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Jenny Lawrence

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Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom
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.

Thursday 30 March 2017

BUTTERFLY CHALLENGE CARD


Hi and welcome to all my very talented friends, and visitors.

I do hope everyone is keeping well, and for those who may be suffering from any sort of problems may I send big hugs to try and help.

Well I finally got around to my Butterfly Challenge entry.
This card was quite quick to make apart from waiting for my inks, and pixie powders to dry over night.




This is a 6"x6" size card.
I started by putting some Faded Jeans, and Black Soot DI on my glass mat.
I then added my Pixie Powder Firework Burst to my mat, and spritzed it with water.
Put my card onto the wet puddle and smooshed it.
Left it to dry a little, and then mopped a little of the wet with a kitchen towel I then added some stickles to look like stars in the night sky. 
Finally cut out some aperture of butterflies, and then put them back into the apertures.
If that all makes sense.

Thank you so much for your visit, and time.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.





I would like to enter this into the following challenges. 

Monday 27 March 2017

ALLSORTS SWEETS CARD


Hi and welcome to all my very talented friends, and visitors.

I do hope all Mother's had a wonderful day yesterday.

I have just finished a card for the Allsorts Challenge, but I am not sure now if it fits the theme.
Well we shall see if it comes under sweet treats or not.



This is a 6"x6" size card.
I started by stamping the Allsorts stamp that was a freebie with a Stamping Magazine with my Misti.
I tell you it makes stamping so easy
especially as I suffer with my hands, and drop things so easily.
I tell you I have stamped many a card in the past and then dropped the stamp block and ruined a project.
I then coloured my sweets with Pro-markers.
The sentiment was also a freebie with the same Magazine.

Thank you so much for your visit, and the wonderful comments you make.
They really make my day reading them.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY. 





I would  like to enter this into the following challenges.



 

Sunday 26 March 2017

SHABBY CHIC BIRTHDAY CARD


Hi and welcome to all my very talented friends, and visitors.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY
 to all Mother's, and I do hope you are having a great day, and being spoilt by your family.

Today I have a card I just finished so I could join in the Frilly and Funkie Challenge as I do love their challenges.




This is a A5 size card.
The papers I used are Magnolia Lane.
I made the flower from Rose Petals that you buy for wedding table.
Coloured them with Memento Lulu Lavender, and Dandelion for the centre.
Leaves I cut out of some of the Snippets of paper, and coloured them with Memento Bamboo Leaves.
Most of this card was made out of Snippets of paper.
The challenge calls for Know When to Fold Them as a theme so I folded some of the papers just under the flower.

Thank you so much for your visit, and time as I know time is precious to all of us.

Saturday 25 March 2017

RUDOLF CHALLENGE MARCH 2017............DT CARD


Hi and welcome to all my very talented friends, and visitors.
Today starts the Rudolf Challenge over at 


The challenge runs from the 25th of the month to the end of the month.
The theme is Christmas as always, and it's a wonderful way to get some of your Christmas Cards made early.
There is usually a very fab prize that can be won also.

So here is what I came up with for my DT design.



This is a 6"x6" size card.
I used Hunkydory Rainbow Mirri for my matting.
I then stamped all round the edges with a stamp I bought from Hobbycraft a few years ago.
Can anyone spot the mistake ?
I then stamped my oval stamp that came as a freebie from the Stamping Magazine.
This was all done with my Misti, and Fired Brick DI.
Just added some felt holly leaves bought from the Works.

Thank you so much for your visit, and time.
I do hope you can join this super challenge.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

 

 

Tuesday 21 March 2017

OLIVIA OWL TRUG


Hi and welcome to all my craft loving friends, and visitors.

It's a very busy week for me this week I have quite a few Birthday cards to make, I am also hosting the challenge over at my DT blog, and I am GD at Rudolf Challenge again on the 25th of the month.
So if I get bogged down and don't visit you please excuse me, but I will try, and keep things going if I can.

