Happy Birthday Debbie

Hi everyone, I thought I'd show you the card I made for my good friend Debbie for her birthday. Its one of the fabulous Stamping Bellas 'Ketto's Dolly', she is so gorgeous. I coloured her with copics and the outside of the image is chalked. I now like to use Versafine ink and clear embossing powder with copics. It gives an edge to work to and takes away the worry of whether the ink will bleed. The papers are Bo Bunny. I punched some small circles from the papers and made the centres for the flowers by using an embossing tool to form half circles. Stick with a blob of silicone glue.
Happy Birthday Debbie!!! Glad you liked it, looking forward to our outing on Saturday.
See you soon,

Jane xx

Coming Soon..........

My visit to The Craft Barn last week coincided with the arrival of a box from Canada containing the fabulous Stamping Bella stamps. I had already put in an oreder for some of the stamps I wanted!!! So I had to stay and help unpack the box so I could bring home some goodies - well wouldn't you????
I have had a little play but am still a bit slow and my brain to arm doesn't always work too well!!
I hope to be demoing at The Mini Fest on the 6th March and will be using the Stamping Bellas and the wonderful Copic pens. So try and come to The Craft Barn and see all the demos going on. They will all be in the shop so you don't need to walk down the road to the hall.
Anyway, as soon as I get something to show you I will post the pictures.

See you soon,

Jane xx

Happy New Year

A very belated Happy New Year to everyone, sorry its a little late. My new years resolutions are to put more posts on here and get crafting again as soon as possible!!!
Its my last chemo next Thursday (yay) and then I have a break before starting radiotherapy. Hopefully I can start getting back to normal after that. Normal, whats normal?
Anyway, I want to put lots more on here and get back to working at The Craft Barn.
See you soon,

Jane xx

Christmas is coming!!!

Hi everyone,
Sorry not to have been around for ages, I've been having chemo, third one and half way through next Tuesday. Hope it is not too unkind this time. Anyway I've had a lovely project to keep me busy over the last couple of weeks. Sandy at The Craft Barn asked me if I would like to decorate an advent calendar. How could I refuse!! It has been good to have something to keep occupied and I've certainly enjoyed doing it. I painted the box with acrylic paints be Claudine Helmuth. They are really easy to work with and dry nice and quickly. The front of the doors were decorated with Christmas papers by..... the name escapes me at the moment (sorry chemo brain) but I will check and add them on. These were then glittered with stickles for a nice blingy, sparkly, effect. The insides of the calendar were also painted and papered to match the doors. I used a variety of ribbons to make a full bow and coloured some flowers and leaves using Viva mtallic paints to finish the decoration. I now have another one to do for me!!!!
Hope you like it.
See you soon,

Jane xx

I am still here, just haven't had much time for posting. Unfortunately I have not been able to do much crafting lately as I was diagnosed in May with breast cancer. Since then its been lots of hospital visits, tests, two operations and a third one in just over a weeks time. Hopefully, after that op I shall be able to move on to radiotherapy and hormone treatment. Anyway, I can't praise my team at Crawley and Redhill hospitals highly enough, they moved so quickly and have been so caring. It is all very positive nowadays and sadly the clinic is very busy with many ladies and some gents. So, enough of the boring stuff.
The card today is one that was published in Papercraft Essentials, this month I think, using the wonderful Copics and a Kadoodle Stamp. I do love my Copics and aplogise to all the ladies at The Barn who are waiting on my Copic Masterclasses, I will get there soon!! The papers are Basic Grey, another of my favourites and the flourishes were cut using the Slice machine.

See you soon,

Jane xx

OMG how long is it since I put anything on here??I have been kept really busy with classes and demos and have been really lucky to have a couple of projects in magazines.
My favourite craft item at the moment is definitely the Copic Ciaos. They are fabulous for blending and you can use them on card, ribbon, buttons all sorts!! I really like airbrushing with them and must get on with some new projects for the June Extravaganza at the Craft Barn, one for your diaries - 6 and 7 June. There will be lots of demonstrators and some really wicked things for you to see!!
The cards I am posting tonight are two I made for a demo lat week using Copics, Stamposaurus Stamps and the best papers in the world - Basic Grey!! The flowers are coloured with Copics to match the dress. Hope you like them.

Thanks for looking, see you soon, Jane xx

I am sorry not have posted for such a long time, I have been very busy with projects at home. The biggest being the wonderful Copic markers. I am so loving these pens!!! Yesterday I did my first demo with them at The Craft Barn and met so many nice people interested in using them. I think they will be very popular. I was kept very busy all day with colouring and airbrushing. There is nothing else that colours like them. I will post some pictures very soon.
I have also been busy with a scrapbook page that will hopefully be appearing in a magazine in a few months. Will let you know later.
Since my last post I have been lucky enough to have a card in Creative Cardmaking, a new magazine only available in craft shops and another card in Papercraft Essentials in their supplement.
The days seem to fly by and I can't believe we are already into March.

Thanks for looking, see you soon,

Jane xx

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Another Christmas come and gone. All that preparation for 2 days!! I certainly didn't get it all done as my husband shared his nasty germs with me - very kind of him. I was late with everything but I think we got there in the end and there were no complaints. Since then I have been busy with some cards for a magazine article and a 13th birthday celebration for our youngest daughter. Its not fair having a birthday so near to Christmas.
Anyway, its time for me to go so I want to wish you all a very Happy New Year!!

Thanks for looking, see you soon,

Jane xx

P.S. Don't forget The Craft Barn sale starts Saturday 3rd January, check online for sale items which will be different to those in the shop. www.thecraftbarn.co.uk

Christmas Poem

Found this Christmas poem on a blog by Christine Dark. Unfortunately I still haven't worked out how to link up to other blogs but I'm working on it!! You can find her blog via The Craft Barn Kadoodle Blog www.thecraftbarn.co.uk

Twas the night before Christmas,
I’m glued to the tree.
I’m wondering what Santa
brought just for me.
Could it be cardstock
or chipboard or lace?
Or a Cricut, I said,
with a smile on my face.
And that’s when I heard him,
“Hi Santa, ” I said
“You know….good little girls
Should be in their beds.”
“I know I should Santa,
And now I’ve got caught.
But I was just so excited
To see what you brought.”
“Well, let’s take a look
In this room where you work.
He shook his head quickly,
And left with a jerk.
I heard him exclaim
As he put it in gear.“
You’ve got enough crap,
I’ll see you next year!”

Don't think he better bother coming to me then!!!

See you soon,

Jane xx