Guest Designer

Hi Everyone,hope you are having a good Saturday.Well I have to tell you how excited I was to win challenge#53 over at My Sheri Crafts with my Easter bunny card. So this week I am very honoured to be guest designer. I was asked to make something for Mother's Day and came up with this card.

This next photo is to show the dimension.

Card Recipe

Create a Critter -little boy bird 1.25" , mummy bird 2", branches1.5 & 1.75" ,blossoms,heart balloon 2.5"

Paper Doll Dress Up - Fence2.5" , Grass

(bit of a grass fiend as you can see from my blog,but had forgotten how good the grass cut is on PDDU)

Wrmk - background paper,inked and sewn

All die cuts inked with vintage photo distress ink

Brances,fence and grass embossed and sanded

Clear dew drops added to flowers

Wired red paper for balloon string

Ribbon

Sentiment -

Lots of 3d foam!

Thanks so much for stopping by,have a great weekend.hugs,Jayne x

Little Girl

Hi, after all the excitement of the Royal wedding, I thought I'd do a little bit of stamping when my son went to bed. I had a flower left over from my 'Mum' box and I recently got this Prima stamp of a little girl with flowers. I'm going to enter this card into a couple of challenges:

The Paper Variety - use polka dots
Paper Cutz Challenge - anything goes

Card Recipe

Kraft cardstock

Pink polka dot paper - Prima Jack and Jill pad

Prima stamp - coloured with distress inks

Stampin Up - stamp and punches for sentiment

Cream lace

Large yellow flower made as before

Little flowers

3D Foam and staples

Special project for tomorrow and my boys are taking me out for the day :-) and I have a slight inkling that a visit to one of my favourite craft shops is on the cards......yay! x

Congratulations

Congratulations Prince William and Kate, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Didn't she look beautiful? And he looked great in his Irish Guards uniform. A lovely happy occasion.Good luck to them both for the future together.It's a brilliant atmosphere here in Britain today.Here are some photos..

Hope those of you who have had little sleep(I know many of you were planning to get up very early to watch),manage to get some rest. Have a good day.Jayne x

Royal Wedding

Hello everyone,hope you are all having a good thursday. We've had beautiful weather but it's just on the turn! Hope it stays dry for Kate and William tomorrow.The card I have is to celebrate their big day and I know it's incredibly cheesy but how many Royal Weddings do we get! Lol!

I am entering this intoBBTB2 where Julie has selected Home Decor Crown.I don't have this cartridge so used a crown from paper Dolls.Technically he won't be wearing a crown tomorrow,but hey...poetic license!!
I think he'll be in RAF uniform and it's rumoured the Queen is giving Kate a family tiara to wear.

Also entering this into Whimsical Wednesdays - It's a Royal Celebration.

All cuts are from Paper Doll Dress Up or Everyday Paper Dolls and cut at 3.5"
Even the pennants are on there and they are cut at 3"
As usual,lots of inking,doodling,krylon pen for gold buttons,gems and 3d foam.

I've noticed that lots of people use peachy keen stamps(hope that's right)and I think they would have been great for my couple.Think I need to go on an international shopping trip!!!(Online!)Lol.

Thanks for looking in.Wishing Wills and Kate a very happy,healthy and long life together.
Jayne x

Pretty Box

Hi,hope you all had a fantastic Easter. Looking forward to another long weekend as for anyone who doesn't know we've been given Friday off for the Royal Wedding and Monday is a bank holiday! Yippee!

Today I have a special box I've made for my Mum. I am going to fill it with something special for her.

I am entering this into these challenges:-
Fantabulous Cricut        - #11 - Mum's the Word
My Sheri Crafts            - #54 - 3d gift item
Celebrate the Occasion - #11 - Mother's Day

Recipe

Life's a Party - hexagonal box cut@ 8.75"

Storybook - Mum letters 1.25",Branch fancy corners 1.5",Branches 1 - 1.5",Scalloped circles(flower shadow) .75 - 1.5"

Ranger glimmer mist - heirloom gold

Vintage photo distress ink

Glamour Dust

I'm guessing probably just about everyone knows how to make these flowers but just in case...

Circles inked,wet and scrunched.Open them out,put a brad through 3 or more of them and whilst they are wet,glimmer mist,scrunch back into flower shapes. When dry they are very solid.I then added glamour dust.

Thanks for stopping by.Have a special project to celebrate the Royal Wedding which I will share tomorrow.

Take care,hugs,Jayne x

Happy Easter

Hi, just wanted to say Happy Easter. Spending the day with my family, enjoying the weather. The Easter Bunny has just been and my son has finished his egg hunt. Here's a photo of us in the garden just after the hunt.

Hope you have a good weekend.

Love Jayne x

Safari Tilda

Hi,had a great day at the beach yesterday,not many Easter's I can say that about! A great fun family day out.
It was a friend of mines birthday,so this is the card I made for her.

Sorry,but I don't know which collection she is from.I think she is Australian Tilda and she is sat on a Magnolia boomerang.

She is coloured with distress inks and cut out and 3D mounted.Stitching,inking and flowers.My friend loved it.
Thanks for looking.Jayne x

Stylish Blogger Award

This week,Melissa from http://craftygator.blogspot.com/  gave me this award. I am so thrilled. I haven't been blogging 2 months yet,but can't believe the enjoyment it gives me to share what I make(I give all my cards to people I know,and then what is left I give to charity - usually breast cancer care). So I never had a way of keeping track of what I actually made until now. But for me the biggest pleasure I get is all of your lovely feedback.I was scared to blog initially,but  I have found the crafting blog community is a fantastic place to be with some amazing people. So thank -you for all of your encouraging comments and for making me feel so welcome.
Gwyneth moment aside...

Rules
1. Thank the person who gave you the award by sharing a link back to them.
2.Share 8 random things about yourself.
3.Award it to 8 bloggers you have recently discovered and tell them about it.

1. Thank-you Melissa.http://craftygator.blogspot.com
2.
Eight Random Things
1)I prefer dogs to cats.
2)I love being outdoors.
3)I play lots of 'boppy' music..I was going to say when I craft,but actually most of the time.
4) I only ever sing in the car as I can't  hold a note! Don't worry Simon Cowell,I won't audition for x-factor!
5)I  live in the countryside and have fantastic views and the most amazing sunsets.Ain't Mother Nature great!
6)I am blessed to be surrounded with the family and friends I have.
7)Only have 2 'crafty' friends where I live,all my other friends like/order what I make but have no interest in doing it themselves.
8)My son still has to help me copy and paste on the computer ...can't seem to master it!

3.
There are so many wonderful bloggers out there. All the ones I follow are new to me. I am sure  all these people already have lots of awards. In no particular order:-

Theresa - http://miislucky.blogspot.com/
Shelly - http://cardsbyshelly.blogspot.com/
Ashley - http://welchcreations.blogspot.com/
Jovan - http://cardsbyjovan.com/
Kate - http://smallbitsofpaper.blogspot.com/
Gigi - http://thecricutbug.blogspot.com/
Stephanie - http://cricutmimi.blogspot.com/
Sherrie - http://sherriescraps.blogspot.com/

Jayne x