Now as I do like to join in just a few challenges that I support, and that's not too many as I can't remember where I have been sometimes if I do too many.
I know I can hear you saying keep a record, but I tried that, and it didn't work.
So with that in mind I made this yesterday for the Allsorts Challenge of which I have been very lucky.


This was a Kit I won over at the Allsorts Challenge, and it's from 
The Hobby House.
First time I have made one of these.
The dowling handle I painted with Starlight paint, and also the flowers too.
I made a small mistake on the milk cartons, and the holes for the string, but that was a learning curve.

Thank you so much for your visit, and the wonderful comments you make.
They really do make my day.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.





I would like to enter this into the following challenges.

 

Monday 20 March 2017

MINT BUTTERFLY EASEL CARD


Hi and welcome to all my very talented friends, and visitors.

May I welcome my 2 newest followers, and thank you so much for choosing to follow me.
I do hope you can visit as often as your time allows.

I do hope you had a good weekend, and the weather was lovely where ever you may live.

Today I have a card that I made for the Butterfly Challenge.
Just made this challenge with a day or so to spare again.
First of all I thought I didn't have any mint coloured card, but one night when I couldn't sleep with my RLS it came to me that I did have some Topsy Turvey card that had mint on the one side woo hoo.


This card was made with the Tattered Lace Broderie Anglaise Die I won on the Allsorts challenge recently.
I had to cut out the largest die in the set a few times to make the card a bit more sturdy.
The butterfly is a spellbinders one, and the flowers and foliage are Tattered Lace Mini Dies.

Thank you so much for your visit, and precious time.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.





I would like to enter this into the following challenges. 

Thursday 16 March 2017

MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES DT .......................HANDMADE OR DIE CUT FLOWERS


Hi and welcome to all my very talented friends, and visitors.

Today is the start of a new challenge over at 


It is the B Teams turn and I am the host for this fortnights challenge.
So I would like to see Handmade or Die Cut Flowers on your creations that you enter.
The challenge runs from 9. AM today till 6. PM Wednesday 29th of March.
We are a challenge that has no sponsors, but you could be one of the top 3 or 5 if chosen.
Please pop over to the challenge blog to see my wonderful Team Friends creations.
So here is mine for our challenge, this card was inspired by Pam's wonderful card HERE.
I did not have her dies so this is my version.



This is a 8"x8" size card.
I cut out the flowers in white card, and coloured them with Aqua Markers, and the layered them to acheive the lift to the flowers.

I have also decorated a box for this challenge.






I painted the box with Starlight Paints.
Then I decorated it with items from my stash.
I made the Rose and hand cut the leaves, and coloured them.

Thank you so much for your visit and time.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

Wednesday 15 March 2017

A BIRTHDAY CARD FOR MY NIECE


Hi and welcome to all my very talented friends, and visitors.

Well my family went home on Monday afternoon, and I have been doing the mundane things of washing ironing, cleaning, and shopping.
So hoping to catch up with comments today.

Tomorrow I will be posting my DT card for the next fortnights MAWTT challenge which I am hosting this time around.
So today I have a Birthday card I made for my Niece.



This is a 8"x8" size card.
The card stock is Hunkydory.
The image is Hunkydory from their mirri collection. 
Used Sue Wilson's Banners Die, and the corners are TL, and also the beaded flourish is TL too.
Letters are a Xcut Die.
Happy Birthday TL Die also.

Thank you so much for your visits especially as I couldn't visit you over the last few days.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

Saturday 11 March 2017

SPRING SHABBY CHIC CARD


Hi and welcome to all my very talented friends, and visitors
.
Well my family arrived yesterday evening, and while I was waiting for them to arrive I managed to make a Spring Card for the Frilly and Funkie Challenge which I like to enter.
Now I had a slight mishap with my hot glue gun making this, and blistered the tip of my middle finger so typing is quite awkward for me at the mo.



