Fab'n'Funky challenges 3rd birthday celebration - week 2

Good morning all

I'm so excited to be telling you about our second week of the Fab'n'Funky challenges 3rd birthday celebration so come on join in the fun

 for the chance of winning one of the prizes from our fabulous sponsors.

The challenge this week is an easy one 

3 of something on your card or number 3

Our sponsors this week are

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Cult Pens


Who are offering a fabulous prize of
a £50 voucher
 to spend in their store
How great is that!

 Cult Pens are also  offering a discount of 10% in their store
to all you Fab'n'Funky fans - just use the code below
It's valid right up until the end of December

 FNF2012 

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Joanna Sheen

Who are offering
 a £10voucher 
to spend in store

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Dis Digi Downloads

Who are offering
  A $10 voucher to spend in store

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Flonzcraft


Who are offering
   a $20 voucher
 to spend in their store
 - with free shipping

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Who are offering
 a choice of 5 digis 
from the cute digis they have in their store

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here is my card for this week made with a fabulous stamp that I got from Flonzcraft

I made this card for my father in laws birthday - he's going to be 85
I thought this was the perfect type of stamp to use for his card and its a bit different to my usual style
I've made it vintage style and not too fancy!

This is what I did....

Image - vintage car from Flonzcraft

Stamped with Memento espresso truffle ink

Distressed with Tim Holtz distress inks in brushed corduroy and fired brick

Paper fro K and co

Card from the local paper factory

Die cuts - memory box madeira corner

Label - Sizzix label die

brad - papermania a silent night

Sentiment stamp - dawn bibby 

DAD cut with sizzix vintage market dies

Mid post reminder - Fab'n'Funky 3rd birthday celebration

Morning all

Brrr! Its cold this morning - there's a thick white frost on our garden and even the cat didn't want to venture out this morning.

I'm just calling in this morning to remind you about the great challenge we have going on over at Fab'n'Funky Challenges.  Its our 3rd birthday celebration and the theme is

Birthday with number 3

or 3 of something

Here's another card I made this week for the challenge - its been a busy week and I have't managed to do much crafting at all but I've put the effort in for Fab'n'Funky's birthday!

This cute little image is from Bugaboo digital stamps and is called Kidlets - curly haired boy

This card has a 3 on it (for the moment!) to celebrate our third birthday - though it already has 3 stars on it so it would have still been good for the challenge, but I really have it in mind for my son to give to my grandson for his first birthday, when I saw the image I knew it was perfect for him because he's a little curly haired moppett!! Both me and my daughter have curly hair and his is well on its way too - his hair is exactly the way his Mams was when she was little - ooo I love little boys with curly hair!

The rocking horse die cut was actually bought by my daughter when Jacob was christened for personalised table confetti and I kept one or two - had no idea why - but it just seemed perfect for this card! - don't ideas just sometimes turn up! 

We have 3 great sponsors for our challenge and there's some fab prizes up for grabs so we really need to see your fab creations so you're in with a chance - you've got to be in it to win it as they say

This weeks sponsors are

Who are giving a prize of seven digi stamps to one lucky  winner

Who are Giving the lucky winner 3 digi stamps of their choice from the shop at Di's Digi Downloads




Who is giving the winner 5 stamps of the winners choice
from her shop over at Whimsey stamps

We also have a fabulous new sponsor

Cult Pens


who will be offering a very special prize to end our challenge next week - be sure to come back to Fab'n'Funky challenges next week to see what this fabulous prize is!!

In the meantime Cult Pens are offering a discount of 10% in their store
to all you Fab'n'Funky fans - just use the code

 FNF2012 

Heres what I did to make this card

Image - Kidlets - curly haired boy

Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils

card shape cut with spellbinders grand scalloped die and sacllop dies

Papers - K and Co hopscotch boy (my favourite "boy" paper)

Card - bazzill basics

Star die - Nellie Snedden

Brads from my stash

Hope we see you there this week

Have a great weekend

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Dilly Beans - Anything goes
By the cute and girly - stars
Fun with shapes and more - anything but christmas
Polka doodles - Any die will do
Simply create - anything goes
The paper shelter - birthdays
totally gorgeous - dont be square

Hugs Judith xx

Red and green challenge at Delightful challenges with Postgirl Pat

Good morning all

Happy Thanks giving to all my American Friends
Hope you have a lovely family day

Today i'ts a new challenge day over at Delightful Challenges.

