2 new designs for the Wildlife collection Flying geese and Gone fishing

what is this weather like!!!!!! .......still at least is has enabled me to carry on with some designs I have been working on and some samples of these....  today 2 for the wild life collection Gone fishing with The Kingfisher and Flying geese, both coloured using Copic Pens , and using Nestiblities for framing and the greetings , I have actually used and old Magenta rubber stamp that i have had a number of years and find very useful for swirly corners..

I'm going now to finish another 2 from ' It's a Man's world ' and will post them soon and if this weather keeps up very soon .... thank you for poping by see you again soon ....Jayne x

Painter's Shelf,Wood Work Bench and In the Shed....

Hello everyone today  we have some new designs completed, with cards made and avaliable now..I founf that Probably men's card are the most difficult to find or at least images that could be used , so I drew some....... these are part of the 'it's a man's world collection'... there are so many in my head just need a little while to get them onto paper .....

 Painter's Shelf, On this one i have choosen to keep the background simple just by stamping a swirly pattern to match the colours,Main Images coloured with Copic Pens.The greeting from the greetings sheet, and die cut using one of the nestie dies.

 The Wood Work Bench again Coloured with Copic pens and and a swirly stamp for the back ground

In the Shed reminds me of those cluttercards you could get a while back.... and as most gardeners have a shed this would be great for both Male and Female Birthday cards, Coloured the same way, layerd certain elements to give a bit of demension, greetings from the greetings sheet, using different dies,

thank you for popping by  see you soon Jayne

Meet the Bluetit family

Good evening everyone , Sorry for no posts lately been a bit tied up with one or two things ....Tonight I'm showing you one of my latest designs Blue Tit Family. Actually taken from a watercolour I've been commissioned to do and you will see that over on the Art Blog ..soon

 I managed to re size this to a 7 x 5 card and was given to my Mother on Mothering Sunday last week

 It would work equally well as a Easter card which was ask for recently...

 This is the smaller version with just two babies and works well on a  6x6 square card for Easter

 For Birthdays

 And another version for Birthdays all coloured with Copic pens layered as much or as little to suit.

On a sad note I made this card for a very special friend who lost her Husband last week to Cancer, Colin was also a close friend of mine and I shall miss him, I am going to be away for the next 5 days to spend some time with Carole so I won't be blogging probably not until the end of next week. so until then enjoy this weather and I'll see you soon....

Happy Crafting Jayne x

Take off and Inflight another 2 designs completed....

With this wonderful weather we are having I have been very busy at the allotment digging maily, everything seems to be growing well the fruit bushes budding up nicely, and the ruhbarb up in great force, I lost very few winter onins and garlic this year , I put it down to the fact of the mild weather we had over winter,   

here is another 2 cards for the men in our lives.....

 

''Take Off''' a pheasant over bullrushes coloured with copic pens and nestie labels 2 for the mat and layering, also with a gun and old powder bag and horn very traditional

''In Flight'' same scene with Ducks these both are proving very popular with my customers, with or without the gun and bag ...


Great news!!! I have started the Art blog  http://arttechdesignstudio1.blogspot.co.uk/   follow the link or add to your favorites bar for easy reach , I have put the Studio build on there to start it off but it will be for the Arty side of my life .... pop across and have a look thanks

I will continue here with the cards and new designs as and  when they are released contact me for futher details ....

Happy crafting see you soon .....Jayne x

One or two pretties tonight....

Hello ...I know another week gone, well nearly ....I'm in making card mode again...  with all the latest designs some you haven't seen yet...  am keeping them under wraps for a little while longer.. here are some pretties drawn from the art work I was kicking around mid of last year, using the same format with the nestie Dies and colouring with copics pens, I want to play more with these i can see butterflies and other flowers working in the same manner ... 

 lilacs and mauve's give a softer look although i have some coloured even softer  and layered more which i'll share once the cards are completed ..

This one again a smaller version to the art work done for the trip tic works really well shrunk and again because there is no border the nesties are the perfect companion... beads in the center of the flowers look great ,Actually the trip tic would work well as a Zig Zag card ummmm...

This next few weeks are going to be a little mad or rather madder than usual, I have so many things i need to get started, finished or prepped up ...I am working on  more of the out the frame looks either the shed  or green house for more of an ''in the garden ''look with wooden planters and hanging baskets oh yes and a ''trug o flowers'' just need to find the right back ground ...they look ok on their own too for a special thank you..  so i'll try over the weekend to get those completed .. and then there are more in the Man's World coming shortly....


I have also been given a commission in the art side of me  so will have to do a little more serious painting stuff, but I shall do my best to keep popping in and showing you the cards as they get completed till then


Happy crafting Jayne x

Where do the days go !!!!!