This is a 6"x6" size card.
The purple papers are from a Papermania pad I have had for ages.
The daffodil paper is a Cuddly Buddly download.
Flowers from my stash lacy doily is a TL Broderie Anglaise one which I won last week on the Allsorts Challenge.
Butterfly made from petals of a flower.

Thank you so much for your visit.
Lots of crafty love. JENNY.





I would like to enter this into the following challenges.

Wednesday 8 March 2017

MONOCHROME CAS CARD


Hi and welcome to all my craft loving friends, and visitors.
Thank you so much for your visit, and your precious time.
As I know time is very precious to all of us.

Made a quick CAS card yesterday with a Nbus stamp I have had for a couple of years.
Now I could never line this stamp up before I had my Misti so I am happy I could use it this time as I really like the design.



This is a 7"x5" tent style card I made.
The lacy  scalloped border stamp was a freebie stamp from a couple of years ago with a stamping magazine that a blog friend bought me.
This was stamped on some snippets of card.
So I will be off to join my Playground friends with this.
The flower in the centre was also from that same set.
Decided to do some doodling with a black pen also.
Sentiment was also a freebie from a recent magazine. 

Lots of crafty love. JENNY.





Tuesday 7 March 2017

THANK YOU CARD WITH SPRING FLOWERS


Hi and welcome to all my very talented friends, and visitors.

Had a few busy days getting ready for family who are arriving on the weekend.
Just love it when they visit, but always feel very lonely when they have gone home again.
I expect some of you feel exactly the same too when your family visit that live away from you.

Today I have a card I made to enter the Allsorts challenge, now I have been extremely lucky in this challenge, and won some wonderful prizes  too.
 So here is my card for this weeks challenge.



This is a 8"x6" size tent card.
The image is from the Give it a Squeeze Feathered Friends CD.
The artist is Daphne Baxter.
Instead of doing a squeeze card I just decoupaged the spring flowers, and added black stones to the eyes of the Geese.

Thank you so much for your visit, and time.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.





I would like to enter this into the following challenges. 

Friday 3 March 2017

GRANDSON'S BIRTHDAY CARD


Hi and welcome to all my craft loving friends, and visitors.

Tomorrow is my Grandson's 13th Birthday, and he is a goalie in his football team, but lately he has started to play Basket Ball.
So this is the card I came up with for his Birthday this year.



This is a 8"x7" size card .
I cut out the frame with Sue Wilson's Rectangle Die set, now I only have the B set so I used snippets left over from other projects to give me my inner frame.
The image is from the Internet, and so is the emojo basket balls inside.
Love how this one turned out.

Thank you so much for your visit, and time, I really do appreciate your visit, and comments so much.
Lots of crafty love.  JENNY.

Thursday 2 March 2017

BUTTERFLY CHALLENGE.......G IS FOR GLOSSY ACCENTS/ AND OR SLATE BLUE


Hi and welcome to all my very talented friends, and visitors.

I spent a few hours making totally the wrong card for this challenge so I had to re-make it again.
I used my Misti to do my stamping as it was an early Birthday present from my DH.
Now a cautionary tale for anyone about to buy a Misti.
Nothing wrong with it, but after buying mine I found Tim Holtz makes a similar one sold by Tonic for much less money.
So anyone who wants to buy one check this out, as I found out too late after I bought mine.

Onto my card for the Butterfly Challenge.


Now I had a lot of trouble with the colour slate blue as I don't have any card that colour so I used my Memento Brilliance Pearlescent Ice Blue to colour white card.
I also used a stamp set I won in the Butterfly Challenge a couple of months ago.
I added my Glossy Accents to the bigger Butterflies.
I used Cosmic Shimmer Silver PVA glue for my dots, but mine is getting old, and after it dried I noticed the pin holes in them so there must have been air holes I didn't notice.

Thank you so much for your visit.
Lots of crafty love. JENNY.





I would like to enter this into the following challenge.