Our theme for this week is

Red and green

I decided to give myself an easy card this week as I'm having a really busy time at the moment and crafting time is short! so I used one of the precoloured images available over at Digital Delights

this cute little girl is Postgirl Pat and she's posting her letter to Santa in the precoloured postbox!!

This is what I did ...
Images - Post box (coloured) and Postgirl Pat (coloured) from Digital Delights by Looby Loo
Sentiment  -from the Naughty or nice Sentiments set from Digital Delights by Looby Loo
Papers - My minds eye -Merry and Winter Wonderland
Poinsettia diecut - Spellbinders die
Gems and ribbon - from my stash
Snow- from flowersoft

We are very lucky this week to be sponsored by

So lets see what you can do this week

 there has to be card and green card you've made - if not get going -Santas on his way!!

Challenges i'm entering with this card

incy wincy challenges - square cards
makeit monday - anything goes

hugs

Judith x

Moving Along with the Times is a little bit dotty - but I think you knew that already!

Good morning all

Its challenge day again over at Moving Along with the Times 

- how did it get to be Thursday again?

We've got all kinds of things going on over there at the challenge blog

Things really are moving along over there

We have a DT call open at the moment because Hazel is looking to expand the team to two teams so that we can keep up with these busy times we live in.  It will be the same great challenges every week but the DT members will be posting in two teams so you'll only need to make a DT card once every two weeks

Its a great friendly team over at MAWTT 

some would say we're a bit dotty

but I couldn't possibly comment.....

Which brings me onto this weeks challenge

Hosted by our lovely teamie 

Clare

The theme is

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Lets Go Dotty

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No worries there Clare - we all fit that Theme lol

Our Sponsor this week is Stitchy Bear Stamps and one lucky winner will receive some great images.



  The DT were very lucky to receive some Sponsor images to play with
here's the one I chose called Lady bug

This is what I did....

Image - Lady bug from Stitchy bear

Coloured with Copics and prismacolor pencils

Papers - from craftwork cards (quite old!)

Die cut - Riviera corner from memory box

Flower punches - EK Success and (small centre one) papermania

Pearls and lady bug - Martha Stewart

Sentiment - Lili of the valley

Hope we see you over at MAWTT this week - and it would be even better if we saw you as a new DT member - come on reply to our DT  call - you know you want toooooo.......

Hugs 

Judith xx 

Happy 3rd Birthday Fab'n'Funky Challenges

Woo hoo its our birthday this week at Fab'n'Funky Challenges

We're having a great big celebration over at Fab'n'Funky Challenges over the next two weeks to celebrate our 3rd birthday, we have some Fabulous sponsors and prizes for you to win.

So we'd love to see you there - why not call in - bring us a card for our birthday 

maybe stay for a cocktail or two lol!!

Theme this week is 

Happy Birthday - with 3 of something - or the number 3

We'd love to see you there  - come on call in - we have cake!! 

(we'll its a picture of one on a card lol)

Here is my card today using one of our fabulous sponsors images

Its called Teddys Surprise Package (polka dot wrap) from 

Stampart by Kathryne

I just love this little bear and its the second time I've used him in the last couple of weeks - the last time I used him he had a Christmas parcel now he has a birthday one - what a generous little bear he is!!  He really is my favourite bear at the moment -he's just perfect for shading and I love that cuddly tubby shape that he is - oh and his cute little face - told you I loved him!!

This is what I did....

Image - Teddys surprise package from Stampart by Kathryne available here

Coloured with Copics and prismacolor pencils

Papers - my minds eye - so sophie graceful

Stars die cuts - nellie snellen dies

Star border die cuts - mariannes dies

Ribbon - Carnmeal cottage

Sentiment - Digidarla designs 

Craft card - QVC

Distress ink - tea dye by Tim Holtz

Star gems - from my stash

Hope you can come to our party

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Creative moments - anything goes
The paper shelter - birthdays
crafty cardmakers - more than one punch or diecut
forever friends monthly challenge  - anything goes
incy wincy challenges - square cards

big hugs

Judith xx

Digital delights new challenge - thankful or thank you

hello again my bloggy friends

I know here I am very late in the day -I'm still chasing my tail

 - but this being my 3rd post of the day I'm surprised I'm here at all!!

