Watch the birdie

A couple of weeks ago I met my darling daughter and Jack at Birdworld for our catch up. We really love this spot in Surrey, it is perfect for children. Out of season it is also incredible quiet, we almost had the place to ourselves. There are birds of all shapes and sizes and I thought I would share a few photos today of our fun day out.

Jack was fascinated by the pelicans.

You can buy pots of meal worms to feed them which he really loved doing. 

There is also a sweet petting farm at Birdworld where Jack saw sheep

the cute resident reindeer

and lots of chickens.

We had such a lovely day together.

My card today just had to feature a sweet creature and is a very spring themed new baby card which goes down for sale at Dotty's Tea House today.

The image is a favourite of mine, a sweet Penny Black hedgehog.
I coloured it with Promarkers and highlighted with pencils. The paper is First Edition (I think) and the dies are a mix of Memory Box, Cheery Lynn and The Works.

I would like to enter it into the following challenges;

I love Promarkers 1/3 anything goes
Passion for Promarkers 1/3 colour it
Crafty sentiments 2/3 spring is springing
A gem of a challenge 1/3 anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's patterned paper challenge February
Everybody art 1/3 animals

Thanks for stopping by and for your very kind and supportive comments you take the time to leave me. Enjoy this gorgeous weather, let's hope it lasts for the weekend as we will be celebrating my baby boy's 30th birthday on Sunday! Have a great weekend.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

January theme and sketch challenge at STAMPlorations

Hello and welcome to our January theme and sketch challenge over STAMPlorations, the first of 2019. 

We have a fun theme this month

and a lovely sketch to work with

 Before I share my January inspiration I just wanted to give you a heads up of a great giveway which closes on Monday here This post is where Shery shares her fave 3 of each designers' makes from 2018. If you would like to see which of mine she chose just head on over.  You can win a $50 package of stamps just by leaving a comment over there so please don't miss out and yes it is open to everyone, internationally. 

 So back to our January theme and sketch challenge. The rules in brief are that you need to use stamping on your projects. You don't have to use STAMPlorations stamps to enter but of course we love it if you do! You can link up 6 times with new blog posts and you need to add our logo to your post. You can go with the theme, the sketch or both, the choice is yours. There are some fab prizes to be won too!

Today I am sharing my first card to hopefully give you some inspiration to join us. I have chosen to use both the theme and sketch.

I used this sweet stamp set called Tweet love

and the sentiments from party time

I love the "stitched" feel to the Tweet Love animal stamps so I got out my sewing machine to add some sewing both to the edges of the card and to the panels of stamping.

I stamped and coloured the images with Zig watercolour markers (I didn't use them all in the final card)

Here is my final card, mounted onto a Kraft card blank.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges

Mix it up 2/5 anything goes

Love to craft 2/5 anything goes
A bit more time to craft 2/3 anything goes
Happy little stampers watercolour challenge anything goes

You can see more inspiration and get more info over at the main challenge blog post here.  There is a $15 voucher for the winner, voted for by the DT as well as 3 $5 gift vouchers to the 3 runners ups. it would be lovely to see you join us. And remember that if you use my code STAMPGIRLJANE at the checkout you could save an extra 10% off in addition to any current discount on the shop website here

Enjoy the weekend ahead.

Thanks for stopping by,

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x