 Spellbinders Parisian Corners and added more pearls, and wallah you have a lovely box. Hope you like it. Thank you again for sparing your precious time to visit my bog. Lots of crafty love. JENNY. I would like to enter this into the following challenges. http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/pixies-snippets-playground-week-112.html
Hi and welcome to my blog all my craft loving friends and visitors. Especially my newest follower, and thank you for choosing to follow me, and I do hope to see you popping back often to see what I have created.
Thank you also to everyone of you that regularly visit me, and the wonderful comments you make on my work.
Well I started going back to my singing practice yesterday afternoon, as I haven't been since Christmas. I had a very lovely welcome back, and we are performing this afternoon at a nursing home. I soon realized how much I had missed singing, and my wonderful singing mates.
Today I have a card I was asked to make for a 1 year old niece.
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This is a 8"x8" size card. The main papers and the image are from the Joanna Sheen Baby Love CD. I added a Tattered Lace die cut round the image, and this just cried out for some stickles on the edge. I also added stickles to the edge of the flowers, which were cut from my smallest part of the Spellbinders Anemone Die. The corners were cut from a piece of card out of my snippets box.
Thank you again for your visit and time, as I know time is precious to all of us, especially craft time. lol. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi and welcome to my blog all my craft loving friends, and visitors. Well it's the weekend yet again, and hasn't this week gone by super fast as usual. I do hope none of your were effected by the bad storms this week, if you were, and you have experienced any problems from it, I am sending biggest virtual hugs to those in need, and best wishes that all will soon be well again.
Thank you for all your very lovely comments on my last card. I do so appreciate every visit and comment made.
Today I have a card I made for my daughter to give to her partner, as they celebrated 6 years together last weekend.
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This is a 8"x8" size card. I used Papermania Capsule Collection papers. I used my Spellbinders Grand Labels 1 Die, and the Spellbinders Labels 24 dies in various sizes to give the pattern to this card. I added some lovely red ribbon with appropriate sentiments on it, and some red bling hearts. I also used Peeled Paint, and Pine Needles Distress Inks to the main Die cuts, which were cut out of card from my snippets box.
Thank you again for sparing your precious time visiting, and commenting on my work. I do hope you are all having a really great weekend. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi and welcome to my blog all my talented craft friends, and visitors. Sorry I have been missing for a few days, but I have been looking after my little great granddaughter, Ellie.
Thank you for all your kind comments on my attempt at the flowers. I will be making a few more shortly, but I just had to make this card for a new challenge, and it's all to do with Butterflies, and you know how I love butterflies and owls.
So here is what I have created for the challenge.
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This is an 8"x8" size card. The butterfly paper is from a Crafters Companion CD called Cute Companions Volume 1. I used a Tonic Die Diamond Swing Ovals for the inside and the front of the card. The corner little butterflies are cut from a Tattered Lace Die called Chantilly Petal. The flowers I made from my Heartfelt Creations Majestic Blossoms Die. The Ivy is a Creative Expressions Stamp, and I coloured it with water colour pencils and cut it out. The large butterfly is a Spellbinders Fanciful Flight Die, now this die doesn't come with a solid back so I cut around the die to make this.
Thank you again for sparing your precious time visiting me. I do hope this dreadful weather hasn't affected any of you. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi and welcome to my blog all my craft loving friends, and visitors. Well it's the start to another week, and I do hope you all have a fab week.
Thank you for so many wonderful comments, on my last card. I really appreciate your time spent visiting, and commenting on my work.
Today I have something a little different to show you. I was watching a tutorial on UTube and as it ended I saw these lovely flowers made by a few wonderful people, so I though I would have a go. Here is my effort.
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Some of these were made with some lovely crochet pieces that the lovely Linda Burrows sent me, and some were made with lovely little crochet doilies and pieces that Linda Wescott also sent me. Thank you to both those lovely ladies, and I do hope your health improves and you can start posting your wonderful creations again. The rest were made from bits of lace and cloth I inherited from my mother, all except one which I made out of the welt of my husbands old Tee-Shirt. Now there are quite a few tutorials on these, so I have put a link to one HERE then when it ends it will lead you into lots more to watch. I do hope you like my effort. I nearly forgot to say the back cardboard discs are from my snippets box, so I will Joining the Snippets Playground with these. I will add some felt on the back if I make a brooch with any of them.
Thank you again for visit and time. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi and welcome to my little crafty blog, all my craft loving friends, and visitors. Well the weekend is here again, and I do so hope you are having a fab weekend, as the yellow thing in the sky is making an appearance.lol. Well it is in Kent, so I do hope it's the same where ever you may live.
Thank you for all your comments on my box for the baby card. I really do appreciate your comments and visit.
Today I have the card to go with the box I showed you in my last post.
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This is an 8"x8" size card, and it was a commission. I used the Joanna Sheen Baby Love CD for the papers and image. I used some lovely Spellbinders Die cuts to form the frame for the image. Sorry I can't remember their name as the die was lent to me by Christine Harrop to cut out as many as I like. So thank you very much Christine. Now these die cuts were cut from my snippets box so I can enter the Snippets Playground Challenge yay. Thank you again for your visit and time. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi and welcome, to my dear friends and visitors. Well I think we are all going to get webbed feet, with all this rain. lol. Still I do hope you are all keeping nice and warm, and also dry. My heart does go out to anybody suffering from these dreadful floods. If it has never happened to us, I don't suppose we can quite understand their anguish, but I do have plenty of sympathy for their dreadful plight.
Thank you for all your comments on my last card. I know you all lead very busy lives, so to have you visit and comment is a big bonus for me.
Today I have a box that was made to go with a card that was a commission.
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This is a box to house an 8"x8" size card. I used some snippets from my snippets box to cut out the dies. So you now where I am heading shortly. The Snippets Playground. I used Centura White Pearl from my snippets, and coloured it very pale pink with Spun Sugar Distress Ink. This I used for the corner dies. The Pram Die is a Tattered Lace one, and I cut out a pink hood for the pram and some pink wheels.
Thank you again for your visit, and time. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
Hi and welcome to my blogall my craft loving friends, and visitors. Thank you for all your comments on my last card. I am so pleased you liked it.
I do hope everything is fine where ever you may be, and that you are all keeping well. If something is amiss, please accept my biggest hugs, and get well wishes to help you feel better. Today I have an Anniversary card for my sister, and her husband. I don't think this beats last years as it has been on my most popular post for a year now.
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This is a 8"x8" size card. I edged the card and paper with a brown Promarker. The paper I bought a while ago from my local craft shop. The heart die cuts were given to me by the wonderful Sue P , thank you Sue. I coloured these in with Promarkers too, and the center ones I embossed with Spellbinders M-Bossabilities folder Enchanted. I then rubbed some bronze metallic rub ons over the top. The corners and the little hearts were cut off the Tattered Lace Chantilly Diamond Die. Thank you again for your visit and time. 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 great weekend.
Thank you for all your get well wishes for my DH. He is fine now and no signs of the pain recurring.
Thank you also for all your lovely comments on my last card. It's very nice to know other peoples opinion, when your not sure about what you have created.
Today I have a card I have made for my box of cards, I had no one in mind when I made it. Hence there is no sentiment or verse. I hope you like it because I was very pleased, with the result.
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This is an 8"x8" size card. I inked my base card with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink, and most of the pearlised card I used. I cut out 16 Tattered Lace Chantilly Diamond die cuts. The flowers I made with my newest die the, Heartfelt Creations Majestic Blooms Die. I also inked those with the same distress ink.
Thank you again for your visit and time. Lots of crafty love. JENNY.