I have a cute little card using one of the little girls from Digital Delights -she is from the Fall Kids set which is currently on sale in the Digital delights shop and available here

I thought she was perfect for our challenge this week

 - she just seems to be saying Thank you and our challenge theme is  

Thankful or Thank you

  The quality of this photograph is not particularly good - I couldn't get a good light and my edititing seems to have made it worse not better!  The colours in real life are a lot more vibrant and it has a beautifully embossed corner which looks very dull and flat here - but hey ho you can't have it all lol

We are sponsored this week by the wonderful 

Who are offering a fab prize of a $15 voucher to spend in their store

This is what I did

Image - From the Fall kids set by Digital Delights
Sentiment - Thank you circular sentiment from digital delights
Coloured with - Copics and prismacolour pencils
Paper - K and co
Card - Bazzill basics
Die cuts - Mariannes LR117 (leaves) and LR0143 (corner)
Ribbon - Sam Pooles Creative Studios shop
Gems - from my stash

Challenges i'm entering with this card

Loves rubber stamps - thank you/thanksgiving
Aud sentiments challenge - Thanks
Pixiedust studio challenge -Thanksgiving or thank you

Seing Stars challenge at moving Along with the Times

Good morning all

Hope this Thursday finds you well.  I'm hobbling around this morning on aching feet - but i don't deserve any sympathy! All due to dancing in the aisles in shoes that were far to high at the "Once in a lifetime" concert at the Metro arena last night.  We has a pre Christmas night out - Leo Sayer, Smokie, Hot Chocolate and David Cassidy.  We had a good giggle and enjoyed the night - though David Cassidy in his too tight pants with a sore throat was a bit of a let down - but Leo Sayer was brilliant!

Anyway onto todays challenge at MAWTT
chosen by our talented teamie

Leesa (aka the Navy Wife)

Here's my card for today

using stamp fairy barry - countdown to christmas2

We are being sponsored by Stamp Fairy

 and all of the DT girls got some cute digis to play with for this challenge

hop on over to MAWTT to see what my teamies did with these cute little digis

This is what I did.....

Image - Stampfairy barry - Countdown to christmas 2

Coloured with Copics and prismacolor pencils

Papers - A silent night by Papermania (my favourite christmas papers!)

Die cuts - Memory box Frostyville border and Memorybox Bianca snowflake die

Sentiment - Lili of the Valley Christmas grungy messages

Gems from my stash

I'm of to work now - have a great day everyone

Challenges i'm entering with this card

Cute card thursday - starry starry night

Southern girls - Christmas projects
divas by design - anything goes
my mums craftshop - winter wonderland
crafty sentiments - christmas

Hugs

Judith x

Delightful Challenges Let it snow challenge and the poorly snowman!!

Hello again

Well here I am again and to be honest I'm not quite sure how I got here this week.  I've been soooo busy that I felt sure that by today I would have given up!!

None the less I made it hooray!!

And the challenge

at Delightful Challenges this week  is

Let it snow

(use snowflakes)

Our fab sponsor this week is Scrappyland.com

Who are offering a fabulous prize of a Scrappyland $20 store gift card

Here's my card

This little snowman image is just so cute he's called Candy Cane Jingles and is available here

Now I'm sure you'll agree that snowmen make quite easy cards - after all he's white! - so hardly any colouring for a start.  I thought I would ring the changes by giving him a bit of shine with lovely shiny red boots, candy cane, buckle  and hollyberries ....and nose.  I used my glossy accents to do all of this and left it to dry.  I made up the rest of the card and put it all together when .....  shock horror!!!! - my snowman was poorly, now how do you know you might ask - simples - he has a runny nose!!  

Well in another life I might have put this right but this week it was runny nose snowman or no card at all so for my card he might have to be renamed -Runny Nose Jingles with candy cane! -in my defence he has got lovely shiny boots ha ha. 

