Busy Week !

Good morning all. First of all thankyou to all the lovely messages of support both on here and on my facebook for my exciting news. I appreciate it sooo much.
Well I've been off line for a week....a fault with my internet :(  We really don't realise how much we rely on it until we don't have it!!
Although I've been off line I've had a really busy week. I've been catching up on some of my professional studies work.....8 weeks till hand in  eeeek ! Better get myself into 'computer' mode :)
 I thought I'd share something I made outside of uni today. It was an order for a birth sampler with a difference..... a cute teddy bear holding a plaque. My client was over the moon with it.

The finished article

A closer look at the 'flower' in her hair.

Hope you've enjoyed your visit today. Enjoy your weekend  whatever you're  all up to. Hugz, Jayne xxx

Exciting News :)

Woohooo ! Just a quickie but I had to share. I've some really exciting news today...... Four pieces of my embroidery work has been selected to be exhibited in Paris next week at the Premier Vision trade show. For those of you that haven't heard of this it's a huge international trade show where companies from all over the go to purchase new designs for future collections, usually either for fashion or for interiors. Excited muchly !
I'll be back later to share some more of my work. Have a good day. Hugz, Jayne xx

A Peek at my Embroidery module

Afternoon all. Thanx for the  lovely comments :)  I really appreciate your input. Today I want to share some of my embroidery module which, again, I did quite some time ago. As usual I started with a theme , did some drawing sets and then interpreted them in embroidery. The emphasis was on the 'drawn quality' and not my usual neat embroidery stitches!

One of my initial drawing sets.

Another drawing sheet.

Machine and hand embroidery.

Machine Embroidery. Appliqued rose in organza on a discharged background.

Hand embroidery Pleated organza dandelion head with couching and woven embroidered leaves.

Machine embroidery. Layered cut panel at the top.

Well that's the peek for today. Thanx for stopping by and I  hope you've enjoyed it. Enjoy the rest of your day. Hugz, Jayne xx

A Blog makeover !!!

As many of you will already know I am, at present, in my final year of my BA(HONS) degree in textiles and surface design at Cleveland college of Art and Design in Hartlepool, County Durham. I'm loving every minute and would like to take this opportunity to invite you all to join me on my creative journey. I would really appreciate your thoughts on my work and the way I get there!
I will be posting some of my work from earlier on in my degree and this will lead on to what I'm up to week by week.
 The first work I'm going to share is from way back when we did an interiors module. We were all given 2 words we drew out of a hat and my words were haberdashery and vintage which was a stroke of luck as vintage is my fave!

This was one of my drawing sets.

My final wall covering design.

This is a snippet of a 3 metre black on cream hand screen printed interior fabric.
Hope you like today's insight into my work.
Have a good day. Hugz, Jayne  xxx

Steampunk Tags

As I have been unwell for a few weeks now n haven't managed to do any crafting at all ( if anyone comes across my mojo please send it back!!!! lol) I decided to update my blog with a set of tags I made a few weeks ago. I join in with a monthly tag swap over on facebook in a group called mad crafters giggles n the theme for August was steampunk. Right up my street!!!

I used my fave steampunk stamps from Kanban that seem to come out again n again! I used my trusty promarkers to add the colour.  The background is a cogs mask from Splodgeaway which was embossed onto coredinations and sanded back. I added a strip of washi tape to each tag n got to use my new die from xcut- the cogs. Love this die n they're so effective! I finished the tags off with garden twine.
Pop over to facebook n take a look at the crafters giggles group. Theres always loads going on n lots of challenges to enter. :)
Hope you've enjoyed looking n I'll be back soon with some new work!!!
Take care and enjoy your day even if it is Monday!!!! lol. Thanx for all your fab comments. Big hugz, Jayne xxxxx

Steampunk

Well it seems steampunk's making a bit of a re appearance at the mo as I seem to be coming across it everywhere I look, which is all good as I LOVE it!!!
This is my latest steampunk offering

I tried to put lots of texture and interest into the background to begin with and used a piece of pearly patterned paper from my stash. After fixing it to the card blank I used a cogs Splodgeaway mask and embossed it which shows up really well on the left hand side.I then coloured the white cardstock with crushed olive distress ink and addad a border with the pear green promarker to add definition. The 'tag' shape was diecut and then embossed with a Tim Holtz folder which was then sanded. The sentiment is from creative expressions and was stamped onto a piece of card coloured with distress ink as before. I added a liberal sprinkling cogs which were die cut from pearly paper with an xcut die- my new fave - love them!

My image is from Kenny K and she's called Scarlet West! I love Kenny K digis as they all have loads of attitude! I coloured her with my promarkers and added lots of foiling to highlight her buttons, buckles and jewels lol!

A closer look at the sassy Scarlet!

A closer look at the embossing detail.

I'm entering my make in 2 challenges this week:
http://kennykskraftykrew.blogspot.co.uk/ and
http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.co.uk/

Thanx soooo much for visiting and hope you have time to leave a little comment- I really do appreciate all your input! Take care n hope to see you soon. Hugz, Jayne xxxxx

Beautiful in Blue !

I have real problems colouring blonde hair without it looking yellow!!! The challenge at graph'it this week is...... blonde hair so it gave me a kick up the rear to get my markers out n have another go.
This is the result

For the back I used pale blue pearlised card which I embossed with the psychedelic splodgeaway mask to add texture. The spotty paper is from dovecraft basics range which was matted onto textured silver mirricard.
 

My image is from Saturated canary and she's been coloured with promarkers then die cut- can't remember what make die! As usual I've finished her off with foiling on her earrings! I just love foiling and makes no mess unlike when I get my paws on glitter !!! lol                                   

 

Thanx for stopping by today. Have a fab day whatever you're doing. Hugz, Jayne xxxx