Showing posts with label Fly High. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fly High. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

changes

Hello!
Hope all is well!

Where do I start! Those who follow my blog know that I struggle with trying to find a way to be a stay at home mom and work at home mom. My kids are in school for 3,5 to 4,5 hours and the homework is ridiculous! I just found out that in order for your child to sign in to a good high school they have to have all A's and they start looking at the grades from grade 5!! Anyways...I'll get way off track if I continue about the schools here so as I was saying I struggle with finding that balance between all my responsibilities at home and work.

I never ever planned on doing something like Jane's Doodles. It's not like I said I want to design stamps and have my own stamp company one day or that I was stamping for a couple of years or experience in that field. It all just literally snow balled into this. From starting my blog (which also was total coincidence) and having certain talented ladies telling me....you should design your own stamps and pointing me in certain directions that led me to where I am today.




One particular talented lady who made all this possible....Judith of coarse! I will always be grateful to her, without her there would be no Jane's Doodles! A total stranger emails me and says I'll give you the money to make your first batch of stamps and we'll take it from there. I couldn't believe it! I mean who am I to design my own stamps....I haven't made a name for myself in the crafting world. Has she lost her mind!!! LOL! Well I said yes of coarse!


Which now brings me to the first change in Jane's Doodles and that is Judith is stepping down. It's come to a point where Judith is unable to give 100% to Jane's Doodles. And I understand her completely because this is a problem I have and I have spent the last few months thinking about.....the future of Jane's Doodles. I can't tell you how many times I cried because I don't know if I could do this....especially now on my own!! But Judith will always be apart of the Jane's Doodles team, someone I can turn to for advice and help. It meant a lot when Judith said:

I believe in you as much today as I did when we started, you are extremely talented.

So Judith is slowly teaching me how to run the shop, taking orders etc.  I please ask for patience and understanding as I learn this aspect of Jane's Doodles. 



Another change is that my stamps will be manufactured in the UK from now on. This manufacturer is based in the UK and the USA and the stamps are made of the same material (photopolymer clear stamps) and the same high quality (which is a must, the most important thing to me is quality). I have tested the stamps out and I am very pleased with the quality. They stamp the same as my other JD stamps. 

Why the UK? Well I live in Croatia and it only makes sense because of the shipping costs and distance. Usually it would take about 2-3 weeks for my stamps to come where as it would take 3-5 days from the UK!!


I can't predict the future for Jane's Doodles....I'm not going to lie...it's tough. The majority of my customers are from the USA....and living in Croatia is not to my advantage for several reasons. This country is still going through a recession and it's pretty bad which is another reason Jane's Doodles is more than just doing what I love but also it's an extra income that is much needed.

Our next release will be late due to the changes going on and I want to thank all who support me in this journey. I'm freaking out, scared....can I do this alone???? I don't know.
I only know that after much thought and tears....I'm going to just go with the flow! 

xo


For my card I used Nuts about you and Fly High.

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

sugar and spice

Happy first of May!!

I created this card using my Doodle Flowers, Suzi and Fly High stamp sets.
Did some shadow stamping (I used the back of my big cloud stamp) and some paper piecing.




I just LOVE this tag stamp from my Life is Good stamp set!!!


Have a great day!
xo
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Moxie Fab Stamp of Approval

Hi!

Do ya wanna win all these Jane's Doodles stamps???? Pop on over to Moxie Fab World because we Jane's Doodles got their 'Stamp' of Approval!! :)







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Saturday, October 6, 2012

Happy World Card Making Day!!

Happy World Card Making Day!!!!

Jane's Doodles is celebrating World Card Making Day, we're going to randomly choose two winners to pick a Jane's Doodles stamp set of their choice!!


AND I quickly (literally just now...in 5 minutes!!)  doodles a digital stamp freebie for ya'll....who doesn't LOVE angels!



Of coarse I have a card to share.....I printed the little cute angel out, coloured and cut out. The stamps are from our Fly High! stamp set and the sentiment is a SRM sticker. I also created my background (snowflakes) with our It's the Season stamp set.


To colour my angel I used Graph'it markers which I'm LOVING!!! They are twin tip alcohol based markers and they are a French brand). The colours I used are - 0000, 7105, 9500, 4115, 3270, 3245, 4135, 4145, 4155, 4150)


Now pop on over to the Jane's Doodles blog for the giveaway!!
xo

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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Hi There!

Hi!
Here's a quick card I created to share today....the sentiment is from our new Fly High! stamp set designed by Mariana! :) The flower.......... :) .....


I used Graph'it markers to colour the flower....which is a French brand. I plan to do a review and comparison (to Copics) in the near future. I LOVE these markers! :)

Have a great day!
xo
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Friday, August 24, 2012

Jane's Doodles Stamp Release Blog Hop



Hi!
And welcome to another Jane's Doodles stamp release blog hop!! :)
We're releasing 5 sets this month....check them out!

Roses is hand drawn by me...I think everyone loves flower stamps....never goes out of style.


Suzi is another hand drawn set by me....there's a bit of a story to this.....I LOVE Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang.....to this day!! Peppermint Patty....oh that was so me! LOL So Suzi is inspired by the Peanuts gang and I named her Suzi...after one of my real life best friends! :)



Meet Winnie, Suzi's cousin... :)
Winnie is our latest digital stamp....she's a sweetie isn't she!



Now let's move onto Mariana's FABULOUS sets!!








I have to mention that I just received my stamps yesterday....so I had to make hybrid cards because I didn't want to postpone the blog hop anymore.....
Here's a tag I created using Winnie! :)


I used copics and Graph it markers to colour her. And a SRM sticker.



Ok....I think this is the most bling I've ever used on a single projects!!!!!!! I coloured the roses with Graph it markers, used the chevron pattern from our Patterns for Him stamp set to create my background. And another SRM sticker! :)


I think I'm going to send this card to my Mama! :) She loves flowers!



And last but not least Suzi! :)
She looks like my BF...the hair and the HUGE smile....Suzi's got one of the most biggest, beautiful smiles! And she's got a heart of gold....I'm a lucky gal to have her as my friend!


I stamped the butterfly from Mariana's Fly High set on the blue paper to create my background...I used versamark ink to creat a tone on tone look.


Alrighty then.....it's time to hop along to the next blog but before you do let me mention that we of coarse are giving away all the sets to one lucky winner so to improve your chances in winning please leave comments on each blog as you go. AND we have offering
 FREE SHIPPING
for the next two week on all our stamps! :)

Good luck and I hope you have fun and get inspired! :)


xo

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