This is what I did.....

Image - Candicane jingles by Digital Delights
Coloured with copics
Buckle - silver marker pen fro aldi!
Sentiment - from Naughty or Nice set from Digital Delights
Glossed with glossy accents
Papers - Merry from My minds Eye
Card - Bazill Basics
Snowflakes punched out with a Martha Stewart border punch
Bow die - Memory box
Pearls - from my crafty heart

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Southern girls - Christmas projects
Crimbo crackers - snowmen
Use your stuff - Christmas

That's me done for this week - see you next week

hugs

Judith

Whimsy stamps challenge - traditional christmas colours

Good morning all

I have my first card for the Whimsy Stamps Challenge blog to share with you today. 

The challenge is 

Traditional Christmas Colours

 I decided to use this cute little Christmas bear designed by Kathy at Stampart by Kathryne called 

Teddy Surprise Package - Christmas Wrap

Isn't he just so cute!

I've used this layout to make a few Christmas cards now - its quick and easy and you can ring the changes with different embellies, die cuts and shapes - I think this will be my layout for my 2012 Christmas cards - it takes me longer to decide the layout than it does to make the card most days!! - So now thats settled I might get some quick cards made lol.

Heres what i did....

Image - Teddys surprise package - Christmas wrap from Stampart by Kathryne at Whimsy Stamps

Coloured with copics and prismacolour pencils

Distress ink - Tim Holtz tea dye

Sentimant - Whimsy Christmas sentiment set

Papers - by raspberry road - free in a cardmaking magazine

Ribbon - carnmeal cottage

Scalloped shaped card - craftwork cards

Red card and gem embellies from my stash

Hope you like it!

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Divas by design - cute

Crafty creations challenge - no flowers

Anything goes challenge - Anthing goes

Hugs Judith x

How many shades of grey do you really, really need!!?

Hello there blog friends - Happy Tuesday

Today I've got with a quick tutorial  that I've done for Inky impressions about two things really 

1. You don't need a Christmas image to make a Christmas card
2. You only need one shade of grey - or one colour infact - no matter what that book says!!

I've made a quick and easy Christmas card with the Inky Impressions stamp

Hazel baking cookies

you can find her  here

I coloured her with copics - not particularly carefully (whoops!) - but that doesn't really matter when you use a prismacolour pencil to go back in to add shade and depth to the image. And to shade the whole image all you need is 

One shade of grey!!

Infact prismacolor 70% warm grey.  You could use any grey or even black (and if I want an even deeper vintage look I do use black- it does great things when used with red - but thats for another day)  but for this particular card I wanted a warm look and thats what the 70% grey gives to this image.

Here is the image coloured with copics - it looks ok - but lacks any depth and as you can see I havent done a great deal of blending with the colours and it all looks a bit too bright in places

Next I added lines of grey where I wanted to add the shade with the pencil you'll notice I have not added any to the centre of the face

I then started to blend the pencil with Sansodor solvent

You can now see that there is a lot more depth to the image also I added shade to the centre of the face just by using whatever colour I had already picked up on my blending stump and blending it into the centre of  the face.

I then cleaned off my blending stump (with an emery board) and used just Sansodor to further blend and thin out the grey in places

All of the colours are now muted - which was the effect I was looking for- and there is shade and light to the little bears fur and the clothes and bowl.

I then trimmed the card and shaded with distress ink before I mounted the image onto green card and added  papers, ribbon  and embellies  to make this cute Christmas card - and there she is

Hazel baking her Christmas Cookies

This is what I used to make this card

Image - Hazel baking cookies from Inky impressions

Coloured with copics - fur E40,41,43  ribbon and apron trim R37,35,32  apron G28,07,00  bowl E53,51,       cookie mix E11,21, eyes B93 Inside ears YR 20,21

And ....Prismacolor pencil - one shade of grey 70% warm grey

Papers - first edition - festive treats (cookies were also cut from these papers)

Distress ink - Tea dye by Tim Holtz 

Sentiment - LOTV

Shaped card - craftwork cards

Heart charm - Inky impressions

Gems and ribbon - from my stash

Challenges i'm entering with this card

Loves rubber stamps -anything goes

Now go and have a look at your stamps! There's lots of stamps you could use that aren't Christmas stamps that will make a beautiful Christmas card.  Hope I gave you some inspiration

hugs

Judith xx

Whimsy Stamps November new release day 4 - mini bloghop

Hello and welcome to Day 4 of our November Digital Stamp Release Showcase!

