Thankyou so much Pam!!

I got a lovely suprize today when I recieved this award from my friend, Pam @ http://hookedonkrafts.blogspot.com.
                             


I love Pam's blog as she always has loads of stuff to inspire and I especially LOVE her step by step tutorials ...... Some really fab 3d papercraft items.Pay her blog a visit!  Thanx Pam.

 I would like to pass this award on to 5 people whose blogs are amongst my fave(apart from hooked on crafts lol)

Dyan @ http://dyan-reaveley.blogspot.com/ ....( always a laugh and some fab quotes as well as inspiring artwork)
Kate @ http://thekathrynwheel.blogspot.com/
Rachelle @ http://imblackmartha.blogspot.com/
Jean @ http://craftyindividualsblog.blogspot.com/
Karen @http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/

Nominees

Please follow the guidelines below when accepting your Liebster Blog Award.
Congratulations to you all you well deserve this award.
When one accepts the award they agree to:

Thank the person who gave them the award and link back to their blog.

Copy and paste the award to their blog ( I linked mine to the one that gave it to me)

Reveal the next 5 blogs they have chosen to receive the award commenting on their blog to break the happy news.

And Lastly, hope the artists nominated will do the above to keep the award going by accepting and awarding 'The Liebster Award' to 5 special blogger's that they would like to honour

Hugs Jayne xxxx

Love is in the Air :)

The challenge on http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/ was a photo of loads of brightly coloured buttons , the theme at http://stlukescharitycardschallenge.blogspot.com/ was love n lace and at http://teddybochallenge.blogspot.com/ is 'love is in the air' so I combined all of them !!!

The image was another of those adoreable bears fromhttp://teddybo.com/, Teddy Bo n Teddy Bea, coloured with promarkers. I LOVE these bears they're just sooooo cute. I made a rocking stepper blank and decorated it with various papers from my stash to make it look like the bears were snuggled up on a seat.

I finished the edges off with fine peeloffs and stamped the sentiment onto a heart shaped label. To finish off I added 'with all  of my heart' in my own handwriting and made some button and lace 'flowers'....... could be used just to let someone know you love them...... not just for valentines day!

Feb's Journal Page

Here's my February page for the Kate Crane Calender challenge. Take a look at http://thekathrynwheel.blogspot.com/ Sorry about the quality of the pic but I had to use my mobile once again as it wouldn'y fit on my scanner lol!!
 I had such fun creating it n am quite chuffed that it's actually ready on the 1st of the month !
 I realise the whole hearts thing is really corny but I just couldn't help myself.... I'm a big softy at heart lol.
The background was done by spraying the whole pages librally (in the garden!) with shimmer sprays fromhttp://www.debbimoore.co.uk/. They are fab as they're really vivid clours and all have a different coloured shimmer in them... gorgeous. I let some of it run down the pages and stamped the background with various stamps using distress inks. I made the 'days' from different patterned papers and used a home made template to cut the heart shapes. It took ages but worth the extra effort!

The 'heart girl' was a doodle round a face from a magazine...not perfect but it was my first attempt ...I'm sure I'll improve with practise. I coloured her in with promarkers and added stamped wings from Tattered Angels and a couple of hearts cut from Debbi Moore patterned paper.

The heart stamp was a freebie from the craft stamper. Love the 'tatty' appearance. Coloured with distress inks and the wings were a digistamp fromhttp://www.wonderlandstamps.co.uk/ which I really love. The company is fairly new so she hasn't very many images at the mo but they are FAB, especially if you're into the whole steampunk look.
The borders were cut fron beige card and decorated with various stamps, stickers and rub-ons. Really pleased with the overall look of my page AND......... all on the first of the month too!......Not that I'm bragging or anything LOL  just not used to being sooooo organised!!

Fab Blog Candy to be won !!!!!

Pop on over to http://teddybochallenge.blogspot.com/ for a chance to win this fab blog candy prize but hurry...... there's only a few dayz left to enter.......... Gorgeous teddy stamps and digistamps but be warned..... they're addictive lol xxx  

Another Cute Teddy Bea

This card was made for the TeddyBo challenge...'.anything goes' and the I love Promarkers challenge of
'Pink n purple'.

Sorry the pic is rubbish but I'm having to rely on my mobile phone for the time being! The image is from teddybo.com and I coloured her with promarkers. Isn't she just sooooo cute? The paper I pleated to make the rosette is from debbimooredesigns.co.uk - just the thing for the pink/ purple theme! I edged the image with dusty concord distress ink and matted it onto perlescent purple card befor attaching it to the rosette with silicon glue. I added 3 pearls and ribbon, both from Debbi Moore. The 'topper' was attached to the front of a 6"x6" square card covered in hot off the press patterned paper. I rounded the corners of the card to echo the circular rosette and...... hey presto !!! lol

January Art Journal Page

I attended a mini art journal workshop with Kate Crane last year and absolutely LOVED it. Haven't tried the techniques out much since then so when I saw the calender challenge at http://thekathrynwheel.blogspot.com/ I decided to have a go!

You'll have to excuse the awful pic but my camera wasn't working and I had to use my mobile phone! If I had to wait for my camera January would be over lol !
 Anyway.... I started with drybrushing different blue acrylics onto the background  and used various things to stamp into it, adding more depth. I stamped 'January' onto card and cut out with a tag punch, inking the edges before adding them to the collage. The 2 magpies were from Prima and I stamped,masked and stamped to get 2 of them. They are there as we have 2 magpies out our front that have been there for 3 months now! The pirate theme is because it's my birthday this month and I'm having a fancy dress do... I'm gonna be a pirate! I doodled onto the magpies to make them into little pirates and then the pirate girl was a digistamp, (Devlish Donna) from http://www.kennykdownloads.com/, I printed it out and added a pirate hat and eye patch and then cut the original face out and added a pic of the great Marilyn Monroe behind it!! The image was coloured in with promarkers before being added to the collage. The days of the month were 4.5cm squares cut from various blue papers from my stash and I stamped various birds onto them from Crafty Individuals and 7 gypsies! It was a challenge working on such a large scale(double sheet of A3) but I really LOVED it. Can't wait to do February's pages.

Cute 'n' Cuddly

The challenge this week at http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com. is cute n cuddly so I used some cute stamps I got free in this month's issue of papercraft inspirations to make this rocker card. I stamped the mouse and made a mask out of post-it notes so that I could stamp the flower vine behind him. The image was coloured using promarkers. The edge of the image was defined with tumbled glass distress inks before matting and layering.

 I used gorgeous dotty ribbon fromhttp://www.debbimoore.co.uk/. The bows were held on with brads and the paper was from my stash.... not sure of the make !  I used alphabet peeloffs to add the sentiment and the whole thing was finished off with a generous sprinkling of gems, again from Debbi Moore.