I can't belive it's Friday already ...I know I have had my head down drawing most of this week time has just flown by  ...I'm going to carry on with showing you some more of the new cards made which is all part of the designing trying things out and see how sizing works....on the 2 cards tonight you will see the backing from one was actuaklly cut for the matting layer on the other... I like this as you get not only two bases of card but also the greetings backing layer too.

This is how it's done I've used a pencil and drawn around the inside of the Nestie die in this case it was Lables 3. ok remove the die and you should see your pencil line. at this point colour the  background image and the seperate garden tools 2. decoupaging the pot and trowel more 3 times in all. leaving the trowel layer until later when you have attached the greeting in place, when it came to die cutting for the backing layer i thought if i cut it our of a piece  of card top left slightly not only would i have the mat layer but would also have a apt ready for another card by cutting around the pencil line it would then fit, then use a soft rubber remove all traces of the pencil. I then cut the greeting backing layer out of the center of the image backing. saves card all round...I've then simply stamped using an old magenta stamp swirls diagonal corners wrapped ribbon placed the greting over the ribbon then attached the trowel over the lot. ..note to self .must do some background designs to go with these ......

you can see here the other piece of card used as the apt laying green card behind the hole after stamping on the corners with pearlesent rust Brillance ink pad and then attaching this image in the garden with creeping vine , notice the lawn mower ... on this one you can't see, becuase this is a scan  but I've cut slots both sides and slipped the garden tools in them this creates a small bow of tools in the front and finshed the same way as before with the trowel last to go on,

I have to say the more I play with these print outs I can see that having all the elements seperated you can do vertually any thing and change the layouts to suit , each set then would have 3 main elements plkus extras the greetings or maybe 2 so we are looking at A5 size  not C6 like all the other   traditional decoupage style stamps.  Personally I prefer either red or grey Rubber Slapstick style stamps you get a much finer detail stamped image and they do last a life time if you look after them , but then saying that I like the clear as you can see where you are poistioning the image. esp when you are creating a picture with multiple stamping... and then there is Digi stamps will have to look into this more  ..... but I think you are tied to just set and print you can move images around and create a picture that way ... but with printing then you are tied to Copics, Pro markers or simular for colouring Although I have been playing with oil based and pastel pencils as well as pergomarno style but that will be next week...

enjoy your weekend  see you soon Happy colouring in........ Jayne x

one or two more cards to share..

Hi everyone, ok tonight I have another decoupage style card made  below, but over the last few days I've been doing a little design ing for embellishments add ons what ever you want to call them and some will end up on the sets to suit , so all this playing helps to create the set ....these add ons for these cards and for cards coming up as we move through the designing to the next stage by removing the decoupage frame and start playing around with the spellbinder nesstabilities frames and lable die cuts...this in turn opens up the canvas.... 

 Shed on leafy frame coloured with Copics and layered across the front, Using this (Pattern ) for these cards, makes it a little easier to get going and get  cards done...... as the working out what you are going to do is done , all you have to do is sit and colour in..I found that it was all greens and browns but you can add more colour  in the detail work , the trim on the hat or Gloves , and as long as you add a light and dark shading you can get great results very quickly, You could also add colour with the back ground papers and ribbons...

 Here is another that is similar to the sneaky peek the other day this time on the main image i dtrew in flowers, added a shrubbery to the back ground and a pot of tools as an embellishment , in the same (pattern but different background how different they look .....And I think you would get away giving this card to ladies as well as gentlemen..

ok lets move on again more  thinking out of the frame ... I've used Labels 3  on this card  both the largest for the main image and second up for the greeting and the back ground is now an Allotment, modelled on my own, unfortunately we don't have sheds but the rest is fairly close, if the weather ever gets any better I need to be getting on up there ...and soon it's march in 2 weeks ......By extending the back ground and adding a few extra veggies to the scene you could almost do the 3 growing season's even a winter scene at the allotment, for those winter birthday's...and as i now have 3 different garden tool ensemble's you could interchange to what you want ....I'm wondering whether these should be individual stamps or preset images like the decoupage and Allyson,thanks Allyson  has now suggested Digi stamps ...Me personally prefer stamps  red rubber, but do like the clear as you can see where your stamping if masking or just freestyle stamping , but I know there are others out there like the formal Decoupage style as it's contained  and all in one neat box .....Hey  why not all three  now there's a thought  let me know what you think.....

I've rambled on enough for today ...see you again soon  till then Happy Crafting    Jayne xx

Thurs or friday this week we will look a little closer at some more new  cards and more ideas I've managed to get onto paper, I find the more i explore a new concept the more I see that will work and the more detracted I get so if my posting is a bit hap hazard over the next weeks and months while the collection are getting together I hope the waiting will be all worth while..  what was it some one said  ''it will be alright in the end''  if it's not alright, then it's not the end.....lol xx very true actually

Ok so i hope you will continue to pop in and have a look and leave some comments, may be even some ideas you may like for that Man in your life  and could be part of this ''A man's world ''

see you soon