On Thursday (1^stNovember) Whimsy Stamps released this month's new Digital designs from 

Moon Cookie Gallery

 Stamp Art Designs by Kathryn

Dana's Digi's

Lia Stampz

Crissy's Digis

 From now until 4^th November the Whimsy Stamps Digital DT and Special Guests are showcasing these fabulous new goodies with a daily mini blog hop and I am part of today’s hop! Each mini blog hop has a new release prize hidden somewhere along the way and you have 24hrs to enter each prize draw. To be entered into today's mini blog hop prize draw, be sure to leave a comment on ALL of the DT's posts listed below by 12.00PM EST tomorrow. All winners will be announced on the Whimsy blog on 5^th November

I must have tried a dozen times to photograph this card - indoors and out  but i just couldn't capture the sparkle - it really has a lovely sparkle and shine to itwith glitter gems and sparkly ribbon - its such a shame that it doesn't photograph that way!

Anyway this is what I did to make this card......

Image -Cardinal bird from Stampart by Kathryne at Whimsy stamps

Coloured with copics and prisma pencils

Paper- Lost and found christmas from my minds eye

Card - Cordinations distress card by Tim Holtz

Glitter - diamond stickles

Holly dies  Marriannes dies

Gems and ribbon from my stash

To take a peek at today's fabulous new release creations, please click on the links below...

Tammy Ortiz  Jackie Randolph  Charlene Brown  Kelly Mannix Michelle Oatman Rosica Ivanova  Tammy Davison  Jackie Smith  Lisa West  Tracie Debbie Dunn Suzi Mckenzie Juelmarie Morgan Anne Cullen Carly Wilson Brenda Turner

Remember that the entire new release is available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites. Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to pop back to the

 Whimsy blog tomorrow for more new release creations!

Challenges I'm entering with this card

Divas by design - festive
Dream valley challenges - glitter and bling
Stamping sensations - traditional christmas
The ribbon girl - add sparkle
Pixie dust studio - Leaves

Whimsy Stamps November new release day 3 - mini bloghop

Hello and welcome to Day 3 of our November Digital Stamp Release Showcase!

On Thursday (1^stNovember) Whimsy Stamps released this month's new Digital designs from 

Moon Cookie Gallery

 Stamp Art Designs by Kathryn

Dana's Digi's

Lia Stampz

 From now until 4^th November the Whimsy Stamps Digital DT and Special Guests are showcasing these fabulous new goodies with a daily mini blog hop and I am part of today’s hop! Each mini blog hop has a new release prize hidden somewhere along the way and you have 24hrs to enter each prize draw. To be entered into today's mini blog hop prize draw, be sure to leave a comment on ALL of the DT's posts listed below by 12.00PM EST tomorrow. All winners will be announced on the Whimsy blog on 5^th November

This is what I did to make this card

Image - Sweetheart deer by Crissy Armstrong for Whimsy stamps

Coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils

Papers - A Silent Night from do-crafts

Card- Bazzill basics

Die cuts - all spellbinders

Ribbon - Carnmeal cottage 

Foam Gingerbread men - American crafts

Sentiment - Craftwork cards

To take a peek at today's fabulous new release creations, please click on the links below...

Doreen OBrien 
Tammy Ortiz
Jackie Randolph
Kelly Mannix
Sarah McLaughlin
Kim Taylor
Jackie Smith 
Lisa West
Tracie 
Debbie Dunn
Suzi Mckenzie
Laura Palmer
Anne Cullen
Brenda Turner

Remember that the entire new release is available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites. Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to pop back to the

 Whimsy blog tomorrow for more new release creations!

Challenges for this card

Chocolate coffee cards - Stripes

Clearly I stamp - critters

Southern girls challenge - Animal crackers

Divas by design - festive

Don't forget to come back tomorrow for the day 4 mini hop!

hugs 

Judith x